overheard at work

woman 1- oh, do you watch the office? yeh, it's so funny... the american one i mean... the other one i can't stand...

woman 2- yeh, i know... OH MY GOD!!! white chicks is only 10 bucks...

woman 1- get it... that's hilarious that one!


ARGHHHH!!

wicked bro

so finally i went and saw wicked after however many months of people telling me that i should and blah blah blah...

needless to say it was great and fantastic, although it didnt blow me away like the lion king did... it was pretty cool to see all the little bits of wizard of oz mashed in and the fact that your old pal anthony callea was the tin man... and bloody rob mills was the scarecrow!!!

despite these two idols in the cast, they were actually pretty good... managing to carry off an impressive enough (i thought anyways) american accent...

it was all going good and i was grinning ear to ear when "defying gravity" came on.. and then something went wrong...

THE WICKED BITCH OF THE WEST DIDNT FLY!!!!

the whole time i was watching it... i was like,

"hmmm, it's cool.. but it would be heaps better if she was actually flying since she is singing about it..."

turns out that there was a fault on our night and the cabling or rigging system that lifts her and broomey up into the air wasn't working!!! ARGHHHH

anyways, it was a good night and probably will go back and try our luck with the raffle tickets... here are some pictures from inside the theatre with everyone leaving!!

coming soonies

cake

that's all

reality check

it has been a while since i have seen my old pal (who now has a blog) leila and we decided what better way to catch up than watch our old favourite tv staple... SURVIVOR!

beforehand we went for a stroll to racecourse road where we ended up at a vietnamese place that i have never even set foot in...


after our teeeeeny entree came out we were up for the main which were both pretty, pretty, pretty average... and we started to wonder what was going on around us...

on closer inspection we noticed that the place was slightly over run by non asians...

and... i think everyone knows what that means...

basically... if there are no native citizens of the country of food on offer it must be bad.. which makes all the whities LOVE IT!!!


and this little sign didnt make things better... you cant even go and have a spring roll... it's gotta be $7 man... chopsticks would not survive if that was their policy!!!


after i inhaled my mediocre meal down and leila got the remains of her average duck soup to go it was off to safeway to buy some supplies and wash the white mans viet food out...

mmmm FLAKE!!

back home to watch some "hells kitchen" and make cookies... earlier on the day i was inspired by the cornflake cookies on the box and because carol had never eaten them before i decided to give them a burl... here we are attempting to make them...!

leila panning flour like my old pals up in sovereign hill...

me freaking out trying to set the dvd recorder for hells kitchen

leila being attacked with zombie hands!!!!

ta-daaah! the finished results...

not the best blog post ever but hopefully the pictures speak for themselves and a fun time was had by all... :) anyways... it is late and i am tired.

toy story... but not how remember it!!!

clever ass-hole!!!

macro-diet

warning - exposure to these pictures could/will most definately lead to vomit central

god... being at work really exposes me to all the shit they release on DVD these days... i mean, yeh it was popular.. but... DVD?? COME ON!!!

every tom, dick and harry seems to want to get their dirty little suburban hands on the following

• mash
• two and a half fucking men
• everybody loves raymond
• friends...

and now there is a new crime against humanity sweeping the shelves... and it is this fat fuck.

now, whatever... i can usually handle any shit that is on the shelf...

but have a look at the covers for both seasons 1 & 3...

and look closer...

not only have they been completely boring in the pictures and whatever... they have just mirror imaged this fuckers head, enlarged it to the point of pixelation and whacked it on some torso they found laying around the photoshop bin.

taking a new photo would have been too much work for the lazy fucks putting this trash into our stores... surely you would do the best you can for your show... i know it isnt fucking HBO or something..

anyways... that is my little rant about that...

now excuse me as i go throw up in my paper bin..

MY POD!!!!

i dont know how i lived without it... now i have 120 GB of music at my disposal... i have only used about 20 GB which is approx 4,200 songs...

nothing like a great big library and shuffle setting to make you really appreciate life!

it's my bloggy and i'll do what i want to...

they aren't the lyrics but whatever...

anyways... a few new posters for the film peeps out there...

cool sight of the day

in myer the other day when look who i ran into...

it's my old pal... R2-D2 (in lego form...)


it's pretty cool... i did try breaking a piece off for memories sake but then i saw a small asian child staring at me so i stopped..

in the middle of the night...

i go walking down my street...

not the 2nd album of one delta goodrem

so i am at work the other day... doing my shit... when i experienced 2 ocassions of racial abuse/mistaken identity...

the first story was kind the funnier of the two and probably the most innocent mistake i have heard from an old lady...

basically we are talking about her surname and how people always pronounce it incorrectly and blah blah blah... and then she asks me to say it... "see if you can pronounce it..."

needless to say with my amazing ability of foreign languages i pronounce this little old italiano lady's name correctly. she follows that up with ....

"oh, but you're european... you know how it should be said..."

the second story comes much later in the day when an old man was looking for ... (you guessed it) your ol' pal andre rieu and andre bocelli... anyways.. i take them to the classical section and show them (him and his carer/daughter) where all the dvds are... and just as i am about to walk off... he taps me on my arm and says...

"this isn't you is it???" whilst pointing at this guy....

at first i was in shock and then realised i had to say something because the old fucker thought he made an excellent joke...

"noo... i can't sing that well..." i replied with.. i couldn't think of anything else to say...

techhnically i should have cracked-a-toa and said something back but i thought about the age of this man and the fact he has fought in or possibly seen men killed in either world wars and maybe... just maybe have been kept as a prisoner in some sort of jail ala this...

or this

kicking and screaming.. not a will ferrell movie... but my life!

anyways.. i am alive and going about my business.. highlights of the past few days/weeks include the following..

• watching step up 2 - the streets and wondering what the hell are "apple bottom jeans" as sung in one of the main songs from that film...
  
  i cant resist posting this video where some fool has typed all the lyrics out for our pleasure..
  
  
  
  and then i did a little google search that solved the riddle! i came across the following images that put my concerned mind at rest.. REEBOKS WITH THE STRAPS>>> THE STRAPS!!!

• joining the city library so i can continue to watch free movies and not have to spend money that i am not earning at work because they are shitheads and have cut hours from all departments... on the upside to that is watching some good flicks and interesting docos...
  
  highlights include ... "who the EFF is jackson pollock" ... an endearing little film about a foul mouthed truckie who is convinced she has a painting that is worth 50 mill ... (she bought it from a thrift store) .. maybe this movie reminded me of my own mother which is why i found it to be more fascinating than your average joe...

• went to my first ever wedding... (not including the malaysian one that i wore shorts and fucking larger than life grandpa/black man in the bronx rapper shirt and lynx shoes... my god... not only do they make awful deodorant.. that CHOC one makes me want to GAG!)

ben circa 1996-ish

ben circa sept. 2008

• meh... what else... downloading a shitload of tv from the net... havent watched any of it... if anyone wants anything i could start an effing library with all the stuff i am accumulating.
  
  
• did my tax return... in an amazing result i got back more than my fair share which is going straight to the pool room in the hopes that it will get me an ipod, a macbook pro and a trip to europe... i know i am dreaming but COME ON!!!! if delta can beat cancer i can save some $$$!
  
  
• all 5 seasons of the wire arrived from amazon v. quickly and no, i havent started watching it.. i am still 2 seasons behind the brutal sausage fest that is OZ!

yeh, that'll do... hope y'all well!!!