Blogs Suck

HOW TO SUCK

Yer, blogs really do suck .. and I think the reason is becuase they are:

1. Stupid fashions that only young kiddies (including full time and part time students) and bored office workers do.
2. Far too time consuming to: a) Read b) Build and write
3. The Symbol of a either a driven/ motivated or highly organised individual, and upon that realisation, the fact that you can't do a blog makes you feel... well farking lazy?
   
4. Somebody that really wants to become a Journalist, and unless the person is really funny, who is going to like them?
5. The blog content is usually quite crap and the person reading has now defined their borring life to reading other people's boring lives.

I think i want to blog once a week, if i can give 20-30 minutes a week to my fellow bloggers i think i am providing a strong grounding to show how boring some people really are, or is it because my blog is really boring?


THIS WEEK..

Well i think it has been more of a this year kinda entry comment, I must be too lazy or too busy or something... maybe both!

Film has finally built momentum, I just finished the last shoot day in which I was Assistent Producer, but i was also smoke machine artist and dolly grip (dolly grip was very important for the realisation scene, it's what made Hitchcock famous with Vertigo ). If anybody has heard, the film was called 'THE CATCH' it's a 17 minute short film about a 17 Yr Old who is lured by a Transexual into BDSM and there is a missed love connection. It's a great edgy film that should get some good attention and will hopefully do an international short film circut. It was shot on the SONY XDCAM HD DV F330 which is a slightly better camera than what was used for local Feature Film '2:37'.


Any way current sterf on the cards.

SPAA

Poker Doco

Brunatex - This Day film clip

Aussie Occa comedy short

12 other things in a lesser stage of progression.

Am I a character from Seinfeld?

Laying asleep under my desk for around 15 minutes I woke and questioned what am I doing? am I a character from seinfeld? do I know any other characters? I would prefer to live the luxuary of what the actors get paid but that's not the point.
After a restless night's sleep I deceided to shut my office door and lay under my desk like I have done numerous times before, once in my previous job but it was far too obvious. As a back up for the intruding director or admin staff I took a blue highlighter pen (something Macgyver-esk) and had it ready as a tool for why I was under my desk, picking it up ofcourse.

Yesterday on my way home from work, I was riding my new bike and was very close to being home when a car pulled out without looking and I was really farkd off, so I waved my arm at the man driving then I rode faster to pull infront of him. Being on a bike I rode infront of him at the slowest pace I could which really pissed him off (objective achieved) and was made obvious by the 5 plus times he jumped on his stupid air horn that they put in today's BMW's. Riding infront for about 30 seconds I turned off at my street infront of the GREEK restaurant, people sipping Cafe' Latte' looked at me and I waved to them.

Also, we (my house mates and me) have this person that drops over all the time, it no big deal or bad thing, but sometimes he comes in when we are leaving an he insists on staying while we are away (sometimes up to 4-5 hours) until we come back, or just hangs out along in our house then leaves. On a few occassions I have gotten up to find him on the couch after letting himself in due to weak security on our premise.
He also eats regulary at our place and has never done any kind of dishes or aided in the preparation of meals.

Too many times I also feel that some conversations are way too Seinfeld-esk as some topics of random descritpion carry on for way past their used by date.

Being Cool in the 00's

Those Emo kids that you see swaming city locations buying CD's and fast food dressed in black with metal studded belts and piercings in all the special places that you could not have thought of ( I've seen a girl with them in the back of her neck, and another with them in the webbing of her thumb) are you also wondering what this crazy is?

It's the total transition of trying to be different and cool while 70% of your direct demographic have the exact same idea and influence, thus making them lemming-esk and all pop like ...... ehh..... eminem or Britney... or any other band/ brand wagon that makes them feel collectively wanted and special.

It seems evident that innovative and strong minded personas that spawn from free speaking and artistic bands also have an innovative and influencial image that carries along with their audience and then spills into popular culture.
There are those that are primary to the culture and they are the cool and understanding, and then there are those whom sit secondary and further down the chain whom are unfortunately misled sheep looking for a flock to call their own.

A fashion comes and then it goes, it can be music, clothing or industrial paint, its just a style or receipe that effects a collective group. Being victim to this fashion is not something uncommon to the status-quo or each person, but the number of times you are a victim of fashion is where you can see the failed lesson in life. For some is shows their naive understanding of what they see about the world around them.
Imagine being stuck in the burbs and you don't go into the city much, seeing a person decked out in Eminem gut-up with Wu-tang tracki's may really look appealling especially cos you love the cool rapper, and you want to be just like him and 4 of your other cool friends. Then you go to a party and you realise that not only do another 30 people at the Christies Beach back yard party have the same style, they also have the same colour size and sharpe weapon in their back pocket.

So if it's important to be cool, then the trade of for being cool is not being an individual unless you are the innovator of cool, but sometimes the road of innovation and creativity is oppressed and harshly treated until it emerges as 'the bomb' and is certified by critics. It's easy to imagine that the parent of a new style, music or clothing or other has created, lived and exposed it and over is it long before it is excepted and taken by the monkey culture that follows (monkey and sheep are interchangable).

So next time you are buying something ponder if you are buying it because all the monkey's have made it fashion or is it something that you like which you are choosing from your heart. To recheck yourself mouth, 'Is this the new happy pants or grunge check shirt?'.

Creating the goal

In the past week I saw a show that came on after Plan-B which was something that I know can be replicated if not produeced on one's own ideas for thier own show.

It was Australian and of good quality.

If one was to do something of their own, they may ask themselves how.

But how isn't the real question, the question is why? The purpose should be to discover their own limitions of what they can achieve and expore a talent or interest which sits inside them.

The first hurdle may be to do something, doing what and where to start is often the hardest. Understanding the topic and how it works comes from research via google and contact with other interest groups. A cliche' best fitting to this is, 'Birds of a feather flock together'.

If you don't want to play with other birds to learn and harvest a solid direction for something you want, the road of doing it alone may be hard, or worse not even taken.

How to write

How to write more

Failure in attempt is more rewarding than the success of nothing.

UPDATE

Its been too long since I have blogged.

New job is sic, have just stepped into a whirlwind so its a bit crazy, but still better than accounting. My accounting and business developement background helped me get the position, also being highly interested in film has made me more attractive also.

Seems my first few weeks have involved doing a complete overhaul of the accounting and admin system that they have been using. When I had my 3rd interview with the board of directors( I had 4) they asked me how I would do certain things in the position considering that I had been there for 2 weeks learning how most things worked. I said that some if not most things needed to change for certain reasons. They asked me a question, then I said that I couldn't answer that because it was too easy could you please make it a little harder, I think what I should of said is 'can you please provide an example'.

just yesterday I look in my in box to find a typed 2 page document headed board minutes for improvement. I was funny when I realised that most if not all the things that were on the list of recommendations were ones that I had also thought of, then I went hang on... that's what I told them!!!!

So at the moment I'm helping the Director prepare the 2006 budget, but more importantly I'm helping with the Grant application to the government for funding for next year due today. Word is that last year the Victorian equivalent just forgot to apply for funding and missed out on any money from the government, they went into liquidation..... HOH serious stuff......

Punked

I have successfully 'PUNKED' 3 fellow work mates, and punked one of them twice, I feel that this should continue until I leave this working environment on the 31st of Sept.

Punkings have included, a series of paper clips usually 15-20 attatched end-to-end and then placed with a bulldog clip to the out cusp of one's pants, usaully the back or right pocket. The IT KNOB got the punk first and took the love and excitiment out to the lady in the lunch truck which while being served I pointed the punk-love out to her as the IT-KNOB tried to chat her up, she couldn't listen as she struggled to breath from the comedy that I presented, the parnter of the firm also laughed and made comment ( the power was collecting in my anarchist-love catcher).

2nd victim was GREEK-KNOB, the old lady in the office and myself asked if he was a punk (punk chain hanging around his feet from his pocket), he says yeah im a punk, ... eh what 'cha looking at punk?? he says, we laugh.... chain gets caught under chair and he then throws it at us... comedy... the old lady says you've been PUNKED!!!

I'll do some flip screens for when we get back from lunch (CTRL-ALT and up/down/left/right arrow), usually nobody knows what to do, sometimes the IT guy has to put the screen on it's side, or sometimes up-side down just to work out what is going on....

Next aim is to attack the Partners computer, like what can they do??? fire me??

3 1/2 days left until departure to new position.... HOH it's good..

Cut me out and paste me in a different setting, NOW!!

This whole ' I'm leaving thing' is taking far too long, It has only been a week since my annoncement and I want to leave right now, well I don't want to any work (but then who ever really does).

I think my goals and daily formulea of where I am really don't hold any interest to me at all. I have an interview and this really exciting new position that has come up, it's not at all about what I'll be doing it's where I'll be doing it (working), and if I get it, it will only be 4 days a week.

The girl from the recruitment agency rang me on my mobile while I was at work, I had to answer it cos there was a strong chance that the unknown number with the 'significant' choice of numerals was of some importance (I usually don't answer calls unless I know who it is,even when each silent number that calls is going to my parents I dont' answer - random questions suck ass. So I proceeded to take questions from a Hiedi from the recruitment agency who I managed to answer without saying infront of my co-workers yeah, 'I'll take the job, I can't wait to get out of here'

H: 'so are you interested in this position?'
Me: ' Absolutley'
H: 'You are well qualified for this position, you're over qualified, is that ok?'
Me: 'That's fine'
H: 'How much notice would you need to give to your current employer?'.
M: 'Oh, the usual'
H ' So 2-4 weeks'
M: 'well more the first'
H: 'So 2 weeks'
M 'Ya'
H: 'excellent'

I was glad she didn't ask me why I wanted the position, or why I think I'd be good for the position, or some other bullshite questioning like some places do.

I have an interview with the agency on Friday, they are going to give me a computer test. As soon as those words fell, I was thinking,'turn on computer, ehhhhh, what else do I know, ahhh'.

I couldn't think of anything, how do you say what you know about computers, its more of well ask me to do something and maybe I can do it.
I'm guessing they are going to see if I can do some magic with a spread sheet.

When I got off the phone, I realised that by holding the phone close to my ear didn't stop all the sound coming out of it, so when it was up really high all the people in the quiet office could what she said anyway.

OKAY IM BACK TO WORK NOW..... this client only made $30k this year, which has come from an initial $60k split to his wife, he has bad record keeping, Im sure he's hiding alot of income here, ahh well...... sweep it under the ATO radar.. they wont know....