HundredPennies

Week 8 and 9 in our training for the big run have now been completed.  The slackness (beer) has tried to kick on in over the last 2 weeks and I will need to work hard over the final 3 weeks of training to overcome this bad period. Drinking over the last 2 Friday nights does not help you get out of Bed on a Saturday morning to run 15k. I now aim to stop drinking (Excluding good Friday when we drink for the kids.) until the run (well large amounts anyway) so that I will be in tip top shape come the run.

Well as you can probably tell from the title of this post, I bloody hate ticketek!

I originally discovered this after trying to get myself tickets to see Millencolin at the Metro nightclub. Even though tix are generally more expensive through ticketek things get even worse when you add on their exorbitant booking fee and deliver options. Oh I’m sorry did I say options? I meant extortions!

When your only choices are to pay $9 to get it sent via registered post or $7 to pick it up from a ticketek venue, it’s like saying, “would you like me to kick you in the face or in the groin instead?”

Alright it’s game time and no I’m not talking about Shitbloke’s table tennis challenge.

The Game On exhibition has now begun at the ACMI @ Melbourne’s Federation square. While most gaming events are usually held in Sydney, we have been particularly lucky lately to have had a couple (Egames & now Game On) hosted right here on our doorsteps.

As I’m particularly lazy today, I’ve decided to just paste some details right from the ACMI website.

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Thursday 6th March - Sunday 13th July

Just in time for St Patrick’s Day the good people at Guitar Hero have announced that they will be releasing a special Dropkick Murphys song pack for Guitar Hero 3 consisting of master tracks of ‘Famous for Nothing’, (F)lannigan’s Ball’ and ‘Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya’

As a lot of you readers are fans of Dropkick Murphys this will be great news to you all. But the best part is still to come… the price for this kickass collection? Nothing! It’s going to be free baby! Woo!

So stock up on beers, put on your jigging boots and get ready to rock.

I’ve noticed this sites been getting a little bit lowbrow lately with all the youtube vids (Sorry Count), so I’ve decided to put my review of Gyroscope’s gig up.

I last saw Gyroscope at Ruby’s Lounge back in 2006 and even though the crowd was relatively small we stood out enough to get a song dedicated to “Those poor guys that have to work tomorrow”. I also meet the band in Ruby’s back stage area (behind a secret bookcase) where Count Knuckles chatted to them about their last album ‘Are you involved?’.

Every now and then you stumble upon a website that makes you think ‘This is why the internet was invented’

Enter http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

The concept is pretty simple. Pictures of hot chicks with douchebags complemented with humorous commentary.

As I have a keen interest in what is becoming a spreading epidemic. I find this site a valuable resource.

Via Digg.com

Thank you to Raj (idontquiteknow.com) for the heads up!

I’m not a huge fan of Cricket but if what I saw during last night’s match between Australia and India becomes a regular occurrence I’ll be watching a whole lot more of the ‘Gentleman’s Game’.

Although news this morning is that Andrew Symonds could face assault charges for what can only be described as a perfect hip and shoulder.

‘Cmon the guy was interrupting the game and Symonds was just taking the necessary means required to get the game going again. It just also happened to create excellent viewing.

Well done old chap. Well done.

Against Me, tickets go on sale from ticketek

Against Me & Crime In Stereo play at The Forum.