Smoking pot made me think "Turn Out The Lights" by Nelly Furtado was a good song! I heard it again when I had not smoked any pot tho' & everything was OK again, i.e. it sucked like you'd expect.
I'm listening to the radio heaps but no radio stations anywhere consistently play stuff I can stand, you gotta change stations every 2 or 3 songs. Yesterday me & Di were in the cemetery at Broad Bay & we had a little AM radio...as we walked into the cemetery "3 Steps to Heaven" by Eddie Cochran came on & then at the end of the song the DJ said "3 steps to Heaven...but only 1 step to Hell!". What did he mean? It wasn't one of those young people's radio stations where the DJs say wacky things & use rude words & ask callers if they'd get with Robbie Williams & shit, it was Radio Dunedin.
MON. 20th AUG. - The govt pays me $$$ 'cause I'm suppose to be sick but I don't feel sick, I feel quite good. I'll probably die soon!
I just been to the dr. to get results of some blood tests & I thought it'd be all like, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, but in fact I got told my liver function is back to normal. OK let's go out & get loaded! I went & walked in the North Cemetery with Maryann & we saw a bellbird singing in a tree only a metre or so away from us & she was knocked out by it because she said she'd never seen a bird singing up close like that & seen its beak & throat in action as the poets describe, & I'm thinking like Yeah, dumm city kids don't know nuthin! but in fact I don't think I'd ever seen 1 of those birds up that close either. It was cool. Our cats killed one a couple weeks ago, I wanted to execute them.
So we talk a lot of course about our new y'know, "relationships" or whatever, she asked me (not today, couple days ago) "So how do you guys get along, what do you talk about?", I'm like "Oh you know, just a lot of trivial crap!...nuthin heavy hardly at all! How 'bout you & Pat, I suppose you guys have nuthin but INTENSE SERIOUS DISCUSSION.", she goes "Yeah." Hey does this sound to you like a win/win situ. or WHAT, I think life's great!
YO BRENDON! I mean it! C'mon & WRITE TO ME!
TUES. 21st AUG. - The weather : NICE. It's still winter but it's getting good & I'm rubbing the crud from my eyes, emerging from my cave like a bear with a winterlong accumulation of stinky ass...the streets of a university town - rotten stinkin lousy w/ attractive young women, me & Rich observe as we drive back from this guy's house this morning. yeah sho' we both have girlfrenz but, oh you know...ALSO however : rotten stinkin lousy with GARBAGE, these stupid students treat this town with such disrespect. They're like, Fuck it, we don't really live here, I guess. Whatever, I hate them. I was talking about it to Maryann as we walked thru the ghetto about 12 o'clock today & discussing ways to raise conciousness of this issue - I wtd to write a LETTER TO THE PAPER but I don't want to make it like the usual letters to the ed. about this kind of stuff (i.e. from old ppl., nobody cares about them or takes their opinions seriously because of the hopeless cliches they express themselves in etc.)...no that would not do! rather we should be coming at it from a POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY angle, yes I know most modern university students are too stupid & unidealistic to be susceptible to this kind of stuff but surely we can inspire at least a few of them if we appeal to their...I don't know, what do these people have to appeal to? but certainly there must be many students who are ashamed to be associated w/ the gross-out trash-strewing "scarfie" crowd who make everyone here HATE ALL STUDENTS & WANT TO KILL THEM. Anyway our campaign will certainly take the form of INSPIRING EXHORTATIONS TO REVOLUTIONARY ACTION rather than the squarist oldgeezer killjoy-ism that presumably comprises this town's only resistance to student larrikinism. Also, we will wear a uniform - PYJAMAS* & MACHINE-GUN BULLET BELTS.
More stuff that made me feel good today - I recieved a letter from an old girlfriend of mine - we broke up ~9 years ago under unpleasant circumstances, however she has chosen *me* to look after her cat when she goes to spend a year in a Buddhist monastery in Canada. I think this is really cool!
(* - People look better in suits and uniforms. Pyjamas are like suits or uniforms. Therefore, people should wear pyjamas QED
-- maryann (tedium2000@hotmail.com), August 18, 2001. )
WEDNES. 22nd AUG. - MY CAR IS A GODDAMN LEMON, pt.10 - there are 3 buttons for sounding the horn, located on the spokes of the steering wheel. & 'cause steering it round more than about 20 degrees involves all kinds of strenuous wrestling action I'm always tooting the horn at people by mistake while doing some clumsy manouevre in the middle of the st. or something. TOOT!, hey look at me.
Hey Di! how's yr birthday going. You should come round, I have a couple presents for you. Yeah just kind of dumm stuff so don't get all excited but y'know, you shd come round. I was doing some shopping & kind of looking for stuff to give you but I kept buying stuff for myself.
THURS. 23rd AUG. - MY CAR IS A GODDAMN LEMON, pt.11 - the alternator is rooted or something I guess, 'cause the battery won't hold its charge, it was flat this a.m. when (...) & (...) borrowed it to go & (description of illegal activity excised) & they got someone to jump it but then it was flat again when they brung it back & Maryann wtd to borrow it. So I dunno, probably the alternator or somethin right? (hell if I'd even know, I know 0 about cars). But this didn't bring me down, in fact it's a gas gas gas 'cause it meant I walked into town for a change & it is really starting to get nice here now, it's like spring or somethin. Nuthin brings me down!
I should apologise for how I have not been writing any reviews of anything for ages, I was reminded today that I had been intending to do reviews of 2 magazines that I got copies of a few weeks ago, 1 was the latest issue of LOG ILLUSTRATED (check it out, it's got a thing by me in it) & the other was Liz's ROBO THEORY fanzine. 'Cause I got a email from Liz today & she told me they'd (they = Gwyn Porter I guess) axed her to do some of her cartoons for the next LOG & here's some of what I writ back to her so's I don't have to bother writing a review yet...my time is precious! - "Yeah talking about yr cartoons I wtd to say yr 'pornography' in ROBO THEORY was excellent, I have problems with pornography because it is all about selling people something that they already got & using it to instil insecurity in them for purposes of exploiting them & blah blah blah can't be bothered explaining but oh y'know. so home-made DIY is the SOLUTION TO THE PORNOGRAPHY PROBLEM, & your stuff was the ultimate home-made DIY pornography...also, it is very funny(...)"
(The "pornography" referred to = scrawled drawings of women in various lesbian type situations, I should scan a copy & put it on here because our site could use some of that kind of stuff I think)
I also heard from the Brother today for the 1st time in like 4-EVA & he is getting some Space Dust shows together for maybe October, this is very exciting. Yeah & he also told me that Wade Ronald ("George") Churton's long-anticipated "coffee table book" on Scorched Earth Policy is out now, Brother Love says check it out. I'll tell you that it's real good too but I haven't even seen it, obviously. More on this later...SEP tho' were my 2nd favourite Chch band of that time (1st - the Axemen obviously) & I recommend the bk just 'cause of that. I looked for stuff about them to link to for anyone who doesn't know who they are but I couldn't find anything, except for some wankers have STOLEN THEIR NAME!
TUES. 28th AUG. - hey you win some & you lose some, that's y'know just THE WAY. Lost - 80 bucks. Found - 20 bucks. I still feel lucky!
FRI. 30th AUG. - this skanky ugly little dog is hanging around our house all the time trying to root Bliss (she's on heat), he has been hanging around all the time for I don't know, 3 days, 4 days, maybe longer, his name is Jock. Jane tried to capture him today so's we could look at his tag & find out where he is from so's we could call his people & tell them keep him the hell away, 'cause he tore our back door all to hell & shit trying to get in (it was already all rotten & stuff) & just in general he is being a big pain in the ass. She was using Bliss as bait to try & catch him & he was coming right in close - couldn't help himself even tho' he knew it was a trap, christ they're worse than humans - but he was cautious enough that she didn't catch him.