Ramblings from Matt: A Volume of Random Thoughts

A Birthday Miracle

2008-01-01T18:30:00.000+11:00

A Birthday Miracle The door swung open, making an authoritative crack as it smacked the wall of Jimmy’s bedroom. Jimmy was a young boy, a hard done by boy, a boy who didn’t have a chance in life. He was born into an abusive family. His Dad was often beating the wife, and when that ritual wasn’t in progress, he was berating her. “You didn’t cook the steak right!” “Jimmy isn’t in bed, what

Right. This has gone on far too seriously long enough.

2007-05-24T19:27:00.000+10:00

Here. Now. I am starting a fucking petition. I dont give a shit who you are, sign it. I havent worked out who to address it to, lets just say God since he's got the posse and the connections to change this.I am so goddamn sick of movies where prissy dancing girls fall in love with Muscular McDreamy from the wrong side of the tracks and solve ALL THEIR FUCKING PROBLEMS BY DANCING!They started out

Kittenwar! FLIGHT OF THE VALKYRIES!

2007-05-11T20:24:00.000+10:00

I know some of you think I need better things to do with my time. And you'd be right. Often I crap on about things which no one gives a shit about, and never really give useful or meaningful information or help to the next generation.Until now.I am about to divulge information to the younger generation. Keep the candle flickering. Its a skill which I have in recent times became more aware of and

Kiddies, time for a movie nerd orgasm...

2007-03-30T20:54:00.000+10:00

OKAY. I JUST SAW A FILM YOU NEED. NEED NEED NEED.The movie is Over the Top. Starring Sly Stallone. It is the movie that blew the lid off of arm wrestling. Seriously, Sly's ex wife dies so he decides to enter an arm wrestling competition to regain the respect of his son who doesnt care about him because he left him in the lurch years ago.Sure, not the most coherent of plot lines. But the film is

Them Wacky Germans

2007-03-23T19:17:00.000+11:00

Whenever you see one of those kooky, wacky criminal stories, 9 times out of 10 it comes direct from Germany. Maybe its something in the water or just they dont have a Mr Miyagi for criminals over there, but definitely something is up to make those German criminals so stupid. The cops over there dont need to do anything really; the criminals are doing a fantastic job of getting themselves caught

I am thinking of doing a story on my blog...

2007-03-19T21:37:00.001+11:00

...starring you guys.I've got this story idea which I have been tossing around, thinking of plotting it soon and writing character stuff. Then I felt a hearken back to the good ol' days where I wrote a few novellas for forums and things, so I thought I would do it again.Now, what you need to do. First, post a comment here or email me stating your character's name (use your own if you want, I dont

One of the many reasons I hate the Greens...

2007-03-19T18:35:00.000+11:00

They want to legalise ice.Yeah. Kinda speaks for itself.Seriously I got one of them pamphlets, which, must I say, is a pretty piss poor effort Greens. At least make it look slightly better than a Year 1 art project. Its just a green piece of paper with what looks to be photocopied letters on it, a bit of WordArt, fancy vertically aligned letters. Woooow.Anyway, on it says:A Green vote is a vote

I am sick of the lack of Birdman rallies!

2007-01-28T22:18:00.000+11:00

Its been so fucking long since the last one. I remember them being on all the time when I was younger. SOMEONE HOLD ONE PLEEEEEEASSSE!I desperately want to at least do it once. But I'm not going to be like those guys who create these elaborate gliders or some kind of Wright-brothers-esque plane since they really dont go any further than the guy who tapes 2 cereal boxes to his arms and puts a

3 Stories

2007-01-23T11:16:00.000+11:00

I have just returned from Newcastle. Yeah, it was fun blah blah you know those wanky "OMG I JUST CAME BACK" comments. I dont need to bore you with more. But I have 3 stories about my trip. 2 are funny yet puzzling, and one is the epic tale about how we almost got stranded...Explanation RequiredRight, I have just gotten back from the beach, where the ONLY fucking big wave came when I had just

Well, I was going to write a Zune rant...

2007-01-09T15:30:00.000+11:00

But Leo Laporte got to it first.Btw, if you dont know what a Zune is, its basically Microsoft's attempt to break the iPod's hold on the iPod market >_> <_<

If you dont repost this, YOU WILL BE CRUSHED BY AN ANVIL

2007-01-06T22:13:00.000+11:00

Myspace, as I have made note of much of the time, is one of the worst websites in the world, except I use it. Funny eh? I used to use it for blogging, and that was the main reason I actually went there in the first place. Now its basically there for doing those quiz things when you are bored (an activity which becomes startlingly repetitive after a while. I believe I have answered the question, "

Novel update

2007-01-03T19:40:00.000+11:00

I am now up to the last scenes in Terra Terminis, and the last location (if you discount the epilogue which doesnt really happen anywhere). And if I keep writing at the pace I am going, i.e. 800 - 1200 words a day, I should be done a first draft by my birthday (the 12th, give me shit. Not real shit, but idiomatic shit i.e. stuff. I probably could have said "Give me stuff" and avoided this whole

New Years brings out the worst in people

2007-01-02T15:40:00.000+11:00

Just a short one, I gotta vent...Okay, one thing I am sick of, and I have had 2 days straight of it, is the old addage of "OH MY GOD! I WAS THE FIRST THIS YEAR TO [insert action of your choice]"Its practically a war in our house between everyone, save for me, to be the first to do everything they can come up with in the new year. There was a fight at midnight for who would get to use the toilet

New Years is now screwed.

2006-12-31T14:59:00.000+11:00

Screwed. Yes. Screwed. The almighty dollar has ruined New Years Eve.It looks like its going to thunder like fuck here in a few minutes, so I am not sure if I can get this done in time. Although its not making much noise; doesnt seem to have much grunt in it. Its a pussy storm. Pussy being said the way Arnie "The Governator" Schwarzenegger does in End of Days when he shoots that guy. Mark of the

The Blog is NOT Dead. You just think it is...

2006-12-30T11:58:00.000+11:00

You know that period directly after Christmas where you dont do anything you are kind of supposed to do because you are too busy with you Christmas Loot? Well, I am in that at the moment.Guitar Hero is just too kickass to put down. F.E.A.R just is too mindblowing and tense to leave alone, plus I havent even started the other game I got.There has been, like, no writing since Christmas. None. I had

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: 1 year and 4 months of Blogging

2006-12-20T16:26:00.001+11:00

How time flies. I thought, instead of my Futurama script, I might do a bit of a “Best of” for my blogs. And since today is the exact day I began it, 1 year and 4 months ago, I think this is a good day to do it. And also hock it off as a Christmas Special. Win, win! Yes, it’s a vanity project. Yes, it’s ego masturbation. But do I care? Nope. Basically, I am going to pick out a few paragraphs of my

I failed.

2006-12-19T22:36:00.000+11:00

So I had this idea of writing a Christmas episode of Futurama to put on the blogon Dec 25, but alas, I procrastinated too much about the story, and now have no time to write it. Well, I could probably write the thing, but it would be about as bad and pointless to read as a Germaine Greer press release. Last time I wrote a Futurama script, it took me around 2 and a half weeks. I have 5 days.I will

That short story I mentioned

2006-12-19T13:50:00.000+11:00

I'm lucky I still have it, and it was still on my stick. I still am pretty unhappy with how the ending is revealed, but thats all I could think of and I didnt have time to frig' with it. For your reading pleasure... The car tore down the road, the rain pelting the front windscreen. It did not bother the driver or his brother in the car. The man in the passenger seat rolled down his window and

obligatory writers topic

2006-12-18T23:15:00.000+11:00

Go to any blog which is written by a writer, and without fail, you can tell when they have no ideas at that point for a blog. Thats when they resort to the author's default setting: Where do you get your ideas? I love the subtle irony of the fact that you write about where you get your ideas from when you are out of ideas.Now that I have blown my lack-of-idea cover wide open, I'll actually

Christmas Advertising has gone COMPLETELY MAD!!!!

2006-12-17T14:43:00.000+11:00

I know I go on a lot about advertising. Perhaps some see me as a bit obsessive about them. But I love to the bottom of my heart a few things about advertising: A good, actually funny adThe pissyness of late night TV or country TV adsWhitegoods salesmen (Explanation Later)Any possible link to Christmas during the season (Also explanation later) Around Late September, Early October

The case against Big W mounts

2006-12-15T13:29:00.000+11:00

Some of the older readers of my blog may remember the BWSSCEV, the Big W Self Serve Counter Event Horizon. The point where everyone will be spending so much time in queues at the crappy Self Serve checkouts in Big W that society will shut down, and Big W will be in control of all human life.Well, they may have a Plan B.At Big W today, I saw one of the most interesting promotions ever. The

Cleaning a desk leads to pontification. Who knew?

2006-12-14T23:00:00.000+11:00

I cleaned my desk today. There was paper piled to the roof, books, scraps, even a Rubik's cube somewhere in it. Not of my own motivation either; Mum just demanded that I restored my desk back to the pristene shitheap it was before.It was beneficial to some point though. I did find a lot of notes for shit I was writing which I had completely forgotten about. Rewrite notes, actual story/script

Fuck this guy moves alot...

2006-12-14T16:02:00.000+11:00

Yes, like a wife who is eternally unhappy with the arrangement of the furniture and continually feels the compulsion to move it around according to whatever ancient Asian system of luck-creation and good energy takes her fancy at the time, I have moved blogs YET AGAIN.Didnt you think the layout of Myspace blogs looked absolutely shithouse? It looked like a bad Year 6 Microsoft Frontpage project.