ye olde stories

So I came home today and found my grandma was gonna have dinner with us. She told us a couple of stories we had never heard. The first one was about her singing in a choir, and singing solo at a concert for Forgan Smith, the then premier of Queensland. Although the most amazing one was about living in Bethany when she was little. She told us she played with none other than (Sir) Joh Bjelke-Peterson, who was about her age. This prompted questions from my family such as: "So when did you realise he was corrupt?".

I started a new blog. I haven't done much work on it yet, but its' gonna be a political/issues themed blog. I hope I don't turn into a bleeding heart and bitch about every little problem in the world. The idea came to me when I was misplacing items at Coles and shouting aloud "fight the system! fuck the system!". Furthermore, in the line at the cinema, I was jumping up and down gesturing the people ahead of me to stop buying popcorn; buy your tickets and get the fuck outofmyway! Argh! I've been so pissed lately. I have to do something about it.

your death, and how to cope with it

today I played in the queen street mall. We sounded rather grandioso, although I fucked up one bit in Rhapsody in Blue.

So I saw this article about how death may not be such a career killer. It immediately made me think of Red Dwarf, where Rimmer dies, and is given a book called "your death and how to cope with it".

On Thursday it fuckin snowed in Brisbane. At least it looked like it. I was going home from uni on Thursday night, in the bus. Lots of crazy shit happenned! The bus crashed into a sign. I saw cars bogged in the snow/hale. I saw ice right down the middle of coronation drive. I saw sheets of white covering what used to be green grass. It was the coolest weather I have ever been amongst in my life. I wish that happenned more often. Oh god what if that happenned during State of Origin?! Fuck! All Thursday night I was just thinking: "What the fuck's going on?!?!?! Waaaaaaaaah?????"

ADDENDUM:
I've recently been thinking about some theories which I've hypothesised.

Theory #1

If the "eat fresh" fast food chain Subway is still around after 10 years, they will have turned into an unhealthy, McDonalds style, fast food joint. In the year 2015, Subway will have undergone McDonaldization. Thanks to Kristy, we discovered that Subway's "6 grams of fat or less in each Sub" is misleading, since that statement only applies to 6-inch subs! It's Subway-gate! It's a conspiracy! They're lying to us! In the year 2015, Subway will proudly announce that their Subs don't have any fat, but in reality they contain other bad shit. Consumer rights groups will sue Subway in 2016 because their siblings gotten fat from eating Subway everyday. Normal people will then criticise those groups and say "Nah shit Subway's bad for you! Duh!".

Theory #2

The Ministry of Sound is a prominent dance label/club. The thing that intrigues me is where they got their name. When I first heard their name, I immediately thought of Orwell's nineteen-eighty-four, since in that book, there are many ministries within Oceania's government. These are:

• Ministry of Peace (maintains peace in Oceania through continuous war)
  
• Ministry of Truth (deletes the past to confirm what the government of Oceania says is true)

As you can see, each ministry accomplishes its goal through that goal's exact opposite. So what if a Ministry of Sound existed in Oceania? Perhaps it might broadcast utterly shite music to Oceania's population? Wouldn't it destroy all of what is good in music in order to create music? If I can prove that the founders of The Ministry of Sound got that name from 1984, I'm a fucking genius.

!!!!!!!!!

from the ninhotline again:

An insider that works for Brisbane Entertainment Center has confirmed that NIN will be playing the venue on the 22nd of August. Yes, this year.

(Remember that this information is subject to change, as we're not strictly supposed to know about tour dates before they go up on nin.com!)

Nice one! Thanks Superjudge!

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Einstein Factor

Just saw the Einstein Factor on the ABC. A guy's specialty subject was Bill Hicks, and he won! Good for him. So that means he'll be on the show again in a while. I impressed my family with how many questions I got right. Which is kinda weird cos previously I thought I didn't know what specialty subject I'd be good at. But I knew lots of stupid Bill Hicks facts. I also know a fair bit of TISM stuff I spose. But I doubt they'd ask questions like "What was the author of the book the feminist was reading while she chewed on Ron's knob?" or "True or false, did TISM do an interview in a restaurant where the interviewer was wearing a wet suit?"

Oh I want to be on a quiz show, but they're all down south. Damn.

NIИ

from the ninhotline:

Nine Inch Nails will be taking their With Teeth: 2005 Tour to the East Coast of Australia in late August.

According to a reliable source, venues are the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney and the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, with other cities to be confirmed.

Keep in mind that until a press release is sent out to the mainstream media, all details are subject to change.

Woo!! Jesus they'd better play Brisbane, or I'll be mighty cranky. I missed out on seeing them at the 2000 Big Day Out. Largely because I didn't even know them back then. If they come to Brisbane they'll probably play the Convention Centre. The last concert I saw their was utterly shite. Oh well. NIN have the craziest light show I've ever seen, on their DVD anyway. I'm very much looking forward to this.

So I was in the main refectory/cafeteria at my uni today. And I noticed 2 large posters on the wall. The red poster (which is the "club" colour of the uq union) said: "What compulsory student unionism does" and it listed many many positive facts about the uq union. With each fact having a smaller font size as it listed down the page, as if indicating "wow that's a lot of facts". However, the other poster was black (suggesting bad, negative, motherfuckin' evil) , and titled: "What voluntary student unionism does". It simply had one sentence that said something like: "VSU deprives students of important stuff, and it's bad!!! bad!!!!!!!" That's the general jist I got from it.

It just really bugged me that the 2nd poster didn't have any positive facts about VSU and the 1st didn't have any negative. Shouldn't you present the good and bad of each side? I realise I'm a hypocritical bastard, since I did those "free Schapelle Corby!!! rar!!!" posts. Oh well.

Jesus christ I'm sorry. I'm gonna make a non-political post one day, I swear.