Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 242592 times)

Lines · « **Reply #550 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 19:41 »

It's April. I want spring. I want flowers and birds and bunnies and twitterpated people/animals. You have your snow, I'll enjoy my random sunny days and watch the flowers bloom.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #551 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 19:46 »

Hey if I can't get my bone on then neither can you or the bunnies

Lines · « **Reply #552 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 19:47 »

Obviously you do not know the ways bunnies work.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #553 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 21:25 »

Record store day yesterday! I bought my first vinyl - J Mascis' new solo album. It's on marbled blue and purple vinyl and it is the prettiest thing in the entire world.
I took a picture blogged about it here.

Jace · « **Reply #554 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 22:03 »

Quote from: Inlander on 16 Apr 2011, 01:18

Quote from: tania on 15 Apr 2011, 19:48
i love getting emails from students asking me to bump up their grades, absent of any reason or merit, so much

hey, you know what's the best way to bump up your mark? by being smart and doing your work! the all natural way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8Vh76vy0w

Really happy that you linked this Harry, I picked this movie up from a blockbuster that was closing for $3. Very happy with my purchase of this film. My girlfriend didn't like it very much, but she usually falls asleep partway through movies.

In other news, we tried to watch Space Jam tonight when it was on cartoon network. She fell asleep for the bulk of it. She also didn't know who Charles Barkley was.

Dollface · « **Reply #555 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 23:50 »

Dear diary

I have this blasting site near me and now they have putted some neon pink markers on the ground and i call them "gay markers" and this conversation happened with my friend.

Me: look a gay marker.
Friend: pink isnt gay color, infact in some cultures pink is sign of masculinity.
Me: gay markers is gay and thats the end.
Friend: your penis is gay
Me: ofcourse its gay, i have gay penis but thankfully i have straight ass.
Friend: so you have gay penis but your ass is straight?
Me: yup il make love to gay person but nothing is going up my butt.

Inlander · « **Reply #556 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 01:40 »

Quote from: Jace on 16 Apr 2011, 22:03

Quote from: Inlander on 16 Apr 2011, 01:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8Vh76vy0w

Really happy that you linked this Harry, I picked this movie up from a blockbuster that was closing for $3. Very happy with my purchase of this film.

Honestly I thought Burn After Reading was terrible and No Country For Old Men was good but it didn't really wow me but A Serious Man is one of my favourite films of recent year and one of my favourite Coen Brothers films ever.

KvP · « **Reply #557 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 02:54 »

Man you know when you meet a musician you love and before it you're all "oh man it would be so awesome to meet that guy / lady, he / she makes music that I love" but then you realize that it's just you there, and they're there, and you're two people, and you know them but they don't know you and they've probably encountered many dozens of people just like you and you feel weird and end up just kind of muttering and shaking their hand instead of being honest about how you've purchased everything they've ever made on limited white label runs? It sucks!

Tom · « **Reply #558 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 03:47 »

Australians, go watch ABC1 right now if you're not doing anything. Asher Keddie is nailing it, her Buttrose is uncanny.

Inlander · « **Reply #559 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 05:18 »

Yeah I was very pleasantly surprised by how good that whole hour and a half of television was. Sometimes I feel like I've got a bit of Asher Keddie burnout, that lady's in everything these days, but I was completely convinced by her performance. I don't know how it's possible to do Buttrose's lisp without making it sound like you're taking the piss but I guess that's why I'm not an actor.

est · « **Reply #560 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 05:33 »

I was pretty impressed by it. I wish there was more like it around, I am sick of how much shit it coming out of Aus TV.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #561 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 05:57 »

Hooray! I enjoyed it too. Hopefully I will be able to catch the last half tomorrow.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #562 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 08:08 »

I hope you guys are deliberately referring to Buttrose as Buttrose without providing any context for the amusement of the non-Oznians. If so, good show!

jmrz · « **Reply #563 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 08:22 »

Should I understand what this conversation is about?

tania · « **Reply #564 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 08:45 »

the graduate student lounge at my school serves free coffee during the day and because i am a mess with no self control, i was drinking between 6-8 cups of coffee a day during the last six weeks or so of the semester. now that school's over i'm trying to wean myself off that horrible caffeine addiction by drinking nothing at all that has caffeine in it except tea in the morning and i feel absolutely exhausted and very ill and have had an absolutely killer headache since yesterday and i still have so many exams to mark but i can barely even read them. why am i so stupid

pwhodges · « **Reply #565 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 11:53 »

I've just returned from nearly two weeks in Sri Lanka. No Internet! It was great!

In the airport terminal on the way out, I checked my emails at the gate, and found my boss had let her university card lapse, and so her university email address had been disabled (she could still email me because we're on the same server)! I used a remote terminal program on the iPhone to connect (via VPN) to my mail server and set her up a temporary account that used an alternative address that didn't require the university to know about her, and still got on the plane without rushing. Now I've returned, I find she still hasn't even renewed her card...

There will be photos in due course. Meanwhile, here is a leopard that came and looked me in the eye at about 10 feet distance; that was awesome!

Barmymoo · « **Reply #566 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 12:19 »

I've just got back from four days in the South of France with my church choir, which was lovely - really amazing weather, a lot of fun with a whole load of people around my age (including two people who are not in the choir but are friends of someone who is, and who came along to provide extra voices - and who just happen to be from my uni and were in the Pantomime! Small world), great concerts and generally really fun. I spent a lot of the spare time sleeping because it was very intensive but I did get to lie in the sun a bit and eat lots of ice cream and see the town.

Now I'm about to either go to bed very early, or start packing up my stuff in order to leave tomorrow - probably the former because I am zonked. It was Palm Sunday today and we did a procession in the service, carrying privet leaves; weird, but apparently normal in France because palms are rare in Paris. Then I went to a party with some choir friends, which was full of opera students who sang incessant operettas and showed off a lot, and I felt rather awkward about my incredibly untrained, unclassical voice so I didn't sing. Bah.

Tom · « **Reply #567 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 13:27 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 17 Apr 2011, 08:08

I hope you guys are deliberately referring to Buttrose as Buttrose without providing any context for the amusement of the non-Oznians. If so, good show!

That is exactly what I am doing.

I think she's really good actress and recently I've enjoyed her work enough to even watch Offspring (fun, kinda clever, sorta trashy 1hr dramas on TEN). What I saw of her in Underbelly was alright but it didn't help that the entire series was your average NINE shit sandwich.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #568 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 15:58 »

I haven't ever seen her before so that made it even more convincing.
Jamie, last night was the first of a two-parter about the beginnings of Cleo magazine in Sydney in the early 70's. The second one is on tonight, but you should probably catch the first. I'm sure it will be up on ABC iView later anyway.

jhocking · « **Reply #569 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 16:20 »

hey tommy, have you ever seen the show "How I Met Your Mother"? I'm watching episode 5 from season 3 right now and Barney is like exactly how you would act.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #570 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 17:38 »

The difference between Barney and Tommy is that Barney knows he is God's gift to all women.

squawk · « **Reply #571 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 21:57 »

I am absolutely dying of laughter because Facebook's facial recognition 'let's help you tag photos by being creepy' thingy believes that Flava Flav has the same face as my half-japanese half-white panda-resembling friend.
This has been: my life is dumb.

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #572 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 22:06 »

After roughly 24 hours/3 days in the studio, all the tracking for my band's EP is finished. Recording in a semi-legit studio's is really fucking cool and our friend is the most phenomenal producer/engineer; patient, intelligent, someone who approaches the process as a collaboration with the band as opposed to him being passive or telling us what to do. We were well rehearsed and he was familiar enough with the music so that a good portion of the time was spent experimenting and discussing what our goals were for the specific songs. Overall it was a laborious but enjoyable and artistically fulfilling experience. Mixing should be done by the end of spring and then we'll have an actual EP out holy shit, being a band is the best thing ever guys

Johnny C · « **Reply #573 on:** 17 Apr 2011, 22:08 »

yeah dude! congrats! can't wait for us to hear it.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #574 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 16:03 »

snow this morning, and now it's so bright and sunny outside that i can't look anywhere but down

hey, weather, did you know that it's april already? figure it out

valley_parade · « **Reply #575 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 16:16 »

I froze my ass off at a baseball game over the weekend. Had to buy a jacket (thankfully they were on sale..) and a blanket, and yet my feet were still numb and freezing.

Frig, man. It was so cold that I went into the bathroom during the 5th inning and there was steam coming off of my piss.

Also, Ally, DAMN YOU. I didn't get a chance to stop at a record store, and the only thing I've been wanting to pick up is said Mascis album.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #576 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 16:33 »

What is that Shane I cannot hear you over the majesty

valley_parade · « **Reply #577 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 16:35 »

HAUGL.

Will have to order at some point.

If you want to have a fancy record off, I have a Two Cow Garage 7" that is PBR colored. It's half white and half silver with red and blue splatters.

Joseph · « **Reply #578 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 17:01 »

Ugh. Really unproductive today, which is fine I guess since my deadline isn't super pressing but I just want to get this last paper away from me so I can bask in a successfully completed degree. Instead I spent almost all my day reading poetry or reading about poetry, mostly on the internet but I also read two whole books, plus assorted other poems in print and a bit of Zizek. I guess that is productive maybe, in that it's fueling what I really would like to focus my energies on more, but it's probably healthier to finish with my actual school commitments first. But these sorts of things have been basically all I've felt able to focus on at all in the past month, since my friend's death, and as a result I indulge in them probably more than I should.

Really I just need to push through to the end but I just cannot bring myself to sit down and do it.

Johnny C · « **Reply #579 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 18:25 »

tell me about it, dude, i've hit like a complete & utter wall when it comes to doing stuff. like i actually can't bring myself to do any work. it's fucking awful and i hate it.

Joseph · « **Reply #580 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 18:41 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 18 Apr 2011, 18:25

tell me about it, dude, i've hit like a complete & utter wall when it comes to doing stuff. like i actually can't bring myself to do any work. it's fucking awful and i hate it.

we are just going to have to get good and rowdy drunk in a month to celebrate this shit being over

Patrick · « **Reply #581 on:** 18 Apr 2011, 19:12 »

Quote from: KvP on 17 Apr 2011, 02:54

Man you know when you meet a musician you love and before it you're all "oh man it would be so awesome to meet that guy / lady, he / she makes music that I love" but then you realize that it's just you there, and they're there, and you're two people, and you know them but they don't know you and they've probably encountered many dozens of people just like you and you feel weird and end up just kind of muttering and shaking their hand instead of being honest about how you've purchased everything they've ever made on limited white label runs? It sucks!

I've never had this problem. I usually just wind up shooting the shit and giving honest critiques of their set. I don't get star struck at all, and it's great because I feel like I am actually making a cool person's acquaintance instead of OMG I AM MEETING THIS PERSON I IDOLIZE. I think it's because I know I will never meet the three people I want to meet the very most in this world (John Lennon, George Harrison, and Elliott Smith) so I just don't really give as much of a fuck? I don't know.

Finding a new job is proving to be very difficult. Why am I not surprised. Back at it tomorrow.

scarred · « **Reply #582 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 00:12 »

Man Pat I dunno what the job market's like where you are but I've been searching for a job in Seattle for months (albeit not as hard as I probably could be). Tourist season is coming up though, so I'm optimistic.

In unrelated news I am flying to San Francisco in May, the weekend before Sasquatch! So, that should be pretty fun.

tania · « **Reply #583 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 08:05 »

joseph and jc i have googled a "motivational poster" to help you with your respective journeys, i think it's got a good positive message

Ã¶de · « **Reply #584 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 09:01 »

While applying for jobs I came across this sentence:

"It serves around 1600 noms per week on average."

Joseph · « **Reply #585 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 12:02 »

that moon is going to squish that poor kitty

valley_parade · « **Reply #586 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 14:52 »

The results of a boring afternoon at work (and working alongside some friends):

We found these, one of these, and some old Whalers sweaters from another site, along with one of our managers being a hockey mom who would surely lend us sticks..

we're starting a company carpet hockey team. Our NY office has kickball, volleyball and bowling teams..why can't we have fun?

Johnny C · « **Reply #587 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 19:12 »

one more thing and im done

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #588 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 19:18 »

I am sitting outside my old apartment while the carpets get cleaned. So bored.

We've been at our new place for a couple of days now and its pretty nice. Still doesn't feel like home but we're still living out of boxes and bags so I'm sure that'll come with time.
An annoying thing is that I can't do any uni work on my week off because my usb is fucked and I don't have good internet access (I'm on my phone, ill have the net up in like, 2 weeks?). Still its such a nice flat.
I hate our new neighbour though. He's fucking weird. Keeps showing up unannounced and just walking into our flat. Yesterday he just rocked up and hid under Riz's bed. In the end I had to physically eject him from the apartment. He's completely fucked.

Patrick · « **Reply #589 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 19:32 »

Man. When a person who hurt you more than you've ever been hurt by anything in your life suddenly comes up out of the blue after several months and tells you "I should have appreciated you more," how should you react? This is my major quandary of the day.

Also, I can't find my fucking 4-track. I can figure out how to feel about my ex thing later, this is something I have got to solve way more immediately.

Tom · « **Reply #590 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 19:32 »

You say "well fucking duh" and then you walk away.
Alrighty, sat my Physiology exam. I may have muddled up my short answer Q's on sliding filament theory (I feel really dumb!). I also just got out of my Biochemistry marked practical which was a lot lot easier. I finished roughly 45 minutes early and was happy with my answers til my asshole demonstrator tried to unnerve me (Bastard!). Now to revise for my micro quiz, lab and bacterial isolation. I'll be on Easter break come sundown.

tania · « **Reply #591 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 22:32 »

you can ask why she did what she did, if you want closure. otherwise, just forgive her and let it go. admittedly a lot of people probably wouldn't do the same but i can almost guarantee you'll feel much better for doing so. holding a permanent grudge is like sitting at your desk in your shitty little apartment in vancouver eating mcdonalds and a tub of ice cream by yourself: it feels good while you're savoring it, but in the long term rarely does anyone any favours. also sometimes it gives you diarrhea.

tania · « **Reply #592 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 22:38 »

JD · « **Reply #593 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 23:22 »

Hey dudes I'm heading down to maryland in the first weekish of july. Anyone in that area know anything interesting to do?

(I won't be up for hangouts because I'll be with family and friends and whatnot)

edit
(Also I would feel kinda weird hanging out with people on the internet when someone else is hoofing the bill for the trip.)

Patrick · « **Reply #594 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 23:23 »

I had simply convinced myself it was a bad dream and was content to pretend she didn't exist and it never happened, but it didn't bother me any. We turned out to have a fairly fulfilling conversation about our lives as they are now. It seriously felt like I was just making a new friend. I dunno, I feel like that's a pretty good way for things to go down.

Fuck it, I'll say it. I'm stoked for tomorrow.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #595 on:** 19 Apr 2011, 23:30 »

Quote from: JD on 19 Apr 2011, 23:22

Hey dudes I'm heading down to maryland in the first weekish of july. Anyone in that area know anything interesting to do?

Whereabouts?

JD · « **Reply #596 on:** 20 Apr 2011, 00:15 »

Near Columbia.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #597 on:** 20 Apr 2011, 02:58 »

I got a reply from a recruitment agency regarding one of the jobs I applied for! I have no idea who the job would be with though, as all the adverts are extremely vague ("our client" etc).

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #598 on:** 20 Apr 2011, 03:14 »

Standard practice. A lot of agencies have had problems in the past where it has become common knowledge that they are recruiting for a particular company and another agency will snipe the job by undercutting them. I've missed out on a couple of posible placements because of this. Usually they'll reveal the client at the point where they want you to go and interview for them.

Jace · « **Reply #599 on:** 20 Apr 2011, 04:17 »

Ugh, I guess the catalytic converter on my car is fucked up. I don't have $350 to fix it either. goddammit.

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