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Ok, so the countdown to Friday begins and I decided to take a break from cleaning up and getting everything packed by updating my blog.

I couldn’t help but find what was happening across the road as being a little ironic. You know when you leave primary school or high school and then they build better buildings and generally improve the place, and you’re left thinking “hell, why didn’t they do that while I was there?” Well, I thought my current abode had a pretty good location. There’s a huge supermarket across the road, as well as a video store, chemist, doctor, dentist, chinese takeaway, Domino’s pizza, Chicken takeaway, newsagency, hairdresser and post office/hardware store. This is all a 2 minute walk away. Ooh, not forgetting there is a huge reserve out the back of my place – sort of like a backyard that is maintained by the local council. Well, not being greedy or anything, but I always wished that there was some 24-hour store or something across the road. My wish has come true! A 24-hour servo has recently been built – with hold on – a 24-hour Subway! That is great, but if only they could have built it a little sooner then I could have gotten more use from it. To all those who have to drive anywhere to have such luxuries, I express my deepest sympathies 🙂

I have recently discovered an excellent way to get up in the morning that is a lot less abrupt than the “beep! beep! beep!” on normal radio alarms. The morning shows on two of the local FM radio stations (Triple M and SAFM) are, IMHO, just downright annoying. I find that waking up to people talking is much more calming on the nerves – I don’t think that the sky is falling in due to some cruel beeping alarm – and so I don’t immediately reach for the sleep button. However, I also find that if I listen to what the radio announcers from these stations are saying for more than 10 minutes then I’ll be out of bed ready to smash the radio against a wall. I’ve worked out the middle ground now so that when I start getting slightly annoyed that’s when I get into the shower. It’s worked perfectly so far. Hats off though to Adam Spencer from JJJ claiming the 22nd of July as “International Pi day” (22/7 approximates to the value of Pi). I don’t listen to JJJ in the morning for my wakeup call. I tried that and I ended up lying in bed for nearly 2 hours.

I think I might take some more time off and get into some “light” reading – the 9-11 commission report sounds like a good start.

but if I’m anti-anything, it’s people abusing power. There are likely many examples that do not involve the US, but hey, I couldn’t let this one go by. This is a link to an unclassified document created by the US government in 1962. In it there are various suggestions on how the US Government could justify an invasion of Cuba – by setting up scenarios in where it seemed that Cuba was attacking the US. A snippet:

We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.

Okaaaaay. Anyway, I wonder if any documents created by the US Government may be released in the future with titles like “Justification for a US invasion of Iraq”. Hmmmm…

And now for something completely different, you may have heard that DJ Sassy has claimed that her posterior is better than Kylie’s. I’ve observed, and it’s my belief that it’s not. Nice publicity stunt however – I now know who you are.

That is all.

You know how you get music that is so bad it’s good again? Wesley Willis is one of those people who has created such music. I heard one of his songs when I was watching “Supersize Me” and thought “I know him!” The guy is dead now unfortunately, but he did leave a treasure-trove of interesting ramblings. This website has the “Chicken Cow” mp3 that you can download of Wesley’s, as well as some other rather twisted, spaced out musak from other various “artists”. Here are some of the lyrics for “The Chicken Cow”

This beast attacked my brother

It stabbed him in the ass while he was in the cold

His hands were frostbitten

His hands were also numb

The Chicken Cow

The Chicken Cow

The Chicken Cow

The Chicken Cow

Gold! Here is an excerpt from another of Wesley’s songs, “I smoke weed”

I smoke my crack pipe every day

I have a good time at it

I jack my mother for dope money

I do it by threatening her life with a semi-automatic

I smoke weed

I smoke weed

I smoke weed

I smoke weed

Whoa, I better get some sleep. But before I go – I didn’t know The Hansons were still around, let alone releasing another album!

They’re the only thing I can watch time and time again, and thank God, they have saved my arse many a time when the only other things to watch on television are those God-awful afternoon soapies (Passions being the worst of a very bad bunch). So I went to see “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Supersize Me” on Friday night. F9/11 was absolutely awesome! The cinema it was being shown at was packed, the first time I’ve ever seen it that full, and I swear the whole room was getting hotter as people in the audience were getting more fired up (me DEFINITELY included). I think one of my favourite parts was when Michael Moore was asking members of Congress whether they’d like to enlist their sons/daughters into the defence forces. Ooh, that, and all the parts where George W. Bush was looking like an idiot. Some people would no doubt disagree with the viewpoint that Moore put across, probably saying that it was polarised to being anti-Bush, but I think that we’re in a better place now that doco was made. I was completely unaware of a lot of what was presented even though I thought I knew a bit about what was going on, and it’s made me go and research it on the Internet. As an aside to all this corruption talk, a while back I found a de-classified document which described plans from the early 60’s that the then American government had drawn up to make it appear that Cuba had attacked the US. It’s a pretty amazing read – I’ll put in a link when I find it again.

“Supersize me” was also pretty cool. If you’re in Oz you may have seen the manager of McDonald’s Australia on TV ads attempting to debunk Supersize Me. Obviously he’s trying to save his arse, but I think seeing the ads first and then seeing the doco pointed out how the McDonald’s guy was twisting things to save himself. In the doco there was a section in the case where two teenage girls were trying to sue McDonald’s. The lawyers stated that the case could only hold water if they could prove that eating only McDonald’s caused a deterioration in a person’s physical well-being. I don’t think there was any such information available at the time. So that’s one of the reasons why Supersize Me exists as a doco today – to prove that exact point. Anyone, even wankerchops, know that eating only junk food for a month is going to be pretty unhealthy, but no-one’s actually set out to prove that before. Again, in-your-face documentaries like this can only be a good thing I reckon. McDonald’s have changed their tune since then, even though they insist it’s not a reflex response to Supersize me.