WorldOfIllusion

For my sweetheart the melancholic
You have crossed the River Styx
And the waves have taken you away

‘Biko – Bloc Party’

Right now I am exhausted. For some reason my body didn’t seem to want to sleep last night – until some time after four am. Then I had to wake up to go to work. On a sidetrack here, I am starting to think that you shouldn’t be allowed to work full time until at least the age of twenty one. Its just cruel.

Backtracking.

The most ridiculous part of my exhaustion is that by the time I am going to bed I will no longer be tired. Luckily for me I do have a day off tomorrow, always nice even if I do get bored sometimes. See I need things to do. Unfortunately the weather is unpredictable and my main and most easily accessible group of friends are mainly good for night time activities. Things during the daytime either need pre-planning or almost all of us there to be good. So I am mostly left to my own devices as they would say.

Now comes the part where I involve you my ever more silent audience – the few people who I sincerely hope are reading this. That said there has to be people seeing this as I get a rough five page views a day… averaged that is. That said a lot of them are thanks to google and one post in specific that I wrote a while back now. The point is I hope there is one or two steady readers. It would absolutely make my day if somebody left me a comment – please. I can keep talking to what feels like a darkened room but a response would always be nice.

In other news – I shall draw this post to an end. At the rate I am going I may even manage to have a new post tomorrow. I feel so proud of myself. Hurrah.

You have no home, you lost your throne, where has it gone?,
Well it could all come back,
But you’re being led by the walking dead,
You stumble and you cracked the ground,
You’re pinned down…

‘Hello Again – Lostprophets’

So another weekend ends. It was fun overall – but not really what I wanted it to be. Do you understand what I mean? There wasn’t anything really that wrong with it, but it didn’t go how I wanted it to. I had lots of fun, some good times. Yet I wish things could have gone slightly differently.

I don’t quite know what to think or how to proceed. I am probably just being foolish, probably just making the same mistakes I have before… but still. Some things seem inconsistent, in normal circumstances I don’t have great insight – but in this case I have no hope (not as in no hope of success, no hope of understanding).

However I have to watch my words here lest I give the wrong impression. Or even the wrong idea completely. In the past I think miscommunication from this blog has worked against me, something I don’t want happening again.

In other news – today I saw Funny People. From what people were saying about it I thought it would be terrible, it wasn’t that bad. Not the funniest but it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as it could have been. Also (a completely different topic here), when I started this blog I intended to make it a ‘humour blog’ – obviously I gave up on that. That said my original intention was to develop pseudo fake characters to populate my posts with. These characters would only be pseudo fake as they were going to be based around people and events in my life. I may try it out later on.

After all someone suggested that I should.

Somewhere in the night there’s a light in front of me
Heaven up above with a shove, abandons me
And even though I try I fall in the river of you
You’ve managed to bring me down too

‘(Can’t Get My) Head Around You – Offspring’

Last night I went into the city with my friends. This meant it was a Saturday. We had a basic plan, we went to a pub called Paddy’s where those who were drinking had Guinness (not me as I had to drive). Then we moved on to the Three Wise Monkeys. If you live in Sydney you should know this one – it has the statuesque thing above the door of see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. This is where things started going a little awry.

See normally my group of friends is the youngest by only one or two years; last night in the upstairs section with the music and space for ‘dancing’ this wasn’t the case. See the average age was around 40. Basically a whole heap of old (relative to us – not talking about senior citizens here) women dancing. This would be a cougar hunters dream – yet none of my friends are cougar hunters… I think. So we finished our drinks – which might I add were unique. Has anybody reading this had Campari? One of my friends has decided he likes Campari and lemonade… I really don’t understand why (that said I would say it tastes better than the double scotch that my other friend had).

After a short break for eating purposes we headed towards what should have been the nights highlight – Purple Sneakers. What we didn’t take into account was that it was an RnB night. That changed things. The place was nearly empty and of the few people that were there half were wearing black or white face paint, costumes or something like that. Also they changed the drinks they were serving – so there was no delicious purple punch.

So we decided to walk and find somewhere else. We did a lot of walking. The were more misadventures here but I wont go into detail. It is too painful. Eventually we just went into the ‘Star Bar’, it was good enough I suppose.It may however have left me with permanent hearing damage.

In conclusion this story does have a moral – if your going into the city – do it on a Friday night.

Today I saw the movie Up.

All in all – it was fantastic. For all of you who scoff at animations, who say they are for children… you have no idea. The movie was simply great, enjoyable for children and adults alike.

For me I found quite a few parts of the movie quite sad, it stirred memories for me. For those who have seen it you will know what the start of the movie was like. Just let me say here how is the beginning not sad? As I said the movie stirred memories for me – in this case it made me think of my Grandpa. Not that him and ‘Carl’ were that similar but still.

In other news I suggest you all go and watch Up – it sure is worth it.

UP – on the scrapbook by ~eikomakimachi on deviantART

Over the last week or so I have noticed an increase in spam comments being left on my blog. Luckily wordpress has pretty fantasmic anti-spam (Akismet). So rather than having some twenty comments chock full of links and random sentences that don’t make sense… I have silence. In other news when I first started this blog I did a post which was very very loosely based around the idea of technopathy.

Since then I have occasionally had people find my blog while searching the internet on how to ‘technopathy’. You know what this means? People are actually trying to find out how they can magically interact with computers… by looking it up on a search engine. I imagine they would be mighty disappointed when they find my blog and the fact it offers absolutely no clues on how to talk to computers.

Until next time.

Are you any good at pool? I’m not really – well I’m not completely terrible but not great by any stretch of the imagination. Hopefully that will change… see one of my friends is now teaching me some more complicated and skilled shots and other such fun stuff. Now all I need to do is practice. Problem is that I only ever play pool when at this friends house.

Why am I bringing this up? Well I need something to write about and I was at his house last night with some other friends. A very simple outing, pizza, pool, watched a random movie. A nice way to kill nearly six hours in the end.

Its unnerving
How just one move puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else

‘Matchbox Twenty – Leave’

I don’t want to be the one to blame
You like fun and games
Keep playing em
I’m just saying
Think back then
We was like one and the same
On the right track
But I was on the wrong train

Fort Minor – Believe Me

So over the course of a day I watched the majority of Heroes Volume 4. Not going to go into depth but parts of it annoyed me. The major twist at the end – ridiculous. If you know anything about the earlier episodes/past volumes you will know that the Nathan and Sylar twist is completely un-needed.

So ends another micro-post. Now with 99% less satisfaction.

You're always on display
For everyone to watch and learn from,
Don't you know by now,
You can't turn back
Because this road is all you'll ever have.

Paramore – Fences

So the other night I went somewhere I haven’t been before. I went here. Overall it was decently good – a lot of baby faced people who really didn’t look eighteen. I am pretty sure that I was the tallest person in the club (for those who don’t know me I am ‘taller’ than average). The music was loud and their signature drink was nice (also filled with sugar – on that note I think the version I had of it was stronger than normal as some of the people I was there with had ‘connections’).

Until next time enjoy this video:

We are all the way we are for a reason. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not talking about destiny or fate or anything like that. See we are all products of our experience and beyond that our genetics. All the seemingly insignificant moments have led you up to this point in your life. How you think has been influenced by so many things.

In other news.

The other day I watched My Sister’s Keeper. I haven’t read the book – apparently its better than the movie… that said I thought the movie was fantastic. Extremely sad – and it doesn’t try and make it all a happy sunshine and rainbows ending (a good thing). Now I have another book to add to my to read list.

It will have to wait though – see there are another two books ahead in the queue. See I am currently reading Catch 22 – a very… unique book. Then there is A Prayer for Owen Meany. Which should be good as well.

On that note I shall end this post – until next time (you really have to love these half baked nuggets of little content value).

The other day I forked out a whole heap of money. You want to know what for? It took less than an hour. It has to do with driving. Can you guess yet?

I went to the RTA.

I progressed from a P1 to a P2 license class.

It cost me over a quarter of my weeks wage. Getting your P2 license is expensive – the RTA is a rip off.

The benefits? I can now drive as many people under the age of 21 (after 11 pm) as I want. I can use a hands free mobile. I can go 10km/h faster. I have three more demerit points. Also I get to use pretty green ‘P plates’ rather than red ones.

Go me.

It’s all about the pretty green plates.