Life as a Joey:

my life/alter ego/sickening attempt at a dance move/show poney pose... will be out tonight. Bridge tavern we are on here.. The Joey will be on!

Getting Out of Jail:

Most of you who don't understand the "gentlemen's game" (also commonly known as snooker) wont consider this footage amazing at all. Due to this fact ill try to explain it. Ronnie O'Sullivan is pretty much the Kelly Slater or Ben Player of Snooker and in this video he has severely snooked (made it tough for him to hit the ball he is suppose too) the shit out of this fellas Maguire. In snooker there is an order of coloured balls you must sink.. Maguire is up to the Green ball in this shot.. this means he cannot go for or hit any other ball on the table except the green if he doesn't get it he gives the opponent 4 points which all adds up. Watch the clip and consider the brilliance shown.. remember this guy is a professional snook rippo and is completely attempting to hit the rim of the pocket so the white ball will bounce out and hit the green. PURE, CHAMPERS, CAN SNOOK.. all at the same time. This is what we like to call getting out of jail.

Snook Doggy Dogg:

Some of my most observant friends may have noticed recently of my continuous affectionate status's directed at miss Jezabelle. Let me quickly dismiss any such rumours of a female companion and explain that Jezzy is actually my snooker cue. Her hand crafted, lacquered shaft slides quite elegantly through my phalanges after every shot. As you can see i pretty much gave her the name Jezabelle to swiftly throw down some interesting metaphors and euphemisms. At one stage i was even keeping jezzys snooker results on my calender.. an impressive 14 wins - 2 losses. Obviously i've lost count of wins so the results seem superfluous. This weekend looks like onshore winds and depressing weather.. looks like Jezzy will be getting a workout!

Best Final Ever!

Yesterday arvo was the A-league grand final.. after all my soccer lately ive been super into watching some matches. Not having Austar makes this so sickening so i hit the net in search for a live stream. Watched the whole game was so amazing and then eventually turned it off upset as i had thought Central coast had won with 2 goals in the first half of extra time only 10 minutes left. Watch the highlights and see what happens and just how much of a rookie i was for turning the game off!!

The 93' Varsity Trivia State Runners Up:

Saturday night saw a nice little change to my usual weekend social outings to husky pub. Fellow teachoid Amelia decided to host a Charity trivia night for "Relay for Life". I had never been to a trivia night before so i had no idea what to expect. Obviously there were the veterans of the trivia game rocking up with platters on the table of diced carrots and sliced celery sticks. Not knowing to bring out own food Russ and Howie rushed off to coles to purchase Starburst rattlesnakes and sour worms obvs the food of a champion winning trivia team.

The night was ready to start with good vibes flowing as we were all invited to think of team names. Some real sickening names were being posted by the other teams - "Friends", "the Stigs", "The old Farts", "Simpsons" pretty much any unoriginal team name you could think of was up there. Came around to our turn and no doubt were we pretty keen for something extremely elaborate. Howie Russ and I came up with The 93' Varsity Trivia State Runners Up which we made the announcer call out at every opportunity. Was a surprisingly sweet night with Sean bidding outrageously high for a fishing rod. Photos - team name, and sarah getting into some trivia paraphernalia.

3rd time unlucky for the Shoestring FC:

Last Tuesday Shoeys FC (our summer soccer team) got involved in our 3rd consecutive semi final.. facing off against the Top Guns (basically sussex 1st grade mens team) was always going to be an epic match. Shoeys down two 1st grade players - rippo goaly Jon Lee and Shellharbour shralper Jordo Godley had the disadvantage early off. With just seven up against a full strength Top gun lineup we brought out the big guns and hit FC mode straight away. Early on saw a brill cross from jordo straight into the penalty area which russ casually headed into to give us a one goal lead. Some pretty tech passing and attacking followed throughout the first half as the top guns came from behind to make it 4-2 at half time.

Second half was pretty skitz.. we pushed on straight away with another early goal followed by a penalty about 10metres out. Russ steps up boots the shit out of this ball flies over the cross bar onto the other field knocking some dude straight on the ground. Was so crazy first time ive seen a soccer ball drop a full grown man, everyone burst into fits of laughter until they realised he was sort of hurt and Russ had to walk over and apologise. We ended up losing in the end but we played so well, probs the best we played all season so noone was really too disappointed despite us all being super competitive. Russ Quinn gets man of the match for stepping up as rippo striker for the night with a hat trick. Another year another Shoey FC 3rd place. SICK!

Bruzza rights:

Russell Benson once known as Rev Quinn before he started shooting and being a journo. Sunday afternoon Rev Quinn going back to his roots, double angles.

The Pipe Routine:

I know i called last day of filming a few weeks ago, but the amount of days were clocking up now is ridiculous out our beloved banzaii. When the likes of Beeps, Dallas and Nick O are in the water you cant really put a halt on filming duties.

Goodbyes:

Sorting through my pictorial library the other day i stumbled across this photo.. instantly made me laugh. The memories came flooding back of this epic little day.

It was the day before my little adventure last year to London and Europe for 6 weeks. So i pretty much dedicated the day to visiting and seeing all my good friends before i was about to venture off on a short stint. The morning obviously consisted of main deck hangs with all the fellas and the hellrazors (maino chicks). I threw down a little idea of a stand up battle out pipe for my last day in vinnie and everyone was loving it. Rad times embezzling our feet into some wax whilst the hellrazors sunbaked.
Photo - Han Zam, Firkilicious and The middle east beast going skitz at pipe.

"Champagne"

My friends and myself always seem to find some new activity or sport to conquer during those slow times in Vincentia. Recently we have been loving our Snooker - the gentleman's game as i like to call it. The fact that playing snooker at our local RSL is free is also a mega bonus compared to the ridiculous price of $3 a game on the pub tables. Its such a strategic game that constantly keeps you thinking. During the games.. so much heckling takes place as you would expect, along with a bit of snook jive which we pick up from the old RSL diggers. "Champagne" gets thrown around alot.. eg someone pots a ball... "ohhhh champagne tosti" or lately its been shortened to just "Champers" or plain old.. "Can Snook". Its always fun talking the jive, throwing down some quotes and potting some balls. This particular day so many quotes and heckles were getting thrown out there. Shot 1 is howie using the Super Geach building the bridge on a onesy.. (yer keep up with the lingo on that one), shot 2 is the newly dubbed "quote board" whereby each new quote or nickname gets thrown up. Vanilla kiss is the name of some babe i spotted at Pilgrims beforehand just so you know.

Maino Op Shop Sessions:

Not so affluent times call for not so affluent measures. Three years ago.. back when op shops were a gold mine, super indy and underground, few close friends and i use to clean up. Was the best of times let me tell you.. being on a uni budget and all. However after being let loose from the stranglehold of tertiary education and finding myself in a bit of cash the need to hit the op shop hasn't been there. That an the fact op shops have become full on mainstream, clustered by ex supre fashionistas and skater kids. For some unknown reason i decided to hit the "oppy" for old times sake, and im glad i did. Managed to score a sweet little pair of shoes.. so my love for the "oppy" has regained some momentum. Some rad shoes $1, no biggie!

One fine day:

Along with every predictable south east swell these days comes the circus down to our infamous Black rock and yesterday was no different.. apart from the fact the place actually decided to genuinely pump.

Having filming duties positioned on the north side of the beach obviously i chatted to almost every human that entered the lineup and hence i was gatekeeper.. Unfortunately had to knock back good friend Jack mac for his outrageous Flouro wettie that totally wouldn't compliment his red boots if he was wearing them. Not many big moves went down which made it quite boring to film/watch/sing to my ipod. Two framies... one of an empty.. the other Rudy sweeping around a clean rev.

Shoey FC player of the match:

Tuesday night saw the Shoeys take a rather relaxed casual approach to the match as we took on a much weaker opposition as always. South Coast Treat were our oppositions and oppose us they did with swift hacks to almost all of our ankles. South Coast Treat had a few Girl rippos who put them right in there with a chance. Notable mentions must go out to Pure and the chick on the other team called "Unit". Half time saw a pretty comfortable 3-2 lead with goals from tosti and russell benson. Second half and the Unit managed to punish us with some wild leg volley that somehow made its way inbetween Howie and myself.. obviously we were pretty rattled after this and did not want to lose the game to anyone particularly the Unit. Few big opportunities go by and i start heckling our team like the sero ball sicko i am as per usual. Soph Ellis Bextor drops into fullback with me and is obvs upset from my heckling.. i ask her whats up and she tells me to "Fuck off".

Jordo manages to squeeze one in with a squirrel attack up the side with Tosti. Up 4-3 in the final stages i was pretty cruzy dribbling the ball up out of defense when a rippo chick came in for a tackle, thinking no biggie of it i tried to just nutty her just for some fun.. somehow hits her boot she runs around me and slots one in. Our whole team is shattered as there is like 2minutes left and we are drawing to some sickening team. "That is SICK" i scream out in aggony. Russ, Jordo, and tosti are all drifting off into mega neg spirals as i sprint back up to half way trying to razz the fellas up. Tosti and i manage a sleek little wall pass and i find myself with enough space for a shot in the drizzling conditions. Ball slides through the keepers hands hits the post and goes in.. Shoeys do it again. Sezzy Kent gets player of the match for her domination during the game in defence and attack as well as managing to get away with 3 hand balls in the one game with the ref calling play on. Get a texty later on from Soph apologising for saying "fuck off". Classic match.