The Marvellous Mister B

Obituaries.

From a myspace bulletin. I thought it was good enough to put here, given how I never post any more.

spoiler warning.

On Sunday it's my birthdayyyyyyy!

Stuff.

a roman soldier hacking a ufo to death is the coolest thing i've ever seen

Dude, that Brady fag never updates his blog anymore.

I got to meet Matt Bellamy!

Hey everyone, Kim likes me.

Hey everyone, Kim likes HECS.

The obligatory what-I-did-for-NYE-post

Happy new thing.

New time in Minesweeper: 127 seconds. Look out, Hoppy, I'm on to you.

Some days,

I'm Perfect?

Hope springs eternal.

Well, I was wrong again.

You're in my head like a boxcutter, baby

Don't have tofu, have mushrooms instead.

I like cooking because food is the third-best thing in my life.

Photo Album: Some performance pics

Photo Album: Family and stuff

Photo Album: Melbourne 2x/01/06

Photo Album: Frank's Box Social

Photo Album: Formal

Photo Album: School

Photo Album: Earnshaw Idol (photos by Ang)

Photo Album: Biofutures 04

Photo Album: Muse 12/9/04

Blog list: People who I definitely do not hate right now

Custom List: Bands I adore (in no order)

Custom List: Contact methods!

Custom List: Sites to look at or avoid (guess which two!)

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:40:35 GMT

R.I.P. Peggy Clarke. My grandma passed away peacefully and painlessly two weeks ago today, after battling cancer for several years. She had recently seen almost everyone in her extended family - at least, everybody who had descended from her who was still alive. So, it's kind of sad, but it's kind of also happy in that, since you have to die one way or another, this is probably the nicest way to do it. I didn't go down for her funeral; family insisted that since I'd recently been down to visit her with mK, it would be perfectly fine to save my money and merely think of her at the time instead. Which I did.

R.I.P. MSN 7.5 - Live Messenger killed you some time tonight.

My depression's returned pretty harshly. It's always been there in the lack-of-motivation sense. Now it's getting stronger. It's kind of hard to describe to somebody who's not in your head, since it appears that one suffering depression is merely being lazy and angsty for no reason - ie, being a teenager. The easiest way that I can put it is that it makes putting any effort into just about anything impossible.

For example: I would have been perfectly capable of getting up and going to uni this morning, albeit needing coffee. However, for no particular reason, I had stayed in bed for an extra SIX FUCKING HOURS, somehow justifying my resignation to failure in the process. I would like to get this fixed; however, I always find an excuse not to see a doctor. Lame and recursive, huh? And nothing to do with sadness.

In other news, the band is going pretty well. We're writing much more than we can play; we're not short on material. We have four gigs coming up, with others waiting in the wings. It's a good feeling.

2 October - Tongue and Groove

20 October - Clarence Cnr Hotel

26 October - Clarence Cnr Hotel (WE'RE ON TV!!!*)

7 November - Tongue and Groove

so come to all of them or I'll rape you with a bass.

*Only Briz31, but still.

Anyway, it's been nice chatting to you, but I really must go bankways to pay the rent. Talk to me, I'm always online.

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:31:57 GMT

New song, "This Memory", If you want it message or comment.

50 ODD THINGS ABOUT YOU

1. Wheres your #1 on your top 8 at the moment?
Drawn and quartered.

2. What is your favorite possession?
Probably my PC.

3. Do you own a gun?
Nope.

4. If you could tell your last ex something what would you say?
Hi Em!

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
Nuh-uh.

6. What do you think of hot dogs
Delicious but deadly.

7. What's your favorite Christmas song?
Christmas? More like, Christ-GAY.

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Milo, or coffee, or strawberry breaka.

9. Can you do push ups?
I can, but I don't. I'm allergic to all exercise barring masturbation.

10. Is your bathroom clean?
As long as I'm not the one in charge of cleaning it.

11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry?
Probably that thing I never wear. Do hats count?

12. Do you take painkillers?
Not really, no.

13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the other sex?
Tongue. Also, it should probably be 'preferred' sex, rather than 'other' sex, but I digress.

14. Do you have A.D.H.D.? [Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder]?
Probably! LOL! WOO!

15. Your nickname?
Bardy.

16. Middle Name(s).
I always like to leave this one empty.

17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
Fucking mic!
4 hours in which to sleep in X_X
I hope some people actually turn up tonight

19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink:
water, milo, coffee

20. Last movie watched, where and with who?
Dr. Strangelove...wait, no, the new Harry Potter. In, um, the cinema. THE HOME CINEMA, AMIRITE GUYS

22. Current worry?
In the bigger picture, well, peak oil's gonna be a bitch. In the smaller, well, catching up uni's gonna be a bitch.

23. Current hate?
Not enough hours to comfortably sleep, relax, AND do shit in. And I do like relaxing.

24. Favorite place to be?
It's FAVOURITE. With a YOU. Motherfucker. Right where I am, but with my favourite girl next to me.

25. How did you bring in the New Year?
Hmm, I think I actually went and saw some friends for this one. So, at Jacob's, with a few mates.

27. Do you own slippers?
Who needs slippers when you have a perfectly functional penis?

30. Favorite color(s)?
Red, Blue, White, Grey, Black, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple. Pretty much everything bar pink, actually.

31. Would you be a pirate?
FREE RAPE? OMG YES
oh and ships and dry biscuits and scurvy and syphilis and death and beards are all pretty cool too.

32. Are you tired?
Of course not, it's only 3 fucking am after work. I haven't even had dinner yet, you stupid fucking quiz. Jesus, you're dumb, quiz.

33. Do you sing in the shower?
Not loudly, but yeah. I write lyrics in there.

34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child?
Didn't. As a religious child, I knew I was safe from all of that crap. And now, as an atheist, I STILL know it.

35. Current cravings?
Sleep, vagina, food. Maybe some possible combination of them.

36. Superman, Spiderman, or Batman?
Ain't not no fan of neither.

37. Best bed sheets as a child?
Oooh, race cars. With matching motorbike pillowcase! :-P~~~~~~

38. Worst injury you've ever had?
Um, DIABETES. Otherwise I think I scarred myself masturbating. Oh and I've fallen off my bike tonnes of times too, 'coz I'm a clumsy mofo.

39. What is your job?
'Student' *snigger*, casual box-lackey.

40. Who are your favourite people at the moment?
Kim, Frank, the band, and most other people, in roughly that order.

41. Who is your loudest friend?
Tough one. Probably Matt? Or Victor. Jess is also quite teh loud sometimes.

42. Who is your most silent friend?
Most of 'em. Kim, when we're out.

43. Do you like anyone right now?
I like most people who aren't cunts. I REALLY like some people.

44. Do you wish on shooting stars?
No, but I look at them because astronomy is cool! _b

45. What is your favorite book?
Probably H2G2.

46. Favorite candy?
MOTHERFUCKER, IT'S CALLED CHOCOLATE, OR LOLLIES IF YOU'RE REFERRING TO SHIT THAT ISN'T CHOCOLATE. GODDAMN! I WILL FUCKING RIP YOUR ARSE OFF AND REPLACE IT WITH A MONKEY!

Probably Mars bars.

47. What song do you want played at your wedding?
What makes you think I wanna get married? If the tax benefits are ever beneficial, maybe. I'm all for commitment and love and shit, but the purpose of marriage is to divide people up into convenient little social whatchamathingies. So anyway, to decide, I'm gonna put WMP on shuffle and explain the first thing that comes up.

Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates
Weddings have pretty speeches; mine will also revive the long-missed Roman tradition of feeding people to lions. I'll have to maintain a delicate balance between the prettyness of the speechiness and the cutting people to shreds, however, if it's to be successful. Also, it'll be held in the clouds. In a river. Backwards.

48. What song do you want played at your funeral?
That was fun! Let's try this again.

Deftones - Minerva

It's nice and heavy, so everyone can mosh, and they'll make me crowd surf. I mean, hell, I'll be dead; what could possibly be more rock than THAT? Also, what the hell do I care what's played at my funeral. Play ABBA, if you want. Though "William Tell Overture (Abridged) - Walter Carlos" (the next shuffle) would be great also, if only to remind people of the sped-up sex scene in A Clockwork Orange.

49. What were you doing @ 12 AM last night?
Not glancing at the clock and going 'Hey, it's 12 AM! I should take a note of what I'm doing now!'.

50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
"Why isn't my alarm going o- shit!" - it was 11:30am, my alarm was set for 8, uni started at 10.

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:59:26 GMT

Burbage dies on pg. 12
Hedwig dies on pg. 56
Mad-Eye dies on pg. 78
Scrimgeour dies on pg. 159
Wormtail dies on pg. 471
Dobby dies on pg. 476
Snape dies on pg. 658
Fred Weasley dies on pg. 637
Harry gets ##%!ed up by Voldemort on pg. 704 but comes back to life on pg. 724
Tonks, Lupin, and Colin Creevy have their deaths confirmed on pg. 743

19 years after the events in the book:

Ron has married Hermione, their two children are named Rose and Hugo
Harry has married Ginny, their three children are named Lily, James, and Albus Severus.
Draco Malfoy has a son named Scorpius

The epilogue shows all of the children boarding the train for Hogwarts together.

The final lines of the book are: "The scar had not pained Harry for 18 years. All was well."

Plot Spoilers

Part of Voldemort's soul was implanted into Harry when he used Avada Kedavra on him when he was a baby. Harry then sacrifices himself, Lily Potter style, which allows him to kill Voldemort without killing himself. He also has hacks (stone to bring him back to life, and an uber wand).

Snape went to the good side (Hogwarts, etc.) because he was all emo that Voldemort killed Lily Potter.

Harry has three kids with Ginny. Ron and Hermoine fall in love.

Note: if you don't want anything spoiled for you, take spoiler warnings into account. if you read it, despite the spoiler warning, don't blame me for your inability to see them.

(i read it after seeing spoilers, and you know what? IT'S STILL AN AWESOME BOOK. No great work of literature, but probably the best of the series.)

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:22:56 GMT

People really assume too much. I'm as guilty as anyone, but generally that's for assuming that everything's okay unless people tell me otherwise. Silly me, I guess.

The band is going well, and we're over at http://www.myspace.com/thelovebuckles now 'coz we changed our name; I probably mentioned this in the last post but can't be bothered checking.

I'm addicted to Kim and Medieval II.

I don't sing enough, but I learnt to play slap bass.

That's about it.

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:49:14 GMT

So, one person reads this? Go me.

The band's now called The LoveBuckles, and we've finished recording our demo through the link.

I'm gigging down in Sydderney again in about a month, probably about 5 or 6 nights, will be confirmed soon.

I'm working again.

I'm eating brownies.

My life is music and Kim, so what else did you expect?

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:33:42 GMT

the new modest mouse album's purdy cool

and i'm not getting gigs or making much new music but i wrote a couple of songs in the last couple of weeks

the band's recording a demo tomorrow and we should even have a name soon

the video for invincible is awesome in the last minute and a half because it has giant robot teddy bears eating the earth before dinosaurs and vikings come to kick the aliens' arses

i'm getting hours at kmart again

i'm still in love, which is pretty much the coolest thing ever

and life's not perfect, but it certainly warrants no complaints at this time.

i should update this thing more or use grammar again or something.

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:31:26 GMT

Life's fantastic. Need money. Love is better than I ever expected. Life is better than I knew it could be.

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:39:35 GMT

I got to shake his hand!

I got a setlist!

I saw them both nights!

First, 30/1:

1. Knights Of Cydonia (Space Dementia outro)
2. Butterflies And Hurricanes
3. Assassin (with the Debase Mason's Grog outro)
4. Map Of The Problematique

5. Plug In Baby
6. Forced In
7. Hysteria
8. Feeling Good
9. Hoodoo
10. Invincible
11. Supermassive Black Hole
12. Time Is Running Out
13. New Born
-------
14. Starlight
15. Bliss (extended)
-------
16. Stockholm Syndrome
17. Take A Bow

just seated for that night, but relly good anyway. got to appreciate the light show. got a red black holes and revelations shirt, which is pretty groovy. water was more expensive than softdrinks, which i'm pretty sure is illegal. they played lots of cool little jazzy interludes. they showed marching robots in supermassive black hole, space invaders and radar screens in stockholm syndrome, george bush and flags and oil rigs in take a bow, crowds rioting and people hugging in invincible, electronica-kinda-things in map of the problematique, karaoke for the refrain of knights of cydonia, and, um, stars in starlight.

And the second night! (31/1)

1. Take A Bow
2. Hysteria
3. Supermassive Black Hole
4. Butterflies And Hurricanes
5. Map Of The Problematique
6. City Of Delusion
7. Citizen Erased (!!!)
8. Sunburn (!!!)
9. Apocalypse Please (!!!!)
10. Invincible
11. Time Is Running Out
12. Plug In Baby
-------
13. Soldier's Poem
14. Starlight
15. Stockholm Syndrome
-------
16. Knights Of Cydonia

Met Matt and Dom before the gig, after waiting around for a couple of hours. They signed my ticket and shook hands with Kim and I. Heard Apocalypse Please and Citizen Erased twice each, without vocals - Muse karaoke performed by Muse. Standing right at the barrier, right in front of Chris, with Kim and Cait. Somehow managed not to die in the crowd. Got a setlist at the end - slightly torn after someone tried to steal it from me. Gaffer taped back up. Cait got a red tour shirt. Everyone left singing "No-one's going to taaaaaake meeeeeee aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive".

We walked to Cait's tram stop, said goodbye, then caught a tram to Flinders Street and went home. We made nachos and watched Scrubs. Best night of my life, in probably the best (or second-best) month.

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:31:29 GMT

And everything seems to be working out better than one could ever have imagined things working out.

Played a gig to Kim, the barperson and about 5 customers (none of who stayed for more than 15 minutes of my 75-minute set). One bought me a beer, which was nice, and nice of them too.

The Local in St. Kilda has a comedy night on Mondays for $7 with many great acts. So far I've seen Corinne Grant, Danny Bhoy, Tom Gleeson, Justin Hamilton, Declan Fay and others who have names that I can't remember or be bothered looking up.

the other day i picked raspberries with kim. there weren't many because of the drought (and the other people at the kinglake raspberry festival picking them). still, delicious.

That 1 Guy is amazing live.

Pinky Beecroft and The White Russians tomorrow night. They were good last time, don't see it being different this time. Next Wednesday, Andrew Bird. Wednesday after that, MUSE!

and then sydney and three gigs at jam nights and home and recording and whoa is that a lover moving in?

LG.

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:20:16 GMT

120 seconds in minesweeper. I'm ON to you, Hoppy.

on the way to the concert i saw someone who reminds me that, yes, some men really don't deserve the privilege of a penis. he was talking loudly to his two male companions about anal sex and blowjobs and how he was in prison and how every other male on the carriage (there was me, and another two sat there at different points in the journey) liked to take it up the arse. and when a girl walked past, he took a deep sniff before exclaiming "yeah, she's farkin' shaved" before mentioning how much he would enjoy the opportunity to "poon that cunt". probably a good thing that i don't have a gun that i keep on me at all times, because his brains would have been hard to clean off the seat, and i don't like making more work for cleaners.

Modest Mouse!

- Ocean Breathes Salty

- Paper Thin Walls

- Black Cadillacs

- We've Got Everything

- Float On

- Fire It Up

- Bukowski

- Missed The Boat

- Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes (OMG! AWESOME!)

- Dashboard

- The World At Large (not played)

- People As Places As People

- The View

- Doin' The Cockroach (not on the setlist, but they played it, much to my contentment)

--break--

- Invisible
- Dramamine

- Bury Me With It (they played this before Dramamine)

I got a setlist that says

"D--nboard

World at Large

People As Places As People

The vi--"

because the dickhead of a roadie threw the last one into a crowd and three of us all got bits and i got a third and the guy who got the bit below me just got the encore and we put our bits together and some chick took a photo of it. but the dude who i met at the sfk gig who was a modest mouse fan (he's in a band called MILK MUSIC!) had a full setlist. i bought a yellow t-shirt, it says MODEST MOUSE and has a buffalo between the MODEST and the MOUSE (MODEST is above the MOUSE). and i talked to the sex-lover all the way home and all the way here.

it's about 26 hours until i leave for Melbourne! and probably about 40-44 'til i get there. and apparently my grandma's given my uncle a cheque for me with some money for christmas, which will be very handy at some stage. i didn't know that people had to pay me for christmas, and if i had i would have capitalised more at the time. because canberra's a very nice city.

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:48:07 GMT

I went around to Jacobs, and for most of the night I talked to Tristan.

Well, there was a lot of pool being played, and a lot of alcohol and marijuana being consumed (I, myself, had one vodka and no pot), and three chicks (more a worry to people who don't have lovers they're seeing in 3 days), and maybe 10 people in total. And when Victor, Tristan and I attempted to go to the valley, we failed horribly - well, Jacob and Byron were going to come but decided against it. Oh, and there was the bit where Jacob played piano. He's seriously a fantastic player.

It was a whole lot of nothing, but probably better than nothing.

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:15:55 GMT

Really, the whole new years thing? Couldn't care less.

But I've got 4 sleeps and a long drive 'til I see my lover, and that's almost nothing.

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:48:33 GMT

And I've finally rerecorded For The Love Of so it sounds almost like it does in my head. Really, really, freaking, awesome, yeah. Should be up here within the hour.

If you're one of the people I sent it to last night, check it out again, because this version totally pwned that version.

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:17:14 GMT

I wonder why I even fucking bother waking up.

But hey, I recorded "Perfect?" and put it on my MySpace and it's the first song I've recorded since Cybersexual. So that's good at least. Might do Jacaranda. Might do an electric version of Transcendent. Might have a bowl of coco pops and play Medieval and try to forget that life exists.

Fuck Christmas.

...but at least I'm not trying to make money from music. Ouch.

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:03:05 GMT

I woke to discover another lover lying in my bed

She rolled and blinked and smiled up at me, as she smiled I said,

"Your smile's a silent suicide

From which I run but cannot hide"

To this she giggled and lied as she replied, "You're perfect."

(they always say that)

See, I knew that she was lyin'

When I saw her the next day, cryin'

And I knew that she would die inside

And she'd like it,'coz she still thinks I'm perfect.

(they're all crazy, you know)

I woke later that night with a terrific fright

To a beautiful sight in the curtained moonlight

My lover, who couldn't put up a fight

When she saw that moonlight in the eyes of her knight

But I knew she was wrong

When I started this song

'Coz I don't know how long she can make herself think that I'm perfect.

Oh, I don't know how long she can go on convincing herself...that I'm perfect.

And holy fuck, I just got a time of 128 seconds in Minesweeper.

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:36:11 GMT

One day, I hope that I will no longer live as a refugee in my own society.

Behind me, I leave fields of scorched earth, with a burnt bridge over every river that I've had to cross.

I cross them because I have to.

I cross them because, if I didn't, I'd be forced to jump into the river and swim.

I cross them to get away from my tormentors.

Quite often, they stay with me.

At least I forget about them for a while in my new home.

Not really a home, but that's what people call the places where they live.

Back on the other side of the river, when I'm gone:

They go back to their lives without me.

They till and replant the fields;

They rebuild the bridges.

Sometimes they let me back over, and it all repeats itself.

Can't help but think that one of these days I'm going to run up to the river and be forced to swim.

My luck couldn't possibly be that good.

I can't wait for the day when I learn to swim.

Relying on bridges is a huge liability, especially if you don't have the capacity to build them yourself.

And maybe one day I'll learn to swim.

Maybe one day I'll make peace with my tormentors.

Maybe, one day, I will find a bridge that I don't have to cross

In front of people who I haven't crossed

And I'll no longer be lost - because I'll have found my home.

Either way, it's just over two weeks until I go to the only home I've known in years.

Under two weeks 'til I move to the place where I'm going to stay while I'm there.

Maybe only a couple of days.

Who knows? Maybe I'll find a home there as well.

That would be heaps swell.

And if not, I guess I'm used to it by now.

I'm not sure how much longer I can take this, but I've taken it for quite a while and I'm not dead yet.

One of the reasons I don't like Christmas all that much is because it reminds me that I don't have a home. This is a fact that's rubbed in my face all year around, but at Christmas, with the emphasis on home and family, it's salting the wounds. The fact that I have to move twice within a month (or so) doesn't bother me. The fact that I live in fear, not knowing when I'll have to move next, does rather. I shouldn't be fearful, because something always seems to work out. But in the last three years, I've not lived at any one address for longer than 7 months. I should get myself a P.O. box, at the very least. I'm not so worried by the fact that I'm never sleeping in the same bed 12 months after any particular date - I'm worried that everywhere I go, the welcome seems to be overstayed. I'm worried that, no matter where I go, it'll be somebody else's home rather than my own. I'm worried that, no matter where I go, this fear shan't disappear. I'm worried that the seams are starting to fray, and I like pulling loose threads.

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:10:37 GMT

but at least i got to sleep in

and today i woke up with a bsl of 4.3 which is quite low and it's the first time i've woken up with a bsl so low in a while and this is a good sign.

time to play medieval again.

also, acoustic covers of depeche mode songs work rather nicely because depeche mode have awesome chord progressions.

it's called gratitude, and that's right.

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:51:30 GMT

and GOD i did not know this loneliness was possible.

and to think! without it, i'd be feeling worse?

but it's true.

today i worked and i didn't record and i didn't wake up at a reasonable hour. tomorrow, hopefully, there will be recording. on sunday i get to see an old friend. on monday, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday nights, and next saturday and sunday during the day i am working. on next friday, i will be sitting at home doing nothing, unless i get called in to work.

and also i found somewhere to live due to a string of random chances culminating in a couple of surprising conversations

and also i'm not sure whether i'd be feeling better if i didn't have something good to look forward to. expectations are annoying. they make the present seem unworthy, and therefore culminate in wasted life. not that i get wasted anymore.

and also john mayer is a good guitar player. you should listen to him playing neon live acoustic. fantastic stuff. i wrote him off after hearing 'your body is a wonderland', which is a pity because his other stuff isn't quite so faggy.

time to try to keep on learning that song.

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:16:13 GMT

Hey, I picked up two shifts, and will probably have rehearsal on Friday or Saturday or both. Life *could* be a way of passing the time, I guess.

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:44:01 GMT

Brady's fantabulous thing that he just made 10 minutes ago. Call it:

"Mediterranean Sunset"

Ingredients:

- Unsliced bread. Slices will do nicely too.

- 50g sundried tomatoes

- 50g olives

- 50g cheese (pref. fetta - I used cheddar)

- 150g chicken breast

- butter or margarine

Equipment:

Microwave

Small frypan

Plate

Bread knife

Method:

Put cheese on plate, microwave on high for about 30-45 seconds. Cut bread into chunks, put on plate when cheese has finished. Spread thickly with butter/marg. Pour sundried tomatoes and olives over the bread/cheese. Put frypan on high. Pour the oils from the olives and tomatoes onto frypan. Dice the chicken and brown for about 5 minutes. Chicken on plate. Serve with iced coffee, 45 minutes before you have to leave for work.

Trust me, it's delicious. Also works as a vegetarian meal without the chicken - substitute tofu, or anything else that's at hand (I only used chicken because someone left chicken to defrost in the microwave when I wanted to microwave the cheese). The bread soaks up the oil from the olives and sundried tomatoes, and the mediterranean food combines in your arteries to truly create the sunset of your heart. Enjoi.

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:02:26 GMT

Some performance pics

More Photos...

Tue, 02 May 2006 15:13:56 GMT

Family and stuff

Myself, Dad Mal, & Coby Clarke 16-01-06

Marie-Clare De Vere, Brady & Coby Clarke 16-01-06

Dad and I

Dad and I again

Dad and I once more for posterity

One last photo, then.

I'm trying not to crack up because the camera's on a timer.

Just cut this cake and WHOA A CHEQUE FOR A LOT OF MONEY!

Who? Me? In a PHOTO? Shucks.

Well, if you must.

More Photos...

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:01:22 GMT

Melbourne 2x/01/06

and now she appears to be shooting lazer beams from her lips...

Claire and Joel

Emily et moi

Emily

Gordo!

Gran and uncle Ian

Grandmother Clarke, and your humble scribe

i do not understand brown pigeons

I guess that this also passes for art. Fags.

I guess that this is what passes for 'art' nowadays

More Photos...

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:36:26 GMT

Frank's Box Social

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Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:16:53 GMT

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Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:28:39 GMT

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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:22:29 GMT

People who I definitely do not hate right now

Frank
This boy is quite spectacular
Kim
Not a boy, but a wealthy bachelor
Jess
I want a car!
Cait
A car!

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:01:30 GMT

Bands I adore (in no order)

The Butterfly Effect
Good Brisbane melodic metal, like APC but, well, not. IMAGO is quite the good!
Shihad
Nominally confused kiwi-turned-Melbournite rockers what know how to put on a live show.
Queens Of The Stone Age
Pity Nick got kicked out. They were so much cooler back in the RR/SFTD days. Still, latest album ain't bad. Burn the witch! Burn to ash and bone!
Muse
Love 'em so much they get two mentions. Black Holes And Revelations is the best thing from 2006.
Radiohead
Thom Yorke is a crazy dancer - Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien are insane in their own ways. They do no wrong.
System Of A Down
Okay, their new stuff sucks. Daron shouldn't sing. But their first two albums rocked.
Wolfmother
Can't wait to see these guys live! The debut EP is a must-have, get it wherever you can! The album...buy it or else.
Pink Floyd
R.I.P. Syd Barrett. Dark Side Of The Moon is as good now as it ever were.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium was a tad formulaic, but they're still quite a good band.
Sonic Youth
*feedback* *drumstick tapped on back of the neck of a weirdly-tuned Japanese strat sounding like bells amongst the feedback*. RAIN KING!
Gyroscope
I like their earlier stuff - Midnight Express EP is good. Still yet to see them live though.
Queen
Glam rock at its finest. Bohemian Rhapsody is the best something.
Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan, another American musical genius. Like Nirvana but good, LOL! LLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOLLL!!1!
Primus
LOLLERSAKE!
Something For Kate
Desert Lights is great. Paul Dempsey is great. Yeah, Something For Kate are great.
The Beatles
They a'iiiiiiiight, yo.
Love Outside Andromeda
SIANNA IS FRIGGIN' HOT! Saw them live, they rocked, and now I wanna see them again. Good music, too.
Sarah Blasko
Blasko and Robert F. Cranny make some very nice music together. Prelusive was alright, but TOATU was so much better.

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:41:10 GMT

Contact methods!

Carrier Pigeon
Most reliable, occasionally shot down however.
Travelling through the future and implanting a message in my mind
This method has the unfortunate side effect of reincarnating you as a poo bug.
Eating 7 cupcakes
May increase your cholesterol to unacceptable levels, but at least you'll get the message across.
Oh, and by the way
Don't click on the above link. In fact, don't click any of them. They just show you how to contact me, if you've the intelligence to read...which you should do. If you don't, then please, click on the above link. Love the Bard.

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Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:07:08 GMT

Sites to look at or avoid (guess which two!)

Exit Mundi
For when you think the world can't get any worse, guess again!
Muse!
Go to the media section, listen to some of their live tracks, and try to figure out why I love these guys so much.
Gamespy
My other passion - destroying my eyesight, posture, and will todo anything all at once!
Ultimate Guitar
Pretty good tab site - it's even got an entry from me, I hear you ask? Why, yes, it does, in fact! How 133+!
Gmail
Want an invite? I've only got 40,000. It's quite exclusive.
H*R
If you haven't seen this, you're missing out BIG time. Or is itbig TIME? Just TIME? Whatever. You're missing out.
RvB
Ditto for this. Funneh, with a capital "Eh?".
Something Awful
Web humour, for web people.
The Onion
It's not known as America's most reliable news source for no reason, folks.
Bash
Can't believe I didn't put this in earlier. Unlike reality, stupidity is inescapable.
Wikipedia
'Coz Frank has it on his. Resource for everything, edited by users. Answers.com relies on it, and google links to answers.com - what's that tell you?
Dinosaur Comics
Who would've thunk it, six eternal panels, yet still good after2 and a half years (at time of writing).
Joke site!
This sure is one funny site! Be sure to go here for a laugh, and brush your teeth afterwards!
Diesel Sweeties
'Nother web comic. This one's pixelated, for retro goodness!
Tubgirl
With a cunning stunt (hyuk hyuk), I've hidden a link to this vile piece of internet folklore in one of the addresses in the above list. Try to guess which one! All comments to the blog, please.
Uncyclopedia
When it's not crap, it's good. I like the Radiohead one.
Penny Arcade
Gabe + Tycho = Genius.