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Friday, April 24, 2009 

Current mood:  mischievous
Category: Writing and Poetry
Camping for a week in the rain with a tent full of fighting children gives one an inclination to not only seriously punish one's kidneys on a daily basis, but also to voraciously read anything that might come to hand from fellow campmates.

And so i did.

The following are my reviews of the first two books in 'author' Stephanie Meyer's 4-part 'Twilight' series.

Book #1 - Twilight.

Mills and Boonish teen romance with Vampires in it.
Overly verbose and mushy with really painfully obvious plot devices that stick out like a randy dogs balls.
Pretty much written for desperate 13 year old girls who feel their lives are incredibly tragic because their' parents won't let them get a naval piercing.

If you got excited by this book, and it's terrifically over-rated contents, you are, in my occasionally humble opinion, an IDIOT.

If you went one step further, and got caught up in the hype and now dress as a goth/vampire while hyperventilating waiting for some impossibly handsome and dangerous creature of the night to come tapping at your window, you are....well, you know what you are, you just won't admit it.

Losers.

I wish i could erase all memory of this shite from my hard drive, but the technology is not yet available.

Try a REAL vampire book, like 'Salem's Lot' by Stephen King, and see how it should be done.

negative 4 stars.


Book #2 'New Moon'

See review of book #1, add werewolves.
Friday, November 21, 2008 

Current mood:  fabulous
Category: Parties and Nightlife
We think you might enjoy this delightful juxtaposition.

Banjo Patterson Vs ACDC


Wednesday, November 19, 2008 

Current mood:  adored
Category: Music
Man, i spent 20 mins crafting a lovely little blog on last nights Sheety Music #2, only to have it vanish into myspace land.....bastard..

So, this is gonna be a little shorter.

Word must be gettin round, and we wanna thank all the people who showed up to laugh and cry last night.
You help us, me in particular be the biggest tools we can be, and it is, without doubt the most fun i have ever had on stage.

last nights line up-Miller- guitar/////Pete G--bass/////Crimmo--drums and myself.

we do this night under the name 'ted bentley and the good intentions', in case you were wondering.

a quick review of proceedings.

the songs this months came from 'top of the pops vol 1.'

as follows.

1. I was made for lovin u baby--creepy country shuffle with a helium vocal

2.the gambler, .......you will have to hear to believe..and hear it you soon will.....

3. the rose-- my personal fave of the night.
                     I did this as a tribute to american composer Charles Ives,
                    whose fathers unique ear-training techniques included makin     young charlie sing folk songs a semitone (half step) away from the piano accompaniment....ooooooouch!!!!.
Very challenging, and musical sadism of the highest order.
I like to see em squirm! and squirm they did  :-}

Also, we now are going to add a B.D each month.

A    B.D, or Bridal Dance, will be chosen from the copious number of tunes i have had to learn, many times against my will and/or better judgement, for a couple to have their special moment dancing to.

Last night, I couldnt resist a recent learner...canadas finest , Brian Adams song  'heaven'.....wonderfully liberating to be able to do what i did to it...

and what was this months heavy metal poetry reading?????
well, it was always gonna be tough topping Samuel taylor Coleridges 'kubla khan' Vs RATM's 'killing in the name of'////-----but somehow i think last nights all-aussie affair managed to do it.
Banjo pattersons 'clancy of the overflow' Vs ACDC's 'jailbreak' TOPS!!!!

honestly, these heavy metal poetry readings are seriously energising!.

i am about to load up last months HM poem for you all to have a giggle at.

Be sure to come along next month, tentatively dec 17th, for our sheety music christmans special!!!! gonna be top of the pops vol 17 selections ( eerie with date choice....) + bastardised childrens christmas carol album....
recipie for fun fun fun.....

so, hope this blog dont go to another dimension or im gonna be pissed off....

see yall soon, hopefully at the lass dec 17th!!!!!

bye now

Spray Rimbaud  aka  Ted Bently  aka aka aka
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 

Current mood:  angry
Category: News and Politics
Well, i am gonna try again to get this issue up.

wrote to both Senator Wong and the Prime minister today, which i will post here.

there is a link in there for a 7-30 report youtube clip i urge all of you to watch and get cranky about.

and to those of you who are comin to 'sheety music #2 at the lass 2nite- seeya there!)



Dear  Prime Minister,

months ago i asked a question on the ABCtv  Q+A show regarding solar thermal power.

I received no satisfactory answer that night from either Senator Wong or that fillbustering goose malcom turnbull.

Here is something you really should watch. (clip from the 7-30 report)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0hzghCaI00  

It is truly a national embarrassment that Dr David Mills had to take this technology overseas to get backing.

It is further to our collective shame that we are not building these plants right now as a way to ensure our BASELOAD power is carbon free.

Actually, it disgusts me completely that you and your' fellow hand-sitters are letting this issue slide, whilst paying continued lip-service to 'carbon trading' et al.

Makes a true and complete mockery of any claims you and your' government have to being in any way 'green'.

To borrow a great lyric quote from Steely Dan :

 " hot lips and rhetoric, don't count much for nothin"

I would like to hear from you please with your thoughts on this matter, and what you intend to do ( or not do) about it, since your ministers for climate don't seem to know or care about it at all.
( yes I have tried writing to Senator Wong months ago regarding this issue--but did not even receive a response---at least when i wrote to malcom turnbull to complain he did something---even if it was just to add me to his crappy mailing list...........)

hoping that you actually care about the future for our children, and not just your own short term political horizon

Sincerely,


Sunday, November 02, 2008 

Current mood:  aroused
Category: Life
couldnt resist sharing this excellent local news story with you all, and yes, it is for real

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..Man caught with penis in pasta jar ... near Nobbys Beach..

.. ..
  • Stephen Ryan
  • November 20, 2008

A man caught near Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20 kmh car chase, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.

Police drew their weapons when they suspected Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, was armed.

Instead, they found him partially clothed with his genitals in a jar, a police statement said.

Weatherley, of Promontory Way, North Arm Cove, attracted attention parked in a no-stopping zone before noon on October 26.

Police believed Weatherley was doing something with his hands in his lap and thought that he might have a weapon.

Weatherley saw the police and drove away, despite them flashing their lights.

The chase lasted five to 10 minutes, with a top speed of just 20 kmh, before Weatherley was stopped at Centenary Drive, Newcastle. He refused to leave the car.

Four officers used batons and capsicum spray to remove him.

They found a 750-millilitre jar around his penis and noted that Weatherley attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".

A search of his car uncovered pornography, a home-made sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier.

Weatherley pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.

Magistrate Elaine Truscott asked Weatherley, who represented himself, why he behaved the way he did.

He said he resisted police because he was trying to make himself "decent".

He was fined $600 for offensive behaviour and convicted of the other two offences without further action taken.

The Herald, Newcastle
Friday, October 24, 2008 

Current mood:  enthralled
Category: Music
Well, the first 'sheety music' night went down a treat at the Lass O Gowrie hotel this weds past.

For the benefit of those who couldn't be there, or have no idea what the fuck im talking about, here's the lowdown:

One weds a month, Mr Miller,Crimmo,and Southy get together at the Lass to do something stupid.
And stupid did we.

The general plan is to work our way through my not inconsiderable collection of sheet music albums I have collected over the years, and try to pick 4-5 tunes from one particular book, and re-arrange them in our own inimicable style during the set.

This month saw us tackle the book 'hits hits hits' (published in 1983).
THe four choice selections were:
1.Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band ( re-worked as a slow burn hip hop )
2.Don't you want me baby - the human league( a la 'creep' by radiohead)
3.It must be love- Madness ( think the Dubbo High Concert band at the      Rooty  Hill RSL- maximum cheese and hand gestures)
4. Theme form the TV show Greatest American Hero ( believe it or not)

As well as a few original hip hop tracks and some instrumental excursions, the night was a complete giggle from start to finish. All I ever need to see is a few people convulsed with laughter, heads in hands as if to say, I cant believe this dickhead is for real,  and that's all the fuel i need to be an idiot ( well, ok, more of an idiot than usual)

For a rare treat, we were enticed back to the stage for an encore, a nd boy did we give them something special.

Regular readers and friends will know that i am no stranger to, shall we say, unusual ideas. So for our torching finlae, I had this notion to recite the classic poem 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel taylor Coleridge.
Nothin unusual about that really, till you set it to the dulcet tones of 'killing in the name of' by rage against the machine that is!!!!.

Fuck yeah!

By the end, you couldnt wipe the smile off my face,

 and tho my performace/reading was free-form and flawed, it has inspired us to attempt a new 'heavy metal poem' for each subsequesnt gig..or as long as i can find old poems i like/remember..

There's a few options for next month (wed 19th of nov) perhaps some Donne, or blake, tho most likely some Edgar Allen Poe....

Hopefully, I may be able to get a copy of a recording of each gig and upload a choice highlights track for your enjoyment from each gig for those who cant make it.

Anyway, gotta go now and do some work, and perhaps begin to make some selections from next months chosen book--Top of the pops Vol #1 ( very rare book!)--some classics in that one..Kiss,buggles,kenny rogers...can't hardly wait...

So, hope to see as many of you as can be there at the next 'sheety music night' (wed 19th nov) as I am itching to bring 'nathan' ( my prized Nathan Cavaleri signature Peavy guitar) out of retirement and give him a whirl.

oh joy!

cyas soon

S
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 

Current mood:  nostalgic
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
11 feb 2023:

Yeh, I know, lazy ass me...not entering any info for over a month...Oh well, i really have been out of the hole so to speak.

Uh-huh, i took a rare trip topside for the past month.

Normally, I'd be scared, but the new suits really keep out the hard rads ( there's even little tabs on 'em, to show you how many rotes you didn't absorb)

What can i say, the muties are really goin for it up there.
I had to do my bi-annual trip for the lab, taking samples and doing readings and so on.
There's some real freaky mutes gettin around, particularly in the old cities in what they used to call Europe.
Two heads, extra limbs, some of the grunts watchin over us reckon some of em are even developing some weird kinda psy-powers...

Doesn't really bother us down here at the 1k below mark, but its always interesting to see what the extra radiation is doing topside.
Plants are also stranger and stranger.
Nothin like the controlled species we grow down in the tanks here...can you imagine a 30 metre tomato bush?

So much for that next ice age they said was due in 2012.....it turned out that all that went on was the poles reversed, the earth started spinnin clockwise and everything got all fucked up...oh yeah, and the sun really started to ramp it up once our orbit moved 100,000 k closer to it...

melted the shit outa everythin, then we went full troppo madness.

glad we gor the permanent geothermal plants up and running a few years back, coz at this rate, the solar -therm plants are gonna be too hard to keep cleared in a few more years.

was toolin round the netV.1 archives again last night, dunno why im so into ancient history, but there's some interesting stuff there.

found this crazy article, they got some of it right , at least...

manyana amigos


According to some computer scientists working together with a group geophysicists and astrophysicists, Earth and Sun both will go through a process of Magnetic Pole Reversal in 2012. This last happened millions of years back when the Dinosaurs disappeared. A private research and analysis company in Hyderabad is predicting a major upheaval in 2012.

Magnetic Pole reversal is a process when North Pole and South Pole reverse positions. When this happens, at some point of time Earth's magnetic field reaches zero Gauss which simply means, Earth at that point of time has zero magnetism. When this coincides with a eleven year cycle of Sun's Polar reversal, a major problem arises.

In the modern human history, such happenings are not recorded. Only Computer Models can predict the outcome. NASA recently has brought the public fear down by saying the Polar reversal will make Earth's Magnetism weak and erratic but not zero.

According to the Hyderabad Computer Model, the polar reversal of Earth and Sun can cause the following serious problems other than electronic malfunction, migrating birds losing sense of direction and so on:

- the immune system of all animals including the humans will weaken substantially

- the earth's crust will experience increasing volcanoes, tectonic movements, earthquakes and landslides

- Earth's Magnetosphere will weaken and Cosmic Radiation from Sun will increase many folds making radiation hazards like cancer and so on inevitable

- Large Asteroids will be drawn towards the Earth

- the Earth's gravitational field will experience a change though no one knows how it will change

If you add up all these possible devastating scenarios, you can easily see that in simple words, Earth may become not suitable for human civilization by 2012 and those who live on or near earth's crust.

The organisms living deep in the Earth well below the crust will survive. Without any intervention in this natural process, millions of years later we will see some other form of intelligent or large life forms are dominating the earth on its crust.

A large number of Extra-terrestrial UFO sightings in recent days, according to many UFO researchers in the world is connected to saving the human civilization form extinction. It is possible in absence of our knowledge they are trying to provide a counter measure that can save the human civilization.

As it happened during the time of Tsunami, it is possible that we will be perplexed and stare at the unthinkable happening and wiping us out.

If this model is true, the only way for us to survive will be to take our civilization well below the Earth's crust or move to another planet. It may have happened to Mars millions of years back.

Recent extra-terrestrial UFO activities (in the last 100 years) point out that someone out there knows that something severe will happen. They may be creating a scenario where they can silently help us or even remove us to an unknown destination.



SYDNEY: A reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles could happen soonerthan we think, according to Dutch scientists who report that theplanet's magnetic field is becoming gradually less stable.

A reversal could affect everything from navigation andcommunications equipment to the composition of the atmosphere, sayexperts.

The report, published today in the U.K. journal Nature Geoscience, found that reversals have been far more common in the last 200 million years than they were deep in the planet's history.

Wandering poles

Researchers, led by Andrew Biggin of the University of Utrecht inthe Netherlands, made the discovery by analysing rocks formed between2.45 to 2.82 billion years ago.

The story of the Earth's magnetic field is written in rocks overtime. Because these rocks become 'magnetised' at the time of theirformation, scientists can discover which direction the poles werefacing and how strong the Earth's magnetic field was at that time.

The magnetic poles wander around the vicinity of the geographicpoles all the time – the north magnetic pole currently resides in theCanadian Arctic. However, at relatively regular intervals throughoutthe 4.5 billion year history of the planet, the magnetic poles haveflipped completely. A few thousand years before a reversal, themagnetic field gradually gets weaker; something which could causeproblems for inhabitants of the planet.

'The Earth's magnetic field is important for shielding theatmosphere, and us, from damage caused by the solar wind,' explainedBiggin. 'It's also used by us and other species for navigation'. Anincrease in solar wind would disrupt communications equipment and powergrids.

Current records suggest that we are long overdue for our nextreversal, he said. 'On average, there is a reversal around every400,000 years, but this varies a lot.' The geological record suggeststhat the last reversal was around 800,000 years ago.

Furthermore, there is already evidence to show that the field hasbeen weakening over the last few centuries – some archaeologicalremains suggest that the field was far stronger in the time of theRoman Empire, some 2,000 years ago.

Don't throw away your compass

Don't throw away your compass just yet though – major changes maynot even happen in our lifetimes. 'The reversal process is veryunpredictable,' said Biggin. 'We could be heading into a reversal inthe next few centuries, or we might be waiting another million years'.

Even then, reversal is a slow process, which can take some thousands of years to complete.

But what about the effect on living organisms? Another paper, published in Naturein March suggested that some species that rely on the field fornavigation or orientation have taken a knock from pole reversals in thepast.

Author David Gubbins, of the University of Leeds in England, saidthat some single-celled organisms that relied on magnetism to tell upfrom down likely went extinct during past reversals. Human beings havesurvived reversals in the past, however, added Gubbins, 'so we arelikely to come through the next one unscathed.'





Friday, October 17, 2008 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Stardate: January 11 2023

It really all started for the remains of the human race*(see netV.1 archive for articles on WW3+) with the vindication of the so called 'Podkletnov effect' in 2017.

After years of enduring countless articles and comments ridiculing the initial discovery of this gravity nullifying technology, the P.U.S (Previously united states) dept of defense was forced to come clean on developments that had occurred whilst experimenting with the ideas of Dr Podkletnov, .

Dr Ning Li, who had been working for Nasa on the Podkletnov technology, was quickly whisked away by the D.O.D with a large , well, extremely large sum of money, and effectively vanished form the face of the earth for the best part of a decade.This was after a press conference in which she and her' colleagues claimed some success in creating a kind of force field above a super-conducting disc rotating at high speeds, that created what might be described as a 'gravitational anomoly' above it.
Objects could be levitated in this field, and appeared to lose a portion of their mass, which poked a fairly large hole in conventional wisdom about such things.

So of course, it was hushed up.

Until the footage was leaked, that is.

Summer,2017 we will all remember as the day everything changed forever.

Now, with most of the worlds electrical power being generated from solar thermal power stations located in the worlds major deserts, there is an umlimited supply of electrical energy, available to us until the sun goes supernova.

When the first leaked clip appeared on netTube, no-one beleived it.

How could a tank be floating along in the desert, no tracks,no friction, just floating in mid-air>?

Then more and more clips started appearing of different military vehicles, all employing the previously derided Podkletnov tech, all of them using this 'ac gravity' effect that Dr Li had been developing.

No more burning something to get somewhere, it was all electric now, forever more, beyond the wildest dreams of any Star trek enthusiast. Electro/gravitational levitation technology wa out there and here to stay.

As of this date of writing, the Space-tel chain has opened its new Europa hotel, after the stunning success of the Luna and Martian tourist ventures. Since it only takes an hour or so to reach the edge of our solar system,things are really starting to open up, particularly for the space mining conglomerates (Phobos Metals et al.)

For those interested in further reading below is an article pulled from the old netV.1 archives. For further reading, the author suggests netV.1 archive searches on both Podkletnov, Dr Ning Li ( much info has been erased by D.O.D but sporadic info can be found by the dedicated sleuth ), and in general, the field of 'anti-gravity'.

Podkletnov, Boeing and Accidental Anti-gravity

Dr. Eugene Podkletnov & anti-gravity

Aeroplane manufacturers get in on the act, as Jane’s Defence Weekly reported:
“Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted that it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology if the science that underpins them – science that senior Boeing officials describe as “valid” – can be engineered into hardware.”

Dr Podkletnov claims to have carried out an experiment involving a supercold, spinning ceramic ring. An object held above the ring lost about 2% of its weight. The pull of gravity on the object was reduced, he claims. It seems that the first time was at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland in 1992. However, the research paper that described the results was submitted to a scientific journal but then withdrawn. The same happened in 1996 when news of the paper’s imminent publication leaked. However, Dr Podkletnov has continued to work on his ideas and is reported to have seen similar effects in his studies.

Several teams have tried but none has seen the same thing. The American space agency Nasa tried but said it couldn’t find any effect. Although Ning Li, who was working on their behalf is currently continuing this research.

According to Dr. Eugene Podkletnov, the discovery was accidental. It emerged during routine work on so-called “superconductivity”, the ability of some materials to lose their electrical resistance at very low temperatures. The team was carrying out tests on a rapidly spinning disc of superconducting ceramic suspended in the magnetic field of three electric coils, all enclosed in a low-temperature vessel called a cryostat.

In an article in the Sunday Telegraph BREAKTHROUGH AS SCIENTISTS BEAT GRAVITY by Robert Matthews and Ian Sample September 1, 1996, page 3 he is quoted as saying

“One of my friends came in and he was smoking his pipe,” Dr. Podkletnov said. “He put some smoke over the cryostat and we saw that the smoke was going to the ceiling all the time. It was amazing—we couldn’t explain it.” Tests showed a small drop in the weight of objects placed over the device, as if it were shielding the object from the effects of gravity – an effect deemed impossible by most scientists. “We thought it might be a mistake,” Dr. Podkletnov said, “but we have taken every precaution.” Yet the bizarre effects persisted. The team found that even the air pressure vertically above the device dropped slightly, with the effect detectable directly above the device on every floor of the laboratory.”

Speculation and controversy as to the validity of his tests had reached boiling point in 1996 when his paper which had been scheduled for publication in the Journal of Physics D: Applies Physics, had been withdrawn following a statement by the alleged co-author, Petri Vuorinen, denying that he ever worked on anti-gravity with Podkletnov. Things went rather quiet. The mystery deepens.




Tuesday, September 30, 2008 

Current mood:  peaceful
Category: Pets and Animals
well, here's a little pic for you friends of team whippet.

Team Whippet! Alfie (left- new boy) and Elliott ( original ) on right. These guys are actually brothers...very cool

Elliot's brother Alfie has arrived and he is beeeeyoutiful.

They are spending muchos time sorting out top dog status, and i think they have a ways to go before it is decided.

Anyhoo, gotta go feed the little beggers, so this is a real quicky...

catchyas sooooon

S

p.s, check out the photo of the crazy excavator man i uploaded....serious angle-age...more photos of before and after of the block soon, fun stuff.

p.p.s Project Aussie gold is coming along nicely.
Monday, September 22, 2008 

Current mood:  busy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
well michael, jo and amo, you were right indeed about recommending the mighty boosh to me...

wow!, that is sure my kinda show.

last night, i had the pleasure of watching for the first time.

i have just been so flat out clearing lantana off my major size new yeard that i have barely watched any tele for at leasta month.
However, i shall be making a point of catching all te boosh on sbs i can from now on.

awesome tv, i just wish there were more shows as funny, intelligent and stimulating.

thanks gang, im lovin it.

sorry for no photos as yet, its in my ever-growing 'to do' pile.
I should make a special effort this week tho, as we are buying elliot's brother on wednesday, so its gonna be team whippet around here from now on.

feeling a bit off today, as i pulled a huge tick out of the back of my head yesterday, and i think it left me with a bit of poison goop in my system.

ona musical note, i am about to embark on a non-mcf project, a jazz-infused re-working of all the seminal oz-rock/pop songs of my youth...its shapin up to be fun...I only have 3 songs demoed so far, so if ya think of an aussie classic that is begging for inclusion that i may have overlooked, please drop a comment including the title.
So far i have Mondo rock, acdc and billy field, and am working on cold chisel and the sunnyboys tunes over coming days.

i will advise all interested parties where to check it out once it is actually done and available for checking outed-ness.

till then, have a sweeeeeeet rainy tuesday and i shall catch you all soooon

Spray, the one, the only ( accept no inferior product )