What Grinds My Gears is MSN Spaces…

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“Wow what an exciting day this is! It seems MSN Spaces has changed the layout and the entire set up, and you know what, I think it’s rad! To me it looks a lot cleaner, it’s easier to view as they actually use the entire screen now. It’s wonderful.

I think that they are trying to compete with the other blog sites available. I believe they have done a good job so kudos to MSN for finally doing something right. Hopefully they get started on an overhaul of Myspaces next.”

This was the blog I wrote just after I saw the new layout for MSN Spaces, I was quite excited at the time as it does look quite snazzy. However when I went to post this blog I had realised my mistake. In the section where you write you blog, there was no place to actually write the freaking thing! You can put your category in and the title of the blog, but you can’t actually blog. How does this happen? Does anybody check this before they go about implementing their whole new design? To make it worse it left me with nothing to do, all I had left to do was work and that’s not on!

I’ve recently decided to start a separate blog dedicated to my musical “endeavours” and thoughts. However I’m not going to post them at this blog I’m going to do it at Myspaces because it’s more music orientated. However it won’t be updated anywhere near as often as this blog and as previously mentioned will really only be about music stuff. You can view it here: http://www.myspace.com/brodiepur

Well this weekend was a big weekend for me, I achieved (is getting drunk for the 1^st time in months an achievement?) a lot of things a set out to do which is big for me because I do tend to procrastinate a lot (I’m sitting here writing this instead of doing work which will have to be done in the near future).

I’ll start at the beginning, about two weeks ago I bought a brand new queen size bed (many thanks to Dean for getting me an über good deal at Capt. Snooze) and this weekend I finally had the cash to buy it and pick it up. My dad arrived home from work around 8.15am with a van from work so we could actually transport the bed home without any difficulty, we left not long after. As soon as we left my house it dawned on me that it doesn’t take 35 minutes to get to Captain Snooze in Chirnside Park from our house, especially that early in the morning. Sadly I was correct and we arrived to an empty Captain Snooze. After a short wait I went inside to organise everything when something else went wrong. Turns out I have an $800 limit on my EFTPOS card (I already knew there was a limit, I just thought it was when you withdrew actual cash, sadly, this time I was wrong), I had to pay $880, after another half hour or so of screwing around trying to organised funds my father payed for $400 worth on his credit card and I paid the remaining cash.

We drove round to the back where I met a cheerful Dean who helped my Dad carry the mattress and the base to the van, I just supervised (and did a fine job of it too mind you!) because I’m so limp wristed. We got the bed home and unloaded it in to the “car hold” as I was still to make room for it in my bedroom. I planned on cleaning my room when we returned but I ended up falling asleep on the couch.

When I woke up I went out to my room to begin the clean up, I did my usual ritual of putting a CD on, turning it up full volume and went to work. Basically I unassembled my bed, moved it all (the mattress and the frame) by myself out to the back yard and moved all my furniture around. Once I did all this I did all the general little things you do while cleaning not really worth mentioning. I also set up my drum kit (Which I’ll talk about later) which was a pain in the ass, but hey it was worth it in the end. I couldn’t actually set up my new bed as there was nobody home to help me carry it down to my room which is a fair journey when you think about it.

After all this I went shopping at Knox with Elesha, she needed to find clothes, actually she didn’t “need” to, she wanted to. That girl spends what she makes working on Saturday nights on clothes to wear to work on Saturday nights, it’s crazy! We also made a trip to Sexyland, possibly the greatest store on the planet (special mention to JB Hi-Fi which also ranks very high on my list).

I had invited peeps around to my house from 6.30pm onwards for pre-drinks before Tiffs party, I didn’t get home till just after 6, so I was galloping around like a mad horse on acid. After beating Brad at darts and having our pre-drinks a surprisingly large group of us caught the train in. The trip in was painful, my need to urinate was amazing, I’ve never hurt so badly in my life! There was also some old creepy guy who kept starring at us. I did manage to get Brad to get his photo taken with a group of girls, it was a bet for $5, in the end I paid him but I don’t think I should have both their heads were cut off in the photo, but kudos for the effort I guess.

We got to the pub and we did the usual stuff you do when you go out talk, drink etc, I got nicely toasted for the 1^st time in over 4 months which was hella fun. I remember most of the night but there are a couple of foggy patches which I’m still trying to fill in, like if I went to DV8 or not, I think I did but I may have dreamt it. Trying to get a taxi home proved to be a lot harder than usual. We had some asshole driver pull over and then drive off once he found out Trent was blind (fuck you asshole!), we eventually found a cab after about 30 minutes (30 minutes of drunk time mind you, it may have actually been 10 minutes, it may have been an hour).

The next day I woke up around 1pm with only a minor headache so it was time to get organised for the day. My dad helped me carry down my new bed and I went to work on re-arranging my bedroom. It looks completely different now, it’s weird, I’m not a big fan of change when it comes to moving things around, actually I quite hate it! This took me a few hours but when I finished I found it was well worth the effort. Plus my drum kit was now set up (minus a floor tom because Nick still has a couple of parts for it), so I sat there for a couple of hours trying to get my groove back, it was awesome! I haven’t played in so long, getting back on it makes me wonder why I waited so long to set it up again, I just love it. I then went to sleep on my nice new bed and my god it was great! So Spacious!

Anyway for those who read this to the very end, congratulations, it’s a very long blog indeed. And as usual comments are appreciated.

After reading blogs by both Pat (http://pat.xyonic.com/blog/2006/07/ipod-wars-brad-vs-pat.html) and Brad (http://www.theshithaus.com/blog/40) it inspired me to throw my songs into “Pepsi-Co Arena of Evil”. I think I did ok for myself, I tried to rank my scores as honestly as possible. I tried to be a little harsher on myself for the songs by Disturbed, I wanted to give them a higher score (8 or a 9) because they are one of my favourite bands. But I know that they have other songs which are much better out than the ones that came up on my list.

Well anyway here’s my list:

-         P!ATD – Camisado (9/10)

-         Nine Inch Nails – Hand That Feeds (7/10)

-         Avenged Sevenfold - Burn It Down (6/10)

-         Tool – Undertow (9/10)

-         Disturbed – Bound (7/10)

-         S.O.A.D – Prison Song (9/10)

-         Disturbed – Overburden (7/10)

-         The Used – Noise and Kisses (6/10)

-         X-Slipknot – Vermillion (5/10) (Skipped)-X

-         Lost Prophets – I Don’t Know (8/10)

-         Tool – 4 Degrees (8/10)

TOTAL = 75

I think I did ok for myself, what do you guys think?

On another music related matter one of my songs for this “iPod War” was by Avenged Sevenfold, and I have never actually listened to their music even though I have 2 albums. You know what, I thought it was pretty rocking and I’m really starting to get into it.

Ok here’s the situation and the reason why I deleted the previous blog. Thankyou every one for your input and at least I know who I can turn to these days. Although I meant everything I said in the blog, and don’t regret saying it, I know now I should not have posted it. As I said I was very angry and upset, but it was the wrong thing to do and I should have gone about the problem better.

Elesha and I have sort of cleared things up for now so please don’t hate her, she’s just as confused about things as I am.

Worthless

As I sit here staring blankly

A calm comes over me

I have just released

My world has ceased to be

What am I still here for?

Why should I still care?

For nothing really matters

My hearts no longer there

My existence is worthless

My life is on the line

What is there to live for?

When no one gives me time

My love has now faded

My friends have long past

My sight now jaded

How much longer can I last?

Now sit here bleeding

My body almost drained

I now stare serenely

My life taken In vain