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 changed it to an ILM thread :)

Ta. I'm guessing that knowing the context for the outburst would cause my brain to collapse and make me stupid so that's about all I need to know.

I dont think anyone knows/cares what the context was - and it couldve been anything anyway, he wanted a reason to asplode a long time ago.

What JMJarre song was it that was so lolz?

(I missed Rage. I went to bed early doped up on cold meds cos I've been sick)

now that i think of it i don't know that i've ever seen a jarre video

looks like someone else forgot to set their pvr

Yeah, I don't think there was a context apart from the new era of anti-meta-bitching.

i changed it to an ILM thread :)

-- electricsound, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:06 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Brilliant, service++

my last.fm looks like a night at trayce's (except with less japan)

I'm not even sure my pvr is behaving properly, i swear i recorded an rage ages ago that I now cant find on the GUI, which is a useless POS.

xpost... lol I must go see this.

Haw, dif juz, low life and the cocteaus!

i got new emusic downloads yesterday so i have been on 80s frenzy

Haha woo!

LOL I love that our thread won the threads poll... that will piss off EVERYONE. Which is brill.

Ugh can sick be over nao plz.

Mongrels and sheepfuxxors: As good as Ashlee Simpson.

That can go on my tombstone anyday.

WINTER EDITION

or estela edition, to pique the public interest

Yeah but you get the trollz who are starting to get real creepy about her, so no.

i think we need to keep the booze theme in there somewhere

how about: cheap scotch and a three bar heater: mongrels and sheepfuxors brace for winter

Heh.

Is it a Rinnai bar heater? It should be.

none other

I am alone for a week for the first time in years. Will I emerge sane? My intention is to write some music of some kind. Silly! After all these years, not to admit once and for all that music is never written with the mere intention to write music.

My only companion is the washing machine, which has menial wetwork to perform. It cares nothing for human ambitions of any kind, for it is, after all, a machine, doomed to juggle clothes according to a set of rules - mere prestidigitation in the thrall of predestination.

Is it hot?

Not yet.

Distractions aplenty:

* ILX

* Genuinely disturbing Thomas Mann novel. Only five pages left, so enjoyment needs to be meted out in smaller portions.

* the sybaritic lure of peanut butter

To make things fun for myself in the studio I invent silly games. Tomorrow's game (and it must be tomorrow, as I have taken a day of work for the precise purpose of only having one day) is to write ten songs in a row. But only the lead melodies and bass, and using only sine waves.

Now, back to the scary novel. And then to sleep, where, no doubt, maudlin dreams of Teutonic madness await.

Thanks for the indigenous/aboriginal answers (as you all guessed, it was 'indigenous' the commentator said, not 'native', which I made up).

I did figure an AFL commentator was not to be listened to on this. The indig. player had done some spectacular bit of skill but they were wondering if it was just a fluke, and the commentator said 'i know we all think the indigenous guys have magical powers, but...' or something like that.

so shall i start the new thread then?

yes, in a sec, but while we're still on this old one i'll say that i have not seen any creepiness towards me from anyone so i am a bit mystified by esteban's post (which seems well-intentioned, i am not having a go at him, i just don't know what he's getting at.)

I think he thinks you having fans is creepy for some reason, maybe? Its the only thing I can think of.

thinking trayce is thinking

i wonder if s- is still planning to start his "pay for me to go on a fighting tour of the world, punching ilxors" thread today

Should we bump this to 2000 posts before starting another?

ok

why not

lolz

omg

roffle

brb

back!!

are you going to start it adam?

no

should i?

i wonder if s- is still planning to start his "pay for me to go on a fighting tour of the world, punching ilxors" thread today

I will pay mad dime for this to happen.

this is what he is hoping!

xxp yes

new one

cheap scotch and a three bar rinnai heater: mongrels and sheepfuxors brace for winter