The Chronicles Of…

Ahhh… it’s good to go to a rock concert with a real rock crowd.

I went to see Faith No More at the Hordern Pavilion (my favourite venue!) last night with James. The last time I saw them was 13 years ago at the same venue with Pete, Matt, Chris, (Spiro?) and some other 16/17 year olds.
Old.

I remember the concert in 1997 was really wild (might’ve been the first concert I crowd surfed at…?), and FNM have lost none of their rock. Neither have their fans.

It was the usual story down near the front where James and I were. Lots of guys mixed in with guys and their petite girlfriends taking up the space where you want the crowd to go crazy… I was ready for more disappointing crowd lameness… BUT! The lights went down. FNM played midnight cowboy (slow instrumental song) and built the anticipation. Then BOOM! First song, the crowd surged, the mosh pit went mental (pro. men-ull) and the girls and lady-boys came running out like squirrels from a bush fire.

It was great. No fear of treading on the precious and fragile, just free, crazy, uninhibited jumping, heading banging, and slamming! I was 17 again! Except now I’m bigger framed and 30kgs heavier, so the pit was not the intimidating “I might die here” place that I remembered.
I just let loose. It was great.

And at the end there was the nostalgic familiarity of being soaked with sweat and partially deaf. The sweat I can live with, but I do feel regret for not protecting my hearing better… I’ve come to realise that hearing is not only worth protecting just because you’ve got, but because I feel stupid when I have to ask people 3 times to repeat themselves or have my phone speaker set at 50 decibels above normal… next time.

I’d never heard of the support band “Eagles of Deathmetal” before but they put on a great show. I think they have the same drummer from Queens of the Stone Age… either way, they were much better than the Jesus Lizard who did support for the 97 show. If I remember correctly, their lead singer was wasted and he pulled out his old fella on stage…

I got up this morning at 5.40am to go for a bike ride to Bondi and back (I do this about twice a week to stop getting fat well slow down the fatness!).

I met my riding buddy at Stanmore station, and then made it as far as the Caltex servo in Enmore where I decide to put more air in my front tyre. The air compressor was broken so I decided to use my hand pump. I had to inflate the tyre to 95PSI (that’s a hell of alot of pressure!) and somewhere about 70PSI the valve on my inner tube breaks. It just broke. Pssssssfffff. Total flat tyre.

Ride over.

So basically i got up at 20 to 6 in the morning to ride my pushy to the servo in Enmore and then walk home…

Fail.

So here’s an update of some of the things that have been happening…

- There’s no internet at home, hasn’t really been for almost 2 weeks, not quite but almost
- Therefore no blogging and not much Twittering or Facebooking or anything (cause when I have the internet at home I’m awesome at keeping up with all those!!)

- I went to Melbourne not last week but the one before. Good to catch up with people, course is getting harder, still good things to learn but just a little uncomfortable at times

- We moved house 2 weekends ago, actually I flew in from Melbourne and went straight into moving day… New house is good, but has leaked a lot in this rain, not that the owners would have known cause it pretty much hasn’t ever rained like this…

- Finally got some parts in for the Jeep, starting look a little more vehicle-ish. Bushes and shackles are in and wheels/axles/diffs are back under it. Next on the list is a cross-member to support the gearbox, shocks, and preparing and painting the underside of the body and then putting that back on

- Everything to do with the computer system at work is failing, internet is very intermittent here, we’re finally changing providers, I can’t access our main computer system due to a temporary set up for the internet, we’re due to get a new server cause the old one is old and our Volkswagen systems keep dropping out and I’m forever trying to get them back up

- Family is starting to do well again, we were all sick and unsettled from the move, although Hamish is having midnight snack cravings as he doesn’t eat much during the day

Well that’s about it for now… I should go work… and hope that the internets stays up long enough for me to post this…

Does anyone know, if it’s possible to use WordPress software to run any kind of website?
You see the thing is, I really like the way the WordPress runs the “back-end” and I’m interested in building a website that has the same interface. Especially so I can use all the plugins that are made for it.
Ok geeks… over to you.