Because this bitch took me over 3 hours to compile, and because I want to also point out that I am tumblring more than I am livejournalling these days...

http://thehandshakedrugs.tumblr.com/post/244327675/if-you-were-a-rage-programmer

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always one reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins
Let me be empty
And weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

$3 pots from 10pm-1am.
Free entry.

BOOYAH.

(216): Where the fuck is Rob at, he hasnt answered his phone in like 2 weeks.
(440): Dude Rob died 2 weeks ago wtf?
(216): Holy shit r u serious? How?
(440): Just kidding, but im pretty sure he boned your gf and doesn't want to talk to you.

When did Perth get a massive freaking Ferris Wheel?

My new baby;



Downstairs in the very awesome dungeon room of the GB, this will be a monthly event (assuming the first one goes well). It's FREE ENTRY all night. There will be some kicking drink specials and yes, the DJs will take requests of songs new and old.

In fact, feel free to request things here so I can ensure that we have them on the night!!

I find this fascinating. After doing some research on the appropriation of the Native American sweatlodge and the Australian didjeridu traditions by new age pagans (who I personally think need to, on the whole, get a fucking clue), I got to thinking about the Burning Man (and related) festivals and how and why they do the things they do and I came across this, from a few months back.

"A party for a group of Burning Man festival devotees in Oakland billed as a "fundraiser for the Native American Church touched off tensions among Native Americans.
The "Go Native" party was scheduled for Saturday night at the Bordello, and a discount was initially offered to attendees who arrived "in Native costume."
Instead, it become a lesson in cultural sensitivity as actual natives lectured the partygoers for hours, leaving some in tears.
The annual Burning Man festival, which draws tens of thousands of artists, revelers and new age spiritualists, is held in Nevada's Black Rock desert near land reserved by the government for the Paiute tribe.
Organizers of the Visionary Village camp had sponsored the party, but after Native Americans discovered the party listing on Tribe.net, a war of words began.
Eventually, organizers met with local tribal leaders and promised to cancel the party.
Still, a few revellers showed up, only to be confronted by angry detractors.
"If you want to be spiritual — go be a Druid or something," a Hopi woman vented at a hipster who asked for native help on Burning Man projects."
-Burning Man Ravers Lectured, nbcbayarea.com April 1, 2009

Some more links;

Here is an article from the East Bay Express (some of the reader comments are great)
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/burners_torched_over_native_party/Content?oid=954007

From 'New Age Fraud'
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2193.0%3Bwap2

And Stuff White People Do have mentioned it too;
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/04/romanticize-native-americans.html

I was just reading over some old LJ entries and there was a comment from my friend Kellijayne.

Kellijayne was a fucking awesome woman. She grabbed life by the balls and got what she wanted. She was a kick ass stage manager. She was a kick ass drinker. We had sleepovers in her North Melbourne apartment and listened to Fiona Apple and chain smoked and told secrets. She would tell me about how awesome Tasmania was and I always meant to go on a trip there with her. We worked together at Galactic Circus and after every shift we drank shit beer and smoked and it would take me hours to tear myself away and go home to Preston. We went to shows together, one time Paul McDermott tried to make us pash each other. When Michael and I broke up, she was fucking awesome. She led by example. She was fierce and strong and independent. She introduced me to Richard Cheese and I gave her shit for liking Tori Amos. She was beautiful.

In January of this year, I received a facebook message from someone I didn't know, informing me that Kaje had died unexpectedly of multiple brain anuerysms. She would have been 34 this year.. I couldn't afford to go to the service (it was in Tassie) but I hear it was beautiful. Her facebook page is like a shrine and her long-neglected LJ will always sit there untouched, for as long as LJ is around.

She had logged into MSN the day before she died and I thought to myself "should really catch up with Kaje, it's been too long". When I got the facebook message, she was still logged into MSN, but it was obviously too late for the catch up we both kept putting off.

I don't think I really spoke about it on here. And we weren't best friends, but she touched my life, and so many others and was an amazing human. I miss her.

Received the 'your application has been submitted and is being processed' letter today. Now I play the waiting game.

*twiddles thumbs*

You know the drill, right? I've whacked all the mp3s I have on my computer into winamp, selected 'random' and listed the first lines of the first 20 songs (discounting remixes and instrumentals) for y'all to guess at what they are. Whoever guesses the most correct songs gets a gold star*

1. They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no. - mr_e_cat

2. We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community who have chosen to join us - mr_e_cat

3. It's tricky when you feel someone has done something on your behalf

4. Please step inside, just for a while

5. It might not be the right time, I might not be the right one - cadaverique

6. Don't want a four leaf clover, don't want an old horseshoe

7. The shine in your love is gone and you feel like it's been too long

8. Baby baby, baby don't leave me

9. I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends - slowlight

10. I'm in no mood to comb my hair

11. I love I love I love my calender girl - mr_e_cat

12. Right now, right now it's time to... - nazifagbot

13. Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin- drzero

14. I don't feel alright in spite of these comforting sounds that you make- bleeding_rose

15. The voodoo who do what you don't dare do people - slowlight

16. Please don't reproach me for how empty my life has become - Liv!

17. Like the men that were before me, he said

18. I'll be late for that, baby I'll wait for that, if you had a taste of that, you'd probably pay for that

19. I love my mummy 'cause she fucked my dad

20. What would we do? Usually drink, usually dance, usually babble - nazifagbot

*must supply own gold star

I have an inexplicable urge to buy the entire Sonic Youth back catalogue and then lock myself in a room with a bottle of gin and listen to them all in chronological order. I am uncertain as to what this says about my frame of mind.

Haven't been on the LJs in forever. Moved to a new pad. It is simultaneously awesome and awful.

Mostly I just want to quit my job, register my kitchen for commercial cookery and bake some motherfucking cupcakes.

Oh, and if you are yet to hear the début Night Terrors record 'Back to Zero', I suggest you quickly locate yourself a copy and listen to it from start to end, because it's pretty fucking incredible, aight?

One for my nerd/iinet staff friends -

Naked DSL. For Gamers. Is it worth it?

Seeing photos of your estranged father on facebook is weird. Also, who the fuck do all those children belong to and when did all of my cousins get married?

I don't care for this at all.