I have the new DVDs by Muse (HAARP) and the Who (Amazing Journey) to watch. Awesome. The first Raid Over Moscow practise on Thursday was a blast. Cool. I had graduation on Friday and didn't trip over on stage. Wicked. KittyHawk played a show last night we weren't really that keen to do, and which was plagued by technical difficulties, but we eventually got the dormant crowd rocking and off their feet and had a brilliant time. Sweet.

Then as we were packing up some drunkard threw a bottle at me, hitting me in the eye, and I spent the rest of the night/morning dealing with policemen and hospital staff who were at best minimally competent, but a better description would be downright rude and offensive.

My favourite part was asking the receptionist if I could have another pen to fill out ACC form as the one I was given didn't work and being told, "The phone is over there, just dial one."

I'm watching Nirvana's Live! Tonight! Sold Out! It is awesome. I'm resisting watching Unplugged (the first album I ever bought) as I'm crossing my fingers to get it fro Christmas.

Anyway... if you're going to Camp A Low Hum in February, KittyHawk will see you there! Woot. And we'll also see you perhaps at the Mint Chicks' last show before they head to Portland, because we've elbowed our way onto the bill somehow...

Very busy at work today - the Xmas rush finally began, and in style. I even managed to fuck off one of our problem 'customers', which considering how persistent and unrelenting he is, is quite an achievement. He came in the middle of a huge rush of actual customers, those people who actually buy stuff, and did his usual "do I have anything on hold?" routine. We didn't have time for it today (dealing with this guy, who's been banned before, and is currently persona non grata at other retail stores in the CBD, can take a long time and a lot of patience), so I told him as such. He persisted, as I tried to deal with the queue of people... so I told him he should know himself whatever it is he has on hold, and he'd have to wait till we were done with the queue of people buying stuff. He got pissed off and began badmouthing us to others in the store, so I stopped what I was doing, told him to shut up and get out because we didn't have time for his shit today. He did his 'offended' routine (I've seen it enough times to call it a routine) and said he'd tell my manager. I told him to make sure he does, he left, and the next customer had a "I don't know whether to laugh or pretend I didn't see anything at all" look on his face... I said to the customer,  "It's okay. Every time I swear at that guy my boss gives me a high five." I think the guy had worked in retail before, as I could tell his laugh was one of recognition.

Two and a half years I've been dealing with this fuck, and I've only sworn at him twice. Considering my usual tolerance for idiots and the relaxed, permissive (and sometimes encouraging) nature of my manager, I think I've done pretty well not to do it more often. Maybe working in those call centres was good for something after all :)

Earlier in the day one of our "can I listen to 2pac?" guys came in, but luckily was out in a jiffy. As a preventative tool, I made a "No, You Can't Listen To 2Pac" sign, complete with a pic of a wigga, and put it on the wall.


Top 5 of the last fortnight!
1. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
2. The Checks - Hunting Whales
3. Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise
4. Phoenix Foundation - Happy Ending
5. Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre

"The point is not whether the National Party is somehow behind the Exclusive Brethren pamphlets. The point is that the kind of world that a Don Brash led government would create is such a tidy fit with the views and mindset of people like the Exclusive Brethren, a sect based on the principals of exclusion and narrow morality, that they feel impelled to come out of hiding and jump into the political fray." - Barbara Sumner Burstyn (click for full article, from scoop.co.nz)

Hehe, she has 'Sumner' in her name. Like Bernard Sumner.

Anyway... I got a freebie from work, that happened to be the latest Craig David CD... and god, it sucks like a nuclear powered vacuum cleaner woud suck if someone ever made one. So I swapped it for the latest Nine Inch Nails CD, and there's a track on it, Beside You In Time which is just as good as Hurt, if you ask me. Pity Mr Cash is dead and can't make this one even better like he did with Hurt. Maybe when Ryan Adams is 70, he'll try it. On his 900th album.

I watched this Denis Leary DVD last night. He really likes the word 'okay'. And beer.

I better update the luna spark website, huh. Tell the adoring masses I've canned the last album and am starting a new one.


Oooh. I almost forgot to add that I managed to get from outside here to the bike stand outside work in only six minutes and ten seconds. Of course, in order to do this, I had to basically ignore the rules of the road... I can't believe the downhill slide to work is so steep pretty much all the way that I get pissed off at people in cars driving too slowly. Ooh, the clip I'm downloading is almost ready. Mike Myers and Kanye West... Haha... poor Mike... the look on his face...