Sunny Breaks

Interesting list of forums and sites here, via K5. Nice of them to suggest places other than themselves to hang out at.

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the link doesn’t work… :/

KD - 05.04.02, 05:15

Whoops! Boy is *MY* face red~! Working Now.
:^)
yak - 08.04.02, 21:36

Had a dream this morning - and generally I consider it mostly useless to retell dreams, but sometimes they can be so out-there that it’s hard not too.
This was a situation where I can really relater to Homer Simpson in that episode where he really needs money and has a little dream where he’s invented something that would be really useful, and everyone in the world would want one - but he doesn’t get to see it.
Any way - so someone was showing me this book, saying to me that I should include some bits of it in some magazine (or something) that I was producing — so I just started having a quick look through this book.
It was largish - like a picture book, glossy pages with mostly pictures — The Whole Concept reminded me of these stoopid “Blue Day Books” that are selling bigtime at the moment.
But this thing I was looking at was more like a piss-take on that concept.
The reall bummer is that I can only remember two pages of what i saw - about six. All of them looked good - at least in the drem world. It’s funny how a joke or something can come in a dream - and it will seem like the funniest thing in the whole world - in that world at least .. but be dead out here.
So - one was the line, down the bottom of the page in largeish writing, like a kids book, “Sometimes much social frigging is neccesary” and there was this picture of two teenage girls sitting, both looking at something, and looking bored - head resting in arm. (One of them might’ve been a boy, I dunno) - and maybe I’m making this bit up - but they were wearing `nice’ clothes like hand-knitted jumpers - the viewer can’t actually see what they’re looking at, but I got the feeling they were sitting with their grandma, listening. The image of the two of them looked like a photot - but the background was kinda like water colour, or oil on glass - a light orange like sunset.
the writing really struck me as sharp - what a great line!

The other one was - same kind of format, “Fairies are real but children are not” - and a picture of (stereotypical) fairy - a little girl - I think it was actually a kid dressed up as a fairy with fake wings and little wooden stick with star glued on - and she has her hand over her mouth as in Shock or Surprise - `Oh My!’ type thing.

Anyway - if i was a more enterprising individual I might brainstorm this kind of thing and try and turn it into a real book. lordy-knows it’s the only way to actually make money out of the publishing industry these days. Also - if i had some money I could go see a hypnotherapist and retrieve the other 4 pages of the book that I saw.

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As for the other stuff, well, you will’ve noticed the `Recommended Reading’ list - The Unabomber manifesto - I actually can’t say I’ve read all of it - I really should d/load it and read it that way - but I have to say that he’s got a number of good points about technology in society and `the Left’.

The other - the ancient arrow project thing - reads like a techno-thriller type novel, and is really good reading - “gripping” as they say - but I s’pose it really helps if you’ve had time to take in the other stuff at the website for a while before hand - the interviews with the guy. They were printed in Nexus over a year and a half or so - that’s how I found out aboout it all.
I just wish there was a way I could get to read the rest of the book thing with out havin’ to pay for it!

Now, if it was me who’d just got a new iMac home, I probably wouldda been pullin’ that packaging apart post-haste, leaving aside things like reading the paper, making phone calls ….. but it wasn’t me.
I’d decided the best thing to do was to let Gene do all the setting up 1. it actually belongs to her 2. I wanted to see just how idiot-proof the procedure was (perhaps that’s being a bit harsh) since I’d heard that apple have that side of it down to a fine art.

And indeed they do - the `instructions’ are less technical than the brochures that apple put in newspapers. It was a glossy fold out of 5 diagrams - no writing at all.
Turn it one, and just the few details of name, etc. and it’s set.
What impressed me:
How quiet the thing is; no fan makes a big diff, although the back of it did feel kinda warm.
iTunes - looks really nice - very simple and clear. mainly, because currently, with Linux and KDE, I’m having a real hell of a time deciding how the best way to set up my music files so they are shareable with the world and easy to pull up with XMMS — even when i just play a cd with XMMS it plays the songs in the wrong bloody order. The order is important - it’s how the artist wanted it, chronology is a part of the overall experience of an album. And I still can’t figure out how to get grip to rip in MP3 format. Also I mention the other day how GTK-Gnutella an’t so user-friendly.
iTunes has a whole bunch of preset radio stations that stream - and all kinds of genres - it’s just a click on the one you want while online and it hooks up. Compare that to Linux - the closest thing that I’ve found so far is RealPlayer, which isn’t very useful.
The machine seems to make good use of its graphics card. I’m sure that mine’s just as good as that one, but i’ve not seen anything as half impressive on Juggernaut as on that. There was one game on it which looked okay. But it was attempting to change the kernel around so that I could play TuxRacer on here that got me in catastrophy last time.
I don’t know if `impress’ is overdoing it, but I was surprised that the wordprcessor, appleworks, could save into .doc format.

What didn’t impress me:
The mouse. Crikey! Apple supposedly invented the mouse way back when - the iMacs mouse is a good example of where function was unduly sacrificed for asthetics. The IR on it really didn’t seem to work all that well either.
No apps. I suppose I’m spoilt with Linux in that way, but there really was *just* the basics there. Maybe most things can be done with them - like HTML could be prepared with the word-processor, but after mucking around with it for half an hour I came to the point of `what do I do now’ — it’s definitely not the machine for someone who uses tinkering as a good excuse for procrastination. But seriously - what about BBEdit?? I thought that at least that’d be on there - do all those things have to be bought? Seems like an aweful exxy exercise. I might be wrong; there’s some sort of `get software from apple’ over the net option in there, but haven’t checked it out yet.

Well, I was almost going to ball up my frustrations into a Core opinion article on the uselessness, and therefore bleak future of online shopping after our experinces in the last 5 weeks or so.
In fact I still should, because the issue was never resolved.
Gene, as mentioned in an earlier entry, finally bit the bullet by deciding to buy an iMac, and chose to order it online via the Apple Australia web site (and her Westpac-using credit-card).
After 5 attempts, apple still were refused the transaction. There was most certainly money enough in the account for the transaction. The first problem, it seemed that (unlike the majority of this debt-driven, consumerist society) Gene didn’t use her credit card all that much, and rarely for $1800-odd amounts.
So Westpac hit the skids on the process on the transaction, and rang here to confirm that it was her who had made the order. Calls came from their regular dept and their “Fraud Squad” (this makes me laugh, they give a few employees the title of `squad’ - ha ha ha!).
Gene says - `yes, it was me - it’s okay’ - and perhaps in this modern world of online credit card fraud - this process happening once may be okay.

But…

It happened again (and each time, for some reason apple got to take out one dollar, but that was it) - and each time apple couldn’t do it - their Sydney office would ring here and say `err, there seems to be something wrong, are you sure you’re not overdrawn?’ - but no - and then a call would have to be made from here (during business hours ie. the expensive ones, back to sydney to say `okay give it another go now’) - and all this racked up some considerable phone cost.
This happened FIVE times. Gene was about to give up and say -well bugger it - i just won’t get one … which of course left yak feelin’ rather disappointed.
It seemed that the cause of the problems was that the process of apple withdrawing the money didn’t physically happen in Australia - it happens in the UK, which in itself is kinda odd, but because of this - when amounts over a certain limit are requested form overseas locations, that’s when little alarm bells go off in the west-spac “fraud squad” office.
Five times …. fuckin retards.

Anyway - if this is happening to even a small percentage of customers - and it is - infact A Lot of customers - then shopping online in the global market doesn’t really stand a chance.

So yesterday, she rang the geelong apple store, and lo and behold! - ofr once they actually had a computer in stock, as opposed to say, the last three years of iMacs being on the market, when the response would’ve been, `we can order one from melbourne, it’ll be here in a week’, which goes against the woman’s “I want it now” nature - hey can ya blame her?. She explained the whole situation, thus demonstrating her fiscal ability to procure such device, and of course they were only too happy to help…

I could’ve been really daggy and started this off with, ‘Captain’s log….“.
What’ve i found interesting on the machine lately?
Well, am quite happy with Kate (my guess is KDE Advanced text editor) slightly different from the advanced editor - this has a side bar — whereas sidebars usully just annoy me - this one seems fairly useful.
On the ”Top 5 Most used” apps: (this doesn’t take into account the apps that are on the panel - which get used more)
Maelstrom; the little asteroid game which i find quite hard to resist, especially when I’ve sat down to do homework.
GQView ….. (koff)
Mozilla - I use Opera for all the fun web hopping, but use Moz for school, hooking into the uni website etc.
Gftp - I know Konqueror can be used as an ftp client, but i just haven’t got around too figuring it out. (What’s really weird is that the version of gftp that comes with the clean install seems better/more fobust than the version I was using before I had to wipe it all last time - presumably this would’ve been a newer version that I got from the RH Update)
Quanta+ - which I’m still not happy with … version 2 - still a bit shakey.

I was using Sylpheed as my email client up until the other day - when I blamed it for not getting my mail from the uni account - which i really needed. It wasn’t too bad, but I s’pose not really that much of a step up from Kmail.
Am using the Mozilla mail client at the momo - seems okay - will give it alittle longer before i pass judgey.
(Would really like to have Evolution - but of course that would mean the whole re-curring nightmare named Ximian.)

Had to pull out one of the word processing progs last night to start an essay. Went for star office (5.2) and it’s okay - but for the fact that it’s not employing TTFs or anti-aliasing, so it’s all jagged n’ pointy. It’s defaulting to US spelling, but I’m sure that can be rectified.
I might try abi-word tonight. (Couldn’t find the S.O. word count function either, so had to open Abi to find out where I was up to)
Everything’s so far being printed out here - so it doesn’t matter if they’re not in .doc format.

Speaking of printing - this is the real happy story for the day — I requistioned my printer back off gene the other day, since she’s -presumably- getting an iMac soon… (that’s another story … man) and thought it’d be a rigourous procedure of getting the Cannon 210sp working on here, if it’d work at all But it was just plug in, + use GUI printer configuration = and i was printing from star office a minute later. Sveet!

This website’s another another story - but have a week’s “break” next week so may get a chance to fix some shit up.

this morning’s psychology lecture started to get weird and interesting when the guy startted talking about how some sperms are only there the do search and destroy missions of foriegn sperms I hadn’t heard about that one before. And the only reason why they would’ve evolved that way is because (biologically speaking) it’s in the interests of the species (we’re talking about people here, people!) that the woman sleep around/shop around for the hardiest sperm — having sex with two different partners in the one week.
And of course, one of those partners is going to be the relied upon caregiver, and the other: the interloper or adulterer, if you will.

So, Watchout fellas - she might not want to screw you over, but it’s in her genes.
Where it all started to get a bit rich for me was when he says that there might be a specific adulterer gene that’s responsible for this — or at least makes people more receptive to the idea.

To explain the heading - he called the swimmers coneheads. And also, apart from the ’seek n’ destroy’ variety, there are also other ones that just get in the way and slow foreigners down. Reminds me of a football team.
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Today’s the type of day where a meditate would’ve really done me good.
Last night was really warm - very hard to get to sleep. Makin typos all over the joint here.
Sure am gonna sleep well tonight.

One of the warmest weekends there’s been this season, regardless of the fact that it’s technically autumn. “Indian summer”.

Was torn between the fact that we had gusets over, and that I had homework to do.
A mate of mine who I’ve known for a long time, who’s a cusper (on taurus and gemini) - who is nice but sometimes he grates on my nerves. Another mutual friend of ours once described him as being like george costanza, and this is a pretty apt description.
Anyway - I hadn’t seen him for a while, so it was good to catch up.

And, despite him knowing little about computers, he’d (in the last couple of months) met a woman over the net - chat rooms - and she was out here, and with him - on holiday.

when I initially heard about this I was rather sceptical, but not surprised. Infact several times I’d thought of suggesting to my taurus-buddy to get a computer and get on aol… due to the fact that he’s always whinging when he doesn’t have a girlfriend. But at the same time he’s got some rather unhealthy co-dependency issues - ie. relationships don’t tend to go well for him because of this — and then when they end, he falls in a heap.

But there is a lot of receptive people out there on the chat networks.

And despite the fact that he doesn’t even own a computer, he rapidly hooked up with this woman from Fargo, Nth. Dakota.
Being a realist(pessimist) - I expected there to be something drastically wrong with this woman - to have come out here after having only known our taurus-buddy for a couple of months + electronically.
However I was pleasantly surprised - she seemed quite nice. And I wonders how long it will be before she finds taurus-buddy more suffocating than Fargo winters…..

What a wonderful friend I am……

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Pretty neat to be on an ISP that has unlimited download — have been hooking onto the GTK-Gnutella scene and schnaffling me some mp3s already. Forgot how slow it could get though.

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Don’t worry bout it yak, you seem honest enough :)
I suffer from pessimism as well, but my girlfriend balances me out, thankfully; or i’d be a jaded phony all my life.

phony - 25.03.02, 21:11

Don’t worry bout it yak, you seem honest enough :)
I suffer from pessimism as well, but my girlfriend balances me out, thankfully; or i’d be a jaded phony all my life.

phony - 25.03.02, 21:12

haha - thanks phony. I know what ya mean - when folks ask me about my girlfriend i say yeah she’s great she’s everything that i’m not eg. extroverted etc.

yak - 26.03.02, 22:12

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That the link to ‘yak sox writes’ over there to the right will be down for a few days. Am in the process of changing ISPs so there ain’t no home for it as of midnight tonight, like pumpkins.

That was a close one.
You might’ve seen more evidence of stuffing around with web counters here.
For some reason cgi seems to screw the whole thing up - i can’t login to write new entries.
Anyway - I got rid of the offending cgi and perhaps it has to go midnight again on the DR servers before it cleans up entirely - but what ever the case - it’s workin again now.
I did have a look around hotscripts.com again for what’s happening in the news/portal site script scene.
Anyway - pivot is still working so I’m happy.
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We ran out of milk this morning — it’s a pretty damn long walk to the shops — well ‘run out’ isn’t completely accruate - there wasn’t enough to go over all of my musili - so I (shudder) had to have a little milk and some water.
Which actually worked out pretty okay becasue laely I’ve been feeling like regular milk is a little too thick to stomach, especially at twenty-five past seven in the morn. also I generally have to eat it quickly, — and reduced-fat milk costs annother buck more than normal milk — wo whaalla - crisitunity etc. — normal milk + water =thin milk. sweet.

I feel like i need a new one.
A weird day day today. Had social theory lecture - no problem. The chioces after are - catch bus into Geelong, wait for bus home = roughly 5 hours btween lecture finishing and me walkinng in front door on house.
Or - mosey on out over the plains from uni to the road back here to anglesea - and hitch the anglesea road.
I’ve been taking the latter option these last couple of weeks — particularly on tuesday - just cause of the lecture time - i just miss a bus - thus the long wait.
And up until today - have been pretty lucky with scoring lifts quickly but today waited around about 40 mins - and it was a sunny day - and so the sun had my brain on slow-bake

And I get back here, fre\\lling a little freaked about all this reading I got mounting up - and i sits down - and just can’t concentrate - couldn’t take anything in.
So I thought - i’ll have a little nap - half hour or 45 mins would do the trick - because i thought it was coz i slept lightly and briefly last night.
I woke up and hour and a half later feeling like i just closed my eyes — infact i think the phone rang and i didn’t even hear it.
Weird - i don’t sleep like that even at night. when i woke i looked at the clock and was dead-sure that it somehow had jumped an hour forward - like i’d knocked it this morning or something.

ah well.

Just who the hell make these decisions of how much learning is standard - for a normal person to do in a semester or year — how come 4 subjects is full time. why not two???
I feel like i’m gonna get to the end of this semester and not really taken in much at all — i”ve got all these resources — and compared to the way that I’d go about things - I’m not really gonna get to appreciate what I’m studying or question it prroperly or look at it objectively….

It’d be self-indulgent and wrong for me to say just me.
I’ve been there before - there’s no performance or production that’s made completely for the vacuum.

Today I’m thinking it’s for all the people who don’t know me face to face.
This is with the exception of Gene - who I know knows about this - but I don’t know if she checks it. This is where a damn counter would come in handy.
Anyway - she’s an exception - and it’s okay - and I’ll still write about things like chicks - as in the previous post.
But thankfully the name yak sox isn’t known out here in the clark kent life of this humble studyin’-type-guy. And this is a good thing because I feel like I’m gonna start commenting on my fellow students and teachers etc.

Ah geeez, maybe not today though.

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Am still humming and harring about the idea of putting the front page into frames - so that I can get a counter on. Got a little way into it the other day - using Quanta+ - and then left the room to have dinner — and came back and the thing had folded up and left without a trace - and I hadn’t save it.
dang.
Frames just don’t look good. Think I’m gonna have a go at asking the folks at Pivot-log what’d be the easiest way to get a counter on here.
Of course CGI would seem the easiest - but for some reason I can’t get it to work here.

Damn I’ve got a lot of reading to do. as i write right now - i should be doing it.

Oh man.

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Writing is one of the best things you can do. Writing your experiences of the day, etc., is good, because it gets your frustrations, or the things that made you happy out on paper (or in binary ;). This is a well-known therapeutic process known as diary-keeping :)
phony - 25.03.02, 21:15

It’s like i’ve dichotomised myself again with uni — doing two 1st year subjects and two 2nd year. Second year stuff has gone straght for the meat n’ potatoes - but not overwhelmingly so. The social thoery tute the other day was fun.. Basically there’s no problem if i’ve done the reading for it beforehand. We had the main guy, Struan, who takes the lectures too. I don’t think he is a luddite after all, probably just anti-MS, but not being geeky enough to have found Linux. He’s a nutty (social sciences) professor. i thought it’d be a really outspoken class, being 2nd year, and in that opinionated area, but No - He asked people to volunteer to say a little on each of these aspects of ‘modernity’ (hahah- what a word: mod-dern-itty; as in “dern gumment”) and no one was speaking up. So here’s me, who’s not done first year social science … and who’d done the reading but forgot to bring the damned reader to class, having a go at it — and saying the right thing and mmm getting praise from teacher - HahaH!
Fuck I respond well to praise! That’s what it’s all about - or at least that’s what it feels like - not very ZEN i know, but that’s just me at this stage of life.
I think I’ll get a good opportunity to look at ‘The City’ as a concept in that subject, so it should be interesting.

The other 2nd year subject, ‘The End Of The World As We Know It?’, here on in referred to TEOTWAWKI, or something like that (that’s the politics one) is interesting, and chunky as far as the amount of reading goes, but is way frustrating - ’cause we’re looking at wars and how they start at the moment - but the whole thing keeps dancing around what I think is the central problem = capitalism. Pretty fun to be in a room with a bunch of folks who like to talk politics though. There seems like some interesting kids in that tute. But I just wish I knew a bit more history!
I’m not sure how ready I am to start arguing my wacky theories when so much of it is currently relying on stuff i only half remember or am kinda guessing about.

But from there it’s a fucken huge drop down to the level of Intro to communications - a first year subject. It’s crawling along in comparrison. We’re still covering stuff that I read through in O week. This isn’t helped by the fact that (at this point at least I think) my tute teacher is a bit of a twit. He’s a “liberal christian” and wasn’t backward about telling us so. This might not have been bad - but from where I’m sittin his definition of ‘liberal’ looks wholly mainstram.
The type of lecturer who can’t help side-tracking the whole thing ’cause he likes the sound of his own voice. And thne there’s this point that can be applied to the whole of the university experince, but which is most pronounced in comms studies - and that is: chicks.

Chicks “How The Hell Am I Supposed To Concentrate In The Lecture When There’s A Chick Sitting Next To Me, Sqirming Around With Her Fucking Belly-Button Showing?”
Now, I have a woman, and am very much love her. She is funny and beautiful, and on the whole, many things I am not. We get along Great.
But I am a male human animal, with this biological urge to ‘propagate the species’ and in particular with my personal flavour of genetics. This is involuntary; a monkey on back situation. If the Dalai Lama was here right now my first question would be, “How do I let go of desire?” But in all truth I don’t think there is any way to. I think it’s just part of the whole ‘being human’ deal.
This whole issue I’m talking about is one of the biggest in life for me.
Because i can identfy it when my dick is distracting me, but can’t seem to change it. I’m not talking about anything more than actually looking at these young women… but this is enough to get me annoyed at myself. I thought this kind of thing would’ve diminished as i get toward thhe latter half of my 20s.
Sometimes I try to just accept it and enjoy it as part of being alive on this flesh n’ blood plane of existance, but that doesn’t feel right either.
Most of the time I’m passed the point of unconsciously enjoying it - now it’s just a bloody distraction
But don’t worry, it’s not gonna drive me insane.

So anyway, there’s a high proportion of chicks in comm. studies. I think it’s because it’s a requirement for P.R. and Marketing - two completely ridiculous and useless areas of work if ya ask me.
And I know that these young women are people too - and they have feelings and all of the wonderful complexities of being human.. Some of them will have personalities, attitudes that i’d find agreeable, and some not.
As Show-Pen-How-Wer (don’t quote me on the spelling, he’s German for cryin’ out loud!) would tell me - the only reason why they’re mmed-riff tops and dying their hair blonde is because they’re interested in procreating too. Not neccesarily with me, but someone. AND as mentioned, my box is already ticked.
It just bugs me that this is bugs me.

Psychology is the other first year subject but due to the fact that there’s biology involved, it’s not really a bludge.

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Many of my aquaintances think I’m an idiot for leaving the laptop in the car in melbourne on a friday night. They’re probably right.

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Am having second thoughts about adding frames to the page - they look pretty boxy. There must be an easier way.

The crapper they get.
Well - that’s what I was thinking last night while watching channel ten’s coverage of the first race of the CART season at fundo park, Monterrey, Mexico.
It’s not all 10’s fault, CART handed the coverage rights over to someone else this year - not ESPN anymore - and I think the new situation is pay tv - so we don’t get their commentary, which, admittedly could be really crap anyway because they didn’t give the job to Paul Page and Parker Johnstone - they guys who were doing it last year.

I just wrote a whingey email to ch. 10. Here, YOU can too - tv@rpmlive.tv

And my fave driver, Roberto Moreno hasn’t got a gig this year… and some of the other good drivers are gone….
Oh…. WOE IS ME…. It really is true - things just get more and more crapper — it’s physics; pure and simple — the thing is that us humans are so good at adapting to new situations that we just don’t notice. It’s only the truely perceptive who kick up a fuss.

Ah well, it didn’t finish til two - and I had to get yup at 7 this morn to go to a lecture - a bit zombiefied. Maybe i’ll just tape it from here on in and watch it on the wikend.

As the web site says, this it the first album for Dick D Jame in 5 years.
And yes, there’s two CDs. Maybe I shouldda left it another week or two before writing this - give time for it to fully absorb. But it’s just not as hooky as the earlier stuff.
Now I feel terrible for saying that — being one of those people who’s always saying - yeah - not as good as their early stuff. eg. Regurgitator ‘I like your old stuff better than the new stuff’.

not taht I’m saying it’s not as good as didgereedoo and that kind of thing — just different. Slower, quite a few just piano tracks. Some crazy stuff. I think that havin a kid has had a fairly big affect on Mr.Twin.
Gimme another week.

Have been screwing around trying to get a counter script to work here for a while as you might’ve noticed… and no luck, but come up with a better plan — this pivot - scripting system is hard to alter (for me) but the whole thing can become a frame ….
so I’m thinking …. Frames …. Frames everywhere.
I didn’t even have much hell idea what the hell frames did or are til the other day - was havin’ another cruise through me HTML book — and suuure enough - they’re in there - so will be able to get the counter workin and maybo some other goodies too.
Now it’s just a matter of finding enough time in one seesion where my head is clear and motivated enough to do it. Which isn’t as easy as it sounds - what with all this freakkin uni homework…

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Ten days til we give Telstra the big Phlipped finger - yay!

So the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds gig was pretty good. I was told it’d be ’standing room only’ and thought little of this - ’cause at other gigs like that it’s been really squishy. - but there was enough room and the crowd wasn’t the typw that moshes - nor was the music that way.
They did mostly better known songs - there were a few there that I didn’t know, but I suspect they were from the most recent album, of which I’ve heard none.
Me and nick cave I wouldda first heard of him on Three Triple R. I remeber I got ‘The Good Son’ in year 11 or something, and liked it, but lost it somewhere along the way. (Aren’t tapes just like that - How many damn tapes have I lost due to their size??! Heaps.) And It wouldda been ‘92 I got the record ‘Kicking against the Pricks’ Mainly drawn by the front cover. He’s gotta be one of the coolest lookin’ guys around. Still is.
Infact in a long unpublished story about a band (that I was writing around that time) I based a character on what I knew of Cave’s look and demanour. I had dubbed tapes of a Birthday Party album for a while - ‘Prayers on Fire’. And The Boys Next Door, ‘Door, Door’ came into my possesion (on record) came to me ’round then too. Had a tape dubbed from friend’s CD of ‘Let Love In’ for a while. Picked up ‘Henry’s Dream’ on 2nd CD, and have the compilation of NC & TBS too, but there’s still some albums I’ve not heard.
Oh, also, have read, and have his book, And the ass saw the angel - a good winter read.

Anyway - was great to actually see him in person - exactly as in pictures - it alsmost still felt like it was a moving picture of tv.
The songs were done very similar to how they’re recorded, except perhaps “red right hand” which was in a different key.
Nick didn’t really say anything between songs, which I kind of expected, but wouldda been nice — I reckon I’d be jabbering on if I had an audience at my disposal.
What can I say? It was really good, but not mind blowing. It didn’t raise the level of my respect for the musicians - or what I think about them - but that level was fairly high to begin with.
It was cool to hear ‘em do ‘Papa won’t leave you, Henry’ - that song rocked.

Claire Moore was supporting. It hink she’s dave Grainey’s woman - he was in the band — and I think Claire is the drummer in The Coral Snakes - Grainey’s backing band.

The crowd were almost older than me and Gene - and it seemed - hard to ‘Wow’.

Nick and the Seeds did two encores, but i just don’t get the whole idea of encores. - The band leaves - the crowd is expected to yell and stomp feet like idiots until band comes back.
The Forum - as a venue is pretty cool. I didn’t get squashed, didn’t need to go take a slash halfway through - as is usual with me and such things - like movies– and me feet didn’t get too sore from standing in the one place for so long.
But like i said yesterday - getting back to the car was another matter.

Well, the bad news first. On Friday Night when I was at the Nick Cave concert our car was broken into and my laptop, Li’l Lugger was stolen.
Also, the buggers made off with my electric shaver and a pair of old shoes that were in a backpack. These last two things really would’ve been of no use to any one but me.
Yes a bit of a shock for us to find one of the back triangle windows broken. I dunno what I was thinking leaving it there really.
Thankfully there was nothing crutial on it at the time. I wasn’t using it much since getting the Jug together — it has woodnose95 on it, and some cracked versions of Dreamweaver, Flash - that kind of thing (This was for trial purposes only, True!) I couldn’t be bothered spending the time figuring out how to work them.
The card winmodem was in it, and the connector cable for it, and my psychology test cdrom was in the drive — so that’s gonna have to be replaced. But I didn’t take the ext. floppy drive - so now that’s sitting here, looking very useless by itself.

Anyway, shocked I was, damn shocked — and bloody disappointed at the fact that here was a case of someone (the robber) not respecting another person (me). And then I was disappointed at me for being dumb enough to havee left it there to begin with.
But these feelings lasted for a surprisingly short time. I often think to myself that material things just are material things - and they are fun toys to play with - and I am grateful to have the ones that I do have — but they are little in overall importance in my life.
And here was a situation where i was challenged with if i really believed this - and yes - I do.

Who ever took it would’ve done so to get money for drugs. So - that’s seems like a pretty miserable way to be living. The next night I was still minus a laptop, but i was hangin out at a 13 year old’s birthday party and havin fun and being fed.
I’m grateful to be in my shoes.
The rest - the concert, etc - tomorrow night.