mongrels for the winter 2010

old The mongrels enjoy their happy new autumn of internet censorship with __________ and ___________-____________________ and ____________ biscuits

hi. it's cold.

LOL even winter is almost over at this point, jaysum.

I need a new username, this one feels silly.

i'll change the title in spring

i don't know what it means!

Its a futurama ref, what else :D

"He's like some amazing combination of Gumby and Hercules!"
"Gumbercules? I love that guy!"

oic

i have been reduced to filthifying phrases i heard on lateline

FIRST

not quite

Hey Melbourne

Anyone want to see the Knife opera on like the 22nd or 23rd October?

Love, K♪t

Ooh I do know Nick would. Is it only in Sydders?

melb fest, trayce

http://images.theage.com.au/2010/07/29/1722379/420-boundary-420x0.jpg

imagine living as far out again as CBD-craigieburn. good luck melburn

it's only in melb, hence me seeing if anyone there wants to go

no for the h-dogg?

what are tix worth again? i'm interested.

oic. Imma ask Nick if he's interested! He lervs ze nife.

Warning
Smoke & Laser Effects

Please Note: The Knife will not be appearing

lolll.

what are tix worth again? i'm interested.

$40-$110 depending on seats

excellent point of last nite's gig was during 'losing my edge' - jams murph singing the bit about working on the suicide organ sound, then "and it sounded like this", walks over to an organ and grinds out a bit of 'rocket usa' while the rest of the band keep playing

lcd slammin as ever, they really can't be fucked with as a live unit

hot chip were pretty good but the more synthetic joints sounded flat - more organically 'groovy' stuff was better. joe goddard is on paternity leave apparently - they had a big screen which showed him singing the bits he usually would've!

sounds great! how was your experience of the crowd? several reports indicated it wasn't the most easygoing bunch

p. average "young ppl these days" type crowd really. wouldn't really say it was aggro, more like - ppl want to get to the front, ppl want to jump up and down when there's probably not enuff room, u know.

indeedly

s-dogg and most likely myself r guesting with y1s tonite @ oldie, on vuvuzela and casio respectively

he'll get typecast if he keeps this up

having dinner w/ friends from former workplace - they tend to discuss former workplace too much so if that shit starts up again i'll prob swing by

neato

hopefully it won't be too huge a night, CL are making soundtracks for educational films tomorrow

'educational'

teehee

I think Im having a Weekend of Fail to cap of my Week of Fail. Cant go nuts, have gardener man coming round at 9am tomorrow, guh. Least this means I dont have to do the damn weeding.

but you go nuts all the time! an early night will do you good surely

i am going to make slow cooked lamb shanks tomorrow in my new ~slow cooker~

I sure feel like ive been going nuts all the time lately urrrgh :/

better to go nuts than go ham

i have no idea what i just wrote actually means btw

Hahahaha.

I was just picturing slicing bacon off my own legs, Bjork-stylee.

how self sufficient!

having dinner w/ friends from former workplace - they tend to discuss former workplace too much so if that shit starts up again i'll prob swing by

― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Friday, 30 July 2010 01:20 (6 hours ago) Permalink

Bring M3S!

Was going to ask if LCD played 'losing my dave evans', sounds great.

wots this baout vuvuzela destruction then ey wot

y1s dude responded to s-dogg stage invasion by bending vuvu in half iirc

i r slow cookin shanks btw

vale vuvu

y1s dude responded to s-dogg stage invasion by bending vuvu in half iirc
Lollll! Oh dear.

Sposed to be going to Dom and B's "we're off to canada for a bit" drinks thing at some Art bar in ver city. Cant be effed.

was a bit rainy round 5.30am

so did everyone have an exciting weekend

was in bed for most of it

u sly dog

sick like dog, maybe

Im sick today too urgh. Fsckin weather.

that post office pub up there that t3x and the d@ll@s cr@n3 dudes are involved with would be a good local

v good point

maybe it's time for coburg to get cool

coburgin'

and of course now all the 'burg places i dithered over are gorn

coburg has chance of getting place you can make noise in, maybe?

I agree w/AA re four-monther and don't unpack, it will give you time to find a new place, and living spartan will be freeing

there is certainly a case to be made for it but the stress i'm going through trying to find place at moment is somewhat immense so slightly reluctant to put myself thru it again in a hurry

on the other hand the offers aren't rolling in

Just treat the place as 4 month storage/CL album making place w/ a bed?

At least you'll have 4 months to find a new joint without an a-hole landlord/agent hassling you everyday.

tru

welp anyway i haven't got it yet so i'll sit tite

Don Tojo and Izakaya Chuji both look pretty good. Izakayas are juuuust starting to arrive in Chicago, but they haven't quite taken off yet. (I went to a pretty good one a few months ago, but it closed not long after, presumably due to lack of business.)

I had a momentary panic yesterday when I realized that Australia required a visa (in the form of the ETA) to enter, but this has since been sorted out thanks to an extremely helpful British website I found.

We don't let any old riff raff in!

Pro tip: if you are a dirty illegal, come by plane coz they're not looking there.

Speaking of agents, I love how they suddenly go 'oh hai we have booked you for an inspection in the middle of the day, we will see you there then hey'. Like neither of us fucking works or anything.

I ring em when that happens and say "sorry, no can do - I want to be present and this will be happening on a saturday or you're giving me more notice to arrange a couple hours off work". Havent had an issue with that thus far.

Bugger, I just said yes. Oh well.

They're going to sell the place we just moved into, it seems. We've only been there about 8 months. My wife had only just rescued their garden, which was full of rubbish, weeds and broken glass.

So I concur with the bugger remark.

Oh god. And here I am whinging about one week's notice of an annual inspection.

You got a weeks notice!? blimey I'd get 2 days if i was lucky, sometimes.

I dont wanna have to move again but fuck paying over $2000 a month in rent, this blows.

!!!!! Where are you living, Grimwade House?

heh. Thats all up obv not my half. $480 a week. It is a bit too much for a 2 bedroom house, most other similar round here are $450 tho the price is creeping up slowly.

Ah house, fair enough I suppose. Our flat is $1500/mth.

jaymc:
weather is looking like being rainy in Sydney for your first few days, which is a shame, but lighter on Friday and Sunday, if you're making plans for what to do when. If you're a seafood enthusiast, one great thing to do in Sydney would be to catch a ferry from Circular Quay to Doyles at Watson's Bay. You get to be touristy at the Opera House and such, then basically take a cheap outdoor boat cruise round through a rich part of the harbour, then get off and have some fancy fish. Plus climb the hill and look at the city in one direction, and our most popular suicide location in the other.

(If you like adorable animals, catching a ferry to Taronga Zoo is a fine alternative to this - get the cable car to the top, then wind down the hill throughout the day.)

there's a p great izakaya in Newtown, but we couldn't get enough people together to make it rly worthwhile attending w/ you. haitch, edwardo and Queen Girl Pato can attest to it tho!

This Malay place gets bigged up a lot: http://www.mamak.com.au/menu.html

They always have long queues outside, but word is they move quicker than they seem. It's about five minutes from my work, too, so might be able to pop by on Weds eve, on my way into town, if you're v keen.

Thanks, Sic. I think it would be to my benefit to purchase a sim card for my phone when I arrive, so I'll give you a ring on Wednesday.

And yeah, the rain is kind of a bummer. :/

Hopefully we'll also have CIO on the rain front by 7/8 Dec, it's been raining a lot in the last week or 2. Kind of annoying.

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^

Also rain is awesome. Little better than sitting somewhere cozy on a Sunday and watching constant rain.

prefer constant parade of girls in dresses

the two can be combined with sleazy results y'know

*lightbulb*

welp, got offered the collingwood mansion

am v tentative baout it tbh

That's good n... wait what

this will be a summer to remember

Oh, is this the 4mth one?

y

i will def be employing the 'don't unpack' tactic suggested upthread

So you're taking it? Brilliant. Gives you somewhere to live while you're looking for somewhere to live.

indeedly

i need a cigarette

Who the hell steals a slurpee?

Little better than sitting somewhere cozy on a Sunday and watching constant rain.

Sure there is. Balmy sunshine (not too hot), doing the gardening, sipping on a cider out in the garden. Cant do that in the bleedy rain can you, no u cannot.

You can if you are in a parade of girls wearing dresses iirc

btw doing the gardening = the eighth deadly sin

Alright, having a BBQ or reading a book then, I dont know ;P

soz

trayce: bringin over bbq tomoz nite, be ready! mebbe FB me yr address btw

ok!

new fred

the last of the summer mongrels 2010