The basic facts...

Currently listening to:
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones
- Watched The Royal Tenenbaums yesterday. This is on the soundtrack. All I knew previously of this song was that Weird Al Yankovick used it in one of his polka medley type thingos. It's quite a good tune. -

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"update your blog with an 'im not dead yet' type post"
- a friend of mine

So here it is.

I'm not dead, I just don't have anything important to share with the internet.

Maybe I will tomorrow, or the day after that, or in a week...or some other time.

O.R.

This Is The Title Of This Post, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Post Itself

Currently listening to:
A vacuum cleaner.

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This is the first sentence of this post. This is the second sentence. This is the title of the post, which is also found several times in the post itself. This sentence is questioning the intrinsic value of the first two sentences. This sentence is to inform you, in case you haven't already realized it, that this is a self-referential post, that is, a post containing sentences that refer to their own structure and function. This is a sentence that provides an ending to the first paragraph.

This is the first sentence of a new paragraph in a self-referential post. This sentence is introducing you to the protagonist of the post, a person named Osmo. This sentence comments on the awkward nature of the self-referential narrative form while recognizing the strange and playful detachment it affords the writer.

Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.

This is actually the last sentence of the post but has been placed here by mistake. This is the title of this post, which is also found several times in the post itself. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself in his bed transformed into a gigantic insect. This sentence informs you that the preceding sentence is from another post (or story) entirely {a much better one, it must be noted) and has no place at all in this particular narrative. Despite the claims of the preceding sentence, this sentence feels compelled to inform you that you are actually reading "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, and that the sentence referred to by the preceding sentence is the only sentence which does indeed belong in this post. This sentence overrides the preceding sentence by informing the reader (poor, confused wretch} that this piece of literature is actually the Declaration of Independence, but that the author, in a show of extreme negligence (if not malicious sabotage), has so far failed to include even one single sentence from that stirring document, although he has condescended to use a small sentence fragment, namely, "When in the course of human events", embedded in quotation marks near the end of a sentence.

THIS sentence can serve as either the beginning of the paragraph or the end, depending on its placement. This is the title of this post, which is also found several times in the post itself. This sentence can serve as either the beginning of a paragraph or the end, depending on its placement.

This is the title of this post, which is also found several times in the post itself. This is almost the title of the post, which is found only once in the post itself. This sentence regretfully states that up to this point the self-referential mode of narrative has had a paralyzing effect on the actual progress of the post itself -- that is, these sentences have been so concerned with analyzing themselves and their role in the post that they have failed by and large to perform their function as communicators of events and ideas that one hopes coalesce into a plot, character development, etc. -- in Short, the very raisons d’être of any respectable, hardworking sentence in the midst of a piece of compelling prose fiction. This sentence in addition points out the obvious analogy between the plight of these agonizingly self-aware sentences and similarly afflicted human beings, and it points out the analogous paralyzing effects wrought by excessive and tortured self-examination.

THE purpose of this sentence [which can also serve as a paragraph} is to speculate that if the Declaration of Independence had been worded and structured as lackadaisically and incoherently as this post has been so far, there's no telling what kind of warped libertine society we'd be living in now or to what depths of decadence the inhabitants of the USA might have sunk, even to the point of deranged and debased writers constructing irritatingly cumbersome and needlessly prolix sentences that sometimes possess the questionable if not downright undesirable quality of referring to themselves and they sometimes even become run-on sentences or exhibit other signs of inexcusably sloppy grammar like unneeded superfluous redundancies that almost certainly would have insidious effects on the lifestyle and morals of our impressionable youth.

This sentence, in a sudden and courageous burst of altruism, tries to abandon the self-referential mode but fails. This sentence tries again, but the attempt is doomed from the start.
The purpose. Of this. paragraph. Is to apologize. For its gratuitous use. Of. Sentence fragments. Sorry.

The purpose of this sentence is to apologize for the pointless and silly adolescent games indulged in by the preceding paragraph, and to express regret on the part of us, the more mature sentences, that the entire tone of this post is such that it can't seem to communicate a simple, albeit sordid, scenario.

This sentence wishes to apologize for all the needless apologies found in this post {this one included], which, although placed here ostensibly for the benefit of the more vexed readers, merely delay in a maddeningly recursive. way the continuation of the by-now nearly forgotten story line.

THIS sentence is bursting at the punctuation marks with news of the dire import of self-reference as applied to sentences, a practice that could prove to be a veritable Pandora's box of potential havoc, for if a sentence can refer or allude to itself, why not a lowly subordinate clause, perhaps this very clause? Or this sentence fragment? Or three words? Two words? One?

Perhaps it is appropriate that this sentence gently and with no trace of condescension remind us that these are indeed difficult and uncertain times and that in general people just aren't nice enough to each other, and perhaps we, whether sentient human beings or sentient sentences, should just try harder. I mean, there is such a thing as free will, there has to be, and this sentence is proof of it! Neither this sentence nor you, the reader, is completely helpless in the face of all the pitiless forces at work in the universe. We should stand our ground, face facts, take Mother Nature by the throat and just try harder. By the throat. Harder. Harder, harder.
This is the title of this post, which is also found several times in the post itself.
This is the last sentence of the post. This is the last sentence of the post. This is the last sentence of the post. This is.

Sorry.

O.R.

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Written by David Moser - Adapted by Osmo Random.
Original here - http://www.triplette.com/by_david_moser.htm

"How about the power.....to move you"

Currently listening to:
Wonderboy by Tenacious D

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Re:Cheap CD, DVD, Video, Book (and all new this year - outdoor furniture) sale at Melbourne Exhibition Centre!

I went to this annual event - I think it was - last year, and found several nice purchases, mainly being books with one or two CDs in there for good measure.

So I decided to go back this year and low and behold...I got 8, brand-spanking-new CDs.

Side Note: One of my biggest weaknesses and favorite purchases is CDs. I think it's the joy of listening to a new CD for the first time...I'll think about it some more and get back to you.

And they weren't just your dodgy, bargain basement, cheap-arse CDs. These we're CDs that I would expect to pay full price for.

I can't list the CDs right now 'cause they're not nearby and I'm sitting on one of those high backed, executive, leather desk chairs typing and eating yoghurt (ask me about the pronunciation), but I got three Bjork CDs (been waiting for a bit of Bjork for a while), The Very Best of Kool and the Gang (if I said I only got this CD because of one track - Jungle Boogy - would you shoot me?), and some others...I've forgotten now (D.S: They must've been well worth the purchase).

Anywho...no work tomorrow! YAY! Sleep in!

"I'm expecting..."

O.R.

Meh.

Currently listening to:
Nothing.

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I've found my self starting to use this interesting and versitile word and wanted to find out exactly how people view it's definition. Below I've selected two definitions from www.urbandictionary.com


Meh adv.

1. Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care.

A: What do you want for dinner?B: Meh.

Source: Harold Lauder, Nov 16, 2002 (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh&f=1)


2. An interjection used to imply indifference towards a subject; "a verbal shrug". This particular interjection has somehow become quite popular among teens, the reason for this popularity is a mystery. Other popular interjections are "bleh", "dah", and "mih".

Usu. pronounced shortly, without eye contact or body movement.

"You wanna go to the mall?""Meh, I have nothing to do for the rest of the day..." etc.

Source: The Zim Bob Way, Jan 27, 2003 (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh&f=1)

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O.R.

Short and Sour

Currently listening to:
City Hall by Tenacious D
- Thinking that Tribute was just a one off, really good song, I didn't pay much attention to Tenacious D, that is until a friend played thier CD for me. From there it began... If you are into music - music in general, the lyrics, the musicality of songs etc - you must look into Tenacious D.

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"Is it a male penis or a female penis?"

-One of the most stupidist questions ever asked (excuse the grammar and spelling).

"No time is left to learn"

O.R.

[insert title here]

Currently listening to:
Jesus Christ Superstar from the musical of the same name (Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber - Lyrics by Tim Rice)
- My school performed J.C.S in my final year, and I helped out with it and subsequently found myself obsessing over it. I think I love it so much because of the constantly repeating musical motifs and, of course, because of the story. -

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Not much to write today...

"i think that whenever the computer has become so boring i actually wait for someone to reply on msn, a little part of me dies. *sigh*. Human interaction through the computer leaves much to be desired... so i should really switch of the computer and go to bed. so long, adieu, goodby (and hi)"

- A friend of mine initiated a conversation with me over msn with this message. I asked him if I could share it with the world because of it's brilliant honesty. He accepted and now you get to enjoy it's "brilliant honesty". You should feel privileged (and I'm sure you do).

"Bye for now"

O.R.

Day 2 - The Aftermath

Currently listening to:
My My My by Armand Van Helden
- Ever since I saw the film clip for this song I've been wanting to hear it again. If you haven't seen the film clip I won't spoil it for you, but look out for it. There's also something about the vocals...I'm not exactly sure what it is. Enjoy!

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So...I'm back! I don't really believe it either, but I thought I have to post at least three times before even considering stopping this blog.

Had work again today. I'll write about it sometime - I promise - just too tired to write that much at the moment.

I watched one of the greatest shows on TV when I got home - "Whose Line is it Anyway?". Now I have to say that I was watching the US version (as opposed to the UK version, which is pretty bad) and that I have encountered some very boring episodes, but on the whole it is some quality viewing. Enjoy if you can!

I think I'll leave it there for now. I'll be back for at least one more post (as stated above).

O.R

Today...

It begins...

Currently listening to:
Power Lunch by Har Mar Superstar
- Quite a good track, but took a couple of listens to get into it. Some of Har Mar's stuff (e.g. DUI) is pretty cool too. Check it out. -

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Got home from work (more about that later) at about 9:30.

Had some food.

Watched "Family Plot" (Channel 7 - Melbourne, AUS) which I can only assume the advertising plug for it would go something like: "The real Six Feet Under". What is left for reality TV to consume?

Checked out a friend's blog which I was just told about and then thought "Maybe I should start my own blog. It's not like I have much to write about, but I'm sure someone out there, someone looking for something to do, will come across this bunch of text and read it."

...And that's all I care about - that one person...and it's you. Isn't that nice? I care about you.

Well...I hope both of us (You and I) will be back sometime soon so you can hear about where I work (Trust me. It's worth it.) and any other rambling I have at the time of writing.

"That's the way it is..."

O.R