You know it’s a shame that All Yours by Metric is associated with bloody-wooby-crap-sparkly-vampire movies, because it’s actually a fantastic love song.
Had to take Friday off work with a migraine headache. It was annoying because I was about five minutes from work when it hit, so I had no choice but to go in and try and do some work despite not being able to see properly (coding is pretty hard when half the characters keep popping in and out of visibility). After an hour I gave up, went home and slept until mid afternoon, at which point I was able to dose myself up on painkillers enough to do some work around the house.
On the plus side my extremely indulgent order from Quantum Mechanix came in. I am now the proud owner of a Firefly, and a limited edition Claudia-from-Warehouse-13 maquette (number 988 of 1000). The Firefly is sitting on my bookshelf, and Claudia is sitting by my monitor where she will (hopefully) keep my computer running more efficiently.
Finally big congrats to Helen and Rob on the safe arrival of Sebastian Robert. Here’s hoping you’re both getting enough sleep 😀
I propose a new unit of measurement. The Heston – which is used to measure the density of amphibians.
One Heston equals 100,000 amphibians per square mile (or 38,610.21586 amphibians per square kilometre). Examples of declination follow…
1 Megaheston= 1,000,000,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Kiloheston = 100,000,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Hectoheston = 10,000,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Decaheston = 1,000,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Heston = 100,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Deciheston = 10,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Centiheston = 1,000 amphibians per square mile
1 Milliheston = 100 amphibians per square mile
1 Microheston = 10 amphibians per square mile
1 Nanoheston = 1 amphibian per square mile
It cannot be denied that this unit would be of great use to the world of science, and I expect the International Committee for Weights and Measures to adopt it immediately, and shall wait patiently for my Nobel Prize for suggesting it.
Well, back to work tomorrow. Two weeks earlier than planned. At least I’ll be able to check out the Burgermeister.
The weather has been abominable for the last few days. Forty plus for most of the week. Today is meant to be a lot cooler so I’m throwing open the doors and windows to try and flush out all the warm, stale air that’s been building up.
My posts about FADADES earlier in the week seem to have enraged the FADADES fan community. Or at least one guy, who may well be the entirety of the FADADES fan community. Or maybe FADADES himself. In any case he left a very angry comment asking what’s wrong with FADADES. Not that much really, apart from his music sounding like Gollum and Donald Duck having an angle grinder fight in a firing range, and the man himself looking like Worzel Gummidge had to take a job at an S&M club to support his crack habit.
I spent Australia Day at Justin’s place helping him put up shelves in his garage. Hopefully they haven’t fallen down yet.
Ah, the Triple J Hottest 100. Gotye and Kimbra took out the number one spot, which really was no surprise. Several of the songs I voted for got in, which was nice, but overall I wasn’t terribly impressed. I guess 2011 wasn’t a fantastic year for music – or at least music that I like. Just another sign that I’m getting old I guess.
Let’s see, what did I vote for…
* Lanu/Megan Washington – Beautiful Trash – I am frankly astonished that this didn’t get in. Maybe it was released too early in the year for people to remember it.
Finally, in my wanderings around the net over the last week I stumbled across Romantically Apocalyptic – a beautifully drawn (painted?) yet completely deranged post-apocalyptic webcomic. Insofar as it can be summed up it deals with the adventures of zee Captain and his three minions in the nuclear-winter ensnared ruins of a gigantic city. Zee Captain is completely insane but has almost supernatural levels of luck, ensuring his continued survival – and the continued suffering of his erstwhile companions. There’s also some rather strange videos…
In any case, it’s well worth checking out. Even if you can’t figure out what’s going on (even I have trouble with it sometimes) the art is astounding.
On another subject, just for the hell of it, I decided to transcribe the “lyrics” of that French black metal monstrosity I posted yesterday. These of course are not the real lyrics, as FADADES is presumably screeching and gurgling in French, but I quite like my interpretation…
I’m sorry, stray asses!
Starla!
You sold us! Tell us!
Rastas!
You’re a solarsaurus!
You sold us! Sold us!
He lives… Stole us!
Aarrrrrgh!
Truth! Urrrgh!
Who? Who fries molasses?
Starla!
He stole us! Tell us!
This… You liars! With us!
Urgh!
To us! Trust!
You sell us! Urgh!
Stole us! Arrgh!
Starla!
Space…
You liars! With us!
Who fries molasses indeed FADADES? Who fries molasses indeed…
Anyone actually singing this in the 41st Millennium would be up before the Inquisition so fast…
The thing about having a creative brain is sometimes it’ll create things you just don’t want it to. And the only way to get rid of things that it’s created against your will is to spit them out into the world – otherwise they’ll lurk in the dark corners of your mind and jump out to torment you when you least expect them to.
As such, I am reluctantly forced to subject you all to this monstrosity. I’m so, so sorry…
My mother was the keeper of the orbital dock, And she slept with a sanctionite warlock, Out of this union came children three, An ogryn and a ratling and the other was me,
Oh now see the Emperor’s light! Oh for the life of a sanctionite!
One cycle I testing out the ammo feed, Belting out a verse of the Omnissiah’s Creed, A voice from behind me said “Hey there!” I turned to see my father floating in midair,
Oh now see the Emperor’s light! Oh for the life of a sanctionite!
What has become of my children three? My father then he asked of me, One was fed to the Emperor’s throne, The other was converted to a servitor drone,
Oh now see the Emperor’s light! Oh for the life of a sanctionite!
The warp fire flashed in his skull white hair, I looked again and my father wasn’t there, A voice came echoing from the airlock, “To the warp with the keeper of the orbital dock!”
Oh now see the Emperor’s light! Oh for the life of a sanctionite!
Well, I’m going to be in New Zealand for the Triple J Hottest 100 this year (well, next year – ye ken well wha’ a mean) but that’s not going to prevent me from voting!
So here we go, in no particular order my top ten tracks of the year…
* Lanu/Megan Washington – Beautiful Trash – I’m actually not much of a fan of the album version, just this remix. On while on the subject of Megan Washington, what was she wearing on the Spicks and Specks finale? She looked like a half drowned transvestite.
* Luke Million – Arnold – Just about the funniest song of the year, even if the official video is like some kind of gay porn (and what’s with the fart noises?).
* The Vaccines – Norgaard – Very catchy. The lyrics are a bit creepy though, and is it really flattering to tell a girl she has cheeks like a great dane?
* Jay-Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild – Tries so hard to be epic that it goes beyond epic into silly, and then just edges back into epic from the other side. And it sounds kind of like Thriller crossed with Kashmir.
* Bluejuice – Act Yr Age – Bluejuice doing what they do best, complete with distrubingly hilarious video clip.
And my prediction for number one? Well, if Somebody That I Used To Know doesn’t get into the top five at least I’ll be very surprised.
