less art, more arj

So arj barker finally wrote back, like 2 months after I wrote to him. It’s like that Simpsons episode where Marge finally gets the letter from Ringo Starr.

Anyway, he called me 'cool' and 'pretty' which was nice, but he seems to have confused me with Daryl Hall of Hall and Oats fame…

Arj Barker wrote:

First of all, let me say that I’m honored to hear from you Mr. Hall, and please send my greeting Mr. Oats as well. You guys are pretty cool!

mmm, arj sure has good taste.. look at the hotties!

La Clique

I went and saw La Clique on Thursday night. It was really good. Beauty, athleticism, sensuality and strangeness in a tent with a bar.

It was like these people came up with these crazy ideas that normally would be dismissed as very bad ideas, but instead they went ahead and mastered them to a level of greatness. Who would have said “wow, yeh, that’s a great idea, let’s do that..” to a German in denim doing gymnastics in and out of a bath, a full frontal nudity magic routine, and a double jointed Norwegian pushing himself through two tennis racket frames.. brilliant.

Spewing

I am so over all the fucking ridiculous jargon and bs that people in my workplace go on about.

It is sucking my spirit, I have started to hear similar words start to come out of my own mouth and I feel like sending them out with a vomit chaser.

Arghghghghg

Ew, something stinks.

Yey, we have hot water, I finally had a shower, and I went to see some shows..

Kranski sisters – don’t go unless you are over 50 and boring. Trying not to be negative here, I did hear that someone who is apparently not boring thought this show was ‘outrageously funny’ but I can't personally recommend it.

Eddie perfect – nice guy, funni song about gay marriage, rest of the songs not my cup of tea. I hate jazz. But I laughed a bit at his banter and it was much more entertaining than Kranski's, even if Tg did say 'im just going to the toilet' and never come back, only to be found later on rundle street with her head in a burger.

Arj barker – I found arj very funni despite me being tired and angry at the time. But I had reason to email him earlier in the week and have since received no reply. So I dunno… maybe he doesn’t care to hear about the everyday person in the audience anymore, kind of like Oprah.

Judith lucy – not as funni as Arj, but not not funni. There were funni bits, but I didn’t laugh that much.

The Dancing Sky – this was visually beautiful and it looked like fun to be up there in the sky; it was also nice to see lots of ppl out and not being total wankers. The story was crap though, I like stories a lot and this was nonsense basically. I stopped paying attention cause it was giving me a headache trying to make it mean something.

Ross noble – very very funni, I found the funniest bits the stuff he just made up on the spot, rather than the story build ups, I sometimes find the punchline doesn’t warrant such a build up and only leads to anticlimax. For some reason we ended up with front row tickets, but luckily 6 wankers in the second row turned up 10 minutes late and diverted all attention.

Breakin ground – I highly recommend seeing this, but don’t bother going until the second half unless you’re into watching ppl not into hip hop watch hip hop. It was kind of uncomfortable and weird or something. The dance stuff doesn’t start until the second half, but it was heaps good, there was a really smooth guy, and a really fast guy, some girl with very defined abs and a short guy who could strike a fucking good pose. Once again, I chose to ignore the interpretive dance overtones to this performance and just watch some fit people dance. Not that I don’t love interpretive dance, or do I hate it?? I’m still not sure…

Daniel Kitson – this is the best show I’ve seen, funni, clever and very sentimental.

How fun is moving house

How fun is moving house, I tell ya what it’s a barrel of laughs.

We used removalists who were really good and if you’re ever needing 2 guys, 1 truck and an extra guy who they just pay cash, let me know and I’ll give you their number.

One of the guys looked just like John Voit and had a German accent, one was called Duncan and the other guy was totally non memorable. They were jokers alright…

Duncan to Tg: “So where do you want me to put the drugs I found under your bed?”
Tg: Stares at him saying nothing for a long time before realising he was joking

Nai to John Voit: “So I think we’ll have to reassemble this once it’s in the room”
John Voit: (with heavy sarcasim + german accent where think is pronounced sink) “You sink.. do you”

Tg to Duncan: “This bed comes apart”
Duncan: “Is that right? I’ve never moved a bed before.”

Duncan and the other guy to me when I walked out and announced they still had to move the chest freezer and dryer from out the back: “Are you right there?”

I think they were talking about the beer I was drinking. Cause it was 11am and I had just cracked open a beer and was wearing a dress and inappropriate footwear while they were loading a bunch of my really heavy shit in a truck for me.
So I said “hmm, yeh, sorry.. do you guys want a beer?”
but they just stared at me, no-one answered… I couldn’t work out if their expressions meant: “She’s an alcoholic” or “What a bitch, I wanna beer so bad but JohnVoit will tell me off in a stern German accent if I do”

Later in the day Duncan brought up the beer thing to me again when I was carrying a pale ale cartoon full of books out of the truck “you just cant stop yourself can you”, and then John Voit stepped in and said “Dunnnccaaan, remember ze rules” and then Duncan said to me “Oh yeh, no girls allowed in the truck”

and so I dropped the carton of books and went and sat on the couch with my beer while they moved more of my stuff around.

Seriously though, they knew what they were doing, I didn’t hear one ‘nah, you gotta turn it this way’, ‘you can’t put that in first’, ‘there’s no way that’s gonna fit there’ out of any of them.

The move went surprisingly smoothly and now we've just got 1000 boxes of crap to unpack.

There are a few things funni in the new house though, like my wardrobe. The rod for hanging clothes so tall I can't reach it. Who knew that you had to specify to the wardrobe makers that you weren’t a giant?

The other really really funni thing is that we don’t have any gas yet, and so that means no stove and no hot water and no hot showers. It’s hilarious.

But overall, it’s new, it’s bright, it’s shiny and its ours. Awww…

well actually, its not ours, but we're there.. :)

I Seem To Be Killing Time

So the clock on our server is only doing 20 seconds for every real 30 seconds and after a conversation with the host about why this might be happening, she wrote back today and said:

It seems to be keeping time however it's still slipping quite a bit.

So then I looked up and the clock in my office says 10.30 when it’s actually 11.15?

So what does it all mean? Am I ahead of my time? Or is time passing me by?

They always say time changes things, but sometimes you actually have to change time yourself.