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When will it be over?

Well, just last week we were thinking that winter was coming to an end and although it is officially spring now we’ve recently had some pretty bad snowstorms. Kinda cool to have in winter but this late in the year is just taking the piss really.

Apart from that things are just chugging along really. Bit worried about my grandmother of late as she’s had a spill and broken her wrist. Essentially means that her times of living alone in her house are over, so she’s stuck in a nursing home now (which I’m sure she’s thrilled about) and most likely giving the staff hell. It’s a real pain being all the way over here otherwise I’d visit. Hopefully an unexpected forced visit is quite some time off yet.

Slowly crunching through the Deutsch course, it’s really difficult now and my motivation over the past months has trickled away to a point where I really have to push myself now. I really prefer working to studying really, just go in, do your job and piss off home and forget all about whatever the day brought. Doing this German course brings it all back, nothing is ever over, you get home and there’s just more shit to do (concerning studies that is). And on that note, I’ve pretty much decided to do my masters in the next few years, not really sure when or where. Still unsure whether I’ll do an MBA or a Masters In Science majoring in Business. A bit more research to do and I’m sure I’ll find something. I just want to secure myself for the future and my earning potential really, not looking forward to another couple of years hitting the books at all!! I guess we can just wait and see.

Haven’t worked on any tunes lately, just feel so devoid of ideas…..I sit in front of Logic and just start making stupid sounds instead of working in the direction I should be. Maybe it’s winter…..I just don’t know, can let you know in summer though :)

Lost my keys at Goldengate last weekend and thought for sure they were gone for good, but contacted the club and someone had found them and handed them in. How lucky, note to self, having something distinctive hanging from keychain = very good idea. Pat on back. Oh by the way, did I mention that it’s my favourite club at the moment? Well it is, it’s small and crowded and dirty but with one of the best atmospheres in this city, a perfect place to hang out with friends and get your boogie on. haha

Battlestar Galactica finished last friday which was a bit of a bummer, really enjoyed that series. Ina came up with a typical comment since she doesn’t like TV anyway, “just think Jordan, now you’ll have an extra hour or so each week!”. Wow, I said, I hadn’t thought of it that way before. Not like I watch a lot of TV anyhow.

Well, talking about Ina, both her and I still haven’t smoked a cigarette this year so we’re doing ok. Nearly a quarter of the year gone. We really didn’t want to make a corny New Years resolution (and didn’t) it just kinda panned out that way. I never imagined as a teenager that I’d still be smoking at 33 and the only way to change that was to stop. Nice to know who’s in control of the good old body sometimes anyhow.

Talking about being in control of the body, have been on a diet for the last month or so and have lost about 5-6kg so far. Pretty happy about that as I was starting to get a bit chubby (to me anyway). I think I’ll just keep dieting until the love handles are gone and then try to stay at a good, healthy food intake level. In the past I was too often succumbing to over indulgence.

Well, I guess I’ll leave it at that for now, oh hang on…….question, why the fuck is everyone getting married and soon after getting a dog? I swear I must be at that age, I can just imagine all the dog owners having kids in the not too distant future. Some of them can hardly look after their stupid dogs so I hate to imagine what the future brings…….

Well, that was New Year and this is now

Firstly let me wish a Happy New year to everyone. I had a pretty good one which extended somewhat into the weekend and now with this weather I have decided to take a hiatus from all the craziness.

Went to Deep for new year and eventually ended up after much in between at Golden Gate on Saturday night. Was a very nice time but a certainly need a break, actually our pockets need a break! As usual after this festive season Ina and I are broke and as we’re both currently studying we are on a very limited budget. So time to chill a bit at home me thinks.

Anyway, it’s so freaking cold at the moment there’s definitely no point in going outside, as I’m writing this it is -6ºc and it will only get colder as the day travels along. Tonight I think I might just cuddle up on the couch and watch some telly or something.

Well, I will eventually make a new photo album but for the moment here are a couple of photos to give you an idea of how actually cold it is. Hope summer is nice for my friends and family in Sydney you bastards!!

Crystal Castles

So, a couple of friends and Ina and I went to see Crystal Castles at Club Maria the other night (Wed). We were quite hyped to see them, well I was Ina wasn’t so much, but unfortunately they weren’t anywhere near as good as I had hoped.

Now before you start slagging me off and saying things like “but it’s hard to do a live show when you’re an electronic act!” let me just say that after my 14 odd years of clubbing with bits of DJing/Promoting thrown in I’ve seen my fair share of live acts and this one was definitely below par. Pity really cause I really like their music but there you go, not all acts can do it great live. She was just screaming into the microphone making my ears bleed whilst he was stuck behind his little desk/portable rack box controlling what was most likely a CD player as I didn’t see a computer in sight. I could have forgiven him somewhat if there was a notebook as he could have been using Ableton but the way all the tracks were tied in along with the absence of a notebook I can only presume a CD mix was used with perhaps some adlib synth use thrown in.

There you go, my brief review…………have a listen to what they do if you like, regardless of the live show they still make some great tracks.

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