It's in the stars?

I am literally dragging my carcass over the line as the end of the year is within spitting distance. Not that I am counting (I finish in exactly two weeks today) but I am in such a dire need of a holiday I can taste the sunscreen in my mouth. Why you ask, as you eat your twig toast and hot non animal related chai? Well I have had a year that has truly tested me in every way. Work, health, love (or lack of loving) it really has been a year of change. I don't complain, though some experiences were truly horrible, I am just hoping for a year with less drama and more nice karma. A colleague read me my stars for the impending year yesterday which left me wanting, I heard phrases like.. "In between phase", "major growth process" etc.. Not that I am placing my faith into a little booklet stuck onto a gossip rag, but to be honest that sounds like this year and the year before, oh and the year before. I feel very much like I am on the verge of something better, but never seem to get there or enjoy it if I do. Strange huh? Maybe I should take solice in the last line of the crappy gossip horoscope book "Even though you do not know where this train is headed, have faith you will know where to get off, so enjoy the scenery on the way" Wise words for a magazine whose cover screams "Britney now so fat she has her own moon".

First look at the new Joker

This is pretty cool, the leaked cover of the Jan 2008 UK Empire with the first official image of Heath Ledger as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight. I love Batman movies, ever since I was a little butterball. Enjoy.

Worst. Headphones. Ever!!!!

Loathe I am to bash a product online, I have to say to all those who can listen, NEVER ever to buy these headphones! I had to buy these after my original iPod ear buds gave up the ghost on only one side. So after a week of feeling rather lopsided, I gave in and bought these Apple Earphones (see attached BOO!!!)

I am rather missing the mono headphones now, these headphones are not only tinny, have the bass of a flea fart and need to be driven so far into your skull to work you are in serious danger of having to go to the emergency room if you turn around too fast.

The real rub is these are more expensive than the original earphones! Can you believe it? I get more dynamic bass from hitting a cheesecake with an unpeeled banana.

On a good note, a lovely lady at JB HiFi said I can bring them in for a credit.

Nice Picture

Here is a nice pic of me with my friends Oli and Travis. Oh what a lovely picture, I look half decent in it. You may not know this but when ever I seem to have pics taken of me, they are either aimed up my nose or I look like I got hit by the fat bus.

I like this one of all of us. Have a great weekend.

Next weekend...

I was given last Xmas from my old job a free night and extras (food and booze!!) at the Intercontinental Sydney. I was saving it for the amazing relationship i was going to have this year, but obviously that guy was lost in the post, so next weekend I am presenting myself with my PJs and Teddy bear slippers for a nice night of free Champagne and cable porn. Nice stuff. I will be inviting two friends along to come to the roof top bar for the two hour long free booze and food thing. Can't wait! I have been there before. That there is a pic of me twirling on the roof top of the hotel with some tramp, I dunno who it was, I was so high on glue fumes.

Get Better Oli!!!!!!!

My friend Oli got sick the other night and had to go to hospital. Get better rock chick!

Last Ditch Effort

The outgoing Liberal party tried another pretty shameful exercise last night, posting fake materials into a Sydney neighbourhood's letter boxes. The fake leaflets were "from" a made up Islamic organization and Labour, asking for the Bali bomber "Brothers" to be freed. The Liberal party postmen were caught and photographed by The Daily Telegraph. How bloody stupid could you get, it seems that after this and the effort to push the electoral decision in the court (Sound familiar, George Bush, Florida, 2000?) the Liberal Party are grabbing at straws. Bring around the Sunday defeat please... To read the shameless disaster click here http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22798663-5012863,00.html

Cloverfield 1-18-08

I think its well known that I love a good disaster movie, I am also partial to a rather good monster movie too. So when then get rolled up into one ball busting movie, I become very excited and tend to fall down stairs alot.

Cloverfield 1-18-08 (18-01-08 in non American format) has one of the the most impressive viral and guerrilla marketing techniques I have seen for a movie for some time.

The Internet is literally abuzz with theories of the storyline and even the movies title is not confirmed. What is known it is a story about gargantuan monster attacking NYC one night on Jan 18th and the film is shown through the eyes of survivors through shaky "real" digital camera footage. Very interesting and possibly could make you more sea sick than a trip to Calais in Feb or The Bourne Ultimatum, which made me have an asthma attack. I kid you not.

Anyway, looks pretty impressive. One to look forward too.

The first trailer can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvNkGm8mxiM

while the website is a mysterious http://www.01-18-08.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield

I Love Weekends

Golly Miss Molly I am so happy the end of the week has come around like a horny neighbor, even if I have had a huge proposal dropped in my lap for a brand re-launch due by December. Oh well three weeks till my holiday. Whoopie. Anyhoo no new news really, apart from I have decided to not have a crush at the gym anymore. It was getting frustrating as I was pulling out all kinds of zexyiness and chat lines, to no avail. Also I was overlooked for a muscle bound blond, so enough with that. I was going to get down about it but then I remembered, I am me.

I am looking forward to a relaxed weekend, off to the beach for swimming, couple of drinks tonight, all about me.

Have a great weekend kids
x

Summer Dance Tracks I Am Loving Myself Sick With...

I was lucky enough to get a pre-release of the new Seal album "System" due out tomorrow. It is incredible. It was produced by Stuart Price, the guy behind Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor. The two stand out tracks are "If It's In My Mind, It's On My Face" and "Amazing", both of which are pumping club tracks and are...well for lack of of a better word...amazing and so uplifting. I have also have totally become obsessed with Roisin Murphy's New album "Overpowered", which is too a dance album. You see a theme of what I like? My fave is "Tell Everybody" and "Let Me Know". Which has a brilliant video in which she goes spazo in a greasy spoon diner. Check out the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vCOOW_BsE

New bed and the Shut-In

I had a great weekend, how was yours?

I went saw Rogue, went to the beach (burnt my legs, boo!) and met friends for drinks and laughs on Saturday.

New bed arrived on Saturday at 6am, glad I did not go out on Friday, so I battled my old nemesis the Ikea bed for a good hour dismantling it. Before setting up the new one in 15 mins. It is so liberating to have a bed that does not threaten to swallow you, so I have been rolling all over my new “love sled” screaming at my flatmates “Loook at me, it does not break! Lookkk! Your not Loooking!!??”

One of my current flatmates seems to have an aversion to leaving the house, she is either in her room or in front of the TV. It’s getting a bit tiresome having her stomp about while I am watching the TV waiting for me to go to bed, so she can watch home shopping or some crap. It’s so tiresome, why do I get such extremes in flatmates, it’s either a complete shut-in or a totally insane crack addict. Is there no middle ground in flatmates? I am over reaching here, I have had a lot of middle ground flatties. As is the other current one. But it seems the more you know what type of people you need to live with to be happy, the more you seem to get the ones that are total opposites.

I had to walk away from her to save from laughing when “shut-in” told me that she would spend Saturday night home for a “quiet one”, was so close to replying “oh why, cause last night was all threesomes, coke and vomit stained sheets huh?”. Don’t get me wrong, we all have quiet nights and need to cocoon. But not every night of every week and including spending all day on a beautiful early summer weekend, sitting in your room reading a book every damn weekend! I am a 100% serious here too. This is frustrating because I specifically advertised for someone that “Did not mope about the house all the time”…shits me.

I think its time to get my own place. The bank has been stalking me ever since I paid off my credit card. I get feverish calls at 2am from some over excited man asking me why I want to shut down my credit card “Why??!” and then offering me a home loan anytime I need it. It’s like walking out of rehab to be confronted by dealers waiting for you to breath or speak then throwing drugs your open mouth. That being said I have been sniffing about for an apartment in Poofs Point and the related neighborhoods.

I am off on holiday in a month! Can’t fucking wait. Sorry about the potty mouth today.

Halloween 2007

Oooh I forgot about this pic. Before i came down with Ebola, I went to this Halloween party with a couple of friends. I went as Death. It was sooo hot but worth it. Here i am with my good friend Oli, who was a star for coming to the party as she was suffering from her rather raucous 30th Birthday. After this pic was taken I left and stood outside peoples living room windows. I was arrested shortly after.

Sick

Hi guys,

I have been quiet as I have been sick with a plague and been walled up behind plastic at home. I came down with something Sunday night then woke up Monday about 3am moaning like the mummy and looking like Frankenstein. I was sick as, feverish, sweating, hallucinating and feeling like I was gonna vommie. Got sent home from work Monday and have been away until today - Thursday. I always get really depressed when I am sick as I can't work out, am really weak and have no one about. I have to call my mum to feel better. aw!

Anyway not to leave the comedy behind for long, I was rolling about on my bed Monday night like Linda Blair when my entire bed collapsed in ways. The bed had been making weird sounds all night, CREEEEEEEEEEK! But so was I so i paid them no attention until CRACK!

I was so unsure what to do, so sweaty and fevered I turned all GI Joe and gaffer taped the spine of my bed back together using old lengths of iron rods (why were these under my bed??) to splinter the spine, then laid the bed back together. I then bolstered up the spine with books and old crap. Suffice to stay I have been laying ever so lightly on the bed that the devil built, I am practically hovering. Now when I tell people i broke my bed they first thing they guffaw about is "what were you doing when it broke??" assuming I had the energy for a bit of a leg wobbler. That just makes my brain fart. "Yeah, right, that's it. Whilst I was foaming at the mouth like the monkey from Outbreak I picked myself up a bit of tail (obviously blind) and promptly broke my bed from some rumpy pumpy. Totally."

Oh bugger I have to go buy a new bed me thinks. Stay away from Ikea beds people.

Vintage Jim

This is a new section where I will post random pics of me that could be anywhere between 5 months and 5 years old. Just to mix it up and be crazy, whoa don't fall off your chair jiblets.

Here is a picture of me indoor rock climbing from June this year, in the second one you can see right up my bum. How delightful. I have been put off my lunch now. I am brewing up a nice meaty blog entry soon my pets, so stop stalking me at the gym please.