Store.

The Store is now open and fully loaded. There is a hundred or so vinyl albums, including some ultra rare Iron Maiden stuff. There is also about 500 cd’s by all sorts of people, the weird the wonderful and I must admit, the crapfull.

Site fees are due in the next few months, you can help us heaps by buying something. If your a socialist who would like nothing more than to see the whole site shut down, then buy them all and Kati and I will extend our world trip to 12 months If you like the site and would like to see it continue to grow and flourish, then just buy something

PS…..in case you were wondering, the site is not in financial difficulty. I just want a mid life Harley.

It’s Not Just Australia

It does not just happen here. Victims rights (an oxymoron if ever their was one) are trampled on a daily basis by smart arses with attitudes like this

“It’s a sad state of affairs when you raise victims’ rights to the same level as the constitutional rights of the accused“

If any comfort is to be taken at all from that story, it’s that we Aussies are not the only ones who have still got a long way to go in the area of victims rights.

Cheesy Romance Quotes

We have all heard or read some lines from those stupid romance novels, you know the ones with Fabio on the cover. I was putting my mind to good use recently and came up with a few cheesy lines of my own.

1) They clung tightly together in the aftermath, their bodies intertwined like one of those two flavoured cheesy things that you can get at the supermarket.

2) He gazed lovingly into her eyes before sweeping her up and holding her as close as the plastic wrap holds the individually wrapped cheese slices that come in various sizes.

3) They lay side by side on the silk sheets, a little unsure about the next move. She glanced nervously at him, noting how his biceps seemed to move, as if mice were running around under his skin. He rolled over and held her in his arms and began kissing her naked body. She sighed as he moved into her, the same way melted cheese moves into the noodles when you have macaroni and cheese.

4) The moonlight shone on her body, giving her an almost unearthly glow as he watched her undress on the warm balmy night. As she worked her way down to her underwear, he noticed that he had become hard, like a block of tasty cheese left unwrapped in the refrigerator.

5) As he tasted the forbidden fruit of his brothers wife, he felt unsure of himself. He felt as though there were two of him. One part of him was happy, like a teenager in love for the first time all gooey inside. The other part of him felt anger, shame and revulsion. Part perfectly acceptable but with streaks of unpalatable grossness inside him. Like a chunk of blue vein cheese.

Kati is so proud of my romantic streak.

Anybody got any more cheesy lines?

If you do, please keep them reasonably clean

Half Wit

Proving just what an unacceptable half wit opposition leader Kim Beazley really is, today he calls for the PM to come home from his current overseas trip make a definitive statement about his future to Australian people.

Howard has repeatedly stated that he will stay on as leader for “as long as my party wants me“. This according to Kim is no longer good enough. Why you ask? Well because glorified journalist Rupert Murdoch says it’s time to move on.

What people need to understand about journalists, even over blown and over paid ones like Rupert, is that stability and steady sailing do not sell papers. Change, turmoil, and disruption sell papers. Of course Uncle Rupert wants Howard to move on, there is no news selling in a steady Australia with a stable economy.

What Rupert says is nothing more that spruiking, but the fact that opposition leader Kim sees his words as having some kind of omnipotent message for all who hear them is just plain bizarre.

It is indeed time for an Australian party leader to move on, but it’s not John Howard.

Jill The Ripper

It’s possible the Ripper could be female but the results are inconclusive,” said Prof Findlay

I’ts possible the Ripper could be a hermaphrodite too. Or maybe an Androgynous alien from the planet Zeaus as well, but the results are inconclusive.

So why then is the story taking up valuable media space?

Maybe I am the Ripper born again, but the results are inconclusive. Maybe its Dubya?

Phooey.

Newness!!

We have “newness” to tell you about. Kati and I are always trying to keep the site fresh and interesting for both the readers and the writers. We are always experimenting with different interactive software, looking for that something that can give our readers and writers that little extra for the same cost, which is of course nuffin.

Trust me….I’m bald!

I just had to post this great story from todays Herald Sun.

Should old farts just crawl under the nearest rock?

There is always fierce debate amongst most anyone you ask about the merits of old rockers continuing to slog away 20 or even 30 years after their “best before” date. Personally for most of my adult life I have clung desperately to the older generation of musicians. Walking wonders such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath (includin OZZY of course) and Nazareth, you get the picture. Now I have to admit most of these guys have let me down big time at some point. The last 2 Deep Purple albums were abysmal beyond belief, Black Sabbath after OZZY were always patchy with moments of pure magnificence and crap in equal measure. Nazareth carried the torch for gritty rock, but have fallen silent for the last five years or so and show no signs of changing that situation, although they do still tour very heavily.

There have been 2 albums released in recent times that have caused me to ponder such vitally important topics.

The first one up for discussion is the new Ian Gillan thing called Gillans Inn. What it is is an album of cover songs of his own songs! Yep the once great man is reduced to dredging up his own old songs and trying to polish them up a little for the young’uns. The result? Well it sounds like a sad tired old man trying to convince someone he was someone once upon a time. This is perhaps the most dismal excuse for an album created for the most dismal reason imaginable.

Check out “all new and improved” versions of two of his greatest songs, both dating back over 30 years. It don’t get any sadder than this.

Smoke On The Water

when a blind man cries

The other album that got me pondering is a brand new album from Suzie Quatro, remember her? She had a string of hits in the mid ‘70s like Can the Can, 48 Crash, Cat Size and of course Devil Gate Drive.

She has released her first album of all new stuff in years. Other than the “remember me” title Back To The Drive, the album itself is a very respectable effort for a 56 year old lady. Ian Gillan would do well to take note. My main criticism of it is that she seems to be firing off different musical styles at every turn, like throwing lots of mud at the wall hoping some will stick. This shotgun effect I think lets her down a little. The album works best when she is in her own self created stamping ground of anthemic foot stomping sing alongs. The first two songs are indicative of her sound when it works. I must admit, some of it is simply not my cuppa tea, especially the drivel that sounds like Loretta Lynn (Sometimes Love Is Letting Go) but as I said on the whole, this is a very respectable effort. Good luck to her. Suzie can stay, Ian time for you to find that rock.

Back To The Drive

15 Minutes Of Fame

PS. These songs are very low quality rips and will only be up for a short time. Grab em while the’re hot.

Don’t they look cozy?

It looks to me like they share a genuine like for each other.

I seem to remember lots of people complaining that the (alleged) friends that Dubya left out of the loop, or pissed off during the lead up to the war in Iraq would take decades to reconcile.

In my humble opinion, it’s all in the ideology, and that changes from year to year. When governments of similar ideology are elected in various parts of the world, they usually become allies.

Maybe I am over analyzing the picture (which by the way I stole from here). Whatever what way you look at it, it sure is a good picture.

Not helping Paul.

AN $8000 chartered return flight from Melbourne to Sydney is on standby to rush an accused terrorist to the bedside of his dying brother.

Izzydeen Atik, 25, formerly of Williamstown, is charged with belonging to, funding and supporting a terrorist organisation.

He was arrested in Sydney last November as part of the AFP counter-terrorism Operation Pendennis.

Ok so Izzydeen has not been proven guilty yet and we should presume innocence until proven otherwise. However, the comments of magistrate Paul Smith are concerning.

It seems to me if we live in a civilised and decent community we should be able to make arrangements where somebody in Mr Atik’s position can visit close relatives in order to say goodbye,” he said.

I agree wholeheartedly, but does Mr Atik? If he is found guilty of “belonging to, funding and supporting a terrorist organization” then he obviously has no regard for anyone else’s right to say goodbye, or any other right for that matter.

To counter Paul Smith’s high and mighty mumblings, I would point out that in a civilized and decent society, people do not plot and plan other peoples deaths on a mass scale.

I wonder at what point do we realize that the barbarians are not at the gates, the bastards are inside pretending to be teddy bears, and people like Paul Smith are not doing the situation any favors. None at all.

Operation Pendennis Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Inspector Stephen Clark, said the AFP were concerned about providing security to Atik, police officers and the general public if they were required to escort him to Sydney.

He said a chartered flight which would cost $4000 each way was on standby because both major commercial airlines have refused to transport Atik.

He said significant police resources would be required to escort Atik, provide security on the ground at airports in both Melbourne and Sydney and conduct a reconnaissance operation at Westmead Hospital.

No local commercial airline will take him. Australian Federal Police are concerned for public safety and the safety of their officers. But hey, we are civilized right Paul? Hang the expense and the risk! We’re too civilized to worry about that.