Undercrank » Plinky http://undercrank.com Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:05:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Why I gave up on “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/02/why-i-gave-up-on-harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire/ http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/02/why-i-gave-up-on-harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:47:24 +0000 Mark http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/02/why-i-gave-up-on-harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire/ Continue reading →]]> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I think after about 300 pages in with about another 300 pages to go, I'd simply started to lose interest.

With the previous three books coming in at 300 pages or less, this one was simply too big and impractical to grab and take on the train, plane or whatever.

]]> http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/02/why-i-gave-up-on-harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire/feed/ 0 My first job: retail http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/my-first-job-retail/ http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/my-first-job-retail/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:25:28 +0000 Mark http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/my-first-job-retail/ Continue reading →]]> Installing TV sets on display in a tiny independent electrical retailer at the local shopping parade. Extra bonus points were heading out on my BMX to provide on-site 'technical support' to the old boys who couldn't figure out how to tune in their TV to their VHS (that'll be UHF channel 36, sir).

It was just on Saturdays for a couple of years. I think it probably earned me just enough to buy a couple of cassette albums at Woolworths each week.

]]> http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/my-first-job-retail/feed/ 0 Songs for the road http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/songs-for-the-road/ http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/songs-for-the-road/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:39:00 +0000 Mark http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/songs-for-the-road/ Continue reading →]]>

Plinky asks for just three songs for a road trip? It’ll need a few more than that, but I think these three are as a good a place as any to keep the tempo up and avoid dozing off the side of the road.

Go With The Flow by Queens of the Stone Age

It’s inextricably linked in my mind to the video that accompanies it – red skies and open roads. I can’t say I’ve seen any naked silhouetted women on my travels yet, but we live in hope.

Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam

How many songs mention a car part in the title? Not many, I can tell you. The pace and the rhythm and possibly the fact I heard this twenty dozen times in other people’s cars on the way to gigs/clubs make it stick in the mind.

Rusty Cage by Soundgarden

Ever remember the old console game “Road Rash”? I think it was one of the first games to ever feature licensed music. I’ll always associate this track with speeding down the highway (well, a virtual one anyway).

]]> http://undercrank.com/posts/2009/01/songs-for-the-road/feed/ 0