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Wow!!! what a fucking brutal week this has been.
Pulled up a little sick Monday morning so took the day off but have been smashed all week trying to catch up. Seriously the place I am working on is a monster of a house, to give some perspective A large family home would normally take my gang 2 - 3 days to fix, we have been on this bastard for 4 days now and are nowhere near finished. There is obviously still some people with money in this world, good for them but ouch for me.

Still had a nice massage on Friday to end the week (No not that sort of massage, this one hurts way too much to have a happy ending) and then rushed home for a quick shower and change and then went down to Fowlers for a rock and wrestling show. Was mega tired but it was an enjoyable night out. was nice to be at a show with wrestling that didn't have metal bands on for a change. Almost seem like a cliché now days for wrestling to be related to metal but this show had a couple of punk bands on. Sorry I can't remember their names but hey I'm old so I can get away with it. First band was ok, defiantly influenced by the later American pop/punk of the last few years. Second one though was much more old school UK punk which was my childhood/adolescence so was much more exciting for me. Did have a chuckle though as the young guys in the band wouldn't have even been born when my mates and I were trying to pogo at the blue light discos back in the day.
On that thought am I the only one that finds myself a little annoyed when you hear people say "Back in the day" or "Old school" when referring to things less than 5 years ago, hell it annoys me if it is less that 20 years ago lol.
But I digress, back to the show. They also had a burlesque show of sorts, which was ok if that is your thing, don't get me wrong I love a good looking woman and the naked form but I am never that comfortable at those sort of events. Point in example, years ago I attended a bucks show at a private house and they had topless waitresses and strippers. Now as most of the other guys there tended to be of the bearded, bike riding, leather-wearing crowd when they wanted a drink they just called the waitress in a degrading and blokey fashion. Needless to say myself and my two mates did tend to get funny looks when saying please and thank you and treating them with respect. But hey it is the way I was raised and if ya don't like it, too bad. The wrestling part of the show was good. NWA guys always put on a professional show with clean and hard hitting moves. It was a bit to "Stick to the formula" type of show for me but seeing as most people there were not die hard wrestling fans it was the perfect sort of show to put on.
Must say it was hell nice to be at a show and not be working for a change, it has been ages since I got to do that. Mind you still found myself picking all the things wrong with the production and stuff but I just can't help myself there. it was the reason I got into production in the first place after working shows and having some drunk arsehole make us sound like shit.
Oh one more thing, when did Fowlers become a gay bar? Not that I really care as I was not looking to pick up or anything but I am sure the last time I went there it wasn't. Then again it was over 5 years ago so maybe it was and I don't remember.
Got to talk to some guys from Tattoo TV which was cool, turns out the mate I was with was tattooed at the store the guy we were chatting to owns. Mentioned where I got mine done and the guy said that there were heaps of people there he had spoken to with work from Progression and he praised Matt's work. we then stood around and talked about the good artists in Adelaide (yes there are probably more than you realise) and then we bitched about all the crap ones and these stupid kids buying tattoo machines from Ebay and having parties. Was funny coz in wrestling we have similar issues with kids doing stupid stuff without training and when something goes wrong that being the stuff that makes the news and then affects attitudes which then affects venues. insurances, and opportunities for everyone else who is doing the right thing in a professional manner.

On a final thought, Am I the only one whose brain seems to tune in to bad AM radio? Seriously I don't know how many times I have woken up with some lame song running through my head and I know damn sure I wasn't listening to that before I went to bed.

Ok off to bed now (Starts singing: you make me feel like dancing, I'm gonna dance the night away)

Jack