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peter1610
Jul. 3rd, 2009
07:20 pm - sound track to my life
Went to see Simon and Garfunkel last night .. I was expecting the odd cringe and I was quite happy to accept that but as it turned out I didn't have to.. they were brilliant !! ... in a list of the ten greatest things I've ever experienced in my life it would be high up in the list..
Jun. 26th, 2009
07:15 am - one less kiddy fiddler
They're going to have a few problems finding suitable Michael Jackson music to play at his funeral, the pall bearers will have to moonwalk to the grave.
Jun. 24th, 2009
05:20 pm - another bus book story
On the bus coming home tonight sat next to an attractive young woman reading a book. Being a nosey bugger I looked across and had a read.
I'd picked a good stage as the open pages were a very well written sex scene, graphic and erotic.
Anyway, I read it twice and she still hadn't turned the page, I'm a pretty fast reader but it was obvious she was reading and re-reading. This is exciting thinks I, here's a lovely looking woman so close that we're literally rubbing shoulders and she is simmering in her own juices.. ...
I'm thinking of putting myself on a sex offenders register.
Jun. 19th, 2009
09:30 pm - a right proper gander
I was doing some research into Japanese prisoner of war camps in Japan trying to find where my late father in law had been interned. He died 4 years ago and I remember he mentioned roughly where his camp was, it was a cement works on the east coast of Hokaido.
I was surprised at just how many work camps there were throughout Japan, many hundreds, but I found his camp and his name on a roll. That little discovery gave me a jolt that I cannot describe.
As coincidence would have it I've been chatting to a young Japanese woman recently graduated from university with a Masters degree. Her thesis on something to do with pharmaceutical research has been published on the net, she's no dummy. I then realised that her home town is 30 kms from where my father in law had been interned, I mentioned this to her. Her response ?.."What war is that?... there hasn't been a war in Japan?" .. she knew absolutely nothing about about WW2.
They have their own slant on history and their slant is that Japan was protecting the area from western imperialism, we were the aggressors, they were the defenders.
Jun. 18th, 2009
07:09 pm - feelin' groovy
Just reading the review of the first Simon and Garfunkel concert in Brisbane last night ..and have a look at the set list ... I'm getting EXCITED!!!!!
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,2
Jun. 16th, 2009
07:15 pm - Nirvana
Breathing is not to be taken for granted and I've come to appreciate it's importance for good health and clear thought. All religions understand this and prayer and meditation is all about that.
I'm not religious so after a busy day I pour a glass of port, put the headphones on and listen to Billie Holiday; Solitude, Summertime, Blue Moon, Love For Sale, Stormy Weather, Misty ...
Jun. 14th, 2009
08:46 pm - bits and pieces
Those big old jarrah light poles on Guildford Rd are about 2 metres from your door as you sit in the passenger seat and when there's a learner driver at the wheel.. it's not fun.
I like living within earshot of the trains, not just the suburban ones but a couple of times a week the Indian Pacific rumbles by too. I was born about the same distance from busy railway yards in England, maybe thats why I find the sounds comforting. And I like to hear sirens night and day, it's good to feel all that city action around. And I like having Beaufort St Mt Lawley and it's cafes a short walk away but I wish they'd do something about the traffic, divert it or calm it or something, make it more like Oxford St Leederville where crossing the road doesn't involve being skittled.
And I think it's funny how Target and K-Mart make their young male employees wear ties but not one of them knows how to tie a tie or do up the top button of a shirt.
I buy lots of dvds but only when on special, picked up The Royle Family today, series 3 plus the christmas special for $12...!!
Jun. 13th, 2009
05:55 pm - Love For Sale
Kate is into dancing, hip hop, jazz, balet. One of the dance shops she goes to to buy bits and pieces is in East Perth and I sit in the car and wait. Over the road is a brothel, Casey's.
The average customer looks average, not old, not young, not freakish or ugly, just guys doing their Saturday routine; breakfast, laundromat, shops, brothel, football, pub and home again.
There's a sign over the door, "NEW GIRLS" , so much better than second hand ones I suppose.
Jun. 7th, 2009
07:28 pm - Not like that ..
Tommy Cooper as we all know died live on tv in 1984. The footage has only recently been released on youtube and as you'd expect they've been criticized.
For myself I find it fascinating, morbid, funny and sad.... must be weird dying like that with several hundred people laughing at your antics.
Jun. 3rd, 2009
05:27 pm - what a bunch of bankers !
Jeez Bankwest is clever, you know the problems banks have been having at ATMs recently, card scams where the scammers put phony fixtures on the machine to record your PIN as you type it in ?.. well Bankwest now display a warning on the screen telling you to cover your PIN when entering it...which is all very well except the message pops up at the very end of the transaction.. well done dickheads!
Jun. 1st, 2009
04:56 pm - Susan Boyle, lanced.
I mentioned in my post a few weeks ago that I suspected the producers had used her learning difficulty to set up the media hype to such great effect.
I take that back now, I was much too kind. It was despicable exploitation of a mental health sufferer. Oh for the almighty dollar.
May. 31st, 2009
06:57 pm - industrial illuminaries
Well.. further to a recent post it's true, you can't buy 89 cent light bulbs anymore..it's a carbon footprint thing apparently, the new $5 bulbs are more economical and last for a few years, or so it's promised.
The fact that they cost 25% more to manufacture and sell for 400% more is neither here nor there.
There's money to be made in being seen to being green.
May. 29th, 2009
09:44 pm - goldfish bowl
Web sites like this could put the red light shop window whores of Amsterdam out of business.
You can chat to the girls in pigeon english, see lots of free fanny and couples having sex live and have a few smiles along the way. It is pure exploitation, tacky, titilating, tawdry and sometimes tiresome.
The girls here are Filipinas and have to get 200 minutes of private time within 15 days or they don't get paid at all. And if they do get that 200 minutes they get the equivilent of A$70. The girls struggle for hours to get customers into private chat so they can earn money, the guys lie and cheat to see as much as they can see for free.
I've chatted to some of the girls and as you'd expect they are just simple opportunists in a poor society trying to make money from their most saleable asset.
Because they spend so much time in front of the cam they tend to forget it's even turned on sometimes..you can see people live online picking their noses, sleeping, eating, yawning, scratching. And early one morning a girl who sat there legs wide open performing while speaking into her mike some slutty things, through the paper thin walls of her shanty you could hear cocks crowing and dogs barking. The voyeur, the sociologist and the sex maniac in me loves this stuff!
If you stick around long enough you'll see that sticking the tongue out and waving it about is the ultimate sexy expression for these people..an embarrassingly stupid look.
It's virus free this place, web speaking at least;
http://www.sexyasiancams.com/exec/
May. 28th, 2009
07:05 am - it's ducked !
predictive text is a very handy thing but why is it, in this day and age where (like it or not) the "F" word is thrown about in the street, on the trains, on the tv.. why is it that mobile phones are so anal that they won't even predict the word "crap" ? !
...sure I could sit down and update the dictionary with fuck, wank, arse, cunt, bugger and such but that would be perverse.
May. 27th, 2009
04:13 pm - oink
One of the funniest emails doing the rounds at the moment;
"You may receive an email warning that certain brands of tinned pork luncheon meat contain the swine flu virus - ignore it, it's only spam"
May. 23rd, 2009
01:18 pm - Engrish
One of the Korean girls in my house wants to interview me as part of an english assignment she is doing; she needs to interview someone whose first language is english about their occupation.
"Peter, can I interview you about your work as a persecutor?"
hmm.. not a promising start, I think it could be a long interview . . thinking on though, it's not a totally inaccurate job description
May. 21st, 2009
09:21 pm - another day
A funny old day, everything seemed a bit surreal, some days are like that.
...about 12.30 we stood at the office window and watched a fierce 30 second gust of wind rip the tin roof off a hundred year old building..
... walking home through the busy city a man, well dressed, hardly broke his pace as he vomited his heart out on the footpath, he didn't even try for the rubbish bin ...he wasn't drunk, it looked like a reflux gone wrong..but he only stopped very briefly then just carried on like he'd done nothing more than sneeze. . very ugly...
... two asian school boys on the bus too close, irritatingly jabbering away had me squirming for my own space decided me that I'm a homophobic sexist racist...had they been two asian girls I would have been immensly relaxed :-)
07:19 pm - You get the newspaper you deserve.
A headline in the West today, it's a report from a murder trial currently under way in the supreme court;
"I did not have sex with chicken millionaire: Mr X"
Yes, it's a funny line and hard to believe it wasn't a contrived attempt at humour especially as underlining it was a big colourful ad for Sexpo.
But steady on chaps, it is a murder trial.
It is so sad that we have only one newspaper in this state.
May. 17th, 2009
07:05 pm - simply the vest
This yellow or orange safety vest culture is almost as scary as the coffee culture. I saw a couple of night club bouncers wearing orange safety vests last night. I think it's gone too far. The safety vest has become a badge of unofficial officialdom.
06:48 pm - "no bulbs!" he blubbed
has anyone else found light bulbs hard to find in the shops recently ?.. we've had a few blow here in the last week or so and every supermarket I go to simply DOES NOT HAVE STANDARD BULBS!! .. maybe there's been a surge of power surges in Perth, hence the paucity of blubs ?
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