wizardofcoz

"Poor poor Kurt Cobain,
Why 'cha have to play guitar,
Why'd ya have to blow your brains out,
etc. etc. etc." I forget the rest...


I just got back from my cousin's year 12 drama performance... 'TheatreXtreme'. Basically, it kicked ass in the only way high school drama knows how. Among the above nugget of greatness, we also had, 'Pete Doherty - you've got two years left' & 'I'm afraid of Americans'. Gold people. Gold.

25, motherfuckers!






Don't mind the ugly.com shit... all the twister photos end up there. No seriously. And yes, I've photoshopped this into a semi-respectable image... it's my job, I can't help it. Word!


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My whole life has been riddled with coincidence. If I ever have to dress up as a superhero for whatever reason, I'm going as Coincidence Man... his super power is coincidence.

Usually, they're so long winded to explain I don't bother telling anyone about them, & actually, of late there haven't been a bunch. But my coinci-sence ( it's like spidey-sense ) pricked up. I'm going to use my journal to document all the shitty coincidences I encounter.


Ok, so my co-worker lends me a Jim Jarmusch film 'Down by Law'. It's fucking cool. It sat in my bag for a week before I watched it, and yesterday I was looking at a googled photo my other co-worker had printed out for a t-shirt design idea, it was some blonde modelling a black tee with what at first glance looked like the Snakes on a Plane logo & the words 'Permanent Vacation'. So it caught my eye. ( Turns out it's an pseudo rock t-shirty thing & the print is taken from an Aerosmith album. If I can find the original pic, I'll post it... the shit's ridiculous. ) Today as I'm looking up other Jim Jarmusch films, and his next flick after Down by Law was you guessed it... Permanent Vacation. Doo doo doodoo doo doo doodoo.

Alright, so he's not a heaps powerful superhero, but spend enough time with him & he'll do your head in.










End.

My work here is done.





New Idea, baby... and they said I'd never make anything of myself. Ha. The cool shit is there's a quote in the article that mentions moon-walking. Man I'm happy.

So the trip back from Hotham helped figure out how to turn the brightness down on the phone cam. Makes all the shots look all shitty & 70's. Also discovered you can kinda get all Lomo with it too... it takes a pic with the phone fliped shut & no display. Seems the lens scans from top to bottom when it takes a shot so the pic can be warped by waving the phone around as your taking the shot. Sik!

Well, off to Sydney in 5 hours, on what is the closest I have come to a business junket in my short career. 2 days harbour side. Unfortunately, I have left my packing a little late. Having moved out of home this year, let's say my closet isn't stocked with hanger after hanger of clean, pressed clothing. Instead I have a floor of unwashed & smokey t-shirts, a hoodie I threw up on last weekend & a really wet pair of jeans. This wouldn't have be a problem had the laundromat I planned on drying all my shit at had stayed open past 10 o'clock. This I found out after lugging my load to the convenience store, breaking a 5 to get change & lugging over to the closed laundry. To rub salt all up in my wounds, some cunts in a parked car laughed at my sorry ass trying to open the very locked & very closed door. Bastards.

Looking sans uber ironic or uber uber at Australia's premier design conference is nightmarish. My current option is Adidas snap-pants & an oversized Sweathogs hoodie... come to think of it that'd actually be a bangin number. Maybe next year. This time around I'm pinning my hopes on two jackets which are close to 1000% polyester, them shits should dry heater side by morning.

The lesson I have learnt tonight isn't preparation, & it isn't the dangers of leaving things to the last minute.. hell, I enjoy the pressure, it's more knowing where Melbourne’s late night amenities are located. A valuable skill set that would be.

Along with business cards, shaver & pens, I'm thinking I'll be bagging & packing a wet set of clothes for Saturday. Hopefully I'll have more luck finding a late night laundromat in Sydney. Here comes fun!

Republika is now a second-hand goods market on Fridays & Saturdays, 12-5. Once I'm back from my business junket, I'm pencilling in a visit.

I feel I have a large update in me... "That must be painful..." I hear you say, you sarcastic gunt. It will involve many photos. This then means I have to find digital camera cable, install blah blah, re-size, save, upload, code, spell check, post. Snoooooze. On the upside all this has already been done for the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhu_qDdGSNU

Clerks II = Holy shit! That Kevin Smith has the wink-wink-nudge-nudge-love-the-shit-you-hate kinda thing going on... like a Clerks sequel. Is this a form of irony, or another word of which I'm not familiar? And no, 'cash-grab' or 'beating-a-dead-horse' are not what I was looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyF_UN8g9f0&search=theremin

Jon Spencer Theremin Demonstration - Think the name kinda sums that up. There's a guy at the bottom of the comments section of this video asking if anyone has the Jon Spencer live Recovery footage on tape anywhere. Guess what... I do! Yay. I have signed up & will email him with the good news.

Also back to the topic of 'quels' X-Men 3 ( a.k.a The Last Stand ) is out in a jiffy. Jeah!

That's it until I can properly integrate my offline life with my online journal.

Is it time to seek help when you're organising your stuff into categories like 'mixed sentimental packaging'? I'm not there yet but the thought crossed my mind.

Nice link. Heaps of advertising info & industry tid bits - http://www.adpulp.com/
Gives my inner socialist the shits & inspires my inner capitalist at the same time.

Man, I don't know if I'm being overly sensitive here, but where did we go wrong. I'm trying to think of my parents equivalent to this shit to put my mind at ease... I fear we are spiraling out of control. Never a good feeling.

My favorite posts are the ones that they've taken the time to photoshop into a ''fit montage' of sorts. ( For those who don't know ''fit' is short for outfit, yo. ) Christ. If I could be fucked I'd spend the rest of my 20s writing a thesis on this shit, but for now it's just a bunch of kids taking pics of their fly 'fits. At least that's what I tell my self while I rock myself to sleep tonight. Happy digging, fuck there's some crackers... so to speak.

And, yo... apparently rocking pink t-shirts & polos & shit wasn't only mainstream popular with Australian fashion fuck-tards, that shit was awesome to have up in your 'fit in Harlem too back a few years. Now it's 2002.

http://streetstyle.drjays.com/showphoto.php?photo=10436&password=&sort=2&cat=502&page=3

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Kinda like a male Missy Elliot bum fucking SPOD with a casio rapman. Thu Jun 15 - The Espy, Melbourne. 20 some shit dollars, yo. Word!

Woo! Mad props to Nic for hooking herself a hair dressing apprenticeship. I can smell the bleach now.. hair colours here we come! Respect! No seriously, it's cool. Bo!

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Bo! Bamboos y'all. Unfortunately I can't claim to have been down with these cats since way back when, so I could easily be classed as a bandwagoner - but - from what I've heard on the transistor they lay down the funky shit. Also copping mad props on the international tip. A gig worth checking. I do however anticipate, a packed snobby venue & the obligatory massively inflated drink prices. $6 for a local beer? Fuck outta here. It's an album launch which is always fun, plus RRR's own Ennio Styles will be hitting the decks.


April 13th - Step It Up Album Launch Party @ Honky Tonks w/ DJs Kano & Ennio Styles /// April 23rd - @ The Prince of Wales w/Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings /// April 28th - The Lithuanian Club (44 Errol St Nth Melbourne) /// May 26th - @ Revolver w/Recloose


Plenty of other ops. to see them shits. The Lithuanian Club? Anyone heard of this place... I do like a social-club-cum-drunken-live-music-venue. While I'm on it, anyone know how to use the "cum" + "-" combination correctly?