They shoot horses don’t they……..?

Hey blagger’s

I haven’t posted in ages, not cause I’ve been to busy or anything……well, O.K. I have, but mainly because I just couldn’t be assed. Why does anyone (besides my mum) want to hear about what I’ve been up to, or what I’m thinking….I wouldn’t. Do you really want me to bang on about how my life has become ultra boring?. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and hanging out with them. But I do miss some of the carefree ways of life with no kids. I cant just go out and get blitzed at a gig or at the footy anymore, I’m lucky if I just get to a gig or the footy now. I think all this “responsibility” is getting too me…..a bit of a crisis of confidence maybe?. I don’t know, I just miss my youth I guess. The other thing about having kids is all the worrying about them that you do. Milo had a really bad case of gastro a few weeks ago, and it was really scary. He was throwing up, not eating…he lost quite a bit of weight. I didn’t really understand what it was like to worry about your kids till then. But…he’s come good now and back to his happy little best. He’s crawling now too.

Anyway LWT haven’t been doing much at all lately. Craig seems to think he’s over the whole thing, so I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I think we’ve gotta few gigs coming up, but after that I don’t know. Rob and I might do something else, maybe Paul as well when he gets back from the old dart. Paul’s gonna think it’s all my fault!

Schottky Noise have got some shows coming up though. Friday 15th Sept at the Commercial in Yarraville. That’s probably gonna be just me and Fitzy, I’m not sure though. Then were playing the 19th Oct at the Rob Roy with Taste the Venom. Sean Barley’s gonna be stepping in for Atom that night, not sure what he’s gonna play yet, but it should be pretty cool.

JULY 26TH-CORNER HOTEL

Woooooohhooooooo!!!!!!!

Got my Mogwai ticket in the post today.

Death to Jimmy Wong!

Hey party goers

Had a pretty painful bout of food poisoning/gastro last week, care of Jimmy Wong in Footscray. I knew when I was eating those fucking Dim Sims that there was something not right, and I was stupid for eating most of them anyway, I was so fucking sick. Thursday night was spent hurling, I almost hurled in Milo’s childcare centre when I was picking him up!…..so on the way home it was like….”hang on buddy, daddy’s just gotta stop the car and have spew, ok?”. Friday I was in bed all day chucking from both ends (not in bed, I got out and went to the can for that), sleeping and watching vids(DVD’s) when I wasn’t asleep or retching….or spraying the bowl(sorry). I couldn’t eat anything for nearly three day’s, and lost nearly 5KG’s in the process. And to make things even shittier, I think Milo has it now too. I stayed away from the little guy for “a couple of days”, just like the Doctor told me to….., but he woke up last night after chundering over his bed and himself, I wouldn’t have believed so much puke could come from such a little dude. So hopefully he’ll be ok, and wont be too sick.

Tonight Look Who’s Toxic are on Best of the Brat on RRR (102.7FM), talking about, and playing, our favourite “Rooting” songs. I’ll have to do all the talking on this one, Rob and Craig don’t have much experience in this field. Then on Friday night we play at Pony, at the un-godly time of 2.00AM. I’m gonna have to have a snooze after work to try and be in some sort of fit state to play the gig though I reckon. I hope they have had some sort of smoke exhaust system fitted in the last month or two, It gets so Smokey in that place, I can’t fucking breath already……

Go Bull Doggers!!!!! 

Show me the……….

Ok…so now I've raised about $385 for the shave thang. Thanks to everyone who dug deep for the cause.

Booyah! 

Crave for shave

I'm shaving my head for charity tonight. Anyone who wants to sponsor me should give me some dosh. You can do it online at the worlds greatest shave site. I've got till the 18th of May to deposit the cash, so don't dilly dally! I've only raised $180 so far….so come on, dig deep.

By the way…..good luck to C$ tonight on his big date. Go get em tiger.

ciao

I hope you break your fucking leg again Judas.

Wooohoo!

Footy season starts this Friday (for Bulldog fans anyway), and I can hardly wait. We open the season against those scum sucking pieces of filth…Richmond. And I'd really love to see that fucking little ass-pumper Nathan Brown break that gammy fucking leg of his again…..And I know what your gonna say.."Jeez man, that's a bit harsh", well maybe it is. But I'm from the old school kid, and team loyalty is everything as far as I'm concerned….so fuck him!.

It's also Craig's birthday, so dont forget to give props and show the big fella some respeck!……peace out.

A battle cry for the revolution.

A freind of ours (Hayso) posted on his blog about a gig his band (The Sleepless Immigrants) did with a band that he thought “sucked”. This generated an angry and child like response from the band in question, the somewhat sycophantical “Kathematics”, headed by a delusional nonstarter named….Kath. So naturally I took umbrage at these feeble and insiped whining’s. The way I see it is…..if your in a band and you can’t take negative feedback, criticism and or shit, then maybe you should be doing something a little less creative. When your playing music, your wide open to receive assessment, critique, eveluation, opinion etc,etc,… that is unfavourable. …..probably more than any other activity you can undertake. So take it on the chin and get on with it, you fucking tards!. Go and fucking repair photocopiers or something if your that fucking sensitive, or go back to Uni and take “Feminist Stuidies”…oh but fuck!, you probably already have..with honers.

Anyway…that’s not what really pissed me off. It was the spineless P.C. rhetoric that came from the people I know, trust, and love. See below. (sorry guy’s was that too harsh…..). I mean fuck!, what have we become?. Say what you think, believe in what you say, and never fucking back down in the face of these empty, faithless culture clones. The internet was created (I think) for people to exchange thoughts and ideas in an unrestrained and uncencored fashion, for people to absorb or recant at their own will. And a blog, is the perfect example. An online diary for people to proclaim their thoughts and feelings for all to see, and that’s why people have blogs, so people can hear their voice. The idea of someone coming down on someone for voicing their opinion, makes me fucking sick!. If you don’t like someone calling your band shit, come up with a case. Don’t just complain that someone expressed that opinion. Tell em’    their wrong, stand up for yourself!.
People have to re-learn to stand up for what they believe, forget what the education system and TV have fucking pounded into you your whole life. As someone a lot cooler than me once said “It’s better to die on you feet, than to live on your knees”.

FUCK YEA!

original posting from Craig’s blog.
Responsibility March 22, 2006
Recently, Hayso wrote a rather blunt opinion of a band his band played with. There was a rather nasty reply from the other band, which led to Hayso apologising, which led to Neil getting angry, which led Hayso to ponder whether he should be a prick or not.
In my opinion, it’s the responsibility of anyone who writes anything on the internet to be very thoughtful about the words they choose. Once you click that Submit button (or type mput *.html if you’re old school), those words become part of the public domain. Even if you delete them from their original source, chances are that a copy still exists in Google’s cache, the Internet Archive, RSS readers, and so on, and people are going to be able to find them.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t express an opinion. I encourage that. I’m just saying that you should exercise a little editorial control. If you couldn’t be bothered, maybe the opinion just isn’t well formed enough to be comitted to public record.

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• Author : Craig Anderson
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1. hayso – March 23, 2006[Edit]

I like your thought process on this – I will take more responsibility from now on though

2. neil – March 23, 2006[Edit]

What the hell are you talking about Anderson? I thought the internet was there for people to express and exchange ideas and thoughts, in a totally free and un-restrained enviroment. People are aware that their words are there for everyone to see, thats why they put them there. So why should we “exercise a little editorial control” ?, thats for the mainstream media to do. I am continually supprised and disappointed by your retro conservative thinking Anderson.

3. Craig Anderson – March 23, 2006[Edit]

I’m not saying don’t express your ideas. I’m saying be careful that you mean the words that you choose.

4. neil – March 23, 2006[Edit]

That’s a fair call. Your alright Anderson. I don’t care what all those other people say.

5. Andrew – March 23, 2006[Edit]

“be careful that you mean the words that you choose”Those are words to live by. Remember on the web if you say “gee I saw this band support Toxic last night and gee they sucked balls” you better be able to back yourself up, and your much better off if you says “the band I saw sucked balls because their guitarist was constantly out of tune and I hated their melodies”. It’s less harsh because you’ve explained yourself.But I’d never tell anyone not to tell it how it is. A friend once reviewed a band that supported my band in a harsh way and received a very angry email from that band’s singer. That email rocks and has provided me with much amusement over the last couple of years. I laugh and laugh at his suggesting it is the university music schooling of his band members that matters, not the fact his songs suck balls.

So… um… yeah.

As a band member I’d hate to read “gee, that band really sucked”, I’d want to know why. Was it the songs? The singer? The guitar playing? Did they just find us boring? All of which would be easier to take than “you guys suck”.

6. hayso – March 23, 2006[Edit]

I totally agree with all the above…but in retrospect when I said that they “sucked” i did not think I was writing a review and I definately never expected these guys to actually read my little blog.Maybe I should have explained a little more, but I am no critic and maybe therefore should not being saying anyone “sucked”.I’d also like to note that i thought the sucked in many ways.

1. The show was boring
2. In the middle of the gig the lead singer read a magazine review of themselves…hmmm I wonder if it said bad things
3. The songs were not to my liking
4. Though not necessarily their fault the sound was crap and the levels were off. That said when we played I thought the sound guy did a great job

7. neil – March 23, 2006[Edit]

They also call themselves Kathematics, because the singer/guitarist is named Kath. Does she love herself or what. If this is the currant trend,I want the following name changes to take place:
Look Who’s Toxic= Look Who’s Neil
The Sleepless Immigrants=The Sleepless Hayso’s
U2= Ubono
Rolling Stones=Rolling Keith’s
etc,etc……

8. Craig Anderson – March 23, 2006[Edit]

Jesus, you’re bloody kidding me, right? You play in a band called Look Who’s Toxic for christ’s sake — you can’t go around bagging other peoples’ band names.

9. neilmoog – March 23, 2006[Edit]

Yea…..Look Who’s Toxic is real egotistical.
Sure it’s a crap name, but it’s not egotistical (that word again). And Fuck!….you chose it….you clagbag.

10. Andrew – March 23, 2006[Edit]

And nothing shits me more than a band who doesn’t understand that most (yes MOST) people will think you’re crap just because. For no other reason other than they don’t like you. And that’s not personal or anything like that, they just don’t like your music.If you can’t understand that, and get upset when someone says you’re crap, then you don’t understand life.Now my personal hatred of [popular artist] is personal, and I’d understand if he got upset at some of the things I’ve said about him. But I hate him for reasons he can’t control and I hate him for the same reason I hate Wolfmother. I think they’re really really really really average and yet they’re held up on this pedestal of genius that I don’t think they deserve and that shits me.

And when I say “i hate them” I don’t really. I hate the hype around them. I don’t hate them personally, and I’d hope they understand that if I said somewhere “gee, I hate blah”.

I guess that’s the sort of case I’d want to think carefully about what I said. I don’t really mean that I HATE them. Make sure you mean what you say.

11. neil – March 24, 2006[Edit]

Now Hayso’s totally removed the whole post and counter post’s.
What is going on here!.
Am I the only one who gives a fuck about being free to say what you want, and not care about what other people think?. What sort of free thinking, modern western men are we?. Are we just here to please and appease other peoples sensitive structures of self-admiration?. Are we going to pacify or assasinate our own opinions and beleifs in order not to offend others?. Are we to affraid to shatter peoples confused and delusional aspirations of fame?.
I’m going to have to seriously re-consider my relationship with all of you.

12. hayso – March 24, 2006[Edit]

long live the power and the passion but i have it beaten out of meI’ve copped so much over these two damned letters su i could have used ro but i spelt sucked instead.i am really considering closing my blog all together…there is a thing as free speech but fuck you cop a lot of crap for it and i’m sick of it

neil…you are right, but i’m not as strong as you…i wish i had the power and the passion