A wrestler or a rockstar??

Hobart column

2006 july 12th

A wrestler or rockstar?

First thing i want to say is happy 49th birthday Bret, last year
he put a notice on his website telling everyone that he was
48 and all the thanks. But this year there is nothing, so i guess this is it.


All my life, well ever since i can remember ive wanted to
be a wrestler. but i dont show it or tell it because people
just say what a looser, and i go "why"? and it just ends up
in a shmoz. so i decided not to say anything to anyone ever
and just become what i want. lately ive been thinking to
myself and telling myself "if Bret new i was hiding this he
would tell me not to but be proud of it". So i should be proud,
just because no one from Australia has ever made WWE doesnt
mean this place isnt meant for wrestlers and who said i
want to be apart of WWE?? i dont have to, its just it
would be better for me because i no that i would be
working with professionals and id be safe. But no place
is safe when it comes to wrestling everyone gets hurt and
makes mistakes. Ive been telling myself all along
" you dumb ass i gotta start now" and im playing music
flat out and i plan on starting my own bussiness (a recording studio).
But i havnt done anything apart from wrestle my
brother when i was young, jee how professional.
the only thing that is keeping me back is school,
so i was deciding to go to the showgrounds and sign
up and get started straight after i finish school.
I just wanna start young and fresh.
Mind over matter will always be there, well i hope so :)
and its going really well and ill always play music
its just my calling.Ive always had this feeling when
im on stage and i look around seeing a crowd and think
is this what i want to be?? and the answer is yes,
but i just want to be wrestler not because bret hart
was a wrestler but because i want to be a "hero"
i want people to look up to me and say...."i want to
be like that guy". people say that fans can still look
up to you that way when your on stage singing.
but i not personaly but know that being a wrestler
would be different its like working my way up to the top.
fans would cheer you or boo you and thats reality,
thats what happens in wrestling and i think thats
awesome how maybe one day your a bad guy and
the next day your good guy, and when its all said and
done your a baby face forever. but its true how many
retired wrestler do people hate????? none, not one.
But beyond talking about being a wrestler, when i get
there i dont and will not work for WWE even if they
offer me money that could look after me and my
family for the rest of my life i will not work for WWE
unless they get rid of vince. The good thing is, by the
time i wrestler for WWE hopefully he will be dead
and gone. Its not the biggest thing wrestling for
WWE i personally would love to be there if it was
like it was in the early 90's and 80's when wrestling
was what its suppose to be. They call it wrestling
for a reason, people dont watch wrestling for sex,
all it is now is sex and divas and a whole story line
that reminds me of "Home and Away". if wrestling
stays like this its only going to get worse, than id
rather wrestle for a promoter that is going to use
me for something that should be wrestling today.
DX is back?, they might as well bring professional
pornstars in to do a strip show everyweek, DX is
way over the top what kind of job do they have
when you play scripted practical jokes on your boss
infront of millions of people. im starting to wonder
if i want to be a professional wrestler hopefully
someone makes a new promotion as big as WWE
without explicit behavour that needs to be thrown out the window.
For the first time in a long time i watched Smackdown
the other day and i have nothing against wrestlers,
any of them i think that they are all great, good or
bad i have repect for them and that they have
made it, its all wrestlers wildest dreams to become
what they are today, (and for those people that
think i just want to be like bret well he actually
had no intentions of becoming a professional
wrestler at all he actually wanted to become a film
director, If it wasnt for his dad(stu Hart) who
owned a wrestling promotion himself Bret would
never be known of, but as for me i want to be a
wrestler and want to get to the top) but wrestling
to me looks like a scripted movie, i never seen one
match the whole 30 minutes i watched it.
So its like would becoming a rockstar (which i
personaly would rather go the other direction)
or yeah becoming a professional wrestler? and im
not using this for an excuse just because people
think i wont make it, but i wont even come close to
working for the WWE if it is still what it is today,
and if it does ill just wrestler for a small wrestling
company probably PCW and persue my music ability.
My Hitman character obviously came from Bret Hart,
and people again say....."get your own name"
and stuff like that... but what people dont no is
that Bret hart got the name "hitman" from a retired
boxer which kindly i have forgotten his name.
now Bret Hart has retired and i will use the name
Hitman for as long as i live because i believe that
i can take his character on and that is... believing
in yourself and never quit. thats something i
believe in and so did Bret. If anyone feels they
are the same way believing in themselves and
believe they will never quit feel free to call your
self the Hitman because now you no what it means.
I just want to add something to the Hitman character
because there is no copyright on it, 3 things,
- believe in yourself, never quit and i believe that
if anyone wants to go somewhere in life or do
something that is part of your wildest dreams you can do it!.
they are the 3 things that stand for Hitman.
I just want to say, i was on the internet the other
day and i havnt seen the 2006 hall of fame yet
but i found this website called www.youtube.com
and its a website that gives you access to videos of
your choice( no ideas :) and i typed up Bret Hart
and a few video's from the hall of fame came up,
i got so excited as a downloaded a few of them i left
them went and grabed a snickers bar and got ready
to watch some wicked stuff. so i came back and the
first one was a story Bret told about his son which was
quite funny, i watched about 4 as i watched them i
laughed so much and felt some emotion as watching
Bret who he is today and his kids all grown up and i
can tell any video thats before or after the stroke
because of the way bret is now. But like i said in another column
Bret is just growing stronger and stronger.

First gig with New MInd over Matter

Hobart column

2005 june 15th

first gig with new mind over matter

last night was very interesting, we played our first gig at pool
on liverpool with liam on drums.
he has been in the band for about 3 weeks and we have had
2 practices and we did great. we got there about 2 and no one
was there to set up like there should have been so we went
down town and came back up still no one was there so we did
that about 4 or 5 times. and then we did a sound check and the
amps were really bad they sounded like crap! so i was stressing...
then we went down town for a bit and came back and this guy
brang an amp which was much better i was so glad. anyway the
gig started at 8 and no one was there 8 came still no one bout 5
people were there, so this guy thought he better start and he was
playing by himself and we were all like what is this..?? because it
was really bad.. then we got on and played for about an hour and
a half. we did really well. then we got told we were really good and
that we could play there anytime we wanted. so that was pretty cool,
liam is our new drummer and the best we have had he isnt going anywhere anytime soon,

Burnt my thumb

Hobart column

"I burnt my thumb"

2005 October 7th

Today i went to school and had catering last, we had to do a
presentation about a herb or spice and give a demonstration
of a recipe that has that herb or spice.
Me and cameron chose Garlic, and made garlic bread and
this girl was behind us and she was cooking bread with cinnimon
on it and she got it out of the oven after 10 minutes of 200
degrees and she sat it on the plate that was on the counter and i
thought that she sat it on a different plate but unfortunatly it was
the same plate she put in the oven, i picked it up to smell the
cooked cinnamon and burnt my thumb and threw the plate back
on the counter the bread fell on the ground i rushed and put
my thumb under some water the class just laughed and
laughed it stung all afternoon. luckily there was no serious burn.

About the band (Mind over Matter)

Hobart column

2006 june 3rd

About the Band (mind over matter)

well, from our concert we kicked caleb out because of his lack of reliability
and putting no effort into the band. we found a new drummer named
Adam Jeffreys who ive met before so we asked him to come along to
guilford and play our concert that was already schedule and he said
alright. so we had to practise the songs first??? we had very little time
before the show so we practised before the gig at guilford. it was our
first practise with jeff and things wernt looking so great so we just had
to go on with it, we played and it was so not what we expected it was
no good with Jeff on drums just made things worse our last song we
played we asked liam to play a song and he is a great drummer, later
that day i said to nick "we gotta get liam man he is really good so we
went over and i asked him if he would like to join and he was more
than happy. We had our first practise today with him and it was the
best we have ever sounded im sure that the mind over matter sound
is coming together really soon. we got our dvd's done from Nick of
our first concert( with caleb) and its really good concidering nick was
on drums. we are planning on doing some school gigs then work our
way into some pubs that will take us (haha), so now the band features
me (Adam dsilver) on guitar and singing, Nick Morgan on bass and
singing and liam O'leary on drums. We hope that "Mind over Matter" is set.

Our Major show (lenah valley hall 6th may)

Hobart column

2006 may 09th

Our major show

well on the 6th of may was our major gig that we organised,we had put
out posters everywhere and told many people so we where hoping to get
100 or more. well on the friday which was the 5th we went and brought
well i spent all the money and brought things we needed and by the end
of the day i was broke.and we still never had 1 thing and that was the fog
machine so i borrowed the money and brought one. i stayed at nicks house
and got dad to pick us up the next day to go up new norfolk and get
damiens drum kit. we got back to dads about 10 and we had to wait there
for Adam who had all of tafe's gear we were stressing about him cos he
was late nick went home to pack up stuff and shortly after Adam came
we headed up to nicks and then headed for the hall.
we got there i dropped into a chemist to get something for my throat
because it was killing me we got to the hall and started seting everything up.
nick (promoter) came with our stage(that was made out of thick plywood and
chemical drums) he set it up and we got everything setup caleb hadnt arrived
yet so i rang him he said he was coming it was about 3 o'clock i kept ringing
him afterwards he woudnt answer i was getting really angry well everything
was setup we are just waiting for caleb but no sign of him whilst i was stressing
about caleb Adam was having troubles with monitors....everytime he tried to
get a bit of volume out of them they would feed back this was happening
for a long time till i discovered that the monitor was sitting right on top of
the drum and was feeding back from the vibrations in the speaker and was
making it feed back because of the hollow drum so i said stick it on the side
and it worked! well our concert started at 6 30.....no sign of caleb i was going
off by this time we had curtis as our bouncer, we had to use olly(nicks little bro)
i ran threw the first song quickly with olly and then ran outside 1 more time to
see if caleb was there....then i seen him on his motobike i ran for him and
yelled "get off your bike and get inside now it has started!!" as much as i
wanted to beat him up i couldnt i had to keep calm to have the energy for
the gig we got inside and everything didnt go as i planned, i planned on
being backstage till people came out then we would come on stage when
nobody would see us and start playing in the dark, then when the drums
and bass came in thats when the lights kick in but no....... we where seen
the whole time and it didnt start off how i wanted because of caleb. we
started playing by the first song my throat was hurting and i asked the
crowd for a drink i really needed some water the guy who ran the lights threw
me some water and i was just barely hanging on with the water. By the
third song i went on drums and i went off, i love drums and always will
so we had a break after the 10th song and went bak on in about 10 minutes
and kicked ass again the very last song was night train as nick jumped back
on drums i said no im not playing that he said "just fucking play it!" so i did
and it was the best.

That was a quick story on it but it was a long night,
when it finished we started packing up everything nick left straight
away and went to girls houses, curtis came to me and said what do you
want me to do with this (money) i said follow me we went and did finances
and corrected everyone. i stayed there for a few hours packing everything up caleb came
to me and tried to talk to me, i didnt want to talk to him i had no time for him.

First Gig with Nick

Hobart column

2006 April 9th

first Gig with nick.

Ever since i left mind over matter with cannon and caleb ive never wanted to go back,
my last gig with them was gig in the gardens, soon after we were due to pay a visit to
pulse, i showed up Caleb showed up cannon showed up and the new guy Adam that
joined the band just before gig in the gardens didnt show so our practise was no longer ahead.
cannon had another band he was working with doing death metal crap he was in there
playing with them, and nick morgan was there to watch us i said why dont me and caleb
go to your house and play some stuff??? he said ok and thats were it all started........

we got to his house and just did nirvana stuff to get used to each other, and every
weekend after i played with him at his house with small aps but it was good. so we
stated a fact that covers were not what promoters and producers want but who said
its what they want????? anyway we started making originals (i had aready made
heaps from 2 albums) and now we have a good 20, we organised a concert at the
lenah valley hall on the 6th of may, and god there is gonna be alot of people,
and we got asked to play at the Derwent Valley autumn festival up high street
and that would be our first gig, so we practise and got our mind over matter
sound happening.
now today we went up took a trailer full of gear "big front house speakers,
samson 8 track mixer, foldbacks guitar amps" and we played for 2 and half
hours and we were not getting money for it so towards the end we decided
to put the hat out and surprisingly we made 24 buks and that was our first Gig.

Going to TAFE

Hobart Column

“Going to TAFE”

November 14th 2005

It was like yesterday that I thought I was going to finish school,
After these long years of learning nothing I eventually thought
about leaving after year 11 and going somewhere like get a job,
go to TAFE, apprenticeships even traineeships.
I decided that I was going to get an apprenticeship in the
areas of bricklaying rendering, concreting. Then I decided that I
wouldn’t enjoy it so I decided to get a job at kfc but then I got
over that and started thinking about TAFE my friend says its way
better than school.
I then thought deeply into this TAFE and asked about it I then got
some booklets and browsed about. I never had any desire of doing
anything in the music industry nothing at all until one day I was
looking through the TAFE book and saw technical production in
music and I thought that would be great I already no a lot about
that stuff cos I have made two albums and recorded other
people and set up live performances before and mixed live
performances so I thought I could do really well and I like that
sort of stuff. So next thing I was heading up Launceston a 2 and half hour drive.
I was thinking about this hard, TAFE in Hobart didn’t have anything
to do with music there so I would have to live up there in order to
do that course so was I willing to put all my friends, family and my
girlfriend aside??? I want to be the best, well I thought about Bret hart
and he told me that rising to the top involves giving yourself up to
loneliness, fearing nothing and working hard.
So I walked in the door with Maxine and mad jack and got an interview
and got enrolled, he says that he aint going to ask me anymore
question because he thinks I already know a lot by what I already
told him and he thinks ill get through.
I’m going to live at these units, for a year until next year.

My brothers 21st

Hobart column

"My Brother's 21st"

October 9th

i just woke up from a very interesting night, i had been playing
music with my dad and best friend at my brothers 21st birthday party.
we got there about 4 o'clock. i was talking to my brothers friend
who likes wrestling a lot we were talking about
our younger days of wrestling i left him with the reminder that
he should come by wrestling at the showgrounds.
I also reminded him about the move that he came up with
called "cradle to the grave" it was an inverted tombstone,
the opponent was on the persons back face down so they
would fall on their butt and their opponents head would hit the ground.
lots of Lucas’s friends were talking to me about wrestling
and weights they were amazed that i could lift 75 kg bench,
more than what any of Lucas’s friends could lift.

Will Parcel

Hobart column

2005 june 27th

Will Parcel

it all goes so quick, today is the last day im going to see a
great friend and i never new it was coming.
i met a guy named Will Parcel here at tafe a few months
ago he is probably one of the most nicest guys ive ever met.
i was told that he is leaving tafe, i couldnt believe my ears,
i new something was up because just before our month holiday
he was never at tafe and i new something was wrong, so i soon
went and seen him at his place and asked "are you leaving"
he replied "yer" so he said " lets go play pool and ill tell you
whats going on". so we went and had three games of pool
as he filled me in with shocking news that he is quiting
technical production because an illness he suffers, he couldnt
quite explain it. i dont want to put a say in and make it seem worse
but in the areas of skitsafrenia. i asked what the disadvatage
about it all? he said well.... suicidal. i said your not thinking
bout killing yourself are you? he paused for atleast 7 seconds
and said " well no, the only reason people kil them selves is
because they hear voices saying kill them selves and other
stupid reasons" i sat there thinking god i hope he doesnt
do that. we finished our games of pool and went to my flat he
wrote down his email address and said thanks for everything,
i hugged him and that was it. will i ever see him again?

"Everything is just so short and we take everything for granted, we should make the most of every moment".

Wrestling Memories

Hobart Column

“Wrestling Memories”

2005 October 5th

I remember when I was about 12 and my brother Lucas was
about 16 and we loved wrestling so much we wrestled out the back
and at my cousins place cos he had a trampoline.
I remember this one time we had a match and it was at my cousin's
and we arranged that it would end with me giving him the sharpshooter.
The match went on for about an hour it was hot and we were
sweating like water, and my brother was putting it over me most
of the match and he was much bigger than me and he was really
buggered and he picked me up to do a tombstone and cos he was so
tired he got me half way round and dropped me right on my neck.
i couldn’t move my neck he was assuming I was ok so he kept on
beating me up i just layed there and didn’t move i eventually rolled
off the tramp and he new that it was serious, and chucked his boots on and left.
he new he was in big trouble cos mum hated us wrestling she
always went off! and told us not to wrestle.
i finally stoped crying and went up home i still remember walking
up that great big hill and couldn’t move my neck i came in my room
and layed there mum was there playing the computer and she
never took any notice after a while she asked me what was
wrong i had to tell her cos if my neck was serious i would
of had to tell her later, anyhow she went off she just told
me to lay there for a couple of hours or so and Lucas got
yelled at really bad and that was my last ever match on a trampoline.
it was really scary at the time we watched wrestling every tuesday
and in the commercials it would always have this add going through
a few major accidents in wrestling then it would say "don’t try this at home"
we would never take any notice of that until i nearly broke my neck.

What becomes of the broken hearted

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"What becomes of the broken Hearted"

2005 October 6th

this is about as movie its part two of "once were warriors"
It’s made in New Zealand, and it’s about a man (Jake) who is
very aggressive and can not control his anger and in
part one his daughter killed herself and his wife divorced
him, in part two he is in a pub and him and a few friends
are drinking having a sing along and these two guys keep
on staring at him he decided to go over there and beat the
crap out of them.
His two sons have nothing to do with him his younger son is in juvenile centre
none of his family does and one of his sons is in a gang(nig)
and they want him dead because the gang leader "grunt"
got beat up by Jake years ago and he wants revenge so he
decided to kill his son nig.
one of jakes friends comes over to jakes place to deliver the
bad news he then decided not to go to the funeral because
he is sick of gangs and killing.
He then feels he has to and goes in spare moment, the funeral
is over and they are leaving, jakes ex wife and his son sunny
walk past, jake said im sorry to his ex wife she says im sorry
to Jake he says i hadn’t seen him for so long, she Sais well that
was always your choice Jake he then replies with a bit of
anger hey I didn’t come here for a fuckn lecture! sunny then
steps in and Sais why don’t you leave her alone Jake says
sunny?? your all grown up now boy, sunny says ye ya happy now??,
Jake goes home and sits there after having a go at his friend
for drinking all his beer, his girlfriend comes over really calm
as she sais are you ok Jake?? he says any tears am i crying??
he tells her that sunny accuses him of killing nig and grace.
He then has a go at his girlfriend, because she was
saying the same thing that his ex wife said that it was
his choice that he never seen his kids. he yells and sais
"they are always with there mother".

Sunny and his best mate mooky take care of nigs
Girlfriend and she tells them that it was his own gang
that killed him it was Grunt. it took a while for them to believe her but
then they decide to rob a bank teller get lots of money and pay
another gang to kill "grunt" they go to this gang called black
snakes and ask the leader to kill grunt and he scruffs sunny
and head butts him and sais "do you think money joins you!"
because nigs girlfriend said that they wanted to join but they
didn’t she thought that she could get that deal easier, and he then
said suffering joins you...they then join and the leader then
sais that the money is just a joining fee.

My little Runaway

Hobart column

23rd October 2005

My little runaway

I remember when I lived in this house in Bridgewater we lived there
for about 8 years I was about 10 and my stepbrother and me were
up at this old school playing around and this girl came over to us
she said, “Look what I found” after about 5 minutes of talking her
dad pulled over aside the road she literally chucked the lighter in
my hand and said I got to go. So Zane and me were playing around
with it until we decided to go back home, we went home and
just out the front of our gate there was this huge tree and you
could go in it we sat in there and lit stuff up. Then until my
brother walked out of the gate and seen us with stuff on fire
he quickly said “im telling mum” we kicked it and threw
anything on it to get it out then we thought we are going to
get into so much trouble lets run!!
We ran up the path behind this fence Lucas and jacinta my
cousin seen us they started walking after us we hid in this
Bush still with the lighter up at some units.
We seen them asking these kids have you seen two kids?
anywhere??? Mind you we had already told them not to
say anything well they went, and hours went by and we
were talking about were we were going to sleep and what we
were going to eat mind eating we were just wondering what
was going to happen tomorrow.
It was getting dark to dark to see so we pulled out the lighter
and held it on it was to boring to just sit there holding it for
ours so we decided to light stuff up again for a bit of light.
We just layed there almost asleep, Zane was scared really
scared he just wanted to go back I never even thought of it i
knew that if I went back I would be dead so I just thought I
might as well start a new life.
By this time it was about 11 and we were feeling hungry and
dirty we just wanted to go back face the consequences and tell
the truth. So we started walking down the road we were
expecting cop cars to be everywhere cars filling the street
from our family, we got around the corner just to find one
cop car we were scared us little 10 year old that have never
been in trouble with police before, we knocked on the door
and my mum belted me absolute belted me and Zane’s dad
well he got nothing but a little lecture we then got a huge lecture
From the policeman after that I jumped in the bath thinking to
myself was that worth it, I don’t think ill ever runaway again
Not for a while and I never did.

my trip to melbourne

Hobart column

2005 October 7th

My trip to melbourne

Lately ive been thinking of going to melbourne for one reason
and that is because My one and only role model Bret Hart.
your probably thinking what the hell?? but i really want to meet
bret hart more than anything, and i figured that going to canada
would be very expensive so i thought i could go to melbourne and
walk up and down the yarra river with a backpack full of books,
and go to the melbourne zoo.
just the thought of it though i mean the feeling that i could have
i would be saying to myself "bret hart has been here, right here!"
i think that has really been the underline of what i want to go to
melbourne for.
i would like to go there with my mp3 player and fill it with the songs that remind
me of him.i would just walk up and down the river listening to
songs. i think that would really give me a boost in life all i want
to do is meet bret hart. i just want to be inlightened by the thought that time ago
bret hart was here.

1997 Surviver series screw job

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1997 “Survival screw job”

October 22nd 2005

“High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling
Experiences are survived with grace”-Tennessee Williams

There it was, the day that Bret could never wrestle again.
Bret Hart is the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be,
In 14 years of wrestling for the WWF he missed only 2
schedules in 14 years and never said “no” to Vince never.
He always had respect for everyone, and he earned his
respect. He was loyal very loyal. Hitman stands for to believe in
yourself and to never quit ,the one thing the Hitman won’t do is lie to his fans.
He always tries his absolute best in every match in every
City whether he thinks this city is crap or doesn’t like it.
He believes that the best chance you have to rise to the
top involves giving yourself up to loneliness, fearing
nothing and working hard. That’s what he did for 14 years.
Ever since Bret first met Vince McMahon, owner, promoter
of the wwf, he was told by many who new him that he was a
dishonest, unsavoury, lying, double-crossing, dirty, rotten
scoundrel. Bret gave him the benefit of a doubt, but year after
year, wrestler after wrestler, they have left with such bitter hatred.
Despite those Early warning Bret put his heart and soul into
everything he did and through Vince McMahon he became a
hero beyond his wildest dreams.
In March 1996, after 7 title reigns, he left the wwf for a movie/TV
career not sure if he would ever go back, 8 months later he decided
to return. Wrestling was his calling and it felt it was screaming for
him to come back and it was.
When he was gone Shawn Michaels took his place and in the
direction Bret would have taken himself but in a primadonna
way, Bret was approached by the wcw about working for them,
and was offered double the money, but his heart had always been
with the wwf and Bret was not greedy for money, but greedy for
respect. Unlike most people Bret thanked wcw and turned them
down. Instead he signed a 20-year deal with the wwf for a lot less
money. The Hitman stayed loyal.
Again in 14 years of wrestling for the wwf Bret missed 2 shows and
out of no were on sep 21 into his 5th title reign, he was informed by
McMahon that he was in financial dire straits and was going to be
forced to break his contract. McMahon urged Bret to go back and see
if he could get his old deal back with the wcw and allowing him to get
out of their 20-year contract. McMahon said he would be doing him a
favour. Crushed, he understood he was a friend to Bret so he did what
he asked and started talks with the wcw. Sadden by this and ever more
so by the overall direction of the wwf in recent years.
Vince said you have creative control in your last 30 days of your contract
in other words you can leave how ever you want, unfortunately Bret was
holding the title in those last 30 days so they had to figure a way to loose
the belt it was going to be held in brets home town and vince said he had to
loose the belt there Bret said “you said I could leave anyway I wanted and now
your throwing this at me” Vince’s excuse was he couldn’t risk Bret turning up
on wcw with Vince’s belt Bret said he would never do that.
So they talked it through and the way the match was going to go was Bret
would knock the ref down as well as Shawn Michaels and Shawn would get
up and apply the sharpshooter on Bret (ref was suppose to stay down) Bret
would reverse it and shawns mates would interfere and it would be a
disqualification and Bret would forfeit the title the next night on raw.
That’s the way it was suppose to happen at least that way Bret could
leave with his head up. They screwed him they really screwed him the
lousy basterds. The ref got up way to early and called for the bell and
said that Bret tapped out. As soon as the bell rang the ref earl hebner
ran straight out of the building into an awaiting car out the back. Bret
talked to earl and Vince to double check that the match was still ok and
nothing was going to happen earl sware on his kids that nothing was going
to happen, Bret got up and spit right in Vince’s face. After Bret smashed
20 thousand dollars worth of cameras he went backstage to have a shower
Vince came to apologise. Bret told him to get out and said if your not out by
the time I take a shower im going to punch you in the face Bret got out and
he was still there Bret punched him right in the face and nearly broke his hand.
Shortly after Bret was with the wcw. He was there for 2 years until bill
Goldberg kicked him by accident in the face in a match, which ended
Brets wrestling career for good.
In 2002 Bret suffered a major stroke (I will talk about that in another column).

School Memories

October 15th 2005

"School Memories"

Hobart column

I Started School at St Pauls in Bridgewater, Tasmania at the age of 6.
I went seven years there and went to St Virgil’s for high school in Austin’s ferry.
I then went to college for a year.
School days were the best days of my life ive got so many memories,
It was in grade 2 and was mucking around with my friend and i wanted
to give him the "stone cold stunner" so i kicked him right in the stomach
and pounded the crap out of my ass! as i drove his chin in my shoulder,
he got up, pushed me and we were enemies for a long time.
we became friends in grade three because he came up with the idea that
we should start singing in front of the school so i grabed my tambourine
and asked dad to teach my how to play it like a drum kit and there we
were playing infront of the school singing Hanson.
i thought i was really cool having this duo so we decided to get a
third singing and i was the leader of the band and it was like a big thing
everyone at the school was talking about this band that we had with
three singers and a tambourine and that was it.
i was kicking people out and getting other people in i thought i was just it.
i eventually kicked Jeremy out (mind you he was the guy who started this
whole thing) and we became enemies again, we didnt talk for months and
months then we graduated from primary school and went to high school
and everytime i would go to the bus stop Jeremy would throw rocks at me
and for months he would do that, im not quite shore what made us become
friends again but we have been friends ever since.

In grade 10 he came up with the idea we should go busking (id learnt
how to play guitar, infact i could play everything) id always put it off for
months until max got us a busking licence we went every weekend we
got up to about 80 bucks for 2 hours.
after a few months people including myself were telling me i should go by
myself because Jeremy couldn’t play anything and he would just sing
and his voice wasn’t very strong and i sung at the top of my lungs and
played guitar, so i finally decided to go by myself and we fought
over that and we didnt talk for a couple of weeks until we were in
class on day and i wrote him a quick letter and passed it on saying
sorry and that do you want to start busking again his reply was "sure bro".
We were back in the business and making a lot of money.

Gone through hell and back!

Hobart Column

“Gone Through Hell and back”

November 04

Last Friday I went to a mates place to visit after school and it
was my last day of school, I was there for a while I gave him
my 2nd album which he asked for and later he asked if I wanted
to go to Shaun and Kieran’s 18 party. I knew them quit well I
don’t like parties much especially if there is a lot of people I
asked how many people he said about 30 I said we will go there
for a while and check it out then we will go he said yep alright.
So later we went there, there was like 5 people there at the party
and they would gradually get more, we went for a drive to the
bottelo and came back and there were a lot more people so we were
there for a while then we went to kfc and Ben was driving and
failed to give way to a policeman on a bike and lost 3 points so
he was cut about that, we came back to the party and it was
packed by this time, we went in and just sat in this room and
talked then these outlaws came to crash the party about 30 were
standing in the stairwell of the unit and they eventually got them
to go, minutes later they came back a couple of them got in then they
got kicked out by this time everyone was talking about it and there
was only a front door to get out and I just keep on thinking of them
having knifes and some sort of weapons so I went out onto the
balcony where I was messenging Cameron to come and get me he
said he could but he didn’t no how to get there I said meet me at
bens I then had only 25 cents left on my phone enough to send one
message so I sent it to my girlfriend and asked her for some more,
she went off and said I didn’t thank her for the last lot she gave me
1 dollar credit and went off again because I told her I needed it
urgently and I never said thanks, anyway half an hour before Ben
went off walking with this girl I asked him if it was safe out there
he said it looks fine to me so I knew they were at the door trying to
get in I heard people say that they are brazlins and I straight away
thought no way im staying here I just thought dirty fighting so I told
Ben to meet me at his car and lets go home he said alright so I jumped
the balcony and went to run to the gate and seen this big guy and he
was walking off from bashing someone and he was big and looked at
me so I went back to the car and waited for Ben then 2 minutes later he
shows up we couldn’t go anywhere cos there was a car behind us so
he asked me if I wanted to stay in the car I said shit no I went to hop
out and then I saw these two people go at it they got close to us
and there was other people round so I thought they will probably
attack us so I decide to take a runner for it I wasn’t staying to get
clobbered in the head with a pole. I came to the road and went up
the street I stayed there for like an hour then the outlaws were
coming my way I just stood there then they stopped right in
front of me they didn’t see me thank god they were talking
about going back and bashing everyone this one guy made me
laugh inside he said lets go and fight I feel like fighting I just thought
what a low life they eventually walked off luckily they didn’t see
me or I would have been dead I just stayed there for a while everyone
was looking for me they couldn’t find me anywhere and my phone
was dead so they couldn’t get hold of me I came back and I was
limping and this guy said are you alright man I laughed and said
yer im fine I went to the driveway where Ben was and he was like
“where the hell have you been ive been worried sick” I said im
fine I asked where Jeremy was they said inside I went inside there
was glass everywhere smashed wood palens, glass bottles, poles
and broken doors I went in. I was expecting Jeremy to be like where
have you been ive been worried but nope boy was I wrong he got up
and said your staying here tonight man, I said no way im not he said
yer you are I said fuck that I aint staying here and he cracked it with
me. So I left back down stairs and asked Ben if we could go he said
ye we have to find rose first so we were looking for her just as we
got in the car he said Cameron, Monika and James have been t-boned
I said what straight away I was scared that Cameron had been hurt cos
he was the one that was suppose to pick me up we found rose and she
got in the car and then we went to the scene and everyoner was alright
monika was on the side that got hit so she was in shock, we went back
to bens and stayed there for a while and decided to go home so off we
went and we talked about it all night.