Good Idea or Dumb Idea? #4 - Rock ‘n’ Roll Footy

I guess this idea is very similar to my Licenced To Ill 2006 idea, but I reckon it'd be very cool if someone — say the RRR, The Espy and The Sacred Heart Mission — got sixteen bands to each record one club's theme song. They could stick them on one CD, which can then be sold for $8 each. That's 50 cents per song, so you don't feel too ripped off at having a 15 minute version of Freo Way To Go ruined by some electo-anarcho-punk collective. All profits from the CD go to The Sacred Heart Mission.

Is this a good idea or a dumb idea?

Respect

Look Who's Toxic will be interviewed on 3RR's Respect The Rock some time between Midnight and 2:00am next Thursday night (or Friday morning, depending on how you think about it).

Brackets, Parenthesis and Parentheses

This is what I believe to be true:

• "Bracket" is a general term, which can be used to describe a parenthesis ('('), a square bracket ('['), and so on. Confusingly, "bracket" is sometimes used to describe square brackets.
• "Parenthesis" describes one of the round brackets that are common in English text ('(').
• "Parentheses" is the plural of parenthesis.

Again, feel free to correct me. My source is Wikipedia.

Look Who’s Toxic Message Board

I've put a new message board up on the Look Who's Toxic web site. I'm planning on applying a theme to it to make it look like our actual web site and to remove all the guff about reviewing membership applications, but for now it's using Vanilla's default theme.

Check it out and get posting already!

110 Kilograms

After being discouraged by my slowing rate of weight loss, I've been very slack over the last five or six weeks. My trial membership at the gym expired, and while I had evey intention of joining up for twelve months, I started making excuses for myself — it's a big financial comittment, and I still wasn't sure I'd really make use of the gym for the whole next year.

Things got worse when I wrecked my bike by falling off it while drunk. I was still walking to work, but was driving in at least a couple of times each week. I was eating badly, my exercise dropped right off, and I started getting sick.

A couple of weeks ago, I signed up for a twelve month membership at the gym on Errol Street, but I've been a bit lazy there too, so you can imagine that I was expecting the worst when I stepped onto the scales at my new gym.

But, lo and behold, I'd actually lost weight since the last time I'd weighed myself. It's true that I'd never used these scales before, but if you can't trust those huge, hospital-grade scales, who can you trust?

Hopefully now that I have access to a good set of scales, future weight updates won't be quite so up-and-down.

Pleased To Eat You

Alright! Pleased To Eat You is finally mastered and at the printers, and will be ready to go for the CD Launch + Eating Contest. There are MP3s available for listening and download over at lookwhostoxic.com.

By the way, we’re still looking for gluttons to compete in the eating contest. If you’re feeling hungry, let us know and we’ll hook you up with a bib & bucket.

iTunes and “Weird Al” Yankovic

Anything that lets you buy Weird Al songs instead of records is pretty awesome in my book.

Pleased to Eat You

The mixing of our forthcoming EP is done and it sounds amazing. I'll stick some MP3s up once it's mastered, which is happening on Wednesday evening.

Ellipsis Mania…

After some healthy debate here at work, I believe the quality of our lives have all been improved by coming to a deeper understanding of the ellipsis (three dots which signify trailing off). For those who turned up late:

• An ellipsis is three dots long.
• In HTML, you can use the entity … to signify a horizontal ellipsis (as opposed to the vertical ellipssis, which we'll ignore for simplicity's sake).
• In Microsoft Word (and WordPress for that matter), three full stops will automatically be converted to an ellipsis, much in the same way quotation marks and apostrophes are converted into left and right quotation marks and apostrophes.

Here are the important points:

• In the middle of a sentence, an ellipsis should be surrounded by spaces. For example, "I can't believe it … you seriously did that with your mum?!" is correct.
• At the end of a sentence, there is no spacing around the ellipsis, but to be perfectly correct, there should be a full stop after the ellipsis. So, "I just can't believe it…." is correct. However, this practice is pretty rarely used, so "I just can't believe it…" is acceptable.

Note that this is just my understanding, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. If anyone can correct me, feel free to do so.

Help a Guy…

Sometimes there's a cause so good and so pure, I can't help but to support it.