frustration

ha.

what the hell

Its been a while since my last post but I have been busy, at least until this week. I am pretty much one week in my 2 week holidays and the school-in-a-bit syndrome has set in. I haven’t done much this week, I saw a movie and had lunch with friends and went to Perth for the day. I finally got Mighty Boosh S3! yay! in Perth after looking at most shops for it I finally found it in Dymocks in Garden City.

To kill time I have been watching all the Boosh and Arrested Development episodes, as I type I am watching the first episode of Boosh S3 (with the audio commentary). To put it simply I have been bored a FUCK and I have been looking for a good British mod blog.

Anyway I am off to make lunch and watch some more Boosh.

be well.

Tim xx

a hung parliament

Western Australia went to the polls last night – resulting in the closest and most interesting election in living memory. Alan Carpenter called the election 4 weeks ago to catch the Liberals off guard – the earliest election in 150 years. The Beijing Olympics took the headlines for the first 2 weeks, again another ploy by Carpenter.

At the start of the campaign Carpenter was in front by a ton in every poll and it looked like he had the election in the bag. On the eve of the election NEWSpoll released a poll that said the result was 50-50.
When Carpenter cast his vote he looked about 30 years older than he is, it was clear he knew of the gravity of what was about to happen. As Barnett cast his vote he looked like a kid on red cordial, It was clear not even he thought he would be in this position 4 weeks ago.

As the polls closed and the tv coverage began at 6 o’clock it was clear that we were in for a long night. The West Australian Electoral Commission had stuffed up the counting and the submission of results – no preference vote results were coming in thus making the ABC election computer unable to predict a result in many of the seats.

By 8 o’clock it was clear the ALP was in trouble and Stephen Smith and Julie Bishop both cautiously called the election to the Libs.

One of the greatest miscalculations in Australian political history

It was a hung parliament. Neither the ALP or Libs could claim outright victory and the Nats were playing hardball.

Stupid cunt (the Nats leader) with a lisp is drawing out this process for the whole state. Side with the Libs as we know you will and fuck off with the games you’re playing.

The ABC signed off for the night at 10.30 with no result. This morning it was reported that The Nats leader demands a ton of Perth projects to be scrapped and the money to go to the regional areas. The Liberal leader Colin Barnett flatly rejected it as he should.
Who knows the Nats might side with the ALP. It looks like it will be who ever wants power the most and who will back down on many election promises will come out the winner.
An interesting situation.

See look no mention of Troy Buswell and his fetish with chair sniffing!

What I Am Reading.

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner.

“The novel focuses is on Nora, a 30-something mother to primary-school-age Grace (at the time of publication Garner was 35 and her daughter, Alice Garner, 8)) and her volatile relationship with Javo, a heroin addict. The storytelling is purely linear, tracing a period of just over a year, often taking note of the seasons and effects of the weather; however, it jumps, or flits, from scene to scene. Often the location or content of a conversation is seemingly insignificant, yet it is part of a bigger composition: the very deliberate rendering of a lifestyle and a community intrinsically attached to its part of the city and the earth. Garner has said that a lot of the content grew directly from her diaries from the time (and it is often noted, and grieved, by those who have interviewed her about her latest novel, The Spare Room, that she later burnt many of her diaries). It absolutely has that feel of snippets of information scribbled down about what felt important at the time, often under the influence of drugs, alcohol, friendship or emotion.

It is warming to read something so local, something so reverent about a small patch of a much bigger town. Further, it is prudent to bear in mind that this novel is thirty years old, written by a woman, and makes no effort to pretty-up its origins, nor the free-spirited lifestyle of its characters. From a contemporary perspective, it is also fascinating to go back to the beginning of the career of someone who has altered the shape of Australian literature.”

Sports Day…

4 down one to go.

Today was my school’s annual sports day. I am not in anyway athletic or interested in sports so today was all about talking to my women friends!

In the end the results were…

1st Wilson
2nd Knight
3rd Goldsmith (my house)
4th Redding.

The fresh food people relaunch.

Our largest supermarket chain has unveiled it’s last stage of her makeover. Over the last 18 months all the stores have had a make over inside, so now its time for the outside.

The new look was designed by Hulsbosch and ends the current logo’s 21 year reign. According to the creators of the new logo represents

— “W” for Woolworths
— The icon represents “people,” the upper body of a person with outstretched arms — food is energy is life
— The round shapes signify friendliness, humanity, approachability and openness

Now the change will annoy a lot of people but for me the change is very welcome. You see I am one of those people who will shop at a place because it has a nice logo or the interior is welcoming and stylish. I think the new logo will look fantastic lit up at night time on the stores and on the shopping centre signs.

While Woolies is reinventing it’s self Coles’ is becoming less popular with shoppers and is becoming even more ugly. Their logo for this week is just the coles trademark text. Over the last 12 months we have seen the red/orange orb, the tick and the circle, the circle with no tick and a more modern red orb with “coles” in a sainsbury’s style font (the latter was my favourite.) One hopes the woolies relaunch will give Coles a kick in the arse it needs.