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June 21, 2008
June 17, 2008
Seven Songs
Tom has tagged me with this really interesting meme.
“List seven songs you’re into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring.”
Interesting. Mostly because I don't listen to "songs" or "tunes", as such. I mostly have my iPod on in the car, playing everything I have on it on shuffle, or I play an album (any album) from start to finish, and then play another one. I listen to music in a fairly random pattern, so it doesn't really "shape" anything, apart from my eardrums. So, here's seven songs (or tunes) that I've randomly listened to recently, and I like.
"The Lark" by Moving Hearts. This is an epic tune. It's actually a set of dance tunes (as in "Irish" dance), linked together in amazing ways. It starts off slowly, and moved quite rapidly into ass-kicking, jumping about territory. One of my favourite tunes ever, if not my favourite. I couldn't find a YouTube video, probably because it's 13 minutes long. There's plenty of other Moving Hearts stuff there though.
"Group Four" by Massive Attack. Again, epic. Starts off crunchy, goes smooth, and then gets very crunchy again. Not something you can dance to though. Ideally listened to by yourself, at full volume, in a darkened room.
"Inner Universe" by Origa. This is the opening theme from Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex, and it's amazing. I have no idea what the Japanese chick is singing about, but it's cool. Gets really thumping at several stages too.
"Tell Me" by the Stone Roses. This was the 'Roses forst single, a double-A side along with "So Young". It's probably my favourite song of theirs, after "I Am The Resurrection". Very raw. I love it.
"Paradise City" by Guns & Roses. This song, for me, means summer. It's designed to be played at maximum volume to a crowd of thousands, preferably on a beach, in 30°+ heat. So not so much shaping my spring, as announcing my summer, with a bang.
"15 Stepz" by Amplive (ok, not really by Amplive, but by Radiohead, remixed by Amplive). This is great, in my opinion. If you're one of those people who thinks Radiohead are "too god" to be remixed, or that remixing their stuff is like, sacrilege, screw you. Besides, Radiohead thought this remix was good enough that they allowed it to be released without suing anyone. Plus, the video is pretty good, if a trifle weird.
"Reptilia" by The Strokes. The Strokes Best Song Ever. Definitely one for listening to while driving at great speed (or, alternatively, depending on your point of view, to be avoided at all costs while driving). Awesome.
My alternative "seven songs" list consists entirely of Tenacious D, picked at random. I think I bogged the one most people would want to read (apart from Andy). :-)
May 8, 2008
Six Random Meme...
I don't know how to tag anyone - yes I am a retard shhh!!
Link to the person that tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about you in a blog post.
Tag six people in your post.
Let each person know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Let the taggee know your entry is up.
Random thing #1 - The first major gig I went to was Guns N Roses in Slane Castle in 1991 - I think!! I was about 7 or 8. It rocked, so did I!!
Random thing #2 - The first CD I purchased with my pocket money was: Hole The First Session. Strangely enough the first Cassette Single I bought was Coolio 'Ganstas Paradise' ("As I walk through the valley in the shadow of death....") Yes I do still know all the words!
Random thing #3 - I still have no idea what I want to do for a living, all I know is that I want to help people in some way. Even though I have a qualification and I am good at it it's a pain in the arse job and I will be forever annoyed for not doing something else in college because now, at this stage of my life I am too scared to go back full time.
Random thing #4 - When I was 19 I had a total of 13 piercings - mostly facial, and I had crazily died hair, now I wear pearl earrings and have au naturel hair and face - ie: no makeup most of the time, apparently now I look younger than I did then, how odd seeing as I am 6 years older!
Random thing #5 - I hate throwing parties because I am always afraid that no one will show up, especially for my birthday, which is has been a disappointment every second year since I was 16 (I like to call it the pattern, based on last years this years should be good!)
Random thing #6 - I have been known to cry at a beautiful sunset, pathetic I know but I am a very emotional person, the last time I did it was last Friday in Fremantle, W.A, it was the last sunset I would see there, we had been fishing on the harbour, the sky was beautiful, orange and pink, there were dolphins in the harbour and I knew that it was the last time I would see my friend in a long time.
Link to the person that tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about you in a blog post.
Tag six people in your post.
Let each person know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Let the taggee know your entry is up.
Random thing #1 - The first major gig I went to was Guns N Roses in Slane Castle in 1991 - I think!! I was about 7 or 8. It rocked, so did I!!
Random thing #2 - The first CD I purchased with my pocket money was: Hole The First Session. Strangely enough the first Cassette Single I bought was Coolio 'Ganstas Paradise' ("As I walk through the valley in the shadow of death....") Yes I do still know all the words!
Random thing #3 - I still have no idea what I want to do for a living, all I know is that I want to help people in some way. Even though I have a qualification and I am good at it it's a pain in the arse job and I will be forever annoyed for not doing something else in college because now, at this stage of my life I am too scared to go back full time.
Random thing #4 - When I was 19 I had a total of 13 piercings - mostly facial, and I had crazily died hair, now I wear pearl earrings and have au naturel hair and face - ie: no makeup most of the time, apparently now I look younger than I did then, how odd seeing as I am 6 years older!
Random thing #5 - I hate throwing parties because I am always afraid that no one will show up, especially for my birthday, which is has been a disappointment every second year since I was 16 (I like to call it the pattern, based on last years this years should be good!)
Random thing #6 - I have been known to cry at a beautiful sunset, pathetic I know but I am a very emotional person, the last time I did it was last Friday in Fremantle, W.A, it was the last sunset I would see there, we had been fishing on the harbour, the sky was beautiful, orange and pink, there were dolphins in the harbour and I knew that it was the last time I would see my friend in a long time.
January 15, 2008
(Another*) Five Things
Lyle has dropped me in the shit (for which he has been severely reprimanded) with this here meme thingy.
To quote from Lyle: "The idea of the meme is to list five things in your life now that you would have never thought would be in your life when you were 25". So here we go then (deep breath...).
- Meeting Nikki on the interpipes, falling in love with her, and asking her to marry me.
Okay this one's fairly obvious. If anyone had told me this was going to happen 5 and a half years ago, I would've told them to fuck off. Thankfully, they would've been right.
- (Relating to #1) Kicking every proposer of marriage's ass by asking Nikki to marry me, to her complete surprise, on top of a mountain, in Alaska, and having a diamond ring (that fitted perfectly) in my pocket.
Well, yeah. This one kinda came as a surprise to me as I was doing it. According to several male friends of mine, I've now "fucked it up completely for the rest of us". Hey, I can't help it if I rock this much. :-)
- Buying a house and (even stranger) settling down
It had to happen sooner or later. I just thought it would be later, after I had traveled the world and stuff. Oh well, I guess the traveling of the world will have to wait until (a lot) later, after gardening and pets (I want some chickens) and other settley-downey things.
- Being such a fucking geek
This is actually very surprising to me. I was a nerd when I was in my early teens, interested in the sciences, reading, and getting beaten up. Then I discovered smoking and drinking and... things. Then (more recently) I met Nikki and fell in love. Then I met Adrian, who is a friend of hers, and now a friend of mine. Adrian is an über geek of the highest order. I blame him for my love of gadgetry, for me learning how to code (badly), and most of all for my constant refreshing of Endgadget's reports of Macworld Keynotes and the like (MacBook Air anyone?).
- (related to #4) Having a blog
Hey, if anybody told me that I'd have a blog when I was thirty (and a half), I would have gone to see the doctor immediately to see if anything could be done to prevent it (not because I didn't like blogs, but I didn't know what one was).
So there you go. Funny how life can surprise you isn't it? But if it didn't, wouldn't we all be like, SO bored?
I'm not really arsed tagging anybody. I can't tag Babs because she's only 24. So I'll tag the aforementioned Adrian, because I know he won't do it (and I bet a fiver he doesn't), and Dan, because he might do it, it's his kind of thing. Oh, and I might as well tag me big sis' Becca while I'm at it, as she hasn't posted in AGES.
*(I say "another" Five Things because I've already done a five things meme, but a different one!)
October 3, 2007
C-Listers
According to this widget, (we place a lot of authority in widgets 'round these here parts) Life Without Toast is a "C-List" entitity in the blogosphere, in the "middle authority" group. I'm quite chuffed that we have any kind of authority at all, even the middle kind. We're pretty much winging it pretty much all of the time.
[via D4D™]
October 1, 2007
LOLHORSE
Claire from gingerpixel.com posted a photo of a horse that she snapped in Mayo at the Breaffy House Hotel. She thought it was crying out for an LOL caption. I agreed.
Lets start a meme, blogosphere! Everybody must immediately make an LOL caption using the original photo, linked above. Go here if you need help with the caption.
April 23, 2007
Me Me Me Meme
Via the totally fantastic Annie.
- PICK OUT A SCAR YOU HAVE, AND EXPLAIN HOW YOU GOT IT. Ok, it's a little white scar on my left index finger, and I got it from lifting a steel-radial tire when I was about ten. The tire was very old, and had lots of little sharp steel pointy bits sticking out. It ripped open the whole length of my finger, and blood went everywhere. Not that you'd guess now, the scar is tiny.
- WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? What room? My bedroom? Just a mirror (and no, it's not on the ceiling, Adrian). We haven't got round to putting pictures up yet. Soon.
- WHAT DOES YOUR PHONE LOOK LIKE? A very small camera. And I want a new one.
- WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? A little bit like Annie, I would refer you to the Lifewithouttoastcast(s).
- WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT DESKTOP PICTURE? In work, this. At home, this. I am perhaps overly fond of a nice desktop.
- WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW? Lunch.
- DO YOU BELIEVE IN GAY MARRIAGE? Of course. I'm totally liberal, and believe in everything that involves people being nice to, and respecting, each other..
- WHAT TIME WERE YOU BORN? I think it was at 9.05am. Ever since, that time is the earliest I've ever gotten out of bed without feeling tired for the rest of the day.
- ARE YOUR PARENTS STILL TOGETHER? Totally. 35years in December. My parents rock.
- WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? A rehearsal of "Children Of Eden" on a tannoy in my office. It's not very good.
- DO YOU GET SCARED OF THE DARK? Not ever. I spend over half of my working life in the dark.
- THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY? No idea. Last time I even came close to crying, believe it or not, was Spiderman 2. See if you can guess which bit.
- WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE COLOGNE / PERFUME? I wear L'Occitaine's Eau De Badian because Nikki loves it, and Nikki wears Very Valentino, and I think it's nice too.
- WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOUR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX? I honestly don't have a 'favourite', but for fear of getting a box upside the head, I'd have to say blonde hair/green eyes.
- DO YOU LIKE PAIN KILLERS? If by 'pain killers' you mean 'alcoholic beverages', then yes.
- ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT? Pretty much the same answer as Annie gave on this one, not really too shy, more like totally useless. Not that I need to ask anyone out, being as I am, happily living with Nikki.
- FAVE PIZZA TOPPING? Cheese. Okay, apart from cheese, black and green olives. Mmmm.
- IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I refer you to question 6. And a cup of tea.
- WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU MADE MAD? I don't generally get mad, more just 'in a huff'. And the last person to get me in a huff knows who they are.
- IS ANYONE IN LOVE WITH YOU? If you read this blog, you know the answer. If you read the answer to questions 13 and 16, you know the answer. If you still don't know the answer, it's 'yes'.
April 19, 2007
Star Wars Personality Test
[WARNING: FLASH + LOUD STAR WARS MUSIC]
April 2, 2007
Three Things
I haven't been tagged, but I am off sick from work today - so meh:
Three Things That Scare Me
~ skangers
~being sick because I never am
~motorways
Three People Who Make Me Laugh
~ Conor & Liam as one (my two roomies)
~ Trishbags
~ Any one of my family members at any given time
Three Things I Love
~ Marmite on toast with real butter
~ Really cold Erginger
~ Living near a beach
Three Things I Hate
~Arrogance
~ When people wind me up when I am oh so obviously not in the humour for it at all
~ Overcooked food
Three Things I Don?t Understand
~ A lot of maths (like the hard stuff, not adding etc)
~ Peopl who refuse to wear a seatbelt / indicate / check their mirrors / drive at 70mph in thick fog
~ How come I used to have size 6 feet (39) and now they are a 5 (38)
Three Things On My Desk (its more a dressing table slash desk so...)
~ 2 mirrors
~ make up
~ coconut oil (for my hair)
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
~ Own a gaff of my own
~ Go to India and learn yoga from a master
~ Meet all of my living relatives
Three Things I Can Do
~ Counsel my friends when they are having a hard time
~ Make strangers feel like they've known me for years
~ A tripod headstand and then jump into a handstand with no one spotting me and no wall (only since last week - its all in the shoulders)
Three Things I Can?t Do
~ Stop talking (a lot)
~ The lotus position due to my crappy Verso ankles
~ Maths
Three Things I Think You Should Listen To
~ Today FM on a Sunday avo with Jim O'Neill, best ever music!!
~ Your own advice
~ "Dear Jessie" by Madonna (I recently rediscovered this gem)
Three Things You Should Never Listen To
~ A used car salesman
~ People who smile with their mouth but not with their eyes (total sign of slyness)
~ A kango hammer
Three Things I?d Like To Learn (but won?t)
~ To be a weather person
~ How religion makes people kill
~ How to drive a truck
Three Shows I Watched As A Kid
~ Flintstones
~ Bosco
~James Bond Junior
February 5, 2007
Project Playlist
January 28, 2007
Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?
One for the Geeks this one, although the non-geeks might as well give it a go:
 | I am:Isaac AsimovOne of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales. |
[via BoingBoing]
January 26, 2007
I'm 43.1% Smarter Than Average
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