I have been so distracted for the last week. Rolling into work at all hours. Up too late, sleep in too long. At least at the moment I am not consistently hungover, so that's something. A nice change. Life is on the cusp of change, things are afoot. I haven't done any training in weeks, but that's OK, winter is hard like that. Met more wonderful people last night and it was great. Richard is wicked funny and has nearly the same tattoo that i have been planning for ages. This will either make me very cool or a dirty stop-out. I love my bike. Housemate Kezza is going to take photos of me all kitted up looking suave and cool. I apparently have a swagger as I walk around with my special (and expensive, holy f*ck) leather jacket and helmet. And people keep stopping to talk about the bike. Favourite comment so far:
"Would never have guessed it was a 250 except you have your L's on the back"
- Riding a bike is like being part of a secret club ... it's incredible.
- Moustrap (the board game) in a forest with like, rocks and stuff.
- The Rewards of Being Shy. Apart from a career in software engineering.
- An Introduction to Peak Oil.
- And although you are not allowed to use Wikipedia as a reference, Abiogenic Oil is fascinating:
The hypothesis of abiogenic petroleum origin holds that petroleum was formed by primordial non-biological processes deep in the earth's crust and mantle. It contradicts the more widely-held view that petroleum is a fossil fuel produced from the buried remains of ancient living organisms.
- And if oil is abiogenic, we're all fucked - means the oil supply is virtually limiteless which means climate apocalypse.
- Or something.
- My housemates recently realised that my insane series of apparently random schemes: boxing, shooting, motorcycle couple with my sporadic rants about peak oil and the imminent collapse of society are all related and really I am preparing for the Apocalypse, Mad Max style.
- Do not look at the BME Video Trailer 4. I mean, really DO NOT LOOK. Very not work safe. I am too scared to look. Warren Ellis links to stuff like this and I always regret it. ModBlog is cool though, a blog all about body modifications.
- It would be worth getting a dog just to do this:
- And if your dog looked like that, how could you not.
- And for something else not work safe: A Female Genital Flower Tattoo. Delightful.
- Oh F*CK. I just looked at the aftermath of a sniper bullet to the head. Not even posting the link.
- OK! Enough with the gross shit.
- Oh and RE: Wikipedia ... we all need to embrace change.
- The stones that make up Stonehenge may have been moved there by glaciers. No really.
- w00t. Fucking nerds with their l337 speak.
- Saxon Shore are incredible.
- Thinglink: a free product code for creative work.
- It's all about spimes. Yeah, I know, I am a bit obsessed with this idea.
- How To Be Creative:
31. Remain Frugal.
Good advice.
7 comments:
I think you need to come over the back alley for red wine and general merriness soon at my South Auckland Tough Girls Posse House.
We have been plotting what to write in weird notes and what objects to leave in your garden so you'll be like 'what's this? who is this from?' and it will add an extra dimesnion of excitement to your life (well I'd love it if someone did that to me).
Damn now I've given it away...and I sound stalkerish. You know though from my own stories of stalkers I would never stoop to such behaviour....
I think I still have the flu.
Let's just go to the pub.
hey, cheers for posting that 'how to be creative thing' – i'm sure i've seen it somewhere before, but it was exactly what i needed to read right now – great for when one feels one is being complacent or not courageous enough. i feel like printing it out wall-size as a permanent reminder to stay sharp.
bits of it seemed trite, but others rung *so* true for me; just bought a whizz-bang dSLR and i nothing i've taken with it yet can match what i can do with a 30 yr old, $50 film rangefinder. it wasn't that this idea was new to me or anything – i try not to worry about tools too much anyway – it was more in the emphasis on not thinking about logistics and just doing what *works*. which i sometimes forget.
so thanks.
r
"Richard is wicked funny..."
*blushes*
*does happy dance*
*goes to practise being witty in order to seduce latest hospitality crush*
oh, the man-love! warms the cockles...
Sub: it's taking me ages to get over this stupid sick. But yeah, you should have spooked me with hidden messages. But pub anytime is good.
ruby: it's good stuff, if a little patchy. Sometimes I think new tools are only useful for the places they will eventually take you. As long as you don't use the lack of tools as an excuse. Keep exploring.
I was once in this terrible band with a bunch of tool fetishists ... the kind who who say we cannot possibly play without $000's of dollars worth of X ... I hate that stuff, the most creative band I was in had mostly scavenged equipment and I used my $400 10-year old drum kit.
And man-love! I believe you're covering that this week, right Richard?
kp: I still like the girl-love better.
Word Verification: dlfunk
That's good advice. I do indeed need to download a lot more funk.
There will be man-love aplenty this weekend on the footy field without doubt, Tobytoby, and also on Thursday night's edition of 'The Men's Room' on the RRR's. Ah, sweet testosterone eases my pain...
Owning a motorcycle gets you in to the first level of the club. There is a strange inner sanctum (of which I am a reluctant member) in which owners of Triumphs are accosted by old men in the street for lengthy discussions on the merits and pitfalls of 'notable bikes of the 60s.'
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