Disordered Thoughts and Curmudgeonly Ramblings
In Lindsey And Leon Go To A Roller Disco (2010), the two main characters, Lindsey and Leon, go to a roller disco.
Observe the Wikipedia page for “roller disco“. Observe this…
In Lindsey And Leon Go To A Roller Disco (2010), the two main characters, Lindsey and Leon, go to a roller disco.
I so wish I could have found a reference to this on Google, but I couldn’t, so I had to remove it, damnit!
The JJJ Hottest 100 2010
Well it’s Australia Day, and I’m slaving away in the office. This sounds bad, but I actually decided to take Monday off instead and come in today and get a good slab of work done without distractions. Well, apart from the Triple J Hottest 100 anyway.
They’re up to number 88 and so far I’m not too impressed. Of course this could very well mean that all the really good songs have come in in the low numbers, which would be great, but we’ll see.
Only one song I voted for has come in so far, the Bedroom Philosopher at number 91. I’ll update the post as the results continue to trickle in…
Hmmm, according to the Wikipedia page we should all “seriously get to Jimmy’s” in Victoria Street in Brunswick, Melbourne. It also informs us that Jimmy is “a knob jockey”, although someone else thinks this is “unnecessary slander”. Fascinating…
Megan Washington at 84? I thought she’d get much higher…
Number 82. This is the music you tighten up to!…
Number 76. Ah, so that Kings of Leon song is named Radioactive. No wonder it makes me nauseous…
Ah Rosie Beaton! My long-time radio crush! Yey! 🙂
Number 74: I’ve always wondered what would happen if you put Tame Impala in a room with Leader Cheetah…
Number 71: Gypsy and the Cat have now popped up twice. No Jona Vark yet though…
Number 64: Ah! There it is. Should have got much higher if you ask me…
You know, there have been no songs yet that I really really hate? Interesting…
Number 56: Bring Night only got 56? What’s wrong with you people?!…
Ambling Alp at number 51. That takes the total-so-far of songs I voted for to 4…
Number 42: Gorillaz! Yey! (there were also at 78, just for the record)…
Number 36: Chiddy Bang! And they’re pretty much amazing!…
Number 31: Bloodbuzz Ohio by the National. So much for no songs I hate…
Did I mention that my prediction for number one is Cee Lo Green?..
Number 22: The counter-curse is “Unjellify”…
Number 15: Never thought I’d see the day that Barbara Streisand got into the Hottest 100. Well, live and learn…
Number 11:I also never thought the ABC News Theme would get a look in. Awesome!!…
Number 10: And now Boy George. Curiouser and curiouser…
Number 7: SEVEN!? Cee Lo only got number SEVEN!? Wow! Wonder what piece of crap took number one then?..
Number 5: Crowded House at five. Sort of :)…
Number 3: Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. It’s a great song, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s ranked so high due to sympathy votes…
And Number One….. Big Jet Plane by Angus and Julia Stone. Well, I certainly didn’t see that coming. But then it did win song of the year at the ARIAs, so I suppose it’s not that surprising.
OK, I’m out of here. More nuanced analysis will appear later (maybe :D)
Maybe my opinion of journalists is a bit harsh
I can’t tell if this is a case of a journalist being rather clever, or a journalist being an idiot and backing into cleverness (‘pulling a Homer’ as it were).
Yesterday there was bit of a scare in London when a police training exercise involving an entirely fictional gunman running up and down Oxford Street somehow leaked out into the Twittersphere as warnings of a real gunman running up and down Oxford Street. An article on one of the news sites I peruse (I can’t remember which one, and frankly I don’t care enough to go back and try and track it down) reported on this situation, including a comment about “the illusive gunman”.
At first I assumed that this was a typically (typical for Australian online news sites anyway) illiterate misspelling of “elusive”. But as it turns out “illusive” is that rarest of things – an English word with which I’m unfamiliar! It means “illusionary” or “imaginary”, and is hence a perfect description of the gunman in this case.
So, did the author pick the word deliberately, or simply mean “elusive” and fall backwards into brilliance? I guess we’ll never know (and they’d hardly admit it if they did :))
News Limited jumps on the bandwagon
Well, News Limited have certainly gone all out to help flood victims! They’ve created a page on their news sites where you can go to add a blue ribbon to your twitter feed to show your “support, strength and comfort” for Flood Victims. You can even go to certain stores and get your own blue ribbon to wear in real life! Fantastic!
Excuse me, but how does this actually achieve anything short of making people feel like they’re doing something without actually doing anything at all?
If News Limited actually gave a damn about flood victims they’d put the instructions for decorating your twitter feed behind a donation wall. And rather than give the ribbons away for free, they’d sell them. But no, they’d rather pander a feel good solution that makes them look like heroes without having to do any work.
If you want to help flood victims then donate money, goods or time. Changing the background on your twitter feed achieves nothing but making you look like a massive tool.
Salt that tastes of things other than salt
Right, so I assume my package arrived then 😀
The stupidity of the masses knows no bounds…
I don’t know what’s sadder…
1: People have only just realised that the signs of the zodiac are 2,000 odd years out of date.
2: People are freaking out that their zodiac sign has ‘changed’ (apparently a lot of them are worried that their personality is going to alter).
3: People actually believe astrology has any connection to reality at all – as opposed to being a load of complete horseshit.
(In the interest of full disclosure I should state that I’m a Pisces. The traits of Pisceans include being born in February/March. No, wait, that’s the only trait of Pisceans…)
Old photos
I’ve started work on a major cleaning project – basically going through everything I possess and deciding what I can either throw away, give away or sell. It’s long term, but so far I’ve spent some time doing it every day since Wednesday, so maybe I’ll be able to keep at it long enough to have a unit that I won’t be ashamed to show to guests.
Some good has come of the project already however, in that I’ve found a long lost set of photos (yes, actual physical photos!) recording the state of East Perth Power Station and surrounds back in the mid 90s – right at the start of the the Graham Farmer Freeway and East Perth Redevelopment schemes. I knew that I had them – it could be argued that they record my first attempt at urban exploration – but I had no idea where they were, so it was fantastic to stumble over them.
I’ve spent the afternoon scanning the most interesting 17 in and posting them to my Flickr stream, so head over and take a look.
Oh the irony!
A client complains to us that when his site is viewed in Internet Explorer 6 the text on his homepage looks like “it was done by a child”.
The email informing us of this is in bright blue comic sans 😛
(By the way, the text looks awful in every browser because he’s gone wild with the CMS and made it a dozen different sizes and colours with underlines, bolding and italics everywhere. It just looks particularly bad in IE6 because of its problems with automatic line heights…)
See the small person I don’t like wearing jewellery and makeup.
Reading my feeds this morning I stumbled over the news that a regulatory body in Canada has banned Dire Strait’s Money for Nothing from the airwaves for reasons of being offensive.
My initial reaction was “WHAAA?”, however on reading the article this was revised to “Oh, yeah – that bit”. The problem is of course the third verse – not one of Mark Knopfler’s best moments – where the song repeatedly uses a rather nasty pejorative. Someone complained – quite justifiably in my opinion – and away we go.
There seems to be a lot of outrage floating around over the decision, but personally it doesn’t bother me that much. I’m as big a Dire Straits fan as the next guy (assuming the next guy is also tragically out of step with modern music) but the verse really is in rather poor taste. More importantly there’ve been versions of the song without the offending verse available ever since it was released – as long as these versions are still allowed on the radio, what does it matter? You don’t listen to Money for Nothing for the words, you listen for the durn-d-d-d-duuuurn! durn-durn-durn – durrrrrrn-durn! d-durn-durn-durn! d-d! (and for Mr Sting wailing about MTV).
The people who complain about this sort of thing are typically the ones who want to keep on using the offensive terms in question. They hide behind a facade of second-person artistic integrity, but fundamentally they want to keep the word ‘faggot’ in the song because they want to keep calling gay people – or simply anyone they don’t like – faggots. The idea that their apparently God given right to hate and belittle others is under threat is what upsets them – not that a song from 30 bloody years ago will now have to be played in slightly modified form.
Sheeze. You might as well complain about not being allowed to sing that verse from Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport.
They’re the anchor of the Free Mantle Systems
Maybe my Valhallans were fighting the anchor of the Free Mantle Systems, the Freo Marines?
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Name: | Freo Marines |
| Founding Chapter: | The WAFL Marines | |
| Founding: | Unknown | |
| Chapter Master: | Matheus Pavlach | |
| Homeworld: | Freo | |
| Fortress-Monastery: | The Dock | |
| Battle Cry: | Freo! Way to Go! |
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