May 5

Will be the best day of my life, not necessarily the most fruitful or satisfying, not necessarily the most fun or awesome, it'll be the most fulfilling, proud day of my life and it's going to be a school day.

However, to justify my call of the best day of my life I will need to obtain/maintain a few things:

• at least a B average at school.
• an injury free life
• a Gamma2
• a Sandy K modded Jaycar SCHA
• a 6418 tube head/preamp (or 2)
  
• a spot in the Marist 5 (or Top5 scoring)
  
• a Queensland North jersey
• a nokia e72
• a good performance at basketball state classics
• my provisional license

These are the things i wish to accomplish in the next 6 months. It's alot and will take time, money, patience, practice, discipline and commitment.

Why that date? Because it'll be the day after we get back from classics which is the last thing on the list. So although i may achieve what i'm setting out to do before hand, this'll be the day which i get back to normal life and bask in it all.

If I can acheive all this in 6 months (from today) that will truly be the best day of my life (so far).

Mosh Code

The (no-longer) Unwritten Code of the Pit.

Mosher = Someone in the pit who's there for the music, not to cheap shot someone else, not to start a fight, not to be 'cool' or 'scene'.

• Thou shalt not target a fellow mosher.
• Thou shalt not hold grudges.
• Thou shalt not throw knees.
• Thou shalt not be overly fisty, nor elbowy.
• Thou shalt help another mosher get up to surf, if unable, find someone who can.
• Thou shalt help female moshers when required.
• Thou shalt get a fellow mosher of the ground as soon as possible.
• Thou shalt get another mosher to the front (security) if they're in trouble.
• Thou shalt protect smaller moshers.

duck you

to whip out a cliched over used movie quote '..shit just got real.'

talking about leadership, sport, school and schoolies has made me realise that everything is traveling along fast, which don't get me wrong.... is good.

but let me explain... jackass, 'dict and i have been planning GYC for a while and this dream has been such a fun thing to plan. and stupidly, i actually thought it was going to happen.

just a disclaimer, if you previously said in a douche-like tone 'it's never going to happen' and the first thing you're going to do after reading this is building up to a huge 'i told you so'.... don't, i will engage in some good old fashion neglect...

now, what made me realise this was the sudden onset of schoolies... cost of schoolies to be straight up. with school, basketball and life i'm not going to have time to earn the (probable) sum of AU$5000 + the dosh for a return ticket whilst also forking a good $800 for schoolies.

now as i explained to dear jackilyn, if it arises later in the year that we may be able to smash out a good 6 months in europe 'packin, ill be up for it. but my priorites right now (among other things) are to have a good schoolies* and to earn the required amount for youth allowance.

they're my thoughts on the next two years, and i'm sure they'll differ... but yeah i'm not as cut as i thought i'd be about the lack of GYC.

*my idea of a good schoolies (atm) is hanging out with people i know and maybe getting f'ed up.

i've been in quite a predicament lately, i cannot seem to appreciate film.

FUCK.

i do not know why, nor when it happened. but the visual narrative does not seem to do it for me. what the duck happened to me?

now not being a complete douche i've attempted to rectify this situation by watching some good cinema. A Clockwork Orange, Inglorious Basterds, Pan's Labyrinth and Requiem For a Dream to name a few... and I just couldn't see the complete story in it.

WHYYYY.

I'm watching Reservoir Dogs atm, hopefully it's going to cure me.

However, reading about the films after and perusing the quotes from Inglorious kind of made me realise the quality of these 'classics'.

I shall report back alluding to whether or not I'm cured!

There's a reason..

..for dedication like this:

This one is on us.

Us = not me... unfortunately

Calle Oche

Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
You hadn't had enough to know what it's like
You're only angry cause you wish you were in my position
Now nod your head cause you know that I'm right..alright!

Happy Birthday Psyduck

I'm going into a parental controlled monetary saving regime, scary I know. But it means I'll have a lot of money for Gap Year and if I don't end up going...

2011 is going to be swell for the economy.

An associate of the Swiss Confederation

Retreat was an experience that i believe was beneficial. i had a great time with all my mates and getting to know them, as well as, myself a bit better.

I've come to further conclusions on many things, one big one was religion. a blog, however, is not the place for me to delve into that debate.

affirmations were a big eye opener, seeing how the boys felt and after sifting through all the superficial shit there were some genuine pieces of writing that made me smile and laugh, while still taking in the grandeur of the gestures.

another thing that reared it's head in the hallowed halls of tinaroo was leadership. and without going into long, excruciating detail (as my letter to doro did) i've decided to apply for an application to become a leader.

haha, good shiz.

anypoo i'm keen to finish my speakers, get my ipod fixed and listen to more jbt.

'night good sir human.

the frail, the fragile, just like you imagined

as i walked into school around 7pm on a saturday night, i witnessed stanley and a few other full-times having a good time... just mucking around.

heading towards my locker i saw ms. page, and we saluted and she talked to me about how impressed she was with my running, and not bragging but that's a situation that i find myself in more often then others... but she said something that stumped me. she said thank-you, now, not only did that make my night, it got me thinking.

i thought about why she said it, analyzing what inflection she used, and now i wonder... if i was in that situation, why would i say thank you.

there are many reasons, but then i came back to the original feelings that resulted. two words made me tick that night as a good night.

QOTW #3

"bEN says:
lol, and release it only on a limited vinyl with 666 copies
that's kvlt"

life

is anything infinite?

is anything perfect?

QOTW #2

"Max Blake"

"Plox"

"Ploc"

"Que"

"Paso"

"Teribithia"

"Telapia"

You know if you said it. lol.


oak park ftw.

New Millenium Homes(lices)

life is ever so confusing and challenging even on the most trivial level.

this arose for me when thinking about the many sides to every subject that exist, when you think you're being alternative... there's always someone or someway of doing it alternatively.

it's stupid, well, not stupid... it just seems stupid.

michael moore does documentaries presenting the other side, and then some fucker releases something that questions moore. a whole other view. agghh

is there ever a revolution, do you become so alternate that you're mainstream?

although not canon, Exar Kun is bewilderingly powerful

I wanted to go watch the basketball game today but i had no friends...

soooo i watched clone wars for like 5 hours today. i figured that if i was a jedi (or a sith.. whatever) I'd specialise in form vii(juyo) and i'd fight dual staffsabers(jar'kai) haha. which when i think about it would be incredibly dangerous. juyo is said to be the most aggresive form, focusing alot on the offensive. and one staffsaber is so dangerous there are few practioners, dual is bonkers.

relating that back to rl, as soon as my wrist is well i'm going to be dual-wielding fire staffs. FUCKING NEAT!!11!1!!!!one!

bonknob

haha read the title again.


i was talking to mum about the ridonc lotto draw.

some ppl would call me an idiot for dreaming about what id do, however, i find this extremely fun.

first thing i'd do is buy the HE90/HEV90 rig that's goin on headfi atm.

second thing, orgainse the uber concert.... spanning the rest of the holidays:
kse, opeth, nin, dt, pwd, bdm, tool, atr, log, 36cf, mudavyne, machine head, apc, ratm, and..... andy mckee.

all playing in a venue.. uhhm... i'd buy some random cane farm for it.

oak park is gonna be mudcake... yeah that's right, i just added on mud to cake jack. btw my logic is mud is fun and cake is good.
∴ mudcake = fungood, fuck, you know what i mean. GOOD FUN, YEAH!!!11!1!!!!!1


half-cast today, wearing a 'black' jersey... so classic.

QOTW #1

Preface: After reading the blog below....

"Stavery is so good...
...Followed closely in second place by slavery."

- Jack F. Mulligan

Win.

Study of Acacia

Once the kevlar has lost it's virginity to low-odour kero, it must cease jet-setting.

Therefor, we upon commencement of Gap Year we must order many-a-staff of the fire kind to our 'base camp'.

On topic, also, BOCIII will not be left out. He will not be marginalised to his lack of spin, he shall learn the disco of JBT... and accompany Jackilyn and myself's endeavour of mastering the many scrumptious forms of stavery.

Problems solved, next doozy:
My lack of a Bacon Number.

Who was that my nig?

as maynard says, 'Taken all I can taken all I can, we can take. taken all you can taken you can,
We can take.'

1000mm dual staffs with 100mm wicks.
Jack is going to be contact guru, while I master dual-wielding.

I'm going to buy these duals and the remaining parts for my speakers and passing that I'll try not to spend anymore money for a while.

It won't happen but ideally I'll save for schoolies/gap year.

I have a uni purchase/build list but we'll get to that later haha.
*cough*beta22*cough*darthbeyers*cough*apogee duet*cough*
gawd that makes my wallet sad, and ears happy.

NIИ

'He is one pissed off poet, and that's just what we need.'

- Anonymous

Trent Reznor is x.

people equal shit

one day I looked up the definition of unity.
one of the words used to describe is was 'oneness'.

such an awkward sounding word. it really speaks to me though,

especially now.

regret

is eating nachos literally out of the microwave because you're hungry only to burnt and fuck up your experience later that night of good rissoles.


rissoles are so fuckin good.

fun

Marilyn Manson - President Dead

Not building the b1/bbp... saving for uni. I think I'm finally conceptualising restraint and judgement haha.

Is it a bad thing I think I'm over-rated?
meh, oh and fyi that's basketball related.

ifl cookies,
trigonometry is kinda lame, oh welll.

I found a few things funny today, firstly: this!
Then I found out my math's teacher's official school email is colemania... hahaa thats so funny.
And a quote from my message to him:
"I hope your long weekend is long"
ahhahahahahahaha

Below is a contemporary longcat. Ofcourse, no one will replace orig. longcat, nor tacgnol. This ones now bad.

This one is also in the vain of the soccer-roo with super arms, props to BOCIII.

I'll upload some good gifs ive found... next time.

Salt PETER!

2009: Finish Gr11, drop Chemistry.

2010: Get P's, start a university subject along the lines of acoustics or production.

2011: Gap Year Crew; Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, France, Channel Islands.

2012: Sydney, SAE Institute

2013: Sydney, SAE Institute

2014: Work.

Beyond: End up with these, someone to share life with and play sport.

Bung

http://www.basejumper.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1957886;#1957886

zrofls

I swear to Pythagoras I want to sky dive right now.

OK list of shit I have to do if we get the week off school:

• Bungy every day
• See Gisela
• Do massive chunks, if not finish Maths and Chemistry.
• Get all parts for speakers, start building
• Make a document on Gap Year: Youth Allowance, Countries, Festivals, Travel, Accomidation, Employment.
  

Katatonia - Burn the Remembrance

Ok I'm a whore for DIY.
It's out of control.
Haha, smile.




A(4) for english; status of marginalization equals pwnsizzled.


BRB, zrolfs, going to clean teeth/turn lights off.

Back, the world is an unforgiving place.

Say you have collected all your favorite music.
You spend lots of time and money on getting the best pre-amps, dacs, amps, cables and speakers only to realise that your music is 56kbs mp3 from limewire.

Nothing can change that shitty quality. Now to explain my analogy; the music represents friends, time and money represent time and money, the pre-amps, dacs, amps, cables and speakers are the building blocks of your relationship.
All wasted on a peice of shitty music.

My friends are fucking awesome.
Don't be a dick; to all those dicks out there.

Bangheader

Walkathon today, it was slightly above satisfactory.

I've been slayed by Trigonometric Functions.

I slayed 'Not so Black & White'.

I've spent copious amounts of doubloon recently.

I plan to have four amplifiers (LM3886, TA2020, 41Hz Amp5 and 41Hz Amp3), two sets of 2way speakers (Audax/SEAS combo and Vifa RB2 kit) and a pre-amp (bbp/B1 buffer) built by Christmas.
Vifa RB2 kit kit will be portable, battery/solar powered and also renamed the R.A.P.T.O.R.S. but more on that later.

Unnecessary? I don't think so.

However, I will sell the worst performing amplifier.

I'm so proud of jack, I gave him socks.

God, sound is such an amazingly vast and sometimes overwhelming sense.
The variables involved add up to many-a lifetime worth of knowledge.

Knowledge is handed down, from craftsmen to craftsmen. And the wisest individuals all note one thing in common; above all, listen to and enjoy the music.

Now, to you Über audio noobs that may sound ridiculous; but even in audio-purist's listening rigs there is much that alters (or doesn't for that matter) the original noise.

So, I hope one thing I can remember is to: enjoy the music.

I confess...I scare myself

through the howling wind, on my knees, I cry
...listen to me...

I'm feeling socially vulnerable right now, oh well. School tommorow.



Speakers are looking promising. Amp is too. :)

Grease was awesome, kinda wish I was in it. Me and jack are gunna do the play next year.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I was talking to Liz and Seb today, I've gotta talk to somebody at school about Marist schools around the world and what the dealio would be with getting accommodation there.

Gap Year is fucking happening.

Download,

Rock am Ring/Rock im Park,

Wacken,

Soundwave.

2011: Cultural Learnings; a la METALLL.

Haha we should make a website detailing totally
blowing what we're planning out of proportion and
sensationalising all the macho + metal things we're
planning. Hot damn, life is good.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present your starting two...

SEAS 27TFF Tweeter:

Audax AT170GO:

ARSE

If you wanna hear about AMSA: CLICK HERE!

If you wanna read an awesome lyric, here ya go:

There's nobody here, there's nobody near
I try not to care, dead eyes always stare
Let these matters be, don't trust what you see
Take hold of your time, step into the line

There's innocence torn from its maker
And stillborn, the trust in you
This failure has made the creator
So would you tell him what to do

Leave your mark upon the head of someone
Who'll cry for his state, we know it's too late
I turn round to see what was meant to be
Faint movement release to rid the disease

There's innocence torn from its maker
And stillborn, the trust in you
(I have lost all trust I had in you)
This failure has made the creator
So would you tell him what to do
(I have lost all trust I had in you)

Stillborn is probably the most brutal word in the world. Behind brutal.

If you wanna know my audio obsession currently: click here for amp and here for speakers.

Tinaroo was awesome, me and jack are awesome. Yuki is awesome. Opeth is awesome. Burn-in is real. Toroidal transformers are over-priced. I need money.

Short + sweet,
Mattcalf.

This Conversation is Over

Heading up to Tinaroo for Jacks birthday.

Will recap the last few weeks when I get back.

Yawoo.

BTW, another forum = DIY Audio
Goodbye spare time and money!

Do you pull me up just to push me down again? [Pt.2]

So yesterday was the last day of the holidays, who cares, everyday at school is one day closer to finishing.

I spent yesterday well, not ideally though. I caught up with Chuck and Pus, and then we caught up with Blacky and saw Slumdog Millionaire. Not bad.

I got a haircut, I found out my ipod is still under limited warranty so hopefully I'll get it in for repair soon, I was too lazy to goto Buzz but'll go another day.
Tommorow I have learn to swim then basketball the hopefully Brownie will stay the night and off to AMSA!!!!
I'm pretty keen.

Anyway,
the AIS talent identification called back today, soooo cool. She asked me all these questions and it went well, I didn't say anything stupid. I'm not going to pretend that I think I'm going to get a full scholarship and be moved down there. But it was nice just to have a call from them.
And it got me thinking:

I could become a proffesional sportsmen, get paid an obsurd amount of dosh and fuel my tech-habit that way. Fuck that would make shit easy.

Oh well, back to reality.

I'm off,
haha i said dosh.
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The End of All Things to Come

* Make the baddy film w/ Pus
* Progress my Starving Student build
* Go for atleast one run
* Finish my book for english
* Work on my shot list
* Hang out with Gisela
* Hit up the 'pit.
* Goto Buzz and look at their AKG stock
* Get my Ipod fixed fuck ya


There we're the 9 things I wanted to do over these holidays.

• I've made a film, not related to baddy and not featuring Jack. So half a 1/3 of a point there.
• I've progressed on my SS build. Count it.
• I went for many a'run. Poinnnnnt.
• I haven't finished my book. No basket.
• I haven't even looked at my shot list. Ouch.
• I haven't seen Gisela. :(.
• I haven't touched no goon. Fail.
• I haven't been to Buzz. Phail.
• I haven't fixed muh pod. Ph4ilz0r.

Soo, two and a third points out of nine.

Let's plan my remaining Holidays:

• Read the English book tonight.
• Work on my shot list tonight.
  
• Wake up early, go for a run!
• Work on my shot list.
• Get a haircut at smithy and catch up with Gisela.
• Catch a sunbus into town, goto Buzz and the Apple Shop.

I guess goon will have to wait. hahaahahahahahahaha.

If I can do that, I'll be happy with my holidays.

My wants for tonight, first will be quenched soon and second will be quenched before the end of the year:

Can you handle it?

The Great Collapse

Oh god.
I just want school to be over, so we can do gap year and I can get on with my life.

I'm so fucking keen for audio engineering and maybe a bit of film editing on the side...

I can just imagine it, leaving on a flight from Cairns down to Sydney. Living in Llanfoyst St, Randwick and taking a 20min busride into the city Monday to Friday to attend SAE Institute and work on the weekend to fund any of my (many) needs.

Life will be cake.

repetitive deja vu

BFMV hosted Rage, Metal Detector on [V] and MTV2's Headbangers Ball have all churned out the same tracks. Fucking stupid haha.

Replica, a classic Fear Factory track has been churned out on Rage and Headbangers Ball, Stinkfirst by Tool has been on Rage and Metal Detector. Jesus guys, goood tracks but we wanna hear other shit too. There's three fucking shows on TV that play metal, lets work together maybe and make sure we don't bore the viewer. Also, the time slot is ridiculous.
Rage at Midnight to 6am and Headbangers Ball at 1am. And MTV play repeats of fucking shit shows all day... if it was Jackass and Viva La Bam all day I wouldn't give a shit. But 'next' and 'parental control'.... same shit, different stink!

Anywho, Chucks in the outback, Jacks at Tinaroo so lifes a bit boring. Brownie, Blacken and Ben are keeping it real... probably go watch Michael Dimertze rip up at classics tommorow. Then the boys will stay over here.

I found something else that will make future me happy, and, if possible make me even more broke!
Introducing the Netstream Digilinx:
Customisable to any amount of sources. Signal be broadcasted to any amount of zones.
Can control lights, video, audio, aircon, security. Sends uncompressed audio and visual.
Can be controlled by anything with access to a browser (IP Based) and has Intercom functionality.

So my house will be decked out with touchscreens in every room + hallway to control almost anything that can be controlled in my house.
After a short think about it, I probably won't hook up lights/security/aircon because they'll most likely need to be imported... the costs will add up fast.
And no doubt by the time I build a house there will be a much better system out there, hopefully it'll be integrated into every home without fail....... whoooo knows? All I know is that I don't want to forget about this crazy shit.


My house is gonna be so awesome, just gotta find:
1. Someone to live with me (preferably female )
2. Someway to pay for my needs.
3. A job that allows me to spend more time in my awesome house (i.e. producer in my own home studio)

Ok... so a good song just came on Headbangers Ball haha, which reminds me I need to rerip End of Heartache to LAME VBR V2 and FLAC. :) aaaaaanddd sooon!

Back to my awesome future, it's gonna be awesome. Maybe to earn some money on the side I could offer services that I want:

• Finding any/all music for someone in CD or Vinyl form, rip (in the case of CDs) lossy and lossless, organize and tag it.
• Design listening rigs.. heaphones (home/portable) and speakers.

Yeah, that's enough smack talk for one night.

Peace hustla!
lol

For Narnia?

Being able to start talking to someone, and instantly feel comfortable and 'warm' with them even over MSN and even after 1 month of not seeing each other (longer without a real conversation). Is so fucking awesome.

Fathole love.

FLAC > Isabella > B22/30.2/RSA Apache > HD800/K1000/Darth Beyer

Dream system above, I will own that [or the future equivalent obviously] even if i go broke.
I'll also buy some speakers to go with em, driven by the RWA 30.2. Delicious. Probably these actually.
Gawd I'd put my dick in them.

Anyway, back on track.

Obviously I'm going to be a very poor and lonely person, at least I'll have a good listening rig or four.

...and now for something to remind you of how it was:

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Yes, we know your going to Rockhampton

People often ask me why I listen to metal.
I usually don't dignify those nubs with answers. One reason, all by himself, is Mikael Åkerfeldt.
He could well have the most versatile voice in music today, yes, music as a whole. On one hand he has a scarily refined clean vocal, combined with the raw, aggressive growl that he can unleash... is just amazing. To top it off, his musicianmanship and lyrical talent is beyond most people... simply a heightened human being.

And he is one of many...





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Winter Overture

So turns out someone's been feeding me estrogen lately.
I actually think I'm more girl then guy at the moment.
I'm emotional, really emotional.

Now for those of you that know me well*, would know that I haven't cried in a while... but I want to.. and just before was the closest I've come to crying in a long while.

What triggered it? Listening to some Opeth really, really loud. The master lyrics combined with the intricate and evocative musicianship almost overwhelmed me. I know, wtf?

Anyway, I like to be in control... not just of myself, but of the people and objects around me. That's what is confusing me at the moment, I'm not handling this shit well....

I didn't run today (N), nor spin..
I think with spinning I'm just gonna concentrate on non-contact until i get my purpose-built stick. Otherwise foundations may be built sloppily. I'm really glad I've kept to spinning for all these years, it's a good factor in my life... very controlled haha.

FLAC > Isabella > B22 > HD800
> 30.2 > stereo speakers
> RSA Apache > Darth Beyers

Those 10 words will set me back about AU$30,000 haha. No-one will have a clue what any of that means or does but it makes me feel fucking awesome. Knowing what I want, how it works together, why and yeah. Audio <3.

I'm very excited about the next 24 hours, should be fucking cake.

Again, a fairly shit blog.

A red sun will rise tomorrow.

*I write as though lots of people read my blog, it makes me feel good inside.

Mos Def eating apple crumble

Hooooly crapo, last two days have been whack. I'll go dodgy order because it's easier.

Tonight is the craziest night Ive had in ages; myspace, last.fm, msn, head-fi have all been going nuts. I've talked to old/new/current friends about so much shit!!! The conversation with brownie, teddy, richo, free-as and many other special guests actually made me laugh out loud.... on several occaisions. My convo with emmagen was confusing, then funny, then confusing, then funny haha. Julia and Chuck were weird as usual and Jack and myself are as per usual: fucking awesome.

I woke this morning and decided to go for a run, fuck it will be good for me haha... im not 100% keen... but hey I'd like to be a bit fitter. I then helped Bruce for a while and then caught the 1E into town.

Many-a-familiar face jumped on that bus, but not until Chuck, Emmagen and Sarah hopped on that I broke the silence* haha. We made our merry ways into Cairns Central, the trip was boring... went through a suburb called freshford or some shit *boooooorrring*. We then got to Centrals, split up and ate.
Yummm, KFC... we saw cait and allison and the rest of the screaming girl crew... read pus' blog if you want a play by play.

It was good hangin with Chuck, I owe her like 45c though hahaa....
Ohhh and we saw Elise Shepard and she's nuts. And then I had work... good uhh. yeah im blank.

Back to current matters:

• Blackman will be here soon, AWESOME!
• I'm cut that I can't go camping with Chuck, next time?
• I want a contact staff
• I feel slightly threatened by something
• I'm pumped for AMSA (will have its own blog detailing dares and stipulations)
• I'm pumped for Nattos place and golf!!! Yeeee boii
• I'm pumped for watching the Gruen Transfer
• I'm pumped for gettin the ext. HD off Alex [House <3333]
  

Tommorow I want to run, practice staff, hit some cock [badminton for you n00bs] and enjoy some music...

I'm all over the place, not thinking straight... I haven't been listening to enough music... listening session tonight it is... burning in Q40s...

God I am all over the place... what's wrong matt?

What is wrong......?



*Verbed a KSE song

Man, It's So Loud In Here

As stated in the previous edit, before Jack's birthday we're going to buy new staffs.
He's going to get a normal 4inch wick-ed, 1200mm fucker. Linky for pus' staff!
Whilst I'm going to get a 3 peice inner core contact staff. Standard 4inch wicks, green in colour and more then a meter and a half long. Linky for my staff!

I woke at 10 to 8, started work at like 8.15, worked until 5... spanning two locations and jobs. And then pwn3d some shit up in baddy/fitness session. I hope I get paid well for this shit. I'll need it for the $150 contact staff.

Then jack came over, I worked on the tender and jack sat alone in the lounge room. When then played more baddy and now we're simultaneously blogging [for teh lulz].

I'm really warming to Marilyn Manson, very intelligent felluh. Anyway, I'm smashed.

Jack's out of my toppies on account of him choosing Jim [read: pedo-poo] over me. Fags.

I've decided I'm going camping with Chuck haha aweosme... camping... im such a city kid now. I'll get pwned in the wild... hope they have badminton.

My audio addiction has been put to a halt do to my want for a new contact staff and also due to my access to Head-fi today being limited. oh geez, there isn't any forums out in the wildernesss!!! how will the post-whore in me survive? who knows, I'll blog and let you know I guess.

Hahaha so lame, I feel really dirty right now... like... teeth are dirty, need to clean them... and yeah
dirty... and beck wright reckons her undies are superior to mine... dream on.

eeeeesssh gangsta

enjoi

[click, really very pretty haha]

A Siren's Soliloquoy.

[lol@douche]

So, I've decided I'm going to buy a long fucking staff with huge wicks.
20cm wicks. So out of the 1.4m staff (that I'll use for contact), 40cm will be fire.

EDIT: After careful consideration (watching awesome contact vids), I'm going to get a 3 peice inner core contact staff with 100mm wicks. Me and jack are gonna order together, so he'll get a WHITE handled 120cm (w/ 100mm wicks) and I'll get a Breakdown 3 piece CONTACT FIRE staff. It will be green and of a length of no more.... and no less then 1520mm. fuck yehhh.
Jack's is $88 and mine is $155, crazy shit i know... but it'll all for a good cause. CONTACT THATS THE CAUSE AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA. With a 11.3% discount we'll save ourselves $27.50.

Awe-fucking-some.

I work tomorrow, hey, I might use tommorows money to pay for the staff... there we go. :)
So, jack talk to ya mum about getting it for your Bday and we'll do a group order kind of thing.

Netball was fun, wee-mulligan played good. We lost by 1... other team was full of fucking faggets. Nuff said.

I work at monis tommorow, as mentioned above. should be slack, just the way I like it.

I have to get up at 7.10am tommorow so should be in bed....anus! imma wear the bogan-ist clothes (w/ boardies so minimum hassle regarding learn to swim).

ahhh fuck
lazy blog
new myspace default... pretty fun.
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Sharon Osbourne responded by saying:

Preamble: the title is redundant.

The year is 2011. Mattcalf, Pus and Benedictine OConnorvitch III (wow, we need a shorter nickname for him) are working alot to earn money for something. What you ask?

"THE WORLDS MOST BRUTAL FUCKING WORLD TOUR OF LIKE TWO FUCKING COUNTRIES MAINLY CENTERED AROUND METAL FESTIVALS! Tour."

After working for a solid month and a half, earning as much money in as little time as possible we will book a flight down to Sydney or Brisbane the morning that the 2011 Soundwave festival happens to fall on, we shall hit up said Soundwave and the respective night.... we will fly out to a currently undisclosed location in Germany.

On arrival we will immediatley sell any unneccesary and minor semi-neccesary body parts on the black market for money. We will also auction off Ben's virgin-like knee vagina's to the hung German natives for copulous amounts of the local form of dubloon. With the ill-gotten loot we shall rent a crap-shack or the like and start working in honest and lucrative trades that we each excel in... myself will jump really high and exhibit my wingspan for money, jack will expose his nipples in peep shows run out of the local den and ben will solve complex index problems...
failing that, we shall all labour-by-day and bartend-by-night.

One early June weekend, right around one "Pentecostal Weekend" the GYC (Gap Year Crew, not to be confused with the Gay Youth Corner) will descend on Nürburgring in Eastern Germany... Modern History what?... Annyyywhooo, over three days Rock Am Ring will then take place. We will be among 75000 other drunk metalheads moshing our way around the Festivals of Europe.

Soon after Rock am Ring (or maybe Rock im Park, depending on logistics) we will head West, possibly invade Belgium.... and head over thy channel to the Promised Land (read: Donnington) for Download.... Spend about a month in the mother-country... maybes have a royal most... thats a thought, see how close we can get to the north pole and mosh... see if his Moshness: Santa will join us?

Then it's back to Deustchland for WACKEN OPEN AIR.
Wait for it, waiiiiiit.....

BRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I don't give a fuck who's playing. The sheer atmosphere, Hey-soos, awesome.

Uhmm
Then the rest of the year, we shall work and use the exchange rate to our advantage... come home and then study my degree in Byron Bay... awesome...
my brain is moosh, not even mosh, just moosh.

I'm out.

2k9

"Who the fuck you think you fuckin' with, I'm the fuckin' boss"
- Rick Ross

Riveting stuff, what a talented lyricist. In that same song, another stroke of genius led him to rhyme Altlantic with, wait for it, Atlantic. It seems repetition is the motif within this work of art.

Of the 515ish words that make up this song, 61 of them are 'hustlin'. Another fun fact: 4 lines in a row end with twenty-two, and three out of those 4 have 'twenty-two' appear more then once!

Vocabularies are getting smaller, people are getting dumber, more materialistic and music has been reduced to this SHIT.


Anywhooo, today is the first day of hollies. I woke up at 7.30am, showered and then helped Bruce with the tender documents... good fun. I had some pizza, watched Wednesday's Gruen Transfer and had a pizza for lunch.

These hollies I want to:

• Make the baddy film w/ Pus
• Progress my Starving Student build
• Go for atleast one run
• Finish my book for english
• Work on my shot list
• Hang out with Gisela
• Hit up the 'pit.
• Goto Buzz and look at their AKG stock
• Get my Ipod fixed fuck ya

Then Lismore after hollllllies hahaha... classic times.

I'll prolly post again later tonight, but for now I'm off for a re-boooooooot.

Bob Cousy totally uses knives.

My OS is like 12 inches. - Kirosia

Kirosia = Classically aggresive (both classic and aggresive, independently sometimes)
Partick82 = WTF
Kirosia + Patrick82 = People getting shot in the face
Linky.

Possibly the weirdest thing in the world: is this thread. Patrick82 is posting on an audiophile forum, asking about whether he should start a bakery and what he would need for said bakery.

And keeping on topic for one more terribly executed paragraph, some kandy of good ol' Pat and his US$25000 power cable:

[Please click this image, to see it in it's full resolution.]

In other audio-related news, Ray Samuels released a fucking beauty of an amp today. Balanced Electrostatic amplification at it's finest. Although few have heard it.... the looks of the thing are purely ridonc!

[Click this image to see it in it's full resolution. This is audiophile porn.. no questions asked.]

The things I would do for a RSA setup, would surprise/disgust/disturb/excite the general population.

Anyways, today I played two quarters of CISSA... me and brownie combined to create roughly 50 points. Then I played 4 vs 5 after Vakydis got fouled off for teh r0fls.
Now, I'm pretty wrecked and I'm going to bed.

Here's my line of the day -

But you forget that in your fairytale, bitch, I'm the wolf.

P.S: To put the title in context. I listened to 'Guns for show, Knives for a pro' yesterday.
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I didn't actually listen to music, but here's a plug forFB2K anyway:

You know that I'll bleed for you.

Backing out, giving up, no motherfucking slave to this.
Never lied, never left, never lived, never loved.
Never lost, never hurt, never worry about being me or anyone else.
Not a care, no concern. Don't give a shit about anything!

To hear Chad Grey drop that whole verse in less then 13 seconds is fuckin' br00tal

So today signaled the end of exams, I guess we'll see how successful I was tomorrow and the next day. Results are scary.

Ballin against Keslan tommorow, be good fun. But it's at Lennon Hall... so probably play shit and the whole team will have their weekly minge*.

Fuck the fonts are hard to keep on top of, anyway. JC-Superstar copy-pasta-ing shit into here fucks it up. Anyway, I'm off to read about 24bit vs. 16bit audio.

haha
No school is fucking awesome.

And I'll leave you with the most important image you'll see in the next hour:

[Click for big]

*Minge: Big 'ole whinge.

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Do you pull me up just to push me down again?

Please me, deliver the insane
In the chaos I find peace

Please me, remind the gods of my name
I believe there is one seat left for me

And that be Matt's lyric of the day from Minus by In Flames off the album Reroute to Remain. Why? It's a good few lines of thinking, metal is thinking music after all.

Last two exams tommorow, Chem and PE. Lame. Oh well, 1/8th of my last two years of secondary schooling down. Hoo-rah!

Hey, rhetorical question for most. Does learn to swim continue through terms 2+3, I fucking hope so. Or my m00lah pl4nz go out the door.

Wow, 'A Sense of Purpose' is really working the drivers in my Q40s. Could just be FB2Ks EQ, who cares right? Holy-keen for a SOHAII to really drive these fuckers, omg.. delicious.

Ohhh, BTW! Changed over to Emerge last night.

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It's so purdy and functional and 1337. I'm really, really, really, really, really tempted to do a clean install on a new partition of a really light XP and then start running Emerge again. But then I can kiss goodbye my $300 2 year extendo-warranty. Nevertheless, it's awesome.

On hollies imma clean alot of shit off this comp and keep it to bare minimum of each type of program. For example: one audio editing program, one video editing program, one or two games. And then back up music again, and then move un-needed videos over to an external HD yo. Which reminds me I should get me an external enclosure for me 750gb drive. Yummo, conveiniant!

Oooo Parkway Drive is on, man I want their albums to rip to flac. Julia might have them... Julia, let me know if you do haha.

Fuck their breakdowns are brutal, Adam D done an awesome job engineering this shit to give some impact! The 40mm drivers are getting muddy in the first breakdown in Sirens' Song, The.

=]

Zomg, the fonts totally went crazy haha sorry about that.

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GANSTA RAP MADE ME DO IT

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patrick82 My budget is not limited.

Right now, I'm at a stage in life of being pretty happy.

I know what I want to buy and when, I know what I want to do and when, I know where I want to go and when. For example, I'll be in Germany for Pentecost weekend 2011. My next headphone upgrade will be around 2012 and I'll be living around Byron Bay.
The next big purchase I'll make will either be a SOHAII or an EMU 0404 USB.
My next laptop will more then likely be a Macbook pro.

I can back all the above up with logic so that makes me feel good about my future, as xenophobic as that sounds.

Brb, netball.

Back, we lost. Oh well, still a good game.
Chuck got biffed like a gazillion times, so did Sarah.
Some Kiwi thought he was buff because he out rebounded me once, what was he like 25/100kg/190cm. Must be awesome to outjump a skinny white 16yr old once or twice. :p

Slack for chem study, probably just listen to music. =]

Anyway I'm out.
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Listening to:
via Foobar2000

Hybiscus Pool Services Inc.

So Benedict, pus and I doll up for our english speech tommorow. It'll be good fun.

Plus I got my OCC sweatbands today, keen to sweat em out.

Had today off school; combo of back pain and headache done it. I don't know what the hell I done to my back, headaches are regular occurrences unfortunately.

Tomorrow is going to be hectic, Modern History, PE and English. English assessment, then finished for the term which is good. Badminton which is good fun and Modern History is cake.

Lucy Dixon is fuckin' wizard!

Anyway, I'm keen for catching up with Blacky on the hols. I'm totally gonna wear my Bullets jersey the whole time.

Uhhmm, in other news. I found what I'm going to do after high school.
Link.
I'll post about it more later, but for now I'll leave you with a picture of my latest purchases.

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Now playing:
Jaz Coleman/London Philharmonic Orchestra
via Foobar2000

and park on driveways?

"Perhaps Head-Fi could have a similar contest, such as "Hold a Hornet for a Hornet" Whomever holds it longest wins." - Vicomte

Big rofls.

Netball was good today, we came from behind to win. The other team was pretty cool, except they we're a bit sour. Which is understandable, after losing to a bunch of basketballers and teenagers.

Ben's last night was pretty classic, good times.

I've decided I'm not going to worry about the Compass, it wouldn't put my parents in a good mindset. Them thinking as soon as I get enough spending money I buy something expensive with it.

I've settled on three large purchases in the next year ish:
1. Emu 0404
2. SOHAII
3. Nikon D40x
Aswell as a ~$140 purchase of some cable stuff + Mini3 kit.

Ben's place was awesome because I got his Bantam and Pengamp working, and most importantly he could hear the difference between Lossy&iTunes combo, Lossless&FB2K combo and Lossless+FB2K+Pengamp+Bantam.
I also borrowed some CDs to rip to flac:

• Tool: Aenima and Lateralus
• All That Remains: Fall of Ideals
• Opeth: Deliverance
• Lamb of God: Wrath
• Muse: Black Holes and Revelations and Absolution

My FLAC collection is growing deliciously.

14.00gb of FLAC, it's honeslty scrumptious.

I don't have much else to say, I'm gonna watch Rove tonight just for Brownie and my computer is laggin hard because I'm doing alot of shit while also blogging.

I leave you with utter coolness:

[Click to view full resolution or you'll be eaten by a crocodile]

Why do we drive on parkways?

Hectic. A brilliant word to describe my next three days.

Tommorow I have to wake up normal time, don my normal uniform and get to Cairns Base Hospital for a careers info day. CBF to write about it.

That finishes at like 3, I then walk to my mothers school, then drive to my school, teach children life skillz for 1.5hours.
I might then come home, or I might stay in town, because I have to play basketball tomorrow night. Which'll be fun. =]

Then I'll come home, possibly for the 2nd time and finish off my chemistry assignment ready for Thursday, do some study for maths and Modern History then sleep.

Thursday and Friday will consist of Chemistry in class essay, Maths B failure, English rehersals, Film fun-ness, PE's general physical education-ness and a Modern History test [read: joke].

Weekend will then be more english rehersal, maths b futility and chilling. Netball on sunday is something to look forward to.

Well what a shit blog. Gay, gay, gay. I hate it.

Here's some candy to stem the flow of pissed-ness:

[Click for big, actually click... well worth it!]

A Ferrari built β22 [w/ σ22 psu], pure beauty. I'd rather one of these then having then alot of things in life, specifically a beast built by Ferrari. I'd gladly buy one of these badboys in-lieu of a car, pity I don't have the money for either.

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Now playing: Parkway Drive -a-thon
via Foobar2000 <3

The Ambiguous Case of Sine

So, while it could possibly be the first time in my life I'm enjoying Maths. There is a very real chance that I might go shit this term. Maths B represents the biggest step up from grade 10 education for me, and as much as I'm genuinely trying this term it seems to be getting past me.

But I'm determined to stick it out, for Maths B atleast.

Chemistry on the other hand: goooooooone.

I hopefully won't need it later in life and more importantly I don't want to need it later in life. (If that makes any sense.)

I might take up tech studies and build the prescribed shit next semester then invest some money and get all DIY on speakers.

In actual fact I have had my eyes on LSK's shit for a while now, although they are completley out of my price range. Let us say for interest purposes that I had the moolah:
1. They are a kit, don't require any planning outside of getting them shipped and 'finishing' them.
2. I'd need an amp. [which equals more of the moo']
3. With a quality kit like that I'd want a good source. [mo-ore moolah]
4. I really don't have a listening space to do the beauties justice.

Now, I hear you say. DIY speakers, why bother and why do you care so much.
Just take a look at this pr0n:


All made from a DIY kit, at a fraction of the cost [still more then I can afford] of regular store bought speakers + these things sound like heaven. Also as so often documented within DIY rings, there is nothing more rewarding then the fruits of your labour.

So back on to my education, I think if I do change to tech studies I'll end up doing something in the vain of the above hotness.

• Buy all the cones, tweeters, horns and whatnot needed to make noise
• Create some spankin' enclosures
• Finish them well; acoustically, as well as, aesthetically.
• Find something capable of amping them, which well could end up being a DIY creation aswell. [Read AMB or Cavalli] (Bee-tee-dubyou: I want a SOHA II)

Will any of the above happen, probs not.
But I enjoy writing this shit.

Yawoo.

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Played: Slipknot - Three Nil
via FoxyTunes
Played: Benny Benassi - Bring The Noise - Benny Benaasi vs Public Enemy Pump-kin Remix
via FoxyTunes Fun song but not in the mood (N)
Played: Bullet For My Valentine - Eye of the Storm
via FoxyTunes
Played: Opeth - When
via FoxyTunes
Now playing: Mudvayne - L.D. 50
via FoxyTunes

Power

The human condition is inherit claustrophobia.
Compression of my space made complete.
I would rip out my own entrails by hand just to be alone.
Inanity rolls total through this sphere.
Ostracized for clarity of vision.
A dream unrealized of solitude that I should descend into autonomy
& know the pain of fellowship no more. I feel nothing but a lack of space.
Paradox of socialization results in duress.
Rife with hostility, what has caused me so much hate?
Humanity. Exterminate with extreme prejudice.

Netball

Fuckkkkk, what's the use of the auto-save shit if it doesn't work?

oh well.

I just got home from netball and I'm wrecked. But it was really fun.

Spent most of the morning doing chemistry, it's slack. I hate it, hopefully I can get a nice B- or thereabouts.

Off-topic, I want an ALO Audio Mini3 and an Audio-GD Compass and an EMU 0404 USB and a camera. Fuck, I want moneeeeeeey.




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Listened to: A couple of All That Remains songs, a Devildriver song, a Korn song, a Sworn Enemy song and a Symphony-X song.
via FoxyTunes

Careers and quality.

Ok, so I've already posted today but... fuck it, it's my blog.

3 months ago, I was almost 100% sure that I wanted to goto university (after gap year, of course) and do Pharmacy. However, on return to grade 11 I've revoked my standing. Which leaves something to do with audio.
And why wouldn't I do something to do with audio? I love music, I love how it works, why it works, why people do it and one of the most important things to me is representing that sound, that noise if you will; in the best way possible.

I honestly could not think of anything better to do then to engineer a composition that gets a message across, and to master that so that no quality, no meaning, no 'heart' is lost within the process.

Give me some reference quality monitors, a couple of beasty LCD displays, Pro-Tools, a mixing desk longer then I am high and more pre-amps/amps/DACs then I could poke a stick at and I'll probably never complain again.

Hoo-wee, what could be better then a career where I get to listen to music, help create music, I can justify buying pre-amps/amps/DAC/headphones/monitors/cables with price tags that would make Richard Branson squemish.
What's that you say: 'How much can a bloody cable be?'
Iiiiintroducing the Virtual Dynamics Genisis 1.1 Power Cable, retailing at a mere US$13,416.00

Translating to roughly TWENTY THOUSAND AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS for a 5foot long power cable, a power cable that does the same job as the one that connects your computer to the wall.

BTW, here's some candy-
So ultimately, this blog was to convince me to pursue some sort of career within the Audio path.
Rewarding work, I get the toys I want, I get to enjoy music.


Do you reckon Berkley gives out Basketball scholarships to Aussies?

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Was playing: Tool - [10,000 Days #09] Intension
via FoxyTunes
Now playing: Tool - [10,000 Days #01] Vicarious
via FoxyTunes

I'm listening to the whole 10000 Days album, ripped to FLAC via EAC, played using Foobar2000[WASAPI output] through M-Audio Q40 headphones. It's fucking delicious.

First

Well, I finally took the plunge.
Mattcalf now has a blog.

Today could be good, I plan to do some chemistry and then go see Watchmen with Nakita. Which is meant to be one of the most visually spectacular films of late.

Learn to swim was good this morning, easy because only one girl rocked up.

What's kosher with this bloggin thing, should I limit myself to one a day?
See how it goes.

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Was playing: Barefoot Truth - Red
via FoxyTunes
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Now playing: Barefoot Truth - Dancin' In The Trees
via FoxyTunes