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Infektion Session II - Pre-halloween party!

Hey Folks,

If you are in Canberra City this Saturday drop into Raven Clothing and Accessories between 12 noon and 2pm because I will be DJing there. It's free and it's different to what you would have heard before.

If luck will have it I may have some awesome new gear so I can fuck with the power noise!

Depending on attendance I may be convinced to extend my set or do another later in the afternoon. Drop in and make a difference; have a chat, maybe purchase some goods or make a request. I like requests.

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Combichrist

I have been commanded by a higher power to blog about my experiences at the Combichrist gig up in Sydney a month or two ago.

Well it was interesting getting to the gig in a man skirt with two bondage straps and three decorative straps on the front and a black straight jacket. First struggle was the taxi (hotel called it for us so he kind of didn't have a choice) got in there and had to dscribe how to get to a venue we had drive passed only once before. Arrived there in the end pretty certain we had been ripped off. Went to a bar next door to the venue to find a group of friends we were meeting. I got my photo take with my crazy custom goggles on with a couple of people because they thought I was awesome. Well at least I was unique and friendly enough to say yes. Got some boozing on. went up to the venue, not many people were about. Chatted for a bit danced a bit, had some fun.

Finally it came time for Combichrist. Everyone packed into the auditiorium and waited for the band to get their shit together and get out there. Great build up as the synthplayer was the first on stage and started the atmos, followed by the two drummers and finally by Andy. Who kick started the show. Raw aggressive energy was great. they smashed out about 4 songs with out any problems. Then half way through the fifth (which happened to be the song that I was looking forward to the most) the lap top that way running the backing tracks fell off the synth podium and hung out on the floor for a while. The music continued for about a mintue and a half before it came to an abrupt halt.

After 15 mintues of work with Andy apologising to the audience, the keyboardist took over and cranked the audience with some interaction. He said: "Repeat after me; This shit will fuck, you up." which we happily complied with. He repeated this a few times and we all got pretty hyped. I am probably a few other people believed they about to crack the problem and get it back up an running. Then he said; " Well obviously it has!" to which the crowd laughed. Between his banter and Andy's crowd smoothing we lsted out half an hour before they figured out a work around. They kicked back into action and finished the night off in good style. Skulling a third of a bottle of whisky that was provided to him by a couple for female fans at the front.

Andy thanked the audience profusely for sticking with it and supporting them, and placed himself as an awesome guy in my books.

Andy then crowd surfed off the stage pretty much entirely on the shoulders of one guy who looked pretty strained by the time he got him to the back. Luckly a few of the crowd me included helped them along the way.

Signing stuff I had a quick chat to Andy and said thanks to him for sticking with it to the end and he said; "No no, thank you for staying, you guys have been the best!" after which he vagued out completely for a moment and stared off into space thanks to the four beers and whisky that he drunk stage after boozing up for a couple hours before the show started. True rockstar. But he signed all the t-shirts and posters, everything, chatting to all comers. Thanking them for staying on.

All round I had an awesome time and Andy is fucking cool, and Combichrist kick arse.

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Cool clip of the month

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Product of the Week!
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

Anyone who knows me from college will know why I have a  special place in my heart for Sweeny Todd.  For anyone who doesn't know who Sweeny Todd is, he was a (probably mythical) Barber who was sent away to Australia to serve 7 years for a crime he didn't commit. He then returns to England to discover his wife is dead and daughter missing.He opens a Barber Shop above a pie store on fleet street. Driven insane by loss and despair he works in cahoots with the woman who runs the pie store by slitting his customers throats and sending them downstairs to be turned into pies. Great story. One for all the family to enjoy. In homage to this wonderful tale suck.uk.com has created this little beauty: http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=58 affordable and awesome.

Also while you are there check out their villian chair:
http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=55

Totally out of anyone's price range but freaking cool none the less.

Currently listening : Exit Ritual By Converter Release date: 02 October, 2003

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Nocturnal - A Guide to Verbose Blogging - Part 1
Category: Life

Hrmm.

It appears after no intentional action on my part I have become nocturnal. It once again is 2am and I can't sleep. I'm not sure if it is insomnia per se, but it is bloody annoying. I am sick as some kind of sick dog and I can't do the going to sleep thing. I mean you would think as an ill individual I would you know, want to go to sleep or something. But nooooo I apparently want to lie in bed wide awake wondering why I was dozing off during doctor who and then after it finished, all of a sudden I was lying there over as stimulated as an 8 year old on Ice.

So I decided to do something productive with my time. I am trying to get the hell out of my job, which I am sure is what did this to me (both the illness and the insomnia). But I am pretty sure that sending job applications at this time of night in this kind of state would not be the best move. I may however turn up some interesting jobs... Maybe. I could also end up working the streets in Fyshwick if my mental state is anything to go by at this point.

I suppose I could explain the job reference. In a fortnight period (not the last one but the one before), I was the proud owner of 135 hours of work time. Yes that is 2 standard working fortnights in one. Not only was my girlfriend getting cranky over the whole situation, like the fact that I never saw her and stuff. I was fucking exhausted. I could barely move and the only places I ever seemed to be was work and home.

I was working this job as a stop gap. They had a guy give 4 weeks notice and then leave after two. With no replacement. The only notice they got of this was him not turning up to work on the Monday. I was called in, in the very beginning of my school holidays to work this job which was definately the realm of 2 people not one, with no backup. So I was working rediculous hours for an unspecified period of time. I was okay with this because it was my school holidays and I needed the money. I worked for 2 weeks, then they got the new guy.

He was on deck for a total of 4 days before he went to hospital with kidney failure. I was urgently called back in to work. Now you can't begrudge either he nor my work for this. It is terrible luck. However I have been lied to before by the management and I am not so sure that is the full story. OR perhaps he hated the job so much that he had "kidney failure" and snuck back to his old job without having to give notice. So then it was school time again. Work gave me a pay rise to sweeten the deal so I said yes to working longer.

However, I was behind with school work before the holidays. Now I had absolutely no chance of catching up. So I had to withdraw from my course. I worked another few weeks and they found another guy. This second guy got shipped up to Sydney for bootcamp training and I held the fort. I then worked with him a bunch, but he has ended up working heaps too. Now he has decided to quit.

As it may bebecoming apparent, this job is shit. It is heavily physically and mentally straining. There are long hours and even though I was on rediculous per hour pay, a full-timer gets none of that. There are tight deadlines (generally overnight ones for setups) and all the work you do one night is often torn down the next, so it is thankless work. The only job satisfaction is being lucky enough to get home before 8:30pm so that you can actually get some sleep in there. Fuct is the best way of putting it. Pretty much the average shift length is 12 hours. My last shift I managed to get home at 2am. It was a short one because I was doing the night work and I finished after only 9 hours.

So basically, this job has fucked my direction in life, wrecked my sleeping habits, and has strained my relationship which is luckily quite stable, but straining it is still not something you do willingly and made me ill. All in the name of helping people out for some cash.

Joy.

So I am looking for a new job. If you happen to know of any good job opps in Canberra at the moment that are in almost any field (trust me my resume is a mutant beast of the depths, I can do just about anything, or at least convincingly say that I can, then learn my arse off between the interview and the job start :D) please let me know. IT is preffered but anything will do. Please save me!

Sleep well those of you that aren't crap at sleeping.

~Shayne/mV

PS There is one thing I would be useless for: A test subject for a study on sleeping patterns. :D

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The Art of Concise Blogging Part #1
Category: News and Politics

    If "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam", then Iran must be American for Imperialism.

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Bush using Pinochet tactics
Current mood: contemplative

I watched a documentary on Colonia Dignidad in Chile last night.

Basically it was a den of peadophilic abuse, political torture and a base of operations for the exhiled Nazis from WWII  Germany that helped Pinochet establish his facist regime in Chile. With statements from political detainees and some of Pinochets lackeys and grounds staff it was a pretty compelling stuff.

What stuck in mind was the statement from one of Pinochet's men that was stationed at Colonia Dignidad during this period of rape and torture. He responded to a list of missing persons associated with the Colonia and confirmed detainees. With the list in front of him he went through and said specifically regarding a tortured detainee whose statement about his regular electrocution session had just been shown and stated that he was a terriorist and the main drive of the torture at Colonia Dignidad was to get information regarding terriorist activities. Then he continued to say that what they were doing was exactly the same as the current bush government. Fighting terriorism.

It is wonderful to see that war criminals can use the same reasoning that the American govt, to avoid prosecution. Makes you think doesn't it?

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Luica's plight

Another big "fuck you" to the Myspace tech team:

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: lucia
Date: 15 May 2007, 08:57 PM

So many exciting things going on and its all blackened for me by a recent development. Myspace tore down the music player for my solo album "From The Land Of Volcanos"and told me they would take down my profile altogether if I infringed on copyright again. Not even giving me the opportunity to prove I am the rightful owner of my solo album.. Some guy named "Steve" was the only one to answer my inquiries and refused to put me in contact with the myspace legal department and said "I don't believe you" when I said I sent mail regarding the issue to myspace help. I spent all day speaking with"Steve" before he told me he could be of no help to me at all ...Needless to say I am heart broken and very angry. I think my days are numbered on this site, since due course obviously does not exist for the artist here. I asked, who sent you this notification? What documention was recieved?, can I speak to a myspace lawyer?.... nothing but judgement and short snotty resposes..... I'm not sure where to go from here, I am truly heart broken. I love you all so much but those who are truly my friends must know that this kind of attack goes against everything I believe in. I'm going to make every attempt to right this wrong but if I keep being met with a glacial wall, I'm out of here. I miss you all already, like you can't imagine, but i simply will not support a system that does not allow for righting a wrong, It goes against everything that i believe in........ I hope to see you all out there some where in this  crazy world. I'll be on here for another minute, unless of course I'm taken down without notice...... I guess we'll see how terrible I am in comparison to sex offenders and spammers.  Forgive my terrible spelling, I'm quite agitated and  and disgusted by all this......love always, Lucia

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Poor Lucia, I support you!

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Sub-Genres of Metal Expanded Edition
Category: Music

The story goes: A princess has been captured by a dragon and held in a castle. The protagonist will rescue her as per the idiom of his metal sub-genre.

HEAVY METAL
The protagonist arrives on a Harley, kills the dragon, drinks a few beers, and bones the princess.

POWER METAL
The protagonist arrives riding a white unicorn, escapes from the dragon, saves the princess and makes love to her in an enchanted forest.

THRASH METAL
The protagonist arrives, fights the dragon, saves the princess and fucks her.

FOLK METAL
The protagonist arrives with some friends playing accordions, violins, flutes and many more weird instruments. The dragon falls asleep (because of all the dancing). Then they all leave...without the princess.

VIKING METAL
The protagonist arrives in a ship, kills the dragon with his mighty axe, skins the dragon and eats it, rapes the princess to death, steals her belongings, and burns the castle before leaving.

DEATH METAL
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the princess and kills her, then leaves.

BLACK METAL
The protagonist arrives at midnight, kills the dragon and impales it in front of the castle. Then he sodomizes the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual before killing her. Then he impales the princess next to the dragon.

GORE METAL
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon and spreads his guts in front of the castle, fucks the princess and kills her. Then he fucks the dead body, slashes her belly, and eats her guts. Then he fucks the carcass again, burns the corpse, and fucks it for the last time.

GRIND METAL
The protagonist arrives, screams something completely indecipherable for about 30 seconds, and then leaves.

DOOM METAL
The protagonist arrives, sees the size of the dragon, and thinks he could never beat him. He gets depressed and commits suicide. The dragons eats his body and the princess as dessert. That's the end of the sad story.

GOTHIC METAL
The princess in a velvet costume starts singing soprano. The protagonist completes the duet by adding the beast part, while the dragon plays the flute. Suddenly the dragon swallows the flute and accidently scorches the beauty and the beast and suffocates to death. All their souls are damned in hell for all eternity.

PROGRESSIVE METAL
The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a solo of 26 minutes. The dragon kills himself out of boredom. The protagonist arrives at the princess' bedroom, plays another solo with all the techniques and tunes he learned in the last year of the conservatory. The princess escapes looking for the HEAVY METAL protagonist.

INDUSTRIAL METAL
The protagonist arrives wearing a greasy overcoat, makes an obscene gesture towards the dragon, and gets escorted out of fairy tale land by security guards.

SPEED METAL
Suddenly there, short solo, dragon is confused, someone's screaming weird stuff, princess realizes she's been deflowered, dragon and princess are still looking for the one who did this.

CHRISTIAN METAL
The protagonist rides in on his way home from church and sings a mushy power ballad to the dragon about how much Jesus loves him and that the dragon should turn to Him. The Dragon is immediately converted, and when the princess wants to "thank" the protagonist he replies, "sorry, but I don't believe in having sex before marriage".

GLAM METAL
The protagonist arrives, the dragon laughs at the guy's appearance and lets him enter. He steals the princess' make-up and tries to paint the castle in a beautiful pink color.

BATTLE METAL
The protagonist arrives with a legion of a hundred brave footmen, war chariots, and a dozen elite warriors, and as a master tactician, flanks the dragon in a bloody siege that lasts six hours. The princess gets bored.

NU METAL
The protagonist arrives in a run down Honda Civic and attempts to fight the dragon but he burns to death when his moronic baggy clothes catch fire.

EMO
The protagonist sees the dragon and moans about how hard it will be to get the princess to fall in love with him. He gets eaten. The princess is very happy, because he was a whiny fag anyway.

Disclaimer: I did not write this nor did I come up with the idea. I just like it.

Currently listening : Blackest Album: An Industrial Tribute to Metallica By Various Artists Release date: 04 August, 1998

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