I'm Sorry, Lou!

I"M BACK!!!

After quite the hiatus, I am returning. I've been aware that I haven't been blogging at all, but it wasn't until I received an email from the wonderful Louise that I realised the full magnitude of my slack behaviour. I logged in this morning to find that the last blog I actually posted was on September 27th! What is wrong with me?

Please be sure this was not intentional - I have still got 3 blogs in my draft folder that I just never finished and posted (the first was me continuing to make fun of churches and their love for rugby, the second was me relishing in the defeat of the All Blacks like so many world cups before, and of course the third was me declaring that I was through with not blogging and that I was back - of course that one's only half done. And this one almost ended up the same). In fact, I wanted to make a point after the last blogs to keep blogging, just so that certain people didn't think they had shut me down! You see, for those that aren't aware, my previous blogs regarding New Life churches preaching rugby to the masses caused quite a stir, and resulted in one church in particular almost calling for me to crucified! (though they gave me so much advertising it was quite ridiculous - my traffic that week went through the roof) I received a very angry phone call from one pastor in particular whose sense of self-importance led him to believe I was aiming most of my comments towards him, and who even had the audacity to call me a hypocrite because I was (in his mind) telling people not to watch rugby, when I listen to rock music which is all based on sex and drugs.

For the record, I have no problem with anyone in the world enjoying a game of rugby. I don't like it, but then I love pro-wrestling so what do I really care about violence? My issue was that instead of combating the worship that this country heaps upon our national rugby team, New Life churches (and no, Paul Bennetts, I'm not just saying Northwest New Life - I'm talking about all those cheesy churches in Christchurch that all declared they were going to play the rugby in their church) chose to say "Hey, you don't have to choose between rugby and church - you can have both in a nice friendly package, and make some use of our million dollar facilites!" and then place it under the guise of "community outreach". To me "outreach" is only genuine when you are actually doing something to help people, and I don't really see how watching rugby helps anyone unless they are allergic to their couch and their TV gives them hayfever. Especially when the only people really attending were the congregations of your churches.

Anyways it's 2 months later now and I'm sick of having to defend what I wrote; if you clowns still have problems please feel free to email me here

And while I did shut down my MySpace page (well, one of them - the music page is still up), there is no way I'll ever stop ranting and complaining about things. The drama that blog caused, while frustrating, is also amusing; it's kinda nice to know that I've still got the punk in me.

But the only reason I haven't been able to maintain all this constant blogging is very simple: my old boss returned and Julian's contract expired so now I actually have to do work again! And lots of it, too. I forgot what it's like to actually earn your income. And I've never really been one to blog at home, so I've just always forgotten about it...

And that's it. I've been awfully busy with music, recording and mixing a few tracks here and there... and I've been away a fair bit as always... not that you all care. Either way, I've realised that I've shown a terrible lack of commitment the last couple of months, so it's time I corrected my ways and got my blogging back in order.

OK well I am going away again tomorrow morning, so I will make sure the constant insanity returns with me.