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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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10:08 am
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I need a change so I'm having a cleanout. A number of people have been removed and from now on, the majority if not all posts on this will be Friends Only. Comment to be added, you know the drill.
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| Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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10:52 pm - Hold on to your lug nuts, it's tiiiime for an overhaul.
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Hello Livejournal, it's been a little while. I thought I'd pay you attention and ditch the spastic micro-blogging of Facebook for a moment.
So, stuff and things.
The Past: My Tonsillitis from awhile ago didn't get 100% fixed and left me with a still slightly fucked throat that just wouldn't go away so once again I'm back on antibiotics. Thankfully they seem to be working already but that combined with working from 8am-9pm constantly on top of idiotic levels of insomnia (exhausted from work and crashing early just means waking up at ridiculously stupid hours of the morning) has left me in a pretty ruinous state. Chuck in alcohol, extreme stress and the events of a couple of months back and things haven't been so good. I've been not only seriously kicking around the idea of moving to Auckland (and working out the logistics, I know I can manage it easily enough if I decide to go for it) but also considering going back on medication (which I swore I wouldn't do again after how fucked up I felt on them last time).
The Present: I bounced off rock bottom (and briefly kept right on going) and am at the point I was at the last time I reached that point; eg I threw said pills out the window of Eva Street at 2am, utterly sick to death with how badly they were messing me up and feeling pathetic for needing them. So yes, I've been pretty down but am sick to death of where I'm at and of listening to my inner monologue of self-pity so enough is enough. I've had my wake-up call. Yes, it's been a fucking terrible year and yes, I'm going to continue to be messed up at times over it but moping, getting obscenely drunk and making stupid decisions isn't helping.
The Future: So no pills. Less drinking. I'm going to Canada in less than two weeks where I will have a brilliant time, spend large amounts of money, see lots of fun/beautiful things and I will return and dig myself out of this goddamned rut I've dug myself into and be able to see properly for the first time since I ran into that dumpster I didn't notice in Canada at a very young age to boot.
I'm going to get off the plane and jump pretty much straight into Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month). I was going to flag it but then had a brainwave at work based on two words and wrote out the concept for my story in the next few minutes. That being said, it's entirely derivative and considering it's basically going to be one big first draft sans editing, it's got to be about things I can write about easily so anyone who knows me can probably already guess what the content may include. One gigantic Kevin-cliché. It's going to be grand.
The idea is that once I produce something, even a rough draft as truly nonsensical and utterly devoid of class as what I have planned, I'll have proof that I can do it in front of my face and thus make more progress on my snails-pace real book project. For a pessimist, I'm feeing optimistic.
Anyway, another week ahead, more overtime, hopefully some progress on reviews/interviews and hopefully things will continue to sort themselves out. I think I'm due for an upswing by this point.
current mood: Decisive
current music: Crash-scan - Narcosis
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| Monday, August 31st, 2009
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6:09 pm - Ze flatwarming etc.
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Okay, so nobody seems to bother to upload photos and things onto here due to Facebook claiming all the attention...but I happen to vastly prefer livejournal so it can be graced with the images as well, even if nobody looks at them who hasn't already seen them on Ye Olde Facecracker.
We had our ( flatwarming on Saturday. )
I really can't be bothered saying much more. First horror night went pretty good (Død Snø and Frontière(s)).
current mood: Bored
current music: You must not read from the book!
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| Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
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1:49 pm - I want to relax in your seat.
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Wow. So tired last night that I didn't even have the energy to hold my eyelids open...and yet still wide awake. One of the worst bouts of insomnia I've had in ages, not helped by being a bit drunk. Heh. Talking to yourself out loud for three hours as the world slowly brightens through the skylight sucks (until a Tiny Kitten makes an appearance, walks all over you and purrs louder than a V8, so adorable). I'm lovin' the couch, all three kitties keep coming up here to chill out. Epic fuzzy win.
In other news, GO SEE DISTRICT 9! Sci-fi nut here standing up and saying it's one of the best such movies I've ever seen. Shot in a doco style laid over top of the storyline, it's refreshing. Amazing effects that made Transformers look like pop-glitz shit, great prosthetics, really well done aliens, well written, awesome action, a LOT of imagination (ye gods, the amount of time they spent thinking up really cool weaponry...) and a really blatant social commentary on apartheid/racism/xenophobia etc. Oh, and epic win, not bloody Americans for once! The South African accent throughout gave it that little bit extra to separate it even more from your standard fare.
Yeah, it not only entertained but also left me actually feeling kinda shitty about the human race cos not only does that sort of thing already happen to people but if aliens DID show up one day (yes, extreme hypotheticals, it's a movie that makes you think), I can far too easily see something like that happening in real life. Kind of painful but so nice having something tangible to think about rather than just a couple of hours of entertainment soon forgotten.
Plus yeah...$30 million dollar budget and it looked that good? What I am hoping, nay praying is that Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson, the director/producer team that were lined up to do the shitcanned Halo movie that got shut down due to spiralling cost, basically stood up and said, "Give us $30 million dollars and we'll show you what we can do." Every element of the Halo series was in there, starships, alien weaponry, aliens, beasty vehicles, and they made it look wartorn and real, not out of a game. If they do with Halo what they just did with District 9, it'll be amazing. They've just proved that they have exactly what's required (and I was wondering how they'd make the Master Chief not look stupid in his permanent armoured suit but yeah, now I can really see it).
Okay, enough fanboy. Go see it. It's awesome. I plan to go again soon. Seriously. The pig flinger. THE PIG FLINGER!
current mood: Exhausted
current music: Silence
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| Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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9:48 am - I, son ov perdition, from sheer nothingness transgressed...
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The realty guy knows we have a cat, drove by and saw one of them in the window. I wonder what he's going to say when he sees it change colour (Ginger? Now Brown? Hmm) or there's suddenly three of them all in a row, looking down regally?
If I get evicted suddenly, I'm blaming Leo. He's the only one out of the three without enough sense to not fuck off when the tidal wave of abuse is slung his way at 6am as he comes up to meow. I'm buying a watergun first chance I get. Hard to be annoyed with him, he's spent the last hour following me around the house, rubbing against my legs and climbing on things to nuzzle my face (aw he did it as I typed that, so cute!)
Absolutely loving the new album by Behemoth, the mighty Evangalion.
Particularly this song, Ov Fire and the Void. NSFW.
Behemoth "Ov Fire And The Void" from Metal Blade Records on Vimeo.
Way too much slow-motion but they're using the budget to good effect haha. Fun, fun. Hard to find metal releases these days that grab my attention. Up loud, that song sounds epic as Hell.
To continue the metal theme...Tonight!
Haven't been to a black metal gig in ages so looking forward to it, and predrinks. Hurrah for variety.
Saw Borat the other night, and Brüno last night (my payback for dragging Julia to see Terminator: Salvation). Borat was okay (Fuck off Death!) but Brüno, I have to admit, was hilariously ridiculous. Amazingly stupid but very funny and ye gods, Sacha Baren Cohen is a brave man to put himself in some of those situations and not get the shit beaten out of him or killed. So very much not my type of movies in the slightest but what the Hell heh.
Leo, get off the damned keyboard!
current mood: Tired
current music: Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void | Powered by Last.fm
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| Monday, August 3rd, 2009
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9:42 am
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| Sunday, July 19th, 2009
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11:13 am
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| Friday, July 17th, 2009
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7:52 pm - I hear thunder but there's no rain, this kind of thunder break walls and window panes...
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So I just got hold of the latest Prodigy album (yes, I'm slow). It's really annoying! Infectiously so. It's not my type of music and I actually feel annoyed just listening to it but I can't turn it off, it's keeping me listening and intriguing me. It sounds like a spastic got hold of lounge music and fucked it up completely.
Anyway, there's been a huge amount going on lately so a brief summary.
New flat obviously. We've got one room filled at Torrens and hopefully the other in the next 24-48 hours. Much pressure off. I shall be drinking to celebrate tomorrow night at various parties. Shit, I better get packing.
Also, got tickets to Canada today! I'm flying out on the 10th of October for a week in Toronto, catching the train to Montreal for another week, then back to Toronto for a day or two and home round the 27th. Essentially adds up to a three week fucking holiday! I'm going to be bankrupt but very pleased.
Booked in for Lasik this morning (at 6.30am ffs) as well so that's all set for a 3 day period while in Toronto. No deposit needed to be paid so costs me nothing if I back out (parents were running all the horror stories they've been reading by me) and I've still been encouraged to treat it as a scouting mission to see if I like Montreal or Toronto enough to live there. Yeah, parents are still trying to sell the house, move to Canada and would love their kids to come along. Real subtle guys haha but what can I say, I was already treating it as that sort of exploratory expedition anyway.
Work-wise, the boss is leaving for 44 days in September/October so another girl and I are going to be essentially running the office. So I spent the last two days getting in two cases and basically running them from start to finish, delegating work, trying to keep everyone working so they got finished in optimum time (and managing it, importantly).
Yeah, never done anything like that before. I'm a work-alone-stfu-and-go-away type guy. It went really well and I didn't fuck up once! Most pleased. Proving to myself I'm not just a drunk muppet is always a bonus.
Of course, I'm completely financially FUBAR but there's always a trade-off and I can still pay bills, eat and binge. I'm on a beach motherfucker, and the sun is shining.
Oh, and cos it's me and I can't not mention such things...Das Experiment, based on the Stanford Prison Experiment, is a really damned good movie. It has a fine progression and the heights reached are kind of stunning considering the situation. Watch it! Has the main guy from Lola Rennt.
current mood: Pleased
current music: The Prodigy - Omen (Reprise) | Powered by Last.fm
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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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6:00 pm - Anyone in Wellington looking for a flat?
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Torrens Terrace is looking to fill a couple of rooms ASAP if anyone is looking. A bunch of us have found another place up in Brooklyn at the top of the hill on this side of the shops so anyone interested, get hold of us! Rent is $156.25 per room and they're all good sized.
The new place isn't much to look at from the outside but the inside is great, the rooms are big, the kitchen is spacious and it comes with a fucking barbecue! Amusingly, I will be trading a room with a skylight that contributes to my insomnia...for a room with a skylight. However, the new one is bigger, the skylight has a broken screen that I will be fixing immediately and it not only has a wardrobe but a storage cupboard/gimp room! I have every intention of bringing back The Lair.
The trade-off is that it has no door. Heh. It's the second floor above the lounge with a staircase leading up to it which I'm going to surround with very heavy, thick curtains/material. If I get a girlfriend, that's gonna be...awkward haha.
In other news, last night was fun. I got a little more drunk than I intended and was exhausted so I don't remember a huge amount. Got home just in time to be assaulted by a completely blitzed Warthog with a bowl of popcorn so of course we had to battle. Woke up to my floor and keyboard being covered in the stuff and I have vague memories of throwing handfuls of it in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lawsuitdiamonds's face. Maturity, we have none.
Oh, and Hallway Kitten (bitchonleash found him wandering the halls last night) has been returned to his rightful owner, I'm sure much to his relief. Poor thing was getting eyeballed by all three of our kitties, particularly Leonidas who was stalking him and hissing every time he got close. Have some horrible webcam photos.
 
The Hamster or whatever the hell it is in Bolt that runs around in that clear ball? Yeah, fucking TERRIFYING. It was awesome. Basically made the movie for me.
I have my yearly review at work in the next couple of weeks. The economic situation being what it is and our part-timers already having been made redundant, I'm a little less than hopeful about getting a raise but damn, do I want one. Been trained up for a lot of the jobs around the office, given more responsibility and am the Blitzkrieg Coder from 'nam...but yeah. I could do with some more money per week though, ye gods could I ever. I've chopped my booze habit almost in half in the last couple of weeks (not that you'd really notice...) but what with saving for Canuckistan, things are a little tighter than I'd like. MOAR MONIES!
current mood: Exhausted
current music: The Silence of the Kittens
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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5:53 pm - Normally I'd quote something but I'm having brainfail...
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Can't wait until the end of the month! Auckland, Cirque Du Soleil on Friday and then this on the Saturday.
Nocturne Magazine is celebrating the release of issue 3 with an evening of dark debauchery for all the Nocturne slaves, fans and supporters!
The theme is 'memento mori' and we ask that you dress to celebrate life through the remembrance of death...eg. deathly pallor, funerary attire and skulls, skulls, skulls!
In true Nocturne fashion we've gathered a line up of many different genres. We open the night with The Incredible Hexadecibels w/ Creassault, a multi-media experience and then some! Your eyes will be assaulted by an homage to b-grade horror, video games & satanic symbology accompanied by an industrial/electronic soundtrack. These guys went off in Australia and we've grabbed them before they head off to the festivals in Europe.
This Theory of Static...if you like Tool or Porcupine Tree then you must see these guys! This Theory of Static have just released their third album to rave reviews. Their hypnotic sound with incredible vocals and intricate guitar work make This Theory one of NZ's most exciting alternative acts!
N.U.T.E - if you don't know who the hell these guys are there is something wrong with you! Not only did they perform at Nocturne's issue 2 gig, they are one of NZ's most recognised industrial acts. Whether you're into industrial, metal or goth this band has something for you!
Nocturne's own Phloss Candy delivers a delicate and delicious burlesque performance for the night, with a human-sized martini glass! She promises to tease the pants off ya (make sure you keep your pants on :P)
Annie Anatomy is going to bring you a piercing performance of comic madness that will be quite out of this world!
We want to see you all there! Come and have a drink with your hardworking Nocturne Slaves!
The bloody airline has changed our flights AGAIN so we'll be leaving at 9am on the Sunday (goddamnit!) but oh well, epic flying hangovers is hardly new.
Kudos to conjuringpulse, Haluciagea were indeed really good last night and I'm glad I decided to go out. Interesting set by Bobby and Kyla as well, not my thing but still pretty good. I even managed to not only contain my boozing to an acceptable level but bounced an ice cube off beardjesus's skull and into ferlengheti's drink so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself haha. It's the little things.
Hail to very little sleep and no hangover, followed by The Host (Korean monster movie, very well done if slightly odd and with THE most annoying cast of characters...the beasty was top notch though) and The Last House on the Left (rape scene was uncomfortable, epic brutal retaliation in the final moments was amazing and had me pretty amazed/pleased/wanting to loudly cheer).
Guess I better tidy myself up in preparation for, you guessed it, gettin' my drink on.
current mood: Pleased
current music: Sturm Café - In meinem griff | Powered by Last.fm
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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9:20 am - That's my eye, you crazy bitch! Easy Warrior Goddess, I'm just a little salvage scrap drone.
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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11:07 am - Apparently Rambo makes the world go round...
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First off, the new Nocturne Magazine website is up and running with a shiny new ‘Buy Now’ option, alongside deals for getting hold of old issues. Most convenient. Just ordered my copies today so looking forward to getting hold of those, been an awesome response so far and they’re selling fast! Copies are limited so the mag may not be in every listed stockist immediately but we’re getting them out as quickly as we can.
I suppose a small update on other things is in order. It’s been a reasonably unfortunate week in a few ways so I’m reeeeeeally looking forward to the weekend. My bull terrier, Spudgun, had a stroke earlier in the week and it’s touch and go as to whether he’ll survive. He’s pulled through a couple of nights so that’s good, though he’s walking in circles and moving his head around very oddly still. Poor little guy. Fingers crossed.
I’ve got a bit of a waiting game to play with The Big C as well, so it seems. Cancer’s been cropping up a lot in my family lately, leading to an appointment at the Genetics Clinic so they could look at the information and see if I or my brother is at risk. At the moment, we’re in the clear but due to the same thing cropping up in two of my uncles (one reasonably young), we’re basically waiting on the results of my dad’s test (he’s just come out of one type of cancer) if also he’s got the same type as my uncles, even if benign, we probably get put under surveillance. Ugh. Fingers crossed again, for my dad's sake as well as ours.
That and bitchonleash has started a Sims game with us as the flatmates and mine is rapidly outpacing me, has already written 3 sci-fi books (Alien Lesbians Everywhere, A Vulcan’s Left Testicle and Ye Space Gods respectively, blame Rasha for the names), has a hot goth girlfriend and is raking in the royalties. Bastard! I feel so second-rate haha.
Musically, I recently discovered Mechanical Moth, a female fronted electro/industrial/EBM/I-don’t-fucking-know-and-curse-these-stupid-labels-anyway group that is providing a nice contrast to my still constant play of Trail of Tears. Some quite hypnotic tunes, very appreciable.
I cannot wait to see Død snø (Dead Snow) on the (semi) big screen for the Incredibly Strange Film Festival! That’ll be a great experience. Many thanks to ferlengheti for letting me know about it. Already got a few people who want to get a group together and go see it so shall have to look into that.
And finally, the end of the ramble…I have been having some of the most random, trippy, fucked up dreams/nightmares ever (which is saying a lot, I’ve had some winners before) lately when I finally get to sleep. I wish I knew what caused it so I could keep doing whatever it is ‘cos it’s amazingly entertaining and my subconscious is throwing up way better concepts for books than my waking mind ever does.
current mood: Exhausted
current music: The radio
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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11:10 am - He was real good at the internets...
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This is really well done (ignore the advertisement at the end). The ears! The ears!!
I think my office is perhaps the most demented in New Zealand. Thus far we have The Church of Rambo, Aporkalypse Now (A zombie swine flu movie in the making), A Creed inspired band called Pop-Crap covering lolcats, Rambo and of course our favorite asshat, Scott Stapp. We also have plans to resist Zombonies (Zombie ponies that for some reason ride Zambonis) and the Twilight debates are fairly epic. Tip of the iceberg heh.
Consisting of a crazed Argentinian, a very religious sci-fi nut, a girl with masks bought and supplies stocked for the genocidal swine flu epidemic, The First Deacon of Rambo and, of course, me, I sometimes I feel like the normal one hiding in the corner. Our techmook/sacrificial offering is currently out of the country. All your Litigation Support are belong to us. Poor bastards.
Sometimes, I'm amazed we ever get anything done and that we're not (more) alcohol fuelled. On that note, we've hit Tuesday and I'm looking forward to the weekend already. Ye gods. Saturday shall be fun and on Sunday, assuming nothing else comes up, I may make a start on the newly nabbed Hellraiser movies, 1 through 8. Yes, I am a fan of overkill hehe.
Oh, and Nocturne is printed and soon to be in our hot little hands! Should be getting to suppliers asap, can't wait to get my copy. Withdrawals!
current mood: Tired
current music: Battery Cage - This Party Sucks, Let's Leave
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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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3:35 pm - The son of a preacher man
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Gig last night was great fun, nicely done ferlengheti! Even got me (sort of) dancing. Sorry for shrieking in your ear like a banshee conjuringpulse hehe. Was nice to have such a different gig to the normal things we go to. Refreshingly cheerful.
Ew, Pumbaa's talking to me! Heh. I'm kind of curious what the topic was.
Afterdrinks wound up around 4 or so, insomnia wound up around 6.30 and sleep wound up around 9. Ouch. In an attempt to further my travel plans, I dragged my sorry carcass into town only to find that United Travel are going to make it very hard to book tickets as it seems they're not open on weekends. Bugger.
Oh well. Bought myself House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds to make up for it. Win. Also, on a side note, saw Star Trek finally and due to the nifty planetary destruction scene, I now feel quite certain that Alastair Reynolds' excessively big concept books can be successfully made without looking utterly fake now (he has a bit of a thing for enormous objects such as planets goin' kablooey in some form or another). Entertaining movie though I wish they'd taken a bit of humour from that and put it into Terminator. One way too serious, one too much humour to be able to really take it seriously. Good though. Karl Urban was The Man.
And oooh! I am now working on a new standalone novel due for publication in October 2009, a far future, steampunk-influenced planetary romance provisionally entitled TERMINAL WORLD. Go Monsieur Reynolds! Fun.
I have run out of Scottish Piper whiskey and have moved on to Cougar bourbon. I somehow don't think this counts as expanding my palette. I also am distinctly lacking motivation to actually drink the damned stuff at this point and most people seem to be having a quiet night so perhaps it shall stay in reserve until something interesting crops up.
Someone bring me pizza or a burger and I shall bow down to you as my God (until I get hungry again...)
current mood: Exhausted
current music: The joyous screams and growls of zombies in Left 4 Dead
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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1:52 pm - And finally, the cover.
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I've been lucky enough to see a lot of the articles as they're finished and I have to say that it's looking fantastic and is a very interesting read...June 22nd boys and girls.
current mood: Exhausted
current music: The Tea Party - Release
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| Saturday, June 13th, 2009
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9:45 am - For once, we didn't get a noise complaint. Win.
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This would be so much cooler if it didn't have that ridiculous Scream mask. Seriously, how is that even in the same picture as any of the rest of them?? Should totally have been the Leprechaun or something hehe.
So I got to bed three hours ago and have just been woken up by a cavalcade of kittens crying cutely (no sleep = being a dumbass with teh words). Fun fun. Singstar was amusingly bad last night. I took great pleasure in not taking part in the slightest and just getting drunk. Yes vanyaria, we sang a Beauty & The Beast song for you haha.
I also got half a lemon in the eye and seriously, will people stop trying to hit me in the nuts when I'm drunk for no reason?? Yeesh, is there a target? I'm gonna start wearing a cup or something. Totally goth, I'm tellin' ya.
As I was saying on facebook, Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance is probably one of the best goth metal albums I've ever heard and if you're into that kind of thing (or symphonic black metal, they verge) then you should check it out. It's a powerhouse of an album, they've gotten over their fail-stage of replacing the female vocalist with a guy singing cleanly and brought back one of their old singers, Catherine Paulsen. Amazing performance. I'm completely hooked and intend to deafen myself with it all weekend.
I need to learn French, my cheese-eating surrender-monkey impression is failing.
Right. It's 10am, I haven't had any sleep, I'm still drunk. Definitely time to do some critiquing and quality control.
current music: Trail of Tears - In the Valley of Ashes
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| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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1:22 pm - If the idea is to stay alive...I'm driving.
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I didn't actually realise that Stan Winston had died until I saw it in the credits for Terminator:Salvation. That's a tragedy. The guy was amazing and Stan Winston Studios did the makeup and special effects for the Terminator series, Jurrassic Park, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands etc (oh shit, and he is rumoured to have been working on Jurassic Park IV when he died...not another one!)
Fantastic stuff came out of his studio, the guy was iconic. That's a bit of a bastard.
In other new...
Industrial metal pioneers FEAR FACTORY will return to Australia and new Zealand this August!
Returning axeman Dino Cazares joins vocalist Burton C. Bell, bassist Byron Stroud (Strapping Young Lad) and drum legend Gene Hoglan for what promises to be a bulldozing series of shows
This already-legendary line-up heralds the latest chapter in the remarkable story of a band whose futuristic vision has changed the face of metal forever.
BLUE MURDER and RW ENTERTAINMENT presents
FEAR FACTORY
TRANSMISSION ROOM, AUCKLAND
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26th
ALL AGES and LICENSED
Tickets available Friday June 19th from Ticketek, Real Groovy
Normally I wouldn't much care but that's half of Strapping Young Lad right there! Okay, so no Devin Townsend but still. That's semi-intriguing. I don't like a lot of their stuff (don't even get me started on that fucking horrible 'Cars' cover that they do and you lot for some reason keep playing, no matter how horrible it is) but a blast of good ol' industrial metal doesn't usually go astray.
EDIT: Crap, almost forgot this.
Special thanks to the Paladium Bar for providing a cool venue, and the tattoo studios that are supporting the night which are Skinks Tattoos, Famous Daves and True love Tattoo Parlour.
Can't wait to see all these awesome Tatts!!!!
On a Side note......
This is not an official launch gig. As said on the Nocturne Forum, to have a great gig in Auckland was delaying the release of the mag so the gigs have become independent. Luckily for us Lavidia helped to Organise a gig in Hamilton, and lets face it they've been needing an event there, so instead of having the big Auckland one first we are starting in Hamilton, then having the big Auckland one in August. This means you now get 2 awesome gigs instead of 1 and hopefully these two will prompt another.
So if you love Tatts and Love metal get your arses in a car and make the quick trip to the home town of Metal.... Hamilton!!!!!!
And on top of that, the lucky bastards get to see Svartalvheim, an actual Symphonic Black Metal band in NZ (remember I played them to you at Torrens conjuringpulse). Definitely would like to catch those guys at some point.
current mood: Tired
current music: Silence
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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9:52 pm - Terminator: Salvation
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So....Terminator (there are some spoilers in here). I'm very thankful that my expectations were dramatically lowered before going to see it. The trailors made it look much, much better than it was.
That being said...not a bad movie. T1 had the story. T2 had the effects. T3 had fuckall and should never have been made. Terminator: Salvation...didn't have the story. Did have the effects (but T2 was still way more awesome). Also was a very serious movie (did Christian Bale smile even once?) with a hefty dose of action and drama so smashed the third one out of the ballpark. Of course, that's not hard to do. Adam Sandler manages that on regular occasions and I despise that guy.
Worth seeing on the big screen. However, it's worth watching it almost as a standalone post-apocalptic sci-fi rather than thinking of it in relation to what has come before. There were a ton of continuity errors. No plasma guns, fighting in broad daylight, looking nowhere near as beat down and battered as shown in previous movies. That being said, things obviously have to get worse over the next two movies (Bale is meant to have signed up for three) as Kyle Reese has a lot of growing up to do so perhaps things go downhill and they're reduced to the state shown in T1 in Reese's flashbacks over time. That would be nice.
On that note, the casting of Kyle Reese was fantastic! I could look at the kid and easily see him growing into Michael Biehn (the guy who played him in T1). Rather than despising Marcus Wright's character for spending the entire movie fixated on his past (which did get a little annoying), I was actually rather pleased with an utterly hopeless man, his world completely torn from him, still spitting defiance to literally his last breath (a couple of times over) to get the redemption he craves.
Of course, the story sucked. Full of holes and problems with a Resistance that, at times, seemed so inept that it deserved the hits it kept taking, I rolled my eyes more than a couple of times. Quite a few problems with basic stuff as well (you're in a helicopter detonating a bunch of small nukes right below you...EMP and shockwave might make that a slightly silly decision for instance). Yep. A tonne of massive problems that you have to try hard to ignore cos the movie (and humanity in some cases) would come to a crashing halt if they were treated even vaguely realistically.
Oh well. Looked great. Very nice effects. Practically every scene, I could rattle off some problems with it that should have been blindingly obvious to anyone making it, which is kind of annoying. Example, very large ship that makes so much noise and vibrations that it makes buildings fall down, literally, drops off a gigantic walking robot that shakes the ground with each step...but no one notices until it reaches through the roof and plucks out a couple of humans cos one guy had raised his voice slightly. Uh...sure. You can't emphasise one point earlier in the movie and then shatter it a bare few minutes later without people noticing guys.
Okay, I'm going on a bit (and could go on for so much longer, I really want to dissect this movie but it's kind of an easy target). Worth seeing on the big screen, crap story, great sci-fi goo, the Arnie moment was fun and curse the shitty soundtrack for barely using the original score except the loud DUHDUH DUH-DUHDUH part. A great opportunity wasted. Fun though.
current mood: Entertained
current music: Silence
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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9:58 am - The prospect of a change both a blessing and a curse...
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Argh. Have dropped my anti-allergy meds so they can actually test me to see what I'm specifically allergic to. Bring on the next few days to a week of seeming like I'm in the middle of Hayfever season again. Fun.
On the upside, Canada trip organising is getting interesting. I've dropped Vancouver entirely (no interest in it whatsoever) and am now planning on a week in Montréal, a week in Toronto and half a week to cover flying times/a day or two of rest at the end. Flights are looking affordable, Lasik is lining up nicely...accomodation is going straight to Hell but there's always something, isn't there? At least I've got months to get that sorted and there's always an inner-city backpackers if nothing else pops up.
Terminatorfest was fun, was kind of odd watching them all back to back and hearing, "Come with me if you want to live," and, "I'll be back," in every movie from so many different people, in so many different situations and in a number of variations. T1 is funny, T2 stands the test of time amazingly well, T3 is better on the second viewing but when put directly next to the other two, seems like a campy ripoff of boring cheese and silly in-jokes.
As for Terminator: Salvation...would love to organise a group to go see this but my credit card is currently having issues so unless we're either willing to wing it and not book seats or someone else is willing to supply the necessary card use, gonna have to leave that. There's a new trailer thing online that unfortunately completely spoils a huge amount of the movie, recently uploaded on youtube, 4 minutes long. Don't watch it! Interesting but yeah, tells you way too much of what's going on. Cannot wait to see it though, I may just head along on my lonesome at some point.
Have a picture of me smacking The Dangler on the bonce with a pineapple.
Disturbing as this is, I have decided to make a serious attempt to cut back on the alcohol. I love getting drunk and I'm certainly not going to stop but I'm tired of losing my memory. I'd rather get nicely boozed and still remember my night (as well as stop being told I need a damned sippy cup you bastards!) Also might make for having more money, which might be a nice possibility.
current mood: Exhausted
current music: Cryptic Wintermoon - Supersatan (yes, that's actually what it's called)
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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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10:01 am - At long last, final stages!
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http://www.myspace.com/nzdarkarts
http://nocturnemagazine.co.nz/forum
Plus we're on facebook, just look us up.
Have some teasers! Been a long time coming but finally so very close. I know it's been awhile but we're in the middle of a recession and there was a birth involved, give us a break :P
The Lesbian Vampire Killers outing last night was fantastic. The movie was everything I expected, childish, tasteless, ridiculous and hilarious. I had a great time apart from the rude lady who overreacted massively when we politely asked her to move from our booked seats. At least she did as opposed to the other two guys who flat out ignored us (seriously, you lot in the second row should have stood up for yourselves, we booked the damn things for a reason!). Ah well. Such fun! A lot of toilet humour and idiocy but it worked due to great timing, a really campy style, OTT acting and surpisingly good effects for such an obviously small movie.
After all the repayments via cash, I also have money in my pocket so I guess it's Battlestar Bristoltastica tonight unless it starts pissing down with rain. I feel like a few drinks.
current mood: Pleased
current music: IWR - Ketamine Sedation
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