Simon on the Blogwagon

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

3 years without blogging, you'd figure I'd have more to blog about.
Let's at least start with my recent trip to RPA, I'd like to say it can be seen on an upcoming episode of the hit tv show but alas putting a dent in my earning potential doesn't rank highly on the minds of tv boffins. I figured I'd say I pulled my girlfriend out of the way of a speeding truck which then clipped my fingers, instead of slipping on the floor of a bad karaoke bar.
I did however experience what I thought was a near death experience. While being put down on laughing gas my vision was reduced more then glen wheatleys fortune, this coupled with the ringing in my ears led me to believe I might be dying I even decided to stop breathing until I was prompted to keep going, all while 3 separate doctors attempted to pull my finger back into place.
Speaking of near death experiences lets talk about the ch 9 coverage of the Olympics, I've seen better coverage by Christina Aguilera's g-string. I didn't mind Eddie Maguire before these Olympics and didn't see why people had such an issue with him, he does have a herpes like ability to pop up everywhere, F'ing Firefox quitting on me I had some more interesting, hilarious and moving things to say instead I'll leave you with my previous attempt to resurrect my blogging career. Wrote 3 years ago and never published as well as forgotten by me until recently.

I'm back from my bloging hiatis, since my last post i've started meditating and it's put the world into a whole new perspective for me. I feel i'm now a calmer person, harmonious with the outside world, or to put it into two pure words "at peace"

Ok, so thats bullshit, I've realised that my life is less then exciting, yet in denial i still think my opinions matter and thats what i've decided to post about, I'm not going to talk about the "big" issues, will Obama beat Hillary? Will the planet warm enough to kill off all the "Happy Feet" penguins? Is a "Happy Feet" reference outdated already? Maybe, Probably and Yes.

I will try to limit all my opinions to my 4 vices. TV, Music, Movies and Sport.
I think i'll give reviews of program(me)s, events, collections etc. of the aforementioned vices.
To give some sort of idea about the rating system i'll give some examples.

5 Stars, Perfect or Close to -
Arrested Development, TV on the Radio, Fight Club, Wests Tigers Season 2005

4 Stars, Pretty Fucking Good -
Top Gear, Gorillaz, Jerry Maguire, NSW Origin Win

3 Stars, Good, maybe even better then good -
My Name Is Earl, Mars Volta, Forest Gump, Dead Rubber Australian Win

2 Stars, Doesn't make me want to kill myself -
Neighbours, Snowpatrol, Happy Gilmore, Knights Winning

1 Star, Does make me want to kill myself -
2 and a Half Men, Snowpatrol 16 times a day (thanks NXFM), Whole 9 Yards, Vaughn Coveny

0 Stars, Makes me want to kill myself, those involved in the production of the product and if time, their immediate families -
Charmed, Gwen Stefani, Mulholland Drive (except lesbian scene), Rubgy Union.

Fuck that above list was a fucking struggle, i took me forever, i know what things i love, i have a list dammit, but rating other things is tough, I'm pretty sure the things i give a rating to on this site will be pretty high because i pick and choose what i want to see, unlike real reviewers i wont have to see Epic movie or Employee of the Month type movies cause i know they are crap i've already been told that.


Until next time,

Pierre Garcon

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Congrats to me for reaching 200 people viewing my blog, since i havent updated since before there was 100 people i'm not sure what they are hoping for, maybe the good old days when i was updating more regularly.
But the more important thing that i'm updating for is my love of all things sport, i just watched australia win the second test against england when there was seemingly no chance to win it, 1% of me was slightly happy cause england winning would have meant a one all series which would have been good for the series, remembering no team has declared for 551 and lost a game so i was trying to look on the bright side but we won in a test where a team needs to bowl out another then chase the other teams score plus their 1st innings score there is really so little chance of this happening, maybe on a pitch that was a regular 5th day pitch but this one was not, it was a batting paradise and for a team to restrict another for less then 1.5 runs a over while taking 9 wickets, alright i've talked about this too much, i'm going to hit the bottle-o before this buzz is over.
Ok, i'm back a picked up a couple of longnecks and played a bit of backyard cricket (where the backyard was the street)
Did i mention i love sport, i'd love to say i have something in my life that i love more, like a lady friend or ok i thought for a bit but i cant think of another thing but i love sport. When i was on a train between spain and france i thought of a question i thought i had no responce to, it was "out of any of the following pick one of the following to exist tv and movies, sport, or music."
I found it hard cause without tv sport might not be the same, but i was watching all the oscar movies at the time and i didnt think i could live without movies, also at the time i was listening to radiohead ok computer and who could live without that so......
At the moment while writing this i'm listening to talksport radio, which is a radio station in the UK which last year at one point was my favourite radio station, it was at one point my best friend, if you want a good time listen to hawksbee and jacobs, funny stuff.

OK, i think ill sign off now,
I didnt think id say say this this but i miss living in the UK, i blame this on talk sport and the people i met there. The moose on talk sport, no one will get that except me, classic.

Laters.

Friday, September 29, 2006


I googled my user name of sjforsyth and this was my first result "sjforsyth has 0 friends". Its been a long time since i've posted a blog but i'm back baby at least for now, ........................................................................................................................................................... sorry for the interuption then i had to put a cd on, it was too quiet, i went with some "Killing Joke" which features Dave Grohl on drums cause he felt bad cause Nirvana ripped of a Killing Joke song "Living in the 80's" for their song "Come as you are" and never gave them any cred. another Little story about the Killing Joke CD, I was in Latvia and i could have bought it for about $4 australian but i thought it was a rip off, it shows how much your sense of money changes when u go to a poor country, though the cd was still pirated. Another little story about pirated cds, well actually its the same story continued but i just wanted to make u feel like u are getting more bang for your buck, In Latvia at the markets they would actually have pirated Cassette Tapes, how 2nd world country is that, they also have old people begging for money which one young girl told me was to do with them expecting money in the communist state, though i'm not sure how true that is but the girl was working at a museum so i trusted her, sometimes with my life, if i was ever in the trenches an 1922 in north eastern france, and i dont want to rule out that posibility as i've seen both quantum leap and 12 monkeys, she (museum tour girl) would be the person i'd want to have by my side. Also the other CD i put in was some BRMC, for those who dont know who BRMC is there is a little story that goes with their name, It originates from a Marlon Brando film, the wild one, they wanted to use the name of his motorbike gang but it was already taken by a band, if u can tell me who the band with their name is u get a lollypop (chuppa chup strawberries and cream) which i will post to you if u pay for the postage and handling.
I got my first step towards getting a written warning at work today cause i mistook a M for a N/A which seems hard to do but trust me isn't when in a single day at the warehouse i work at u can personally send out about $20000 worth of stock a day and they pay u $100 for doing that while putting a 100% mark up on the products. Anyway i think they may be turning my work into a nazi war camp (edit 22/7/13. I don't really like making light of nazi war camps any more, apologies for any offense), which reminds me that if u didnt already know, we are boycotting ibm cause they used to provide punch cards for prisoners in nazi war camps, which when i think of it doesnt sound right cause i heard that they got the name ibm from using the 3 letters after the name HAL from 2001 a space odessey, so one thing ive heard is wrong, 2001 was the first of only 2 movies i've seen with an intermission, the other being King Kong which needed and intermission because that island they were stuck on was fucked, anything that could go wrong did go wrong, the island shouldn't have been called skull island but murphys law island. First the Dinosaurs, well actually first the cannibals and the giant gorilla then the dinosaurs then once u get past all that the giant bugs, it never ended, thank u intermission, though the movie did include the best fight scene in recent history King Kong versus T Rexes, Also the name of the island may not be called skull island, i could have got that off the Simpsons, though theyve never led me astray. The Simpsons is one reason i know anything on certain subjects. Its like WB cartoons and my knowledge of classical music, without the WB i wouldnt have heard half the classical music i've heard in my life time, did i mention that other then Killing Joke and BRMC i also put on the best of Bach and Also little known composer Mozart and the overated BHoven.
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Toilet break. Sorry. Also a break to read back over what ive already written, little proof read and correction of one words spelling, other then that not much work on it, i usually check stuff which i'm not sure of but this time i'm leaving it up to u, the viewer, though with David Tench Tonight still being on TV i'm not sure if i should trust the viewer as i picked it to be off air in 2-3 weeks, also Charlie Sheen is about to become the highest paid comedy actor at $350,000 per episode of the "comedy" 2 and a half men, which should be called "2 and a half jokes" i've seeing Kath and Kim episodes with more laughs, i've seen Ronnie Jones half hour episodes with more jokes, well barely, And i have no doubt i've seen "Today Tonight" episodes with a lot more humour then epsiodes of 2 and a half. Its actually shows like that which make me doubt the human race as the smartest beings on the planet, i'm sure if they showed it to dolphins theyd get more and fuck off but not us, i'm sure the only reason people watch it is to laugh at the fat kid, its like reliving all our greatest schools memories condensed into one easily watchable 30 minutes, well 22 if u dont count the ads. I'm also of the opinion that if u dont like arrested development then i cant be friends with u but no one seems to care.
I think thats enough for now,

Weekend Winners
Melbourne and West Coast

And for those keen eyes out there i was drinking when i wrote this post but fucking deal with it.
I'm also going to add a picture of a monkey cause they are funny, preferably in a tuxedo cause thats even better.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Check It, 100 visitors, i may post again soon

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

I've become disenchanted with the blog lifestyle. Too much hate mail. Too many emails from people telling me i have a small penis. Though the fan mail is good and the offers to sell me a cheap Rolex's are flattering. I think I'm going to put my blog in for re-tooling.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Just a quick one. When i used "blogwagon" in my title i thought i was being original and slightly clever. It turns out i wasn't. It features in the urban dictionary and even on Jon Stewert. It gets 35300 hits on google.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

France Ultimately Can't Know Italy's Talent And Lost Yesterday.
A disapointing result in the end but what can you expect if your mum is an error-pissed bore or whatever the english lip reader with the help of an italian translator claims the italian said to the frenchman.

Anyway, in an attempt to increase my blog hit counter which is looking a little sad, though it is based on the number of different people who check out the page and not the number of hits, but in an attempt to increase the hits I'm getting i think i need some sort or theme to the blog, i know that all the big blogs have some sort of theme. Like writting about all the ladies you slept with but I'm modest and don't have the time to update every day, so I'm taking suggestions, so please comment.

I haven't updated in a bit cause i haven't done much in the last week, besides work which when you do it for 5 days straight is actually not much fun. But before i started that huge marathon of earning potential, which i'm actually only 4 days into, i went home for the weekend which was good, got to see the whole family, well actually only Mum and Sister, and although they were great and all the highlight of the trip was definitely watching the Kendall Blues play in the local Rugby League Pub Competition which was in one word hilarious, It was like a modern day Keystone Kops. Its been a while since I've seen a game that i thought i could actually play in. Quite a day out.

Worst Movie i've seen in a while
Superman, It really limits a movie when the hero just does his stuff for a while before until Lex works up a plan that incorporates Kryptonite which Superman eventually overcomes and it only takes 2 and a half hours.

Best Movie i've seen in a while
Stay Hungry, Arnie playing a fiddle was enough to make this his best performance ever and I'm not alone on this one the Hollywood Foreign Press agreed and awarded him a Golden Globe. One Word, Pure Genius.

Most Undeserved Oscar
Peter Zinner for Deer Hunter, a 3 hour movie that could have been 90 minutes. Cutting down the opening hour dance scene, the 45 minutes when he comes back from the war to when he decides to go back for his mate for example though as much blame should go to the director but he also won and oscar and i said Most Undeserved Oscar not Oscars.

Best Album at the Moment
Uncut Music Magazine Playlist Album for June 2006. $10 for a Mag and a Great CD, bargain.
In particular Daniel Johnston's song The Beatles. See left. The designer of the shirt, not the deceased singer.

Hero of the Week
Zinedine Zidane, doing what Lucas Neill should have done, then at least the penalty would have been deserved. I hold grudges for a while.

Loser of the Week
David Trezeguet, missed the penalty and he didn't even seem that disapointed.



Bitch of the Week
They need to make a rule where no word has double letters for example Disapointed, or is it Dissapointed, Disappointed, Dissappointed, they need a clear cut rule or at the very least a little jingle to remember stuff by, like the "i before e except after c or when sounding like ay as in Neighbour or Weigh", though i do remember parallel because the 2 l's are parallel but i had to work that one out myself.


Oh, and by the way there is a hidden message in the first line about how i actually feel about the World Cup Final.