Craigeaux just sent me a link to the “Making Of” video for that Sony Bravia ad with the superballs. Cool. Thanks Craig.
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Monthly Archives for May 2006
Ghostbusters
Gozer the Traveller will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Voldroni, the traveller came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slore! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slore that day, I can tell you!
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listening to…
Chris would be amused to know that I am listening to Cold Chisel after all the past Chisel-related tauntings I have provided. Here is Flame Trees. I had planned, upon my return to Sydney, to casually mention to Chris that I was “savouring familiar sights”. It didn’t happen. Oh well.
Kids out driving Saturday afternoon pass me by
I’m just savouring familiar sights
We share some history, this town and I
And I can’t stop that long forgotten feeling of her
Try to book a room to stay tonightNumber one is to find some friends to say “You’re doing well
After all this time you boys look just the same”
Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels
Settle in to play “Do you remember so and so?”
Number three is never say her nameOh the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there’s nothing else could set fire to this town
There’s no change, there’s no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won’t be aroundBut Ah! Who needs that sentimental bullshit, anyway
Takes more than just a memory to make me cry
I’m happy just to sit here round a table with old friends
And see which one of us can tell the biggest liesThere’s a girl falling in love near where the pianola stands
With her young local factory out-of-worker, holding hands
And I’m wondering if he’ll go or if he’ll stayDo you remember, nothing stopped us on the field
In our dayOh the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there’s nothing else could set fire to this town
There’s no change, there’s no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won’t be aroundOh the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there’s nothing else could set fire to this town
There’s no change, there’s no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won’t be around
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A new personal best
total single time, so I have almost doubled my previous cumulative score. Something to aim for.
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Multipass
My flatmate Sonia has been emailing me photos of Milla all day, possibly because we watched You Stupid Man recently (a good movie, and Milla did very well). I responded with a photo of Leeloo, and this got me thinking. After reading Hamish’s blog the other day, I have compiled a list of my favourite 5 movies of all time 5 movies I really like and have watched a lot.
- The Fifth Element
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Donnie Darko
- Dazed and Confused
Yep. Two with Milla.
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Home, yet homesick
I was just watching a tiny spider crawling across my pillow and I thought to myself “meh, in Australia our spiders are heaps bigger than that”. Then I remembered that I am in Australia now. It doesn’t seem real.
I still say alsjeblieft when I pay for things, but now it is kinda under my breath. It makes me a bit sad to think that I won’t be back in Holland for some time, and then probably for only a few weeks. There are a lot of things I miss, I guess the non-human part of gezelligheid is so obviously missing here. I wish there were terrasjes for me to sit and enjoy the beautiful 21
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Qoridor
I will be number one for Qoridor in a matter of days. What is a Qoridor? I have no idea.
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Köln
I am in an internet café in Köln, Germany. Seems like a nice city, although it took a long time to get here on the bumper-to-bumper autobahn traffic. 20km/hr on an ulimited speed road. Disappointed.
We stayed at the Ibis which was clean and inexpensive, and went out to find a real German restaurant. All the restaurants that we could find were either Spanish or Italian so I had to ask a local. Soon I was sitting down to a glass of beer and Sauerbraten with red cabbage and some weird kind of potato dumplings. Sauerbraten turns out to be just roast beef, not the sausage that I was hoping for. Despite this error I was very surprised to find that my Dutch language skills could be used in Germany - I was more or less able to accurately interpret the menu for the whole group. In fact I was also surprised that I retained enough schoolboy French to get by in Paris as well.
It is Jem’s birthday today so we are going in search of a store that sells Campers shoes, as is his wish. After that we will probably swing by the Rhein valley and try to find a bed and breakfast for the night. We have to be in Paris by Thursday afternoon, and I return to Australia on Friday night (arrive Saturday night).
Last night Adam and I went out to this bar that had chess and backgammon boards. I dominated in the chess, taking out both games, but Adam got me back by winning the next three games of backgammon.
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