Terrorism suspect requests DVD, CD equipment

The first Queenslander charged under national terrorism laws is requesting DVD and CD equipment to help prepare his own defence case from behind bars.

John Howard Amundsen, 40, was arrested in May after police allegedly found 53 kilograms of explosives at his north Brisbane home.

He is facing a string of charges, including preparing to commit an act of terrorism.

A magistrate has this morning granted the former teacher restricted daily access to a computer in jail.

Amundsen told the court he would need computer and DVD equipment to work on his defence case.

The Brisbane court was also told that Amundsen's bail application hearing may take place later this month, ahead of committal proceedings set down for March next year.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1803694.htm

PS: Fell on my back this week. I don't recommend it.

Centacare loves you!

In the year 2050 the Australian federal minister for Family Affairs has just announced new legislation which aims to promote the family unit in Australia. These changes affect all single people in Australia. Following pressure from the ruling Family First Party, this legislation proposes that all Australian citizens must get married before reaching the age of 30. Failure, or refusal to do so will result in the immediate deportation of such individuals.

In line with these new changes, Centacare Employment has embarked upon a new branch of its' operation. It presents:

Centacare Lovin' aims to help single people who are currently in a prolonged state of singleness. In order to help their clients (loveseekers) find true love, and eventually a life partner, Centacare Lovin' assists them by providing a range of activities. These activities increase a loveseekers' chance of finding a significant other and thereby minimizing the chance of a shotgun wedding.

Once a loveseeker has become engaged, the support from Centacare Lovin' does not stop there. The client must undergo Post Engagement Support (PES). This support makes sure the client stays engaged, happy and planning for that big day. Upon commencement of PES, the loveseeker is mailed a letter which looks something like this:

Congratulations on getting Engaged!

Now that you are engaged, I'd like to take this opportunity to keep in touch and let you know that we will be contacting you regularly over the next three to six months to ensure your engagment is going well and to provide assistance where possible. These contact times can be by phone or email. Please let us know which is more convenient to meet your needs and a time that is appropriate if electing to have phone contacts.

As part of Centacare Lovin's contractual obligation to deliver quality Love Network services to our loveseekers we are required, by the Department of Family Affairs, to retain evidence of your engagement on file.

Once again congratulations, I look forward to talking with you in the near future.

Y & Z
Post Engagement Support Team

At the same time, the loveseekers' partner is mailed a highly professional letter as thus:

Attention: Partner

Dear Sir/Madam,

Our client recently started work with you. In order to fulfil our contractual obligations to the Australian Government, Centacare Lovin' is required to record engagement details and monitor X's engagement for up to six months. To do this, we provide a service called 'Post Engagement Support' (PES).

PES simply means that we will keep in touch with you by phone once a month. At the 13 and 26 week milestones, in some instances, we may ask if you would mind completing a brief Engagement Confirmation for us. This provides evidence which we are required to keep on file.

Centacare Lovin' enjoys an enviable reputation as partner recruitment professionals with numerous offices in every state. The services we provide are Completely Free and can also include Post Engagement Mentoring (PEM) which assists you with retention, training and any additional life-partner needs you may have.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation and help and I look forward to speaking with you in the near future. In the meantime, if I can provide you with any assistance, please don't hesistate to contact me.

Yours sincerely,

Post Engagement Support

The Department of Family Affairs requires a few simple things from the client during PES. Every month the client must submit (by fax or post) a detailed list of every sexual act committed between them and their partner. This must be signed by both parties. This list includes every position, orgasm, blowjob and head given. It is vital to know this as Centacare needs to report this information to the Department of Family Affairs as required by legislation. This information proves that a loveseeker is indeed committed and serious about engagement.

Upon getting married, the support does not stop there! Oh no. It just keeps on going and going!!!! Until you're married and fucking hell leave me alone!!! Leave me alone Centacare!!! I have a life! It's none of your business how much I make! You don't need to tell my boss I'm a client of yours! You're not helping!!!!

Get the fuck out of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely,
Me

Caffeine: Drug of the Corporate World

Today at work I used the coffee machine for the first time. I didn't know what I was doing and I think I accidentally made the strongest cup of coffee in the history of the human race. This is how my caffeine trip went:

I sat at my desk and consumed it. I start spinning a pen in my fingers fast and agitatedly. My feet bounce off the floor. They were bouncing before but this is even more so. After a few minutes I start losing concentration in what I'm doing on the computer. I can't help it. My mind is swimming. I feel as though I want to be genuinely enthusiastic about working with the people around me. I wanna be lively with my workmates and get along with them. My mind then switches to saxophone great John Coltrane's best piece: Giant Steps. I feel as though I'm playing the main riff on guitar and there is his band playing with me. We're being recorded in a studio. It's a very comforting feeling. I look around the office and realise that everyone must be feeling this. Wow. This is what they feel all day. Wow. Then I start feeling a cold chill through me. I look at my hand. It is shaking. My muscles are twitching all over. Even though it's a fine day I feel I really need my coat on now. I feel cold. I start fearing that I may have Parkinson's Disease. Shit. I don't want that. I start thinking about that as much as I like Back to the Future, I don't wanna be like Michael J. Fox. Marty McFly!!! Yeah!!!!

The trip faded out gradually from there. It lasted about 30 minutes. I hadn't felt anything like that before.


Not influenced at all by my holiday to trip-out-city, I bought a 1983 movie on DVD called Koyaanisqatsi. It's a Hopi-Indian word which means "life out of balance". It's a movie with music by wacky composer Philip Glass (main reason why I got it), features no dialogue and has mostly stock footage of various shit. It's an arty movie which I only saw 2 minutes of and decided: I've gotta see that. Unfortunately it's one of those films you need to see on a ten storey high screen to get the most out of. Ah fuck it.

I know every song on the radio!!!!

Listening to jjj is like watching a news channel. They have a limited amount of news/song to play (or choosing to show a limited amount). They both repeat the same crap over and over. As if there isn't anything else to play. I listen to jjj all day at work. Yeah I work for the place that puts digital signage tvs on the citycats (www.all4u.tv). So all day I listen to jjj and all day I hear the same fucking songs. I'm just not used to it.

Last Friday SBS aired South Park and played the episode called: Butters' Very Own Episode. In it Butters catches his Dad jacking off in a bath house and his Mum tries to kill Butters. Butters goes missing and the Mum explains to authorities that some puerto rican guy killed him. At the end they meet up with O J Simpson and the JonBenet Ramseys parents and the show accuses them of not confessing for murders they have committed.

Recently a guy called John Karr admitted he was present when JonBenet Ramsey died in 1996. Here's his resume. It's better than mine.

Yasmin's Getting Axed!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/yasmins-not-getting-married/2006/08/06/1154802745278.html

At last! My blog has changed the course of history! Channel Ten has axed Yasmin's Getting Married!

Finally her heart has been sliced in two by the axe of commercial television. The Australian public fucked her over in the car on the way to the church and left her at the altar. Yes! The system works.

PS: It's being replaced with Futurama. Thanks. You've made my bitch happy.

Yasmin's Getting Divorced!

There's this train-wreck on TV called Yasmin's Getting Married. I think it replaces that turkey-slappin' show Big Brother in Channel Ten's lineup.

Executive Producer Karen Willing tells us why the show is so great:

"...it's just so hard to meet people in bars, clubs, in a superficial environment, and if they happen to meet a girl through a TV show then that's OK." http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/26/1153816235626.html

Yeah a reality tv show where a chick speed-dates a bunch of desparate cunts based on what home viewers think she should date, and not what she thinks and then marry a cunt who she has known for at most 9 weeks isn't superficial? Fuck off. I can't believe this show is relying on people to phone in and vote on who she should "date". Why would you let strangers tell you who you should be with? Why?!?! WHY?!?!?!?!?

It's because someone high up in Channel Ten convinced this desparate bitch to let Channel Ten be a dating agency for her. Also she would not worry about marrying the wrong guy because she would only date guys that the Australian public thought she should be with. Australians would phone up 1800 numbers and provide some moral support for the fragile little fucking corner of Yasmin's brain that can't make decisions by itself. This way Channel Ten would make money and Yasmin would marry some fuckwit. Yasmin thought: "It's a win win situation!!!" I wonder if it's in Yasmin's contract that she has to marry someone before the shows' end. The shows' name suggests that. Isn't that an arranged marriage? What if she doesn't find someone she wants to marry? Would the series end with her being single? Would Channel Ten let that happen?

This show reminds me of an American show in 2000 called: Who wants to marry a multi-millionaire? The idea was that a bunch of superficial women parade around a stage and the equally superficial, mystery, multi-millionaire guy picked out a girl he wanted to marry. At the end they married on TV without having ever met before. They ended up divorcing shortly after.

Shit.

This Yasmin show is no where near as bad as that, but christ it's getting there.

PS: Channel Ten, you replaced tonight's episode of The Simpsons with a cross-promotional show about some bitch from Neighbours. Thanks.
PPS: The Chaser's War on Everything ripped on Rove's What The? segment tonight. Thanks.
PPPS: The Wedge isn't funny.

water

Since when did the question of "what is safe to drink?" become a matter for the general public to decide upon? Shouldn't things like this be decided by water treatment specialists? Also, as long as the water is properly treated and is safe to drink, what's the problem? What does it matter where it came from?

18+?

From a game of msn poker:

Jerome_Kiwi83> just practicing so i can go 2 da casino
Guest5> lol
Guest5> yeh wel lucky 4 u, u dont loose money here
Jerome_Kiwi83> well i watch it on tv enuff,
Guest5> yeh i watch it when its on..
Jerome_Kiwi83> probably lose wen go 2 da cas tho
Guest5> yeh it wil suck
Guest5> u old enuff 2 go?
Jerome_Kiwi83> yes that's why i'm playin on this, why are most ppl here under age?
Guest5> hav no idea.. im not
Jerome_Kiwi83> ok
Guest5> i dont think u hav 2 b ova 18 2 play this
Guest5> but u neva no
Jerome_Kiwi83> na, but thats why i'm playing so i can get the idea 2 play in the casino, becoz u have 2 be 18
Guest5> yeh
Chiquitin1977 exits.
Guest5> im sik of this comp
Jerome_Kiwi83> yep, he's a pain in the %#@
Guest5> sure is
Guest5> nh
Jerome_Kiwi83> Yeah
Jerome_Kiwi83> nevermind
Guest5 exits.
Jerome_Kiwi83> da,m
Jerome_Kiwi83> Yeah!
NinaBwaite exits.
Jerome_Kiwi83 exits.

dad

My dads' insane renovation-rampage continues!

First it started with the kitchen, now it has moved on to the bar. Today my dad ripped down the wallpaper behind the bar and painted it a nauseating light green. Now 99% of the house is nauseatingly shithouse! It's sure to increase the price of the house. Thanks dad! It's sure gonna be easy selling this house when you die. I wouldn't be surprised if he painted the saloon doors in the hall-way that laxitivating colour.

My dad ordered a "print" of the photo finish of the 2005 Melbourne Cup. This "print" that he ordered off the internet is a regular A4 page with the photo printed on by a domestic colour printer. Nice one dad! This "print" replaces the ye-olde coca-cola framed picture that we've had for centuries. That one was really terrible to look at. Thank god he got a shitty horse racing related picture. Good call dad! Now he's gonna get a bar fridge. As if he'll stock it up with piss. That costs too much! He'll probably put all of his "valuable" bottles of wine in there that he'll never drink, let alone sell. Nice work dad! Fill up a fridge with shit you aren't gonna use! Yeah!

Meanwhile my dad complains of our neighbour renovating stuff in his backyard because he has nothing else to do and he's doing it just for the sake of it. Yeah! You really are the master of logic dad!

Nerds

During my time doing work for the dole, I have learnt the following useful facts that will increase my chances of employment:

• Aliens built the great pyramids of Giza. It was a joint effort between the Egyptians and a species from another galaxy. This was because someone had to construct the crypts inside/below the pyramids. Additionally they never wrote about it as there is no hieroglyphic for an alien/UFO.
  
• Ludwig van Beethoven was tone-deaf (not just deaf). This was despite him having perfectly healthy hearing for the first 20 or so years of his life and having displayed extraordinary musical talent at an early age.
  
• Medieval role-playing is fucking dull. Dressing up in armour and partaking in gay sword battles sounds like a right-royal waste of humanity.
• Nerds are enthusiastic about computer games to the point where they cannot stop discussing them. They debate about pointless little matters within games.
• Nerds have a strange affinity for old, mechwarrior type games.
  
• Nerds like Stargate SG-1. Why?
  
• Nerds own shit movies on DVD like Club Dread.
• Nerds carry around CD wallets full of CDs with pirated movies on them at ALL times.
• Nerds like to show off their movie collections and brag about how much pirated shit they have.
• Nerds enjoy burning CDs, not just for the purpose of storing data, but for the actual process of using a computer to burn a CD. They must like saying the word "burn".
  
• Nerds sometimes dress in a black cape when it is raining.
  
• Nerds are really annoying since you cannot have a normal conversation and talk about normal things. It always has to involve some technical thing and always involves a nerd's ego. "I've got a pentium intel athlon microfuckucessor." "Oh yeah? My 3D graphdickissomuchbiggercard is so fast!"
  
• Nerds think they know everything including stuff that is not related to computers. This comes from their technical prowess in one topic (usually computers). Because they master this topic they think that any other topic is inferior, and hence an easy topic to "master".
  
• Nerds get boners over the most trivial things, like what flavour of Linux they have.
• Nerds have nothing but complete contempt for anything Microsoft related. They cannot talk about Microsoft products/practices without a hint of their bias.
  
• Nerds don't know any good jokes. They do not understand the concept of humour sometimes.
  
• Nerds don't swear as much as they should.
  
• Nerds who smoke still aren't tolerable. I love 2nd hand smoke, but a nerd with a fag is just a fag.
  
• Nerds complain about not being able to get a bus from Windsor to the city easily. This is despite me walking across the road, waiting 5-10 minutes and getting the next bus to the city.
• Nerds just don't shutup about Centrelink screwing them over.
  
• Nerds continually complain about Brisbane's public transport being inferior to Melbourne's. Christ. We don't have trams anymore.
  
• Nerds like reading into terms and conditions on stupid, pointless things and complaining to helpdesk people about these stupid, pointless things. This goes to the extent of asking if their company has a legal team.
• Nerds are perfectly happy wanking each other off (metaphorically) in a room all day.
• Nerds complain about the Translink site even though they probably couldn't make it better. They then go to Melbourne's public transport site and say that it is so much better.
• Nerds don't like bucking authority figures that are visible. They don't like using the internet when you're not supposed to.
• Nerds eat junk food a lot. They cannot give the big "fuck you" to McDonalds or Hungry Jacks every once in a while. Even fat bitches eat junk food. They do not have the will power to seek alternative food sources.
  
• Nerds must have the latest mobile phone. Anything less (particularly monophonic/LED phones) is a piece of crap. If you have a "crap" phone, you will be ridiculed and be made "inferior".
• Nerds don't like Sony Walkmans made in the 90's. Apparently their sister has an mp3 player that is half the size of one and can do a trillion things more. They are unable to fathom the concept that I can't afford something like that because I haven't got a fucking job.
  
• Nerds are insecure and like showing off in front of people they believe are "inferior" ie: me. They can show you a way to gain some fucking administrator privileges in Windows 2000 by using a tool they got off the Internet. Clever!
  
• Nerds who are really, really into computers and think they know 'em soooo well and yet have not studied Computer Science at University are the most fucked up cunts I have ever been around.

In closing, I wish everyone involved with the BuildIT course at Cadet Training and Employment at Windsor to go fuck themselves, get a job and get the fuck away from me.

Thanks.

PS: Congratulations to the Socceroos for getting so far in the World Cup. I think Zidane expressed the feelings of Australian fans when he pulled this Tekken move:



By the way, I pulled an Amy and redesigned my blog.

World Cup

Group F
Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	+6	9
Australia	3	1	1	1	0	4
Croatia	3	0	2	1	-1	2
Japan	3	0	1	2	-5	1

Amundsen update

Terror charges have been laid against Mr. Amundsen. Wow!!! This is a really big deal now.

It looks like another blog has discovered the trainspotting-modeller theory. It's a plausible theory according to the people commenting here. Basically the theory suggests that John Amundsen is a very keen trainspotter who wishes to make a tv production involving explosions and shit. However this theory has a number of questions to be asked:

• Why did he have so much explosive stuff? Did he really need that much for what he was doing?
• What's he doing making email threats?
  
• Why were there nails and razor blades in the bombs?
  

However a good point posed by this guy was:

...given the press’s sensationalist tendancies, it wouldn’t surprise me if “four Powergel charges and a supply of razor blades” was turned into “four complete bombs including one filled with razor blades” by the media.

He sure has a lot of explaining to do. It's gonna start getting really interesting when he starts presenting his case in court. We'll see where the trainspotting modeller theory fits in.

Amundsen

Today in the news a guy in Aspley was arrested for possessing explosives. His name is John Amundsen. In his defence he claims that he was gonna use the explosives to blow up a car for a tv production. However some of the explosives had nails and razorblades in them.

So I did a bit of research on the guy. I found that a John Amundsen of Brisbane is a regular poster to the Cajon Pass Group. From what I gather, the group talks about this stretch of railway in California called the 'Cajon Pass'. The members of the group seem to like modelling this piece of railway, with 3d graphics and real-life models. So I searched around on that group and found every post made by John Admunsen. In most of his messages he talks about what he's modelling and asks questions to the group about what his details of the models should be. A typical post by him is like this:

Hi Josh

Like you i am modelling the Needles sub and the Barstow Hump Yard. I am finalising design of my double track mainline along a clasic 90's Route 66 with long stretches of mainline with Route 66 with highly signed and detailed patched highway, highway signs highly detailed trucks and well manicuded mainline ... I designed to build my own needles sub as i couldnt go to the real one often.. Just so i can go there whenever i feel like it ..Just to enjoy the Mojave and watch the long trains roll by..


Im working to develop a compressed Barstow with about 30 tracks and using three tracks round the hump hill as to give me easier in and out movements

Im working in great detail, putting in desert brush, sage buish and joshuas...

So we also enjoy detailed highway trucks

I also enjoy collecting pics of US Marine upgraded choppers like the Super Cobras
Talk again soon

John

A post of particular interest is this one. In it he talks about the logistics of coming over to the Cajon Pass and shooting some kind of video production.

Oversea's equipment carna on our camera platsforms and rigs and equipment sets $70,000 Aus dollars that 35,000 US. Sufficeient Post production to create a next step from Above Southern calfirnian rails $60.000 crew wages and trip costs of $40,000 US DOLLARS AND then these the insurance and accomoDation costs...Perhaps you guys could put my team up. The required camer plats for the choppers cost $3,000 a day US and the helo's are $200 an hour plus hire of the individual steady came platforms for whatever particular chopper Jetranger long Ranger Hughes 500 was used.

This post was made in 2003. Another one made at about this time is here. He talks about putting photos of his Cajon Pass model on his website (which I can't find). Of note is his use of fire in these photos:

The aim of the immediate Cajon fires page to give Cajon fans a historical look back for this rare event, from the camera perspectives of a rarely visiting Cajon enthusiast. Employing creative, unusual angles. And, at the same time, ‘introduce’ my work to the Cajon family. I believe my shot from Summit looking across to the San Gabriel’s, with burnt vegetation in the foreground as Dash 9’s blast past behind, does this. In some ways taking B&W with me was the astute call, given the then just extinguished fires.

One of his last posts was this one. Posted Mon Apr 24, 2006

Hi John

Sorry i havent had a chance to catch up herhaps we can in the next few weeks

John Amundsen

He seems like a crafty guy. Really into this railway shit. Fuck. I know I know very little about him, and what you can conclude from my little findings could be crap, but he does seem like he could be totally innocent. If he is innocent, then this is what has happenned:

Wanting to re-create some cool railway thingo, John Amundsen decides he needs to blow up an old car and use the burnt out car as some kind of prop to his production. He realises that he needs to get some explosives. Being a total amateur, he realises that he can only get them from a certain place if he fakes some information about himself. So he does that. He also realises he needs detonaters for them. So he gets them too.

This doesn't explain why there are nails and razorblades in them. Jesus. Some kind of special effect he wants? Nah that's pushing it.

All I want to know is the truth. Did he want to use those explosives for terrorist purposes or did he want to use it for totally legitimate reasons? All I want is the truth, and not the alarmist bull the media spews forth. In the next few days I'm sure the major news stations are gonna completely latch on to the fact that he owned a book called Bin Laden - Behind the Mask of the Terrorist. Get over it. Lots of people own books about nasty people. The fact that he is a contemporary terrorist makes all the difference doesn't it? Btw the book is about him written by someone else. It's fuckin' fact. Learn about your enemy goddammit.

END.

Detrain

Yet another contribution to the world by me.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=detrain

Nationals

I just came back from city hall where I played with QWAB in the 2006 Australian National Band Championships. It's a pretty big deal. Yesterday they had some gala concert with bands from Auckland and Osaka. QWAB doesn't travel anywhere so we can only play in this competition when it's based in Brisbane. The last time it was in Brisbane was 2001, and we came 3rd. About half the bands we were up against were from NSW while the others were from around Brisbane. We competed in the A Grade Concert Band section. Here's a list of who played:

• 1 City of Sydney Wind Ensemble
• 2 Queensland Wind and Brass
• 3 Sutherland PCYC Concert Band
• 4 Castle Hill RSL North West Wind Ensemble
• 5 Queensland Wind Orchestra
• 6 QYO Wind Symphony
• 7 State Schools Symphonic Wind Ensemble
  

We played four pieces. They were:

• Glorious Victory - some gay march
• Harrison's Dream - a fuckin hard piece that uses a 7/16 time signature
  
• Amazing Grace - a really good arrangement of that song Americans love to death. uggh
  
• Festival Variations - a rollicking bitch of a piece

I don't think we played particularly well. Lots of fuckups all round. However Amazing Grace was really good. It always is for us. The percussion provided was fantastic. I got to use a military snare drum for once.

I'll know the results later tonight probably. I'm guessing we came 5th.

Here's a couple of photos from our concert a couple of weeks ago:




I also finished an arrangement of a Philip Glass piece for concert band. It's the first time I've written something for so many parts. It only took me a week. It's here. I can't put it on SibeliusMusic.com though cos the composer hasn't been dead for 70+ years. It isn't out of copyright yet. I wish Mr. Glass would hurry up and die. Nah he's pretty good. He will be regarded as one of the most important composers of the 20th century imo when he kicks the bucket.

So yeah, I think I'll go for a bike ride now. Hej.

Sibelius

I recently got Sibelius on my computer (Yeah it's named after a Finn Kristy how bout that). It's a professional music scoring program. I used it at uni a little bit. It's so cool. But the most awesome thing about it is that you can publish your original or arranged music online which people can buy, and if people buy your piece you get 50% royalties!

So I got an old music assignment, revised it a bit in Sibelius and submitted it. It's now on sale there for $1.95. Ha!

Here is a link to my song where you can buy it, and this is my stupid little page about me. You need a special plugin to view and play my arrangement.

Wikipedia

I created my first page on wikipedia. I feel so important!

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

I'm not sure if it should be called: Queensland Wind and Brass or Queensland Wind and Brass Orchestra. Ah whatever.

When writing it I realised there's a fine line between advertising/promoting somthing and documenting something. I don't think it reads like an ad for us, but I wanna promote qwab as much as I can. We're really good dammit!

Our next concert is:

Saturday 8 April
From Mahler to the Movies
Gehrmann Theatre, Brisbane Girls Grammar
Gregory Terrace, 7:30pm

Concessions are $10 and adults are $15. Contact me if you wanna go.

my birthday

My birthday movie is viewable here.

Redemption Song

I've been listening to Johhny Cash and Joe Strummer's cover of Redemption Song all day. It was written by Bob Marley, but I like the cover better.

So I've been unemployed for 3 months now. Uggh. It's depressing but at the same time it is nice to be free from any stress. I really should be more creative while I've got the time. I've decided I'm going to write something for QWAB. I haven't written any music for 4 years. I think it's about time I give it another shot. I spose I didn't have any band to write for but I've suddenly just realised I play in a big orchestra, and they wouldn't mind playing something I wrote. It's a big thing to undertake though. I've never written music for an orchestra. I might just write it for brass/percussion.

I've recently adopted a synthesiser. QWAB purchased it when the band first started out in the early 90's. They didn't have much of a bass section, so they bought a bass synthesiser. However it didn't get used much and remained hidden away. A few weeks ago someone pulled it out and showed it to me. I asked if I could have it for a while. Here it is:



It's only a small one, but it's so cool. I really wanna buy it off them. It's worth $300 - $400 US according to vintagesynth.com. I have a feeling they're gonna undervalue it a shit load. Jeremy said something like $20. hehe. what a noob.

Oh actually QWAB was meant to play in the Queen Street Mall today. However it was cancelled due to rainy/windy weather. Our next gig is as thus:

Saturday 8 April
From Mahler to the Movies
Gehrmann Theatre, Brisbane Girls Grammar
Gregory Terrace, 7:30pm

It'll cost $10 I reckon. The germann theatre is really good. It's small and they provide percussion for you. Woo.

I also got a newly released Bill Hicks bootleg from 10/5/1993 which was just after he was cancelled from the David Letterman show. He talks about why he was cancelled; trying to get his Dad to do mushrooms and how the Greeks used to say sexually absurd material in order to exercise the shame out of themselves. He also raves about Noam Chomsky. I haven't read a thing by him. I've been meaning to for years.

In one bit Bill's Dad asks what happens when you take mushrooms. Bill says:

Your mind completely opens up to the true nature of our existence which is that we are not bodies, that we are pure loving sprit created by God. God is love and there is nothing but love, and love being all encompassing has no opposite. You are completely forgiven on all things, there is nothing you've ever done that has ever swayed God's pure and unconditional love for you and you realise that eternity and peace and heaven is our inheritance and all of us are gonna make it there.

Fuck yeah. That's why I like him so much. I love his ideas. That and his dick jokes, which are A-number-1.

arrangements of colour

I don't know any muslims but I'd like to know if the following cartoons are offensive. The first one is obviously pretty nasty but the second one is kinda funny. I've scrubbed out Mohammed in both of them. The point I'm trying to make is this:

Do Muslims find these cartoons offensive because they show Mohammed or because they're critical/satirical of Islam as a religion?

If they are offensive just because they show Mohammed then I can see why Muslims would get upset. But if it's for the latter reason then I really can't see why they're such a big deal. Making fun of religion is a pretty elementary thing. To me anyway.

In the words of Rowan Atkinson:

The freedom to criticise ideas – any ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society and a law which attempts to say you can criticise or ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

shit

where i've been:



shit

By the same guy who wrote that visited map thing comes this. Enter in any sentence/words and it'll search google and write the next word. Enter in "The meaning of life is". wow!



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