No Longer Ronin

"I'm in ur countreez, promoting r albumz"

Crushtor's Grand Trivium Interview
So. I arrive at the very swanky Vibe Hotel on the corner of Little Collins and Spencer to be confronted by a sandy-blonde Scottish man with square glasses and a gossamer smooth smile. "I'm here to interview Corey, from Trivium," I reply. "Do you know who I'm meant to talk to? "Me," he courteously replies. "I'm Bob from Roadrunner. The band is running late because of the bloody plane. Here, take a seat and we'll get everything ready." Then I get escorted to Corey's room to have a chat about their new album and his thoughts on the Trivium Interpretation Videos on YouTube. (Read the interview in September!) Then once I finish, Janine from Roadrunner invited me to the Roadrunner Preview party in Brunswick that night. An offer I just could not refuse. Rock.

Hob-nobbing it with industry types and accidentally hurting Matt Heafy's feelings (because I had seen more of Japan than him, as it turns out) was a pleasure that could only be experienced. It also turned out that I knew a few of the people there, having only having meeting them for the face to face for the first time. Drinking music label provided sake and Japanese beer amid rock stars (I even got to be in the group photo) is just too surreal and too awesome for words. I could get very, very used to this.

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Spit Fire, Neverending

A Summary of every conversation Crushtor has ever had regarding his heritage with a person of Greek descent

Inspired by a girl I met at DV8, where Beef Jerky Fox played a ripper set

[Tom hands girl his business card. You know, the lulz one. She takes it, eyes it over, chuckles.]
G: So your name is Valcanis? Are you Greek?
T: No, my family comes from Macedonia.
G: So, Greek then.
T: No, they're two different nationalities.
G: Whatever.

Just because some of "my people" choose to talk in over-exaggerated accents, drive V8s and barrack for Collingwood F.C, does not mean we are one and the same. Do you have that much of a persecution complex you have to "conquer" other countries in your mind now? Bitch, please.

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A Momentous Occasion

It's the Olympics opening ceremony! Probably. I'm still laughing at the fact that Western journalists thought that China would relax their totalitarian regime just for them. Whoever said Western culture had a cult of individuality...

This post is pretty barren content-wise, since the only compulsion to make it was to have one on the 8.8.08. And why not!

Another interesting point:

"Eric Berne, the great euhemerus of Transactional Analysis and originator
of social game theory, observed that most people would not be able to tolerate continuous intimacy."

This is my excuse for a parsimony of affection, forever. Rock on, droogies!

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