Last weekend was a complete write off. I felt like shit since Friday afternoon and spent most of the weekend in the fetal position on the couch wondering why I take my health for granted and lamenting every minute that I did not feel well. However, in between being a pussy and feeling sorry for myself I did [...]
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Today’s selection for The Monday Rotation holds a special place in my music catalog as it is my reading/thinking/writing/chilling go-to music. “Explosions in the Sky” is an instrumental rock band from Texas that I discovered 5-6 years ago. Yes, instrumental rock, no vocals, which is a major turn-off to many people but as pure music it [...]
While I was searching for Radiohead tickets a few years ago I stumbled onto a video made by a die-hard fan looking for tickets to a Thom York show in San Francisco. This couple apparently traveled all the way to Tokyo years earlier just to see Radiohead play. It is obviously an amateur production but I have always [...]
When I read a book I tend to pick up on the themes from that book in other pieces of art or media. This occurred recently with “The Picture of Dorian Gray” which is about a dashing young aristocrat (Dorian Gray) from 1800′s England who has a portrait of himself painted that has supernatural powers. After [...]
Great tunes: CHECK, a bunch of chicks: CHECK, free booze: CHECK and a cool venue: CHECK. I went to a bumping warehouse party on Friday with a couple of friends. It was in a random building near downtown Sydney that they is being demolished today. I didn’t know who was putting it on or what it was for, I [...]
There is so much bullshit out there. New bands, movies, books, porn, and youtube clips are thrown at me from the minute I get up every morning. The majority of which are total crap. I am always interested in knowing about new music, movies or just media in general that I have missed or classic stuff that I may have passed [...]
As much as I am always complaining about my job and the soulsucking activities contained therein I am in no hurry to leave the company where I am working because the prison of my job allows me the freedom in my life. I know that what I do is worthless. I know that I achieve [...]
Politics Politicians should have to wear stickers or buttons denoting their largest campaign contributors. I would prefer to have lobbying completely abolished, but I am not naive enough to think that would ever happen. Having a politician covered in logos as if he were a NASCAR driver would at least help people cut through the bullshit far [...]
When I first moved to Sydney I could not tell the difference between a English accent and an Australian accent. Since then I have become a bit better at telling them apart and it has mostly to do with the way an “o” is pronounced when it is at the end of a word. They [...]