If you are still reading this blog you may have noticed the blog war posts by myself have been archived. They have served their purpose and old news now. "Mr Surname. Tear down this blog".

Twitter Is The New Shit

There comes a time when one can't be bothered posting anymore and that's why Twitter is the way of the future as it minimilises blogging to a line or two and is even more mindless. Eventually updates will become emoticons before the Web re-cycles itself back to a circa Geocities era. At this stage people will realise that maybe writing letters to each other like they did in the 90s is a whole lot cooler and maybe even retro.

This turn of the wheel will carry with it a certain arrogance that would be similar to the Melbourne rock scene. People will start giving their spoken word diatribes out on TDK tapes - wait - they already do because tapes are cool again.

Google will eventually turn itself into an evil company that will make Microsoft look good. Its employees will be turned into flesh eating Zombies after one of their on-site sewerage recycling plants explodes and infects employees with toxic sludge from a bio-weapon made in Google Labs.

Twitter does have its good points. Namely enabling a gent to threaten and stalk Brian McFadden. But now I am getting off topic.

I am known in many circles as 'modern day Elvis of blogging'. And many other important people have said 'if blogging had a rock star Chuck would be that star'. Such descriptions and quotes are often echoed in the tubes of the Internet by hangers on and wannabes, but I don't mind.

So over and out. Right turn. Dismissed.

Some PS Lovin'

CWC makes love to his PS3 in order to get his accounts back.

Sexy huh?

Rick Wakeman, teen idol

A little known fact about me - my main hobby is collecting issues of Dolly from the seventies on eBay. I've got most of 1974-1977 but the rest can be a little tricky to find.

Dolly Magazine is, of course, known for its vapid adherence to pop music, so I was a little surprised to find this:

Is that a pull-out poster of Rick Wakeman on the cover?

As in Rick Wakeman, keyboard player from prog-rock band Yes who quit to make a series of increasingly crappy solo instrumental albums? That Rick Wakeman?

On the surface this seems as unlikely as Scott doing a nude photoshoot for Cosmopolitan, but the idea of young girls listening to Yes warms my heart infinitely more than the thought of them listening to Lady Gaga.

Public Service Announcement

News Flash: A Current Affair Gets it Wrong.

A Current Affair did a story on a Melbourne bloke the other day saying he looked like Tom Cruise. They paraded him around Melbourne (video here) trying to make people guess who he looked like.

They didn't fucken ask me because if they did I would have made the correct observation that he looked like Skolnick from Revenge of the Nerds and not Tom Cruise.

Judge for yourselves:


Tom Cruise or



Skolnick?

Annonce de Service Public

Ne lisez pas ces ordures françaises. Si vous voulez lire une bonne langue alors ce n'est pas pour vous. Si vous voulez une bonne langue de B-qualité ce n'est pas pour vous. Vous l'utilisation plus riche perdre le changement de votre cendrier et putting de cela dans un distributeur automatique qui ne travaille pas. Le son de vos morceaux de 20 cents entrant d'un saut chez le plateau de changement serait un "enfer de beaucoup" plus agréables que l'attente de ce blog de trouver chacun les postes nouveaux et ou bizarres.

Cette merde est mauvaise; vraiment mal. Non bon mauvais, pas délibérément mal donc c'est bon; c'est un sandwich de merde moins le pain.

Public Service Announcement

Do not watch 'Hell Ride' directed, produced and also starring Larry Bishop. If you want a good biker movie this is not for you. If you want a good B-grade movie this is not for you. You would better off using the $3 in change you use to hire the movie and put it in a vending machine that doesn't work. The sound of your 20 cent pieces dropping into the change tray would be a hell-of-a-lot more enjoyable than watching trying to watch 'Hell Ride'.

This movie is bad; really bad. Not good bad, not deliberately bad so it's good; it's a shit sandwich minus the bread.

Song for a Wednesday

You probably won't have heard of Rare Bird, which is a shame. You're missing out on a great band. They're best known for a wonderful track known as "Sympathy" which crawled it's way to no. 27 in the UK charts sometime in the early seventies, but today I'm going to give you something from their sadly overlooked album Somebody's Watching.

Rare Bird - More and More.

Just right click and save as.

Awesome.

Australian War Memorial

There is an excellent post over at Misguided Idealism by heatseeker. His great grand uncle, Sydney Vivian Wade, was one of the few to be buried in a marked grave after dying as a result of a gun shot wound in the horrific battle of Fromelles.

A letter Syd (aged 16) penned to his father 'attesting that he was aged 18 years and five months' is now part of the National Archive.

You can also read about heatseeker's contributions to the Australian War Memorial here.

Doing business on eBay

I recieved some interest in my item that I am selling on eBay:

Hello Seller, i will like to buy your item on Ebay and i will to buyit to my New
store in Nigeria, so i want you to get back to me and let meknow how many of
this items you have for sell and the amount you arewilling to sell the item so
email me back to ######## i wait for your mail back soon Thanks

I replied:

Greeting buyer,

I have lot of interesting item for sale on the store of eBay. The first
item I would like to sale be my wife. I will only charge postage for her. I would also like to sell my children for the amount of $900.

Also, I have some used staple I would like to sell for the princely sum
of $10. Thanks for your interest.

Victor never replied.

It's A Seller's Market

I'm selling some gear on eBay that I never use and I am completely hopeless at. I looked at other listings for a Playstation 3 and found some tough competition:

Can I convince my housemates to don their bikini's for a slice of the $$$?

Should I get them to hold a copy of today's paper so they look more convincing than a cardboard cutout placed on the end of a basement-dwelling- teenager's single bed?

Chuck's Top 5

These albums have been on high rotation at Villa de Spear his week.

1. Wisenheimer / Custard

Highlight: Sunset Strip

2. Mammoth Mammoth / Self titled EP

Highlight: Weapon of Mass Destruction

3. Second Album Project / Dogs Die In Hot Cars

Highlight: Something For The Good Boys

4. Over The Edge / The Wipers

Highlight: Over The Edge

5. The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust / Saul Williams (Produced by Trent Reznor)

Highlight: Sunday Bloody Sunday

Literal eclipse of the heart

Received this from a mate. Just brilliant.

HYPOCRISY RULES OK

Is anyone else noting the pattern at Dreck's website?

It's simple, stupid!

Goat fucking funny.

Dog fucking not.

"PP Boyz" funny.

B.O Dreck not.

Beck seems incapable of doing posts over 25 words, so perhaps someone could explain what his stunning non-existent take down of my post was all about? Somewhere in there is the inkling he disagrees with it, but fuck knows he couldn't say why! That actually might require deep thought, and not the kind of deep thought that comes up with phrases like "PP Boyz", and then complains about immature humour. Oh, we're simply horrid. We won't play by his rules at all!!11!

Dreck should go back to taking quotes out of context. It's all he can do successfully.

Should I?

Blogosphere - in these testing times of global financial strife is it really wise to spend $100 on a piece of (slightly worn) black vinyl? What about if that vinyl could sell at a profit?

So many confused feelings. It's like that weekend I pashed a guy all over again.

In the meantime, I have this:

Cool cover, bro.