Well Summer Slaughter is over and thanks to Tesh, Shelley and Haley who have been wanting to chop my mop for a while now, my headbanging hair is finally gone. This Flint-esque (Prodigy guy) array of spikes remain.

Its actually really good to be rid of that long hair, it used to get really annoying sometimes, like when I was driving with the window down, or putting my helmet on and off, it just flies everywhere and gets knotted really easily. Even headbanging which is what I grew it out for gets it tangled something chronic.

Everytime I used to brush it I would pull out clumps of knotted hair, which made it real thin and gay.

Of course I’ll have to cut the spikes down when I go for a job interview, hopefully soon, but I thinnk I’ll stay at a number 2 for a while now. I might leave just a smidgen of mohawk behind though, we’ll see…

Summer Slaughter was last night and it was fucking awesome. Nothing short of amazing as bogans flooded the Transmission room and the raw, unbridled power of brutal death metal pierced ear drums.

Got me a Necrophagist Tshirt and a Fetus hoodie. They aren’t that great, apparently they all sold out in Oz and they didn’t bring enough for us (thanks guys). But I’m happy to support them since I haven’t bought any of their albums and buying merchandise doesn’t give any cash to the record companies.

There were six bands, Ulcerate was first, they were OK (3 of them are 8 ft Sativa dudes so I’m told). Then Dawn of Azazel, with the Cop lead singer who they tried to kick off the force. They played real well this time. Got some hair thrashing to them.

Then the ones I’d never heard before, Faceless and Aborted played. They were actually pretty good! Aborted played for ages, and started a wall of death (Which if you didn’t know is where the crowd splits in two and runs at each other at the next breakdown)! I thought they were banned cos people die in them but my brother grabbed me and yelled “Mmmf gmph Mfft!!!” and ran off to the right of me. I was like “what the fuck did he say?” and then realised I was almost the only person left in the middle… fuck! The guitars dropped and everyone ran and smashed into each other people went flying, Mope lost his shoe then found it again. No one died. Was pretty cool, first one I’ve been in.

Next time I think I’ll pay more attention and instead stand in the middle with my devil horns outstretched and then tuck up just before each side meets me in the middle. That would be cool to do.

Shelley turned up before Dying Fetus came on. Gave me a chance to get out of the stifling heat down there to go meet her. I didn’t know but The bassist guy also does vocals. The guitaring was awesome, the bassist goes from like the top frets to the bottom frets then back again so quick it’s hard to follow, same with the lead guitar. His guitar was for sale that night too, $2000. It was a black Dimebag style one, can’t remember if it was ESP or LTD though… Fucking amazing. First song they played was… I can’t remember… but mope ran into the mosh pit so I followed him leaving Shelley (who wasn’t feeling so extreme that night: tsk tsk Shelley) with her mate from work Will, who plays in Skulldom. Hopefully going to see them next month.

Mosh pit was pretty fucking nuts, got kicked in the face by the Dawn of Azazel lead singer as he was crowd surfing which was pretty funny cos I just managed to miss his foot in the Amon Amarth mosh pit lol. It wasn’t as packed as Children of Bodom so there was more room to move around which meant cunts were getting taken OUT lol cos you could get a run up in the pit. Two dudes even dancing Ballroom styles in there smashing around and getting taken down, classic shit, was crackup.

I got out of there to get a drink, I was pretty much fucked by the end of Aborted but this was like the first and last time Dying Fetus will ever come here. Went back in for Grotesque Impalement – love that song. They played Pissing in the Mainstream, Kill Your Mother/Rape your dog, Raped on the Altar, One Shot One Kill and… I don’t remember the other ones they played. I was holding for Tearing Inside the Womb, but it wasn’t to be

Went outside to cool down before Necrophagist. They were the shit. They took a while to come on though and in that time I kinda seized up – getting too old for this shit obviously, or perhaps not drinking enough. They jumped straight into Stabwound, and also did Advanced Corpse Tumor and Fermented Offal Discharge. Watching them play is absolutely amazing. Dudes must have cut off their hands, fused huge spiders to their wrists, lopped off 3 legs, and hooked up its nervous system straight to their brains. Thats what it looked like anyway. Fingers moving so fucking fast and with such precision. Plus one of the guitarists does vocals as well. Fucking nuts!!! The lead dude playing a white flying V was looking everywhere but his guitar.

Pure.

Fucking.

Win.

(Ow my fucking neck hurts from headbanging so hard – so worth it)

Went out to the bombing range on my quad today.. by myself. Was pretty mean. Up Muriwai beach at full tilt for about 30 minutes till I got to some dunes. There were two other guys up there on two strokes, and a few people fishing. And the army setting off bombs. I was sitting in the forest having lunch when I heard one go off – sounded pretty fucking big.

Little bit crap cos the tracks in the bombing range are mean, but you don’t wanna get caught by the army dudes in there, or ride into a blast area. Hopefully next time I go out they won’t be bombing – and I’ll have my new set of tires on.

And cos the tide was out got to do massive 5th gear drift circles… so much fun.

Left the carpark about 10am, got back about 2pm. Good times.

A tank of gas lasted me 2.5 hours, then I filled up again with the can I bought with me, strapped to the side.

Soo much fun, can’t wait to go out with a bunch of people.

I was just watching the news and I saw a bit on a Maori Focus Unit in the prisons.

What the fuck? A Maori Focus unit? What the fuck do we need that for?

What about the Scottish Focus Unit? Welsh Focus Unit? Islands Focus Unit?

This is just plain racist. Why can’t the other ethnic groups have a focus unit to further separate them from the other races in society – cos thats what this unit will do, further separate the Maori from other ethnic groups.

This is what fucks me off the most, Maori want to be treated the same but yet they expect to be treated different and better than everyone else just because they are the “native” people of this country. Which is a load of shit anyway, they’re no more native than any european. The only difference is they got here about 500 years before the european and ate all the original inhabitants.

But the truth is many civilisations have been to New Zealand before the Maori, they just didn’t bother staying, and there is evidence.

Maori aren’t fucking native to this country and anyone who tells you that is fucking stupid. They are immigrants too, we are all immigrants. The original natives of New Zealand were probably immigrants too but the Maori ate them all, and the government has put an embargo on the research of Pre-Maori civilizations so we will never know for sure.

Fucking stupid people, jesus fuck… open your fucking eyes!

FYI: http://www.celticnz.co.nz

Skinny introduced me to this spiders book from knowfree.net and I’ve been having wickid ideas ever since I read it.

Of course I’m talking about spiders in the programming sense. Robots and screen scrapers that go out onto the net and grab data and stuff into a database then you can do stuff with that data.

The things you can do with spiders is amazing. I’ve got a few cool ideas, like mixing band info from wikipedia with the google maps api and ripping the data from a site with a shitty design and putting it into your own little database.

But I won’t give away too much stuff cos someone might steal my ideas – I probably won’t have time to finish writing them anyway lol. I should write a guide to writing a spider soon though.

Hmmm.. fun. /geek

Been riding my new quad quite a bit, though not as much as I would like.

Went riding with Shelley out at the Woodhill bike park which was fucking mean except my battery was flat and we had to keep roll starting it which sucked. I rolled it though which was quite fun, going through the blue enduro tracks, straddled a stump going down an uneven little rise. Unfortunately it stalled and we had to drag it out. Thanks for helping me drag my quad around that day Shellz sorry for being a drag lol.

Then went again the next week with her and Tesh, right after and during somewhat heavy rain so there were puddles EVERYWHERE. I got fucking soaked. Quickly learnt that quads get bogged down quite easy. Tried to hit the puddles hard but almost got thrown over the handle bars to meet the bow wave that splashes back over you. Have to kick it down to second or first and give it shit. Rode some new tracks. Then got back to the van and found that my keyfob in my pants doesn’t like water. And there’s no cell reception there to get my dad to bring my spare keyfob. So Shelley had to drive me back to my house and then back to the bike park before 5pm (got there just in time) to load the quad and leave. What a doofus. Then her horn got stuck on which was pretty funny, had to pull over and rip out some arcing wires from the engine bay. Taped them up no worries.

When I used to go down the race on Nicks property I used to only be in third but now I can do it in fourth. Kick it out round the corners with my new nerf bars which allow you to put your weight right on the edge off the bike for real tight turns. The tyres are really worn now though so it gets a bit slippery and dodgey. Brad took it for a squirt and almost slid it through a fence lol.

Nerf Bars

I even started to jump it. Shelley was telling me Nick gave her a jumping lesson and she wants to do freestyle, so I’m like well if she can do it I can do it lol. Started going off this little rise at the end of Nicks race. Get about a foot or two. Pretty small its good to see how the bike handles in the air. Then nick showed me this other jump. Which is quite a bit steeper. Did it a few times but just got to get my head around the ’scariness’ of it. Nick did it on the quad and was higher than mine but it looks effortless and easy. Probly cos he’s been riding since he was 5.

Oh well pratice makes perfect (slash broken leg).

Then I went on a mean journey up to Riverhead forest. It’s mostly gravel and with the worn tyres its mean for getting sideways round corners… so much fun, so fast. Some cute girl out walking waved to me on Ireland road, and some lady tried to throw a shovel at me on Horse-shoe bush road… yeah.

I want to try Race to the Sky on it just for fun and to say I did it. But it was shut down (and it’s in Queenstown).

Fuck I love my quad.