When You Think You Couldn't Rock Out Anymore...

You need to get some of this amazing equipment off kosmic

http://www.onlinemusicstore.com.au/index.php?page=listProduct&cat=Guitar&subcat=SpongeBob+Squarepants

Blues & Roots 2010

The Line Up has just recently come out.
With the big names including
West Coast Blues 'N' Roots Festival 2010

Crowded House, John Butler Trio, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Barnes, Newton Faulkner, Gogol Bordello, John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Swell Season, Angus and Julia Stone, Lisa Mitchell @ Fremantle Park

Its Going To Be Awesome

"Who's Picking A Banjo Here"

Now we are heading into inbreed red neck country with this video but the classic movies



Man He Plays a Mean Banjo

This Is How We Do It

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3070920/A-kiwi-classic-jandals-and-all

Pfft who needs a hedge trimmer when u got these guys

Profiling A Good Way To Find Gamers

First & Only Post By

The Game

The Game Has Commenced

It Ends In 11 Days.

Will They Be Victorious?

Who Knows?

Censoring Gone Mad

Well we all know that in music videos they have to cut out the naughty words so people dont get offended. But what happens when they have to sensor a large amount of music out of the song, it turns quite funny when half the song's chorus is gone.
I found one of Marilyn Manson's latest video clip that has been censored and dont worry its not that heavy and its funny how the lyrics have been covered up.
Thanks to Universal Music Group i cant embed it so heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZiXSUJ7YVQ

Its funny he cant even say the name to the song

12 Days To Go

Only 13 Days To Go

Just For You Joe

Thank God The Matrix ran smoothly

The Five Greatest Warriors

Well bloging from my phone lying in bed at just before 11 Sunday night with the news that I have just finished The Five Greatest Warriors. Awesome book.
So good in fact that I managed to finish 460 page book in under a weekend.
Jack West does he die or survive I know. But do you

You Know What I Mean, This Electric Stream

Well back to Expanding Your Octaves and as you all know, probably one of my favourite music genres would have to be dance/techno etc.
Now this band in this video is called Underworld and if you remember back a few weeks when that chick came in to talk to us about going on like an exchange student course she talked about the huge music concert and one of the bands/dj's were playing were Underworld.
Underworld a British band have been around for a very long time making music from the early 80's and still going strong today.

This following clip of them performing one of their songs called "Cowgirl" which is awesome as well as this song will probably stay in my mind until my mind turns to mush.

Another song i really like of theirs is "Born Slippery"

Enjoy And get your dance shoes on

Well Look What I Picked Up Today

Thats right a signed copy of his new book in his series.
And what's even better is that it was STILL only $30 for a hardback.
Good Value all round then

BTW. I know what happens To Jack West Wong :P :P :P :P

No I'm not going to do what i was going to do.
Its too mean

Need I Say More

Amazing Song by an amazing man

Imagine If...

You were one of the instrumental father of a music culture and genre.

If thats not enough you were still performing at age 60 at shows that sell out in less than days to come listen to your music that is over 35years old.

Been in numerous movies, been voices to video games like Driv3r, GTA4 and currently have a flim in production about yourself and the influence you made on music for ever.

Now surviving this long is a feat in its self considering that he was a serious herion addict through his whole life and his performance are usually done while he is off his face.

This performance shows what he can still do even as hes pushing the retirement age pretty soon.

Plus who else lets the crowd get up and swarm him during his performances, it must be an Iggy Pop thing

Enjoy as your the passenger as Iggy takes you on a trip around the block

The BIG things

Well here is a few pictures of the really big things i have seen.
Tonight's big thing is the Pretronas Towers & the communication tower in Kuala Lumper.

The Pretronas Towers now the largest two free standing towers after 9/11

Side View At Night (DUH!!)

Looking up at the 88 Story towers from the ground

Looking down at the Pretronas Towers from communication tower.

Tower that was mentioned above

A Mix between the old colonal english cricket ground bell tower with the communications tower and pretronas towers in the background

The Challenge Has Been Set

The Challenge: Who can make the best techno/dance/club song.

So far miguel is the first to create one and this has brought up who can do a better song.
Well i'm answering this challenge and anyone who wants to join myself in challenging DJ-Miggy P either making their own song or being a co writer of mine is welcome.

So hopefully after a get rid of all my homework and most probably after exams i can sit down master garage band loop section and produce a thumping track.

PS; I dont know if you read this Rual but i'm sorry but you cant enter as we would end up terribly embarrassed and have no self-esteem left.

So whos up for the challenge because after all garage band and macs rule

Really Catchy Song

Just came across this awesome song as it was single of the week and downloaded it because it was free

This chilled song has a guitar and bass line that is really catchy to me. Now you probably wont like this as its not rock but more bordering on pop but i really like it

hope you enjoy it

While Looking Through Rugby Dump

I found a great piece of work done by the security guard during the half time break in a recent Air New Zealand Cup Game. Maybe the guard wanted to try out for the first grade side because of the look of the tackle he knew what he was doing



CRUNCHED!!!

Got to love the facial expressions of the kids in the background as well

Oh and i also found this one. Some how i do believe the ref became a ref because he was somewhat of a bad defender

The House We Built In NZ

Also the one that i feel through the roof of while i we were building it


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While I Was Reading Outside Today...

I came across this passage

"It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls - as little as we like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, that one coincidental evil begets others, often more deliberate, evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rude Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. That may be at the point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be be the point at which sanity begins to either save its self or to buckle and break down; that point whens one's sense of humor begins to resurface.
Louis Creed might have harbored such thoughts if he had been thinking rationally..."

What a passage i say, deeply detailed of how someone is feeling but also at the same time awe inspiring and shows the writing class of one of the worlds best novelists

WJCC Vs Whitfords Week 2

As of around midday today WJCC notched up their first win of the season against raining champions.
The team batted very well with most top batsmen getting starts with both Michael and matt getting starts but then given out with quite dubious decisions for 20 odd each. Daniel played well for his 20 or so batting at number 3 but most importantly stayed out there with star performer Rassi who scored a good 55 before being dismissed.
The most encouraging part of the batting was that there were partnerships all the way through the match leaving one batsmen who is always well set in the middle.
Nearing the end the game became very close as they bowled and fielder very well with a few maiden overs and slowly but surely the pressure was moved back onto us. We lost a few quick wickets with people trying to up the run rate in the last 6 overs or so and as Stefan got bowled it was my turn to bat with somewhat a larger amount of pressure on my performance.
As i headed out we needed 9 runs off 14 balls and when ever you see that on TV you pretty much know that the batting side is going to win, but in our grade its a lot different as we are neither that good at hitting the ball or in some cases that quick between the stumps.
As i was walking out there i decided that our team has played too well to lose this game as we put in 150% both in the field but batting as well so i decided that i would push my back as far as it would go and further to get a win out of the game. My original idea was because i'm not a huge hitter of the cricket ball i would try to give Ash most of the strike and just run very hard between the wickets.
The first 2 balls i faced i crunched both but straight into the fielders so that brought the needed rate 9 off 12 balls.
Ash was now facing and he hit the ball for two tows which were both usually only singles but with any sport if you run hard and put pressure on you can make the other team back off a bit or make mistakes. Ash then just tapped the ball onto the onside straight to the fielder but as i was backing up a hell of a long way i ended up making it very easy.
This left me on strike with the target a more comfortable 4 off 9 balls. Although i knew that the game was not won yet and stranger things have happened and since i was playing Australians i was half expecting them to end up bowling under arm the cheating bastards. But back to the story after my first 2 balls i did sort of understand the pitch i was playing on and was quite comfortable as the bowler i was facing wasn't that express but to be completely honest i prefer quick bowlers over slow ones. The bowler bowled one on a good length that i ended up just having to try to drive but couldn't get it properly and ended up going down to mid off instead of through the covers for a dot ball.
Its 4 off 8 balls now and i have 2 balls left on the over i faced up for another ball and the bowler ended up drifting just onto the stumps and just over pitching about a foot to allow me to get on the front foot comfortably and drive it to the right of mid on. I didn't hit it very hard or out of the middle of the bat but i still managed to get a fair bit of it and past the diving fielder and straight away, i took off looking for at least 2 runs maybe even 3 on the arm of the fielder as it was a long boundary down there maybe 65m or so i ran the first one hard and just as i turned for the second i heard applause and cheering from the sideline as the whole team was on the boundary encouraging us on. it turned out that i timed the ball better than i expected and it had rolled over for four bringing up my first runs of the day, the season as well as my first four of the season and most importantly the winning runs for the team. After congratulating each other Ash and I had to face another over and a ball because we still have to complete our 56 overs even though we have already won.
So with the match won, i just decided to go out have some fun and some batting practice and being a fast bowler myself i know that i was to expect a short ball and sure enough one came which i tried to flick over the top but i missed by a bit.
The last over was fun as Ash put on a few more runs with 2's coming off the first 5 balls and a single off the last which was also a no ball so i managed to get to face one ball for the last over.
My idea was to slog the ball over cow corner to where my team were but he was a good bowler, usually bowling line and length outside off stumps so i decided to move across my stumps to sty to reduce the angle. but as he bowled it and i shaped up for the big shot he bowled a yorker which i could only defend for no run.
Leaving me 4 not out and Ash 30 odd not out and the team ended up 196/6 off 56 overs in reply to their scored of 178.
So today was a good day for both myself and the team as well as my back as it pulled up alright after the game and running and turning.