Jeremy

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 14 Jan 2008 17:38

Pretty good, but the pre river all in, and having 3 victory celebrations on the hand made our one better

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 16 Jan 2008 04:15

I have a flickr gallery now

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22825478@N02/

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 17 Jan 2008 17:59

So great touch football game yesterday. Actually both our last 2 games have been great. My brother and I have changed our attitudes in light of Australia's second test against India, and now have a much stronger focus on not arguing with the umpire and being good sports, which has made our games a lot more enjoyable (although we've had good refs as well). We lost 7 vs 8 yesterday, but against one of the two top teams, and I think I had my best game for the season. I scored 3 tries and set up 4 (3+4=?). I think I threw my best pass ever as well. I scooted from half across the line, and had a player lunging to touch me, couldn't see anybody to pass to and just twisted around and ended up throwing a switch style pass to my brother, who was about 10 meters away but had an opposition player standing directly between me and him, so I had to curve it down past her hands so that my brother could just fall on the ball and score; but I was in the air and throwing the ball as I saw him, so it was very instinctual.

It was quite difficult to get across the line actually, because the ref would penalise everything immediately. So a number of times I would pick up the ball from half, stutter step, get through a hole and the ref would call a penalty for shadowing.

Still I pumped myself up a lot for this game and it's good to see that I could rise to the occasion.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 18 Jan 2008 16:50

This may sound like a silly question, but did anybody try to call me recently?

I had a missed call last night (at 3 am) - I had got back from a party and passed out, so didn't hear it at all - from an international number;

+92 334 802 ****

I think it's rather difficult to decipher the location of international calls (since what I should dial if I want to return that call is a different number), but isn't 334 the start of American mobile numbers?

I don't know.

Leave a voice message (and check the time as well

).

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 18 Jan 2008 16:58

Apparently the call was from Pakistan...

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 19 Jan 2008 10:19

So just got back from watching the AUSTRALIAN open on TV. Game finished at 4:30am. The game went for 4 hours 40 minutes. Get this, not only was this a grand slam tennis match going on in Australia starting at midnight and going until past four in the morning, but an Australian was playing and... in a room of 5 other Aussies, I was the only one going for Hewitt. Fantastic game by the way. I also managed to win $5 on a bet made in the second set that Hewitt would win the match in 5. Well played

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 20 Jan 2008 15:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFdmG-TRxzE

lolz

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 21 Jan 2008 02:26

Drinking my last caffeine drink ever right now. Ok that's probably not true, but I've accepted that I'm addicted to caffeine (after people telling me I am for years) and I'm going to stop drinking it almost completely (certainly not daily). Whoot.

King Monkey · Post by **King Monkey** » 21 Jan 2008 04:55

Cold turkey? Glad i dont live in the same state as you

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 21 Jan 2008 07:11

Yeah, well I actually go a week or two of cold turkey no caffeine a few times every year. You can probably figure out which times those are by reading my posts on this forum and noticing the periods where I'm particularly disagreeable.

Anyway you don't need drugs when it's only 6 days until you get to see the greatest band in the history of anything play live. There's no way I can express how excited or amazed I am, to be able to have such an experience, when I thought it would never happen.

Asmus · Post by **Asmus** » 21 Jan 2008 07:45

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! YOU LUCKY MOTHERFUCKER!!!!

King Monkey · Post by **King Monkey** » 21 Jan 2008 07:47

Yeh the whole RATM thing is pretty unbelievable, almost like some kind of dream... Although im not actually going im excited that you will get to see them live, knowing how much of a fan you are!

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 23 Jan 2008 05:10

Here is a pretty cool video about science vs "biblical science."

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

I really like the music too (Toccata in D JS Bach)

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 27 Jan 2008 14:38

So only a 10 hours and 20 minutes until I see RATM play live

I'm at Urano's about to head to the festival. Alex is coaching tennis. I still can't believe it. Also I'm struggling, as his firefox doesn't have spellchecker turned on, and I fear I am making many mistakes. Melbourne has been awesome so far. I even played footbag (badly) yesterday. I will write a longer report later perhaps.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 28 Jan 2008 16:29

RATM was fucking unreal. Despite my amazingly high expectations, it easily lived up to them. I went to the mosh pit at about 3pm, at the end of the Regurgitator set, and then stayed there for about 6 hours. It was crazy packed, and everybody just wanted to see Rage, but we had to sit through Hilltop Hoods, Arcade Fire, Grimspoon, Silverchair and Bjork before seeing Rage. I never made it to the very front, but I was about second to third away from the front less than a meter. There were 2 stages and Bjork, Hilltop Hoods and Arcade Fire played on the other stage (which directly ajoined our stage), but I was so close I couldn't see them. Bjork sounded shit, and got constant abuse from the Rage side of the mosh pit. Actually it must suck a bit for the other bands playing before RATM because the mosh pit didn't really get into anybody else. We just stood, crammed ridiciulously tight and waited. The 5 hours wait was definitely worth it though, it was mental when Rage played. A little scary perhaps, but so exhilarating. Every song they played was awesome. I can't remember the exact set list, but they started with Testify, and played pretty much all my favourite tracks. Zack made a bit of a speech towards the end of Wake Up, where he called John Howard (our last PM) a "cocksucking cunt" for supporting the war in Iraq. Actually on the train home this guy said; "I didn't know they were so political" and his friend responds; "yeah, Tom Morello isn't though." Later they commented about the massive green house gas emissions from the Crown Casino having towers that send out massive fireballs using natural gas (hence 0 emissions). Clearly the message of RATM is lost on the majority of people, still I hope it raises a few people's consciousness. Anti-Flag also had a go at John Howard, which everybody loved.

Basically it was a fucking amazing concert, and one of the greatest days of my life. I still can't believe I've seen Rage live. I feel so sore today. Also I think I swallowed a kilo of dust. I ate only healthy food on the day, drunk heaps of water early on, and then nothing after 1pm. Didn't do any drugs or drink any alcohol.

boyle · Post by **boyle** » 28 Jan 2008 18:00

Amazing band. This is my recollection of the setlist, but I think it's a little out of order and I might have missed a couple

Testify
Bulls On Parade
Bombtrack
People Of The Sun
Down Rodeo
Know Your Enemy
Tire Me
Sleep Now In The Fire
Calm Like A Bomb
Guerilla Radio
Wake Up

Freedom
Killing In The Name

waiting through Bjork gave me a real headache. Rage were everything I expected and more. When they played Killing In The Name, I walked over to the side to see the whole crowd jumping in unison. Was awesome.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 29 Jan 2008 02:54

Yeah I was surprised they played Tire Me, but it's one of my favourite songs, so that was cool (in my top ten at least

). I thought Year Of The Boomerang would have been appropriate, but I guess they're too classy for such a misinterpretation. You missed Bullet In The Head from your list, but it looks pretty accurate.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 29 Jan 2008 03:50

This was an interesting story;

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 62,00.html

Crowd surge hurts music fans at Big Day Out

ane Metlikovec, Mary Bolling, and Cameron Adams

January 29, 2008 12:00am

TWO casualties and a crowd surge left thousands of fans angry and confused as Melbourne's biggest musical festival, the Big Day Out, ended in mayhem last night.

One unconscious man had to be crowd-surfed to an ambulance, while another fell from a marquee as crowds pushed forward to see the final act, Rage Against the Machine.

Organisers interrupted the American headliners towards the end to appeal to the 45,000-strong crowd for calm.

Revellers said they feared for their safety as the crowd surged towards the main stage and fans climbed every available vantage point at Flemington racecourse.

Organisers rushed the band off stage, and ordered people to climb down from the structures and trees before the band would resume.

One man who was on top of a marquee fell and was rushed to hospital by ambulance officers, who put him in neck brace.

The condition of the two injured people was unknown late last night.

Veteran attendee Cameron Oliver, 26, said he saw a lot of violence in the crowd.

"In nine Big Day outs and numerous other festivals, this is the most violent and least policed I have been to," he said.

"We had to pull back from the stage â€“ so far back we couldn't even see because we were afraid for our safety. And I'm a six-foot (183cm) bloke."

Festival spokeswoman Miranda Brown said security and medical staff were kept busy at the front of the stage.

She said regular announcements warned the crowd not to push and that the front-of-stage barrier was there to protect their safety.

At one point more than 30 people climbed a multi-level speaker stack in the middle of the crowd, which was manned by just one security guard.

It took police and security staff more than 20 minutes to get them off the structure.

But they failed to deter dozens of people who climbed a beer marquee to watch Rage Against the Machine.

Police said they were disappointed with the crowd behaviour and arrested a few people for letting off flares.

"There were quite a few idiots around," one officer said.

Jordan, 25, of Newport, said grandstands should have been erected around the back of the main stages.

"People couldn't see anything at all, there were so many people there . . . so of course they climbed on to things so they could see."

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Interestingly I noticed no crowd surge at the start, presumably because at the front we were already so tightly packed together, it was literally impossibly to get any closer. This is the accompanying article photo;

You can't see me, but I was right at this guys knee.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 29 Jan 2008 03:52

Of course it has to be said that if a six foot guy pulled back because he was afraid for his safety, and I managed to survive the mosh pit, being about 5'6" and 62kg, he was probably pretty fucking soft. I didn't see any violence, could see the band fine (except obviously when there was a guy being crowd surfed out of the mosh and I was under him), and had one of the best times of my life

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 29 Jan 2008 23:03

Sick

It sounded so unbelievable... I so should have bought a ticket, I'm definately cursed for life now. god damn it...

my mates were telling me about all the people climbing all over everything, sounded nuts... the kind of nuts only RATM could stir up