http://words.jackmcdonald.org Jack's journal Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:33:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the 21st Century. It's a brave new world. http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/16/natwest-are-utterly-useless/ Day three of Carnival, or day four, I don't know, there have been blocos for a couple of days running into the weekend and they haven't stopped. I spend the day chilling on Ipanema beach while a smallish float and Samba band crawls along the road. The sound is jacked ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/14/carnival-day-three/ Day 8: Las Vegas, Nevada 06/11/07 We begin another 'long ass drive' to Vegas to recuperate for a day after the past couple of days of insanity. I'd personally like to play Salt Lake, but the promoter still hasn't been in touch. My throat is officially blown as well, I can barely ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/11/frightener-us-tour-diary-week-2/ Here's the start of my write-up of my diaries from the Frightener USA tour, which happened on October/November of 2007 with Pulling Teeth. I'm taking this stuff straight from my diary, so if I say thanks and don't put your name down, please don't take offence, I just forgot to ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/06/frightener-us-tour-diary-week-1/ I took it easy on the Sunday, partly because I was shattered from wandering around so much the night before, but also because the real parties here kick off around eight or nine in the evening. Still, I left the house in between rain showers to grab some late lunch. ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/06/carnival-day-two/ For anyone visiting Rio, Carnival is apparently a military operation masquerading as a party. Times, places, seat numbers, meeting points, rally points and so on and so forth. So with that in mind I woke up on day one of Carnival without the faintest hint of a plan. Apparently there ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/04/carnival-day-one/ And now, as they say, time for something completely different. Juno (2008) - 3/10 At it's heart, Juno is a teen pregnancy movie without teenagers and without pregnancy. We start off with Juno, our eponymous heroine, finding that she is pregnant, in between completely obvious ad-related namedrops for ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/02/01/juno-review/ Finding my way back to Tijuca Forest was definately easier than finding my way there for the first time. For starters, the round trip cost me less than the abortive taxi ride which was rather nice. Exiting the metro system at Sans Paena, I succesfully managed ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/01/27/tijuca-peak-finally/ It's always a great sign when the taxi driver doesn't know the street when you point to it on a map. Tijuca Park was the destination for the day. Twenty minutes into the cab ride, it wasn't going so well. We had taken the long route ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/01/20/tijuca-park-scramble/ Seeing as this is my first post and all, I thought I'd take the time to write a letter home to my friends. So here it is. A fresh start on the other side of the globe. I'm currently resident in Rio De Janeiro. From the 11 days that I've been ... http://words.jackmcdonald.org/2008/01/15/hello-all/