Footy and Politics...

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070928/2/14jjp.html

can't wait to see the Get Up campaign add though...

Merry Friday!

xJ

Ok, so the NSBT folk don't completely suck...

they actually called me back a few times cos they are trying to work out WHICH works are the ones we can hear from ours...

turns out this is what's going on....
down the street and around the corner they are excavating for a storm drain... that should be done soon... that's NSBT stuff...
up the end of the street and over a large wall, the Dept Main Roads are fixing something on the busway...
around the corner in the opposite direction they're digging up the road to put in cables and such for a new set of traffic lights... that will be done in about a month (even though the projected was 'late september')... and is under control of the BCC...
and next to the poor gibbonees is a great big fuck off air shaft.... which is NSBT of course...

hey gibbonees, we could fill in the bottom of my place and make new living quarters, cos if that's what i can hear at night, i'd be hurling bottles over that wall of yours and very loudly telling them to stfu!

oh well haven't heard too much the last few days, maybe it was the excavation of the storm water drain, or maybe i just blocked it out of my head with pain killers... either way, kind of SUCKS!!

Oh, STEREO TOTAL were AWESOME, just AWESOME. I bought their new album Paris/Berlin. It is cool.

Happy Birthday to Choppha for last week and thanks for encouraging me to sing as loudly as I could in your loungeroom - mwa, mwa.

that's all folks.
xxJ

North South Bypass Tunnel

Oh lordy, all I want to know is... WHEN WILL THE LATE NIGHT NOISE STOP!!

It's starting to affect my sleep!

So I rang their Project Office and they say 'well the stormwater drainage should be done in a week and the other works are a month or so...' and they also say they will put something in my letterbox.

Cos you can't do roadworks during the day on a main road obviously... that said, they could always encourage people to use public transport or their legs or their bicycles whilst this is going on, do the roadworks during the day, and let us all get some sleep.

You Gibbonees know what i'm talking about!!

ugh, ugh double ugh.
i feel bad for my neighbour and her new bambino!

xxJ

movies n music...

Today I have a sore chest, probably from too many cigarettes.

Over the weekend I watched a few flicks I hadn’t seen before…

Uno: Fast Food Nation
Dos: The Holiday
Three: In Her Shoes

Ended up with two Cameron Diaz flicks in there, not exactly sure how that happened but never mind.

Anyways, I enjoyed them all, and all for different reasons.

Fast Food Nation – primarily about some of the business culture there and not putting the boot into anyone in particular, but good points about the desperation of people et al, poor working conditions, morals…

The Holiday – for Jack Black’s kooky renditions of film scores and Kate Winslets consistent ballsing up (particularly of phone conversations, you know what I’m talking about)…

In Her Shoes – well, for the shoes, but quite heart wrenching story about sisters as well… want to watch it again before I take it back… very good indeed. Love anything with Toni Collette of course.

I am off to Stereo Total this evening, muchos looking forward to it. Though I do feel rather knackered, and am sure that I will feel even more so later tonight…

xJ

selfish prat...

jebus, i probably am you know!!

oh well, fuck it. it occurs to me though that i really had no people truly be assholes to me in RADelaide.

Is it possible that, in this time of large quantities of technology, (shoopy doo wah wah) that people simply don't have good communication skills anymore?

For example, you hear of random stuff like people breaking up with people by text message. For gods sake people, have some balls.

I myself have taken out some long standing anger on someone via e-mail this week. Not necessarily the best way to do it, however I sometimes find it hard to articulate myself. Besides, blurting out what you're thinking when you're angry is not the best thing.

And so I have to enter some thankyous right here:

thankyou to sparkley panda und the monkey for always letting me ring up and talk crap, and consistently putting up with me ringing and leaving messages like 'can i get me some kitty pie?'

lovely judy-face (when i get to speak to her) for mainly the same reason, except usually my messages to her include some barry manilow renditions... that's probably worse than the kitty pie one come to think of it!!

sal & geeom for the chat a few nights ago, and geeom for the additional kicking of my arse at backgammon...

tard & wase, for generally being excellent, for also being super-fans of SYTYCD, and for having bake-offs regarding cookies. mmm cookies.

maria... for telling me stories, taking me to dinner, and letting me occasionally spoil her, listening to wikkid records and watching stupid television and talking late into the night, keeping some of my sanity in tact.

mummy and daddy, lets just say for absolutely everything up until this point...

all the RADelaideans who drop me the occasional line to see what is going on...

BrisneySam for being a dirty great big spunk, for afternoon drinks in the sun, for watching movies and getting totally smashed on white wine with me... and generally being the nicest person ever.

Kiz... for always saying its nice to see my smiling face, telling me i was helpful with radio and giving me huge hugs...

SdaH, even though he has disappeared off the face of the earth lately! hehe.

pavarotti for his excellent talents, may he rest in peace.

the german club, for fine food and beer.

noi, for much the same reason.

lukey, for being a doppelganger.

stuff, things. it's 4:56, it's friday. back to noi i guess. woo!

xJ

revelations...

Ok so… the following thing have occurred to me (and I can’t guarantee they make any sense as yet)…

1) I built my arts/festival network up in RADelaide and then ran away from it. Why is that?
2) Perhaps it’s just that I have to be more selective and not put my hand up for everything, and besides that, not do it when I have a full-time job as well!!
3) If I surround myself with creative types here in Brisbane, hopefully some of their creative energy will wipe back off onto me…
4) I feel like I want to get back into performing and that is scary as hell… it’s been 13 years I think since I stood on stage. Maybe 12… This is part of the reason Adelaide seems such a promising avenue for me. I think no matter what I come up with creatively down there, someone will be bound to appreciate it. I don’t think the folk of Brisbane are quite as open.
5) Perhaps now that I have a job where I am well respected and well paid I feel like I have conquered the administrative world. It certainly hasn’t been that driven by money because I haven’t done any extra study to validate my skills, just learnt as I have gone along. The money thing seems irrelevant if you’re not that excited about work.
6) That said, I do quite like my job and will miss the people I leave behind if/when I decide to frock off. Seems crazy to move back across the country, but I also feel like if I really put my mind to it, I could achieve great things in Adelaide and Melbourne festival scenes. Even if for every one I just co-ordinate volunteers or something. I loved that with SOOB (Straight Out Of Brisbane)

Does any of this make sense to anyone? It’s kind of starting to make sense to me. Thank god for that!

xxJ

things i have been able to do with my lil extra cash influx...

buy myself a bottle of tuaca... mmm...

get a frame for stu's henry rollins poster...

get shuzzbutt a fry & laurie dvd... and some funky fridge magnets
get the monkey a subscription to 'organic gardener'...

donate some money to the rescue helicoper and the rspca...

get my teeth perdified! hehe.

go for lots of cocktails for BrisneySam's birthday...

buy some new work pants...

oh and a tunic...

xJ