July 2010
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Worst (hypothetical) mixtape ever.
(pic via comicallyvintage)
I had a dream the other night that Who The Hell let me post a mixtape entitled Bands My Boyfriends Have Been In. Now, aside from being a tacky idea that would make me look like a massive groupie sluzz, it would be a travesty against good taste and the art of crafting a cohesive mixtape.
Essentially, it would be a compilation of nu-metal bands from central...
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Courtesy and decorum.
Last night, my friend Dan and I were talking about anti-social internet behaviour; namely trolling, flaming and straight-up bitching. Neither of us are angels when it comes to paying out our friends, but we were both astounded by the amount of people who say really dreadful things about other people, bands and organisations on what is a public forum. Sure, you can have your private accounts and...
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June 2010
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“We used to have bad arse Prime Ministers. Now we have useless wankers who lose...”
– Big Will tells it.
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platitudeproblem:
Relevant...
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Today:
I went to my first day of therapy as an outpatient (30min drive to the other side of town), renewed my drivers licence, set up my bed, moved some more of my stuff out of storage (more driving) and read my book.
However, I did not play with the dog and now it’s too dark to do so. From now on, if my day doesn’t include some Albie-Soph time, it’s not a successful day. Internet,...
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Benjamin, where the hell have you been?
Sorry for the extended silence, sports fans. I do realise it’s almost been two weeks since my thoughts have been recorded here thanks to a complicated system involving kinetic energy, binary code and brain cells.
I’ve been in hospital, and no, I don’t wish to talk about it.
So, what else is news? Well, my hometown got its first set of traffic lights. When we first moved to...
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Elvis in Allans
My guitars are in storage with the rest of my things and I’ve been missing them. I’ve mucked around with my boyfriend’s guitars, but he’s a jazz player who doesn’t use a pick - bashing out power chords on a gorgeous hollow-body just feels disrespectful.
So today, after a morning of blood tests, call centres and other horrid grown-up things, I swallowed my pride and...
“Zeitgeber: An environmental agent or event that provides the cue for setting or...”
– The Germans have the best words.
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May 2010
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The internet... now on paper!
While I’ve been enjoying my time at The Edge, I’ve found myself wanting to create things that are tangible. Since I’m pretty useless at visual art and building killdozers, I caved to self-indulgence instead and made a zine.
It shares the name and general vibe of this blog, but is full of writing, design and photography that hasn’t already been uploaded here. I...
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Livin' la Vida Loca
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog and internet front lately, but if having sudden and unexpected homelessness thrust upon you isn’t a good excuse to get away from the internet, I don’t know what is!
The weekend was spent moving all of my stuff into storage, which is always a real pain. On the upside, I have great friends who are willing to let me crash at their houses until I...
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Facebook, you are f**king evil.
I opened Facebook this morning and was confronted with this message from the site’s overlords (annotations in red are mine):
We all know that Facebook is stealing our data, privacy and capability for independent thought, but this is another level of creepy.
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OH whilst sharing a computer lab with event...
Organiser 1: ARGH, someone's sent me an email ranting about the lack of disabled access at the venue.
Organiser 2: What? Where? It's fine, isn't it?
Organiser 1: Apparently people in wheelchairs can't get upstairs.
Organiser 2: Goddammit, why do they even WANT to get up there? Disabled people always want to go to the most annoying places.
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Passing judgment on "edgy" musicians.
Me: Far out, she can't even spell "Centrelink" properly!
Housemate: That's why she's on it, honey.
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“There was an old lady who lived in a shoe, she had so many children her uterus...”
– My boyfriend is the king of breakfast small-talk.
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Facebook stalking with my housemate.
Housemate: (looks over my shoulder) Who is that chick?
Me: Dunno.
Housemate: Oh no, wait! wait! I'm pretty sure she's someone I got fucked up in the bush with when I was a raver. I have that facial recognition thing going on...'Oh, I remember you from one of my blackouts!'
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“It’s an amazing opportunity for you to get involved in a vibrant,...”
– - from an advertisement for a Media Coordinator for a large Arts Festival.
Ooh, yes please! I haven’t been given enough opportunities to work like a dog in exchange for the warm fuzzy feeling of bile in my throat. Needless to say, the above sentence was buried in the middle of the...
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WatchI spent a good portion of this afternoon on a skate board, pushing from Auchenflower to West End. Just quietly, THAT’S A FUCKING LONG WAY. Luckily I had exceptionally good company and said company bought me an entire bowl’s worth of coffee. Despite my whinging and sore thigh, I’ll do it again - if only for the joy of skating down the Kurilpa Bridge.
April 2010
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Gender Equality! Girl Power! SRS ISSUES!
Every so often, men involved in the music scene who see themselves as believers in social justice get a bee in their bonnet about the oversupply of Y chromosomes in their local music scene.
Where are all the chicks? Why aren’t there more female band members, music writers, roadies, or sound techs? In an issue of the sorely-missed hardcore magazine Death Before Dishonour, editor Lochlan Watt...
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Working for the government is hard.
Me: Hey, are you at work?
Friend: Yep, sure am.
Me: Can you watch YouTube at work?
Friend: Yeah, but I'm watching Masterchef episodes right now.
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Things To Do In Rockhampton
From the Facebook group:
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I'm not "consuming content", I'm reading a book!
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Fight for your right to party (responsibly).
First of all, I’m not a regular binge drinker. Haven’t been for a couple of years. However, I am a regular gig-goer, both in Brisbane and my hometown of Rockhampton. People in both cities have carved music scenes out of a nightlife blandscape of bogan pubs, suburban taverns and swanky wanna-be bars; in doing so, they’ve created something to stand up and be proud of.
As a...
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Fugazi, man, what a band. Seriously. This is...
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“I think that the press has been all over the iPad because Apple puts on a good...”
– From Cory Doctorow’s article “Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)”. Yes, I am typing this up on a Mac and no, when this one dies I won’t be replacing it with a PC; but I really struggle with the philosophy behind Apple products.
If this...
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March 2010
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So much light entertainment in Australia is just...
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“I mean, does it LOOK like you came out of my vagina?!”
– My housemate on the subject of mothering people.
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