Author: awmalloyadmin

Too tired. What Rae says.

It’s true, you really can find anything on the internet. Including The Unofficial Metcard Website – a website of considerable dedication and detail concerning the history of Melbourne’s public transport ticketing system.

All you could want to know, and much much more.

I’m preparing the Aussie beachead for the invasion of British Sea Power. Yep, thanks to BBC 6 Music, I’ve found a band I really want to listen to. Only problem is their CD isn’t available in Australia so it’s off to Ebay to pick up a copy.

They have some songs to download (see Childhood Memories and The Lonely), so if you can imagine Joy Division crossed with Badly Drawn Boy and Morrissey you’ll love ’em. To give you a taste of their style their debut album is entitled ‘The Decline of British Sea Power’ (buy at amazon | buy at amazon UK).

Dr Who is coming back in November for it’s 40th anniversary. Unfortunately it’s an animated format, but any Who from the BBC is better than none.

So, who is Who?

None other than Withnail (IMDB | buy at amazon), Mr Richard E Grant.

I guess, given the powers of the TARDIS he finally may get the finest wines available to humanity, and get them now.

The Canucks have released their 2003/2004 pre-season schedule so with my Tiges in free fall and spiralling away from any September action it’s almost time to start thinking of hockey again.

Or this is what the result can look like :

That’s what Mr-I’m-18-And-Indestructible did to his car, his second round of damage in a fortnight. No insurance either.

(Check below if you have no idea what I’m on about)

Rae has an update on the car war.

Just to prove that there are limitations to a computer’s guessing ability.

I was looking at the Pet Shop Boys album Disco 3 on Amazon today when one of their ‘I can guess what you want’ ads caught my eye.

Customers interested in Pet Shop Boys may also be interested in:

Pet Shops
Yellow Pages – Australia wide list Search by state, city & suburb
www.yellowpages.com.au

It’s cool that it realises I’m in Aus but I’m not sure there’s that much of a connection between chair dancing to one of your favourite bands and buying a dog. Then again it may be clever than I thought.

I learnt two things last night from Rae as she slept, and this knowledge is perhaps best passed on by reproducing the discussions.

1 – Monkeys Drive Taxis.

R : “Pay the taxi driver.”
A : “Sorry Hon?”
R : “Pay the taxi driver, pay the monkey.”

Apparently beach side resorts now employ monkeys to drive taxis. You have been warned.

2 – Witches Like Football

R : “Get the chairs off the roof.”
A : “Why?”
R : ” The football. So we can watch the football on the television.”
A : “Okay, I’ve got the chairs off the roof.”
R : “Good, ’cause the witches are here.”
A : “Why do the witches want to watch the football?”
R : “Because they have broomsticks.”

So, witches like watching football because they have broomsticks. You have been warned.

I’ve found a new dastardly enemy.

Slevian.

It seems that we are both trying to build up our collection of Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigator books via ebay. We’re in a bidding war for a couple (and it seems Slevian has been at this for a while by the look of his/her bidding history). Well Slevian, if indeed that is your real name, I hope you realise who you’re dealing with.

Stand back people, this could get messy.