I am very happy about today. So many amazing things happened.

Zoe came back from her trip, we spent all day in bed together. Spending a day in bed snuggling with a girl is one of those daydream scenarios that you wish for every second day. It was delicious. We lay around, giggled and so on.

A lesson in being the master of your reality :

A few weeks back I went for a job at the Post Office, I got it, but I didn't like it. So I quit. Quitting meant risking my fortnightly social security payments (i.e a way to pay the rent), as well as upsetting some people and potentially annoying the employment agency that got me the job.

However, I didn't like the job so I quit it.

The job agency wanted me to do an exit interview. The lady (Cheryle) and I, spoke for a while. Why did I quit, what did I like to do, etc etc? She asked.

I told her I was leaving to do a business course.

"Hmm.. it's too bad you're doing this course because I'd have the perfect job for you otherwise" She said, piquing my interest.
"Go on.." I hesitantly replied.
"It's office admin role for an online import company.. they need someone to look after websales and their internet portal"

It was my dream job. But full time... I can't live with full time!

"Just see what it's like" She said.

So I did, I went to the interview, did all the tests, even taught myself Excel in one day. The guys really liked me, and I liked them too, but they could see my hesitation towards the hours. I left the interview thinking I'd flunked it.

Today I got a call,

"Hello Pablo. We've just called to advice that unfortunately you were unsuccessful for the position you applied for, we decided you weren't entirely suitable for the role.

However, we do have an alternative part time opening that we need to fill. It's the same job but less hours. Do you think you would be interested?"

"WOULD I!"

Wow, these guys were offering the hours I was originally after.

I like that I went without knowing why exactly, to check it out, and remained honest to myself and to others and that it all worked out.

It reminds me of the time I talked to God in the mountains of Mexico. At the end of our talk I asked him if there was anything I needed to do in this life or in particular, and he said..

"You just do what you think is right, and let me take care of the rest."

So far so true. :)

Amen.
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Cool things about today.

Got the hours I wanted for the job. Amazing mentors in course. One is wise like my grandfather. Spent all day in bed with Zoe. All of us wagged school (Ben, Megs, Z and Me). Bought ticks to Syd. Changed one without a problem. Jesse gave me a birthday muffin. Seeing Rachel on Sunday. Have a drummer to jam with.

6:16 PM me: my browser likes to crash

are u still there?
RACHEL!

6:17 PM Pickle:PABLOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

no...it was my computer

switched itself off

face book is dumb!

but you can find people!

me: face book is SO dumb

Pickle: who are dumb@!

me: but you can find people

i dont know how tho

i just put myself there so people can find me

BUT I HATE ALL THE VAMPIRE - STAR WARS - FACE WALL -SUPER WALL - POKE REQUEST

FUCK OFF FACEBOOK

6:18 PM FUCK YOU

Pickle: I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

me: Humph

Pickle: you've been bitten!

me: it makes me ANGRY

Pickle: take the likeness test!

me: I DONT WANT TO BE BITTEN

Pickle: throw the potatoe its hot!

here is a fish!

me: I DONT WANT TO BE GROSSED OUT

Pickle: you've been poked!

me: RECEIVE A FUCKING FISH TANK

Pickle: want to send a present!?

me: IT MAKES ME SOOO ANGRY RACHEL

Pickle: NO!!!! FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!

yeah...me too...good.

me: I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT THROWING MY LAPTOP OUT THE WINDOW

IM ALL WORKED UP

Pickle: hahaha

me: FUCK YOU FACEBOOK

6:19 PM (But! you can find people!)

Pickle: yeah...I've found people I haven't seen for 10 years

my best friend from YEAR ONE

my childhood Next door neighbour.

Pickle: oh man...people are putting photos of me on my thing...DUMB photos...how the fuck dare they!!?

6:21 PM hey...I have to get off the computer

me: myspace is so much better

Pickle: I promise I will get to Melbs ASAP

me: but it has that teenie stigma attached

Pickle: I miss you

me: oh wait..

we got so worked up WITH FACEBOOK WE STOPPED TALKING ABOUT IMPORTANT MATTERS

Pickle: I know!

me: FUCK YOU FACEBOOK! YOU STRIKE AGAIN

TIME KILLER APPLICATION FROM HELL

IM GOING

6:22 PM BYE

* mutters and walks away *

Pickle: I love you

and that is all

x

This internet thing is out of control.

I remember when I first made a website I was 12 years old. I was so excited that I could put up colorful backgrounds and links to wav files. It had some jokes and flashing animated gifs. The site was tacky, but it was my own and on par with all the others at the time.

I'd have so much fun watching the amazing counter go up and up. I remember it won some awards. I was even excited about Netscape 3 coming out.

The next website I made was for my first band 'Slavegrinder'. The code was written on MS notepad (the best program MS ever made) in one afternoon, while my friend Jene played video games. I quickly figured out how to add a forum and put the thing in place. Our page was the first local band site with a message board. The forum took off. It was the first port of call for most local users. Before e-mail or porn, they'd go to the Slavegrinder message board. Even other bands would use it to communicate with each other.

Soon enough forums became more easily accessible and ours lost it's momentum. It was still wildly successful however and amassed thousands of posts in its two year history. Our site was simple, effective, competitive and popular.

Now.. no hope, websites are media savvy, widget laden, script, cookie, video conglomerates of brain melting complexity. Networks interact and grow, spawn and share, and the rest are left behind. To remain competitive users now must rely on provided frameworks and social hubs a-la myspace. etc.

In a way it's sad. Yet I love it. This revolution is growing so quick that many of us are going to miss it.

On a forum discussing the Internet, and the way networks and social interactions are changing for all of us, a poster wrote this,

"LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER - ENJOY THE NEW WORLD WE LIVE


EVOLUTION FEELS REALLY GOOD"

I agree.

Some folks are so caught up with the past.. the past was two years ago. This thing is moving, FAST.
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Here are some insane links to the sort of stuff that even makes me feel old.

Jetset
This is an excellent internet pop culture show. The host is a bit of a dork but the info is worth it. I got these other links from it.

Viropop
Good tongue in cheek environment show, with annoying host.

Kompoz.com
Collaborate online and make music with other people all over the world.

Metalchik
Metalwork and Jewelry making guides and videos.

(These sites are all hosted by NextNewNetworks. I'm really impressed with these guys business model and ideas. That's why I'm plugging them.)

Also..

The Hype Machine
This site links to music blogs and what new music they are discussing. It's good for finding new artists without relying on Last.Fm's crappy and limited knowledge.

Talking about the addictive yet average service Last.Fm offers, here's a fancy widget with pics of albums I like. Enjoi.

I was in a burlesque show last night,

I don't know how it came to that.. Pixie asked if I wanted in. I guess I said yes without realizing what I'd agreed to.

I was the only guy backstage, the girls cheered as the madame introduced me

"Hey girls, we have a guy backstage!'
Girls:"Woo!" *Cheers*,
"You all dont mind getting naked in front of him do you?"
Girls:"No! No!" *Cheers*

"Thank you, thank you" I said smugly and nodded.

It was strangely non sexual to be backstage with a bunch of half naked women, however it was a lot of fun, and very surreal. I drank champagne and chatted with the girls as they put powder and glitter on their bums and wiggled them into the mirror. Occasionally they'd look up and smile and I'd smile back incredulously.

For the show I stood topless as an egyptian while Pixie and Mel danced. My job was to hold some signs up telling the story of our act.. the story of the egyptian goddess Isis finding a giant golden penis. I'd literally had five minutes practice. Thankfully we pulled it off (haha) in front of three hundred people and received many cheers!

Free champagne and a bag of goodies was our payment. Included in mine was a bottle of wild turkey, and a poster with our name on it. Huzzah! They want me to do it again next time. Maybe I will..

I can just imagine it in three years from now I'll probably be stripping for a living.

Hmmm...

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Here's Mondays Song - R-Type DX

I feel good about this new project.

I have to remember that the art of perfection is imperfection, and when I can embrace that, creation becomes a lot easier.

I am a perfectionist at heart, if something isn't perfect at every step of the way I leave it, stop it, start it again.

By allowing mistakes as part of the process, it makes it so much easier for me to create.

A New Project.



The rules are as follows:

1. A new song for every weekday. (5 p.w)
   
2. No undo, no backtracking, no saving.
3. A different theme each week.

This weeks theme : Inanimate objects.

Feel free to download Song 1 - La Silla (The chair)

Centrelink.




Scribbles at work.

I GOT A TICKET

I know its the Big Day Out and all, but i'm willing to put up with that much just to see Rage.

I used an ip scrambler, a proxy mask, 2 different accounts, 6 different windows and three different browsers.

I was getting that ticket.

6 Die From Brain-Eating Amoeba in Lakes

By CHRIS KAHN, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

According to the CDC, the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER-ee-uh FOWL'-erh-eye) killed 23 people in the United States, from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials noticed a spike with six cases - three in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona. The CDC knows of only several hundred cases worldwide since its discovery in Australia in the 1960s.

http://www.physorg.com/news110255496.html

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I got a job at the Post Office.. . i dont think i like the job, its a cold and sterile environment.. and old ladies aren't as adorable as i thought they would be. It's all so bureaucratic, bills mostly. also the business course that i wanted to do just started and it seems i cant do both, so im thinking about leaving the job and doing the course instead. I know it could be trouble with centrelink, which scares me, but the job feels wrong.. on my first day this guy Walter walked into the lunch room and said something to me..

'So, youre the new guy, yeah.. you better get to like this job, gotta keep yourself busy, dont look at that clock, 21 years mate, in a flash, theyre gone, you better keep your head up, ive been here 21 years, you think i have security, hah, those unions are out mate, all going private *maniacally laughs to himself* yeah, 21 years goes fast, if youre gonna be here for a while you better keep busy, hah.. yeah" *laughs to himself some more.. walks out*

He left me scared.

Everyone there is over 50 and none of them are going to be my friends.

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I wrote these reviews over a few beers with Steve. The first review I sent in wasn't accepted because I didn't actually review anything, I just wrote about winning bingo, getting drunk and blowing up balloons.

Turns out you actually need to write about the place you're reviewing and not just your experience.

Man, this journalism gig is tough.
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'Imbibe' Review

Imbibe is cool. They serve Cuba Libres (Lime, Bacardi and Coke, popular in Mexico) and they have games of Bingo on wednesdays. It's close to my house (Brunswick) and Dan the owner is a real friendly dude, I guess the thing I like the most about this bar is you can make it your own. There's three large rooms, the main bar, the lounge by the fireplace and the shisha smoking floor room, covered in pillows and the like. There's also a beer garden. Every time I have been to imbibe one room has been free, which means my friends and I can go in, hang out, and take over. Did I mention there's Jenga? and Guess Who? Guess Who! When was the last time you played that? To make the game a bit harder we play by our own rules ("Does he look like Richard Branson? Is she likely to have been impacted by the recent social security changes for single parenting payments?"). I've also met lots of nice girls at this bar. I guess it's the lighting, its soft and warm and makes you feel superior. Good prices, friendly staff, nice mellow people and an atmosphere that makes you feel like you're in your own home having a drink with friends. Steve likes it too. What more could you want? 4/5 stars.

Purple Duck at Melt Bar, Kings Cross, Sydney. 4/10/07

Purple duck is the best mc in the world. So he stated at the beginning of his set and so I came to believe. Honestly, nothing quite prepared me for the uncontrollable spasms of laughter that i had to endure. If you don't already know, Purple Duck is a performer from Melbourne who vacillates between soul ballads and psychedelic hip hop delivered in a humorous way.. His set moved between a plethora of musical styles including reggae, funk, hiphop, rnb, eighties style love ballads, britpop and even vaudaville (not to mention the best air guitar solo i've ever had the pleasure to watch). Despite a couple of technical difficulties (which he managed to make seem deliberate) the set was spectacular, and I don't use the word lightly. People were rolling around on the floor in fits. This genre defining MC seemed to cross the line between insanity and genius, no take that back, he managed to stamp all over that line and cover it in the sickly sweet goo of sarcastic magnificence. He performed songs like 'Love Tampon', 'Dog with Worms' and and 'Put your finger up your bum' and made them, and himself, transcend from puerile potty humor, into true artistic irony. Oh if only it were just that, but the encore was a moving, truly moving, rendition of 'Part of their world' from the Little Mermaid. I don't believe there was one dry seat (or eye) after that. 5/5 stars

'..don't tell Tom' on Sydney Road, Review

Now i don't know if this is a reference to myspace, and i hope not. I certainly wouldn't tell Tom anything, and he's probably swamped with too many messages from emos (not to mention bathing in fox money) to notice. But maybe its a good comparison. Like the denizens of myspace users migrating to facebook, the punters at 'don't tell tom' must be also migrating somewhere else, and its a shame really. It's just that every time I visit the place it seems empty. Where are all the people? I don't know. What i do know is thats its really big, and there's a sandpit. With toy tractors and everything. The menu is thorough and they seem to put on musos every once in a while, ive just never been lucky enough to catch a performance, i hear it's usually local acoustic folk and the like, which would fit the atmosphere of the place perfectly. To be honest, this is a really nice bar that is too big for its own good. Were it better situated i could see it cracking, but for now, it's just a nice place to have a beer and a meal in the beer garden, listen to some old soul hits, have a talk with your friend or partner and maybe bring the kids to play with the aforementioned tractor. 3/5 stars.

I believe it is humor that binds the universe together.

I have this theory that the two strongest forces in the cosmos aren't Love and Fear. That they are Humor and Sadness.

'It's only true if it makes you laugh, you don't understand it until it makes you cry'

With that, here is the introduction to a book Rachel and I may or may not ever write called 'God is Laughing at Us'..

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Page 1.

Ok, lets get to the important part.

* You don't suck.

Everything you've ever done. Everything you thought was wrong, all of it, its all ok, because you're here at this moment.

Now what you should know,

* You need a better haircut.
(OF all the mystical arts this is the hardest to master.)

And the third,

God, may or may not be real. But if he is.. he's laughing.

He's laughing at me, he's laughing at you, he's laughing at US.

Click to Read.

This copy made me feel all tingly and warm.

Its Springtime lovetime sexytime. Just a month ago my housemates and I were staring at each other suspiciously in the mornings, bemoaning our lack of amorous activity, thrusting our hips into the empty air and feeling the void of romance in our lives.

A month later come Spring.. and, not only do we have partners, but other women/men are clamoring for our affection. Everyone in this house is now hooked up. Even Megs and Ben, and if you have a deductive mind you will put that one together..

I was making tea with Zoe in the kitchen a few mornings back, we saw birds outside coupling and kissing under the warm springtime sun. "Aww look at them" I exclaimed, "Why are they doin' that?"

"They're like us" Zoe replied.

It was so cute. Awww Spring. How idyllic you are.