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Adrian

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About Me

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Well, I've just relocated to Geelong from Bendigo. Seems to be a pretty cool and very laid back place, and so far it's all been good... except for the homesickness that I never though I would get when I left. It's not the town that I miss (yes Bendigo, you ARE a town), it's the little circle of friends that I've left behind. STrange to think that they're all only two hours away, but it's the knowledge that they're not just around the corner whenever I want them that plays on my mind. Bit hard when you're new in town and don't know a soul!
I guess I've been somewhat of a domestic nomad. I grew up in Bairnsdale, which is an even smaller country town in East Gippsland, which is about 4 hours east of Melbourne on the east Victorian coast. When the time came, I shuffled off to Melbourne to go to LaTrobe Uni. I lived in Melbourne from 1994 to 1999, and was content for the most part. I then visited a mate in Adelaide and fell in love with the place. I dunno, I think I just needed to kick start myself into a new phase or something, and Adelaide seemed like the place to do it. So over I went, and spent a bit over three years in the city of churches. I don't think I'd ever drunk so much wine for free!! Anyhoo, things went a bit pear-shaped there and it was to Bendigo that I fled in 2003. My sister and her husband have lived there for about 11 years now, and they somehow sucked me into moving there too, lol.
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My Interests

Tennis, iPod, my disturbing addiction to eBay and hats, cooking, live local music, poker (I stink), Maverick the evil mini-cat, playing with Maddie (my niece), really keen to travel to Tibet and the Himalayas, not as keen to travel to Europe and USA (still keen though), I'm a keen but crappy photographer, I like toast......
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I'd like to meet:

The Dalai Llama but it's just not going to happen really, is it? So long as you're NOT the following you're ok ; a dickhead, a racist, a stalker, a fake, someone who wears pants with undies and bumcrack hanging out all the time, one of those really annoying telemarketers, a by-the-book-cover-judge, Lleyton Hewitt, that Hotdogs dickhead from BB.... you get the idea.

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Music:

Standard answer = EVERYTHING
there are one or two notable exceptions, such as the "album" that was released by Paris Hilton.
I like my Oz Rock, and I think it's been getting more and more credible as the years have rolled on... Xavier Rudd, Something For Kate, Eskimo Joe, Area 7, Bodyjar, Powderfinger & Bernard Faning (even if he is a self-righteous arrogant wanker, he puts out some cool tunes), Nat Allison (you little champion), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Alex Lloyd, Pete Murray, Allison Lied, etc
I also have a bit of time for non-Aussie acts, such as U2, Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, G. Love & Special Sauce, Donovan Frankenreiter, Andrew WK, Radiohead, Coldplay, Inspiral Carpets, Jose Gonzalez, Los Lobos.
I don't min a bit of doof-doof if I'm in the right frame of mind, and I like a few beats here and there. Too many artists to name here though
Then there's the classics (well, what i consider to be classics anyway), such as Duran Duran, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Icehouse, Fancy, The Cure, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Jose Feliciano, etc etc
To summarise... yes ; I like the music!

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Last Hero in China, Old School, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Top Gun, Donnie Brasco, Deadman, Dirty Dancing, Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire, The Karate Kid 1 & 2 (KK3 was just insulting and don't even go there about KK4), The Big Blue, Casino, A Night at the Roxbury, Idiot Box, Team America, Southpark : the Musical, Last Hero in China, Drunken Master 2, Rush Hour 1 & 2, The Way of the Dragon, The Ali G Movie, Ghostbusters, the Goonies, Footloose (dance your ass off), Flashdance (what a feeling), Breakdance (the first one, Breakdance 2 : Electric Boogaloo was rubbish), Dead Man (fucking brilliant film), The Departed (yes, it's as good as everyone says)

Television:

Southpark, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, House, Young Ones, Blackadder, Las Vegas, World Poker Tour, Arrested Development, Lano & Woodley, Neighbours (I don't care, you can all piss right off), NCIS, Astroboy, Battle of the Planets (which nobody else seems to remember), Oz, the Magic Bullet informercials (if I'm up, for some reason I can't stop watching it and thinking how shit it is)

Books:

Just finished "The Riders" by Tim Winton. I was really really disappointed that the book actually ended at all. This guy just has it. Really.
"The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama proved to be interesting.
Currently reading "A short history of almost everything" by Bill Bryson... it's kinda like a laymans guide to the history of science, which is interesting, but can be a trifle boring, so I'm supplementing with "204 Bell St" by The Sandman for the umpteenth time!
I also just finished reading "Scar Tissue", the autobiography of Anthony Kiedis, which was average, but not a bad popcorn sort of read.

Heroes:

Mum & Dad, Maddie, Edberg, Jordan, Bono, Ashe, Guevara... the list just goes on and on and is probably not that exciting to anyone else

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My Blog

Life in general....

so when does the circle really stop spinning? How messed up and crazy can you think your life is getting before you give yourself a reality check and thank god you're not a 9 year old African virgin g...
Posted by Adrian on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:27:00 PST

Airport adventures

so last night I had to drop my parents of at Melbourne Airport as they were flying to Malaysia to see my grandmother. The Australian International Rules team were flying out to Ireland for their tour...
Posted by Adrian on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:52:00 PST

Feeling it

My little niece is turning one on Monday!Man, it's like turning 30 all over again... only it's not me I'm thinking about now.I'm honest to god just praying that everything goes well for her as she gro...
Posted by Adrian on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:09:00 PST

What's doing it for me at the moment

a.o. musesli bars (expensive, but worth it!!), Buddhas Tears by t2, the warm breezes that tell us that summer is just around the corner, blueberry muffins from Muffin Break, "veneer" by Jose Gonzalez,...
Posted by Adrian on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:25:00 PST

Fave lyrics - episode 1

Born to run - Bruce Springsteen (I'm now addicted to the cover version by Something For Kate)"In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dreamAt night we ride through mansions of ...
Posted by Adrian on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:20:00 PST