mk warne

ever played corridor cricket? its an amazing version of the game & to make up for the lack of fielders, there's the option of damaging other people's stuff (apologies to andrew, rachel & alison... and maybe morgan). anyway, i found a beach cricket ball in my backyard around a month ago, which i transported to the studio \ pitch. it is amazing, its got a seam and its not to heavy (some poor kid is prob crying about their loss) and there's a fair amount of turn in it.

today, after many days of toil, i pulled off the most beautifully flighted leggies you will ever see! my variation was perfect - loop, then flat; the short ball followed by a little offie; then the wrongun' and the straight one to finish on.' i'm sorry matt, but my skills have surpassed your meager batting abilities - now all you can do is boost my confidence. the sound of your wicket makes me dream all night.

it was the greatest day of my life. ever. except maybe the day i got a hole in one... (matt hasn't managed one of them either).

time

i love my life, but i occasionally wonder about how i spend my time. right now i am watching a tv series (i will not admit to which one) on dvd. i have watched @ least 10 episodes in a row, sometimes with audio commentary (damn, he just missed out on the girl again - its ok, i think he gets her in the next one but then realizes he didn't really want her after all. wow, his current girlfriend is much hotter - he should stay with her). it is 5:30 am. i am eating Vegemite by licking it from a knife. i have been doing this for an hour. don't tell my house mate. i don't have that much to do tomorrow, but it looks like that beer i've scheduled @ 5pm with an old friend is gonna be a breakfast beer.

Gig

I got a text today asking me to return some cds to a friend at his gig tonight. Cool. Can do.

(Bg: I was the drummer in his band recently for a small amount of time but didn’t really want to spend my recovery time on Saturdays continuing to get drunk (though it was fun for awhile)

Anyway, I got to the gig and had a beer with the dude, a cigarette and some conversation. We watched the other band. Cool. All went well. I chatted to his friends for awhile – all smiles – he started playing, I sat down to watch. There weren’t many people there, which is a shame because he’s a good song writer, though sometimes a bit to beatlesesque for my liking.

About 4 songs in he asked me if I wanted him to play anything. My response was that he’d already played my fav’s. He played a song. He stared getting agitated - Stomping around the stage. He took off his shirt.

“Come on Mark, you were in my band, what fucking song should I play?”
I sat there in silence.

“Fuck this; I’m not playing for 5 people.”

He left the stage with his beer, sulky as hell where his gf confronts him and tells him to get back on the stage for his friends. After much convincing he returned to the stage. I shouted out a song, so did someone else.

For the rest of the gig he continued to pick on me – though it only lasted for another 10 mins or so.

I don’t want have to dance around someone throwing a tanty at 26. Sure its disappointing that no-one turned up but for fucks sake, your friends were there trying to have a good time – entertain us and then lets all get drunk.

shuffle (if you dont know nick, stop reading my blog)

leah told me to do it. the 1st 10 songs when shuffle is turned on on 1's ipod:

1. blur - villa rosie (blur are pretty boring and formulaic these days)
2 gonzales III - the joy of thinking
3. the soundtrack of our lives - ten years ahead (fantastic swedes)
4. flying saucer attack - outdoor miner (beautiful psychodelia)
5. velvet underground - beginning to see the light (arent these guys the beginning of everything?)
6. the zombies - this will be our year (those amazing 60's boys)
7. pavement - blue hawaiian (why oh why did you break up - u were the 90's)
8. neil young - sedan delivery (i'm bored with neil young)
9. jon langford - hard times (from punk to country - you have to love that in a man)
10. the zombies - rose for emily (pretty title - filler song)

11. nick - blue bird (if you dont know nick, stop reading my blog)
12. smog - i was a stranger (so much stranger)
13. beck - kangaroo (beck is terrible - seachange is beautiful though. he has good roots)
14. holly golightly - time will tell (she was with billy childish for awhile... i onder what happened to that guy)
15. smog - teenage spaceship (teenage smog?)
16. dylan - cry a little while (well, what can you say. somoetimes he bores me)
17. black rebel motorcycle club - ain't no easy way (... i think i might remove this album. dear americans of the 90's - stop singing about god)
18. portishead - sour times (this song reminds me of art school. too much)
19. pavement - father to a sister of thought (amazing song. good lyrics. that steve - he can write lyrics)
20. sonic youth - pacific coast highway (yes. they are sonic)
21. nick - deanna (sweet deanna)
22. nick cave - opium tea (really good)
23. patti smith - rock n roll (with a missing word)
24. white stripes - the hardest button to button (marry me meg)
25. kinks - last of the steam powered trains (those sweet, sweet nostalgic 60's camp boys. i bet your all cancerians)
26. warlock - above earth (surgery is one of my fav albums. where can you get there others? tell me peoples tell me)
27. can - pnoom (german precision)
28. smog - one less star (smog again? the bourgeois in pain)
29. neutral milk hotel - untitled (does it come from fish?)
30. mayo thompson - fortune (this guy is hilarious. really lo-fi. he is def worth checking out)
31. davendra banhart - lazy butterfly (yeah. he says he's an artist and musician, but i think he should spend 12 months a yr on his music. it wouldnt be so mixed that way)
32. frightened rabbit - square 9 (squarely frightenned rabbits)
33. patti smith - boy cried wolf (or is it pj?)
34. leonard cohen - bird on the wire (dear poets: if no-one reads your stuff, start writing songs)
35. joanna newsom - the book of right-on (can you say nasal passage?)
36. spacemen3 - space rock (i love you)
37. xiu xiu - bog people (shoes. they're like shoes)
38. bjm - tschusse (with kurt heassley from the lilys - another amazing band)
39. astrud gilberto - the shadow of your smile (if her voice was substance i would make love to it)
40. mogwai - how the dogs stac (you guys are amazing... endorphins... thats what it is)
41. guided by voices - useless interventions (from one of the more hi-fi albums... i prefer the high school teacher years)
42. the buzzcocks - ever fallen in love (i'm never sure about these guys - they are catchy though)
43. ariel pink - interesting results (this guysa rck star)
44. casiotone for the painfully alone - to my mr. smith (hypnotic)
45. radiohead - bones (ugh - honesty)
46. captain beefheart - abba zabba (i've never listened to this. its prob really good though)
47. les savy fav - the sweet decends (sorry i missed your show, but i was busy vomitting)
48. spindickle - fireheart (... i cant remembr this one. barry's a great song writer)
49. galaxie 500 - way up high (such pretty, pretty, fragile music. i love you)
50. nick - foi na cruz (it ends with nick, which is prob good - he is the beginning and the end. stop singing about your beliefs. it is the only thing about you that annoys me. otherwise i'm in line to whatever)

ok, enough is enough i guess. ha, i bet you were too bored to stop reading! i wonder if i cn sleep yet...

jen, tim, kirsty

jennifer love-hewitt is so hot. she is also really not very much intelligent at all. and did i say irritating?
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Tim Burton is really good. he has really strange hair though. leno interviews him in a really strange way. his wife sounds boring. he should spend more time making movies, that way i could see more of them and he wouldnt have to talk to his wife - win win eh... tim, your batman movie is one of my fav movies. i have been obsessed with it since i was 12 (or something). i've been wanting to tell someone that for a long time.
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kirstyn dunst looks just like my ex. marrie an... was a really boring movie. i watched it today. m & i haed it. l & b loved it. i think it was the shoe scene that sold it for them. my mother parties harder than marrie. i still dont know why they refer to her figure as the perfect figure. i have some of those glasses in my cupboard. i've studied them extensively and really, i would challenge it. maybe if someone else had played her i would think more of her. she should dye her hair red. it worked for my ex.

nye

ah, I hate nye. i really do. i always get so anxious... Damn pressure (haha pun), was a nice quiet night, just a few good friends... Wow, I'm getting bored already, here have a link to make it more interesting:

www.i-like-a-cup-of-coffee-please.com

Did someone say resolutions? Yes, i have a couple, but i ain't telling you what they are.

I had a few epiphanies, but I ain't telling you what they are either... And yes, it is because i can't remember them.

Family

I know christmas was a week ago, but i forgot my pass word, so i'm going to present my only observation (well, the only 1 i remember) right now.

I don't see my extended famil that regularly - maybe once a year these days - and i wasn't planning to this xmas either but my gma was sick, so i went.

anyway, my point: seeing half of my genetic lineage in the 1 place i noticed that: my family have really, really awful teeth. I must brush mine 3 times a day.

Nostalgia

It’s surprising what can happen when you run into someone you haven’t seen for a long time…

I was at the markets this morning to see a friend I don’t catch up with that much – we used to get on really well, I don’t know what happened but now we struggle to make conversation. Anyway, I never made it because before I met up with her an even older friend tapped me on the shoulder.

This guy and I grew up together. We were both going to be musicians together – we both auditioned for music school and got through the first process. I didn’t make it because I didn’t pass high school, so instead I went to art school – which was a better decision anyway… so then he was the musician and I was the artist – we’d always do things together – always.

Anyway, we both got married at around the same time. He was my best man and I was his. From then on our paths started to diverge – I don’t want to go into details because I find them difficult, but we lost contact almost as soon as the weddings were over…

Seeing him again today brought it all home. I realized just how much my life has changed in the last few years (because his has stayed the same – he even looks and dresses the same). I guess he is what I would’ve been, had I made one different decision in my life…

It’s funny, when you run into someone you haven’t seen in a long time, you should really expect to run into a whole lot more – as I have. What is it with December and having to look at yourself in a mirror!?