July 10, 2009
Make your own album.
I don’t know if you can post up in comments, but if you can’t, email your albums to hel_davo@hotmail.com and I’ll put them up.
The Instructions:
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
This is mine. I wish I was in a band so I could actually make this album…..
July 7, 2009
Gotta love the design team at smh.com. Because when you’re one of the countries most respected news websites, you must get a bit sick of being high-brow all the time. Which is why I think they went for some subtle puerile humour and chose this photo of Nate Myles to go with that headline..
June 29, 2009
They put an add on the internet but it wasn’t finished yet! Whoops!
Luckily I saw it, and now I’ve fixed it up for them. They wouldn’t want to give anyone the wrong information!
June 26, 2009
Primal scream rocks
Blur- song 2
Portishead-glory box
Radiohead- paranoid android
White stripes- 7 nation army
The verve- bitter sweet symphony
Toots and the Maytals- Funky Kingston
Mars volta- the widow
U2-Sunday Bloody Sunday
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls- Dumb Things
Silverchair- Tomorrow
Should I get rid of Paranoid Android because everyone’s already voting for it anyway?
June 18, 2009
Me: So, lady gaga, what’s crackin girlfriend?
LG: I’m cold, cold.
Me: Yeah it’s a bit chilly, but I’m alright..
LG: my legs are freezing, freezing.
Me: well they would be. You’re not wearing any pants.
LG: Are you dissing my outfit, outfit?
Me: No of course not! I’m just saying. If you’re cold, maybe you should try some jeans or something.
LG: J..j..jeans, jeans?
Me:I thought you only repeated words in your song because you couldn’t think of another word?
LG: No,no. So, jeans, jeans?
Me: Yeah, you know. Made of denim.
LG: Oh like my jacket, jacket!
Me: You can stop that now, now-dammit now I’m doing it. Well no. Not really like your jacket…. It’s got two long tubes with holes at the end to poke your limbs through…
LG: Yeah like my jacket!
Me: well, yeah. But you stick your legs through, not your arms. Here, have a go…
LG: (tries to jump into pants, putting both legs in at once. Immediately falls over.) Wow this is really hard!
Me: Uh…yeah. Maybe you should sit down and try?
LG: (sits down and puts both legs through jeans. Falls off chair. Gets up and tries again. Successfully manages to get both legs through pants. Starts to roll up legs) I think they forgot to trim the excess material off, off…
Me: No the material’s meant to cover your whole leg…
LG: laughs. Don’t be silly! Here hand me those scissors, sci…
Me: Ok!!
LG: (cuts of jeans at waistband, leaving only crotch area, belt loops and pockets). Right! There we go, go!
Me: Sighs. I don’t think that’s the idea…
LG: I’m still cold, cold.
June 18, 2009
It’s not like there’s a revolution going on that could have huge implications for the US’s international relations and/or future military deployment or anything….
Is this a bit full on with the Obama-love? I mean, I love Obama. but there are only so many things you can give a headline to.
BREAKING NEWS: PRES OBAMA SWATS FLY DURING CNBC INTERVIEW IN WHITE HOUSE
June 13, 2009
Triple J is holding a vote for the Hottest 100 of all time (again). You get to vote for ten songs. This is my very very long short list. I’m struggling with choosing songs-do I discount things because they are recent and I’m not sur they’ll stand the test of time? Or is that unfair? Do I vote for songs based on the memories associated with them, or based on the technicalities of what is a better song? I mean, the Whitlams’ Blow Up the Pokies is a much better song than Louis Burdett, but Louis Burdett has such a strong tie with a very large portion of my life. So does blow up the pokies, but not for as long.
It’s too hard!
Anyway, this is my list at the moment.
Bold is what I’m thinking at the moment. It may or may not be ten…..
Stone roses- fools gold
Primal scream rocks
Lemonheads- if i could talk i’d tell you
Oasis- wonderwall
Jeff buckley- last goodbye
Bob Dylan- shelter from the storm
Blur- song 2
Coldplay- god put a smile on your face
Beatles- come together
George Harrison-here comes the sun
Whitlams- blow up the pokies
Portishead-glory box
Queen-bohemian rhapsody
Shins- new slang
Bright eyes- first day of my life
Ben folds- one angry dwarf
Cold war kids- we used to vacation
Gotye-hearts a mess
The herd- only 19
Supergrass- alright
Pulp- common people
Black keys- hard row
Dandy warhols- bohemian like you
Radiohead- paranoid android OR karma police
U2- Sunday bloody Sunday
Hunters and collectors- throw your arms around me
White stripes- 7 nation army
Queens of the Stone Age- No one knows
Mars volta- the widow
Fatboy slim- praise you
Inxs- never tear us apart
Kooks- seaside
Xavier rudd- let me be
Red hot chilli peppers- under the bridge
Beach boys-god only knows
Silverchair-tomorrow
Carus and the true believers- sweet mondays
The verve- bitter sweet symphony
Ben harper- steal my kisses
David bowie- starman
Elton john- tiny dancer
Augie March – One Crowded Hour
Elliott Smith-Memory Lane
Bodyjar-Hazy Shade of Winter
Grinspoon-Chemical Heart or Just Ace?
I’m sure I’ve forgotten heaps. There are a few definites here, and some that I am pretty sure i will cross out… any contributions or opinions would be appreciated
What’s on your list?
IF I HAD TO VOTE RIGHT NOW:
Stone roses- fools gold
Lemonheads- if i could talk i’d tell you
Oasis- wonderwall
Jeff buckley- last goodbye
George Harrison-here comes the sun
Whitlams- blow up the pokies
Gotye-hearts a mess
Supergrass- alright
Fatboy slim- praise you
Inxs- never tear us apart
this list is so unsatisfying. really want U2, hunters and collectors, blur, primal scream, the herd, portishead and the beatles in there.
Might have to get Myrtle to cast a few votes for me…
June 3, 2009
I asked my friend for a blog contribution and she suggested this would be interesting.
” Today’s date is in thirds 03/06/09. Fascinating. “
I don’t think I’ll ask again.
June 3, 2009
I’m really sick of people wasting valuable space ranting about Hipsters and how annoying they are.(in print, not on the net. You can write what you want on the net because the net is limitless, despite what this guy says). It’s a fashion. It’s like lots of other fashions. Granted, this one started from an anti-fashion stance but still. It’s a fad.
Yes, there are the hipster kids who do it because they want to be cool and anti-establishment, and seem really intelligent by quoting Sartre and other writers, poets and philosophers that were most recently popular when women wore hoops under their skirts. Yes, they have the $200 haircut to look like they never cut their hair. And the glasses. But don’t get me started on the glasses. (that was such a stupid article. There is always a current trend for specs. When I was 11 I had giant lenses in a tortoise shell frame because that’s what everybody else had, but no one wrote newspaper articles about it) . Yes, they want people to know that they Don’t Give A Fuck about low-brow, crass, commercial crap.
These people do piss me off a bit. But only in a bemused, sympathetic kinda way, because I just think that probably started with a few of the ‘hipster’ interests, but didn’t feel like they were hardcore enough and so went all out on some sort of insecure self improvement bender. I do get this because I like reading Shakespeare, and I like indie bands, but I don’t like poetry, I enjoy dance festivals, and I have an active interest in politics and world-y stuff. I’m pretty happy in my interests. But when I hang out with full-on hipster dudes I feel so very very straight-laced. But then I go home and realise that I can read a bit of Hamlet, but if I get bored I can turn on the tele and watch the Biggest Loser without having intellectual guilt pangs.
The thing that gets me with all this bitching and moaning is that it’s being treated as though it’s some special social phenomenon, and that every single one of these kids is a try-hard fake. There are people that actually DO like to read Satre. They DO like to write poetry and wear black framed specs. They DO like listening to the Animal Collective because they find the music quite enjoyable and pleasing to the ear. But nobody believes them because it’s (ironically) becoming cool to jump on the anti-hipster bandwagon.
It’s exactly the friggen same as every other trend ever in the history of everything. Ever. There are people that follow a trend because they want to project a certain image. There are those that do it because they want to be cool. Then there are those that just enjoy the things that happen to be fashionable.
Here’s a maths equation for ya. Imagine the Red Inanimate Object represents a copy of Satre, or some obscure indie band from Ohio.
Having said that, when someone uses the word ‘bourgeois’ I want to punch them in the eyebrow.
