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OCTANIC 2-disc ‘INDUSTRY’ EP available NOW!
Our debut 2-disc ‘INDUSTRY’ EP hit the stores 18th April 2008 and for only $15 you can pick it up at Big Star, The Muses, Holden Hill Music and We Are Godzilla (Waymouth St), who also have a range of our merchandise. You can also always grab our CD and merch at all OCTANIC live shows.
Disc One – [CD] is the 7-track ‘INDUSTRY’ EP.
Disc Two – [DVD Audio] is the full 7-track ‘INDSUTRY’ EP in 5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 DTS, and ADPCM (higher than CD quality stereo).
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[My MSN]
Addme if you wish, I’m at: [email protected]
[My Personality]
Me in 25 words orless...
First up... "talkative", also energetic ][ funny ][ witty ][ intelligent ][ wise ][ thoughtful ][ analytical ][ tidy ][ organised ][ realistic ][ sporty ][ creative ][ artistic ][ imaginative ][
passionate ][ logical ][ motivational ][ practical ][ loyal ][ open ][ honest ][ responsible ][ dependable ][ ...and faithful.

Ok, so most of these come from a ‘Personality Type Indicator’ psycho-analysis, but it is a verytrue reflection of me!
You want more, then all you gotta do is get to know me!!
[My Loves]
I love my family and closefriends. I do not use the word "love" often!
[My Passions]
Words and Grammar
Language and Literature
Reading and Writing
Music and The Arts...
[My Favourites & Dislikes][My Likes]
Cello (Apocalyptica & Pachelbel)
Chocolate
Good Manners
Intelligent Conversation
Shopping (CD’s, DVD’s, books and clothes)
Silver
The smell of freshly ground coffee
Tomatoes covered in fresh basil with sea salt and cracked pepper
Witty Retorts & Reparte, Word-play & Double-Entendre…
Food Dislikes:
Green Beans
Bodily Organs (liver, kidney, brains etc…)
MELONS (Rockmelon, Honeydew, Watermelon & Cucumber...)
Most seafood…
[My Dislikes]
Being called a cheat or a liar!
Filthy People & Places
Nasty Big Dogs
Reckless & Irresponsible drivers
Rude, arrogant, ignorant, foul-mouthed, violent,
extremely lazy or stupid people! I do not suffer fools!
Screaming Children
The idea of Death/Dying
[My Fears]
SHARKS!!! No.1 for sure!!!
My Own Death…
[My One HATE in life]
People who are cruel to animals and/or the environment!
THAT... I cannot tolerate!!
SO BEAUTIFUL, SO DEFENCELESS!!

[My Vices]
I do not smoke or partake in any illegal substances
(never have, never will)...
Vodka is pretty much my only choice of alcoholic beverage...
[My Quirks]
I'm a "time and place" person and admit I like tidiness and order...
I am a night-owl...
I enjoy singing ridiculously stupid lyrics to songs...
I am a STAR WARS fan and welcome anyconversation on all things
STAR WARS (or any movies really)
...And yes, the Force IS with me!!
[My Goals]
To travel extensively through Europe and Great Britain and visit art galleries,museums, castles and palaces, architecture in general, absorbing life and culture...
Learn Russian, French, Croatian, German & Latin...
Become a famous Rock Star!
And if my Rock Star dream does not become a reality, then I'd like to be an internationally publishedauthor of fantasy novels...
[My Favourite Personal Quotes]
"Happiness IS everything."
"What's the price of being nice?"
"A dark heart will never find true happiness".
"Surround yourself with good people, good things happen."
"If all dreams are good dreams, may your dreams come true."
[My "Quote Of The Week"]
Each week I post a different quote as my "Quote OfThe Week"
in my 'Headline' [next to my DP].
It will always be something that is close to my heart,
something I also truly believe.
Previous "Quotes Of The Week" have been:
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- MOTHER TERESA
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy,
also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
- C.S.LEWIS
When a machine is working well, why pull it apart?
- P.K.SHAW
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
- ANONYMOUS
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
You won’t convince others unless you first convince yourself.
- W.G.P
Truth is not always popular, but it’s always right.
- ANONYMOUS
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
- BERTRAND RUSSELL
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
- HENRY J. KAISER
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- WASHINGTON IRVING
A long fuse gives time to reconsider.
- GRAEME A.S. BROWNE
It is a rare and beautiful thing to be completely understood by another.
- P.K.SHAW
There is no higher religion than the truth.
- ANONYMOUS
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- FRANCIS BACON
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- WASHINGTON IRVING
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too,
can become great.
- MARK TWAIN
Emotional security is just as important as financial security.
- P.K. SHAW
Create a dream and give it everything you have,
you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.
- SARA HENDERSON
There is only one way to happiness and that’s to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- EPICTETUS
Half the things that people do not succeed in,
are through fear of making the attempt.
- JAMES NORTHCOTE
Only those who dare to fall greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- AESOP
Those who only tell half the truth often live to regret it.
- W.G.P
Before you argue with a fool make sure he is not similarly occupied.
- W.G.P
To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- SAMUEL ULLMAN
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
- SATCHELL PAGE
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- WILLIAM FAULKNER
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
It is not given us very often to have what we want at the height of desire.
- FRANK DALBY DAVIDSON
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
- GROUCHO MARX
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The Saddest are these:
"It might have been!"
- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
One of the real secrets of happiness is to be content with what you have.
- W.G.P
It’s great to be great; greater still to be human.
- W.G.P
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- JOHN ANDREW HOLMES
If a dog jumps onto your lap it is because he is fond of you:
but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.
- A.N. WHITEHEAD
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
- ANTON CHEKHOV
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
- H. JACKSON BROWN
There is more wisdom in humour than there is humour in wisdom.
- P.K.SHAW
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
- PROVERB
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- GANDHI
I don’t know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- RUDYARD KIPLING
To pursue your passion and never achieve
is far better than never having a passion and living with regret forever.
- KEITH ABRAHAM
Start treating yourself as if you are the most important asset you’ll ever have.
After all, aren’t you?
- ANONYMOUS
Is there some principle of nature which states
that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
- RICHARD HOFSTADTER
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- TOM CLANCY
There is a road from the eye to the heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- G.K.CHESTERTON
The bitterest tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- ANONYMOUS
Those have most power to hurt us that we love.
- FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Have aheart that never hardens... a touch that never hurts.
- CHARLES DICKENS
When you arisein the morning,
think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive
– to breathe, to think, toenjoy, to love.
- MARCUS AURELIUS
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
-JEAN ANOUILAH
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and becomemore, you are a leader.
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Three things that never come back;
thespent arrow, the spoken word, the lost opportunity.
- W.G.P
Associate yourself with menof good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
-GEORGE WASHINGTON
Anxiety is fear of one’s self.
- WILHELM STEKEL
Fateonly takes you so far, then it's up to you to make it happen.
- ANONYMOUS
There is nouse having an open mind unless you have an open heart.
- P.K.SHAW
It’s a shame thatwhen we have a good dream,
we have to be asleep at the time.
- P.K.SHAW
It is sadthat we find it necessary to thank people for their honesty.
- P.K.SHAW
Be happy whileyou’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
- SCOTTISH PROVERB
Whoever cares to learnwill always find a teacher.
- GERMAN PROVERB
He that asks faintly begs a denial.
- PROVERB
First impressions are the most lasting.
- PROVERB
Kindwords do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips.
They make other people good-natured.
They also produce their own image on men’s souls,
and a beautiful image that is.
- BLAISEPASCAL
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
- OVID
It is not only whatwe do,
but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
- JOHN BAPTISTE MOLIERE
You are one of the forces of nature.
- JULES MICHELET
Do not choose to be wrongfor the sake of being different.
- LORD SAMUEL
Intellect arrives without the aid ofeducation and culture.
- NORMAN LINDSAY
However rare true love is, true friendship israrer.
- FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The men who try to do something and fail areinfinitely better
than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- LLOYD JONES
Thatis the happiest conversation where there is no competition,
no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange ofsentiments.
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
Happiness is a form of courage.
- HOLBROOKJACKSON
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
- WILLIAM HAZLITT
Fameis a powerful aphrodisiac.
- GRAHAM GREENE
The difference between what we do and whatwe are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
- MAHATMAGANDHI
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
- THOMAS EDISON
The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are
for what wecould become.
- CHARLES DUBOIS
Children think not of what is past, nor what is tocome,
but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.
- JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Alittle nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
- ROALD DAHL
Ifresponsibility was a drug I wonder how many would be addicted?
- GRAEME A.S. BROWNE
Ifa man be gracious and courteous to strangers,
it shows he is a citizen of the world.
- FRANCISBACON
There is nothing permanent except change.
- PROVERB
Tact isknowing how far we may go too far.
- JEAN COCTEAU
A man does not know what he issaying
until he knows what he is not saying.
- G.K.CHESTERTON
Two may talktogether under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet;
and two others at first speechare old friends.
- MARY CATHERWOOD
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith inhuman beings.
- PEARL BUCK
Boredom is the bitter fruit of too much routine or none atall.
- FRANCIS BRENDAN
If you say to someone, "I miss you more than I can say",
you have said how much she or he will be missed.
- J.D.BOATWOOD
Musicians don’tretire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG
The man who hasno inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
- HENRY AMIEL
Procrastination is thethief of time.
- EDWARD YOUNG
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- W.G.P
Good manners and correct speech are great blessings. Cultivate them.
-W.G.P
An important reward for a job well done
is a personal sense of worthwhileachievement.
- W.G.P
A man’s greatness can be measured by his willingness to bekind.
- W.G.P
A good deed, no matter how small,
is worth more than the grandestgood intention.
- W.G.P
A friend is one who knows all about you but likes you just thesame.
- W.G.P
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
- ANDREIVOZNESENSKY
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.
- KENNETHTYNAN
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
- MARK TWAIN
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- W.M.THACKERAY
Depth offriendship does not depend upon length of acquaintance.
- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Vision isthe art of seeing things invisible.
- JONATHAN SWIFT
Desire is the essence of a man.
- SPINOZA
The person who is good company is never afraid to be alone.
-P.K.SHAW
It is far more important to do your best than to win.
Those who win are notalways doing their best.
- P.K.SHAW
Great people have one thing in common – they do notconform.
- P.K.SHAW
Being your age is hard enough without having to act it.
-P.K.SHAW
But words once spoken can never be recall'd.
- WENTWORTH DILLONROSCOMMON
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.
- SPANISHPROVERB
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- MOTHER TERESA
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
- MARCEL MARCEAU
Talk not of wasted affection! Affection never was wasted.
-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
To be needed by someone should never be a burden. It’s ablessing.
- P.K. SHAW
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
- FRANCOISDUC de la ROCHEFOUCAULD
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
-FRANCOIS DUC de la ROCHEFOUCAULD
It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so foroneself.
- FRANCOIS DUC de la ROCHEFOUCAULD
Television has proved that people will lookat anything
rather than each other.
- ANN LANDERS
Imagination is the eye of thesoul.
- JOSEPH JOUBERT
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- SAMUELJOHNSON
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
Aftersilence,
that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- ALDOUSHUXLEY
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans:
it’s lovely to be silly at theright moment.
- HORACE
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
- THOMAS HOBBES
Love is the irresistibledesire to be desired irresistibly.
- LOUIS GINSBERG
If fifty million people say afoolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- ANATOLE FRANCE
You can never do akindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
What was once thought can never be unthought.
- FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
Musicproduces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- CONFUCIUS
Language is part of a man’s character.
- FRANCIS BACON
The investigation of themeaning of words is the beginning of education.
- ANTISTHENES
All colours will agree inthe dark.
- FRANCIS BACON

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests and ideas,
passions and desires, hopes and dreams as me!


Musicians:
Bono
Aaron Lewis [Staind]
Metallica [All of them!]
Morten Harket
Tim “Ripper” Owens…

Actors - Male:
Antonio Banderas
Charlie Sheen
Johnny Depp
Morgan Freeman
Will Smith…

Actors - Female:
Ali Larter
Meg Ryan
Milla Jovovich
Olga Kurylenko
Sophie Marceau…

Comedians:
Carl Barron
Danny Bhoy
Robin Williams
Ross Noble
Rowan Atkinson…

Sportspeople:
Andre Agassi
Cristiano Ronaldo
John McEnroe
Pete Sampras
Roger Federer…

Fantasy Artists:
Alan Lee
Brian Froud
Ciruelo Cabral
H.R.Giger
Luis Royo…

Other:
Arnie
George Lucas
Heff
Sandra Shine
The Dalai Lama...

If they were still alive:
Alexandre Fils Dumas
Brandon Lee
Bruce Lee
Layne Staley
Leonardo Da Vinci…

If they were real:
Albus Dumbledore
Drizzt Do'Urden
Gandalf
Yoda
The one and only...”Captain” Jack Sparrow…

My Blog

Lyrics: OCTANIC - Industry EP - 'Unmaker'

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Lyrics: OCTANIC - Industry EP - 'I... Pariah'

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New Blogs...

New Blogs will be coming...Stay tuned!!!
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:22:00 GMT

Lamb Of God AND Guns N' Roses gigs!

LAMB OF GOD at HQ on April 30 Was fucking amazing!! I saw them last year with KSE & Unearth in Melbourne and they were exquisitely tight and brutal, and once again they did not disappoint!!! ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:03:00 GMT

NEW PHOTOS up of our first gig! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT!!!

My band OCTANIC's first gig was on Friday 25th May at the Lizard Lounge!   Please check out the photos I have just put up!   There will be many more added to the OCTANIC Myspace site ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:44:00 GMT

HATEBREED & GOD FORBID concerts!

Gig Reviews! HATEBREED went off at Fowlers on March 2! It was the fourth time I've seen them play and they never cease to put on a top quality show!Energy, passion and metal!What more could you ask fo...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:44:00 GMT

My TOP 10 CD's for 2006

[My TOP 10 CD's for 2006]After MUCH deliberation and many listens to all of the CD's I have that were released in 2006, I have come up with my TOP 10!Even now the order could easily change and there a...
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 08:19:00 GMT

'Life Stealer'

Life Stealer   Lyrics: J.Shepherdson 13/8/97   Create a hero from the myth You're a God-like monolith You stand before Those who adore Their lives to give here-with   Now the world tha...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:01:00 GMT

..."Taken"!

Have you ever been totally into someone that everything and everyone else around you simply pales into insignificance?  Where you are so completely captivated and entranced by them that you hang...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:11:00 GMT

Story behind the Heretic...

"The Heretic" musically, was written well before Fatal Creation the band ever took shape. It was one of five (then untitled) songs that guitarists Ben & Brent put to me before I joined the ba...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:21:00 GMT