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Re: Split Enz DVD thoughts
Hey Campus no sadly ABC/Countdown threw out/erased about 80% of their stuff many many years ago, the 'No Bother to me" that some fans have came from our own library...it's just a bad quality video that I own and fading fast. Sad though as so much cool Countdown stuff is gone forever. Some of the Anniversary stuff is good, some can't be used as the sound recording didn't work out....my main fear is because it was filmed by Stratford Productions would it be in the hands of the liquidators too-...
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Re: Split Enz DVD thoughts
I forgot to mention another sad piece of trivia that got me all excited! When I was watching the Anniversary clip of Shark Attack, I noticed that the percussion roles were reversed. Noel playing drums, and Paul playing percussion. Was this standard for the anniversary tour? I always presumed it was noel playing the hi hats on the anniversary version of Strait Old Line, and speaking of this version of the song, has anyone noticed the absence of any vocals by Tim (except 'everybody into the...
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Re: Peter Garrett Quits Midnight Oil.......
I suppose it was inevitable that the end would come after twenty-five years, but it's still a little sad in a way. I just received my copy of Capricornia in the mail a couple of weeks ago and haven't even had time to get into it. Peter Garrett is a talented and caring man. I'm sure he'll make a difference in the world again at whatever he chooses to do next. Maybe it's better leaving while you're on top, and not hanging around way past your prime like some artists do, and I won't mention any...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
Without making this any sort of official comment as I always prefer to leave stuff like that up to Neil, all of us have always been fine about fans swapping live material. The main thing has always been to keep it subtle. The times when we will get heavy (put on my Docs now) is when someone takes full advantage of fans. Example: a few years back (no names please) a club member who was one of the first Life members got a copy of "stage talk" with his kit (we included them in a lot, just as a...
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Re: Enz Anniversary/Holmes and more
The whole Holmes Show's going to be archived! Woo-hoo! (since I don't finish work here until the end of the show) Says so on the website (sorry, can't get the link thing to work, but Peter put it up on the Neil news site)
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Re: Anyone else upset about the state of the world?
I really wouldn't worry. The media has an annoying tendency to OVER-sensationalise things since TIME IMMEMORIAL . That's the media's job. It wouldn't be media without (me) in it. Just have a look at what Tim Finn had to say it about it in his latest single "What You've Done" : "And the newspaper reporters spoiling ALL the fun" If you think about it there have been over 400 days since 9/11/2001 . There have ONLY been terrorist attacks on NO more than 20 or so of those days. That's a very low...
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Re: Aussie Music Fans Please Help!!!
Good list, Bono . I think you pretty much covered it. Most of those songs are probably the ones you'd use to get someone into the artists. Donovan - Your list wasn't really all that much different to Bono 's (the one you ripped shreds into) - you just selected different bands with basically the same style... although your selection must be way superior! The Mavis's - cry george (probably not "party music", but classic stuff) Paul Kelly (take your pick!) Savage Garden (again, take your pick.
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Re: Donny Osmond and DDIO
IMO, it would be an ridiculously unfavorable comparison. The lead is good for the most part, but he is certainly not in Neil's league. There are some parts that bugged me (sorry, can't think of them now, except the end parts we're great). Not that I'm saying the cover isn't good -- it is. I also sang in an acapella group that covered DDIO. (It was pretty bad ... as much as I love the guy who sang lead, he couldn't cut it.) I realize how hard it is to perform that song. In fact, I'll jump...
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Re: KGSR-FM webcast
whats the bloody email request address ? MIND OVER MATTER !! give it some nuts at the end - Mind Over Matter !! or Breaking My Back ! YEAH !! But I'm too late
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Re: Gig injuries
Does a Tim Finn injury count? We saw him in Napier, New Zealand on Oct. 12, 2001...and during the jam session part of "Weather With You," Tim was twirling his guitar around, in preparation to go back into the chorus, and the end of the guitar whacked him right in the head, pretty hard! You could hear the whole crowd go, "OOOOH!" and it obviously had to hurt, because we were in the front row and heard the WHACK it made. It left a big red mark, and I hope he used ice later. Nobody would have...
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Re: Gig injuries
Not so much an injury but a near death experience. V2001, Powderfinger had just finished and they were running out of time before Neil Finn was meant to be on, so my friend & I thought we'd be fine staying where we were (about 2/3 rows of people back from the barriers, roughly in the middle of the crowd) when on came some band whose name began with I. I think. I would say who but I'm not sure of the name (choice of 2 could be huge error if I get the wrong one) And the moshing started. Oh...
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Re: LOTR (Non-spoilers only)
I watched the first one and walked out of it near halfway through. I just don't understand the plot and it's boring. I watched traliers on DVD for the second one and those bored negative feeling re-surfaced again for me from the 1st one. Give me Star Wars, X Files any day I say. DISCLAIMER: Just my 2 cents opinion PS I did magange to watch the second Harry Potter movie all the way through though. Though you do get tired of it by the end.
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Re: Gig injuries
Because if the band in question is Idlewild then it's gonna be the best 20 mins of the whole festival Unless I've got my years mixed up but, hey, what the hell, it gives me a chance to plug And having spent some of the best hours of my life (including two nights this week, sigh) being one of said violent buggers in Idlewild moshpits, I can't help but go all nostalgic
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Re: Bowling for Columbine
Ive seen it. It's damn good. Kinda scary. heaps funny, sad. a little melodramatic at the end with Mr Heston But overall I give it 5 stars! Everyone should be made to see it! Donovan
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Re: POLL: Finn On Finn>> Influence On Woodface's Success
Go Kill Eye ! It doesn't look like you'll be on Valerie 's Christmas card list this year! Honesty is best. Good post. I half-agree with you there. I've said many times before that I REALLY don't like that song, but the real reason for that is because it's WAY too catchy & annoying & looks like it belongs in the frickin' charts! There's no denying that Tim Finn did write a classic song, but when you've heard it that many times through your music-deprived childhood on commercial radio,...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
Hi Everyone - Been I awhile since I last typed, but thought I better jump back in! I'll look at the Bootleg with a radio point of view (since I work in Radio). At the station I work at, we have a few CH live stuff now and I am still downloading more as I speak. I usually like to play the live stuff every now and again because it gives people an different view on an artist. We as a radio station are protected to play this stuff on-air thanks to the AMCOS/APRA Agreement. What that means is we...
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Re: Bowling for Columbine
GENERAL SPOILERS BELOW Donovan's right. I found it a bit scary in places. I wonder if he ever - or since making the film - has got closer to answering the question of why Americans use their guns to kill each other. He picks apart the theories about this one by one, the main ones being that the US has more guns, more poverty, more alienated youth, a greater ethnic mix, a more violent history than other countries, and proves them all wrong. I thought Michael handled the...
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Re: pursuit of happiness
I once did a sponsored starvation (I kid you not) during the Ethiopian famine in the eighties. It was three days long and at the end I would have smacked you in the face if you suggested playing ANY game for pie. There is enough reality tv as there is. Now I'm hungry......see what you've done?
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Re: Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe!
Juddfinn, there was a slightly better review in todays Melbourne SUN..however Phil cops a bit of a serve with the lines "Philip Judd's lyrics are clever but sometimes a little trite". Aslan also is target " Alans rear end looks loose and some creatures look disabled".! PG
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Re: Split Enz play Left Hand
Camus, thanks for the description. Sounds different from the version I know and sounds like you have some kind of demo. Would love to have heard Eddie's contribution. The one I know is from The Mullanes gig I taped in '85 at the Homestead Hotel in Brisbane. The verse lyrics sound different from those you mentioned so maybe it was a different verse. ("here we go again it's time to make decisions, the colour of the room (?), i'll offer you myself with open hearted pleading, i'm tried and i am...
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Re: Split Enz DVD thoughts
Lozza, Loved your review, echoed my feelings exactly but you're far more eloquent than me I bought three copies in the end, just in case I love the bit at the end of True Colours from Sight and Sound when Tim has to let the audience now that the song has indeed ended! Also Eddie's expression at the same time. Woman with Noel on spoons also sublime. Essential Purchase, everyone buy at least one, you know you'll be able to play it in the future, even if not now Who knows what future things...
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Re: VOTE FOR EVERWOOD!!!
Thanks you all! As if my brother being on the show wasn't enough reason for me to vote for "Everwood," tonight's episode had a lovely surprise... ...Our very own Mr. Neil Finn playing clearly in the background of a party scene ("Last to Know" - almost the entire song!). And at the end of the show they plugged One All and directed viewers to the record label's site for more information!!!! How awesome is that?!?! I think I better make a second post in the Neil Finn section. "Everwood"...
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Re: Neil on the Dubya-Bee! (WB)
Well, you beat me to it pinahead, and I won't question your taste at all because my dear brother Tom happens to play Dr. Abbott on Everwood. Anyway, I was just going to post the good news about hearing our very own Mr. Finn on the WB tonight, but saw you already posted it. For those of you who'd like to see it with your own eyes, they replay Everwood on Sundays (at like 4 or 5 Central time, I'm not sure). Check it out. Almost the entire song plays quite clearly during a party scene, then...
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Re: Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe!
OK, I have seen it myself now, and I call my review Did anyone pray for giant shoes? Okely dokely! Let�s get this whole lyric thing out of the way first. Honest and for true, I tried very hard to be completely unbiased when I saw it and I can�t see what all the fuss is about. I went with someone who is not into Judd/Enz at all, so nothing invested there. He couldn�t understand the negative comments either. The lyrics are simple without being condescending and are understandable for kids.
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Re: Photos of YOU
Paul, it is indeed the Brisbane Sky Needle (known to various cackling Westenders as "Stefan's Needle", but I didn't think you worked on Boundary Street... (the photo was taken at Gloria Jean's Coffee Shop, up at the West End Shopping Centre, at what used to be the West End roundabout before they decided to put traffic lights in there instead.) Okay now that the two of us have thoroughly bored the cr** out of the rest of the forum... we return you to your regularly scheduled transmissions...
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Re: ABBA and Ally McBeal
General category -- Any song with Doo-Doos in it... ("She Will Have Her Way", Tal Bachman's "She's So High", Duran-squared's "Hungry Like The Wolf"). Any song you can "doo-doo" along with is all right by me... It's Not Unusual -- Tom Jones This Charming Man -- The Smiths (it's the jangly guitar) It's The End Of The World As We Know It -- R.E.M. American Girls -- Counting Crows Istanbul -- They Might Be Giants ...and actually, to bring this back to the land of Finn, there's a couple catchy...
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Re: re: neil arrogant
This is an interesting topic. I guess after 22 years (has it really been that long?) Neil meeting fans etc is one area that I've either been part of ,or observed for several decades now. I have so many wonderful memories of things that he has done, and most of it fan friendly and stuff he doesn't have to do...a lot that fans have no idea that he initiated. I remember this gig on one of the last UK tours and it was raining, Neil looking out of the band room window on a 2nd level and says...
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Re: Paul Hester's debut with the Enz?
A little late (as per usual), but I was going through my stuff today and found Molly Meldrum's written comments from 1983, which refer to his earlier comments on Countdown: "Making Amendz To Frenz Of The Enz... Well, The Split Enz tour started a couple of weeks ago and, after their opening gig at Ballarat in Victoria, guess who opened his big mouth and criticised them? Yes, I was honest enough, or fool enough, to say that the performance was lacklustre and that the show needed more Enz hits...
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Re: re: neil arrogant
Silke your link doesn't work... then again I'd have liked to boot Yahoo up the backside a WHOLE lot during the past few days (wouldn't let me into my own email or groups for two and a half days? I mean, sorry, what is WITH that???) ... and as geocities are associated with them, well, I see the problem.... We get what we pay for with these mega-sites, and as they are free, well... work it out yourself (I don't want to say any rude words here) Anyway back on topic, Neil happily signed...
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Re: Uses of WD-40?
We have that mailbox unit at the end of the block with the 20 individual mailboxes. Our lock is getting so sticky and I bet it's not the only one. A random act of mailbox kindness would be to WD-40 everybody's lock. Alternatively I have thought about leaving a can there and seeing how long it lasts. It's silicone I believe, so maybe you can smooth hair frizzies with it? Add a sheen to fake fruit? Give Malibu Barbie that freshly-baby oiled look? Would it waterproof canvas? You know how batik...
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Re: New track: 'Come & Go'
OK Seven.....well done! I like Come and Go. There is no doubt you are influenced by Oasis and NF......which in turn has a vague Beatles link. There is a touch of Coldplay/Travis too..... Great harmonies,very catchy chorus..."The sea will rise, The wind will blow......" I'm not convinced by the synth/pad intro and outro/end. For me a fade on the vocals would be a better end. So, other frenz forum people, do your self a favour and have a listen to Seven's new tune
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Re: CH advertising NZ with DDIO in UK!
yeah haven't seen the add for a while but while I was on holidays at the beach I saw it. I love that add. good if they could get neil to say a few words at the end instead of the lady that says stuff! oh who cares ! I wanna go to NZ!
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Re: Paul Hester's debut with the Enz?
No worries Secret, thank you for being so kind. RE the show itself, Molly was only on for a couple of seconds and if you've seen one middle-aged knucklehead in leather pants, ugly sweater, and cowboy hat you've seen 'em all. At the end of the day though, i think molly did a LOT of good for the aussie music industry collectively. He did also apologize on the show a couple of weeks later too (same hat, different ugly sweater and different leather pants). There was one article of his from back...
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Re: Yin v. Yang
I've always had Neil as the more melodic one while Tim brings the rhythm. Of course, they overlap but that's how I'd seperate them. Neil brings control and subtlety to the music - that odd chord change that takes the song somewhere else yet still seems as if it has to be there. The 'other-worldly' melody that always gets you in the end. Tim seems more spontaneous, maybe creating the initial spark, getting a good groove going, more care-free about letting it go and seeing what's there...
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Re: Info on Oz/Nz required please
PureNZ the website to go with the advert... I went for 6 weeks in 2001 (NZ only as my mums family are all aussies now so I've been many many times) and loved every second of it. Am going to go back once I get myself sorted here. I can't remember all of what I did so I'll just say - if you see any adverts for any of the following playing live, cancel anything else you had planned and go and see them (these are all just off the top of my head, I could think about it and make a definitive list...
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Re: Are you ready, USA!?! (and Canada, too!)
Going to the Philly show! "Excited" doesn't even begin to cover how I am feeling! I'm a little stressed about the snow/sleet/ice/rain the weather gurus are talking about for Friday night. Haven't done anything different regarding my music listening. CH & SE in my mini-van and NF in the house & computer (my poor Paul Weller & Style Council collection - gathering dust lately). Buying a new outfit for the occasion & praying my feet don't hurt too much by the nights end! Patti
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Re: Info on Oz/Nz required please
wow how up my alley is this? i just got back a week or two ago from a two month stay in oz visiting my boyfriend. i mostly stayed in victoria, and spent a week in new south wales. these are the places i remember most: *great ocean road - lots of great scenery along the way, such as the twelve apostles, the grotto, and some nice short rainforest bushwalks. *melbourne - of course. just to say you went. it's a really nicely constructed grid of a place, partly metrpolitan, partly not. some great...
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Re: Washington...YAY
Well,my friend and I stood out in the freezing cold for over 2 hours to ensure we were front row,and it was DEFINATELY worth it.Neil was in great voice and seemed much more relaxed and personable than last July.And it was cool that he changed up the set list a bit for those of us who attended both shows.I loved,LOVED that he did Sweet Dreams as well.I also didn't miss Lisa Germano at all..to me she was a bit too intrusive last time around. Now,having said that..all was not perfect.First...
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Re: PINCH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Grace: We are here for you! I'd like to go out on a limb by speaking for the group and say, though, we may be completely jealous, we are also just plain thrilled. How cool that one of us gets a "private audience" with Neil. We're all coming along in spirit! To that end, if you need any help with the truly important questions during your preparation (what to wear, what to say, etc.), we are ready to assist! --Heather
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Re: Rhett Miller and Neil Finn, Town Hall, New York
Cheers, Bob! I recall as we were driving along I-95 at around 1am, my husband saying "anyone who says Connecticut is a small state can bite my rear end. Three hours just to get home, and we're not even close to the border of Massachusetts." That was my first visit ever to the Big Apple, and not nearly long enough! I think next time I go, it'll be on the train... the price of parking is outrageous! (Still, the sights and sounds of New York City... ahhhhhhhhh yep, I'll be back... although this...
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Re: Rhett Miller and Neil Finn, Town Hall, New York
A FABULOUS NIGHT - BUT TOO SHORT! I can never get enough of Neil. I think his set was a little shorter than the 2 Irving Plaza shows. I guess this is the beginning of the tour, not the end... Well that was me and my friend Yael standing up alone in the crowd. I think there was another fast song before SWHHW. I think it was Locked Out. We were like, WHY ISN'T ANYONE STANDING UP - HELLO. THESE ARE GREAT DANCE TUNES AND IT'S MUCH MORE FUN TO STAND! So, we got up and then at the end of Locked...
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Re: Rhett Miller and Neil Finn, Town Hall, New York
What a night! Thanks for those who've posted the set list and reviews. I'm going again tonight and I assure you that I will stand much sooner than last night's crowd did. I think I like Bowery Ballroom and Irving PLaza better as venues. Even though Town Hall is gorgeous and I think Neil liked it, he had never played there before, the vibe is better when people are on their feet. The formality of the room also I think curbed the amount of banter between the songs. There were some longish...
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Re: Crowded House Reunion.....
While I certainly think that musically, the guys had at least one more album in them, all indications point to the fact that things had run their course. Neil has said he feels there'd be no point to a CH reunion, since they're now all involved in their own successful projects. And you know, they made incredible music while together, but if they were ready to end the band, then continuing it now could cheapen the music and legacy they left. I'm not sure I'd really want that. Recommended...
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Re: Second NYC show!
Why has nobody posted a set list? Please. Someone must have written it all down- I saw lots of little red lights from the balcony so I know there are multiple recordings of the show... and I would love to have one ; ) Ah well, I guess people are on their way to Philly and have not gotten to their computers. Meanwhile, I will share the biggest highlight of the night for me... a new song. Neil paused in the middle of the set and it seemed like he would play a request if he heard one he liked.
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Re: Bad Behavior?
Mona's smoking comments put me in mind of something rather disgusting that my brother and I took to doing when we were kids. We were playing some board game (I forget what exactly, now) across the living room table, quite close to a half-full ashtray my father had left there. I was talking, while at the same time leaning down to move a board piece, and accidentally happened to blow in the ashtray, making the ash "dance". Needless to say my younger brother thought this was funny and wanted to...
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Re: Attention OSCARS BUFFS!!!!!
I'm kinda interested in knowing the system, Heidi, and not to win any office pools - I don't work - but more for my own curiosity... And Kill Eye, I think you and Heidi are right. (And Heidi, my own husband would never let me hear the end of it, if he knew.) Best Original Song should go to Eminem - I mean, am I the only one who cannot get that track out of her head? (And I am SO not an Eminem fan...)
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Re: Attention OSCARS BUFFS!!!!!
K. I'm setting myself up for a failure of spectacular proportions here (because Murphy's Law dictates that this will be the one year my "system" won't work...). But here it is (and may God, man, and Steven Spielberg have mercy on my soul). I guess it's *sorta* scientific, but can vary based on a couple of the factors, which is why we could use the same system and come up with different picks. No guarantees...here it goes. My Oscar System has five main factors, three of which are fixed and...
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Re: Who's going to the Vancouver show
Marvy! Yes boardergurl, please do let us know before you leave at the end of the week where you guys'll be checking in. I have my daze all mixed up, when I was saying to Kathleen, maybe you can be our tour guide--it suddenly struck me, yea but Monday is a work day... Off topic here, sorry, everyone on the tour is sick????? I've heard nothing, I'm coming to Vancouver one way or the other, no fears
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Re: Who's going to the Vancouver show
IF we end up at the Granville Market, whilst picking up some red carnations, I'll check out the availability of Pineapples too. However, if we hollow them out and parade up and down Granville with them on---the unsavouries may come out of the woodwork for sure. (or maybe not, they'll be too scared)
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Re: Bad Behavior?
mwahahahahahhh okay two things come to mind. or more. during my recent stay with my boyfriend in australia, he showed me a journal his mother kept, recording his behavior patterns sporadically between the time of his birth and the age of 10. at the age of three she wrote that he was in the passenger seat of the car when someone cut her off. he proceeded to stick his head out the window and swear at the driver: "JESUS CRUST!" when i was in high school, i HATED (and i emphasize the hate here)...