The past week... okay. We played a couple of gigs, at the Wine Cellar and the Kings Arms (supporting Motocade). Both went pretty well, with interesting moments... during the Cellar gig I almost impaled Kent on the end of my bass, and John dropped a stick during the Kings Arms gig - at first I thought he'd missed a beat, so continued playing. He didn't recover the beat, so I turned around to see him playing one armed, Def Leppard style. He normally has a backup pair of sticks, as drummers do, so I thought, why the hell is he trying to show off like this? Considering it wasn't really working and all... then a drumstick flew past my head, John fumbled, recovered, then got back to playing the song properly. Turns out he hadn't a backup pair of sticks, and one of them had escaped his grip and flown into the crowd. Someone with a quick mind threw it back at him, luckily.

That won't happen when we're headlining the Big Day Out, that's for sure...

Scully had his balls cut off a few days ago. Hehe. Hasn't stopped him trashing the house though, as tariqa explained. He must still have some testosterone in his system. We took him for a walk in the park across the road yesterday, and he tried to climb a couple of trees. Ten years ago I was a master tree climber, once making it to the very top of this massive tree in Memorial Park, Hamilton, which not even my friend's insane brother would attempt, but not now. Instead I stayed firmly on the ground, restricting Scully's ascent to the length of the cat harness.

You want pics? Once Tariqa has got them off the camera.

I won't say much about the cricket, except oh yeah... bring on the semis! If we beat Australia this weekend, then we'll face either South Africa or England - which is a much better prospect than losing to Australia, and probably facing the in-form Sri Lanka. I can't believe I'm saying 'bring on South Africa rather than Sri Lanka' but that's how it is at the moment. Hell, I'd be a little scared if we were playing Ireland.. this World Cup has shown the leaps some of the minnows have made in recent times.

I watched Children Of Men again, this time on DVD... such an amazing movie. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend you do as soon as possible. Personally, it didn't quite hit me this time around - whether that was because I was watching it at home on DVD or because I was prepared, I'm not sure. But still, its portrayal of a future 'dystopia' beats nearly every other I've seen for realism. Okay, so a future 20 years hence where no one has had babies since 2009, and all the world's major cities have collapsed into war and anarchy except Britain's  might not seem realistic, but the film is done so well, you don't question the premise for a second. And the action sequences are pretty much worth it alone.

I'm pretty sure it was because I knew the movie, to be honest.

I was invited out to play Buzz on the weekend, but it was too far away and the night before the NZ v South Africa match. But I so want to play the dang game again... is there like a Buzz LJ group, or a Buzz pub quiz night? The one night I really got to play it properly I kept coming second, cause I was playing with other music store geeks.

I'm sure there were other things I was going to write about, but I've forgotten. I might edit this post later on.