Should have picked that

I don't know why, but i keep running in to these "You are the...." tests recently.

Here's the latest

You are The Fool

The Fool is the card of infinite possibilities. The bag on the staff indicates that he has all he need to do or be anything he wants, he has only to stop and unpack. He is on his way to a brand new beginning. But the card carries a little bark of warning as well. Stop daydreaming and fantasising and watch your step, lest you fall and end up looking the fool.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Crash and Burn

OOOOH! Found more scribblings

I see the train coming,
And I put my foot to the floor
I can feel my brain humming
But my body doesn’t know the score

The voice in my head and the fire in my heart
Scream at me to let them out
Grip the wheel tighter, push the pedal harder
Close my eyes and shout

Crash and Burn
Crash and Burn
Crash and Burn
Crash and Burn

The voice in my head puts a gun in my hand
Saying give the barrel a spin
You’ve just gotta jump and not care where you land
You can only lose if you win

Crash and Burn
Crash and Burn
Crash and Burn
(I'm gonna) Crash and Burn

Draft 1

It's more than the parts that make the whole
Sometimes questions outweigh the answers
It's not always easy to discover your role
Amongst the myriad of dancers

When you think you're fighting a losing cause,
Or someone, to you, is lost
You cast about and clutch at straws
No matter what the cost

Be who you are, be what you are
Do all that you can do,
Anyone can be a star,
Only you can be you

With an open heart and open mind
Let song burst from your soul
Do not fear for the things you’ll find
Just let yourself be whole

Though many join us on this path
At the end we’ll be alone
Then say, looking at the aftermath
That life, it was my own.

I partially scribble song lyrics some times, and then lose them, so i thought this is as good a place as any to keep them. Who knows, i may actually get around to polishing and putting a tune to one. One day.

Pigs on the Wing

I may never have seen Pink Floyd as a band, but after a nearly 19 year wait I can now say I have seen them all live.

The first half (or should that be three quarters) was as a callow 23-year old in February of 1988 at East Fremantle Oval. Extremely drunk and drugged up I saw the group in what was their first post Roger Waters world tour. I loved it but couldn't help but feel a little disappointed that he wasn't there. Fast forward to last Friday night when, fuelled by two mid-strength beers, I rounded out the quartet when I saw Roger Waters at Members Equity Stadium in Perth. And it was awesome, in the true definition of the word. The first part of the concert (which was my favourite part) was made up of songs from "The Wall", "Wish You Were Here", the (IMHO) under-rated "The Final Cut", "Amused To Death", "Animals" and the excellent "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" from "Saucerful of Secrets". Some reviews I had read leading up to the show criticized the strength of Rogers vocals, but we must have got him on a good day, because he just blew me away. The set finished with "Sheep" from "Animals" complete with inflatable pig. And yes (thank you bella) I was one of the sheep staring and taking poxy phone camera photos of it (see above).

After a 20 minute break (during which the full moon projected onto the screen behind the stage grew steadily larger) the band launched into the concert's title piece "Dark Side of the Moon". It was an excellent rendition. My only disappointment (again) was that it was not Pink Floyd the entity. Snowy White and Dave Kilmeister were superb on guitar, but couldn't quite carry off Dave Gilmour's vocal parts, which to me are a highlight of the album. Other than that I could have been sitting at home (in a really uncomfortable platic chair in the backyard crushed up againslt my mate Norm) listening to the album. Even P.P. Arnold's vocal on "The Great Gig in the Sky" was almost indistinguishable from the original.

After a rousing standing ovation, Waters then returned to introduce the band (interestingly, keyboard player Jon Carin toured in 1988 with Pink Floyd) and finish off with a collection of songs from "The Wall".

Members Equity Stadium may not have been the most comfortable place to see a concert and I'm never keen to sit through live music (no-one stood until the encore) but I'd gladly cough up $250 to do it all again.

Lazy, I know, but fun

It definitely sounds like me

You're The Poisonwood Bible!

by Barbara Kingsolver

Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become both
isolated and schizophrenic. You were naively sure that your actions would help people,
but of course they were resistant to your message and ultimately disaster ensued. Since
you can see so many sides of the same issue, you are both wise beyond your years and
tied to worthless perspectives. If you were a type of waffle, it would be
Belgian.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Cos I'm in that sort of mood.

A couple of things from which I draw inspiration.
The first is from "The Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership".

1.People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3.If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5.Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6.The biggest men with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
7.People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8.What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9.People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
10.Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

It sort of reminds me to go with my instinct, live from my "higher" self as it were. This quote attributed to Mother Theresa sums it up.

"You see in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway "

Herschelle Gibbs

Let me preface this post with 2 statements:

I am conscious of and try very hard not to be racist.

I am not a Herschelle Gibbs fan. In fact I have been known to decry him loudly as a cheat to anyone who will listen.

Having said that, I think Malcolm Speed and Chris Broad have made a big mistake in charging him and finding him guilty of category 3 racial abuse.
I saw some footage with the audio the other day and, unless there was more than they played, the whole thing is a crock of shit. He called the "supporters" (now there's an irony) "animals" and "fucking hyenas" that should go back to the zoo where they belong. The only thing that will hang him is right at the end, in an almost exasperated tone, he mutters "fucking pakistanis". I'm not going to run crying home to mummy if I get called a "fucking Australian" and I don't see how hyena or animal can be deemed racial epithets?
From memory, the last player banned for racial abuse was Darren Lehmann and Gibbs' comments come nowhere near his outburst.

At the risk of copping a ban myself I ask the question: Did the ICC come down hard in this case because it was Pakistan? Look at the most controversial events of the past few months in world cricket.

The first ever forfeit in Test cricket
The Pakistan team refuse to come back on to the field in a Test match because they don't like the umpires decision.
Result:The Pakistan captain is banned for four one day matches. One of the umpires in question is widely condemmned as a racist and removed from the panel of elite umpires.

Drugs in cricket
Two bowlers are banned after testing positive to a metabolite of nandrolone.
Result:Shoaib Akhtar (2 years) and Mohammad Asif (1 year) from Pakistan had there bans overturned after using the dazzlingly brilliant "we didn't know" defence.

And now Herschelle Gibbs is banned for a potential 10 playing days for complaining to his team mates about the behaviour of a section of the Pakistani crowd.

Anyone seeing a pattern here? Do Pakistan have too much influence in the ICC at the moment? I don't know,maybe I just selectively pulled these incidents from the headlines to make this entry seem more interesting than it really is. Or not.

Comet McNaught

After the disappointment of Comets Haley and Kahoutek, I finally managed to see a comet with the naked eye last night down at the beach. Sweet.

2 of my favourite songs.

Of course by that I mean 2 songs that make me want to sleep with the woman singing them just from the sound of their voices. (it's not complicated)

1. The Sundays Here's where the story ends

2. Angie Hart - Careless. A Paul Kelly cover from the album "The women at the well". Sadly I can't find a link to this one, so I've posted Angie's picture instead :-(

Both breathtakingly beautiful voices.

Aural aphrodisiacs

A Pro Wrestling Revelation

I was watching the "Professional Wrestling" yesterday with the boys when I began to feel uneasy. I was listening to the contrived dialogue between the two protagonists, who were overblown stereotypes with no acting ability or redeeming features other than their bodies, all the while knowing that sooner or later they would be grappling, trying to show off as many different positions as possible, before one or both of them was laid flat out on their back.

Then it hit me.

Pro Wrestling is porn for people who prefer violence to sex.

Surely not, you say? Then consider this.

It follows the same formula (the setup, the tease, the action and then, finally, the climax), and surrounds itself with implausible story lines so people with ridiculously proportioned bodies can strip down and roll around together in the name of entertainment.

And, as I tightly gripped the remote, I realised I was watching it one-handed.