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Which city is better?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

melbourne. next question.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh we just had this fite on Usenet (aus.culture.gothic) and it got nasty. Each city got heinously offended at t'other city's denizen's comments.

Of course, Melbourne is k-rox0r, say I. More class, friendlier people, better weather (and yes, because it is cooler and damper), nice parks... TRAMS! Better live band scene, better pubs, shopping, restaurants, etc...

Thats just my 2cents tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

melbourne.

― daniel cheail (daniel cheail), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Melbourne.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm giving props to wodonga, cos my niece lives there. when i was 16 i liked melbourne better than sydney, though i would have to experience them both again as an adult to really decide, i think. tugboat and 99 are grebt.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

no contest - Melbourne.

sydney is like melbourne's older, slutty, less cultured sister.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 11 July 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, that makes Sydney better doesn't it? Or have you had less positive experiences with older, sluttier less cultured sisters than I have?

Sydney's better for everything but haircuts. In Melbourne, everyone's a hairdresser, even if they don't realise it yet. Especially their artists. And why are Melbournites always on ILE? Because in Sydney everyone's outside, enjoying the sun and the beach.

Oh yes, but Melbourne is also better in another respect - everyone there has sex with everyone, because it's so small. And that sounds like fun.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 11 July 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

having lived in sydney for my entire adult life, i 'should' say sydney, but i cant do that.
melbourne always seemed to have the aura of more 'art and heart'.
sydney is great, no doubt about it, but it is a busy screaming city with the feel of speed, and less substance somehow.
its kind of like auckland vs wellington in nz. auckland has all the 'stuff', yet lacks a soul, but wellington owns the real deal.

― donna (donna), Friday, 11 July 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

maw maw maw maw maw, i'm from sydney and i have an inferiority complex, maw maw maw maw maw maw maw

― daniel cheail (daniel cheail), Friday, 11 July 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

melbourne, easy.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Gaz, where are you? We need you now!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 12 July 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Burn styles!

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 12 July 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Melbourne on so many levels it's ridiculous.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Saturday, 12 July 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sydney, Melbourne has the inferiority complex

― webber (webber), Saturday, 12 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you Webber. I was getting worried. Considering moving even.

I have dreams sometimes where Melbourne acquires symbolic value. Going to Melbourne is going to hell, whereas going to Brisbane is going to heaven.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 12 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

are you anti-antarctican?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 12 July 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

tempe ain't representative of sydney colin. you're living in a tiny strip of paradise...

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray! Gaz is here to save the day *plane goes overhead*.

No Jim, I'm not anti-arctarian. I'm a chronic teaser.

Melbournites, you're not supposed to just say 'Melbourne' and nothing else. That's no fun. You're supposed to give stingingly witty reasons that cut Sydneysiders to the quick, like Chris did.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sydney would be OK if you got rid of the Sydneysiders.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

That's more like it!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

who's computer you hijacking colin?
LPD in mail tomorrow.

i have retired to the central coast

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sydney tought me how to be a crazy driver

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

'Melbourne has an inferiority complex...'

Next to your average Martin Plaza mattress muncher, Muhammad Ali and Jeff Kennett sound like they had inferiority complexes.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Gaz. The computer is my girlfriend's. And no, it doesn't have a soundcard, and she doesn't like me using it on weekends. Now get back to that CD burner, bitch.

Jim, Melbourne taught me how to recognise an artist: they wear a beret.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

y'know i couldn't tell you the last time i saw someone wearing a beret

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

capital is the driving force behind real art, you melbournians are living in a quaint village past.

colin...you're at your girlfriends and browsing ILE??? get back to the good cop/bad cop tongue lashings.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 13 July 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Gaz, she's not happy. She wants me to restrict my computer time to 2 hours a day. She cannot believe I am wasting my time on this site. A leetle music package is on its way to you tomorrow.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 13 July 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

also jim, you realise sydney offers many more possibilities regarding watersports? ;-)

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 13 July 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

really?!?!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 13 July 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Gaz is referring to Troughman.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

whuzzat?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

A gentleman who could be found at the big parties here, in the men's facilities. He was a legend.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 14 July 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

what was that Joe Hockey comment they other day? something about sydney needing to show a bit more leg to attract the tourist dollar?? spread those legs sydney, you need roots to get the attention.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 14 July 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Troughman was at the Oxf*rd a couple of weeks ago Colin!!!!

and i was referring to swimming, diving, surfing etc anyway...

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 14 July 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

of course you were. what else could it possibly mean?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 July 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, you're crass. But you are good with the innuendo. You should definitely be a creative for some bastard Sydney advertising firm. Grab your skateboard and get over here!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 14 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Colin, i prefer "stingingly witty".

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 14 July 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Melbourne, I have never been to Sydney but I have been overseas and Melbourne stacks kup pretty well next to european cities... i.e Rome, Vienna, Prague, Dublin
Cheaper, more multicultural, better food, easier to get around.. loads of festivals which can be shit in it's own right but the comedy festival is rawk and the film festivals pretty fun and the underground film festival etc etc etc etc

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

they should abolish the St Kilda festival though

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

if sydney fucks you on yer first date as she yabbers about worlds best practise and "big parties" then melbourne seduces with her witty and sophisticated conversation and tales about travels in europe. she doesn't sleep with you on the first date but waits and teases with her sly charm. soon she has yer heart, mind and body.

(somebody help me, i'm killing the metaphor)

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

sydney sodomised me brutally and stole my wallet

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

* may be an exaggeration

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

but did she piss on you as well?

*loud groans*

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Its always pissing down in Sydney.... BOOM BOOM!

Oh, I kill me.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic Sydney planning:

Sticking that bloody ugly bloated 'Starship Enterprise' (officially known as the Sydney Sports Stadium) right in the spot where it hides the Centrepoint Tower view of the much more historic and interesting SCG.

Fortunately the harbor and the other Sydney landmarks were already in place well before the current generation of cowboys first placed one square block atop another in their playpens, or God knows how they'd have stuffed it up.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

are you a planning armchair critic as well Fred?

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

and the toaster has proved a winner after all!

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I know what I like Chris.

(Me? I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell by the way I walk...

Genesis circa 1974, 'I Know What I Like'.)

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

heh.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. This thread hasn't degenerated into a slanging match.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 14 July 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It's degenerated into not much of much.

Maybe it'll liven up at 9 or 10 in the evening when the 'Martin Plaza mattress munchers' are allowed home.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 14 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I love visiting Sydney, I love the harbor and the ferry rides and Taronga Park and doing all the touristy things and I have a couple of favorite spots that don't get flogged anywhere near as much as the well-known Sydney landmarks. But I wouldn't live there in a million years.

― Karen, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

melbourne is having a ladyfest...*sigh*

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Sydney, no contest. Yes, Melbourne is 'cooler' and 'artier' and sort of wannabe-London. Frankly, if I want that kind of stuff, I'd rather get it in London. What's great about Australia is the physicality and sensuality of the place and space, and physicality/sensuality is something Sydney does really well. It's the only city in Australia that feels international, that has the real feeling of a big motherfucker of a metropolis - Melbourne is too quiet and small and provincial. It's too flat and gridlike it doesn't celebrate nature like Sydney.

― H., Monday, 27 October 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

So the Sydney 'thing' is something you have to 'feel'.

In other words H, Sydney is more full of itself and more susceptible to its own self-promotion, and, by extension, any outsider who questions Sydney's self-image is making themself vulnerable in the same way as the smart-arse kid who climbed the lamp-post and heckled the Emperor in the story of the New Clothes?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't any city's 'thing' something you have to feel?

There's both a smugness and a feeling of insecurity about Sydney and Sydneysiders. On the one hand a lot of people are beating their chest about Sydney's undeniable attractions, on the other hand they're worried that it's not really in the same league as London, New York and Paris (and they're right, it isn't, it's more in the same league as Seattle or Barcelona). On the other hand, people in Melbourne aren't worried about how the city compares to London, New York, etc., they're worried about how it compares to Sydney... Back in the 50s or 60s things were probably pretty equitable between Syd. and Melb. Since then, Sydney has pulled away from Melbourne to clearly become Australia's biggest and most important city, commercially, politically, in terms of attracting immigrants, etc., etc. If that big city atmosphere is what you want (and sure, it's not everyone's cup of tea), then Sydney's the only city in Australia that can give it to you.

― H., Monday, 27 October 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It's another Sydney myth that Melbourne is obsessed with how it compares to Sydney. It may be one of the things Sydney comforts itself with when the comparisons with London, Paris etc get too oppressive.

I work in Melbourne for a company based in Sydney, and it sends down head office people who absolutely ooze smugness and superiority and that whole Paul Keating Sydney entitlement vibe (as in 'if you're not from Sydney you're not from anywhere that matters'). We are 'meant' to view Sydney as some kind of Mecca, and mention it only in the kind of hushed tones the flunkies on Are You Being Served would whisper 'The Board Room'

To a man we all find this whole preening peacock show a giant yawn. We literally couldn't give a flying rat's tossbag.

For those 271 (last census) Melbournites that really do wish they were in Sydney, there's always Chapel St Prahran, Melbourne's very own Sidneyland theme park.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe you're right, maybe it's another Sydney myth. The comparison seems to have got you steamed up, though.

Actually, I like Melbourne, and there are many things about Sydney that piss me off. (The irony is that I'm from Sydney myself but I moved away!) Yes, I recognise that the preening "aren't we great" thing is pretty irritating, even for me. And there's a shallowness to Sydney, every time you go out to dinner with people they have to talk about property prices, there's a cultural problem in Sydney, the NSW Art Gallery being it's only really good exhibition space, the theatre scene is dire, etc., etc. However, I think the cultural scene is gradually improving as Sydney gathers steam as the only Australian city with an international profile. For me, where Sydney scores the most points is that international feel, and also the physical beauty of the place that Melbourne can't really compete with. I'll fully admit that Melbourne (for the moment) has more culturally going on and is a bit more user-friendly in general.

― H., Monday, 27 October 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

sydney definitely has better bands at the moment, which is ironic since there is almost nowhere for them to play

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually like visiting Sydney and playing tourist (I have family there), but I wouldn't live there in a million years (even if I could afford to).

The way Sydney promotes itself is, I agree, a big problem, and if I hadn't already been there and formed my own views it would be enough to put me off the idea of setting foot in the place. Similarly I 'know' in complete ignorance, that I'd hate New York, because the things that it seems you are meant to like about it, which they actually promote, repel rather than attract me.

It's like a film putting absolutely the wrong bits in the tralier, and then blaming me for not wanting to see it. And yes, the 'blaming' aspect does get very tiresome.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

what sydney bands do you rate jim?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't go in for this whole 'feel' thing. All I want out of my city is good restaurants, good music, and good clubs that are open late. Melbourne satisfies all these requirements.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't been to melbourne since i was 10. but i remember it as having a lot of flies.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

where Sydney scores the most points is that international feel

I've spent a lot of time living overseas and I must say I don't really know what this mysterious 'international feel' feels like.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

gaz: good sydney bands = further, sea life park, tides, the cannanes. and some others i can't remember immediately

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

gaz the flies are less these days. they got chased out by the bees

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

so i'm guessing theres no maggot problem?

also re: the international feel. that is sort of semi-laughable. first time you hit any australian city (sydney included) you go: wheres all the black people?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

they're not on australian idol, that's for sure

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless Marcia H counts of course!

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone see on Love is in the air where she says that when she emigrated she thought she was going to austria?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps if she was less tweaked all the time she might start to make some sense

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

tweaked? is that like toasted?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't she look a little, er, *alert* to you?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Marcia is definitely trolleyed.

Am I the only one who's noticed that Jim likes band names which have a nautical feel?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the sinking ships too. but not the shipping news

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

so i'm guessing theres no maggot problem?
also re: the international feel. that is sort of semi-laughable. first time you hit any australian city (sydney included) you go: wheres all the black people?

-- gaz (tinydemon...) (webmail), October 27th, 2003. (gaz)

True enough Gaz, but when I go overseas I go 'where's all the south-east asian people?' Except when I go to south-east asia of course.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

except those south-east asian people aren't absent because of a systematic program of demoralisation/murder etc

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure what this has to do with syd/melb being "international" though???

I'm with Andrew on this one - WTF does that even mean? I like Melbourne because it has fantastic cafes, bars, record and bookshops, loads of fantastic clubs of differing genres, lovely lovely people, well respected learning facilities, etc etc etc. Sydney otoh, in my personal view, feels very much less like you can find all those lovely treasures. I dont know why. No band scene neither.

You try growing up in Canberra then you come back to me and whine about either city! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it was just a chance to rant on my part Trayce ;-).

i see your canberra and raise you woy woy. recently suggested "live music" opportunities suggested to me: vince jones, billy field, alex lloyd.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd choose vince

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe he could be funny if he gets drunk enough and starts ranting about politics. it was suggested to me as a couples dinnerdate show :-(

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim, just out of interest, do you like the following bands:

The Sea and the Cake
The Fish John West Reject
Salmon Hater

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

sorta, sorta, don't know 'em

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i like Kim Salmon tho

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

sailor? billy ocean? nik fish?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Trout Fishing in Quebec?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Salmon Hater:

http://www.salmonhater.cjb.net/

Note that they have a song called 'Shark Sandwich'

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Make sure you read the biography page.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

How about these?

Country Joe and the Fish?
The Carp-enters?
Any band with a bass guitar in it?

(sorry)

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

SALMON HATER ROCK!!!!111LOL1!1!WTF

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Help, gaz has been kidnapped by AOLiens!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it was salmonhater followed by the man purse thread what done it.

maybe adelaide is better than syd or melb?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Half a dozen serial killers can't be wrong, gaz ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

adelaide? shorley shome mishtake?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i keep imagining jim sitting in his loungeroom, smoking a pipe, gluing together a perfect matchwood replica of the first fleet...

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

with my capacity for obsession anything is possible. even the pipe part

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

nu-hemingway (indie pop version)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim, do you like The Neptunes? The Dead C? Katrina and the Waves? Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

argh!!!

(i like the sea scouts!)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Melbourne's crap, by the way.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sydney sucks cocks in hell!!!! (edited because I'm a moderator! mwahahaha!)

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

take that back!

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

No gaz, he's talking about Sydey, not Sydney. He's right about Sydey, I met him once. He was from Melbourne, you know. Wore a beanie.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

*me buys Andrew many beers*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry gaz/Colin - I love youse guys really, honest I do.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you implying we're the same person, Trayce?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't that what googlism said colin?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey yeah. That's really frightening. For both of us.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

that would be bizarre and strangely interesting

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I'm after some lame, missed-the-boat electroclash from Melbourne but there's so much I don't know where to start. Can anyone advise?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

melbourne did what now? i thought we only did lame, missed-the-boat rock and roll

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

all this boat stuff...

was that you being me btw colin?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop tugging yer boats, lads ;)

... I'll get me coat.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The day I get a rise out of Jim is the day figs grow upon thorns. It must be all that time at sea, calming his nerves.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i am impervious due to enduring multiple beatdowns from trife

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Those would be critical beatdowns, Jim? Exactly what does a critical beatdown entail? It sounds awfully painful.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

nar it was more of a logistical beatdown

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

he said guitars were crap and laughed at my haircut

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

and the name of your band, haha!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

true :(

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

trife otm!

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

just kidding

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, like, wtf?

I actually think Critical Beatdown was the name of an Untramagnetic MCs record. A logistical beatdown is something else then.

Trife is clearly not a seafaring man. That much is clear. Steer your good tugboat to safer waters, Captain Jim.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

haha gaz OTM, like, wtf???

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yo no soy marinero. soy capitan soy capitan soy capitan

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing is, you guys go on and on about melbourne, but have you ever actually been to, like, tempe?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't that something vegans eat?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Tempe rocks.

ie, if you go to Tempe, you see rocks. And planes.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yo no soy marinero. jim locked in soy/seafaring fantasyland. actually there are some boats there in Tempe too...just down the hill on the highway. is that still Tempe?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought Tempe must be crap and run down cos of Tempe Tip. Which isnt actually a tip, I realise now. But I thought it was when I was a kid. I thought the whole suburb was just a big pile of garbage.

I am so bored.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

me too. 15 mins til hometime.

i actually think melbourne sounds quite nice

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah mate. There's an Irish pub over the highway. And that's it. You hear the aircraft taxiing around all day long.

Trayce, Tempe tip is a boon for poor folk like me. Half our furniture comes from tempe Tip. We drag it right across the highway like the white trash we are.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I'm SO sorry I'm boring you. No doubt you Melbournites have some nice art gallery opening to attend where people really push the envelope with their explorations of the interface between art, language, technology and the body.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the best day to hit the tip Colin? when do they get the good stuff???

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Melbournites. Yeah. We look at airconditioners and wank on about them being the artist at his most minimal. While we sip our chardonnay out of a beret standing in our blahniks.

(I'm bored with work, not this, fwiw. Mind you I think everyone but us lot started ignoring this thread about 6 bajillion posts ago)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

gallery opening = FREE FECKING BOOOZE

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Now someone's already told me that, but I've forgotten. Why not give 'em a call? We normally drag our arses down there early Sat morning.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was responding to gaz just then folks.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

not too many galleries open on saturday morning either way

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

not the ones with boooze anyway

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and has anyone mentioned you can get wine at Melbourne cafes? Gee, isn't everyone SO impressed by that. Like, have you thought of going to a pub instead??? What's the point of drinking alcohol in a cafe?? YOU GO TO A CAFE TO DRINK COFFEE.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i think sydney may have started that one by serving real coffee in pubs...

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

coffee in pubs?!?! bahahahahahaha

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

too funny. This thread is turning into the Pseudo Echo thread.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

someone told me there are still pubs in Freo were theres no wimmin allowed and the trough is right there, at the foot of the bar.

now thats how it should be!

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

erm gaz i think that's an ashtray.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Another thing I hate about Melbournites: they think they're respected in Europe. Well I've been to Europe and spoken to a few of the locals and they think you're all wankers.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

We think they're all wankers too, so it all evens out, like.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha!!! I feel much better, it's been a pig of a day but now I'm laughing like an idiot, thanks to you lovely c*nts.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

hey colin did you ever sort anything out with that record seeking fellow?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

He never replied!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe he thought you were an impostor trying to mess with his head

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's possible I s'pose. Or maybe someone had already sold it to him and he didn't bother replying because he's got no manners.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

if youre into beauty and your mind - melbourne
if youre into money and slickness - sydney

THE END

― katharine (katharine), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What about if you're into apostrophes, katharine?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What if you're out of your mind? OH MY GOD WHERE WILL I GO!?!?!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Darwin, Trayce.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, he'd be no help, he's bloody dead.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

'What about if you're into apostrophes, katharine? '

then you go to canberra and revel in your uptightness

― katharine (katharine), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually the place to go for uptightness is Adelaide. Or Shepparton.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

LAUNCESTON REPRAZENT

― etc, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never been to Launceston. is it nice?

also: if you're into beauty and your mind????????????????? i think you can keep yer melbourne.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it's just like new zealand!

― etc, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

sydney definitely has better bands at the moment, which is ironic since there is almost nowhere for them to play

You'll be looking for Popfrenzy & The Shake then! No longer in the Spanish Club (the cocked up their entertainment license by, er, never buying one in 43 years), now at the Taxi Club near Taylor's Square.

Having lived in Sydney for a year and visited Melbourne on two memorable occasions, I'd wave a flag for Sydney being pretty, and for Melbourne being...alive. If I ever moved back to Australia, it'd probably be to Melbourne. < /mytwocents>

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm stunned that in 160 odd (incl some very odd indeed) posts to this thread, there has only been one very brief mention of the specially character-building experience of being a motorist in Sydney.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Though I have to admit that as a pain-in-the-ass place to drive, Melbourne is fast catching up. With Citylink and the pick-up-the-kids-from-school run, afternoon peak these days goes from 2.30 pm to sunset. Although if you want real dynamite, put overstressed Sydney drivers on overloaded Melbourne roads.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

That is so true, Fred.

A few interesting things are happening for live bands in Sydney in clubs right now. Does anyone want to come with me to Uncle Swampy's Record Box this Friday at The Icebox, King's Cross? That could be fun.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i would if this hadn't been (and wasn't going to continue as)an exhausting week colin.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

So, to sum up:

There are only two great cities in this land of ours.

Melbourne is home to all that is beautiful and intelligent. Its village-like suburbs are filled with gingerbread houses and candyfloss trees. The city itself is a marvel of low-rise jade cathedrals surrounding a crystal fountain that the ruling magikal lords have deigned should flow free with silver coins for any of the denizens to dip their cups into.
And the people! High cheekboned and sensual, Melbournites are closer in spirit to the people of faerie than any other in the land. Such names they have! Electric Sound, Trayce, Lord Andrew and, er, Fred. Their laughter is like the tinkling of silver bells, delighting the ear as one strolls past the art houses and wine-serving coffeshops they love to meet at.

Sydney, on the other hand, is a turmoil of lust, greed, decadence and decay. The streets - either massive, choked, ironically named Freeways, or dark, narrow, dangerous alleys – are overrun with huge rats, mutating packs of vicious dogs, and sleek limousines in which property developers glide, looking for junkie hookers to murder. The buildings tower overhead, in a retards imitation of New York, their broken windows revealing a population of zombie-workers.
The people, best characterised by the two-headed monstrosity colgaz, are fearsome throwbacks only interested in their own tawdry satisfaction. Badly educated and brain damaged colgaz lurks on the very edges of what might be called the inhabitable, dragging soiled goods from the slimy, scuttling, vermin infested garbage dumbs to furnish their maggot-ridden asbestos dwellings.

Sydney has better bands though.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a class post colin - by the low standards of Sydney of course. I would put it in Excelsior except that I'm the only person who's going to think it's funny.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks gaz

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

that was beautiful

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You know what scares me? I didn't mean to write 'colin'. I meant to write 'gaz'.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

except for the bits at the top about me and urine this is my favourite thread of all time, followed very closely of course by pseudo echo

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ha! i'd forgotten about that urine! what was that about?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

troughman himself only knows

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Great post. Try reading it out loud in the manner of David Attenborough.

Not so much a distortion of my views as a caricature.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry but it IS going on the LOL thread. It deserves to.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I AM COOOMING FOR YOOOU MR SURFACE NOISE

― troughman, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

waaah

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

What are you having for dinner in Melbourne, you artsoft wankers? I'm having plain chips, salt and vinegar chips, squirms (sour snakes), dark chocolate, and a tall glass of chilled soy milk. My girlfriend has chicken pox, you see.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

roast chicken and salad

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Beef stroganoff. Oh dear Jim, I think we've just stereotyped ourselves.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

wahey!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Glass of chardonnay, dear?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm yes please

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Home-made minestrone for lunch, chicken kiev (from Safeways) for tea, washed down with a mug of Nescafe Blend 43. No latte. No tofu either (not even sure I would know what the stuff looked like), and def no chardonnay. The very rare times I buy wine these days, it's usually red.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i had a plate of baked potatoes! our gas bottle ran out and i couldn't cook anything to go with them.

also: no real coffee this morning, just *bleuuurk* instant.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My beef strog was out of a packet from the supermarket if thats any consolation *pout*.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

But Melbourne has Mandy Kane, of course. That counts for something. MffffwhhhAHHAHAHHAHAAAhuuuuh. Hmmmm.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

mandy kane is top 30 this week.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i blame rove

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

(to Mandy Kane, not Rove)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

from aria.com.au:

No.27 BILLY BONES – Mandy Kane.

Dandenong local Mandy Kane scored a top 20 single with his debut Stab, which stayed in the top 40 for the next three weeks. Billy Bones is the follow up single from the sexually ambiguous rocker and has performed strongly in its first week of release. Kane’s debut album is titled Tragic Daydream and will be released in the new year

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

tragic daydream

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I deny ever having anything to do with Goth, ever, as of this moment.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgive you Trayce.

(is that tacit approval of Rove from Tim????)

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Tragic Daydream is a great title for his album. I urge you to visit his website:

http://www.mandykane.com/home.asp

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Great as in highly appropriate, you mean? >:D

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh he's like a goth Darren Hayes. *shudder*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Trayce, I just love it in a vacuous, Sydney kind of way. Check out this bit from the section called 'My Own Reflection' where he muses on life and art:

KILL THE INFECTED [25-Oct-2003]

I finally saw the movie "28 Days later..." tonight. It was quite good, and featured some really atmospheric sequences. However, a group of primates sitting behind us insisted on talking throughout the entire film. I felt compelled to slaughter these useless plebs as if they were 'infected' like the zombies on screen. If it were up to me, all people who disregard common courtesy would be put on an island as far away from me as possible, where they could talk as much as they wanted in the cinema.

To me it is evident that society needs division. We were not created to exist on one level. If we were all the same, there would be no order and chaos would prevail. Zombies are driven entirely by instinct, which inevitably results in anarchy. 'Regular' people are driven by lust, greed and a host of other deadly sins. This results in division and hierarchy, because only the strongest and smartest survive. In turn, a society is born which creates and sustains a civilisation through progress and technology.

So, which is worse - a world full of zombies, or people like us?

-MK.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh mandy you came and you gave without taking

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

obviously mandy has never experienced the pineapple zombie blowjob

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Durkheim, Mead, Hugh Mackay, eat your hearts out!

'I have found the future of Sociology, and his name is... MANDY KANE???'

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how a tryhard goth from Dandenong thinks he's better than the plebs behind him at a film. Thats classic.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Whinging about the yobbos in the cinema is classic Mike Monro's Current Affair or HS 50-50 column stuff, and surely that's about as un-goth as you can get while remaining rooted to planet Earth.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That's hilarious Fred. Another classic moment from Mandy's diary:

CHROME MOONSHINE [13-Jun-2003]

What is it with full moons? The band and I played a show at a tiny club in the city last night, and I swear, everyone was going berserk. Rie, my lovely bass player, arrived in the alley-way to load in her gear and was confronted by the startling sight of a homeless guy with no pants on, slumped against the wall. He was apparently taking a dump.

So, then I get a call from Nick, my drummer, asking where I was.

"There's a gang at the end of the alley chroming...." he said.

"Be there in 5 seconds... I'm just around the corner."

As I passed the local convenience store, I saw this guy sitting on top of someone, pinning them to the ground. At first, I thought they were just messing around, but then he started pummelling the other person. Within seconds, a fleet of cop cars pulled up.

When I arrived, the chromers were eyeing us suspiciously, but I didn't think they meant any harm. It's sad to see how people can fuck up their lives so easily.

Anyway, we managed to strategically load in all our gear down 2 flights of stairs, and played a great show. But it wasn't over yet...

I left with Nick to get both of our cars while Matty-Ray and Rie stayed to watch the gear. As we were approaching the alley, I heard a screech of tyres, followed by a massive crash. Some guy had rammed his slick car up the rear end of a cab. A cop car was conveniently waiting nearby, and pulled up immediately. I laughed to myself as I passed. What a dickhead.

On the way home, sirens were blazing, lights were flashing and choppers were circling. A number of police cars with searchlights circled one oval I passed - obviously hunting someone down. There was an uneasy tension in the air, but it was strangely exhilarating.

It kind of reminded me of New York. At the time, it's sort of scary to be in those situations. But it's like a roller coaster. Once you get off, you just wanna go again!!! In a way, that's how I see my music.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my sides.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

this is like some tragic daydream

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Jim - whats sad is apparently milli loves these guys. Or maybe that's not sad at all, heh. Oh god - I HAVE FRIENDS LIKE THIS.

Right thats it I'm moving to Sydney.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

no, wait: colin loves them too.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

then you will be forced to have FAPs with colin and gaz and troughman

(xp)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

So everyone in Melbourne has a diary like that then? Trayce, I don't know if you'll be welcome in Sydney - do you love money more than beauty? Do you have a gold tooth, sunglasses, and an Armani suit? Are you a hooker with a heart of stone? If the answer is 'yes' then come on over.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, you all smell ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

but thats just cos of troughman. and he's a lovely guy when you get to know him

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, stop taking the piss out of him.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Haw haw haw.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 30 October 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh now come on Andrew, no need to call Colin one of those! ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

what colin didnt let on is that about a month ago, Colin, a statuesque lady friend of his and I went to see the Kane gang debut in this little inner city pub.

worse than anthrax.

But I realised that what mandy brought to this nasty town was a sense of theatre- you know this guy is a showman- and there just aint much of that around these days cos were all too busy trying to make bucks up here to take the time with hair,makeup and organising the kind of backing band that looked like it fell through a worm hole in 1986 Los aAngeles shortly after stepping off stage with Pat Benatar.

Now thats what melbourne has lots of that sydney doesnt- theatre sports. Theatre sports is just so zany isnt it?

you got mandy and theatre sports- I can see why you pity us.

― bryce wilson, Thursday, 30 October 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

'worse than anthrax' - may be taken in either of two ways; but each is quite accurate.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Hi AustraliLX, I need your help.

RockWiz is on SBS tomorrow night at 9.20pm, and I'm a contestant.

Does anyone have any means of digitally recording stuff off the telly - DVD recorder, HD recorder, PC, Mac etc - and if so could I get a copy somehow, somewhere? I'd 'tape' it on 'VHS' but the signal's noisy in my apartment, and I always have trouble emailing cassettes to the folks back home.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help! (huey at arclife.co.uk)

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 16 November 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and Melbourne by country mile.

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 16 November 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

yes i can give it a go - it will give me a chance to see if the file transfer utility in my PVR works

― electricsound, Friday, 16 November 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I can give it a bash as well Huey. And awesome, good luck!

― Trayce, Friday, 16 November 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

Also, haw:

I deny ever having anything to do with Goth, ever, as of this moment.

-- Trayce (trayce), Thursday, October 30, 2003

LOLZ.

― Trayce, Friday, 16 November 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate it.

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 16 November 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

I love this show, break a leg!

― badg, Friday, 16 November 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

I think I already did. I recorded it a few weeks ago - aced the audition, finally finding a use all that pointless music trivia soaking up my brain, but then the show itself turned out to be a New Zealand music special... I won't tell you just how many of those Kiwi questions I got right, but it's a fairly 'round' number, if you catch my drift. Enjoy!

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

I think this was one of my very first threads.

― moley, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

Weren't we chirpy back then? We were younger.

― moley, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

I was way more dad jokes then too.

― Trayce, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone changed their mind 4 years on?

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

was this really the very first mong thread??

― electricsound, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps if you'd watched this you'd know more about the history of New Zealand music and street fashion. Not really related to the question at hand but I've been itching for a chance to post it somewhere. Oh yeah and I'll vote for Melbourne because no-one calls it Gods Country.

― badg, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

Jim: Pseudo Echo one was before this wannit?

― Trayce, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

Damn. This thread hasn't degenerated into a slanging match.
-- colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 14 July 2003 16:11

lolololol

― haitch, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

yair true xpost. but i'm sure this came before di's first mong/fuxor thred

― electricsound, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Huey, someone else I know was just on it (and won!), and he said they don't even give you a beer, let alone a free beer, so fuck 'em, the cunts, and make sure you stash a couple in your pockets.

― S-, Friday, 16 November 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

No free beer no, and sadly no make-up either. But one of the assistants gave me a fag in the car park, and there was half a bottle of warm water under the desk, so I musn't grumble.

― Huey in Melbourne, Friday, 16 November 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

lol u got ripped off by sbs lol

― King Boy Pato, Friday, 16 November 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

YSI that shit jim or trayce, I am going to an gig tonight and will miss it. (a bloke from w0rk was on while I was away too, sadly)

― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 17 November 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

rockwiz successfully recorded, now just working out how to edit it.

what form do you want it in huey? dvd? mpeg?

― electricsound, Saturday, 17 November 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Jim! I guess any quality, sendable format would be great - mpeg, avi etc. Is it easy to YSI it?

― Huey in Melbourne, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

...or DVD might be even better - I can compensate you for your time, postage & packing etc?

― Huey in Melbourne, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

cool, that should be easy - send me an email by adding a @hotmail.com to my login

― electricsound, Sunday, 18 November 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Thank god you recorded it Jim, I completely forgot to :(

― Trayce, Sunday, 18 November 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

it's lucky that it worked too, my pvr is being a little bicth with the EPG side of things

― electricsound, Sunday, 18 November 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

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