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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | | 2:37 pm |
yay! actual paid work! And at a good (conference tech) rate, too. corporate boredom and paying the rent ahead :) | | Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | | 5:06 pm |
There isn't some amazing alternative to ebay knocking about that I've missed, is there? their fees seem to have crept up to ridiculous levels - 14% once you include paypal, which they own, and they're miring down selling stuff with loads of additional nonsense. Alternatively, noone wants to buy a kaoss pad entrancer or a PSP? thought not... | | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 5:24 pm |
as I predicted yesterday, today I am bored out of my mind. Argh. I wonder if there's anything actually worth doing on today? | | Friday, September 25th, 2009 | | 12:51 pm |
does anyone know any good interweb forums or whatever for getting in touch with musos in edinburgh? Or for that matter have a band or whatnot and want some visuals or a music video made? Gettting to the end of my current wee project and looking for another one, or two... | | Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | | 4:36 pm |
Why is it that getting a dentists appointment is easy, while getting a GPs on is a total pain? With the dentist, I rang, asked if they were taking new NHS patients, they were, and booked an appointment. Job done. The Doctor, on the other hand, wants a pile of paperwork, proof of address and id, and won't take me unless I live within their catchment area. It's not a massive deal, rally, but it's this sort of minor setback that really gets to me when I'm depressed, which is why I want to see a doctor in the first place. Oh well. Need to think of sociable things to do this weekend, anyone got any ideas? The edinurgh doors open day is this weekend, anyone fancy chumming along a few edinburgh places you don't normally get to see? | | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 5:46 am |
christ, i seem to have drunk too much. still, good night and all that. hrm, my life would be peachy keen if i had some sort of regular income, like what i could have had a couple of years ago from freelance work. Fucking recession. Ok, mibbe not peachy keen, but basically fine and a good enough platform to get shit in order from. | | Sunday, September 20th, 2009 | | 2:40 pm |
Christ, i hardly ever post on here. Oh well, update time! Back in Edinburgh for at least a few months, or much longer depending on work. Which, by the way, there is fucking none of. Urgh. displeased at that. Still, the search continues, albeit a bit half arsedly. Love life is non-existant, and this continues to trouble me more than it should really. Have been making efforts to SORT MY SHIT OUT, i.e. getting much-needed dentists appointments that i've been putting off for years. Other things have stalled a bit but I should make inroads tomorrow - need to register with a doctor and go get head-meat pills, i'm depressed and it's rubbish. Other solutions are worth looking at too but I could do with the irrational depression to stop now ta. Need to start driving again, too, anyone got any driving school recommendations? I just need some refreshers lessons. Working on a nice wee video project too, it's coming along nicely today. Think if i drink any more coffee i'll be able to smell time. that'd be nice. (hence the slightly manic stream of consciousness here) If anyone fancies doing anything sociable get in touch eh. oh, or if you need somewhere to live, got a room going in my nice new flat on mcdonald road. Current Mood:  okay | | Monday, September 7th, 2009 | | 8:42 pm |
Is anyone looking for a room? I'm looking at moving into a nice wee flat just off macdonald road, 3 bedroom, furnished, massive telly, proper living room and decent kitchen in fairly nice new build block. Rent's cheap - not sure how much exactly, 250ish a month i think? The other flatmate is an IT professional lass. Think rent and bills are <100 pcm inc. council tax. AFAIK the room is available pretty much immediately. If anyone's interested, get in touch and I'll pass on contact details! | | Friday, September 4th, 2009 | | 11:01 pm |
well, now the festival's over and i'm jobless (woo/argh!) life is dull, anyone want to do anything cheap but exciting in the next wee bit? | | Friday, July 17th, 2009 | | 8:39 am |
Hello friends list! Does anyone have a wee tv i could borrow for a week or two, from monday-ish? it needs to have an input of some sort, a scart or a phono or something. Might just buy one in a charity shop if i have to but i only need it for a while. | | Thursday, July 16th, 2009 | | 12:09 pm |
| | Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | | 5:20 am |
So, i left melbourne at 1530 on tuesday; at 0930 on wednesday i arrived in edinburgh. That's an 18 hour journey, but i also lost 9 hours into the bargain, making for a 27 hour journey time. woo. not counting the travel time to the airport in melbourne (a good two hours) and the 30 minutes it takes to get to the city centre from edinburgh airport. So what did i do when i got here? Went to the pub obviously. Mind you, i'm now too tired after a few afternoon beers for evening beers which is a shame as that would have been nice. If anyone wants to catch up over the next few days gimme a shout. | | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | | 9:37 pm |
so, i get back to the uk on wednesday. that'll be nice. give me a shout if you want to meet up for a beer or something. dunno how long i'll be about for yet, maybe just a couple of months. | | Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | | 12:56 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 8:15 pm |
I spent this last weekend, from Friday evening til Monday, at the Dreaming Festival, which is a festival of music, theatre, dance, art and film by indigenous folk from around the world, especially aboriginal australians. The concept does sound a bit pretentious, and there was a lot of cultural tourism, rich hippy kids, white middle class people, and few aboriginal punters. Nonetheless, the acts were fantastic and it was a great experience. I was volunteering as an Assistant Stage Manager, which meant I spent 5 hours a day working in their theatre venue helping with... well, stage stuff. Cleaning stages, setting stages, that sorta thing. I'm not really a theatre person so it's quite hard to define. One of the hits of the festival was an excellent play called "Page 8", about the life of David Page, who's now a successful composer, actor, etc. but who was Australia's answer to the young Michael Jackson in his early teens. Mostly it's about his family life, and has the best and most pertinent use of projection I've ever seen in a theatre show - it uses snippets of 8mm home movie footage he recorded when he was a kid to illustrate his stories about his family and friends. It was funny, touching and utterly engaging; the story is true, after all, and you can't help but be moved by his accounts of both good and bad times with the people he was close to. I saw some great music, too; Mihirangi, a maori woman who beatboxes and layers harmonies with a loop pedal (yeah, everyone's doing it now, but she was still good), Blue King Brown, who were a stunning 9 piece funk/urban band, very dancable, Street Warriors, fairly standard but good rap, and the Rhythm Hunters, who wedge together Japanese Taiko drumming, Sumatran Islamic music, didgeridoos, and a guy in a blue spandex jumpsuit (no idea why) to amazing effect. | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 4:55 pm |
So, I'll be back in the UK on the 8th of July, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna come back to Australia in the middle of September, but in the middle of that I'll need somewhere to stay. I already have a couple of offers of rooms, but they're not entirely suitable for various reasons. Basically, I need somewhere reasonably affordable - probably less than 400 per month, including all bills and such - and within walking distance of George Square. Anyone got a spare room for a couple of months? | | Sunday, May 31st, 2009 | | 11:54 pm |
I just saw Battles at the Sydney Opera House, it was awesome... I was maybe 8 rows from the stage, in a fairly good seat. They're great, I'd well recommend seeing them, remind me of Mogwai but a bit less epic and more electronic. The drummer was awesome, and they had him front and centre which was pretty cool; but then their whole bag is that they're all amazing musicians, two of them play guitar with one hand while simultaneously playing keyboards with the other. | | Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | | 4:32 pm |
| | Monday, May 25th, 2009 | | 7:35 pm |
and on another note...
I'll probably be selling a bunch of stuff when i get back to the uk in july; things I haven't missed while I've been here and don't feel I especially need. this is as much for my reference, but ( if anyone's interested... ) | | 3:55 pm |
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