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My log de webThanks to Pitas and the Jack Cross Centre, the entries are in a weird/outofdate order (which makes it a little interesting). Some entries were added later from unpublished weblogging. dgdsfgfr Pimples. Love them or hate?Saturday, March 10, 2040umm, yeah. I just popped a nicely cultured pimple. It is such a satisfying feeling. I can't see it now, so I can deal with that later. I don't know what the sensation is. That kind of S&M pain that is bad but good??? Maybe a feeling of domination having killed a little thing?? ummm...yeah. Keep on poppin' I've squeezed pimples by the hundred Ruptured pustules by the score; I've milked my face until it bled And still I crave for more. My nose-crease yields spaghetti, I've blackheads round my ears - I've cultivated some of them For nigh on twenty years. Take pity on unblemished folk Who'll never know the bliss Of splattering a mirror With pus the hue of piss. Rejoice in your eruptions! They've done alright by me. For squeezing them can be more fun Than watching your TV. Vending Machines...can killSaturday, March 10, 2001In a fit of rage, I could have died. Dellusional and starving, I put my last AUD$2.00(about US$.2 at todays rate most likely) into an Automatic Product Industry model LCM2 Shopfront Series 2 vending machine. I didn't know it, but this mid-capacity merchandiser has older brothers who have commited assault and battery, and even murder according to a highly regarded web resource. However, I escaped unharmed. I talked the LCM2 into letting me have the AUD$1.40 packet of skittles back, but not without a price. He stole AUD$.10, meaing my packet of skittles actually cost me AUD$1.50. I phoned the police. They said they were deep into a donut case, but would type it into there invisible typewriter as soon as that case was closed. My mate Patto says the Exorcist sux heapsSaturday, March 10, 2040Don't see The Exorcist, the remake is gay apparently. Chris Patterson says so. Patto quote from the movie: "fuckyoucuntmuthafukka". An hour to kill... Wednesday, February 3, 1904I missed the bus, so now I have an hour to kill. Fucking uni busses. They're never on time. I have a car, but because petrol is getting fucking expensive, I've decided to drive the least amount I can. Even if it is a pain in the gluteus. Trains are cool because you can get up and walk around in them, and they have seats that can fit a near 2m tall person in them. Busses. I walk on a bus, bash my head on the door arch, trip over people's crap in the aisle, trip over people, bash my head again, pay the fare. Then I either spot a seat, which gets taken, or get a seat next to some enormous fat sweaty guy, or get the tiny seat over the tyre arch. That makes me sound like such a loser...oh well. A friend of mine has entered the Triple J competiton for remixing a Moby track. I never knew he was into music and stuff like that, and that he's good at it. I heard his remix. It was really good. I thought it was some published work. He should do well. the reason I mention him is because he was on the bus I missed. Holidays in a few weeks. What to do, what to do??? My Pappa, the Hero Wednesday, September 6, 1956Oaaaggh, my Dad just left. He's off to Sydney for more work, then to Melbourne, then to Thailand, then back to China. It was quite a good weekend. We went out on friday night to the uni, then to #96 (one of the 1000's of bars in Wagga). Dad met some of the dudes from Uni and it was a cool night. Had some bad chinese food though. I felt elt pretty sick though. Must have been the meat. Probably an old cow. We went for lunch yesterday to La Porchetta. Pizza and pasta and stuff. Quite good. Waiter was a wanker. Waiter rating: 4.476/10. It was an ok weekend. My Dad and I spent most of saturday and today getting a PowerMac G4 and an old PowerMac 8100/100 to work over a Base10 ethernet connection. dad got it to work, but it ate the day away. Hopefully next time dad comes we can do a roadtrip to Melbourne or something, and just stuff around. My dad's girlfriend, Cindy, seemed pretty bored and sick the whole time she was here. She had some upset stomach problems, so I got some Mylanta pills. She found Wagga to be quite the bore. I agreed. We all agreed. I took them out to CSU to check out what was there, but the place was empty, and none of the buildings were open. Quite disappointing. So I'm counting the days until I fly to Las Vegas for the biggest Televsion/media conference in the world, including IBC. It is known as NAB. National Association of Broadcasters. Dad is going there with work, and wants me come come and check it out. I have 0 problems with that. It should be fucking great. Then I'll get back to Australia and a month later go to another conference in Sydney. SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Televsion Engineers) is the same kind of deal as NAB, but a hell of a lot smaller, and to a smaller standard. Probably NAB two years ago (maybe not, I've neer been). So all this cool and 'lucky to be going there' experience is coming up. My friend Hugh is down in Albury for the weekend, "meeting the parents". Yep, he's made it to that time in his great relationship to meet his girlfriends' folks. can't wait to hear about it. He was pretty cool about it when he left, but that changes when you walk through the door (says me of little experience). What makes up a can of Lynx Apollo deodorant cologne Spray? Wednesday, February 3, 1904
For your information, a can of Lynx Apollo deodorant cologne consists of the following: PAL Wednesday, February 3, 1904Phase Alternating Line. The colour coding system for televsion widely used in Europe and throughout the world, almost always with the 625/50 line/field system. It was derived from the NTSC system but by reversing the phase of the reference colour burst on alternate lines (Phase Alternating Line), is able to correct for hue shifts caused by phase errors in the transmission path. PAL bandwidth is typically 5.5MHz luminance, and 1.3 MHz for each of EBU. Aagh..sweet. I have columnsThursday, March 29, 2001I take back what I've bitched about with html hell i had. It isn't too bad. It was my ignorance that fucked my before. I now have columns. What a feeling. Toyota. My dad is going to be here tomorrow. What to do? there is nothing in Wagga to show off. It will be a weekend of drinking and sitting around I think. In an hour or so I'll be off to have a jam with Geoff and another guy, Luke, in an attempt to get a bit of a band going. We jammed ages ago, but Luke has been busy doing other shit, and I've been bloody lazy. In the background I have my old bass strings boiling. Yes, they are in a saucepan boiling away. The idea is that it is a last attempt to get the most out of your strings. They sound almost new, but they feel sloppier, and they only last about another week or so. Bass strings are expensive. AUD$55.00. I started colour grading the footage I shot the other day. pretty cool. If i had somewhere to put some stills up on the net then I could show them off. The crap as it standsWednesday, March 28, 2001I'm kinda peeved. I've got shit I want to do, but have restrictions. I guess like everyone else does. But I have shit to do that no one else looks like they're in to. I want to finish making this film with Polly. Did I mention the film earlier? About the girl and the blind brother, in the kitchen?? Well we shot it yesterday, and it looks decent. Now its time for post production - colour grading / fx / editing. Got some nice results today with colours. We're looking to give the imagery a low saturated and blue tinted look. So I missed my COM226 class today becasue I was to into the post. pparently we got our 1st assignment back, and almost everyone failed! Oh well. Bet i did too. Its only fucking Com I tell myself. But I'd hate to have to do it again. ...and that's just TV shit. Not saying that's BIG amazing hassle, but more like it is something small, and I'm angry about it. This weblog is a pain in the ass. I appreciate it more then I did before, but its a hassle to get to do it. If I can't connect to the net at home, its not like I'm going to drive all the way out to uni to type this up. I think a test would be better than having to do this. Questions like "How do you make a link?". Easy, and less hassle.Webring ain't my thing...at the momentMonday, March 26, 2001I'm cursed. This whole assignment has been a hassle since I started. First problems @ scribble. Then I deleted some essential html from my Pitas page. I now have a stable/working site, but I can't access the pages to join the webring. So it may have to wait until tomorrows' tutorial. I know i should have got on to this about a week ago, but I've been lazy. Actually, that's a lie. My friend Polly and myself having been busy writing a script for a short movie we are going to shoot on tuesday. As well as that I have just spent the weekend in Dubbo, and had a great time meeting all these relatives I never knew i had (2nd and 3rd cousins). The REunionMarch 24-25It was fun. What can i say? A bunch of people that you have never really met, all sitting in the backyard of your grandmas' place in Dubbo. You know they are all into different things, but because they are all family, you know that no one is going to get angry. Lots of drinking went on (mainly beer and casked wine) during the day, and later on in the night a few of us got stuck into the Margaritas. SOOOOOoooo strong,...but bloody great. What a mood changer that is. Sitting around hearing all the stuff that went on back in so and so's day, but with the 'extra' details that you don't normally hear. Yeah, so that was kind of cool. I got home at about 7pm, after having driven for 5 hours straight, and yes i know that 'driving becomes deadly serious after 2 hours'. Hey, I wanted to get home as soon as i could to get some storyboarding done with Polly. We have 2 days until the shoot. man this weblog is going to be filled with journal! Just reread the crap above, what junk!! But I will continue...I still haven't told the more funnier parts of the reunion Day of averagenessThursday, March 22, 2001I just got out of my COM226 class (Communications). It's so boring. We were watching some old movie which has the girl out of 'Gone with the Wind'. Yeah, well it sucked. I only saw half of it, but I know how it's going to end. She get the guy, or he'll get all busted up at war, and then finally make it back and lalala, it will all be good. Las night I went to the Tav (one of the two ars at the uni), and played a few games of pool. Man I've become a shithouse pool player. Last year I had the ability to aim a ball at a pocket, and have a fare chance of it going in. NOW, I'm lucky if I can hit the ball. Ok, slight exageration, but the ball seems to have a mind of its own. Tomorrow I have to finish uni at 12, then drive 6+hours to Dubbo for a first time ever family reunion. It will be interesting. My Dad is flying over from China with his girlfriend Cindy. So it will be great to catch up with them. My Aunt will be there, she's cool too. Apart from that, I have no f'ing clue who or what will be there. I'm going to video it and make a clip for my grandma to distribute to who ever she likes. It's a pity I'm away this weekend. I wanted to spend some time with a girl I've become a lot closer to, but I guess I will have to wait. AT LAST I HAVE A FUNCTIONAL WEBLOGTuesday, March 20, 2001
So what have I been doing?Well I've been pretty busy. Mainly uni work related. We had to to a 2-3 minute piece that could be about anything. Some people made 'extreme' videos, others did small drama scenes. Others made docos. We (me and two girls) made a 3 minuter called "THREE BLIND MICE" (hopefully I'll get it up on the net somewhere so anyone can check it out.). It's about 3 guys who attempt to pickup the same girl. It's set in a bar, in a rural area somewhere in inland Australia (most likly Wagga Wagga). There is no audible dialogue, just Bottom Of Frame text dialogue (the same as the foreign films shown on SBS. The dialogue is set in the tone/time of the great Australian film "The Sentimental Bloke", helping to emphasise the Australianess of the characters. What is the relationship between the title of the piece, and the content/plot? Well we decided that the three guys story was similar to the Mother Goose nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice. The three guys get denied by the innocent/dreamy girl sitting in the corner of the bar. She cuts them down. Ok, not a great mind blowing concept, but when you see it, it works quite nicely. Words from a thin manWednesday, March 7, 2001
The story so far...University is back, and it has been amazing, as far as hot first year ass is concerned. I am 2 years into my 3 year BA in Television Production, so I feel far superior to the new people. And bigger too. They look smaller. But there are some really good looking girls this year. Last year was quite a let down. I had come from a city compared to the town that this uni is found in. |
I'm into slap bass. I started with the peppers, but have gone back to discover the mastery of people like Bootsy Collins, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten - all amazing and unbelievable stuff. The bass I play is a 1990 Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray - something that I treasure and am very very very lucky to have. Some Bassic links
I started playing slide guitar at the start of last year. I had a big steel slide I found in a box when I moved house, and a guitar i "borrowed" from the college I went to. Some busted up nylon string acoustic. Totally shit. At the start of this year i put some steel strings on it, and busted a tuning peg off. I now have a 5 string guitar. I'm going to buy a nice steel string. The stuff I've been getting into are such guys as Johnny Winter, Robert Johnson (the guy who seems to have been a MAJOR influence on all players). Some Slide Guitar links
Here is where my real passion lies. Hopefully I will make my career in this field. I have my own setup, and access to all the other gear at CSU, which will soon be updated (D9 cameras/VTRs etc, and a studio revamp - fucking great!) Some DV related links
Stickman's configuration
Some of the wankers doing the same elective as meA look at Beijing: POV from a friend
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