TS: Melbourne vs Sydney

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.

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

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.

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

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.

i have retired to the central coast

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

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

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

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

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

*loud groans*

Oh, I kill me.

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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.

Right thats it I'm moving to Sydney.

(xp)

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.

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)

Oh, and Melbourne by country mile.

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

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

Also, haw:

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

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

LOLZ.

Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate it.

I love this show, break a leg!

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!

I think this was one of my very first threads.

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

I was way more dad jokes then too.

Anyone changed their mind 4 years on?

was this really the very first mong thread??

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.

Jim: Pseudo Echo one was before this wannit?

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

-- colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 14 July 2003 16:11

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

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.

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.

lol u got ripped off by sbs lol

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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