THE PRO'S AND CON'S OF WORK..BY ALEX DAVID BRAY

I, like many other guitarists\musicians in general (i don't think i'm an artist cause i dont release any art...yet. please comment) work a day job in a cafe! my chosen cash cow is a trendy little cafe in the Dandynong Ranges (not to be confused with Dandenong eh Surly), which shall remain nameless. here are some quick good's and bad's aboot 'that' industry......

PRO'S: i do get to work with some WAY cool people, like my sister, some funny little people, who i think are english but i can't get an answer out of them other than some muttered response about "school in lillydale"???..i get to work with my brother Drew, who may i add is a mad mad chef, able to make a huge meal seemingly out of what others refer to as compost.....my boss is a kinda whacky neo-femenist ex Arts lecturer (excuse my spelling thismorn, my stomach is hurting), who has been known to lend her kitchen hands book's by the like of Umberto Eco, and another writer i can't remember the name of, but it was a book about one of Hendrix's trans-gender roadies??? hmm.
PLUS, i get to eat the afore mentioned mad food every freakin day, which saves me heaps on food bills. plus i think my girl was kinda impressed by the green tea we serve there, or maybe she was just being nice...OH, one more thing, we listen to Dillinger Escape Plan's newey in the kitchen when theneo fem' isn't there...thats all for now, i gotta go for some free lunch and a coffee with surly boy... i'll let ya'll know about the con's next time...

CLEAN ALLSTARS, DIRTY SKIES

well, what a shitty day !
(weather wise, otherwise she's been apples!)
I got sent home from 'work' early..so i had heaps of time to do stuff..yay! so i decided to finally put my ALLSTARS into the washing machine (they're FILTHY), and test this theory i've heard about putting an old pair of street shoes into a clothes washer and them coming out sparkling like some sort of MTV award (!?!?!). Well, it worked, 'nuff said. they're in the drier now....see this is why i was hesitant about doing a blog greg, no-one needs to know if my shoes are clean, but please, comment. enjoy.
Why would i care if my shoes are clean?? well i'm off to a party tonight!!! not just any party either..a TOGA party...allright? well, firstly, it's fucking freezing, and secondly, i just don't know how to tie a toga....oh well, i'm sure surlyboy has already been through all this with you peeps earlier today? prove me wrong.shit shit shit..see ya'll later. SMILE!

Alex's Trip To The Island (not IRELAND)

i just returned home from a quick soujurn* to Phillip Island (not Phillip Ireland!) with some close friends, well, in retrospect i think it was actually meant to be one of those BOYS weekends...'cause there were no girls there? Anyway, thanks for the cookies Miss Rane, you totally* rule both in and out of the kitchen my dear.....
So, we got down there friday night, i left saturday by lunchtime, due to prior family commitments (which i will fill you in on at a later date), which means that the silly amount of beers i drank until about 2 am would still have been in my (slim) system on the drive home. HA!, HA i say to the several Booze buses we passed on our way back, YOU MISSED ME AGAIN. I am some sort of boozy white wail...more later.
post script: *= spelling mistakes that i already know about. cheers.

The Votes are In......

Well, all voting has ceased, please return to your seats. It would appear that in response to my question regarding "couple dressing", it is a resounding NO. so, thanks for your support guys and gals..i guess the world is just too cold a place for someone as romantic and beautiful as I. ...or maybe i'm just a twat who "doesn't get it", well fuck it, i don't care, i like to think that it's these little imperfections and loser traits that make my girl think im special?? (respond bitch!!)....

post no 2, oh ye of little faith!!

well, contrary to popular belief, here i am again....POST NO 2. Firstly, thank you all for your useful comments (really, they help). Perhaps, street gang girl, your right, about the whole virginity?first post thing. If you just kinda keep doing it, it gets easier..and hopefully better. I was just on the phone to my 'special someone'..."stop doing the dishes and write a fucking POST"!!...
"yeah, ..YEAH, i think i will!!" i thought to myself
(this was about 25 minutes ago, mind. first i had to have a smoke out the back and consider what to write....and then open a beer), but i realised that i was AGONIZING over what to write, and that this is the best way to stifle any blog-creativity. so i just jump on here and s...oh, my girls home...(back) where was i..oh yeah, just start writing, without any interuptions and this the MOST BORING BLOG EVER. sigh..throughout the day i constantly see things that i think i will write about here, i am always making witty little asides, i am i swear, ask ANYONE, but when it comes to 10pm and im ACTUALLY sitting infront of the computer it all slips away...like so much sand through my hands. he he. ANYWAY..i have a question for you ALL. please consider this seriously and get back to me with your thoughts:

Q; Hyperthetically, if a couple are going out for a night on the town, to, say, see a friends band, lets call them "children from Lithuania" (the band, that is, not me and Ke...i mean "the couple"), is it wrong for said couple to dress simarlily (actually, it's pretty much matching), like, both wearing jeans and cowboy shirts??

Let me know.
I personally think it's kinda cute and romantic, but, fuck, im a romantic kinda guy.

Well anyways, i'm off to see a band with my girl and ...oh fuck, i've said too much, im never posting again.
Is he kidding?.....Who knows.

it's time People OR i'm a lazy fat fuck

well, as i sit here sipping tea at a freinds house in the comfortable ferntree gully, i realize that my freinds (and Girlfriend) continue to put up fantastic, witty, intelegent and insightful posts. I, however, have unfortunately developed some sort of fear of putting my own post('s) up for all to enjoy, simply because i don't think it will match up to their blogs!! Call it complaicancy, call me lazy... i believe i have developed some sort of blog-complex...or "post-envy". this sux...maybe i just don't have anything interesting things happen to me (but i do!! i really DO!!), or maybe i just don't look at things from the perspective of a 'blogger'. well this is gonna change, it's time people. From now on i am gonna share EVERYTHING with this stoopid page! just not yet, cause bender is getting bored, and we need to go pick up dave, who is staying at my place short term. so until tomoz peeps!!...Hey whattya know..i put a post up:)