Screw this, I'm off to the pub: mongrels and sheepfuxors, autumn edition

old one, for historians: Working on the notion that 'the mongrels may bark but the sheepfuxors move on'

can you actually tra(y)ce back through all the mong-fux threads with the obligatory old linxxx? did we miss any??

Order me two shots of a cheapish tequila and 2 beers of any type.

and if you meet anyone that has a first name beginning w/ an ' A ' tell them to F Off. It will be fun. Truest.

wow, an honorary thread and a F Off in the space of 20 minutes. I am either humbled or torn.

I'm sick.

This is a well named mongrel thread indeed. Good work.

HI DERE! I am in the wollongong once more. My lost jacket from last week has not turned up. I don't know which of the these things is most surprising:

1: that whoever found it did not hand it in to lost property,
2: that I am even remotely shocked that 1 happened,
3: that I owned something someone else wanted for their own

(kit has seen the item in question, a nice casual blue jacket)

That sucks - losing a treasured jacket is the pits.

I once had a sense of humour, you know - check out a blast from my past - never released, this one is from about 1991:

http://www.last.fm/music/Pelican+Daughters/_/Beautiful+Balloons

I played it to an uber-cool Spanish friend of mine back in the day and he said, 'I see you in a polo neck, riding a bicycle'.

not bad needs more slap bass

It's like mully never left

hahaha :)

I have to find me a new place to live in three months time. Argh!!

In even worse news: I broke me sunnies to-day getting sourdough bread at the Central Market :(

only you could break your glasses buying bread

have you considered moving from adelaide?

of course that would probably be a bad idea considering there's nowhere to rent in melb or on the east coast

Argh don't say that, Nick has to move house in a few months.

i am considering subletting my shed

Yes, I have considered moving to Melbourne...but I don't want to be stuck way out in the burbs (and I'm not keen on going without a job offer). Adelaide might be many things but at least I can live within five minutes of the city in a decent cottage and only pay $125 pw for the privilege. Which is why my credit card bill is better than all of youse.

That all said, a few friends are considering moving over sometime and have suggested that we start up some kinda commune in St. Kilda...

st kilda (not east trayce) is a horrid shithole

Yeah, I haven't told my (American and Kiwi) friends that just yet.

I also haven't told them that you can't get Coopers on tap in Melbourne.

categorically untrue

Well, I remember that it's DIFFICULT and NOT EASY.

st kilda (not east trayce)

lol :)

Aw man, we are listening to a Nik Kershaw album. Haha. Actually it isnt that bad, for 80s proggy synthpop.

You can't rent shit in Melbourne. It's fucked. You can't buy either because the market's up its own arsehole. All week we've had to listen to the people downstairs play their fucking harp nonstop and we can't get away.

That sounds awful.

You can't buy ANYWHERE. Not even in Adelaide. Not even in Hobart. Not even in Wagga Wagga!

Aw man, we are listening to a Nik Kershaw album.

Did you play THE RIDDLE??

I used to LOVE the riddle!

Right now I'm listening to the Triffids' Beautiful Waste. Fuck I love this song too

yeah

you guys should all move to perth

also my moms reports theyre taking people on buses to view rented place in sydney? im not sure if this is some kind of weird rent auction bid out war or what. she says the same thing happened many years ago.

oh and a one bedroom apartment in sydney outersuburbs is costing $380ish/wk. who can afford that shit?? thats as much as the mortgage on our new bitchin' 2212sqft house. now i think about it, maybe you should all move to middle america.

Perth is the most ridiculous of any aus city I thought?

Maybe that's just in those mining towns where it costs 20 thousand million dollars a month to rent a fibro shack.

I don't mind the old Perthy Perth.

Yeah ss, Perth is probably the stupidest city for prices atm.

haha move to Perth! That's classic. You'd only move to Perth if you won the lotto. My rent has increased by 80% in the last 18 months. My income hasn't increased at all in that time. The rental vacancy rate is under 0.5%. And let's not even mention affordability for purchasing a home. I'm getting really scared thinking about the future for me, and I'm in a relatively high paying profession. Fuck knows what it feels like to be in the shoes of an unskilled labourer or a single parent.

Well being a single parent in Sydney is very scary - but you must never let them know you're scared!

I'm going to move to Brisbane soon. Australia's most livable city! Even though I think there are studies or some shit that suggest this isn't the case at all.

I've never ever had problems finding a rental place, but to be honest it's been a while since I last had to try. I can't help thinking the panic people are describing relates mainly to larger homes, and esp people in groups or families trying to rent homes in the city - a single person going for a 2brm flat wouldnt have too much trouble (I mean shit, there's places saying "for lease" in my street all the time, people come and go) but the kicker certainly is the cost.

that may be true for melbs. But it certainly isn't true for Perth. I live in a 2BR in a complex of 80 units. When I moved in in late 2002 it was full of singles and poor folks. Now it's full of actual families. Even 1BR flats go to the first inspection here. And for exorbitant amounts of money. There just is nowhere to live.

it's way, way more difficult than it was even two years ago. i was lucky to find a place that nobody else wanted - every other place i looked at / considered applying for had thirty or more people turn up to the open houses.

I think the scariest part is knowing what the turnaround time would be for trying to fix the problem... the reality is that creating new public housing is going to have a lead time of several years. What happens in the meantime? Lots and lots of homeless people I suspect. And the rest of us will be stuck paying big proportions of our income on grotty old properties. Boohoo.

Trayce, it really is that bad now. Trust me. I know some people who have plunged themselves into massive debt because there's nothing to rent.

Howard is a cunt.

xp Yeah Gem, you've got it worse than any of us. This country really is going to shit very quickly. All we can do is try to keep our shitty noisy flat and save for when the market busts.

Well if its that bad how come theres at least 3 flats for rent every week in my street??

I wonder how long I can sit and quietly watch sekritbored without anyone realising I can see it. Hilarity.

i would imagine if you don't post then probably indefinitely

it's quite possible those flats are overpriced or unliveable, maybe it's just a lucky coincidence

They don't take the signs down, Trayce.

there was a house on lygon st towards the city that was for rent for three months or so - finally got let out last week. i figure there must have been a huge hole in the floor or roof or perhaps it stank of cat wee because it looked like a lovely place from the outside

xxp also what jim said.

I dunno I reckon people are just fussy. One friend of mine was talking about moving the other day and he said "what flats can I get for under $180 a week" (2 brm that is) and everyone was like "youre joking right?"

I'd be prepared to pay $350 a week for a 2 bedroom house around my way.

Then again I may well be talking right out of my arse. I usually do ;)

that doesn't seem impossible - although it won't be fancy

As long as I have a dishwasher and a bath, I dont care about how old and crummy the rest of the place is.

Which is why I'm happy where I am, really (tho it'd be nice to be able to rehearse without annoying the neighbs)

Move to Invercargill!!

3 bedroom house - $200ish NZ p/w.

wow!

sasha was talking about invercargill the other day.. is it a student town?

gloaming starts early now innit.

yes

but hey its friday. there's a shag opening tonight too

a what?

shag opening

again?

Is this shag the art exhibit ...thingy? Someone mentioned seeing it(them? him?) at the Bakery in Perf.

shag opening

xpost yep, g was there while it was open in perth

him

trayce & rib, with moley on the decks

http://www.blabshow.com/artwork/shag-2.jpg

rob obv

is it a student town?

Probably not as much as Dunedin - Invercargill does have the Southern Institute of Technology which has a zero fees scheme, so probably draws quite a few people for that. Also has amusing stoner mayor Tim Shadbolt!

Probably quite cold down there now though.

would prefer an opening shag at this point, tbh.

a what?

-- Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 April 2008 13:17 (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

you heard

http://vintage-retro.punchstock.com/images/galleries/vintage-objects/600-00910939.jpg

Hey my boobs arent that pointy.

(er, obviously that was something of an extended xpost, I dont think I look like a telephone)

not even an ericofon?

This is probably TMI, but have any of you guys squeezed a testicle by accident? It fucking hurts.

nnno

Yeah thanks for that, really needed to know.

^trayce will use this information against us all

it's a body part, I didn't tell you what my spunk tastes like

it's leading up to that though, isn't it

sonic boom plus the pebbs at NSC on sunday! that might be orrite.

o rly

i will go to that

CINNAMON

oh sorry

you are so banned if i ever become a mod

cinnabanned

can you actually tra(y)ce back through all the mong-fux threads with the obligatory old linxxx? did we miss any??

at least one got missed, I went traycing back the other day when moley and estela were talking about posting pics as old british colonels or something, to try and find kate's pics of me as demented prussian general...or something. couldn't do it.

that was quite recently tho i thot? do you want me to find?

wld have been april or may last year - no need now, the joke has passed. tho maybe for archival porpoises!

maybe the name of my next project should be cinnamon spunk

xpost ok ill have a lookseee

cinnamon spunk: shoegaze b-side title

happy weekend mongs, I'm off to drink cocktails

here we go

Please Welcome to the Stage.....The Sheepfuxor-Mongrel All-Stars

oh that's the bang one. sadly the other one appears to be no longer there

Just scoffed a packet of Burger Rings to compensate for being at work late, feels pretty good!

i'm on my third beer!

(at work)

burger rings, now there's a thought

i am now on beer #5 and listening to fleetwood mac

this is living

wau

I'm on the wine I got from my boss at Xmas. Huzzah!

I would like to see that mongrel thrad where Kate was doing cartoons of some of us. Anyone know where it is?

Jim, this thread is for your:

thread for dom et al about the miss england finalist

wo

That's a whole lot of Rosie.

I'm sposed to be going to the Corner for a friend's birthday but Rob is playing Cannibal Corpse tracks and I'm drinking and feeling lazy.

...I'm not sure I like this music.

moley will pick on you if you don't go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-V3NYckOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKGiOY72ru4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo0QqpVbbUU&feature=related

I believe someone requested this one:

http://kateobriencreative.com/koc_images/image_0139.jpg

Personally, I prefer this one:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/475998051_88de99297d.jpg

I love em both.

It was probably one of my most memorable experiences photographing someone.

I feel kind of intruding for coming into this thread but I thought this was too good not to point out:

http://www.faithmouse.com/fosters-is-australian-for-beer.gif

Yeah I thought it was all good until I realised it was Aussie e-turf.

hahah is that meant to be based on the wombat-rape nutcase? Crazy.

I drank so much yesterday I gave myself a migraine. When even the dark is still too bright for the eyes you know you ain't well. Ugghh. Only been able to kill it off about an hour ago.

Oh and csa, this being mongrel turf doesn't mean allcomers aren't welcome. Hell, Abb and Ned often stick their heads in here.

My wife tells me that I am spiritually Australian.

The mongrels thread welcomes all visitors, as long as they drive carefully.

spectrum roll call

1) me

No threads are private since sna, are they?

I was just taught by legendary Britisher improvisor Deb0rah Franc3s-Wh1te (she is excellent btw) and am supposed to be going to her stand-up show tonight but cbf.

Another comedy festival, another year of seeing nothing for some reason.

i haven't engaged with the comedy festival at all this year.. not intentionally but that's just how it seemed to work out.

I want to enjoy the comedy festival, but 90 percent of it is dire.

Big weekend. Large one on friday night acting was wingman for recent divorcee friend back on the lash and then my birthday drinks last night at 1806. Drank a lot of 19thC drinks with names like Corpse Reviver and the Fish House Punch.

i spent an actual fortune on a painting

I've been feeling all day that I've been clubbed by several bottles of Penfold's Cabernet Merlot.

Which really wasn't far off from the truth last night.

that's quite a novel way of altering consciousness

i spent an actual fortune on a painting

-- electricsound, Sunday, 13 April 2008 18:59 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

detail pls

Hey we have a FEMALE governor general now. That means the highest office in the country is FEMALE. Howard days over over gone.

And she's quite a nice lady, really.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!

Someone call Andrew Bolt, quick.

Usually people call Andrew Bolt slow!

Oh and csa, this being mongrel turf doesn't mean allcomers aren't welcome. Hell, Abb and Ned often stick their heads in here.

cool.

I will certainly drive well, also.

adam: a shag painting. it's green and has two birds innit

Ohhhhhhh. Ornithology.

So should I buy that keyboard when I get paid this week y/n

y

i can recommend a bunch of groovy soft synths

so anyway sonic was pretty good last night. great versions of 'suicide' and 'when tomorrow hits' with dimmer as backup band, also kraftwerk cover

what was hilaire in the KW cover (hall of mirrors) was that he kept screwing up the rhyme of 'stars' and 'glass' by singing glass like 'ass' as opposed to 'arse'

oh for fuck's sake

I has a good softsynth piano module Jim, its a Tascam one of all things, but the most realistic grand sound I've yet found in soft format.

Still gotta learn how to use something a bit more mature than freakin fruityloops though.

And we fergot abt spectrum, bugs.

depending on how much you want to spend you could go with anything from reaper (cheap!) to ableton live (not cheap! but better!)

i don't like softsynth pianos particularly. i'm in it for the electromechanicals

Wait, reaper, shurely you mean Reason - Reaper's a multitrack soft-recorder not a synth.

And I have a copy of Ableton live lite (dont like it), Reason (dont understand it) and Buzz (Rob loves it, I cant work it the hell out). And a bunch of samples and various VST plugins.

obv the idea is to get away from all that and get back to live instruments, we're almost done setting up the study as a music room. Just need to deaden the acoustics. At the moment, if you clap loudly in there, the sound of a clap actually reverberates rapidly back and forth for over a second. Its insane.

no i meant reaper. what are you recording into then?

live lite is a joke, i don't think it is actually intended for anyone to use it

xpost

Oh ok, well the only recording I've done so far is just stuff in FL ported out to mp3 - Rob's done some stuff in Reaper, but we have a mixer and some rack effects as well so we dont really need it... I'm thinking of buying hard disk digital 8 track at some point tho.

U can tel I no nuffink bout this shit.

fair enough. i read nothing else but web forums and audio engineering mags for six months when i was getting into all this stuff

I'm thinking of buying hard disk digital 8 track at some point tho.

don't do this - there's no value in doing this over a PC DAW, in fact quite the opposite

don't quite understand why you wouldn't want to record each instrument etc to separate tracks for greater editing / mixing possibilities but that might just be me set in my ways

Even if you have a mixer and racks I'd still go w/ DAW as Electricsound mentioned. Your computer should be fast enough these days to get a decent track count w/o crashing, especially if you bounce tracks together. 8 tracks may be a little to little though, in my opinion. I'm semi-semi-pro.

actually i have a fostex hard drive 8 track thing, some of the buttons are broken but all the essential features work as far as i know. you're welcome to try it out for shits and giggles.

i was too broked for spectrum last night. grr.

what was hilaire in the KW cover (hall of mirrors) was that he kept screwing up the rhyme of 'stars' and 'glass' by singing glass like 'ass' as opposed to 'arse'

no, i was pretty keen to get home at that point, but the stuff he played beforehand was nothing special, lots of dean wareham related stuff, street hassle, some panda bear..

lol, club bangerz

oddly enough one of the dean+britta tracks was quite groovy, i think it was off the recent remix ep

don't quite understand why you wouldn't want to record each instrument etc to separate tracks for greater editing / mixing possibilities

Oh that will get done. Just need to get things set up properly. Right now the only full tracks being written are ones R is composing entirely in Buzz, ie electronic tracks. And I think one or 2 where he's also ported in a bassline or guitar line as a wav.

I need to do a short course in audio eng or something, I feel way out of my depth :/

erm

http://news.theage.com.au/nurofen-plus-may-be-prescriptiononly/20080414-261v.html

Oh bloody heck.

Though its interesting they focus on ibuprofen, which I dont use (cant - allergic to it). I've never seen panadiene et al in 72 packs like I have neurfen plus. Even I'm amazed at how the codeine dosage has crept UP over the years - from 8mg to avg 10 per tab now. Its bizarre to say the least.

Suffice to say tho, I'd be fucked if this happens.

That is bad. I'm fucking sick of this knee jerk reaction to anything which might be slightly addictive (EXCEPT THE SAINTED PRODUCTS OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO, PLEASE BUY MORE). You can kill yourself with paracetamol, but not codeine ffs.

I don't take Nurofen, my preferred tablet is Mersyndol but I have no idea what the active ingredient in that is. YOu can't get addicted to what you don't understand! (I think it's a lot weaker, whatevs it is) but I do admit buying a BIG pack of Nurofen for a friend, he'd already bought as much as he could.

Sash otm.

Mersyndol has codiene in it. Mersyndol day is same as panadiene. Mersyndol regular also has a muscle relaxant in it - well its actually an oldschool antihistamine, but has a sedative effect.

Neurofen isnt addictive. Neurofen plus kind of is, cos like panadiene, it has codiene in it. Which is mildly addictive. If you're a twerp like I am.

Codeine makes me feel real good about being a dumb slut.

I take packets of Nurofen Plus over to America because they can't get it.

I admit, since I started playing gridiron I've started to take a lot more Nuro Plus. I can see how it could get a hold of you. I've switched to Advil. Jesus that better not be addictive.

Oh good, it's not. But it's probably not a good idea to do half a pack at a time when I've pulled something.

Uhh.. no, it is not! and because of the ibuprof, not the codiene! Yargh. And here I was thinkin' you'd lecture me on this ;P

o wait learn 2 reed trayce.

Kataklysm, coming to Australia, send a message to their fans and grapple with Aussie lingo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6mMu-NtI1s&eurl=http://www.thedeciblog.com/

jim are you still playing g!g in sydders this thurs nite?

Mongs, I've got seriously bad back pain. It's not good :(

try Nurofen Plus

No, I'll stick to Heroin, thanks.

on the real though, prescription-strength Voltaren is the booooomb for back pain

or eat like six of the over-the-counter variety and have some wine

I never take painkillers. Only because I never have pain mind you, not because my body is a temple or any crap like that. I remain sickeningly free of illness and injury. If I get a headache I know it means I need new glasses... i.e. I only get headaches every 2 or 3 years. I'm waiting for this to all come crashing down and I'll contract some thundering chronic disease that will render me helpless for years.

word

yep k1t we're still playing on thurs.. i'll get the gig details for yiz

Heroin's probably cheaper than Neurofen Plus anyway.

LMC syd gig details

^not a rickroll

ok will see if I can make it - gaz was keen but is school hols so he won't be around, and I'm trying to catch up with a friend who's home from England for five days only :(

Hurrah! My (uber-fashionable, well-dressed) brother is throwing out LOADS of clothes and I AM SCORING, including (I hope) a pair of jeans that are too tiny for him now that I tried on once and MADE ME LOOK SO HOTTTT I nearly died when I saw myself in a mirror.

RESULT!

Also, I am eating chicken sandwiches and they are quite good.

i ated the finest chicken sandwich last night.

bread
one (1) slice jarlsberg cheese
bits of 'southern style' roast chicken
bread

nice, but no mayo?

i have a somewhat vexed relationship with mayo.

ed: pics

Of the sandwich? Sadly, I ated it. Actually, really it was a breadroll, with some cheese melted on it to start with, then with roast chicken on it, a touch of soy sauce, some onion, lettuce and, MENTALISM, I drizzled it with sesame seeds because there were none on the roll.

mmmmm

My workmates are playing something - YT or a flash game or some shit, god only knows - and all I can hear over the partition are exaggerated fart noises and a lot of giggling. Tards.

And if they sing "I've never been to me" one more time there will be death in the afternoon.

serious trayce

xxxp no you nong, you in your supposedly hot trousers

Srs Trayce is srs.

She also just got dorito all over her pants :(

dorito pants dorito pants

imagine an actual pair of dorito pants

what a wonderful world it would be

corn jorts

too far!!

A jort too far.

I have not received the wondrous package yet, Adam! I will be scoring by mail when it are sent down from tha BNE.

RAH.

I will photograph the next sandwich I make too!

RAH

I am making leek and mushroom risotto with garlic turkish bread for dinner. Felt like spoiling the lad.

Ooooh, there's a joke there I could make.

You could, but that would mean you'd have to come up with a half decent sense of humour, and then the moment will have passed.

I have a cold :(

a code?

Hab a cod.

so what fun stuff should i do on my drive to and from sydney.. other than smoke fags and drink a case of red bull

mallee bull

http://www.birchip.com/Birchip/Business/Images/Bull.jpg

what a load of bull

you've never seen a bigger pair of concrete testicles

Hay I thoughy you quit smoeks jim >:<

Ah, fuck a typing.

thowwy

i did! but its a road trip innit

can one actually do a "road trip" in the trad sense by themselves?

wdyll talking to an artist

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmajones/2410352292/

Mr Shag looks like oor Haitch.

God dammit too many bands playing all at once. Gray Dats this Friday, then next week there's the computer music gig at ACMI *and* Porcupine Tree on the same bloody night. And I still dont have tix for Helmet.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/04/16/1208025236900.html

CALAMARI

mmmm

fun fact: grey dats drummer started out in g3rs3y, of all bands

Holy shit thats a mufuggin huge squid.

Yeah, Jim does look like a squid, nyuck nyuck nyuck.

You're not even trying anymore!

that's the calamari king to you xpost

I'm not using my A-grade material here!

HOLY SHIT I JUST HAD TO SELL MY COMPANY TO A LOAD OF ASPIES

http://homepage.smc.edu/nestler_andrew/nerds.gif

adam's shareholders, yesterday

i was considering registering 'ass b. rube' as a sockpuppet account. good idea y/n

y, A+++

Amusing story about my sex life: last night I was told after a booty call with a lady that I am "like Sting in the sack".

I don't know if I want that description.

are you sure she didn't say "you, like, stink in the sack"?

Certainly not!

sting's into that tantric business, you know.

that and striped jumpers.

Yep, must be the striped jumpers then.

sting has stung
his nob is ris
i wonder where
the regaine is

Hahahahah!

oh em gee

I am reading through the training guide PDFs t3lstra who1esale provide for their online DSL and voice ordering system.

This system is known as LOL.

Cracking up, here.

(the system itself is not at all new to me, but the fact it's called LOL always amuses)

i applied for naked DSL but apaz my phone line is unsuitable. >:(

I still can't work out if it's really worth the hassle anyway, cos they make you take up stupid phone bundles and crap I dont need.

doesn't sound terribly naked to me

Boob Tube DSL, at a stretch.

I ssssssaaw you laaaaaaast night Haaaaaaitch, I knew where you weeeeereeeeee.

Lygon Street, lookin' tired. I was carrying pizzas, also tired.

lygon st? why you guize in my hood

The missus wanted a special kind of pizza and to obtain stocks of root beer.

i work on drumm0nd st

can imagine i probably was lookin tired! i look terrible atm.

We just checked the repayments on a $500,000 loan (2br flat in this street). Seriously if rentals jump to meet property values like they are in Perth (and they will) we're going to have to leave the country.

(no hyperbole here, we are actually going to have to leave)

there is no question things are grim

Worst part is it'll hit ~1,000,000 people before it hits us.

I don't give a shit what analysts say, the whole thing's about to collapse.

2012 is nearly here

What happens in 2012?

world ends

Huzzah!

Well I dunno, my rent hasn't been leaping up to meet the ridiculous inflationz, but I suppose I'm v lucky. It didnt go up at *all* for about 6 years and then only in $20/month increments once a year, so I'm still paying wayyyy less for this place than it would go for again now. Kinda like rent control I suppose.

*touches lots of wood*

*waits to be added to out of context thread*

sadly enough many landlords are getting wise and booting out long term tenants to make up for all the rent they're "missing out on"

Indeed they are. Luckily our agent and landlord love us because we look after the place, but if they boot us out we really are fucked.

Trayce, you're definitely lucky. Ours goes up ~$65/month every year, (it's on $1430/month now), and I think that even this is lucky.

got yr message k1t

Our place is $1192 a month. We could afford much more, but fuck dat.

oi jim its mully (fuck knows how i remembered login hree...don't ask!) quite keen. kit mentioned. wanna get the old yellow waterproof and spraygun you from crowd.
bit of a trek from home tho - when you arrive? any chance of a bevy? love to finally meet.

G

ring or text me, yeah?

hey gaz! will be leaving melbs round 6am so anticipate arrival round 4-5ish. s/check isn't til 7 so there's a window of opportunity there.. will let you know by phone when i have a clear picture of ETA

xpost will do!

so i should get on train, ja?

its ON!!!!

haha!

I'll try to contact kitten but he's playing coy at mo. YOU BASHTARD CHRIS. regardless i'll come down, nip into work (i'm on hols at mo) and be around for pre sndcheck drinks if yr around. if no - can i get name on door????? and what time u playing?

is mole coming?

i will certainly see what i can do about door. i think we're on 8.30-9? don't know if the mole is coming!

i gotta email him. man this is an EVENT

and confusing to the average observer!

fuckin early innit

truth.

uh huh

Still sick pls kill me.

So sorry I can't make it - I have booked sussudio time tonight in the city. I wish you all well. Please do toast absent friends tonight. Jim, break a piano key and good luck.

edward - you wanna go see jim play at a posh theatre?

wau, I just chaired a meeting with 20 grown adults, five of whom acted like fucking children. Going to kick some arse.

Do tell?

Yes, do tell.

Jim, heard your stuff -it's insanely delicate, if it were china I'd save it for the less rowdy guests. Are you a songwriter in this ensemble? I'm guessing yes, based on the piano...?

I would, but I get this idea it's on a Thursday innit?

it's today...

Sydney is letting Jim down 100% again :( Be around on Friday Jim! Or weekend!

I think I'm going have to move to Melbourne, secured job or no secured job. Can't handle Adelaide anymore - no decent jobs and all people want to do here is get married and have kids. Despite the cost of living...

I canna do Thursdays ever :( I are in teh WOL.

Good use of the IATA code there!

Oh god... can airlines really not afford to ban anyone under 15 from flying?

Also NO liquids means NO HONG KONG duty free!!!??? fux. Luckily arrival DF at tullamarine was there to provide the basics...

How was the gig & FAP then?

You're all still in bed then? In which case I can assume it was a very good night.

Sydney is letting Jim down 100% again :(

oh well. we had a sold out crowd! i only cowrite some of the music in that particular combo, i don't think either of the songs i've contributed to are on the myspack

having driven for 17 hours over the last two days it feels tremendously weird to be not moving

I'm *STILL* sick, wtf, some kind of mono-type bug makin me feel all achy and tired and miserable, this blows.

Went to dinner with the lad and his ex/one of my BFF (yeah we're all weird) but then had to pike on the Grey Dats gig and go home without them cause I'm just too mashed.

Its put me in a poopy mood and today I sent someone a nasty email I really regret now but kay serah etc urgh what a life.

Nice work jim! Good one. Wouldn't mind hearing your songs but.

HI DERE, anyone want to see me as a "guest" in an improv show next Thurs?

Improv show?? Tell me more ffs

Mongrels would you do me favour? Would you go over here and vote for Cold Lake? It'll really piss them off.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Poll/VoteControllerServlet

Oops I mean here:

Best Celtic Frost Album Poll

sorted

done

k

ahaha cheers youze rock

Lucky this thread is on a secret board

i went searching for apartments lyrics on google and found a reference to them on the livejournal of the dude from counting crows...??

Well I've spent the last half hour wondering whether it's worth creating a thread where popular songs mentioning the lyric 'crying' are reposted with that word replaced by the word 'blogging'. But I decided not to do that, as the results are only moderately amusing.

at 4pm on a sunday afternoon, one must make an important decision - should i keep drinking or try and sober up from here?

it depends upon your feelings for grey grainy twilights when winter's in the wings.

they are best enjoyed through the gauzy caress of a slow, gentle drunkening

a finger of scotch vs a finger of dread

On such a night, alcohol ushers you into the blue hour: you are privileged to witness the void from within the cosseted cocoon of inevitable inebriation.

hic

I am making my lasagne tonite that Rob sez is "better than my mums" (oh how that warms a girl's heart to hear).

Anyone want the recipe? I just typed it all up for a blog post on a cooking forum I'm gonna do later.

Give us the recipe Trayce.

Scuse the Tep-ness of this post! heh.

Trayce's lasagne that make's Robot's belly very happy. I never work to recipes, so notating this is proving to be a bit odd! I didn't realise how much there was to it :)

Bolognese sauce:
approx 500g beef mince (or a mix of beef and pork mince if you like)
1/2 bottle of tomato passata (or a can of diced tomatoes+ some tomato paste)
1/2-1 cup red wine (optional, to taste)
approx 1 cup of beef or chicken stock (also optional, depends on how long you want to cook the sauce for, this just adds liquid)
1 small-medium onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
quarter capsicum, diced
1 stick celery,diced
2 small/1 large carrot, grated
handful of field mushrooms, sliced or chopped up as preferred
herbs dried or fresh to taste (I like to use the masterfoods bolognese herbs mix, but fresh oregano is also tasty)

(cheats version: mince, onion, and a bottle of leggos/dolmio chunky bolognese sauce if you're in more of a hurry)

1 pack of fresh lasagne sheets (this is key: instant lasagne never comes out too good)

bechamel topping:
2tbps butter or margarine
2 tbsps plain flour
approx 1 cup milk
salt + pepper
cheese to taste (eg a mix of cheddar and parmesan is good)

Firstly:
Make your bolognese sauce ahead of time as much as feasible, especially if you're making it from scratch. You want at least an hour for it to cook down and develop the flavours.

In a large frypan or pot big enough to make the sauce in (ie with sides on it), start by frying off the onion in a little oil til it softens down and browns a little, then add the garlic, capsicum, mushrooms and celery, and gently fry til soft. Don't let it burn - burnt garlic tastes horrible.

Scoop the veggie mix back out of the pan and put aside in a little bowl or plate. Add a little more oil to the pan, bring the heat right up, and then fry/brown off the mince. A trick an old nonna taught me was to cook the mince until all of the water comes out of it and evaporates: this can take some time, I can't usually be bothered. Once the mince is fully browned, add the red wine, and simmer off the alcohol for a minute or two. Then chuck the cooked veggies back in, add the grated carrot and then the tomato passata/chopped tomatoes and a little stock for liquid, stir it all together, add herbs and seasonings, bring the heat right down, and simmer on a very slow flame for at least 45 minutes. An hour or longer is better if you have the time - keep an eye on it if you do this however, you may need to top up the liquid and stir it now and then to prevent burning.

Cheats version: just brown off the mince with some diced onion, throw in a bottle of that Dolmio bolognese sauce, simmer for 30 mins :) Tasty, but you didn't do it all yrself now did you! Easier for weeknights though ;)

OK so now you have your bolognese ready to use. Get the oven going at about 180degC and get a lasagne dish out (for this volume, I find my large square dish fits it all, with about 2-3 layers. You could use 2 smaller rectangle dishes or 1 rectangle dish with heaps of layers). While the oven is heating up and the bolognese is cooling off a little, make the bechamel sauce. I'm really no good at notating this: I dont measure anything, I just wing it, so if you have your own way of making white/cheese sauce feel free to use your method. Mine is basically thus:

Melt butter (1-2 tbps) in a small saucepan, then add equal amount of plain flour, and briskly stir into a roux til well combined. Then add the milk while stirring - 1 to 1/2 cups, depending on how thick you want the sauce to be (less milk, thicker sauce). You'll be best off whisking it with a balloon whisk at this point if you have one, or a fork. Stand over it and stir it throughly and gently on a low heat until it thickens and comes to a simmer. Don't stop stirring it, or you will end up with a lumpy burnt mess. Once it has come to simmering point it wont thicken any further. If too thick at that point add some hot water or warm milk to thin it out. Then stir in your cheese and seasonings to taste (maybe a handful in the sauce and another for sprinkling on top after assembly).

Now assemble your lasagne as desired: start with a layer of lasagne sheet, then a layer of meat sauce, then sprinkle some grated cheeses, repeat a couple more times til you run out of stuff, then top off with a layer of the bechamel sauce and more cheese. Maybe some breadcrumbs too if you like a crunchy top.

Bung into the oven and bake for about 20-30 mins. Then stuff face =) Awesome with garlic bread and maybe a nice leafy green salad with a balsamic/oil dressing, if you like salad with your meal. Makes enough to feed at least 4 people as a main (6 if you added sides).

Yikes that should be "1 to 1 1/2 cups" of milk in the cheese sauce - half a cup and you'd end up with a solid block of goo :/

I'm coming down to Melb in October, Trayce, and I may be hungry. Just letting you know.

I always warmly welcome guests over for dinner! I love cooking :D

Hehehe. I love eating.

I'm doing the faggiest dance remix right now. Goddam it's fun.

you're doing a remix for muscl3s???

I'm coming down to Melb in October

fap obv

xp faggiest?? And where's the K4m4h1 reboot?

i have a mixed experience with remixes. one i've done has been released properly, another was rejected for being little more than a slight tweak on the original (which was fair enough). i need something so different to my usual thing that i at least have some hope of bringing an original take to it.. it's hard to change something that sounds pretty much fine as it is..

is there a word for the point of drunkenness where google image searching kelly osbourne seems like a good idea?

http://pianoandsynth.com/2006/05/28/kelly-osbournes-odd-synth-tattoo

<3 <3

I should have knocked over this fucking bibliography already so I could drink. :( I have written four words in about four hours.

i was going to suggest a drink or fourteen earlier this arvo but then i remembered this essay of yours

where oh where did sunday afternoon go, i set it down next to this six pack and couldn't find it when i woke up

it's under your copy of a la recherche du temps perdu

I have a manual handling workshop today. Be still my beating heart.

wtf is that when its at home?

Three hours on how to lift boxes.

WAU

FVCK THIS RAIN I ARE GOING TO THE LAUNDRY to use the dryer.

guys i watched 'art safari' on channel 2.2 last night, they profiled a belgian dude who has created a machine that simulates the human digestive tract. it was pretty hilaire!

like, you put food in, and it makes it into... shit. the dude was all, "well the shits are very popular with the collectors, we can't make enough shit to keep up with the demand"!

<3 the art world.

ugh I think I've had enough of this job.

w'happen

Nothing sudden, it's just boring. Also three of my four direct reports are wild horses and I'm very sick of it.

xp faggiest?? And where's the K4m4h1 reboot?

-- Autumn Almanac,

The latter has been accepted and is in line for release later this year. I'll give yez a headz up.

No, this remix is not for M#scl#s. It's for an American group you haven't heard of.

Simpl3 Pl4n?

yeah, they're real low-profile!!

joke joyce

Parent Teacher Interviewin'.

soz jim. i am hopeless.
:(

Heh Mikey gis some stories once yer done with PT night! I love hearing about psycho parents.

and invisible too.
bye then

Goddam - mully comes and goes and I always just miss him.

Aw mully! :(

For a while I was thinking... "Mikey has a kid(s)?"

hi gaz! i will be back in sydders again soon i'm sure

So is there anything on tonight? I'm enamoured with the idea of some midweek drinking.

no gigs but not that that ever stands in the way of drinking

did you finish your essay

Anyone else going to Helmet, speaking of gigz?

helmet is one of those things that i never 'got' at the time. which is funny because i was very easily led on band recommendations at 14-15 and friends were listening to them!

i listened to unsung the other day, not as heavy as i remembered. not my thing so much

It was only a friggin bibliography. Can't believe it was so difficult to do. But yeah, finished, really weird end to weekend, defo up for some beers tonight.

being a manager who's too nice to discipline people c/d

waht sort of disciplinary action is reqd

the answer of course is dud, except for the people getting away with crap

This is why I cd never be a manager in a million years. I just have no aura of authoritah - I think its mainly cause I look and act about 20 years younger than I actually am :|

They sit next to me and talk all day, so loudly that I (and everyone else) has a constant headache. Last time I told them off one of them had a giant loud sooky sweary sulk like a 3yo. I hate conflict so have started wearing headphones again and just walk out of the room loads.

xp Yeah, and that is one of the reasons I'm having massive second thoughts about the whole job.

btw sorry to blag in here like an only child, I don't expect you all to care, just need to get it off my chest.

you sound like you could do with... a drink! i'm with S- on the drinking idea, unsurprisingly.

so FAP then? i can't rly afford but it's not like that has ever stopped me in the past

FAP tonightah? No can do neckfaces.

Like that'll stop any of yers ;P

Yeah you, er, neckfaces.

that's ok we have a secret borad to organise FAPs that you CANT SEE

invite pls

Yes drinks where? city? might go and see True Radical Miracle later.

hells? any other suggestions?

hells should be okay on a tuesday. can always move on.

done

http://www.prideofmanchester.com/music/photos/various-sorted.gif

lol 6pm?

i'll probably get there 5.45ish

"No can do, neckface" is from Black Books Adam, do pay attentions.

adam getting hardsonned in a britishes comedy beef, my goodness.

lol

k why does my phone know lol but not apricot

i think we were discussing this at NSC adam. also penguin and woodpecker

My phone goes UH at the most strangely common words.

In fact I am thinking of replacing the wallpaper with hunter age 3 pic.

hey jim what you said that night about Nokias forgetting words is bang on. It keeps dropping swear words from the custom dictionary. This ducks me off.

xp what's yours again Trayce?

too ducking right

it really shivs me

appeholes

my old sony ericsson used to interpret soon as smoo.

mine goes room -> soon -> smoo

nokia can kiss my appe, the total aunts

I think my custom dictionary is full. Got 'fuck' and 'fucking' in there, stuck with "aunts" and "chuci" though. And a whole lot of non swears too I can't get it now.

kind of hilarious though that you get 'bum' as first result when trying to piece together 'cun' and 't'

I have a Sony Ericsson, it behaves rather oddly.

What does it do, wake you up at 3am and demand to go out for pancakes?

I hope the Melbourne ILXors will take me out for pancakes at 3am next time I visit.

HO! What a useless day. I wrote almost nothing. I went to the gym. I purchased underwear online and then when I went to the shop to buy milk I came back with chocolate, cookies and all sorts of other unmentionables.

mention them

You are the kind of itemisation, Adam.

- Premium chocolate chip cookies
- Coles brand imitation Belgian chocolate 100g x 2
- Up and Go breakfast things
- Two dozen mini-dinner rolls
- Sickly sweet apple/blackcurrant/cranberry juice
- A large, handsome red mug
- Large tin of Nestle malted milk
- Three appalling frozen dinners

They were all on special :(

KING of itemisation.

ALSO, I have officially gained 6kg! Now confirmed by a Proper set of scales, not the shit set in my bathroom.

Is this a good gain or a bad one?

- Coles brand imitation Belgian chocolate 100g x 2

Is this any good?

Both the gain and the chocolate are good.

awes

Your brother/cousin has stacked on the size btw, if those facebook updates are to be believed. Jeeeeeezus.

Though the good chocolate could lead to bad gain. I now have actual half bicepses and about... one third of a chest.

Yep, Jon is enormous now. He's been advising me. I don't wanna get as big as him. Can you believe that I'm not even fb friends with him? I probably should get on that because we've resumed regular cordial relations.

Nice work. Do you know about the ilx clusterfuck gym thread?

You lost regular cordial relations?

Should I stop asking questions now?

I do, but I'm really only interested in posting on this one and maybe the odd other one that comes to mind.

We had a bit of a falling out in June last year and mended fences in February.

Never!

Me, posing, webcam, a singlet, the other day.

http://www.furanes.net/images/crossed.jpg
http://www.furanes.net/images/ceps.jpg

so late so drunk

xp Wow.

You must have been listening to Muscles.

BOOM BOOM

So last night was a good fap then? Heh.

hmm well that depends

anyone seen a small blue airline bag?

i have a vague memory of haitch coming out to us last night.. although i may have imagined that

I had N over for tea last night and he and R were nerdy geekboys all night playing death metal and talking about computer games while I cooked dinner, how cliched can I get.

I have got to stop smoking so much tho, my face feels like it is going to fall off :(

i have a vague memory of haitch coming out to us last night.. although i may have imagined that

haha

oh god the pain the pain

yes i don't feel very well and this shit coffee isn't helping. wonder if the bag has surfaced yet.

Tracey put the metal on / We'll all have Wii.

:D

You spelt my name wrong however, so }:|

that extra e always confuses. maybe you should just be trayc

*chortl*

Take the e out of Trayc-e
And it's Trayc, see

Nearly every day recently I've been looking at my phone at 13:37 and cacking myself.

cookies have been tossed

I just got pwned at squash but it was awesome!

Bag search not looking good.

Look under the bean bag??

:(

ahoy hoy

BOOOURNS.

Well don't all talk at once.

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oh you said not to whoops

so anyone doing anything exciting this weekend? there are three great gigs on sat nite

cannanes @ edinburgh castle
mime set @ toff
mach.trans w grand salvo @ east

anyone in teh sydney tonight want to see me in a 5cr4bb13-themed improv comedy show? I don't say much (or at least I haven't in the past), but you can say you know me!

I;m going to see some thingy at horse baz tonight that's some kind of video game musicians... thing. Chip tunes? Something like that. One of Rob's friends is playing (if you call laptops playing). That is, if I don't flake out tired before the day is through, I feel like shite.

i think you should pike. some chiptunes cunts were v rude to me on last fm

5cr4bb13-themed improv comedy show

say what

Yeah, more detail plz ed

Uh, a bunch of comedians are up on stage. A game of THAT GAME (tonight, two games) is played to the side of the stage with a camera on it. Words on the board are used as the stimulus for scenes. It's the final night of the show evah. Often they have CELEBRITY guests playing me, or another expert. It's pretty great fun - they just did a season in Melbourne this year, and last year too (they invited me down for it) and it's been pretty popular.

[lame joke involving wrong sport deleted]

(no, I'm not required to be funny)

I saw guff about that this week and wondered why you weren't involved! where is?

i think you should pike. some chiptunes cunts were v rude to me on last fm

! Anyone I'd know?

Factory Theatre in Enmore. Tickets are $20.. I should have mentioned this earlier as could have got you on door. I won't have a very big part as I have in previous shows, which is probably good as I don't have much in the way of stage presence.

Wow. Ed, we need to talk about this.

haha trayce prolly not.. it's something to do with that there is an 8-bit "artist" who allegedly performs under the same name as my own dormant pop combo. his fans took umbrage at our existence.

I thought I had mentioned it before in previous years but I guess it must have only been on teh LJ.

boo no door

koh-i-noor

it might sell out. Or maybe not. I like being "part of it" because I get to watch the funny for free, and they buy me a drink too.

Theres a chipchoons wanker called Tughbote?

yair

there's also been a swedish metal band, at least two other american ones, a canadian indie one that we've been mistaken for in the past, and a grunge one from lilydale.

I told my boss I'm unhappy, so she's going to find me another position in the company. SCORE!!!

janitor

intern

assistant crack whore

assistant crack whore

Why would anyone want to work for me?

Hahaha.

"whats worse than being your assistant, sir?"
"Being YOUR assistant, Kif!"

She said she'd try, anyway. At least it means I won't be doing this job and whinging about it on here all the time.

like I did between 1999 and 2004 AMIRITE HAITCH

I think Trayce wrote a macro to do that

Hahah what, have a futurama quote for everything? Or whinge on here all the time?

Either way screw you hippy!

aw k1t that's awful.

trayce_rama.jsp

^ ha ha

I meant "I don't think anyone's got a patent on whinging about their job on the mongrel thread dude, don't feel bad abt it"!

i've just been informed bag recovered

whoresome!

ANZAC day, I like your biscuits and cream filled slices.

Anzac biscuits rooool the anarky skooool

Anzac biscuits are supposed to be chewy. Why did the packet I got consist entirely of crisp ones?

Leave them in a tin for a week.

wot to do tonite?

cannanes @ edinburgh castle
mime set @ toff
mach.trans w grand salvo @ east

-- electricsound, Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

however i suspect i will be staying home transferring vinyl since it's a free activity

We're finishing setting up ver spare room as music room. Pedals everywhere, elec drumkit, laptops, keyboards, and now a rack for all the guitars. :D

Plus it's raining innit. Perfick stay home night this. I got my wine.

i can't even afford booze :( no more buying art for me

Heh. I was walking up Eliz st the other day and spotted Shag's art in the window of that gallery that sells popart stuff. Rob mused upon liking/buying his stuff and I menshed you did just that.

Come over 'ere if you want drinkin!

tanks but nar got more than enough that really needs doing round here. good to be semi forced into not procrastinating by having nothing better to do

any of you syd guys remember studley lush and the teenyboppers from hell? some incredible fuzz guitar on that '...nun' song

hay guys

hola

Afternoon mongs whatup.

my head is mostly snot and throat blockage :( I have purchased TWO LITRES OF CUSTARD which I intend to wolf down.

Uh, not the best idea if yr a ball of mucus! Dairy will make it worse!

but my throat is so sore I can't think what else to eat.

i'm really more throat than mucus now actually. but I was pretty snotty before.

Custard: really, so much better than the inconsistent Brisbane band that shares its name. Yellow gold, heaven on sore throats, 97% fat free (though it is, I suppose, mostly sugar)

speed for the working classes

Mooshy rice and/or lentils good. But yeah if its mostly fat free stuff it's probbaly better than a heaping cup of milk or whatever.

"Probbaly?" Gah.

In more amusing news:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/04/26/1209234619758.html

TV and radio personality Todd McKenney has been charged after being found unconscious in a park in the Sydney suburb of Rushcutters Bay from a drug overdose.

The Dancing With The Stars judge was found by members of the public at 3.30pm (AEST) on Friday and had to be revived by ambulance officers.

He was later charged with possessing the drug GHB.

McKenney, who lives at Bondi, reportedly did not work on his FM radio show that day as it was Anzac Day and the 106.5FM program he presents with Sonia Kruger was pre-recorded.

The night before he had attended a party in Macleay Street, Potts Point.

The celebrity says he believes his drink was spiked and the drug was planted on him.

"I had a vodka and tonic and I started to feel progressively sick. I have no idea where I ended up. My drink was obviously spiked," he said.

McKenney said it was probably "the tall poppy syndrome".

"They obviously wanted to put the boot into me," he said.

LOL yeah rite.

guys there is no cream here, how am i going to eat these miniature puddings

use baileys

none of that either!

perhaps i should just cook the main course first

My brother used to insist on eating his dessert before his dinner when we were kids. And he would! Weirdo.

insane

...but it deflates a bit of the parents' "eat yr dinner or you won't get any dessert!" power.

i pondered that overnight, obviously.

haha

dear god i'm still hungover

i have fears of having made a complete tit of myself on sat nite

hay haitch sasha and i drove past your place on sat nite. if we'd stopped by would you have come out?

probably, all i was doing was eating corn chips

where did youse end up

the funswick

neu earplugs have arrived

nice! i could use some of those

where on earth is everyone, slow mong thread today

waht did you do on sat nite to make a tit of yrself

i think i kept offering to record everybody
gatecrashed a bunch of conversations with my drunken gibberish
thought this chick was talking to me about some indie band when she was in fact talking about genesis. i've never seen someone lose interest in a conversation so fast

Hahaha hey dont introduce her to Rob!!!!

shoulda tried to switch the convo to solo phil

cos we know how successful that was last week!

ba-doom
ba-doom
ba-doom
ba-doom-doom-doom

haha

i think it did briefly come up at some stage of the night..

in the air?

yes

and all of a sudden i remember why my hangover was 1000x worse than usual - two thirds of a packet of malboro reds

Heh. Ive had a nagging sinus infection for weeks and have I stopped smoking? Have I eff.

well i had but sahsa was using duty free fag packets as currency

oh you guys. I bought a moisturiser thing that apparently,in time, fades in a subtle tan. I have applied it TWICE, and half of my left leg is now gorgeously bronze. HALF OF IT, even though I applied it all over. No wearing shorts for me for a while.

can we call you '50 (per) cent'?

SO MUCH FOR SUBTLE AND GRADUAL, I am now stripey.

Which one, ed?

Also lols at the whole phil collins thing. Who in the 21st century is female and hits on a guy with Genesis chatter?

Uh, it's a Dove brand one. YES I SHOULD HJAVE ASKED ADVICE FIRST but it was an impulse purchase whiel I was down at the chemist buying Strepsils, cold tablets and Panadeine.

altho i was v drunk i don't think it was a hit-on situation. this chick had already been rolling her eyes at sasha and i for several hours prior

So she rolled her eyes at you BEFORE bringing up Genesis?? Is Geir a woman?

LOL!

Ed, I couldn't give you advice, just wondering which brand DOES that to somebody

it's probably not that noticeable to anyone else.

also why now just as it's getting cold? Will you not look like a tourist?

it's probably not that noticeable to anyone else.

I don't want to be MASSIVELY brown, I just am ridiculously pale and thought a tiny bit of colour would be nice.

srsly you should SEE thhe underside of my arms and the back of my legs. WHITE as a sheet.

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/973/90028007.JPG

ed, yesterday

TRUE DAT.

probably, all i was doing was eating corn chips

shoulda come to Sydney after all!

ed re hair - do you want my shade red or something else?

I'm not really that into red. IDEAS!

Who in the 21st century is female and hits on a guy with Genesis chatter?

A friend of mine and Robs is gorgeous, into mad strange indie music, about 17 years old and Lithuanian and she FREAKIN LOVES genesis. S'there. Don't mind 'em myself to be honest - the old stuff anyway.

I have a job interview next Monday...IN MELBOURNE!!

FLEE

Trayce, I'm with you on the Genesis love but does this gorgeous friend of yours hit on people by professing it? THAT'S when it gets WEIRD.

If she's into Peter Gabriel solo, I better get this job in Melbourne.

(And before anyone has a go at me, there was the greater age difference with the women I was last with. Even through she was older, natch.)

phil riese-moraine

Jim, if I get the job in Melbourne, I'm gonna make your life a LIVING HELL.

oh goodie

Sorry Phil she actually LIVES in Lithuania ;)

Innit that one of them new Delfin suburbs in Melbourne?

It soon will be, probably.

craigieburned

"Why the hell do all those Lithuanian bogans want to be married with children in the suburbs by 25?"

I just described 98% of Adelaide with that last line, by the way. Fuck, I need to move before I turn 25...

Lithuania is changing its name, apparently.

to Lith-Wayne Springs.

morning cunce

Mmm so nice and warm in the office.

Isn't it though.

is it or isn't it??

it's warm in my bedroom too, which is always 2 degrees warmer than the rest of my house in winter, and 2 degrees cooler in summer.

but there's no room for you.

CDMA was switched off last night, so this morning the old geeks who switched it on 10 years ago and still work here are holding a WAKE.

Hahaha! OK thats a bit sad.

I wonder how much cliche will hit the proverbial when they switch off analog TV next year or whenevs it's happening?

ten better take the opportunity to improve their digital reception. i get constant weird digital dropouts constantly on that damn channel. thankfully it doesn't affect sbs or abc2

hey at least you might miss out on big brother though!

^

thursday biggest loser finale will probably be the last time i watch channel 10 this year

love how their idea of diversity is putting a bellydancing midget in there.

I can't bring myself to watch telly any more, it just wigs me the fuck out. I'm sure it never used to be as relentlessly dumbed down, loud, and fucking annoying as it is nowadays.

really it's the same as it always was

totes diggin having both 'ideal' and the IT crowd on thurs nites

things i'm watching of late:

30 rock (channel 7 puts this on 11.30pm on mondays, they can eat a fuc)
dirty sexy money (so bad but i can't stop watching it, lolololol)
boston legal
david + margaret at the movies
football
ramsay's kitchen nightmares, primarily because i like to watch clueless yank resturanteurs getting chewed out

i was kind of enjoying that sinchronicity program on sbs but it's finished now

mainly because of hell of spunky lead actress

i know i saw some ads for that but not any episodes.

Trayce: Analogue goes off in 2013.

Jim: Our SBS and ABC drop out loads. It's probably electrical interference near your flat.

wang dang doodle

okay i don't think your penis is causing it

thats what she said

hay guize there's a music video for a pebbs song i recorded heree

http://www.movideo.com/playtracks/23467/Sand-Pebbles--Wild-Season

I am on hold w/t3lstra wh0resale.

The hold music is that hideous "i am you am we are orstraylian" song.. which gets interrupted every 60 seconds with a nasally unimpressed voice saying "thankyew for calling..."

does anyone really, really believe this?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/downloads-ruining-us-aussie-artists/2008/04/29/1209234824947.html

the whole thing seems rich to me when (a) i doubt many of the bands featured even recouped their advances and (b) isn't the huge proportion of the $$ in touring and t-shirts anyway? also lol @ someone from gr1nspoon whinging about not living like a rock star

in times like these where you can make a fantastic sounding record for a couple of thousand bucks these twonks get zero sympathy from me

"I'm not going to deny it. I have downloaded music in the past and it's only when you start being in a band you actually realise how sort of damaging that can be," says Amandah Wilkinson of Operator Please, a band which owes much of its success to effective viral marketing over the internet through channels such as MySpace.

Operator Please: the Modest Mickey of Australian music, and this is their restitution.

i do not want to see their belly button piercings

Bargearse clips now on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fahf77qzEnE

lol @ tubbs farquhar

I hate Operator Please so much, you guys.

they're no muscl3s

Hahah I cant believe bands at that minor level of "stardom" would whine about making no money. YOU ARE INDIE BANDS YOU WILL NEVER EVER MAKE A LIVING OUT OF IT. SUCK ON IT.

truth bomb

"The problem with downloading obviously is that it's ruining our industry in a way, because I mean you know artists just aren't making money, record companies aren't making money from it," Lisa Origliasso of the Veronicas says.

Here, have a tiny violin, lady.

but are they poor enough yet to suck my cock for a fiver, that's what I wanna know.

I mean don't get me wrong - I'm one of the few ppl left that I know who actively refuses to use torrents etc to get music. I am a shmuck who still actually buys cds etc. But where I can I'll save my dime and that usually means 2nd hand CDs, or emusic.

If that business model is losing record companies money then all I can say is "WELL DUR".

xpost HAHAHA.

emusic all the way! i don't even mind paying itunes prices for singles, it's still cheaper than cds usually.

i think my cd buying days are pretty much over, unless it's rare, not on emusic or similar, or one of my favourite bands.

Rob bought a record on ebay the other day.

A Mike Rutherford one from the 80s.

I worry about that boy I really do.

OH GOD THE VERONICAS HAVE TO DO...INTERVIEWS? FUCK I'M GOING TO BUY A DOZEN COPIES OF THEIR LATEST RELEASE TO SAVE THEM FROM THAT TORTURE

I MEAN ALBUMS ONLY COST $25 - IT'S A DEAD SET BARGAIN

but are they poor enough yet to suck my cock for a fiver, that's what I wanna know.

Do you get both girls for the price of one?

They're probably only half-good at it anyway so you would hope so.

I'm not gonna ask how you would conclude that.

Bargearse clips now on youtube!

Where have you been, bro? They've been up there for a year now...it's the only reason why the ABC released The Olden Days/Bargearse DVD last year.

Of course, those in the know had that and more sooner on yer DVD.

(mega x post)

lol @ jim watching the biggest loser

Telly I be watching:
Gordon Ramsay (on the bandwagon, maybe, but it's entertaining)
Newstopia (including the on-going saga of Inspektor Herring)
Football

Er, and I think that's it.

In more o_0 telly watchin:

In a bid to halt its decline, Big Brother's producers have this year promised a different program.

Some of the changes include: housemates being forced to spend the first night in the backyard and the eviction of one housemate by sunrise, in the first of many "snap" evictions.

For the first time contestants will be accommodated in a far from luxurious house, with no rewards room and a tiny pool.

This year's series will also see housemates sleep in one giant bed and there will be no kitchen, with food to be served on a conveyor belt.

The contestants include a one-metre tall belly dancer, a 52-year-old grandmother and a self-declared young male virgin with a high-pitched voice.

Three more contestants will be revealed on Sunday, while party punk Corey Worthington will later feature as an intruder.

Uh... yyessss. ok...

I mean wtf is this, a circus? Midgets and eunuchs and clowns, oh my!

i'd rather just rent out freaks on dvd

The one metre tall belly dancer O_o

http://1.ic.s.tsatic.net/graphics_caea15aae0944d2a3ba6d6b8d04e006e.jpg

http://1.ic.s.tsatic.net/graphics_c3e12c7f7359bf9807362825a4623e0e.jpg

LINK IS PRETTY NSFW I GUESS

YOU ARE INDIE BANDS YOU WILL NEVER EVER MAKE A LIVING OUT OF IT. SUCK ON IT.

EMI's an indie label now? Broad church.

bit lame to suggest it's a freak show because it's got one little person. sorry.

Erm, if it's anything like the last seven big brothers, won't 100% of the people in there be freaks?

Adam: I wasnt suggesting it was a freak show. I was suggesting it was a CIRCUS, particularly because Corey is a clown.

i might actually want to see freaks

Sorry Trayce, it wasn't directed at you at all, rather the mentalist OMG FREAKS noise being made about the show as soon as anyone sees 1m wossface.

true but i don't know how much the 'freakshow' reactions are down to her or just because of the show in general and its history

btw usually I'm all over BB but this year a combination of Kyle/Spackie Ho and the whole Aus production being shit in recent years means I couldn't possibly care less.

xp I'm referring directly to the responses to that woman.

oh ok

soz for putting a giant dampener on the whole thread. not my intention.

no no it's nice to see so much activity on this thread

CHUT UP U R RONG

ayo I have been enjoying your export very much see here
http://www.coopers.com.au/media/files/502.jpg
is this acceptable or am I drinking some kind of antipode pabst

No no you are drinking the very best there is.

that is a fine beer.

haha coopers

the only commonly drunk beer that (apparently) is any good. the other is vb and oh jesus.

iI AM TASTING YOUR MARMITE, PEOPLES.

in the first of many "snap" evictions.

xp john you mean vegemite, surely

isn't that dickslap evictions??