tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79211872024-03-14T21:31:07.270+11:00Five Minutes of FunkFive Minutes of Funk every day!<br>
Life, love, lust, laughter and everything in betweenFunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.comBlogger352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-6810481162911409342020-03-27T11:44:00.001+11:002020-03-27T11:44:44.439+11:00CoronaI thought I'd restart this thing just to get my random thoughts out there during these weird and frankly scary times, and to get my brain muscle working again.
So COVID-19 has destroyed all life on earth and I'm leaving this blog to inform future, possibly alien, archeologists just how an everyday person dealt with it, so they don't have the opinions of just the rich white men who own newspapersFunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-63133345922309504862017-06-12T11:56:00.000+10:002017-06-13T22:48:15.280+10:00Migrated to new hostAfter some issues, I've migrated to a new host.
I'll probably look to upgrading this blog to a wordpress based site... eventually.FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-33392975751796415102016-12-31T13:54:00.002+11:002016-12-31T13:54:52.490+11:00Best Live Gigs 2016
It's list time! So without further ado here is my favourite gigs of 2016
11 – Jeff Mills & Derrick May with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, VIC
10 – Weird Al Yankovic – Palace Theatre, St Kilda, VIC
9 – Sleater Kinney & US Girls – Croxton Hotel, Thornbury, VIC
8 – Black Cab – Golden Plains, Supernatural Amphitheatre, MeredithFunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-61068039281966602402016-03-16T11:34:00.000+11:002016-03-16T11:41:38.736+11:00Golden Plains X: Day 2Yeah, fuck I was tired. I fell asleep at about 5 when the music stopped and woke up at 9, which was actually later than I expected, so I got up, had a beer (hey, I'm on holiday!) and wandered down to the showers and waited for nearly an hour. As an aside, the facilities at the Nolan farm are phenomenal. The composting drop toilets aren't nearly as feral as portaloos, and they're often decorated. FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0Meredith VIC 3333, Australia-37.8411452 144.0772568-38.0417082 143.7545333 -37.6405822 144.39998029999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-77885063100013514412016-03-15T12:54:00.001+11:002016-03-16T11:41:21.559+11:00Golden Plains X: Day One2016 and my first Golden Plains is the 10th anniversary of the festival. Normally on the March long weekend I head back to Adelaide for Womad, but this year I decided I wanted to go to Golden Plains because Eddy Current Suppression Ring were headlining. ECSR are a Melbourne punk band who played at the first Golden Plains 10 years ago, and haven't played for over six years.
First of all, I had to FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0Meredith VIC 3333, Australia-37.8411452 144.0772568-38.0417082 143.7545333 -37.6405822 144.39998029999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-15022420097617086092015-12-16T20:49:00.001+11:002015-12-16T20:49:17.377+11:00Website is down
So, it appears Mambo and PHP aren't getting along right at the moment, and I can't be fucked troubleshooting and fixing it (although I used to do that very thing for a living ...)
So in the meantime I've taken funkyj.com down and will look at alternatives to Mambo. I'll probably switch to whatever the cool kids are using these days... Wordpress most likely.
My biggest concern is I'm not 100%FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-8138308231665278352015-07-31T10:50:00.000+10:002015-07-31T10:53:46.490+10:00Splendour in the Mud 2015: Day ThreeAlthough weather wise the morning looked promising, I wanted to explore Byron Bay for a bit. So I headed to the bus and jumped on with a bunch of other campers covered in mud, and to sunny Byron we headed! Except it wasn't so sunny. In fact, it pissed down within moments of me arriving. So my day of walking about in something other than mud and gumboots was a fizzer. I did get to sit at a bar andFunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-79006369475495424972015-07-29T23:04:00.000+10:002015-07-29T23:05:11.122+10:00Splendour in the Mud 2015: Day twoSecond day didn't have rain, but the rain from the night before made everything even muddier.
After returning from what would become a ritual of heading to Byron Bay for breakfast, I caught Dune Rats on the main stage. These guys are always a lot of fun. "We know all you cunts are on drugs so we brought a couple of distractions!" they cried out. There were scores of beachballs, those blowy wind FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-88949487426129787862015-07-28T12:05:00.000+10:002015-07-28T12:05:06.268+10:00Splendour in the Mud 2015 - Day OneIn a year of firsts, my Splendour In The Grass experience was the first proper camping festival experience, complete with mud and wellies!
First of all, thanks to Geri for being my tent partner for the weekend. It's great going to a show and have someone to talk shit to and laugh at all the inappropriate munts. And considering I was staying in the workers area and not actually a worker, I felt FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0Yelgun NSW 2483, Australia-28.4818857 153.51462820000006-28.5097997 153.47428770000005 -28.4539717 153.55496870000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-36081757713910971512015-06-23T17:59:00.000+10:002015-06-23T18:02:03.256+10:00So, I am playing Secret WorldSo, I wrote this post almost 3 years ago now... Why I won't be playing The Secret World
So much has changed since then!
Not only do I now have a computer which can run The Secret World quite nicely, they've made substantial changes to the game which make it far more playable.
Enemies are easier overall, and characters are tougher overall. This means although the grind and FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-84770743479675446632014-09-11T20:29:00.000+10:002014-09-11T20:33:19.754+10:00R U OK?R U OK?
No, I'm really not ok.
I live in a great country which is being destroyed by people so comfortable that:
They think it's good to imprison people who flee for their lives. They have no problem with two people dying in our care, with hundreds of children imprisoned simply because they're not white and not Christian.
They think it's good to support a war with no clearly defined outcome FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-47974703049953965902013-04-04T21:54:00.001+11:002013-04-04T21:54:24.414+11:00Bioshock Infinite Review
Don't understand why gamers whined about the Mass Effect 3 ending, but praise the Bioshock Infinite ending... Seriously, that was "the twist"? I'll call it the Star Wars moment, so those not finished it won't know exactly what I'm talking about, but those who have will. Maybe I'm hyper intelligent (which I actually refuse to believe despite all the evidence to the contrary) but I figured it out FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-20019285604919755812013-02-23T09:34:00.001+11:002013-02-23T10:12:24.862+11:00Why I hate the PS4 presentation.
In regards to the PS4, I wouldn't be hatin' if they actually showed something worth being excited about. Videos of games? Vague statements of intent using buzzwords and memes?
FUCK OFF!
Imagine if BMW did this for the launch of their latest electric car - Just a moving road, and some power poles to reinforce the notion of "electricity", but not show the car, not show the interior, not show FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-75048162602182515152012-11-08T18:09:00.000+11:002012-11-08T18:09:41.696+11:00I made this! My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for iOS
I made this!!!
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for iOS
Well, me and some very talented designers, artists, and programmers at Gameloft Auckland who worked blood, sweat and tears to get this done and looking as damn good as it does!
It's available on the iTunes Store now, so go get it "for your children" :D
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for iOS
FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-51944660956457730682012-06-29T09:19:00.000+10:002012-06-29T09:20:05.123+10:00Why I won't be playing The Secret World
Although I really enjoyed playing Funcom's The Secret World beta weekends, and really like the concept of three mystical organisations competing with each other to command the mystical and diabolic, and had similar feelings playing the game to when I played The Darkness and Alan Wake (two games I really enjoyed) I don't think I'll be playing.
1) Mostly because I won't have a computer to FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-89995707758442162942012-06-14T13:31:00.000+10:002012-06-29T09:22:10.047+10:00Sooooo... Redundancy
Who has been made redundant lately?
*raises hand*
Third time in 6 years. And I'm starting to think maybe its me... ;)
I'm not terribly upset because leaving Gameloft was a decision I had already made... it's just that it's come a hell of a lot sooner than I had planned for.
On the plus side, the package will get me through a few months in Australia.FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-65520682224515914732012-04-08T06:42:00.000+10:002012-04-08T06:42:57.841+10:00Friday Funkbox is live!I actually got off my arse and did this!
Friday Funkbox is up and running!!!
Head over to the webpage and subscribe!FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-30688012763609246372012-04-05T21:11:00.000+10:002012-04-05T21:11:20.899+10:00Friday FunkboxEvery Friday at work I do this thing called "Friday Jukebox".
The purpose of this is to get people talking about my favourite love, music.
What happens is every Friday we put 4 or 5 songs in a shared music folder and play the tracks in our headphones as we work. I'll usually set up a theme, and so far the biggest response was a month ago when I selected "games" as the theme... (Not FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-56498261729925852742012-02-21T10:55:00.001+11:002012-02-21T10:55:39.298+11:00Review: A Clash of Kings A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin My rating: 4 of 5 stars A great follow up! Can't wait to see how they present all this in the TV series! View all my reviews FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-13961008236849154462012-02-13T06:31:00.000+11:002012-02-13T06:31:55.704+11:00Still here!I'm still here!
Just nothing to blog about really... or alternatively, I've had heaps to blog about but can't.
I've already been chastised about something I posted on Facebook, and although this website is far less visible, considering the way things are going, I need to be on my best behaviour.
That, and I'm lazy.
And I've also been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Seriously, all my FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-56399775226566622632012-01-12T08:25:00.000+11:002012-01-12T08:25:42.004+11:00Entry into Kotaku's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic War competitionFor the Kotaku Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: War competition
FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-22464406547536195382011-11-16T19:52:00.001+11:002011-11-16T20:11:28.509+11:00Ah Lovely Auckland...People who read this site, people who know me, and even those people who have only met me a few times, will tell you this: I LOVE music.
People may have mixed opinions about me, some may think I'm a straight up utter prick, but they'll all agree on one thing: I LOVE music.
Even my email signature reads: Without Music, Life is an Error.
I love DJing. I love playing people new music, making mix FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-89971729880649910232011-11-02T21:41:00.000+11:002011-11-02T21:41:05.643+11:00#fivewordreviews CD: PWEI - New Noise Designed By a SadistCD: PWEI - New Noise Designed By a Sadist:
Only Graham, but still rocking!FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-70276310940274188042011-11-02T21:35:00.001+11:002011-11-02T22:12:40.770+11:00five word reviews???Remember how I said I was going to do five word reviews?
Well, that kind of bit the dust when I couldn't get access to any CDs and such.
But, I've got access to Shock, Fuse, and EMI plus a few other places, so will continue them forthwith.FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-50671773659231611412011-08-25T09:43:00.001+10:002011-08-25T09:43:28.234+10:00Review: A Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Although I am "one of those" who started with the TV series, the intrigue of the series made me want to read the book, see where the book deviated, and hopefully figure out a bit more about the world and the characters relations to each other for the next series. View all my reviews FunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.com0