Cameland

Day One – Thursday, Meeting the Family, Barnacle Bills
We arrive at Bo’s house. We meet some of the family; Bo’s mum, dad, little sister and older brother. We were too hungry to sleep straight away so we went to go eat at Barnacle Bills. Afterwards we came straight back and slept.

At Ora’s we were having a guys night in playing pool, poker and some lame ass drinking games.
Andy – Skulled 4.5 VB
John – Skulled 4 VB
Dom – Skulled 3 VB
Ora – Skulled 2 VB
Poofter Pheap – Skulled 1 VB

This is like the most ridiculous blog in the history of cameland. You all may remember when John, Andy and I all went for a trip to Adelaide right? Well John managed to blog almost every single day of our trip. So here is the first introduction, I will continue to upload the rest later on this week. Check for updates everyday!

WELCOME TO RATELAIDE

If all of you haven’t noticed it yet, we are in Adelaide. Yes that is right, Me, Dom and Andy are living life in the country, for now.

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HORSE the band, is an incredibly cool and hilarious band. I mean, even the name is humorous to me. They’re from the west coast, USA and play a type of experimental metalcore. The interesting thing about them though is there is one member of the band, who amazingly looks a lot like Napoleon Dynamyte, but more amazingly the instrument he plays is a synth keyboard hooked up to a “Little Sound DJ” which allows him to connect a gameboy catridge to make a whole host of 8bit sounds.

Early in their existence they labelled them selves as “nintendocore” jokingly. However, many of their song names or meanings are game references. “Birdo”, “House of Boo”, “Cutsman (megaman)”. Some of their songs have some pretty funny lyrics, and some are just beautiful, all while being ridiculously chaotic. I love it!

Horse the band are currently on EARTH tour, where they are planning to play in 45 countries self funded, mainly because “No one wants to tour with them, they are scared of us” haha.

Anyway here is the bands video clip for the song “A million exploding suns” a reference to xmen sentinels. The clip is soooo stupid. Kinda cool ending though.

I will just remind you, this is not some fan video, its the band’s actual video they produced. lol…

Haha, well about 5 minutes ago my mum entered my room and asked “Dominic, have you taken your Fathers car out?” I hastily replied, “No of course not, why would I do such a thing” she then replied angrily with “Well the car has been damaged!”. At this point I was shitting my pants but still laughing inside. I suprisingly said, “Oh really? Where?” she then went on to say the wheel is damaged. I of course, already knew this because in a failed reverse park off a hill, I had rolled forward into the curb, putting a 2cm scratch into my dads chromed hubcabs. She then questioned if I had the keys, which I did of course. So I handed them over and she told me not to do it again.

Oh well, such is life hahahahahah.

Well as you may or may not remember I was involved in a organising and participating in a world wide jeans wearing contest, which resulted in users from around the world voting for who they thought wore the jeans the best in that 12 month period.

Much to my disappointment, I didn’t win, although I came second which isn’t too bad. Heres a look at the top 3 showing the prizes they receive.

You can view the award ceremony website here and the contest blog here.

Calling anyone who can use any graphics editing program…

We need YOUR help to create some banners for the improved cameland site. I’ve finally finalised the dimensions and made a Photoshop template which you can download by clicking on the image below:

Click here for PNG template.

Alternatively, just make any image with the maximum dimension of 1000×131 (can be narrower but try to keep the height where it is) keeping in mind the section that gets blocked by the search box.

Send all your submissions to me (Vincent) via MSN or email to cameland-banners [at] sites.vq.id.au

The winner, who will be judged using a totally unstructured and subjective strategy probably subject to heavy bias, may or may not receive a prize that is yet to be decided.

There are times where life just sucks and everything makes you just wanna kill yourself, but then there are times when friends get together and do some of the darnest things. These are the times we like to remember, let us cherish these moments and never forget our stupid behaviours.

(P.S you might need to turn up the volume to hear this, sorry for the bad audio. It’s my first time so don’t hate the player, hate the game)

“Notice how the Albino has no reaction when tempted with the man meat.”

Here I will just pick up any random song I think is cool, and go onto say why I think its cool.

Today I’m going to choose “A Letter To Elise” by The Cure.

You can find the full lyrics HERE. I won’t bother to put it up myself, just wastes space.

Well what I think this song is about is: A boy thinking about ending a relationship with a girl because hes beginning to realise that things aren’t really working out even though he really wanted it to.

“I know I’ll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would
If they only would”

I think thats like, hes trying to make a connection with her, but he can’t, as in he can’t feel those strong feelings for her like he should.

“Elise believe I never wanted this
I thought this time I’d keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out…”

Here he talks about his regret, where he thought he would be able to keep all his promises and the “make believe” ran out, so maybe that’s like the love they first had. I’m thinking it could be like when you get into a new relationship, you are just all googly eyed that it tends to blind you from all the things that could go wrong”

“And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there’s nothing else I can really do
There’s nothing else I can really do
There’s nothing else
I can really do
At all…”

In this verse he talks about trying to fix up the broken relationship but its not working, like the metaphor of the falling sand, so as soon as he tries to fix something, it goes wrong and hes just exhausted all options.

Beautiful song I think, heres a video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amx07ZAri7o

Blink also did a pretty awesome cover of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p5Ct6-hHTs

As you really should have noticed by now, Cameland looks a bit different!

And one tradition from long ago was that we always had imaginative banners. Well, now’s your chance to get your creative juices flowing and make a lasting impression on all our loyal viewers.

The banner you make must be 113 pixels tall but can be as wide as you like, although I suggest you keep it around 1000 pixels wide. Alternatively, you can make a narrow image (keep it the same height) and it will just tile forever.

The background colour is #212121 (red: 33, green 33, blue 33) in case you’re wondering.

EDIT: Oh, and send your completed banners to me over MSN or via email to cameland-banners [at] sites.vq.id.au

Title speaks for itself. I am an awesome dancer. Watch and behold all my glorious moves.

Sorry if this loads ages, but this was just an experiment. Enjoi.

This is the new Melbourne Shuffle people.