Mark Berry’s new car. OMFG. Go Aussie!

OK so instead of doing hours of research on the best XC shoes I just walked into MCC and tried on a pair of Louis Garneau MONTANA XT’s and I liked them. Grant said the shoes are mine for free if I could figure out how to undo the strap retention system in 30 seconds and no matter how hard I tried to break the things open I couldn’t. LOL, turns out it was a simple case of pushing them down to undo them (I swear I thought I tried that!).

They’re 905g a pair with cleats (heavy!) but damn stiff and I can walk in them fine but they do look gay (IMHO) but not as gay as some of the shoes I’ve owned and worn in my past (try purple rollers, michael jackson style pixie suede boots with buckles all over them or black leather boots with 15cm heels lol?).

We’ve found a crew (Christina’s family builders) and they got to work today on removing the vines which have overtaken all the windows on one side of the house, they also took off the lattice fencing along the entrance and trimmed out the trees in the backyard which hadn’t been touched in 4 years.

Cancer vines are all gone.

Rotting wood.

Weed bed is gone. Never knew there were rocks back there!

I can see ocean!

Oooh Ocean!

Benjamin Ruhe says:
and I am going to be a dad in September

justin@australianinfront.com.au says:
Dad? Fucking hell what is it with everyone?! 09 year of the Dad! Congrats mate.

Benjamin Ruhe says:
hahahah 09 – fathers year

Benjamin Ruhe says:
come and join us

Benjamin Ruhe says:
JOIN US NOW!

“Do it, it’ll be the best thing you ever do!”. – I was surfing Facebook the other night, something I don’t do very often, and it seems like everyone’s becoming a Dad (or have just become a Dad).

This was always going to be hard. Only 5?! I can think of 10 easy… the Chilli Peppers, Metallica, Kiss, Michael Jackson, The Prodigy, The Beastie Boys, Portishead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against The Machine… such amazing memory containers, but here we go:

My 5 (in order of my life):

I got given this album on cassette tape by a relative in Indonesia (was a copy tape!), the inside cover art by Robert Williams depicting robot rape was over the top and one listen to “It’s so easy” where he sings “Why don’t you just… …. FUCK OFF!” and I was hooked. PS: I never ever did get over Sweet Child’O’Mine and the CD’s still on high rotation in the car, always.

The 1st CD I bought, the 1st song I ever learnt on the guitar (Epic) and the band I’ve seen live the most times.

This is a big one. He was left handed, he understood how I felt (teenage angst?). His music justified my anger. He made me write music and armed me to get out there playing gigs.

This was my departure from rock’n’roll as I knew it. I first heard the Prodigy when I was at a girlfriend’s house, her flatmate was blasting “Voodoo people” and I’d not ever heard antyhing like it in my life. I didn’t think anything could get heavier than death or thrash metal but I was wrong. It was this Chemical Brothers album though that won me over, it is rock’n’roll and it re-defined rock for me. I went from being a drinker, to a smoker, popper and a snorter.

He sings like an Angel. I hadn’t cried to music before but this album was there when I broke up from a 7year relationship. Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley… I can’t believe you guys died before me. I’m not worthy.

She did great! More here.

Copperbanded Butterfly with one of the new Chromis.

My laziness with changing water in the marine tank over the past year has meant that some of the corals have died off. I won’t be replacing them and I might one day end up with a fish only and live rock tank. Some aiptasia has popped up though, and they’re a pest more than anything else (they even look a bit freaky). I’ve enlisted the help of a Copperbanded Butterflyfish to do the cleaning up (they love eating aiptasia!). They are known as a hard to keep fish as most of them die once they run out of aiptasia to feed on but the dude I bought’s been feeding off marine flake, brine shrimp and pellets too so that’s great news (ie: he’s food trained!). Whilst I was at my Uncle Johns Shop (Beach Aquariums at Bondi Beach) I also picked up 3 more chromis which are schooling nicely in the tank.

I missed a photo of 2 white Hyundai Excels parked next to each other, one stock and one over the top modified, shame about that, also missed a couple of Indian Miner birds eating someone’s dried up vomit on the floor from the night before. But I did get these shots:

Bindi doll.

Mummys girl.

Shame on you Tony Hawk. Shame shame shame.

Sexy fembot.

Diu or no diu.

In Kingsford.

At Shalom on Anzac Parade in Kingsford, ghetto but damn great food. So good it reminded me of my childhood!