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orazzio @ 5:24 PM #
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Hi folks,
I thought I'd join the rest of western civilazation by not offering my services over the new years break. Everyone is always so busy and so social and so double booked that I thought I'd be cool and dissapear off the web too. Truth be told I have less interest in the web at the moment but I will try and fly by regularly to give you my usual face full of attitude.
Speaking of the new years break, is everything closed or is everything closed? Godamn it everybody you ring is away and everybody you visit is closed. I made long train trips to places only to find they are closed. The next day another long train trip to find someone else is closed. Today I couldnt even get a godamn photocopy done because they were closed.
How is it that the whole world manages to stay closed for a month over december january and then still have four weeks holidays owing? Im not arguing, in fact thats how it should be. It should be that nothing is open sunday or even saturday for that matter. Close. Just close everybody. In fact Id love to see a four day week. Life is too fast, its too full and its getting shorter. How many people tell you stories of how back in the mountain sides of the Medditeranean how days used to go like years. Ok maybe no one but Ill be damn sure your childhood took forever and your adult life took speed.
I should know about the way things 'shouldnt' be. I worked in retail. Like the hospitality industry they open almost all hours, all day, all year, every hour, of every day, of every year, in a minimum wage minumum 'need' environment? I mean is it that important to sell picture frames on a Sunday or have cafe's open? Are we all so malnourished that we might die?
Its true that the world economy could not survive fat western countries being less greedy but (do this bit in a new york accent for fun) 'c'mon we're short'ning our lives ova heer'
Ok so retail and hospitality might be more practical on weekends have mondays and tuesdays off. Or tuesdays and wednsdays. We inadvertently made those the least busiest days of any calender week. And Its true for all industries. Tuesdays and Wednesdays could be the answer. The new weekend. The days that its not cost effecient to have all hands deck and no incoming work. The days nobody wants to be there and are dreaming of golden beaches and golden tans (preferably Anna Kournikova's-do you think that the pinacle of beauty needs a little more weight on her legs? A double cheesburger wouldnt go astray)
Why is that I always have to solve the worlds problems? Go and write to your local member (no not the one in your pants) and get our weekends right. They are meant for relaxation after all. Anyway thanks for listening I have to go - life is too short.
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| |- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 -| |
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snorky @ 4:31 PM #
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Damn my shitty monitor. I have to slap it every now and then to take the brown tinge out of it. Unless of course it's my eyes failing me.. or even worse.. my mind.. aarrgggh! I'm using this crappy old one (I think it's the first one I owned) because my Über 21" Trinitron blew up when I switched it on a couple of months ago. Now this crappy old one is starting to die.. Damn it!
So, I watched The Two Towers last night and I thought it was unreal. There were so many things in it that I could talk about that i'm going to have to keep it simple.
The story, I thought, was a little disjointed and could have been cleaned up a little better for the film adaption. Maybe some narrative would have helped in key plot points. Strangely enough, for such a long movie, it seemed a little rushed. Did anyone else get that?
As usual, the cinematography was brilliant and the special effects for the most part were flawless. Some people were disappointed with the Ents but I thought they were great. The fight scenes with them were so good. I couldn't stop from laughing when the Ent that was on fire ran on to the screen from nowhere and stuck it's head into the on coming water.. ehehe! I did notice (Angel first mentioned it) that Legolas, Aragon and Gimli were bullet proof monks during most of the movie. Must be that elven magic or something huh! A work mate assures me it's because they are heroes in the truest sense of the word, they are the best of the best. So he says anyway. This is also his explanation for Legolas's horse mounting technique. Go figure.
For christmas this year I got socks & undies and this weird pen holder thing, but I mainly got DVD's. Among them were the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring and Scream. I know Scream is old but my sister got it for me as it is one of "our movies". My sister and I have been watching horror/thriller movies since we were kids. I must have been about seven or eight years old when I first watched A Nightmare on Elm Street. So anyway, we usually hook up every Friday 13th and watch some scary movies. The one that just went recently (13-Dec-2003) we watched Hellraiser for the first time and then Creepshow 2, Friday 13th: The Final Chapter and something else, can't remember now. But it was all good fun.
Speaking of cult movies, I finally watched The Breakfast Club, it has some super corny dialogue but I was supprised to find that it still exposes certain aspects of society that still hold true today. Like most cult movies, you can read as little or as much into them as you want, either way, it was a fun movie to watch. Oh.. and I thought Allison (Ally Sheedy) looked hotter before Claire (Molly Ringwald) did the make over thing on her.
{Snokism #4}
"A truly righteous person is one with nothing, and everything to lose."
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| |- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 -| |
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snorky @ 11:12 AM #
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Hey Kids,
Got the old rollerblades out of the closet when I was at the folks place. I was intending to lend them to a friend that lives down the road. So last night I decided i'd go drop them off to him and here I am thinking "I know, I could just rollerblade to his place and then give them to him". Yeah... great idea fuck-knuckle. So I strapped them on and make my way down the fire escape and on to the street.
Ok. Now I used to be pretty good on the blades at one stage in my life and I was thinking "Just like riding a bike". I start to take the old blade strides, as you do to pick up speed, and was holding a decent pace. I decided to get off the road and on to the pavement. It wasn't exactly a smooth transition as I ended up in my arse. It was at this point that I remembered that back in the day, I was so cool I didn't even need brakes on the blades. So I stand back up, check that nobody saw me stack and then i'm like, "yeah, i'm too good for brakes". Besides, my mates place wasn't that far away. Courage willow.
I made it across the main road and into the next street without too much trouble. Then came the slopes. Until now I had only been on flat ground or going slightly up hill. This was a not too much of a down hill slope but enough to pick up some hurting speed (the speed that can only end in pain). So I began the descent. As I was heading full speed for the bottom of the laneway scooby doo style (sound effect and all), I realised I was too good for brakes... oh dear! So how do you stop without brakes again.... umm.. arrr...!
When you have a couple of seconds to try to remember how to stop without brakes, your mind tends to steer toward a more immediate solution. My brain, in it's infinate wisdom decides that the nice big tree ahead will do nicely. Maybe if I just tap it or something. I proceed to fly past a couple having a fight and head for the tree. My arm goes out for the tap and somehow it turns into a hug. I become intimate with the tree and fall on my arse. Again.
 As I pulled myself back up using the tree, I hug it one last time and give a quizical/madman expression to the fighting couple who had just stopped to looked at me as if I was part of the tree. They then continued to fight and I continued down the laneway. I fell down again five seconds later after trying a similar stoping technique on a "No Parking" sign.
After all of this I decided to take it easy so I could actually make it the rest of the way to my mates place. When I get there I find out that he has been watching the whole thing from his balcony. I think I lightened up his day.
You can see the best graze I got in todays picture. I took it this morning though, it looked way cooler yesturday after I did it. It's safe to say that i'll leave the blades alone for awhile now. Next week I shall be purchasing this mountain bike to help service my recreational needs. I think i'll leave the brakes on this one too.
Moral of the story: If through your own ineptitude you can brighten someones day then your stupidity is cancelled out.
Oh... and if you want to stop on rollerblades without brakes, slow down using the ice skating technique... not the tree or street sign techniques.
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| |- Monday, January 06, 2003 -| |
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snorky @ 12:06 AM #
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When a head cold is not a head cold...
...it's a fucked up mutant super virus from the depths of hell, bestowed upon me by satan himself!
My Holidays began at about 4:10pm on Christmas eve. There was the general impression in the office that the few people that were working on the day would get to knock-off really early. It ended up that most of us didn't get out until around 4pm. This pissed me off extremely as I had to make the pilgrimage to the folks place up the coast through the christmas eve traffic (gets worse every year). We didn't get any gifts or Christmas bonuses at work this year so it pissed me off even more that I had to stay back. I just plain hate traffic when I actually need to get somewhere. Mum, was preparing the Christmas eve thing and my sister was over too. Family is important to me I guess. I eventually got there, through all the traffic and sort of enjoyed myself.
For my mother, I got her a block of this chocolate that was imported from Italy. It's ment to be special or something. Turns out it's real fucking special! When mum opened it, it was half melted and contorted at strange angles and had that pastey white heat effected thing happening on various parts of it.... Not Happy!
Thursday we do some more family and friends stuff at my sisters place.
Friday was my first free day. I bummed around most of the day and hooked up with a friend, Sarah, in the night some time. We were going to watch Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, but saw the line up at the cinema and did a 180 to head for a coffee instead. We decided that The Lord of the Rings ain't going to happen tonight so we think of other things to do. Somehow, probably because of me, we ended up trapesing through to mud in a some bushland in the middle of nowhere looking for this cool wharf that i'd been to once before that was made completely of stones. We didn't get to it. Unfortunately our footwear wasn't as all-terrain we thought it to be. We turned back. However we did find this cool moonscape that was kind of spooky because the trees that lined it kind of howled in the wind.. oh yeah.. and it was really dark. All I had was that crappy little LED light thing I have attached to my car keys. I think it's designed to find keyholes, not to navigate through all-terrain bushland. Eh.. is good enough..!
Next morning I start to feel a cold coming on and i'm like "fuck this shit, I don't need this, damn it". 98% of colds/viruii i've had don't usually like my body for more than three days. So I think "ok, no worries, I can handle three days". Turns out to be this evil mutant virus from hell. Just when I thought it was clearing up it home run's my head into the grand stands. It actually began to feel as though fractures were developing in my skull. My head could touch anything without intensifying the pain. This with various other cold symtoms made up most of my holidays.
The lull in the storm, strangely enough was on new years eve. So I went out with Orazzio and some other people, drank some alcohol, watched some fireworks and went home. The worst parts of the virus began in the new year. I wonder if this is a sign... maybe I should just skip this year or something?! When I was pumped up on drugs I could do some stuff but not leave the house. This is why I didn't really blog at all. It wasn't until this Saturday and Sunday that I could go out, hook up with friends and enjoy my holidays.
That's me for now. I'm just getting back into the swing of things so hopefully i'll have something worth reading real soon.. yay!
Places to go:
Television Without Pity
If you dig the idiot box you may also dig this.
TV Tome
I don't think i've mentioned this before but if you really do love your tv then you'll have a seizure over this site.
Updates to:
i-candy
Oh.. and Happy New Year.
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