I just spend $1.80 to watch a packet of chips get caught by a packet of lollies, hence, never making it to the tray at the bottom of the vending machine.
I'm still nibblish & the entertainment value was definitely not worth it!
I missed out on Pearl Jam tickets last Friday. I had an early meeting & completely forgot, so by the afternoon, all the floor & balcony seating was taken.
All that's left now is the area behind the stage, which wouldn't be too bad except they are still the same price as those for front-row-centre!
The pricing seems a bit inappropriate considering the ticket site states that views are obscured.
If they were a bit cheaper, I would seriously consider going. I think seeing the crowd going mental while the band plays "Do the Evolution" would nearly make it worthwhile.
For $99 however, I'm not taking the chance if I might well end up staring through a lighting rig (or worse) to catch Eddie & the boys rocking out.
Wow, I've just received yet another application for a credit card in the mail.
I would normally get a couple of applications per month through my home address from banks I normally deal with, but the one I've just received is a bit different.
I have an invitation, pre-approved, for a Platinum American Express Card! This is second only to the Centurion card or "Black" American Express card which is virtually limitless.
Getting Platinum membership comes with a heap of benefits, such as a concierge service, Airline & Hotel freebies & a credit limit of $100,000!! Only around 2% of Amex holders have Platinum membership & you can't just apply but have to be invited. All very posh!
The question is, why the hell am I being offered one?!?
Obviously, someone at Amex thinks I'm earning $100k per year, which is one of the criteria. I'm nowhere even in the ballpark to earning that sort of cash!
Instead of paying $900 per year to own a Platinum card, I think I'll be sticking to my little Virgin credit card which has no annual fee & like it's name, hardly gets used!
On Friday night I sat down & recoded the site & brought back the stripe in a new & improved form. Formatting in html is like having pulling teeth, but without the anesthetic.
On Saturday morning I went with my sister to see "The Amazing Human Body" exhibition at the Adelaide Shores complex. The idea sounds gruesome but it is completely fascinating.
To put it simply, human bodies (after death, of course) have had their blood & other fluids replaced by a process of plastination. It's technical & is explained (far better than I ever could) on their website & the results are amazing. It's like looking at plastic models of body parts & full cadavers, but with the knowledge that they were living humans & no artist could ever create a model so detailed.
By the number of medical students comparing notes, it is actually being put to good use. An audio commentary is provided along the way & after we left, the queue was up to a hundred or so waiting patiently outside.
After dropping my sister back at her place & checking on her fish (there's another entire entry coming for the darn fish), I fell asleep on the floor trying to get rid of a headache. By the time I realised I was getting a migraine, I was driving home, feeling really, really bad. I took some drugs & flaked out on the bed. The drugs didn't work but a little Migrastick did the job & by the early hours of the morning, I felt fantastic.
Unfortunately, I missed going out on Saturday night which I was really keen for. I had to send a text message to a friend through my blurry eyes, which made me realise just how bright my phone screen is when typing with a migraine. Thankfully, I've since been told I didn't miss much, or my friend is doing the right thing in convincing me the night was crap even if it may have been a massive party.
Sunday, was a day of pure nothingness & that's not a bad thing. Overall, a very up & down weekend!
Without reading the book (which has become a religion in it's own right), I caught the celluloid adaptation last night.
The Da Vinci Code film, as it stands, is a good film. No novel has ever been put to the big screen in it's unaltered entirety, it's just not possible to squeeze a massive story line into two & a bit hours.
So, that being said, everything in the film works well & from someone who hasn't read the book, I didn't need to sit in the cinema trying to work out which parts of the book were omitted & that's exactly what the critics seem to have done in their reviews.
I knew enough of the story before seeing the movie to know the role of each character, but most of the revelations along the way were a complete surprise. For those who are yet to see it, I'm not giving away any spoilers here.
I think it's worth discussing further in more detail & the questions the film raises, but I might leave it until the rest of the world sees it, which should only take a few days!!
There is a whole lot of good music around the place at the moment. My CD collection has expanded by a decent percentage over the last month & there is more to come!
I'm slowly getting into Pearl Jam's self titled album. I heard a lot of whinging about political statements being made by the band in the record, but it's not really the case & the messages they do convey certainly don't interfere with what is a solid & quite heavy album. It has taken me a few listens & the single "World Wide Suicide" is certainly the stand out track.
Muse has released their new single for the forthcoming album "Black Holes & Revelations" & it's completely different from anything they have released before. "Supermassive Black Hole" is at a minimum a strange name for a song, but it works & I can't wait for the full record to be released. I've had the Hullabaloo album for a while, but it's only been in recent months that it grabbed my attention & I've since collected their entire catalogue.
At the other end of the music scale, Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris brought out a duet album which has been recorded over a number of years between their own respective projects. "All the Roadrunning" has elements of country, blues & all the sounds which are the signature of MK. It's highly likely to win a Grammy due to their collaboration & each song is very different from the last. I've found myself struggling to listen to it in its entirety, preferring to absorb each song on its own merits.
It's not often that someone would be such an avid fan of Mark Knopfler & Matt Bellamy & have both their CD's in my stereo at the same time, but sometimes & like it soft & hard!
Another band I've mentioned heavily in the past is Something for Kate, who have just put out the single "Cigarettes & Suitcases" & will tour in June, before releasing their next record after which they will most likely tour again. It's an odd way to promote themselves, but it means we get to see them twice as often as other bands!
If you haven't got tickets yet, you'd better hurry as Fowlers isn't the biggest venue & the shows in Melbourne & Brisbane have sold out!
Is it just me, or do we seem to know more about the two miners in Tasmania than we do about the housemates in Big Brother?
One location has 15 loudmouth extroverts being watched by dozens of cameras & the other has two guys stuck 954 metres below ground in a confined space, in absolute darkness, with no cameras.
It seems a bit ironic that will all the coverage of the house, we choose to tune in to every minute of Beaconsfield Mine news coverage, knowing full well we will not see any footage from down below!
Thankfully, it does show the level of compassion around the country, regardless of how much Mike Munro tries to sensationalise it!
All the spam emails for penis enlargements I receive get deleted as & when I spot them, but occasionally when I open my inbox, one will be at the top of the list & due to having a preview window, it's contents are exposed.
(Firstly, let us just ignore the obvious errors of using a combination of numbers & words, then ignore the fact that the two sizes mentioned are effectively one & the same!)
"Enlarge your penis up to 10cm or up to four inches"
Can I just say, that's one hell of claim. I've seen the odd dirty email with guys lugging around appendages which are large enough to have personalities of their own, so I know mine won't win any size records. But 10cm extra attached to the end of it... that's just insane.
The average erect knob is in the six-inch range, despite how many guys walk around ranting about their 10-inch monster. I'm sure most girls would be quite scared of anything which measured up to 80% of a foot-long sandwich from Subway.
They also claim that the enlargement process occurs by using a herbal formulation. If any guy found that a simple garden herb in which genital growth occurred, I can tell you it would be far more popular than marijuana in people's backyards. So, based on this alone, it's just not possible.
The other side of the equation is, would the ladies of the world want their man to have an extra 10cm? Without getting explicit, I think mine's in proportion. I'm not a huge guy, but I fall into what is deemed by the medical fraternity as "average". Whilst everyone has heard stories of fellow colleagues etc having a "small one", I have also known a couple of girls who have experienced penises which they wouldn't touch due to their humongousness!
Finally, do they refer to the extra 10cm in an erect or flaccid state? It's not clear from the email but if it's the latter, think of all the extra blood which has to go to the nether regions during arousal. By the time it's up, you'd be too faint to get down to business!
I haven't clicked the link attached to the email to investigate their products further, but I think it's safe to say, something would end up with a virus, even if I decided to not lengthen my pole & get promiscuous.
(P.S. - Say "flaccid" out loud & hear just how wrong it sounds!)
