Official Submission to rename saturday hangover day

Hey All,

I’m sitting here on a lazy hot Saturday afternoon with a mildly ferocious hangover and thought I might give a shout out to anyone who reads this.

The origins of the hangover are long and rambling but make for a harrowing tale of alcoholic adventure.

1^st beer of Friday was down on new quay with benno as was the 2^nd. 2 more beers followed at ICON where you are only allowed to get 2 at a time but I am think I am basically over the whole ICON deal. There is only so much bad tasting free beer a man is interested in before you consider paying for a beer that doesn’t have “hint of bathwater”.

Our AXA team x-mas party (just our team) was at a guys house in south yarra which was a great time, so much bbq food and a bit of salad with generous helpings of old Carlton cans. Exchanged KK gifts to which I gained a bottle of yummy bubbly (yummy looking, not consumed as yet).

Pete’s house is right near chapel st and Liz and her friends were going to kew bar (I assume kew, maybe its cue, who cares) so we swaggered over there after pete had hit the alcoholic wall and had to be left behind to sleep it off. So mark and I went to Bridie o’reilys on chapelli for a few brewskies and some sambuca shots. Meanwhile in a bar not too far away josh, loz, ben and tim and tommo were waiting in the wings to join us. Had a couple of beers and meandered to frosties. The ancient texts of events is hard to decipher from this point on but there are a few things that come to mind

- $8 madori shakers

- Getting our groove on

- Tommo getting his groove on (but wearing sunnies)

- Musk slurpee (who knows what was in that)

- Green light necklaces and glowsticks

- Podium dancing

- Wanting to hear “detriot, new york and LA..” but found wanting

- Waking up with a savage brown bear mawling my brain from the inside

Had some spag bowl and on the road to recovery

Now I have to go vote for Council elections. I think I would vote for the guy who said he had nothing to do with the current council or for any guy who gave me a can of coke. Stupid compulsory elections and the fine is bigger than that for not voting in the fed elections. I’m sure some old man in some suburb somewhere with some kind of drainage problem on his gutters gives a fuck about council elections, me, not so much.

Listening to:
The Used – The Taste of Ink

Shout Out:
Next Friday is young benno’s birthday so he is having a big bash at his house. I always get absolutely deportable offence drunk on spirits at benno’s parties which is making my head feel sore just thinking about it.

Ok you happening groovsters see you at coffee probably, lets go to a new café this week eh, popular demand.

Fall Out Boy signing out

It's on now!!

Hey All,

I am just at home relaxing on my usual day off on Friday. For all the sack wearing dreadlock sporting hippies out there I have asked to work on Fridays but AXA have neither the inclination or money to have me work on a quiet day like Friday (I’m not cheap baby)

Rehearsal was good last night, not as good as last week but still good and Darcy + Tom came down and thought it was………loud.

Is it just me or is it the warmer it gets the more you hate your indoor job? (apart from haywood cause I know you LOVE! your job).

The worst ad on TV at the moment would have to be the one with the little punky kid who has the audacity to spray his mum with cordial making the most atrocious mess you’ve ever seen. So you start thinking “oh it’s on now!!!” and she is going to lay the smack down so hard he won’t be able to hold down future relationships. I’m rubbing my hands together to see some prime time violence and what does mother superior do? She turns around with a hose and sprays him back getting the entire kitchen soaked. Not only is this a crushing disappointment that the kid walks away with the ability to walk it is a gross misrepresentation of Australian mothers who would consider a small puddle of cordial next to a glass “spilt ALL OVER the bench”. I don’t know what shitty product it was for but don’t buy it, just to be safe, if you get that cordial hankerin’, make sure its KIO ORA the best cordial that has ever and ever will be created. “It’s on now!”

Listening to:

Rise Against – State of the Union (awesome song about America)

Shout Out:

Stu’s 1 year anniversary house party + Annas Birthday (Tomorrow Night)

Oh and benno has done some quality work on the SGOP site, check out the link on the right hand side to see the basic design. No content for you! Come back 1 week.

That is all

National Public Toilet Map

Hold on to your hemorrhoids people - Friday is World Toilet Day! Fitting, considering I see more public toilets on a Friday than any other day of the week - in bars and pubs across the city.

Loo day coincides with the final day of "World Toilet Summit 2004", which started today in Beijing. In its fourth year, the three day dunny do attracts 150 academics from some 20 countries and aims to promote toilet hygiene and etiquette. So, with that in mind, I present the National Public Toilet Map.

NPTM (as I like to call it) is an initiative of the National Continence Management Strategy. (As a side note, might I mention how impressed I am to hear the incontinent now have a "strategy" - I only thought they needed to be able to run with their legs crossed.) The map lists every public toilet in the country. I provide it here in the hope that you'll do your bit to make this World Toilet Day the best ever.

So for Friday, happy flushing.

RUFIO, RUFIO, RU - FI - OOOOOOOO!

After working the late shift tonight (finish at 8pm) Stu, Josh, Andy and I headed over to the corner to see RUFIO. For those who don't know they are an awesome punk rock band from America with fast guitar licks and even faster giddy up punk drum beats.

Support bands were Kiss Chasey and Mere Theory of which we only knew Kiss Chasey but they are a good solid Melbourne rock band. The place was packed just about full by the time kiss chasey left stage and rufio were starting at 10:10 (earliest over 18 start ever).

Probably the best way to judge a punk rock show is by the mosh, when Rufio came on though the mosh pit was so packed with overeager kids and romantics (guys who stand still behind their GF's in the middle of a mosh) that you could barely get a mosh up and people were going down like an intern after a pay rise.

Once the amateurs cleared out of the mosh it picked up in a big way, meanwhile the actual sound of the band was very good and they are a profesh band all the way.

Stu enjoyed it buy didn't really rate it especially the downfalls of the early mosh

Josh loved it and was going so crazy he almost took me out a couple of times

I thought it was great apart from the usual wanker with no shirt on

Andy loved it cause he was the only one that knew both albums they have well

For those pop monkeys out there you would be happy to hear they ripped out and awesome cover of Prayer by Madonna - "When I call your name, it's like a little prayer..."??

Tonight has prompted us to write a simple guide to mosh etiquette which is something to look for here in the next week.

Listening to

Rise Against - Paper Wings (that sick arse song that's on Burnout 3)

Shout Out

Band Rehearsal at Corey's (Thursday Night) come down and listen to all our new songs and the especially the ones we are going to put on our demo we are doing in a few weeks (Sounds Good On Paper).

Drinks in the city (Friday) for something different.

Anna (stu's housemate) + stu's re-signing of lease party (Saturday night) Stu's house.

I have heard from stu abut TORRENTS and BIT TORRENTS which some of our nerdier friends will probably say (YEAH didn't you know about them, ERR!!!) and you can download entire albums and episodes of shows with ease, more to come on that topic

That is me done.

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