Australia is renowned world wide for its ridiculously intense summer season, which is less a season than it is a ten month period of time of being physically molested by a pervasive, sweaty bubble of solidified air. So, this year has seen El Nino break and the last three months have actually been wet and cold. And now, in the final of week of summer, for the first time, we have blue skies and sun....

The year ended in a spectacular fashion, all screaming and splintered on the jagged, toothy rocks of prejudice and pretentious opinions unwanted, unwarranted and untruthful.

• People:- Hippies, Parents, The Solid and the Unformed... You are all still human. Slowly, I develop a prejudice against people with dreadlocks. You wear your Veganism like an armour, you wield it like a sword, but it will not s...

• Hunter S. Thompson
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Philip K. Dick
• Albert Camus
• Aldous Huxley
• H. G. Wells (always)
• Ernest Hemmingway
• Jack Kerouac
• Franz Kafka
• Alexander Pushkin

1. Jack Kerouac
2. Rumi
3. Hunter S. Thompson

• Because I can actually breathe.
• Because Lauren always tells me I smell nice.
• Because I realise that I don't ever have to smoke again, and that's a really nice feeling.
• Because the image is not real. And while I am more than ready to philosophize on the readiness of reality to a raging radar of regular redolence... The truth is that dying that way will only undo the beauty of a life given over to some...

Yeh - even I'm sceptical.

• Release EP for 'A Thousand Apologies'.
• Release EP for 'The Black Arts'.
• Tour EP for 'A Thousand Apologies'.
• Tour EP for 'The Black Arts'.
• Make 'The Woman and the Stranger' - BEFORE July.
• Finish editing 'Butterflies in Glass'.
• Make 'The Lemonade Stall' - BEFORE December.
• Complete final draft of 'Mortal Gods' - BEFORE September.
• Make EP of my own songs w/ me on bass, Ruw on drums & ...

1. Roger Waters
2. Wilco
3. Augie March
4. The Black Arts EP Launch
5. A Thousand Apologies EP Launch

• I have lost my DOP to England and my Producer to Adulthood, which has sent my aspiring film career into downward spiral mode. I'll admit, it's been very hard not to be bitter.
• I have had three jobs - Projectionist, Office Manager and now, Frontliner for a charity. I finally feel like I'm doing something worthwhile.
• I have not written nearly as much as what I would have liked, but what I have written...

• We had a gig - and all the other guys left early so I scored the whole rider. Sweet.
• Got into the Zoo for free 'cause Eddy was doing sound there - got to stand up on stage and watch Thirsty Merc, who, I've decided, actually are a fairly decent band.
• Got to pretend like I was an important person in front of the sell out crowd of screaming girls.
• $2 scotches cause Bridgette was behind the bar and she l...

• 2 x James Joyce novels
• Filing cabinet & Bookshelf
• The Beat Poet collection
• Edgar Allen Poe graphic novel
• PostSecret coffee table book
• The Penguin of Death illustrated book
• Brian De Floris activation card

• Filing cabinet
• Massive bookshelf
• Really nice backgammon board
• Nintendo Wii (...not really; I never have any time as it is... still...)

• Paradigm
• Obnoxious
• Suckful
• Peculiar
• Vehemently
• Reiterate
• Perplexed
• Erudite
• Erroneous
• Intriguing
• Ire
• Orthodoxy
• Revelate
• Narcissistic
• Eptistolic
• Epistemology
• Retrospection
• Vagrant
• Lemur
• Irk
• Voluminous
• Antiquated

Art is money that I don't have >:( Why is it that so many things I own are fucking broken?!?!?! Yes - this does include my relationships.

1. Take bass amp to shop to get looked at.
2. Take guitar to shop to get peg fixed and new strings.
3. Go to Guitar Central and see if I can get credit for my acoustic bass towards a new epiphone.
4. Put ad in next week's Time Off & Rave to sell my acoustic bass.
5. Pick my camera ...

• "The mind is everything; what you think, you become." - Buddhist Saying.
• "Life is far too important to take seriously." - Oscar Wilde.
• "The report speaks for itself. It's a very good report. It's a very long report. I haven't read the report yet." - British Member of Parliament.
• "If you don't believe in the gods, leave them alone." - Ancient Chinese Proverb.
• "He's not the sharpest sandwich in the picn...

I don't play video games any more, but seeing all of the new consoles coming out made me reminisce to days when you didn't need to have an extra thumb in order to operate a controller.

• The Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask.
• Monkey Island 1 through 3.
• F-Zero.
• Duck Hunt.
• Super Mario World.
• Jones in the Fast Lane.
• Lemmings.
• Worms Armageddon.
• Final Fantasy 7.
• Civilisation III.
• Sim City.
• Super Mario Kart.

1. I have a third nipple - it's considered good luck in Chinese culture & everyone who sees it swears it's just a large mole. It's not, it's a nipple.
2. I have a fascination with names - when we first meet, I will demand to know your full name, and if I think your middle name suits you better, I will call you by it.
3. I am terrified of Zombies. TERRIFIED. A friend of mine gave me a machete as a house warmi...

• Sleep in late.
• Drink tea in bed with my window open, watching people walk by on the street outside.
• Sit on my front steps and read with a cup of tea and a cigarette.
• Lie in bed and listen to the rain on the tin roof.
• Sit in my favourite brown armchair at my friend's place and drink tea and play backgammon.
• Listen to Augie March and draw pictures of penguins.
• Listen to my mix CD made especially for rainy...

1. Everything

1. Lemonade Stall (10 pages)
2. The Woman and the Stranger (10 pages)
3. Mortal Gods (80 pages)
4. Fall (50 pages)
5. Watching Clouds Meld (80-90 pages)
6. Of Men and Monsters (90-100 pages)
7. Attack of the Vulture People! (100-120 pages)
8. Thirty Sixteen (120 pages)
9. The Big Five (120-150 pages)

• Chain E-Mails (I'm too superstitious not to forward them on, but I hate it when I do because I know how annoying they are).
• People with no manners.
• People who don't indicate.

• Money (2 x $50 notes = Denis' best day ever)
• Training Bra
• Lingerie
• Tobacco (Full 50gm pack of Champion Ruby when I was so broke I was considering quitting smoking = Denis' best day ever)
• Empty booze bottles (6 pack of UDL's after a kid's session on the weekend, first thing in the morning, to name but one of many)
• Pot (the kid was so chagrined to come back for it)
• Syringes
• Various sexual paraphernalia (I ...

I'm not dumb, but I can be stupid from time to time...

• When I was 7, I went to the snow in the mountains behind Hobart. I was so enamoured that I put some snow in a bottle in order to take it back to my school for show and tell. I was devastated when it melted.
• When I was 12, I went to an acting troupe with my friend Daniel. We sat in a circle and had to say who our favourite actor was, and why. I s...

1. Black the Sun: 'Black the sun, oh no look at what we done. Go away, oh no, won't you please stay? And dream of me. I wish you would, dream of me. Dream of me, I wish you would, dream of me." - Alex Lloyd
2. Just Passing Through: "We were riding up the road to the site with the window's down and the cigarette's alight, singing some rubbish bout my soul's all right... I didn't know what I could do. Just...

1. Peter Jackson, Extra Mild - Although these are a cheap cigarette, I really enjoy them; kind of like in the same way I really liked L.A. or drinking shitty wine - sometimes I find I want to smoke a cigarette that reminds me of how disgusting the habit really is.
2. Lucky Strike Filters
3. Marlboro Reds
4. Chesterfield, Mambaya Gold - I MISS these cigarettes SO much!!!
5. Champion Ruby Yellow - My cigarette of choi...

1. Day drinking
2. Successfully managing to cram eight people into a bright pink kiddie pool designed to fit only two.
3. Daniel's attempt to fill the water bombs with beer by wrapping the end around the neck of his bottle and then sucking on the balloon part to try and force the pressure in, putting himself into a fairly interesting position in the process.
4. Matt eating half a pavlova and then falling over an...

I need to get a new job.

• Pro - The money is a lot more than good and the work is a lot less than taxing.
• Con - It teaches lazy habits. I do remember a time when I used to have a work ethic, but I can't quite recall why I should bother when I don't really have to.
• Pro - Everybody thinks you have the coolest job.
• Con - You work it, and it's not that cool.
• Pro - Unlimited access to the internet.
• Con - Unli...

• I am moody.
• I need space.
• I fall in love easily.
• I don't lie. Ever.
• I'm independent and I like it, but I do still enjoy the silly txt messages and the random phone calls.
• I am a passionate and I get excited very easily. Don't make mock of that because it hurts my feelings.
• If you make me happy I will do absolutely everything for you.
• I can be melodramatic and I exaggerate things.
• I get caught up in my own...

• Lawn Bowls
• Day Drinking
• Andee, Daniel, Kim, Smudge, Ruwan, Glen, Romesh & Jess
• Veeeeeeeeeeeerrrry cheap Drinks
• Day Drinking
• Cigarettes
• My spectacular bowl which owned everyone else's (despite the fact that every other bowl I did was completely suckful)
• Passing out at 5.30 and waking up at 8.30, full of energy
• Pepperoni pizza
• The fact that Christian wasn't nipping at my heels/making me feel defensive the wh...

1. Jane - Grade 1
2. Keely - Grade 2
3. Tammy - Grade 3.
4. Rashelle - Grade 4 & 5.
5. Melitta - Grade 6.
6. Melitta, Zoe & Emma (respectively) - Grade 7.
7. Natalie, Emily & Katrina - Grade 8 & 9.
8. Katrina, Casey & Taryn - Grade 10, 11 & 12.
9. Nicole - 18yrs to 20yrs (it lingers still).
10. Jenna & Danni - 21yrs (although both of these were always plutonic).
11. Camilla - 21yrs to 22yrs.

• Why am I doing this?
• I want a cigarette.
• I need to quit smoking.
• Why the fuck am I wasting my time on this?!?!
• I'm not even getting paid.
• I hate this.
• I want a cigarette.
• Why am I doing this?
• Yep, that's good enough.
• I wonder if Dan/Ruw/Smudge/Danni/Anyone's still awake?
• I need a cup of coffee.
• This is ridiculously boring.
• Buh.
• Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
• I want a cigarette.
• Will he/she notice that?
• Fuck ...

1. There is enough love to go around for everybody
2. I am always right
3. You don't exist
4. The keyboard is making a very loud sound
5. I like scotch, scotchy, scotch, scotch; down, down, down; down into my belly.
6. People are people and I don't know what else. I am exhausted of playing games and acting as the sheep herder.
7. I will continue to have faith in people until I kick this habit called life.
8. I wish she had call...

• Pizza - Pepperoni w/ extra pepperoni & extra cheese.
• Pork Roast Dinner
• V8 Juice
• Oysters Kilpatrick
• Brie
• Glass bottled Coke
• Garlic prawns
• Barbequed steak w/ mustard
• Lime cordial
• Scotch & Dry
• Cascade premium light beer
• Pulpy orange juice
• Lamb cutlets
• Marinated steak, medium rare with pepper sauce
• Cauliflower cheese
• Mashed potato
• Lemon, Lime & Bitters
• Red delicious apples
• Dahl
• Pretty much any kind of cheese
• Pretzels
• Sri ...

Is it really all that much to ask?

• A Nintendo Wii
• $250 to get the firewire port on my camera fixed
• A Maton Acoustic Guitar
• A Hofner bass
• An Ampeg bass amp
• Scarlett Johansson's phone number
• The complete works of Dostoevsky
• $750 to get the LCD screen on my camera fixed
• $500 to pay my car registration
• Somebody to invest $10,000 in my next film
• The world

In order of greatness

1. Wilson from 'Cast Away'.
2. Bill "The Butcher" Cutting from 'Gangs of New York' by Daniel Day-Lewis.
3. Dr. Strangelove from 'Dr. Strangelove or...' by Peter Sellers.
4. Hal 9000 from '2001: A Space Odyssey'.
5. Gigolo Joe from 'A.I.' by Jude Law (simply for the line, 'I am. I was.')

Because I am cool and so are they...

• Hunter S. Thompson
• Stanley Kubrick
• Johnny Depp
• Jorge Louis Borges
• Glenn Richards
• Scarlett Johansson
• Charlie Kaufman
• Dave Grohl
• Jes :)

1. Children of Men
2. The Departed
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
5. An Inconvenient Truth
6. Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
7. Thank-You For Smoking (Although not as good as I'd hoped...)
8. American Dreamz (What?! I liked it!)
9. Brick
10. Slither
11. Hard Candy
12. United 93
13. Lord of War (Was that this year or last year...?)
14. Monster House

• Catching the City Cat home from work. This is cool for two reasons; a.) because I don't have to clench my jaw whilst driving through peak traffic and b.) because I will get to sit on the front of the City Cat and feel the wind in my face and watch the sun set over the city.
• Making spaghetti bolognese when I get home - I make AWESOME spaghetti. AWESOME.
• Writing. Thank you, inspiration!
• Listening to Ab...

1. Cigarettes. I know it's wrong, but I love them.
2. Tea. Dilmah, extra strength. White with two, thanks.
3. Dreams. I don't know where I'd be without them.
4. Love. Possibly the dangerest narcotic of them all...
5. Grinding my teeth. I wish I could stop because I keep giving myself tension headaches.
6. Oxygen. I don't know how to kick this habit.
7. MySpace. Need I say more?
8. Singing loudly in my car when I drive home from...

1. If someone doesn't want to be helped, there is nothing that you can do to help them.
2. It is okay to walk away from someone who is stuck in a downward spiral - if they wish to be free, they will break themselves and return - if that is what is supposed to happen.
3. There is always another angle with which to think about something.
4. Apathy is a monster which hides in the dark places of your chest.
5. Paranoia ...

1. All time favourite - Where the Wild Things Are. I love this book; in fact, I'm going to put a picture of it on my MySpace right now...
2. Dinotopia and The World Beneath - Illustrations are amazing... Dinosuars are cool.
3. The Little Prince - I had completely forgotten about this book until my ex-girlfriend loaned me her copy last year. Brilliant!
4. Guess How Much I Love You? - I bought a copy for my nephew...

1. Because we had a gig, and it was top fun.
2. Witty banter with a cute girl outside the front of the Globe after she complimented my bass playing techniques along with my physical appearance (said cute girl when drunk later on became much stranger than anticipated).
3. I got very, very drunk on Scotch and Dry.
4. Randomly venturing forth into the Valley for a quiet drink lead to unforeseen collisions with old ...