Apparently my website is worth $2.39 a day. Cool! How do I get the money?

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Update... another review of the video and band... in Russian!

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I'm sure you all remember the "...but mostly metal" video .

Last week I emailed metalsucks.net telling them about the youtube vid - looks like they've posted it - suddenly my views went up by 2000 on that day. Cool.

Then the next day it appears on a German site. Cool. If you speak german. Which I don't. But according to google translate it says:

"TOEHIDER from Australia just do what they want. For me, a very innovative fresh wind from overseas, which moves between alternative rock and classical, sometimes even epic metal. In any case, once the video aund listen to The Most Metal Song reinziehen In The World. Here the video ...".

Makes sense. I guess. What's funny is on the frontpage of metalmachine.de, the four latest posts are about bands that have such horrific titles. "SEVERE TORTURE", "ENTRAILS OUT!", "WHITE WIZZARD", "KILLSWITCH ENGAGE", "ATTACK OF THE MAD AXEMAN". I mean, honestly guys... c'mon. Entrails out? That gotta be a joke!

"Hey man, what's the name of your band?"

"Entrails Out".

"Cool".

I know, I know, the band that I'm in are called Toehider. But at least it's not ToeDestroyer or ToeCutter or ToenailTorturer.

In an ideal world the video that we did would be huge in metal circles. I wonder how you kick that off. Maybe a press release? I've always wondered how you do them.

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First post for metaltheater.com in 2010!

How exciting!

So what am I going to write about?

My favourite topic - North Korea. Some of you might know a bit about North Korea, but probably not a lot. I want to change that, as I'm starting to realise that it's really the forgotten tragedy of our generation.

If you don't know the first thing about North Korea, the easiest way to describe the place is 1984. If you haven't read the book, here's how I'd describe the place:

* The majority of the population have no food

* People must worship the leader, Kim Jong Il. He lives in his multitude of palaces while the population starves. Think Hitler.

* The country has numerous death camps - approximately 150,000 people ! Unbelievable.

* Communities are kept in isolation, they have no radio's, TV's, internet, phones

* Stricly communist - no business's are allowed to exist.

* Only a few very number of tourists are admitted each year, and they are kept under lock and key 24 hours a day.

Tomorrow I'll introduce you to their new agency. It's unintentionally funny.

Please caption the photo on the right. My attempt: "This way to room 101?"

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Date: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 07:47
User: Antonios
Comment: I'm guessing you'll enjoy this:

http://www.slate.com/id/2243112/?from=rss

There's also two quite good documentaries about North Korea, one about the soccer team that made the World Cup called The Game of Their Lives, and another about the huge mass games that are peformed each year called A State of Mind.

Then there's the comic by Guy Delisle called Pyongyang that's reasonable.

Me too a fan of North Korea (and I will be cheering them on when they play in the World Cup later in the year)

Youtube now has shorter URLs. Eg:

http://youtu.be/1GbZHrONI2k

Handy. Obviously they just bought the youtu.be domain name and set up a redirect.

Am I the only one who finds it funny that it's 2009 (almost 2010) and we're still trying to cut down on bytes? I mean really... these shorter URLs save about 15 characters.

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Good to see that they are human! I was there on the night and couldn't believe it.

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You're gonna love this.

In my mailbox the other day I got the following mysterious envelope:



Well, nice try with the spelling. And it contained the following letter:



So many things right. So many things wrong. Where do I start?

1. "Dear Neighbor we" - where's the newline and comma?

2. "you, in your street, I am" - too many commas, but I guess that makes up for the previous one.

3. "the street is very groomed and proud" - wow, the street must be very happy with itself!

4. "your neighbours" - hang on, does the U go in there or not? It didn't at the start!

5. The signature - just to wussy to write your real names huh?


The best part is that they put it in the wrong mailbox : )

Here's my lawn:




And here's next door, which is actually an overgrown mess.



Will I actually give it to next door? Unlikely.

I'm pretty sure I know who the letter writer was. Maybe I'll put the letter back into their mailbox but cover it with obsentities. Thereby kicking off a neighbourhood war. Hey, I'm moving out in a month, so who cares.

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Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:10
User: Levi
Comment: Maybe it's actually already returned mail -- someone else put it in the mailbox nextdoor and the owner of the overgrown thought it was you (based on the quality grammar teehee) so returned it.

Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 15:26
User: lach
Comment: Levi - you could be right!! Hmmm.

Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010 19:28
User: Felicity
Comment: OMG! That is hilarious! I had a neighbor once that told my landlord we raising ducks in our house...we weren't but i made a big sign and put it in my yard that said "Welcome to the World's Only Indoor Air Conditioned Duck Farm !". For some weird reason it shut them up.

Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010 21:12
User: Travis
Comment: couldnt find a better sport to comment, but question? What is the best utube vid for alice coopers song ballad of dwight fry, ytou would think in a live show he would break outta a strait jacket, and strangle sombody, but most of the vids cut off the second half of the song

Weird Al doesn't need to do music to be funny. He's just funny.

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Date: Thursday, December 03, 2009 21:08
User: GGBlog
Comment: I know you just love him and all, but ... HE'S JUST NOT THAT FUNNY.

Date: Thursday, December 03, 2009 21:10
User: GGBlog
Comment: Now that Gonzo ... HE'S Funny!!

Two covers of bohemian rhapsody.



I love beaker the most, and that french clam thing cracks me up.

And here's Bad News doing their version:

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Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009 08:47
User: Miranda
Comment: Have you seen Bethlehemian Rapsody on YouTube? It's a David & Goliath version. It's great!

Wow. After yesterdays blog, Brett left a comment saying "It's amazing how someone can be a 'God-botherer' for merely being honest and open about their faith."

And what do you know, there's a new article today titled I wanted two God botherers named Kevin. Wow! Brett, you are right on the money. What makes him a God botherer? Well apparently he's a "God fearing" person. Shock horror.

Maybe I'm just overtly sensitive. But I don't think so.

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Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009 13:13
User: Antonios
Comment: Christians in Australia are associated with power, privilege and conservatism.

Generally speaking, anyone or anything associated with power or privilege (and often conservatism, but not always) is given the boot.

Same thing about white middle-aged guys, for instance. There's nothing necessarily bad about them, but you're always gonna find more white, middle-aged men in positions of power, and for that reason they're also given the boot.

Another case in point: people make fun of Collingwood and Carlton, never North Melbourne for the same reason.

Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009 14:30
User: Brett Peatman
Comment: Wow, either I'm Psychic or the media is depressingly predictable.

Well, my long standing opinion is that Australia's media is extremely biased against christians. Read any article mentioning christians or christianity, and it will invariably be making fun of them of making them out to be stupid. Of course it's never done to Judaism, Islam or Hinduism. TheAge's stance is that "christians are wierd and don't belong in the public view".

Take for example, this article:

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-vulture/christians-worship-their-idols/20091123-it7o.html

Front page of the theage.com.au. It's quite a bizarre article. I mean, what's the point of it? It's actually very badly written - if it's an opinion piece then what's the writers opinion?

I think it's needlessly polarising people of different religions eg:

"- But unless all you atheists, agnostics and people of other faiths start watching and voting in droves, the Christians will be too."

erm what? This doesn't make sense at all. Why vote for people based on their religion? The writer even said that people don't do that. But then again, theage publishes Catherine Deveny. (However if you want to read an article by someone with a brain, either read anything by Waleed Aly or even better Barney Zwartz.)

But it's funny how christians are actually shown on Australian Idol and their comments aren't censored. It's so rare to hear anything about christianity whatsoever on TV these days! I think it's got to the point that when you do hear something, all of the non christians arc up!

Of course it's all due to ignorance because most Australians don't have a clue about christianity - a Sri Lankan whom I'm working with at the moment has a much better understanding than most Australians that I know. Religious Education in Australia is terrible (not funded, no national syllabus etc) and it's really starting to show.

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Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 16:01
User: Brett Peatman
Comment: It's amazing how someone can be a 'God-botherer' for merely being honest and open about their faith. It seems the thought police have a platform in The Age.