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5:51 am spent the bulk of tonight / this morning in Benny’s hot tub, giving Amy a foot rub, nothing in it really, shes good at massaging, and I was returning the favour, sorting Nicks bed out so he could close the door, mangled my hand in the process

My finger is bleeding and feels somewhat fucked up!

Errr today, The White Knight, hooked me up with a Jurb, I went into mobil and meet up with a manager, done a very simple test (basic maths / common sense stuff) ended up celebrating at murphs (showing Nick the bar) and then getting smashed with my boys. Which lead onto going to Bennys for a swim in the hot tub

Nightline Online: Terrorist War Game?

Someone on NZGamer found this and passed it around, whats with Americans and attacking the Gaming industry, Internet and Teenagers?
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2105341

Watch as they tell us 7 million dollars (US) is wasted!

a few questions to the genius American government.

these terrorist hell children, who live in generally poor country’s with low if any infrastructure (craters such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gaza area’s for instance) are playing anti coalition games on what exactly?
Terrorist lan partys?

And when are you going to arrest EA, they’re obliviously trying to overthrow the government!!!

For once I love EA, standing up to stupid politicians gets you mad props

The footage in question can be found here.

Nick D Responds

hahaha this was awesome, oh for those of you, who do not know who Nick D is, Nick D is one of the hosts on C4TV (i think he was on M2 back in the day too)

Quotes all taken from NZGamer, enjoy.

‘Chris‘

• “only problem is it’s hosted by that twat Nick D….god i can’t stand that cu*t….”
• “I f***ING HATE NICK D!!!!! someone has to kill that stupid c*ck….
  i as hopeing beyond hope that someone would run out during that GTA bullsh*t and stab him….”
• “Dear C4TV….i was just wondering what was your price to whore your self out to Sony?”

‘Dannyboy‘

• “This is f***ing terrible. Yeah I knew it would be biased, but I mean blatantly selecting interviews where people pick the PS3 over the 360?
• Sony New Zealand: “Hey C4 would you like an all expenses paid trip to LA? Oh, there’s only one catch, IF YOU LOOK AT, TALK TO, OR THINK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN SONY OR SONY AFFILIATED PRODUCTS WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.”
  Haha… the GTA real-life spoof was pretty funny though. I like the presentation of this special I just hate the slant.”

‘Angelofdeath007‘

• “Ok now hes recreating Grand Theft Auto. What does this have to do with anything? Where are the big games? We have had one segment on Sony and how amazing there are and a segment on a voice actor and Paris Hilton and now he is recreating Grand Theft Auto. This is an embarassment, where are all the big games. Wheres Halo 3, Gears of War, Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Smash Bros, Final Fantasy XIII, Metal Gear Solid 4? This is what people care about not him trying to be funny.”
• “The problem isn’t that he is focusing on just the PS3, it’s that he is doing segments that have nothing to do with gaming. He has only showed one game in-depth and that was a break dancing game.”
• “Oh I get the negativity but hes just a no name reporter who has more important things to do like recreate Grand Theft Auto and talk about stuff not to do with gaming. Oh goodie the handheld gaming lets see if the DS gets a mention.”
• “Wow the DS didn’t get a mention. It was so obvious Sony payed for this, I mean the DS which is currently beating the PSP by over 4 million units sold gets no mention at all and the Wii which won best in show gets a little mention . I didn’t think C4 couldn’t get any worse after hiring Joel on select but oh how I was wrong.”

‘Phoenix‘

• “”I only caught the last 10 minutes, but it looks like I didn’t miss much.Everybody knows that the Wii was where it was at, at E3 – focusing solely on the PS3 was pretty dumb, yet we all knew it was coming.

  Oh, and the blatent rip of the dave chappelle GTA skit would have been funny, if it wasn’t a DIRECT COPY of it.”

And then out of the fog, he stood!

Nick D

• “Interesting that i stumbed upon this…And i shouldn’t really add comment now but some of the comments made me feel that i needed to do so…

  First of all yes – one i am a presenter of a channel, two i wrote, produced and directed this show which is no easy task and three i have my whole life been a seasoned game fan therefore follow any evolution of the gaming industry with a passion…

  It comes down to this, I’m not sure how many of you have had experience making tv shows but there is alot more too it than meets the eye, when you only have three days to shoot a whole show and basically spend your whole day running from interview to interview it gets a bit hectic…. the reality was that we had NO interviews setup for Nintendo before we left as it was a mission to even make contact with the representative in NZ, and unfortunately at E3 you can’t just roll up to someone and say “hey dude, im from NZ can we have a chat…” – doesn’t work like that…. so on top of that, when you have a full on day of shooting and then get told you have to wait 5 hours just to see a machine, which is essentially half of your day, you have to make priorities…. we all know that nintendo dominated, but to be honest not even seeing the machine it was only really after the event that i even realised this, as the whole thing with E3 is a press orientated event – No lanyard means no party….

  Apologies to Chris for whatever i did to you in a past life, that’s a lot of tension you got built up there my friend…

  Also, the main point of the whole show which thankfully someone got at the end was – It wasn’t a show for gamers specifically, we all know the stigma’s attached with gamers, and in my opinion i wanted to create a show that finally showed to what extent the gaming industry is a dominating and credible force ie actors etc getting involved… if it was an hour show doing blow by blow reports on the playability and gameplay of games the majority of people that weren’t seasoned gamers would switch off… it was a piece aimed to glorify the industry, not to just keep games forum posters salivating…

  funnily enough until it was mentioned here i had no idea that dave chappelle had done a skit on gta.. just checked it now, so apologies to those who cry plagirism, it was fairly obvious in the first place and thus a no-brainer….

  and the other, final point was that in televsion, at the end of the day with edits you are gonna put in the stuff that ‘works’ the best, sure we had IV’s with XBox represntatives, but when you are dealing with 45 year olds that are about as visually entertaining as watching paint dry, you are gonna do the best with what you’ve got to make the best you can to appeal to an audience that transcends the market…

  at the end of the day a success for an individual platform / title in the best light is a success for the industry on a whole… and the faster this myth about gaming just being for geeks with no lives passes the better.

  again apologies that i couldn’t wait 5 hours to see the Wii and that i didn’t do a 15 minute interview on Halo..

  and especially to Chris for making you so mad, i’ll try and be more tailored to your tatses the next time round.

  I hope some of you saw the show for it’s real purpose, to big up the gaming industry as a whole and not just a glorified games review.

  nick d – c4

  (apologies for post length ;] )”

In short
Greasy Gamer guys – “Nick D is teh dumb, I want him to die, he is a nub reporter”
Nick D – “Hey im just trying to give some mad props to the industry you obveously love so much”

Also “With musical television experience dating back almost a decade (Max TV, Juice and M2), a slot on bFM for over 12 years and a great reputation” the guy isn’t a useless reporter, hes been doing it since you were saying girls have cooties and eating bark, just because he does a show for a genre of music you don’t like doesn’t make him in any way shape or form a twat, stupid cock / person who deserves to feel the wrath of your O.S.H riddled girlish hands.

My take on the whole thing?

‘FaPo’

• you mean another hour special sony advert?

I saw last years one with the guys from Mo Sho, and decided not tom watch it this year, I also didnt make a threat on a gaming forum I couldnt keep.

Peace

Tama

One for your mother

10:42 am

I'm stressing out, just a little bit, I've filled the lawn mower up with petrol, the lawns need to be done TODAY, the lawn mower wont start, I kept knuckling away at it, but I've flooded it more then likely, your probably saying 'dont stress out Tom' its about to rain! mowing the goddamn lawns in the rain, provided I even get the hunkovshit lawnmower working later is not my idea of fun, I'm also high on cleaning fumes from hitting the bathroom up, which is nowhere near finished.
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The only thing keeping me from tearing my hair out is this album, the guy does all his own over dubbing, which is amazing, as he is white! Its the kind of music your parents would listen to on the weekend, mixed with some R&B – Hip Hop and spat out on our laps as this. The album Multiply is damn funky, great for shitty mornings.
Ill keep you updated on the housework which needs to be done asap.

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12:02 pm

Got the lawnmower working finally, Matt and I have gone hard and done all the weeding, im about to try tackle the disgusting bathroom now, peace.

3:18 pm

Cleaned out the study, Nick now has a room to move into,Benny and Amy's bulk naff needs to be sorted out, Amy's seems to be an extensive library of books she will never read again (typical woman) Benny's is everything he doesn't want us to throw out, but never actually wants to see again, I also just watched an awesome little movie called Nacho Libre, which cheered me up a whole bunch, Jack Black, is still my hero \m/

5:06 pm

Things have become slow, waiting on Amy to sort out her books, and Steve to do the front garden.

7:11 pm

What an awesome time for an update, Steve worked a 12 hour shift, so wont be doing any house work today, tomorrow is or last day, and we will have to go hard-out.
Watching 'Garden State' again now, which has Steve in my room, as its his favourite movie, I fucken love the soundtrack to this movie, infact I ranted about it here. I will have to rant about Zero 7's album/ep in the near future.
About to have some Chinese for dinner and finish watching the movie, peace out yo.

A few changes

Well, we have our very first flat inspection, and what can I say, the ceiling in the kitchen looks like its going to cave in, the lawns and gardens are now large enough to host there own micro-eco system, the kitchen hasnt been touched in two days, I don't even really want to think about Steve's bedroom, or Matts as a matter of fact, Amy has a cat, we are not sure if that is allowed… but I'm not stressing.

Nick Raine's is moving in on his next pay-day, we have given him the 'study' as a squat / room for $40 a week (free rent, but pitching in for expenses) which will be cool for a few reasons, the first is Nick is a chef by trade (so in theory, could MacGyver some meals out of our student naff) which means he likes to be in a clean workspace, another ally in the ever lasting mess wars of this flat, He's fairly awesome when he is on the bottle too

He's looking up jobs as a chef in the region now, Im going to rock into Mobil soon and see if they need workers, probibly will want people on the n1 / n2 shifts as no-one likes working weekends.
If all goes well he will hopefully move into my next flat with a proper room towards the end of this year. I've heard Pre-Op is also looking for a place to move, so if anyone out there is looking for a flatmate, and wouldn't mind living with this guy, send me an email.

Um that's about all for now, I bet Rob's going 'what! Nick? whyyyyyyyy?' Rawiri's going 'haha Nick, awesome' Various other people are going 'whooooooo?' yup.
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Mike Dee is due in Wellywood tomorrow, its going to be a shabby week, and Rank'N'File will no doubt be getting some updates.

Peace Out
Tama

Last Night

Another great website design IMO can be found here, for the band 'Figurine' Which consisted of three members (including a certain Jimmy Tamborello from one of my favourite bands 'The Postal Service' which you can pick up fairly blatently with the synth beats)
Like the Postal Service their style is a mixture of strange love ballads/ addictive synth – drum beats and a total disregard of what is popular in music these days.

If your a fan of The Postal Service, Atari Teenage Riot or Ladytron pick up 'The Heartfelt' as its a brilliant album which deserves to sit alongside the likes of its similar peers in music.
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Probably sick of hearing this, but I drank too much again last night, it was fun, everyone seemed to be having a good time.
I woke up drunk this morning, and smelling like a foot, so I mustive gone to the pub last night.
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Steve made a huge feed for breakfast, it made me powernap until 8:10.
A few cool things happened today, the first was we got a letter from our landlord, stating that the flat is up for inspection, everyones finally going to get off there arses and go hard with the cleaning tomorrow… after the rugby of course.
Nick is moving in, we have decided to give him the study 'under the table' for dirt cheap, while he finds somewhere awesome to work in Wellington, should be cool to live with this guy again.
Sara got her eyebrow pierced, needless to say her mother didn't like it, and I have no idea what to think about it, haven't seen it, she was really excited though.

Banned

A scrot of a human has had me banned / suspended from deviantART, usually I wouldn't mention anything about it, but this girl is a big headed moron with nothing better to do then insult other artist's, which is the reason I jumped in and had a go at her in the first place, so there is no way I wasn't going to say something.

I couldnt beleive the dA staff had taken sides in this petty little arguement, and taken such harsh action, needless to say, I sent in some of her friendly messages, hope something is sorted out, also deviantART take heed, you should like, mail people / note users about the problems before you ban them, this whole things seems somewhat one sided, and it could have been dealt with a whole lot better (not only by me and the whore in question) but by you, its not much of a slap on the hand, more of a waste of my time, which could have been prevented with about 2 minutes of mediation.

That's enough of that, count yourselves lucky I got crazy taxi and crazy taxi 3 last night, and therefore will not be bored!, also looks like the sun might come out for enough time to take the BMX for a spin.

PS http://blood-stained-hands.deviantart.com/ is a crackaddictdaughterofawhoregoat who needs a life.
free speech on my blog and if she ever bothers to insult me on any of my profiles I will happily rip her another new arsehole.

The arguement in question can be found here, and here goes the quote which im banned for
"Crawl back into the angry little goth hole you came from you ostentatious slag, what gives you the right to consider your art better then anyone elses?"

Radio @ctive

So the fact that I'm a total music whore was bought to my attention here. And its true, my stereo is blasting about or at least 16 hours every day,it only goes off when I sleep, or leave the house, And when I leave the house my iPod is strapped to me like a bomb I cannot live without music.

Anyways I don't just whore Audioscrobbler day in and day out by cranking Winamp, though I have a rather comprehensive list going down now days, I find new material by listening to my favourite station (insert shameless plug here) @ctive fm (you can listen in here if your out of the stations radius) It has been said that I have ecliptic taste, and you can blame these guys for that, its A grade student radio, with alot of unheard of groups, it always seems to be playing the right stuff for my moods (for instance, if I'm hungover @ctive will be playing some jazz flute / calm stuff)

So during the day, even if my computer is off, I'm always listening to music, wow fun fact (next time ill tell you about the book i have with 3 pages full of bands i gotta find, and the dwarf who i keep chained up in the garden shed)

Tama 

PS; @ctive card holders are automatically in the wellington old-boys bowls club… before you ask, yes, I do go down every now and then for a roll

SixSixOne!

Helmet came in today total w00tage!
Info on it can be found here

Im going to make something really clear

If you ever call me, on my cell phone, and it comes up 'caller withheld' I'm not going to answer it 90% of the time.
Just thought id share that, its a habbit I picked up working at shell, not wanting to pick up double shifts.