Don't Yooh Ever 4 a Second Get Thinking That Your Irreplaceable

I saw that etched onto the back of a seat on the 130 bus today. Something that makes you think a little bit rather then the usual, 'r u 4 sexc tym call 040 etc etc'. I wonder what the person was going through when they wrote it? Still cool nevertheless. Another bunch of words that caught my eye this week is this song title: it's kind of like the innocent smiles you get at the start of a relationship before you fuck everything up. It's from a little known Aussie band called Laura. Not your everyday music, but definitely something for one of those days. I'll probably tuck that CD under my arm next time I'm in JB.

Since I last blogged I went to the Smashing Pumpkins gig at the Convention Center with Danman. It was pretty damn good. Danman and I had a ball, moshing around and screaming at the songs we knew We tried Tiger beer that night at one of those tiny bars/bottleshops on Grey Street, not a bad drop too I might add. Heard some crazy story the next day in the paper that some two midgets (yeah, like 160cm) went around the Southbank Parklands that night robbing people. We managed to escape all that controversy. I guess they were scared of our tall stature.

In other news I have spent the last two Wednesday's first attending a wine course at Runaway Bay, but then following it up with 007 night. I lie a little, the Wednesday before last Benji and I watched True Lies, which was awesome. Last Wednesday, Kyle, Benji and myself hit up 007 then Fight Club. Both looked awesome on Benji's LCD screen with his motionflow brain blowing technology activated.

Nothing much else I can think of to say, Happy Birthday to Cam for last Friday I suppose

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A few days late, but on Tuesday night I headed to Iron Maiden with my brother, Mudos and Dan from work. I was pretty excited because well, it was Iron Maiden We rocked up at about 7.30 and shuffled into the merch line for some shirts. Eventually a band started, so Dan left to go watch Laura Harris. I really wanted to see her as she's pretty hot, the daughter of Steve Harris (Iron Maiden's bassist) and I was just generally more interested in her then the other support (Behind Crimson Eyes). I decided I'd stay in line though, grab myself and my brother a shirt. By the time we got our merch, dropped it in the car and headed back inside, Laura had finished!

I was a bit annoyed, but realised their was no point to leaving the mosh now... oh, that's right, I had managed to score the best tickets in the house for the gig, Gold GA! The show pretty much sold out within the day so I was pretty stoked to get those tickets! Behind Crimson Eyes were terrible, they slaughtered Motorhead with their cover of Ace of Spades and their music was just generally terrible. I give them some props for managing to ignore the mass of people continually booing and giving them the finger though, no matter how funny and deserving it was

The lights finally went down and Maiden's set started with a blast with Aces High. It was seriously the best concert I've ever been too. There was fireworks, flames, flares, smoke machines, a mechanical Eddie and just an awesome stage presence. Bruce, no matter the age, is incredibly fit and showed it by jumping and dancing around the stage. His voice was amazing, although towards the end of the set it seems the mix got a little unbalanced with a bit too much rhythm guitar and not enough vocals. The entire time I was no more then 5 from the front of Steve Harris and Janick Gers. They were amazing musicians firstly and then entertainers. Swinging their guitars around, dancing, acting and just playing along with the crowd!

Top notch show, really. I have plenty of photos and posted them all to here. Here's one of my favourite ones

That's about it for now. I'll post again soon

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I had a somewhat eventful weekend. Turns out we bought the Lancer and the Chazza is still in the garage for repairs. I managed to break the cam shaft and head gasket somehow so the repair bill on that is going to be hefty, but worth it because it'll run like a new car once it's fixed. We're hoping to sell it for around 4 grand. The Lancer is alright, I've yet to drive anyone in it as it's unnamed, and well, you just don't do things like that without names. The sound system in it is stock, so I'll be saving for a new one of those amongst car repayments/insurance/repairs.

I scored the job at 1st Choice in the end, I got a phone call last Sunday asking if I wanted a job in another area of the store so I had my first shift on Saturday. It's a fairly relaxed work environment and the people seem pretty friendly. The pay is almost $19/hr so I am cheering! I work there 10 hours a week, but still nearly $200 before tax (oh tax.. ). At the moment I'm paying a huge amount in tax because I'm still keeping my Brodies job, until financial year at least then I'll reconsider my options.

Saturday night I had the Lamb of God concert and it was pretty intense. I haven't heard much of their material so it was pretty much a random concert, but it was well worth the $45~. The mosh was probably the craziest I've ever seen but it was alot of fun. Highlights were Walk With Me in Hell and Now You've Got Something to Die For. When the concert finished everyone piled out onto Brunswick Street effectively closing it off which called the cops to come on down and flash some sirens. What happened next was awesome, instead of all the metalheads moving, they swarmed the car and starting chanting 'Lamb of God' over and over. Such a surreal thing to see, especially in Brisbane.

Last night I went to Sizzler with Kyle, Benji, Cam, Kiren and Nesh. It was pretty fun, alot of random jokes and humour here and there. We managed to steal a dessert bowl with Nesh wearing it as a Jewish cap on his head as he walked out, while I managed to snag a supply of jellybeans for the adventure ahead. Originally we were going to see a movie for free courtesy of Nesh, but in the end we decided to go to Slaughter Falls to conquer it.

Nesh brought along a mate, Phil, and off we went. For once there was a few people hanging around there, mainly just smoking up and getting high, but it was good to see some form of life around. We wandered up the deserted road and eventually got to the trail and we headed towards the JC Slaughter Falls walk which was 600 odd meters. After passing a number of 'interesting' Aboriginal artworks and avoiding Benji's bombs, we missed the turn to the actual Falls and instead walked a big circle around the mountain and back to where we started. Doh, easy way to kill an hour. Definitely would of loved to have seen the looks on the stoner's faces when we walked down the road acting like zombies from Shaun of the Dead

And that brings me to now. 8.52am and I'm meant to be walking across George Street normally on a Monday morning, but instead I'm feeling a bit shoddy from dripping in sweat Saturday night and walking around a bush track at 10.30 last night so I skipped the first half of my lecture this morning. I really couldn't be fucked going at all today, but I need to as a group assignment is being released in t-minus 2 hours and 7 minutes and I don't want to be stuck with dipshits.

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