stamina

I had to slightly amend this in the name of truthfulness a few days after initially posting it. These surveys really start to seem like the work of paedophiles, if you think about them with any intensity, so it's a public service for me to be filling them out too.
How many guys do you have a thing​ for right​ now?gross​.​ What colou​r are your eyes?​blue. Whos your last txt from?​
Julian Harris 'I suggest it's still on despite the rain. We can re-create bbq conditions inside!'​ Do you smoke​ cigar​ettes​?​I would rather cut my own throat and yours too (first). Do you drink​ coffe​e?​it makes​ me jitte​ry and sick,​ but yes. Are you marri​ed?​Yes Do you miss someo​ne?​yes.Will you ever speak​ to them again​?​They died this morning (sob).Did any of your frien​ds go out with your ex?Ex schmex.What are you weari​ng right​ now?a flowe​ry dress​.Are you mad at anyon​e right​ now?Probably.How is your hair?Best it's ever beenHave you kisse​d anyon​e on the lips withi​n the past 48 hours​?​Everyone more like.Have you ever been awake​ for 48 hours​ strai​ght?​Straight? LOL​Did you stay frien​ds with your ex'​s?​'Did'? 'Ex's'?Do you like your first​ name?​I wish it were 'Poet'.Do you like to cuddl​e?​Get outWhat are your initi​als?​DGNBaseb​all or Footb​all?​footb​all.Ever been to the snow?​1980.Do you love someo​ne?​yes.Last time you went to the beach​?​Moonee Ponds Creek beach last week.Last perso​n you calle​d?​Mia R. SchoenWhat'​s the last thing​ you ate?A roast potato courtesy Nicole Thibault.Last perso​n to pick you up from somew​here?​interesting Last perso​n or thing​ you cried​ over?​spilt some milk on my dead friendDo you cry easil​y?​don't start meDo you have any sibli​ngs?​yes, 5.Are they close​ in age?
to who? each other, me, Rob Lowe? Three​ days from now will you be a in relat​ionsh​ip?​'a in'? Seems likely. Who was the last perso​n in your bedro​om?​Aside from my wife and a cat, I can only recall Mia's sister Kerstin about seven or eight months ago when I showed her where Asha was sleeping, or her son Rohan, who picked all the felt pieces off a card by the bed and stuck them back on.What color​ shirt​ are you weari​ng?​redDo you think​ you will be in a relat​ionsh​ip 3 month​s from now?seems likely based on past experience.Do you need to say anyth​ing to anyon​e right​ now?Obviously.Do you know anyon​e that smoke​s pot?ha.Do you go to the bathr​oom with the door open or close​d?​What a concept.What will you do after​ this surve​y?​Do something else which won't help me sleep. What is the first​ thing​ you do when you wake up?check​ the time.​What do you curre​ntly hear?​Asha wandering aroundEver talke​d to someo​ne that was drunk​?​For god's sake, I'm 43. Where​ were you at 3:02 AM this morni​ng?​Ask me in 4 minutesDo you still​ turn to your paren​ts for advic​e or comfo​rt?​Less than I once might have.Have you ever punch​ed a tree?​Sounds like something I wouldn't be into.Does someo​ne like you right​ now?Without a doubt.What were you doing​ at 9 this morni​ng?​at work.Do you like to argue​?​I must do.Have you ever felt repla​ced?​Not possible.What do you do when you have a bad day?put shot.What'​s curre​ntly bothe​ring you right​ now?My style.When were you last outsi​de?​11 pmAre you afrai​d of the dark?​Not in the least.When is your birth​day?​AprilWhen is the last time you talke​d to numbe​r 1 on your top frien​ds?​About half an hour agoHow are you feeli​ng?​pebbledashDo you have a licen​se?​I have a few.What is somet​hing great​ that happe​ned today​?​I saw Asha in the bathroom (with the door open).

city homicide v rush

Last year when City Homicide started we watched it a lot. I am still a little in thrall (can't help myself) to that old attractant of the possibility of seeing places one knows, on television. Why this is so interesting I don't really know. An early episode of City Homicide featured one of the State Savings Bank homes in Port Melbourne (well, Fishermans Bend) and I found that marvellous, though the idea that these houses have basements in which you can conceal people trussed and gagged and hide the entrance with a bathtub, was a little less of a buzz. However, CH started to pall a few months ago with the episode featuring a kind of poor man's Hannibal Lecter - actually he wasn't a cannibal, just some kind of taunting weirdo all bound up and crazy for mutilatin'. I can't actually remember what he did to his victims but I do know that the lack of imagination in this storyline put me off the whole shebang. (Just to thwart the clarity of this dismissal I watched CH last night and although it did involve a grisly dismemberment and some bizarrely bad plot twists, I didn't mind it. I think the blackmailing couple might have lived in Gowanbrae or Gladstone Park or something, which was cool). (Anyway anything with Noni 'n' Nadine in it has to be above average).

In fact, I don't really care for police/crime shows much, especially since they seem to concentrate almost exclusively on brutal murders of sassy adolescent girls (or, in the case of The Mentalist, poor girls savin' up to go to college). It seems to me to highlight a feature of present-day society in which no-one can think of young girls as anything more than something to sexually exploit and/or kill, or am I going way out on a limb there.

That said, I'm really enjoying Rush.

It's much deeper and more charactery than City Homicide and yes, of course, you still get the Melbourne locations, so I'm happy with that. A lot of Rush seems to have been shot in the inner west (looks like Kensington, etc - though mainly the industrial area). But one great thing about Rush is no-one necessarily gets murdered, a scenario I would posit (perhaps controversially) is often truer to life. Many times, in life, no-one gets murdered. Last week's Rush involved a faked kidnapping (or is it a kidnaping? That looks weird) which, natch, involved teenage girls but they did not end up dismembered and perhaps most interestingly - not only did the crooks get away, no-one particularly cared that they got away: the rescue was 'a good result'. My initial response was, 'they got away!?' but my second response, a little later, was: well, why not. You can watch Rush here* if you like.

*22/5/20 update: hi! I really shouldn't come here and interfere with things from twelve years ago but the dead links to what I assume were promos on youtube really bugged me. So I did. I guess I'm allowed to, why not. Anyway, the 'here' above still, in 2020, takes you to channel 10's website but I'm guessing you can't watch Rush there. Which is a pity, it was a good show. 

speaking of todds

It was nice to see this for the first time ever, even though it's horrible (I love the song though - my favourite 2nd period Dragon single, partly for its weirdness, partly for its bombast). Commercial flop.

you can't go past todd.

Well you can - many have - but they are all making a big mistake.

Various comments accompany the above on YouTube, including:

'The Glam Rock early '70s! Musicians sure wore some goofy get ups and paint jobs back then!... There was also the unfortunate drag queen branch of glam maybe Alice Cooper began way back in the late '60s, and taken to new heights (or lows) by Bowie and others. I'm glad to see those days are gone! Then in the '90s we got grunge, the polar opposite of glam. Fashions do come and go.'

'Why are you such a Jack off? Fuck face.'

'You sound like you have a fist in your ass, idiot'

'How dose it feel to have a nut sack resting on your nose all day, you can't talk because your mouth is full. It may sound like I have a fist up my ass, but we all know you actually do! YOU are a first class idiot. Come out of the closet fuck face, Carrot top is waiting.'

'I want to do a pastel painting of Todd in his Cosmic Cowboy outfit, but I have searched on the internet "high and low" and can never find a COLOR shot of it. Do you by any chance remember what color the spots were on his outfit?'

Here's another fine piece of Todd work:

...etin yr fud

What was that movie where the babysitter gets all the phone calls then finally the police say, it's coming from inside the house? This is the street name creep-out version of that.

life's a gamble

The Fall merely wrote a song called 'Dice Man'. The Radiators took that idea and ran amok with it. I wonder if this song gets played a lot at second-time-around weddings?

new strip on the block

The new shopping/office block area facing Camp Road is proceeding apace - exciting! Mia joking refers to this as the future site of a pool supplies shop, which is a funny joke (maybe you have to live here to think so). This was previously a piece of vacant land, perhaps never built on, a block away from the station - christ, progress! I think (no, I assume) it was set aside for future expansion of the high school which has now been entirely relocated. Council is also doing a bit of signage.

Personally if I was Council I'd be less into erecting shopping mall extensions and more into trying to figure out a way to turn Broadmeadows city centre into something remotely visually and even practically coherent. As it is, it's a bunch of buildings - some fine in themselves, some shitty - adrift in a car park sea. I feel like I'm being encouraged to drive from the library to the shopping centre (a 1-minute walk). I have to remember that the City of Hume is not all about childless urbanites like us, but also about vast areas of relatively rural space as well as almost-public-transportless suburbia (though every day I thank our lucky stars some more for the 542 bus).