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29 October 08
Nothing spectaular today but I did add a couple songs to the Song Of The Moment page HERE
28 October 08
Well it seems that I was telling lies. But here I am now. Some month and a half after I said I would be. But lets be honest, have you ever trusted me?
So while listening to the Buzzcocks Peel sessions from 76 lets have a quick chat about whats been going on.
The economic troubles get worse and worse everyday. Thankfully for people like me though, I have a million dollars in the bank and I now know it is protected. Accordingly the opposition has put shit on the idea and yet at the same time supports it. This is politics folks. All fun really. Seem my super has been cut as well. There goes a bunch of money that I have earned so that in my dotage I can be a Grey Nomad and make Granny Porn on the road while taking expensive drugs. I guess the Viagra will have to wait.
To be honest though, it's pretty fucked up. But who do we blame? Well the americans of course. I could try and justify that but I would be telling you what you already know. I have no idea. No one has any idea. Having an idea wouldnt be the point. Fear is the point. We are all doomed, Doomed I tells ya! Sure some of us are going to be well fucked. Yet, while no one seems to be able to tell us when there is going to be an end to this, they for some reason can tell us what exactly is going to happen. We are all going to lose our jobs. I have heard from "professionals" in the game that anywhere between 200,000 and 2 million people will lose there jobs in Australia.
Short memories dictates that we forget about mitsubishi shutting down wayyyyyyyyyyyyy before anyone was talking about a recession. Or Toyota taking there work over seas or telstra outsourcing and so on and so forth. My advice, and lets be serious about this, my advice means fuck all. Find out what it is you want to achieve. Ignore the hype and do the best you can to get where you have to go. Try to ignore the world market troubles. There is fuck all you can do about them. But you can do something for yourself much easier.
So, look. I have done a couple more things on ITW. There is a multimedia page. Mind you there isnt a lot on it. A Roni Size track, a Front 242 track and an old New Order track. This will eventually have more things to listen to. Also the Song Of The Moment page will be added to. Right now I have not got the time. Maybe in an hour or two. Some of my favs will go in there. Depeche Mode is there now but seems not to work. Thankyou youtube. Bastards.
So for now, try not to freak out about the economy. If it gets bad we are all going to be fucked and be doomed together. Find some great music. Bang your head dance around like a motherfucker and critisize things you dont know about. It works for me.
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My ambition is to be insincere,
Wolf
01 September 08
And we are back. Been a little time since the last I posted but with luck and some sort of discipline from yours truly I will try to make it more regular.
First off the bat today. Thanks to Nick T for his email among others and thanks for the nice words. I appreciate the sentiments. And enough of the self promotion except to say please keep them coming as I will eventually have enough to have a decent Replies Section onsite where I will reply to your emails/questions/remarks.
Lets start with a little sample of politi-speak. As some of you know I have a tendency to hate Fm music stations so much that I usually pump up the N95 with mp3s (legal ones of course), plug that into the car stereo and turn it up loud. However I am a bit of a fan of listening to parliament. Not just the childish Question time, but to the proceedings in general. Dull I know for some but it tends to amuse me and I don't have to hear the same fucking song 6 times a day nor the annoying commercials or the mindless prattle of DJs ( dare I call them).
There are a few sentences that you get to hear that make the day worthwhile and just stop you in your thoughts for a second as you try to understand what it is you have heard. Now I cant remember the situation nor the exact phrase but it ran along the lines of this :- "We will have to relook at redoubling our efforts to revisit the matter in hand". Now as far as I could fathom from that, is this. The person in question, will look for the second (possibly more) time at quadrupling the efforts to visit for the second time ( again, possibly more) the mater in hand. So, 2 times 4 times another 2 visits to the matter at hand, maybe.
A couple other things that annoy and amuse me. The word is IMPORTANT not IMPORDANT. Brendan Nelson should have some balls and put his ear-ring back in. If you ever watch the proceeding of the lower house, have you ever noticed that when there is a shot of PM Kevin Rudd at the despatch box the rest of the shot is filled with women? Is it me or does the deputy leader of the opposition Julie Bishop, look as though she is ready to take the top of brendan's head off in one swipe of a pen. Some of those looks she gives! The current speaker of the house Harry Jenkins is without doubt the funniest and wittiest man in parliament. Some his quips have cut some members deep enough for a blood transfusion as well as leaving them dazed and confused. Outstanding!
Moving from national politics to sport. The Olympics. Or as most radio and television folks call it The Alympics, or to save time the lympics. Not a difficult word I would've though but hey, I am not in the limelight and have none of the pressures that they do. Channel sevens Joanna Griggs, (whom I am a bit of a fan of) started the O/A/lympics with an understandable style of speaking yet by day 4 was talking as if she was a singlet wearing stubbie drinking male from Mt Isa. Nice folks that the Mt isa people are, its quite disturbing when the voice emanates from an attractive female on the television.
Without question I am one of the many that became fucking furious at the promise of the events we were going to see but didn't. Coming up next, Diving. Great. Return from commercial break, show elongated slow motion footage for the seventeenth time that day. Revisit (heh heh) the last X amount of hours of coverage, show Australians getting medals, chat about what's coming up tonight/today later on the show, tell us again about what coming next, off to commercial break, return, different yet equally boring slow motion water sequence, man on track throwing water on his face in super duper slow mo (for those that had HD tvs and to fuck those off that didn't) and then to an event that you had heard live on ABC radio some four hours earlier. HANG ON!!!! WHERES THE FUCKING DIVING/TRACK/CYCLING/HAMMER THROW (insert sport you were waiting for here).
Oh and lets not forget the promise of live events. Fuck me standing. There was very very little of it. And what we did see was the first elimination final of the x hundred meter throwing arms about in the water event number 453 qualifying event for countries that don't have water. Thank you channel 7. This is the time when you need one of those DVD recorders and some time off. Work the first day of the O/A/lympics. Record it all. As you spend the second day at home watching the first day record the second day. Repeat til end.
For me it was hats off to SBS. Handball, yeah! No idea how it works, but watching european women throw themselves towards a net with a ball in their hand!!?? How can that NOT be sport. Water Polo. That's some intense leg action and more than a few knees in the groin underwater style and some dunkings that made a few 12 year old pool bullies sit up and take notice. The Balance Beam. Ouch! Archery? I nearly fell off my sofa when I saw the special equipment strapped to the bow, weights counterweights, that little thing that snapped when they were ready to let go of the arrow and stuff. I felt sorry for the 67 year old Japanese dudde that was doing the equestrian thing where the horse has to two step then tango and then salsa ( my horse knowledge showing through here) and that fucking big jet plane roared across the top and spooked the horse. That was fucked up and the dude should have got another go.
Various other things that I amy go into later. But for shear boredom and inconsequential hype you cannot go past Stephanie Rice. Yup, attractive girl, quite clever in the pool, great athlete. Why do we care about her Facebook photos? Her snogging Phelps or for a matter of fact anything else about her that is her private life. Yeah I know there is the thing about being in public eye and therefore being aware of what you do, but either her press manager is perpetuating it for the money she can earn as we as humans are fascinated by this shit. Either way it got me to say something about her so I guess I am the same as the masses.
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My ambition is to be overrated,
Wolf
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09 June 08
Putting out the fire with gasoline (thanks David Bowie)
Is anyone else over the whole fuel price fucked up shit? I buy three to four tanks of fuel a week. When I first started my business fuel was 80c per liter. Just over three years later I am paying just under double.
So as you can imagine I am more than a little fucked off about this. Our government has decided to set up a fuel watch site that petrol stations must tell there following days price over liter to. Now this will enable me to find out what fuel is at before I leave the house for the day. Now to be honest this means fuck all to me. Cos I know the fuel is going to be about 10 cents different no matter where I go.
But this isn't really the point. The Opposition Political party feel they have a better idea. Reduce the fuel price by five cents a liter. Fuck off on both sides. All this is nothing but rhetoric. From where I sit there seems to be a couple questions missing answers.
Seems our fuel prices are governed by Indonesia or some shit. Now this sounds great but it doesn't or as yet hasn't answered why before the weekend or more importantly a three day weekend, the price will jump by sometimes 15 cents per liter. Various Commissions have been told to investigate this occurrence. They haven't come up with an answer that suits anyone. What they have come up with though is that they don't have enough power to do anything about it. Makes no difference to me and means fuck all as well.
So its no wonder that the talk around the country of Australia is about fuel prices. Add to that everyone feels the major fuel companies are taking us for a big fucking ride. I don't doubt it either.
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Stay sane unless you have a better option,
Wolf
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08 June 08
Interesting days.
It appears that you can take photos of naked preteens AND as long as they are in black and white you can call it art, and NOT be a child pornographer. Yet this week Australian Feds grabbed the ips of 70 odd Australians that visited a child porn site they had set up to catch the fuckers.
But the guy that took the photos and wanted to display them as art isn't a pornographer nor is he apparently going to get into any trouble for his efforts. Its all about art folks. So there is outrage. And here is the weird thing, (or not) there is outrage on both sides of the story. For example arty sorts of folks are in tremors over the censorship of art. Nearly everyone else feels its pretty close to child porn, obscene and "something" should be done about it.
And as a last little piece about this. The images of his art are online anyhow. Sooooooooo, does that make it internet child porn or internet art?
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Stay sane unless you have a better option,
Wolf
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