Thursday, July 15, 2004
I ve found them!
Sometimes you go out to a club or a pub, and there really arent many good looking
girls out. And the thing is in a place like adelaide, it depends on the weather
and a 1001 and other reasons which i have no control of. Im guessing theres a
good chance that they're sitting at home or at some friends place, which
is not much use to me.
However when shopping at the supermarket today, which is a rare experience for
me, but will probably be more regular, you see all these people youve never seen
before. Because no matter who you are, although you might not have to go out,
you have to eat! Just wonder around the fruit and low fat sections, and low
and behold there they are, the girls whom you dont see out on friday night.
Now to work out what to say.
girls out. And the thing is in a place like adelaide, it depends on the weather
and a 1001 and other reasons which i have no control of. Im guessing theres a
good chance that they're sitting at home or at some friends place, which
is not much use to me.
However when shopping at the supermarket today, which is a rare experience for
me, but will probably be more regular, you see all these people youve never seen
before. Because no matter who you are, although you might not have to go out,
you have to eat! Just wonder around the fruit and low fat sections, and low
and behold there they are, the girls whom you dont see out on friday night.
Now to work out what to say.
Logic
From the movie - "love and death" - woddy allen,
Sonja: To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love, but then one
suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer,
to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love , to be happy then is to suffer but
suffering makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love or love
to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down...
I was thinking along similar lines today. People who enjoy each others company
become friends. The more you hang out, and after a point, the more annoying
and less exciting they become. The more annoying and less exciting they
become the less they become your friend. The less you hang out, the better
they become when you do see them, and you become better friends again.
Are the best friends are the ones you don't see? The not so good friends are
the ones you always see? By this logic it is important to have enuff friends so
that you dont see the same ones too often. Either that you have to find exciting
things to do with them or have an amazing amount of common ground.
Sonja: To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love, but then one
suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer,
to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love , to be happy then is to suffer but
suffering makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love or love
to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down...
I was thinking along similar lines today. People who enjoy each others company
become friends. The more you hang out, and after a point, the more annoying
and less exciting they become. The more annoying and less exciting they
become the less they become your friend. The less you hang out, the better
they become when you do see them, and you become better friends again.
Are the best friends are the ones you don't see? The not so good friends are
the ones you always see? By this logic it is important to have enuff friends so
that you dont see the same ones too often. Either that you have to find exciting
things to do with them or have an amazing amount of common ground.
I want my money back !
"Steven Hawking: I was wrong" - after buying a "Brief History of Time" and
struggling through an endless series of pages about blackholes, wormholes and
dougnut holes. Ive discovered after 30 years on, SH no longer believes his theory
that black holes do in fact swallow everything up, and in fact spit things out. From
now Im sticking to fiction.
Actually as a result of this discovery he stands to lose an encycopledia over a bet
he made over the characteristics of blackholes. He is probably the only person
who could make a bet on theoretical properties of space, and have to pay up.
struggling through an endless series of pages about blackholes, wormholes and
dougnut holes. Ive discovered after 30 years on, SH no longer believes his theory
that black holes do in fact swallow everything up, and in fact spit things out. From
now Im sticking to fiction.
Actually as a result of this discovery he stands to lose an encycopledia over a bet
he made over the characteristics of blackholes. He is probably the only person
who could make a bet on theoretical properties of space, and have to pay up.
Brunatex
Heard brunatex's latest songs last nights, and ive got 2 words. "roast chicken"
How good is roast chicken, thanks tanya. Actually i really liked the first 2 songs
they made me sort of feel warm and fuzzy inside, but it could have been because
the heater was cranked up in the car.
Whilst listening to the music I could see lots of images coming to my head , which
is important to me, coz it means the music makes you feel something, opposed
to sounds that are merely pleasant on the ear. And the songs would be good in
a movie.
As talk turned to advertising the new album, 2 good ideas were:
1. turn my apartment into some Brunatex advertising bill board, perhaps
put an image on the window, and shine lights through it, or put a banner
out the window, as well as turning up the music really loud and putting
the speakers on the window. At least when im not there :)
2. Make bruantex t-shirts, and give them out to prominent adelaide ppl,
in particular the "different" people of adelaide, such as Johnny, the keyboard
guy and beep beep guy.
As for the website, well it still needs work...
How good is roast chicken, thanks tanya. Actually i really liked the first 2 songs
they made me sort of feel warm and fuzzy inside, but it could have been because
the heater was cranked up in the car.
Whilst listening to the music I could see lots of images coming to my head , which
is important to me, coz it means the music makes you feel something, opposed
to sounds that are merely pleasant on the ear. And the songs would be good in
a movie.
As talk turned to advertising the new album, 2 good ideas were:
1. turn my apartment into some Brunatex advertising bill board, perhaps
put an image on the window, and shine lights through it, or put a banner
out the window, as well as turning up the music really loud and putting
the speakers on the window. At least when im not there :)
2. Make bruantex t-shirts, and give them out to prominent adelaide ppl,
in particular the "different" people of adelaide, such as Johnny, the keyboard
guy and beep beep guy.
As for the website, well it still needs work...
rain
Whilst taking a photo of my place from across the street, some desmond
with slurred speech asked, How much did you pay for that digital camera?
Then he said to beware of kids who would steal it and sell it to cash converters.
I was thinking "get away from me freak, and dont steal my camera".
As it rained today, i noticed that an old lady wore a bit of see through plastic
over her head held together by sticky tape. Apparently this had become
an acceptable fashion accessary. When trying to take shelter from the rain
at one stage, i realised i actually wasnt standing under any cover,
and just got more wet. If u see me with a plastic cover over my head in
the future, dont laugh.
with slurred speech asked, How much did you pay for that digital camera?
Then he said to beware of kids who would steal it and sell it to cash converters.
I was thinking "get away from me freak, and dont steal my camera".
As it rained today, i noticed that an old lady wore a bit of see through plastic
over her head held together by sticky tape. Apparently this had become
an acceptable fashion accessary. When trying to take shelter from the rain
at one stage, i realised i actually wasnt standing under any cover,
and just got more wet. If u see me with a plastic cover over my head in
the future, dont laugh.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Better than the lottery
Your sitting at Euro 2004. Quarter finals. England v Portugal. The
host country vs the three lions. The whistle for the second period
for injury time as blown. 2 goals had been scored in the last 5
minutes. The game score sits at 2-2. David beckham steps up for
the first penalty kick of the game. Your sitting 80 rows back,
you can barely see the action, but it doesnt matter, you can feel it.
He runs up, and slips, kicking the ball high, it sails over the cross bar,
and all the way to your seat out of 60,000 other people. England go on to lose.
But you keep the ball and sell it on ebay.
The price of the ball as i write this is 10 million euros!
Follow Beckhams Ball
host country vs the three lions. The whistle for the second period
for injury time as blown. 2 goals had been scored in the last 5
minutes. The game score sits at 2-2. David beckham steps up for
the first penalty kick of the game. Your sitting 80 rows back,
you can barely see the action, but it doesnt matter, you can feel it.
He runs up, and slips, kicking the ball high, it sails over the cross bar,
and all the way to your seat out of 60,000 other people. England go on to lose.
But you keep the ball and sell it on ebay.
The price of the ball as i write this is 10 million euros!
Follow Beckhams Ball
Lets sweep together
I woke up half asleep yesterday morning, convinced that there was someone
in my room vacuuming. Whilst acknowledging this was very nice of them,
1. what the hell is someone doing in my room. 2. Why are they vacuuming?
3. and why so early in the morning! I opened my eyes and I couldnt see
anyone, I eventually worked out it was the street sweeping machine outside
my window.
Mental note, Tuesday morning equals street sweeping. Im thinking
of putting road signs outside my window on the street below to
minimise the thoroughfare.
in my room vacuuming. Whilst acknowledging this was very nice of them,
1. what the hell is someone doing in my room. 2. Why are they vacuuming?
3. and why so early in the morning! I opened my eyes and I couldnt see
anyone, I eventually worked out it was the street sweeping machine outside
my window.
Mental note, Tuesday morning equals street sweeping. Im thinking
of putting road signs outside my window on the street below to
minimise the thoroughfare.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Aus Idol
Whilst day dreaming in the shower, I dreamt that I was auditioning
for Aus Idol. After seeing some of the terrible talent that goes
there I felt i was a half chance, even tho really I cant sing well.
I sang from Russia with Love. And the judges were like well do
you think you have what it takes. I said I did. I also mentioned
that I was related to Guy Sebastian (distantly). I think they told
me to get out.
for Aus Idol. After seeing some of the terrible talent that goes
there I felt i was a half chance, even tho really I cant sing well.
I sang from Russia with Love. And the judges were like well do
you think you have what it takes. I said I did. I also mentioned
that I was related to Guy Sebastian (distantly). I think they told
me to get out.
Socks
Since moving into town, ive taken to running to places. Yesterday
I ran into work and back from work. Sometimes I think it must look
like im stealing stuff, because I have a backpack with me.
Yesterday whilst running home, through the mall I thought I heard
someone shouting at me, I didnt know what was going on as I had
music playing. Eventually I stopped and realised that I had my
bag open , and stuff had been falling out. I had to walk back
down rundle mall for a few 100m looking for socks that had
fallen out.
Which leads me to a cool game I heard about from Claire, who invented
it whilst in the snow. Called "knock your socks off". I challenged
finch to a game. The object of the game is to use you feet to remove
the other persons socks by stepping on the person's socks, and sort
of pushing them away. In a close game I won 2-1, but it was really
quite tiring especially on slippery floors. Anyway it provided to be
a good idea for a scene in our surveillance movie. I was filming the
ppl across the street and then I realised that they would see the red
light on the camera, some surveillance guy I would make.
I ran into work and back from work. Sometimes I think it must look
like im stealing stuff, because I have a backpack with me.
Yesterday whilst running home, through the mall I thought I heard
someone shouting at me, I didnt know what was going on as I had
music playing. Eventually I stopped and realised that I had my
bag open , and stuff had been falling out. I had to walk back
down rundle mall for a few 100m looking for socks that had
fallen out.
Which leads me to a cool game I heard about from Claire, who invented
it whilst in the snow. Called "knock your socks off". I challenged
finch to a game. The object of the game is to use you feet to remove
the other persons socks by stepping on the person's socks, and sort
of pushing them away. In a close game I won 2-1, but it was really
quite tiring especially on slippery floors. Anyway it provided to be
a good idea for a scene in our surveillance movie. I was filming the
ppl across the street and then I realised that they would see the red
light on the camera, some surveillance guy I would make.
Henry Sugar
Finch dropped off to me the Wonderful Tales of Henry Sugar (Roald Dahl). Ok
so my reading tastes have not developed greatly in 15 years, but thats not
true, the classics are still the best and I had never read that story yet.
How can a story about a man who learns the techniques of meditation and
special powers from Indian yogis to beat all the casinos around the world
not be worth reading??
Anyway I cant really explain how good the story was, but there was some
powerful message about meditation which got through to me. I sort of believe
in all that super power yogi stuff, or at least am open to the possibility
that exists. I think through meditation anything is possible, is that
the I am in control thing mitch was talking about. In the book which is
fiction, one of the the challenges is to concentrate only on one object
or person for 3 minutes, and nothing else. Try it, see how long you can
concentrate before another thought enters your mind.
so my reading tastes have not developed greatly in 15 years, but thats not
true, the classics are still the best and I had never read that story yet.
How can a story about a man who learns the techniques of meditation and
special powers from Indian yogis to beat all the casinos around the world
not be worth reading??
Anyway I cant really explain how good the story was, but there was some
powerful message about meditation which got through to me. I sort of believe
in all that super power yogi stuff, or at least am open to the possibility
that exists. I think through meditation anything is possible, is that
the I am in control thing mitch was talking about. In the book which is
fiction, one of the the challenges is to concentrate only on one object
or person for 3 minutes, and nothing else. Try it, see how long you can
concentrate before another thought enters your mind.
Monday, July 12, 2004
Mitch's blog
visit mitchuk
In a world of blogs, which are the equivalent of hollywood popcorn flicks, enjoying to read at the time, but do little
to stimulate the mind, its nice to see mitch's blog stand out as the mike moore blog. A blend of stories about piss and interesting issues :)
re: theories of mitch: perspective - interesting to
note that kids can not see other another person's perspective. In some ways I find that misleading, because may be that test only serves to show that children can not visualise what other people see, however perhpas they are more in tune with other people's feelings than adults.
Perhaps adults as they grow older become more stubborn and set in their ways, and even tho they may be aware of other people's opinions, they disregard them. So to say an adult is behaving like a child is not quite right. George Bush, whom we both dislike, is always an interesting issue. I doubt George Bush as a 6 year old, would be that inconsiderate to other people's human lives, especially those in Iraq. I think that is a quality we develop as we grow into adults. After all when your kids, everyone your age is pretty much your friend.
kid1: Do you want to jump on my trampoline ?
kid2. Yep !
kid1: lets be friends !
kid2: Yep !
As we grow older we find more and more reasons to distinguish and differentiate ourselves from other people. Embracing these differences, is what causes problems.
re : mitch's internal debate - I believe the crux of his conundrum, is that there are a lot of important events which are out of your control which can have a dramatic impact on your life. By thinking about this and realising that there is little you can do about this, it only leads to depression, however the optimistic approach on "free will", even if it is somewhat misguided leads to a happier state of mind. So the question - is by Mitch cheating himself into believing that he has free will, an adequate resolution to his problem? After all thinking about it only leads to unhappiness.
However what if there was more to life than simply our physiologocial make up, the beating of our heart. Perhaps the power of our mind (free will) is all that we need. Im not doubting the lack of control we have over certain events. But Im skeptcal whether these events are all important. Should we be thinking about the human collective or the individual? Doesnt the rapid human technological advancements in some ways facilitate the possible preservation of our species. The dinosours failed to survive the metorite crash, but we might? I wouldnt underestimate the power of one and i wouldnt want to waste the limited time that I have, odds are we are all going to die, but its what we do with the time here that counts. And belive me it can count!
In a world of blogs, which are the equivalent of hollywood popcorn flicks, enjoying to read at the time, but do little
to stimulate the mind, its nice to see mitch's blog stand out as the mike moore blog. A blend of stories about piss and interesting issues :)
re: theories of mitch: perspective - interesting to
note that kids can not see other another person's perspective. In some ways I find that misleading, because may be that test only serves to show that children can not visualise what other people see, however perhpas they are more in tune with other people's feelings than adults.
Perhaps adults as they grow older become more stubborn and set in their ways, and even tho they may be aware of other people's opinions, they disregard them. So to say an adult is behaving like a child is not quite right. George Bush, whom we both dislike, is always an interesting issue. I doubt George Bush as a 6 year old, would be that inconsiderate to other people's human lives, especially those in Iraq. I think that is a quality we develop as we grow into adults. After all when your kids, everyone your age is pretty much your friend.
kid1: Do you want to jump on my trampoline ?
kid2. Yep !
kid1: lets be friends !
kid2: Yep !
As we grow older we find more and more reasons to distinguish and differentiate ourselves from other people. Embracing these differences, is what causes problems.
re : mitch's internal debate - I believe the crux of his conundrum, is that there are a lot of important events which are out of your control which can have a dramatic impact on your life. By thinking about this and realising that there is little you can do about this, it only leads to depression, however the optimistic approach on "free will", even if it is somewhat misguided leads to a happier state of mind. So the question - is by Mitch cheating himself into believing that he has free will, an adequate resolution to his problem? After all thinking about it only leads to unhappiness.
However what if there was more to life than simply our physiologocial make up, the beating of our heart. Perhaps the power of our mind (free will) is all that we need. Im not doubting the lack of control we have over certain events. But Im skeptcal whether these events are all important. Should we be thinking about the human collective or the individual? Doesnt the rapid human technological advancements in some ways facilitate the possible preservation of our species. The dinosours failed to survive the metorite crash, but we might? I wouldnt underestimate the power of one and i wouldnt want to waste the limited time that I have, odds are we are all going to die, but its what we do with the time here that counts. And belive me it can count!
The begining
(in the background - float on by modest mouse)
"There is only one rk", an exercise in individuality.
Year after year, the longer we live the more we tend to a certain
point - normality. Which is not bad nor good.
Influenced by our surroundings we develop the same interests,
the same taste in music, the same taste in food,
the same values, the same habits, the same faults.
We become comfortable in our surroundings and meander along.
By virtue of writing this blog I have already started to
be like other people, but I dont mind, a lot of what other
people do are good, it needs to be builded upon.
It's time to ask yourself what you believe.
(from last crusade, after indy's dad gets shot)
"There is only one rk", an exercise in individuality.
Year after year, the longer we live the more we tend to a certain
point - normality. Which is not bad nor good.
Influenced by our surroundings we develop the same interests,
the same taste in music, the same taste in food,
the same values, the same habits, the same faults.
We become comfortable in our surroundings and meander along.
By virtue of writing this blog I have already started to
be like other people, but I dont mind, a lot of what other
people do are good, it needs to be builded upon.
It's time to ask yourself what you believe.
(from last crusade, after indy's dad gets shot)
