Ev and Jaime, soon you will be brought deeper into the inner circle. You may think you have adventured a fair way in, but Seth and Holly are going to show you the errors of your ways soon enough. M just took me to the next level in and I dread to think how far this can go.
I have bought the third albums from both these bands in the last couple of months and must say that I find ‘Tonight’ by Franz Ferdinand to be far superior to ‘Day and Age’ by the Killers. In fact ‘Tonight’ is the best of Franz ferdinand’s albums, where I find that ‘Day and Age’ is the weakest of the Killers albums.
I remember posting a year and a half ago about the second albums of these bands. I said at that time that they had both outdone their first efforts. I’m not sure if I said which album I preferred, but it was (and still is) ‘Sam’s Town’ by the Killers. I think my lack of love for the new Killers album is that it does nothing new and nothing leaps out to tear off my face. It is almost like a watered down version of ‘Sam’s Town’; I could be being a little harsh there as I have only listened to it three times.
Tonight on the other hand seems to have moved Franz Ferdinand to a new level. There is a Freshness to their music and the lyrics are just as clever as ever. The most interesting thing about the album is the second half of Lucid Dreams (the 10th track) which departs into a kind of trance sound that has a dark edge to it, almost like it was hoping someone would call it EBM.
I wonder if it is fair to compare two bands that are stylistically very different?
Who cares if bikies kill each other? They seem to be leaving normal people out of their tribal behaviour, so let them go at it. Maybe there should be some legislation made so that killing a bikie is not a crime. As long as you are a bikie and you only kill other bikies, no questions will be asked. This might also cut down on the horrible profusion of Harley Davidson t-shirts and Jim Beam belt buckles, that many regular (almost) people wear.
Maybe the legislation could be broadened and anyone could kill bikies. As long as the only people you kill are bikies then no harm is done. Maybe we could include other gangs in the new laws. As long as you only kill gang members there is no problem. Head on down to Maroubra beach and if you come upon the retards from the stupidest sounding gang in the world, well, no worries.
Taking this to the next level, maybe we could include any group as a viable target. If you are a member of a group, a scene, a fan club, political party, a sub-culture or a team, then look out because its open season.
A conversation post the enactment of the new legislation:
Normal citizen 1: Hey mate, how’s your day been?
Normal citizen 2: Great, how about yours?
Normal citizen 1: Pretty good. I bagged two emos, a wigger, two altar boys and David Oldfield.
Back to the original “point”. Bikie. What a silly name. It sounds like the tiny little plastic bikes that kids ride. Oh my goodness it’s a bikie war.
Yvette and Arvid invited us to come with them into the Eifel region and stay at the holiday house of Arvid’s folks. The house is huge, especially when compared with the tiny cottages that are traditional to the area.
The area is beautiful:
We hiked up to the local Monastery, which has just been handed over to a monastic order again after decades of being privately owned and used as a farm and residence. The guy who used to own it is Arvid’s uncle.
We visited a zoo in the area and M got to play with her favourite thing.
I had originally wanted to call this post: “The list of people that were almost named Byron.”
Apparently the names of my posts should have something to do with the contents.
And here is a picture of a goblin
I don’t want to say anything bad about people that believe the drivel coming out of the faces of the world’s religious leaders, but holy motherfucking shit! If a person takes the pope seriously then I think having a serious conversation with them is going to be a difficult proposition.
In his book the God Delusion, Richard Dawkins says that in the best case scenario religion might not cause harm. But that is the best case scenario. The Pope and his recent ignorant comments in Africa regarding condoms and aids is proving Mr. Dawkins’ point. Telling people that the catholic way (don’t have sex) of handling the aids epidemic is better than condoms is tantamount to saying, “let’s depopulate Africa.”
“The immaculate contraption.” One of the kids misspelled ‘conception’ on something they wrote about their recent holiday to Rome and the Vatican. Wunderbar.
We are still struggling to come up with a name for the little fellow soon to join us. Two front running names are Jack and William, but they are super popular and he would end being “yet another William”; kind of like it is with Chris. 
Another name we like and my personal favourite, is Jan, pronounced ‘Yan’, rhymes with ‘gun’. The problem is that in Australia it would be Jan, rhymes with ‘can’ with a ‘j’ sound instead of a ‘y’ sound at the start. I don’t want to be one of those parents that constantly picks up people’s pronunciation of his son’s name.
I had a kid in my class in Sydney with the name Lennox, but it wasn’t to be pronounced that way; the stress was on the ‘o’, so the second half of his name sounded like a beast of burden. Every time I said his name for the first week, he would correct me and then his parents came and spoke to me about it, which really got my back up. I don’t want to be the ‘arsehole parent.’
The title of this post was said to my friend by a helpful kiosk attendant in central Buenos Aires after he was mugged in the park. Ah the common touch.*
I asked him if there was some kind of combination of the two dangers that the park held, but he wasn’t having any of that.
*If I was not aware of the pun when I wrote it, but then realised and left it in, is the pun intended?
MARK 12:18-27
If a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.