Dream Theater new album - (Tuesday, April 17, 2007)

Dream Theater's new album, "Systematic Chaos":

01. In The Presence of Enemies Pt. 1 (9:00)
02. Forsaken (5:36)
03. Constant Motion (6:55)
04. The Dark Eternal Night (8:51)
05. Repentance (10:43)
06. Prophets Of War (6:01)
07. The Ministry of Lost Souls (14:57)
08. In The Presence of Enemies Pt. 2 (16:38)

It will be released as a normal CD, as well as a DVD that will contain the entire album mixed in 5.1, and it will also contain a 90 minute documentary on the "making of" the album! Cool!

The band will also be recording a video clip for the song "Constant Motion".

Still no news of them coming to Australia!

Comments

Adrian (Wednesday, April 18, 2007 15:04)

How about something under five minutes for once? ;-)

Craig (Friday, April 20, 2007 05:27)

They are afraid that would make them 'pop rock'

we cant have that

Adrian (Monday, April 23, 2007 22:34)

Fans of Dream Theater should really check out Fates Warning and grab a bit of a progressive metal history.


Podcasts, geocaches, cultural differences and computer hardware - (Tuesday, April 17, 2007)

me at jungWell I'm back!

Over the past week I've been driving around Victoria doing a lot of geocaching - we went from Melbourne, to Ballarat, to Horsham, Halls Gap and then Bendigo! Over the week we:


Next week on Anzac day there's a meet up for Bendigo/Victorian geocachers. We're thinking of attending and meeting a couple of the other like-minded geocachers. Might be fun.

There's a couple of good stories about Bendigo. The first one (that's related to the second) is that there's a particular cacher named Romax (Roma and Max), who are the most devious geocacher hiders I've come across. Don't let their profile picture fool you - they're not nice middle aged people. They're cruel and cunning and delight in making you hang around a bridge for a few hours trying to find the damn cache. Bendigo has a reputation for difficult caches and it's thanks to these guys, who set the standard. We came across an area that was basically a blank field. There were about 10 rocks in the middle of the field. The cache couldn't be anywhere else. After about 15 minutes of searching in the hot sun I was ready to give up - that's how nasty these guys are. Luckily we found it but it was a bit of a fluke!

In fact there was one cache that was so stupidly hard to find, and in such a public place (these guys are cruel) that the cops turned up on us! The car drives up and the cop goes "just wondering what you're doing".. and I go "ummm, have you heard of geocaching?". Fortunately he laughed and said "yep!" and drove off. Phew!

Anyway. So I'm going to upgrade my computer next week. Here's what I'm getting:

Power supply - Antec - BP500
Video card - ASUS - EN7600GT-2DHT-256
Motherboard - ASUS - P5N-E-SLI
CPU - Intel - BX80557E6420 (a quad would be nice... but the $$$!)
Memory - Mushkin - 996529

I'm hoping that it will be able to play Doom 3 ok. Failing that, Half life 2 would be good. Failing that, Deus Ex 2 would be good as well.

Oh and the picture? A particular cache ended us up in a small (tiny) town named Jung. Population 100!

Comments

Levi (Thursday, April 19, 2007 09:55)

And a new screen -- You call yourself a computer nerd and still have a CRT? blasphemy!

lach (Friday, April 20, 2007 13:14)

Yeah, I've got a new screen already... dufus :) It's a cool black framed Samsung 20" widescreen.. now that's nerdy :)

Craig (Saturday, April 21, 2007 23:12)

So you dont need the screen I was getting for you any more?

lach (Sunday, April 22, 2007 22:17)

Whoops sorry Craig, thought that was loong gone. If you've already bought it I can pay for it and pass it onto someone else no probs.


pocketpc - (Tuesday, April 10, 2007)

Hi guys. Typing this post using a pocketpc. It's painful. Anyway, holiday is going great and we've found lots of caches. Talk to you all soon!

Comments

Grog (Monday, April 16, 2007 14:46)

Lachlan!!!!, every time I write a comment, it apears 2 times!!!!!
I've tried clicking really fast, really gently and it's always 2 comments!!!! So annoying. Why is it doing it? How do I make it stop?
AND DON'T SAY STOP WRITTING COMMENTS!

lach (Monday, April 16, 2007 16:43)

Hmm, Grog, what browser are you using? Are you clicking on the "add comment" button using your mouse or tabbing across to it and hitting space?


going on holiday.. so don't expect much - (Saturday, April 07, 2007)

Well I'm heading off for a week to go from melbourne, to horsham, to Bendigo. Will hopefully do a lot of caching. Don't expect anything interesting over the next week from metaltheater.com :)

Comments

Bennet McLean (Sunday, April 08, 2007 14:02)

Don't worry, I never expect anything interesting here.




;P

Grog (Monday, April 16, 2007 14:44)

Ha Ha!
Good one, McLean!

Grog (Monday, April 16, 2007 14:44)

Ha Ha!
Good one, McLean!


Collection of funny photos taken over the past few weeks - (Monday, April 02, 2007)

Dude, I understand that you're trying to get a message across... but try not to deface public property next time:

monday1

Weird Al concert (that rocked), Al in the fat suit:

monday2

This guy wins the award for most annoying park. There's 2 spots out the front of the 7-11, and this guy takes up both, bang smack right in the middle:

monday3

Those are exactly my sentimonies:

monday4

If I was going to open up my own video store... well... this is what I would call it:

monday5

Comments

Adrian (Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:21)

Where's a write up of your Barley Corn gig? :-)

lach (Friday, April 06, 2007 11:41)

I can't review my own gig... you'll have to write one for me!


Gig and new CDs - (Monday, March 26, 2007)

On Friday night I saw Weird Al Yankovich in concert, for the second time. And I would go as far as saying that it was better than the first! I am really busy at the moment so I'll type up a review tommorow. Oh yeah, I've also got some new CD's:

Guthrie Govan - "Erotic Cakes" (fantastic)
Victor Smolski - "The Majesty and the Passion" (wierd)
Victor Smolski - "The Heretic" (haven't listened to it yet)
Greg Howe - (self titled, I think)

Reviews to be posted soon. Sorry for such a brief post.Oh yeah, I have also designed a website for a friend who is a florist (actually, she did the flowers at our wedding). I'd post a link to it, but it's still got her email address on it and I don't want to subject her to the inevitable spam. Link tommorow :)

Hey, apparently I know the Bible 80%. That's rubbish.. I would say more like 20%.

You know the Bible 80%!
 

Wow! You are truly a student of the Bible! Some of the questions were difficult, but they didn't slow you down! You know the books, the characters, the events . . . Very impressive!

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Oh yeah, I also bought a playstation controller to USB connector off ebay. It works brilliantly.. even in MAME! And I didn't even have to install any drivers. I think that's bloody amazing.

Oh yeah, I also saw a truck advertising "Aim Kites XTREME (power kite technology)" (photo to be posted later) - heard of them Adrian?

Comments

Adrian (Tuesday, March 27, 2007 15:12)

Yeah, a guy called Warren runs Aim Kites in Oakleigh. It's not a shop front as such though - he runs the business from space above a regular shop front.

But it's all power kiting stuff and nothing particularly interesting. The stuff I buy still comes from the England, France, or the US.

Bennet McLean (Wednesday, March 28, 2007 01:40)

"he runs the business from space"

Wow! Those kites ARE xtreme! I'm off to get me one.


Guess what classic show is showing on ABC2 - (Thursday, March 22, 2007)

That's right! The classic Degrassi Junior High, complete with 80's hair and bad acting is back on, at 6:30pm! Yesterday we just found on that Spike's pregnant! Naughty naughty!

Comments

Schmoz (Friday, March 23, 2007 11:12)

Want a good old belly laugh? Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIqAVm5R_vM

:)

Adrian (Friday, March 23, 2007 15:18)

Those mates are really good men...and so the video is superb!

Schmoz (Friday, March 23, 2007 18:40)

Haha, good men :)

Grog (Saturday, March 24, 2007 22:25)

What in the world is "ABC2"?????

Grog (Saturday, March 24, 2007 22:25)

What in the world is "ABC2"?????

Bennet McLean (Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:35)

Grog (and Grog), ABC2 is the second ABC channel showing both different and time-shifted programming, but it is only available if you have digital TV. There used to be a cool third ABC channel split in two 12 hour periods, ABC Kids and Fly TV (like Saturday Morning Fly, but much more of it, plus movies), but due to budget cuts it no longer exists.

Levi (Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:52)

"Much like Ragnarok - the final battle at the end of the world - when listening to Manowar's epic saga, the earth will shake, the walls will crumble and only true fans of metal will remain standing, heads held high, with the triumphant glimmer of a battle well-fought in their eyes."

Schmoz (Saturday, March 31, 2007 19:06)

Haha, whats that Levi? Review of Manowar CD by Manowar or something? :)


seeking police protection from your own - (Wednesday, March 21, 2007)

I think that this article reveals a lot;

Outspoken Muslim seeks police protection.

Read it for yourself. Is he even really "outspoken" though? Saying that "imams should be citizens or permanent residents and not have been members of suspicious groups".. yeah, that's outspoken... not.

Voice Of Apollo Gig! - (Wednesday, March 21, 2007)

On the 31st of March, Voice Of Apollo will be playing with HummerGun at the Barley Corn (177 Johnston St Collingwood). We're on at 9pm, and it's going to a MONSTEROUS ONSLAUGHT of double bass drum bits, lots of guitar solos, cool instrumental bits, enjoyable melodies and even more guitar solo's!

Please come on down and listen to us completely rock out. It will be so much fun you'll forget who you are!

Comments

Craig (Wednesday, March 21, 2007 23:44)

I already forgot who I am.... and isnt there a bass solo in there somewhere?

Everyone always forgets the freakin bass player...

Bennet McLean (Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:37)

I'll be there with... clothes on... (no bells sorry, too distracting).

VoA has a bass player now?!

jono (Sunday, March 25, 2007 17:45)

craig...you're telling me man...just don't turn up and see how they sound then!


Ali G - (Monday, March 19, 2007)

Ali G asks the priest - "Are you against abortion because you were aborted?" C'mon, that's funny.

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