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About Me

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I play trombone.
I'm in bands.
Like the Incredible Dead Goons (time to rise again!).
Playing for Blue King Brown here and there as well.
At uni studying media when I can be bothered going
I like wine
I like Asahi and Carlsberg alot
I like killing animated deer on Big Buck Hunter (I've got the high score at the Parkview! I have blood lust that needs satisfying)
I think I'm really good at pool, but I'm actually really really awful at it
I don't eat meat (that includes seafood but no I am not vegan)
I love travelling but can't afford to do much of it.
I like sitting with Jo and Steph having a beer and chain smoking
I miss cluckfest
I love cartoons
I love my footy... Carn the Cats!
I hate having to work every thursday, friday and saturday night... would like to have my life back now thanks.
I love hazelnut magnums
I love my mac book
I have a fear of walking on grass at night
I eat too many chico's and maltesers
I do no exercise but think about doing it almost all the time
Frangelico on ice is my favourite drink of the moment, but my ultimate drink is Zubrowska, cloudy apple juice, soda water and fresh lime. Heaven.
I love my car, but everyone tells me its crap.
strong skinny latte please
and a pack of b&h fines, thank you
I like a burger and chips from Danny's
I really like James Dean
Are you a crap band I've never met? If the answer is yes, then read on. Unless you give me three clever reasons as to why I should spend the 30 seconds to listen to your band-in-a-box hit single, I won't be adding you, so please go away.

My Interests

Trombone, binge drinking, chain smoking, ya mum jokes

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"

I'd like to meet:

Anyone that has the same name as me. I know that sounds a bit odd but fuck I wanna know what they're like. Its parallel universe shit don't ya know?

Music:

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Fred Wesley, DJ Shadow, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Radiohead, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Beck, Elliot Smith, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Alice Russell, Lauryn Hill & the Fugees, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Robin Eubanks, Charles Mingus, The Pixies, John Lennon, Lyn Collins, Frank Zappa, Wayne Henderson & Freedom Sounds, Mos Def, Maceo Parker, the JB's, Go!Team, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Basement Jaxx, Bootsy, Sun Ra, Sufjan Stevens, Gorillaz, Less Than Jake, Pharoah Sanders, the Clash, Stevie Wonder, Cut Chemist, Bob Marley, Dave Douglas, Crowded House, Janis Joplin, Augie March, Paul Simon, UNKLE, D'Angelo, You Am I, MM&W, Erykah Badu, Jeff Buckley, Tex Perkins, The Cruel Sea, Nick Cave, Flaming Lips, The Streets, Johnny Cash, Mark Ronson, David Bowie, Charlie Hunter, Gomez, Tom Waits, Skaddabox, Grandmaster Flash, Outkast, Aretha, Hoodangers, Jimi Hendrix, The Bees, Doors, sigur ros, Nick Drake, Breakestra, The Specials

Movies:

Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Proposition, Sin City, Y Tu Mama Tambien, East of Eden, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Wayne's World, Garden State, Kill Bill, Adaptation, Reservoir Dogs, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Princess Bride, Good Night & Good Luck, pretty much anything involving Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray, Tim Burton or Johnny Depp.

Television:

The Simpsons, The Storyteller, Futurama, Scrubs, The OC, North Shore, Carnivale, One Tree Hill, John Safran's Music Jamboree, Dino Riders, Fraggle Rock, Puddle Lane, Buffy, Black Books, Family Guy, American Dad, Spicks & Specks, Life Support, Laguna Beach, The Hills, The Chaser, Top Gear (New obsession!), House, SVU, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full Frontal, Fast Forward

Books:

Currently reading: I've just started re-reading the Rum Diary, but I feel guilty whenever I sit down to read it cos if I've got time to read then I got time to do my readings..

Top 7 of all time for today at the moment
1. Shantaram- Gregory David Roberts
2. The Rum Diaries- Hunter S Thompson
3. Glue- Irvine Welsh
4. Beneath the Underdog- Charles Mingus
5. High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
6. Hit Me, Fred- Fred Wesley
7. Love In The Time Of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(just missed out- Great Gatsby, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, On the Road, Choke, the Outsider, Virgin Suicides, Please Kill Me)

Heroes:

James Dean, John Coltrane, Fred Wesley, Jimmy Knepper, Wayne Henderson, Robin Eubanks, Frank Zappa, Tim Burton, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Beck, Charles Mingus, Hunter S Thompson, Johnny Depp, George Clinton, DJ Shadow, anyone who's ever quit smoking

My Blog

Things that have pissed me off this week

Ok time for another angry rant...Is it so fucken hard, when someone is kind enough to let your car in front of theirs, causing them to slow down and change their behaviour in the process, is it so har...
Posted by Em on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

Routine, routine...

So I'm back from my blitzing tour of such glamorous hot spots as Tamworth, which poses the question, now that I'm back in Melbourne, now what? Suffice to say I've seen the world, (well I've seen some...
Posted by Em on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:34:00 PST

Fucken Asshole

Some absolute pond scum fucker stole my number plate, put it on his car, filled up with petrol and drove off without paying, leaving me to deal with a wake up call from the North Fitzroy police at 8am...
Posted by Em on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:57:00 PST

Why House Sitting is Fun

At the moment I'm house sitting around the corner from my home, its a 2 storey brick house with a basketball ring, big backyard and most importantly, a pinball machine AND a foozball table. Oh y...
Posted by Em on Tue, 22 May 2007 12:08:00 PST

confessions of a bored mind

Hmm I feel like I should do something exciting to my page. I'm just not sure what. So I thought I'll write a blog. But I have nothing to say. Hmmmmmmm well I just ate a few handfuls of m&m's, my f...
Posted by Em on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:37:00 PST

Warnings

Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties & local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman. Many females use a date rape drug on the market called "Beer."The...
Posted by Em on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:18:00 PST

I'm watching John Wayne with the sound off and its not so bad

1. Hi, my name is..`Em 2. Never in my life have I been....dead3. The one person who can drive me nuts is...that guy who yells alot on the exhibition building sales ads...4. High school...was an excuse...
Posted by Em on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:52:00 PST

@#%$

I was driving around St Kilda the other night and I saw Homework standing on the corner. Intrigued, I slowed down and wound down my window, and Homework told me it sucks balls. When I apologised and...
Posted by Em on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:16:00 PST

Hawaii 5-0 update

Hey everyone, So I've been in Hawaii now for 5 days. It's actually kinda 6- Monday was the longest day of my life. Goes like this- we leave Melbourne 5pm Monday night. We arrive in ...
Posted by Em on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:38:00 PST

Enough already

I don't think I've made myself clear enough on something that I see as quite a serious problem in Australia... call it a marketing tool or a simple running joke that has gone on too long, but I call i...
Posted by Em on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:43:00 PST