Radio

Hurrah!! So I began my presenters course for 92.7 Artsound Fm (Link) yesterday. Its great fun and in the not too distant future I WILL BE ON THE AIR!!
More Death Metal interspersed with the Modern Jazz Quartet!!!

Actually it will be a lot of fun learning all about hosting, interviewing, producing, mixing, recording and other cool radio stuff. They seem like a real nice bunch of guys and the class I'm in is a good mix of people.
Looking forward to next week.

I'm a Bad Man

Boy oh boy, I tell you whut Mister...

I have a great job, I know this, but sometimes I just feel bad when I can spend a 2 hour lunch break surfing YouTube for '80's rap video's.
I'm mean that ain't right, I'm getting paid for this.

So what did I learn from this research?
1. Flea provides the base line for Young MC's 'Bust a move'
2. LL Cool J will knock anybody out, but his mum has to tell him to first (weird really)
3. Flava Flav is still a funky mo' fo'
4. Bobby Brown was REALLY good. (Kinda fell apart after the whole married-to-a-drug-ho thing)

It is Friday though... if that helps...

I'm also older...

Turned 33 yesterday.
Had a great party on Saturday - Karin organised a trivia night and Singstar (heres fun - try Singstar as your favoutire cartoon character eg Mr Magoo vs "The Power of Love").
It was a joint party for a whole bunch of May Babies, seems every second person we know has a birthday this time of year.
So I drank a lot more than usual (wine, beer, uzo) and yet woke up none the worse for wear - but had a weird craving for pineapple juice and chocolate. Go figure!

Karin also out did herslf on the present side of things, she got me a stunt plane flight on a tiger moth. Gotta tell you I was a little aprehensive at first, but I found out that my favourite brother in law Pino is going to doing it with me (his birthday is June 10).
Man I hope I get to go first... I'll tell that pilot to do all the freaky shit he can.
Then dare Pino to go one better.

I love an audience!!

"Igor, whose brain did you give me?"

"It was Abby someone...."

Talked with the Doc last night, good news is my hearing is within normal parameters. Thanks to Death Metal concerts I have a slight loss at some high freq's (ie I can hear you talk if we are in a quiet room, but I can't hear a thing if we are in a cafe or anywhere with background noise) which is perfectly normal for some one of my age.
The scary news is I have a lump (or mass) slightly pushing on my brain about 2.5cm in size. The Doc advises this is probably a cyst of some type, but to be on the safe side he wants me to follow up with a MRI. Doc advises this with a high level of confidence, however it still bugs me a 'mass' of any sort is there.
So the latest conclusion, my hearing and ear related balance is fine. This mass is probably whats causing the dizziness and mild vertigo.

Yay! I feel much better...


"You-mean-I-put-an-AbNormal-brain-into-the-body-of-a-6-foot-homocidal-maniac!?!"

My BRAIN SCAN

Returned a positive result, apparently I do have a brain.
(I know it surprised my wife too!!)

Off to the Doc next week to discuss the results and get a hearing test. That should prove a bit more difficult, my right ear just seems to be harder to hear out of.

Perhaps its all in my mind... Wonder if there's a test for that as well (hmmm, do I own a James Blunt CD? Was I compelled to read 'The Da Vinci Code' despite having read 'Foucaults Pendulum'?
Seeing as I can answer NO to both those questions perhaps I do have a mind after all.)

Of Style and dress

This is an interesting site, The Satorialist, this guy takes photos of well dressed people or people that catch his eye around the streets of New York.

His aim is to capture style and fashion without being bitchy. I like his approach!!

Star Wars Parody

VERY funny piss take from the guys at Adult Swim.
How do you tell your boss the Death Star blew up....?
Link

Weebl & Bob

Check out the adventures of Weebl and Bob, its weird, its crazy, its all about pie.
This is my favourite episode so far - Team Laser Explosion 4!!
Link
And equally as good Bob's House Cleaning tips
Link

My Brain Hurts!!!

Actually it doesn't (anymore than usual) but I do get to have a BRAIN SCAN on Thursday!!!

Sounds pretty cool, eh!?! The reason I have to get a BRAIN SCAN is the Doc told me so. And the reason the Doc told me so, is because of two things;
1; I think I'm losing my hearing in my right ear,
2; I'm having trouble with my day to day sense of balance (ie Vertigo)

They are probably related to the same thing, so the Doc wants to be extra sure its not Brain Mutants or too much Playstation. Myself I'd say this has a lot to do with the amount of time I spend in planes. Which is more than I would like, but not as much as my company would like.

So while the jury is out on the Brain Mutants theory, I guess the CT scan will shed some light on the matter. Perhaps I can get a note to stay off planes for a few months!!

So Much for Cheese

I love food, can't live without the stuff.
I have a fondness for cuisene and enjoy eating a lot.
For wine, beer, water or drink of any sort - I do in fact support.
BUT
My neices have not yet grown into their taste buds.

Last Saturday we had a small party for Karin's birthday (observed Saturday, celebreated Monday). As I love to cook I fired up the ole imagination for a selection of foods to celebrate the birthday girl.
Roast lamb with garlic and rosemary seasoning.
pan fried baby potatos and fresh beans in a tomato sauce
Roasted butternut pumpkin
A soup of bacon hock, parsnip and sweet potato

Well it looked good and tasted great, to everyone but my youngest neice (whose 5). She picked and played with her food but on the whole didn't eat much.
Kinda bugs me, especially when she asked an hour later if there was anything to eat, but not what I had cooked.
You have to larf!

What comes around

I wrote a few posts back about an awesome fishing outing (7 of the buggers). Well the wheel has turned and my last outing with Graham was quite different. In fact I lost the coveted Fishing Trophy and went down 1 to 5.
The fish we are targetting on these trips are Carp, a pest to some but good fun to others. In my experience Carp have the following qualities, they are relatively easy to catch, they are great fun to land and they have sometimes subtle bites at the bait.
I would suggest that the policy of strike early and often can be applied. But like most things with fishing it would seem to me that this is tempered with what ever conditions the fish feel like on the day.
3 days betwen fishing outings, very similar conditions, very different outcomes. Not strickly speaking true, we didn't make our usual prayers and offerings to the fish god on the last trip out... Hmmmmm....