Another Palaver come and gone. Same old same old (which isn't a bad thing). It's always a shame (although funny at the same time) to watch girl after girl get there heels caught in the patio cracks outside. Don's tavern isn't quite The Four Seasons' bar. But another good event put on by the Bond University Business Students Association. It is continually the event of every semester. Good choice not to go to the Bedroom nightclub after (even though "The Drink" isn't much better).
Here's a tradition I don't want to end...pictures with the lovely Kate and Becarra. It's become a tradition of a many semesters social events. I've got this picture about 20 times over in other social events....and it's a great picture....
Bond University elections just around the corner. We here at www.gordprisco.blogspot.com will have a full analysis of all the races and early polls, but as of right now we're calling the early races to watch to be for - The secretary position between Mike Truce and Sadia Stathis and Campus Life Director with three challengers including Laz Christou, Cameron Dibble, and Jack "The Skuller" Blackburn (three candidates in a race like this can cause havoc for the favourite - being Christou. Look for a possible upset here).
www.gordprisco.blogspot.com supports the more sunshine and consistent weather for the Gold Coast. While we sometimes have influence in the affairs of the "goings-on" at Bond University, we're not on good terms with the man upstairs, even though we have pretty good evidence that he reads the blog. Look for me to get hit by lightning later on today.
Oh and by the way, Con and I have started a band with the help of James (we had to include him cause he's the only one with a car. We need to get to our gigs somehow). We've only had one practice (that lasted for about 20 minutes), but we've got some song names and a temporary band name - Melee. I wrote a the lyrics to a great song last night...more to come on this story later.
Tough fight for album of the week this week. But, I chose U2's Achtung Baby The 1991 release topped the Billboard charts for a while. It marked U2's departure (or foray) into a more guitar "effects based sound. The Vitamin usually doesn't like how artists use technology to aid their sounds, but when it's done on a smaller scale, and done with such genius as "The Edge" does on this album, we respect that. Until the end of the World and Ultra Violet (Light my Way) are favourite tracks.
Last thing is this important addition. I always knew there was a copy of the full Toronto Rocks Sars Concert out there - I was told a friend of a friend had it. They put out a double-disc DVD, but it only included two songs from AC/DC. Anyway, other performances from that day when 490,000 people packed a toronto airfield have begun to appear on the net, most notably YouTube. Here's the link to the encore song done by the world's greatest hard rock band from that day.
This is my random post. When I'm too lazy to write anything substantial. Then again, I can write anything I want.
When I typed the word "random" into google images, this is the first picture that came up. Try it yourself.
Palver tomorrow. My Dad asked me if there's a pub crawl every week at Bond? I laughed...I guess it sounds like we have a good time. It's because we try. I could write about my class today? We learned about intellectual property rights in World Trade...nah...I'll go back to talking about pub crawls and social events.
You know what. I can also end this post right now. Hahahahahah....good. Bye.
1) Elijah Wood was the star of the Lord of the Rings. Seen above is not Elijah Wood, it is Gollum aka Smigel. Anyway, despite my confusion of pictures, I feel that Wood should no longer be in other movies other than ones that depict him as a Hobbit. I just can't take him seriously in any other role...not to say I take him seriously as a hobbit either.
this news fascinates me...
2)Kola Boof, an American poet of Sudanese descent, ignited worldwide controversy with her recently published memoir, Diary of a Lost Girl. In it, Boof alleges that she was the mistress of Osama bin Laden for six months in 1996. She claims she was held against her will at the luxury Marrakesh hotel La Maison Arabe.
According to Boof, bin Laden kept copies of Playboy and Star Magazine in his briefcase, was a frequent pot smoker, and enjoyed having sex while listening to Van Halen. Boof says she was required to dance naked to the B-52s song Rock Lobster for nights on end.
Well, I guess I'll watch the footy. Canterbury Bulldogs vs. Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League Semi-Finals.
Seen above is Willie Mason. The announcer just said he was not well. Well, I'd rather be hit by a train at full speed than be hit by him when he is not well.
If you don't know much about Rugby, I can tell you right now. Pick up the ball. Run for about 2 seconds, and then get bashed to the ground (and probably put in a head-lock or punched). Next, put the ball between your legs to another team member and he can repeat the process. If we don't make it to the goal in the required downs, we'll kick it to the other team so they can do the same thing.
Having a quick chat with my friend Lakin this evening. He brought a little sunshine to my life. You see, Lakin is God-fearing Christian. He spends every Sunday in late mass at the Christian Community Church. So I tried to test him a little bit...you know, as I feel I am as close to one of the Lord's disciples as we have here at Bond.
I asked him a few passages from which I knew (from Google of course). He was able not only identify where the passage came from, but most of the time, he finished it off before I could.
I then asked him what section of the Trade Practices Act deals with unconscionable conduct?
He paused....and responded, "the Trade Practices Act aint gonna get me into heaven."
I've been bored of blogging, but it's been interesting to read others lately.
Captain James T Kirk carried the Start Trek Franchise, in fact, he was the franchise. It's bad enough that I'm blogging, but now I'm talking about Star Trek. There comes a point in every man's life where you have to choose. Either you're gonna go to Star Trek Conventions and dress up as Warf, or Spock...or you're gonna have a life. WhileI've never been to a Trekkie convention, the genius of Kirk intrigues me (my friend told me not to talk about Star Trek, it's just not right).
I want to know why Club 20 will be $10 this week? It used to be $6 then went up to $8 by the end of last semester. Now it is $10. Didn't we pay our voluntary student union fees so that we could get a discount and the students that hadn't paid would have to pay more? More to come on this....
Most importantly, thanks from my brother Steve and to everyone that donated to his Terry Fox Run. We helped raised $245 for Cancer research. Here's the folks that donated.
Grady Rowand Alex Lalka The Skuller Marc Lucenti Andy Hayher Sean Ainley Johnny Fong The infamous "D" Matt Cantatore
This was supposed to come yesterday, after the pub crawl, but it was difficult to do much yesterday. But here's a breakdown of events...
The crawl was a well-oiled machine. Something like the Red Holden Ute (car-truck) my neighbour has. And like that same Ute, the pub crawl engine was just getting revved up by mid-afternoon.
Congregated at Dons. Some of us had a few drinks (2 beers, 1 shot Jagarmeister)
Mermaid Tavern was the first stop after Dons. Great place to be. Getting to know the people before their heads were in toilets was nice (2 1/2 beers, one shot Jagarmeister).
Off to the Platinum dance bar in broadbeach. Think of this. Do you ever think to yourself at 5pm, "man, I'd really like to go to a dark basement, listen to house music and pay 10 dollars per drink right now." That sums up Platinum. Easily the worst stop on every crawl. But without the bad, how can you know the good... (one Jager-bomb shot, one Quarter Pounder at McDonalds)
As an aside, this was also where the Skuller agreed to let someone paint a unibrow on him as well as a colonel sanders type facial hair. It was an odd move from the Skuller, but interesting.
Next came the Bedroom. Nothing that interesting to say from this one. But more people were getting smashed by now. DJ (bartender at the bedroom) gave me and Marc a shot of something green. It tasted like poison - it may have been (two cranberry vodka, one poison shot, one Jager Bomb).
Strike Bowling alley next. Beforehand, I had suggested quietly to people that this would be a nightmare. I figured 20 pairs of bowling shoes would be stolen and three bowling balls would turn up at the next bar rolling on the dance floor. Not so. Bondies behaved apparently (one beer, one vodka cranberry).
Melbas. Great conversation...who am I kidding. There was no talking, just more drinking (two vodka cranberry)
The Shack next (one cowboy shot, one vodka cranberry).
Lastly the Drink Nightclub. Had to go home early after this bar (Jager-bomb, beer....I think?).
There was no question that the best bus on the crawl was Angels #4 captained by Matt Cantatore and co-captained by yours truly.
Kudos to Jess "the alcohol vacuum" Leach and John Curtin for putting on a great event. Who the hell would want to be in charge of getting 800 drunk students around? But they pulled it off without serious incident. A few hundred hangovers...that's about all.
This note was sent to me by the Skuller prior to the Crawl and after Drink the Pub Dry event last Tuesday when I asked him if he'd be ok for the crawl (I cleaned up his spelling mistakes):
"tough one, I woke up in the shower again. This time I remember going there. As I entered my room at about 3 am last night, the voice inside my head said Skuller, go to the shower or you're a dead man. I still had a brain cell or two working so I got my mobile out of my pants. Somehow I found it later saturated. I drank a bucket of water when I awoke. I will be good."
Best news of the day came from Beau Moyer who reports that our good friend Mark Hocevar got engaged to the lovely Heather Hart yesterday. Mark and Heather are both from North Bay. They're both fantastic people, and we at www.gordprisco.blogspot.com wish them all the happiness in the years to come. Before asking the beautiful Heather, Mark first telephoned Heather's father - who Mark affectionately calls "Hart-on" - and asked for his permission and blessing. It was given, and then on the shores of Lake Nipissing Mark popped the question - there was no hesitation from Heather. Well done, see you guys soon.
I was gonna make this an addition to my last post, but decided this post is too important.
My older brother Steve is running in the Terry Fox Run in Toronto. His goal is to raise $1000. Last year he raised $850.
I have stated before on this blog that I believe Terry Fox is the greatest Canadian ever. See his story here and more here (If you're not inspired by this story you may have to check your pulse).
Anyway, I'm gonna make a $15 donation to the cause even though I'm dead broke. I'm asking everyone to make a donation if they can. Make your donation at this link.
Let me know if you make a donation. I'm gonna start a little list on this blog to see how many people we can get. Maybe we can raise one-hundred bucks. Thanks to Brook Dyson for making a donation last time around when I had Terry Fox. Maybe he'll give another $10 cause he has a big-time job now? haha....Brook's done his part, let's have everyone else do theirs.
If 20 students pledged 5 bucks each, that'd be an easy hundred..and by the way, the donation is tax receiptable. As Brook says, it's basically a free way to help.
"If you give a dollar, you are part of the marathon of hope." - Terry Fox
It's a nice thought to say to yourself you're only gonna go for one or two drinks. Melbas last night was hopping. I must say it was the best Drink the Pub Dry I have ever been to. Kudos to Donoghue and the LSA for putting on a great party.
The Skuller had a great time last night...I think. He was up to his skulling ways again, having no regard for anyone else's drink. If you left it on the table, it was getting skulled by the Skuller. He told me in a text this morning that he got kicked out at 2:30am. However, upon his arrival home he wrote an email to Melbas saying he was going to sue them for negligence and discrimination.
James Payne and I had a great conversation about the best Bond films ever (as in James Bond). I had chose Octopussy while he chose Goldfinger . It is a great debate to be had. Askmen.com also has there top ten list here.
For those of you that said the picture on one of the last posts was Randy Rhoads, you were right. The winners were Jeff Hodge and "D". Hodge quite observantly pointed out that Rhoads also played for Quiet Riot. If I recall, he started in that band when he was 17. He died tragically in 1982. He didn't play guitar on the album seen above. That was another one of Ozzy's masterpieces...
Speaking of Barking at the Moon...Pub Crawl is Friday. Guess who got named a captain? You guessed right. Student Council nominated me in Monday night's vote to be a Pub Crawl Captain. That's great news and a credit to the staff at www.gordprisco.blogspot.com. So if you're coming on the crawl, get on my bus, it's gonna be a good time.
I wonder if Nab and Fong could still drop the treys like they used to?
I guess I should sign up for some classes. Anybody got any good ideas?
A friend of mine sent me an email the other day. At the end of the email following their name, they say this, "Administer justice every morning, rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed," Jeremiah 21:12. So I say to myself, why don't I have little things like that attached to my emails? So I reply to this person. After much deliberation, I decide this would be appropriate, "Hell aint a bad place to be," AC/DC Let There Be Rock Album 1976.
Drink the pub dry this evening...gonna take it easy at this one.
Everybody pack your lunch and sharpen your crayons, it's time to go back to school.
Many things to talk about as this semester begins. First should be the library. The opening hours have changed on a trial basis. During the week the libraries are open 30 minutes earlier now with an 8am opening time. On Friday's past week 7 the Library will be open until 9pm. People said we couldn't do it. They were pessimistic. Well, we stood up and were counted and the great staff at the library, led my Gulcin, listened and acted. Well done.
Drink the pub dry is Tuesday (Tomorrow night) at Melba's Night Club. While it's not my favourite event, it is a Bond tradition. Cost is $10 which gets you drive down on buses, a free drink on entry and drink specials all night. I must add that drink specials at Melbas are never that good. It's a fortune to go there.
My favourite event of the semester happens this Friday - Pub Crawl. I haven't missed on yet. It seems as though we are gathering quite a pub crawl crew. I'm giving the staff the night off that night to enjoy themselves and get into some debauchery.
The person who is "D" that comments on this blog every once in a while has been uncovered. We are in the process of finding exactly who it is. It's a mystery...but I have found this person's email and have been in contact with the mysterious "D".
The culinary critic and I are going down to try and get a job in the Brasserie.
The Skuller and I are considering setting up a club this Friday at club sign on day called the International Music society (or some bullshit name like that). Basically it's a reason to get money from the school so we can buy all the AC/DC DVDs and put them in the library for the use of everyone. We'll also buy a whole bunch of other music DVDs and have them for use of everyone in the library.
The musician Seal says, "we're never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy." Thanks to the craziest and best of all for that passage.
Does anyone know who the guitarist pictured above is? One the best all-time...the guitar should give it away.
Friday, November 30, 2001 -- Nipissing MPP Mike Harris announced a Northern Ontario Heritage Fund contribution of $1.4 million to construct a new tourist centre and lookout tower at the Jack Pine Hill in North Bay. In photo: from left to right: North Bay Mayor Jack Burrows, Gordon Prisco representing Premier Harris, Bob Gray, Chair of the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority, and Bill Beckett, General Manager of the NBMCA look over architectural sketches of the two-storey interpretive centre and 70-foot lookout tower.
A friend of mine recently sent me the above shot. I don't know what's more shocking, me with hair or me with a job...I can't remember either?
And how about this one, I'm on a Rolling Stones message board! However, it didn't beat the time when my quote actually made the official AC/DC web page (oh and by the way...we did find a way to get the Stones...and a few other guests for "the largest outdoor ticketed event in Canadian history, and one of the largest in North American History.").
(P.S. if that info about the Stones sounded like bragging, it's because it was)
While some may argue there have been many monkeys to appear on this blog, I am officially naming this monkey the official monkey of www.gordprisco.blogspot.com. I hope Faith (the two-legged dog) will give monkey a warm welcome. We will ask the monkey not to pick on Faith.
I am currently studying for exams when I should be getting ready for a new semester. This really sucks.
I guess I'll have to put something interesting up here soon...who knows if that will ever happen.
Brendan Donoghue now has a blog of his own which I have linked to on my links at the right of this. Go visit there.
I wonder what this semester has in store for www.gordprisco.blogspot.com? The staff are unhappy. They want wage increases. They're unhappy about hours. I've tried to blame it all on John Howard's I.R. legislation. They're not buying any of it. I may have a mutiny on my hands.
Anyway, back to legal nonsense...
Note: when this blog makes a mistake, we like to correct the record. Marc tells me that I was wrong about how much I beat him by in the golf match we had the other day. He was right. But I still beat him, so it doesn't really matter...hahaha.... Ok, I said it was 3 and 2 when really it was 2 and 1. Still a thrashing. He never led in the match.
There is a woman on TV feeding her dogs ice cream cones. What is this woman thinking?
Yesterday was golf day on the coast. Marc, Dave and I went to Robina Woods. The weather was fantastic. The golf was less than stellar, however, the Vitamin pulled out yet another win over Marc - 3 and 2 in the match play. "I just do what it takes to win," said the Vitamin.
The Skuller tells me that things aren't too exciting in Rockhampton (for those of you that don't know, Rockhampton is like living in Kapuskasing, Ontario). But he did report that he is trying to pass on his skulling ways to his younger brother. He reports that he bet his brother $10 that he couldn't skull a small glass of rum. After the first taste his brother piked. When I asked the Skuller if that was the first time his younger sibling has had a drop of the grog, Skuller said, "well, he's only 12...in four days that is." That's it Skuller, teaching your 11 year old brother to drink.
Reports from Chicago are good. Bartrop and Nate (of the terrible three) have made it and have already seen the Chicago Cubs play (see picture above). There is also a report of a homeless person mistaking Nate for Jesus. Nate tells us it's disturbing when anyone, let alone a homeless person, comes up to you and starts screaming, "fuck you jesus! fuck you!"
Trivia question. What golf hole is seen above? Answer....hole 10 at the masters where Mike Weir beat Len Mattiace in the 2003 Masters playoff. Mike took the week off this week. As for David Duval, he kinda took the weekend off too...well, shooting 74-77 will usually do that to you. Another missed cut. When is Dave going to join team Weir?
If you have a spare 15 minutes or so one of these days, watch this video. And if you're short for time, watch from minute 17 onward. You'll see why Angus Young is simply the greatest guitarist/performer in rock history.
Here you will find updates on anything and everything. One day it could be Bond University, Squash, The Wild Drunk, The Terrible Three, a roasted chicken (or many roasted chickens), The world's greatest hard rock band - AC/DC, North Bay News, Eggs Benedict Radio...you get the picture.
