You there! What day is this?
Why, it’s Christmas Day, Mr. Scrooge!
Or some day in March. Well. We certainly have neglected this particular organ of podcast promotion, haven’t we, children?
Boom, get Episode 62 in to your stupid ears!
I’m sorry. Your ears aren’t stupid. They’re beautiful. It was wrong of me to lash out like that.
I…
I love you, my sweet pumpernickel.
Washed Up Or Not? A Point/Counterpoint.
Is washed up TV personality Lyndsey Rodrigues truly washed up?
Totes, according to the Daily Tele:
TRAGIC former TV personality Lyndsey Rodrigues has again hit the keyboard late at night, this time taking to Twitter to denounce the ARIAs as an “epic fail” and MTV hunk Darren McMullen a “douche”.
The Wednesday night whinge, which occurred about 11.30pm, follows a similar stream of posts earlier this year where she announced things like: “Might just take a Valium and sleep through another f … ed up year.”
This week, she posted, “McMullen makes me ill. Just saw his ‘perform-ance’ with Carmen Electra at the ARIAS. DOUCHE!”
- Lyndsey doesn’t hold back in ARIAs tweet, Daily Telegraph, 12/11/10
Totes not, according to the Sydney Morning Herald:
LYNDSEY Rodrigues has hit back at claims that she is a “tragic former TV personality” after posting a late-night tweet about how bad the ARIAs were, which is not news to anyone.
“I’m happier and healthier than I have ever been,” Rodrigues tells S. “I’ve got a new boyfriend and a three year contract with BigPond. I was shocked. It was so unnecessary and bitchy when I’m working harder than I’ve ever worked before.”
And she stands by the tweet. “Darren McMullen and Carmen [Electra] were mortifying!”
- Not washed up, The Sun-Herald, 14/11/10
So is she washed up?
We’re not sure, though we question the wisdom of getting such a long contract with Bigpond. What if you move house?
An Open Letter To The Liberal Party of Victoria.
Dear The Liberal Party Of Victoria,
How are you? Well, I hope! Anyway, best get down to business. I don’t have all day to be writing letters and you certainly don’t have time to be reading them. We are both “Busy Berties” and that is no mistake.
I was reading the august journal The Sunday Herald Sun this Sunday just gone, when I came across an interesting story regarding your Melton candidate, a young man with a bright future and a stupid name: Braidy Kean.
A BEER-swilling Liberal candidate has been caught out promoting 24-hour alcohol consumption, slamming police chief commissioner Simon Overland and criticising his federal leader less than two weeks before the state election.
Melton Liberal candidate Braidy Kean, 21, is running for State Parliament on the promise of “safer streets” and “more police on the beat”.
But despite the State Opposition vowing to curb the hours of Melbourne’s all-night bottle shops last year, Mr Kean is a member of a social network site called “Melton needs a 24-hour-bottle-o!”.
His Facebook page lists his candidate profile and professional portrait but also contains numerous photos of him drinking.
A Facebook posting by Mr Kean in March, likely to draw the attention of the police he hopes will “make Melton matter”, lambasts the chief commissioner.
“Simon Overland is a d—head!” it says.
Liberals’ party boy, Sunday Herald Sun, 14/11/10.
What a hack job this story is. So typical of today’s 24 hour news cycle rush to print forget the facts flat earth bullshit media. Yes, let’s visit someone’s Facebook page and call it the news. Disgusting.
See, if state politics reporter Peter Rolfe wasn’t so lazy, he would have visited Kean’s Myspace page and seen that he was in a dreadful black metal band, which would make for a far more interesting story.
Meet Ill Omen. A band whose live shows have been described as intense, insane, awesome, brutal and fucking crazy. What else would you expect from a band whose influences include Slayer, Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse, and Led Zep – amongst others.
Their demo is available from Missing Link Records in Melbourne for $5 and contains such classics as ‘Blood Ritual’, ‘For Your Ignorance’, and ‘Silent Demise’, but if you want to hear songs like ‘Breaking the Covenant Part 1: The Great Defilement’ and ‘Breaking the Covenant Part 2: The War of Uncreation’, you WILL need to keep abreast of announcements re: Battles Of Bands in the Melton area.
Now, check out this video of the band performing Blood Ritual live at the Waterloo Cup.
Having seen this, we have a few questions for you, Liberal Party:
Does the Liberal Party endorse homophobic Necrophagist puns?
Does the Liberal Party endorse frontmen who BARELY get into it?
Does the Liberal Party still believe that “Let’s make Melton matter” is the best possible slogan to use in Kean’s campaign literature, now that they are fully aware of the apropos lyrics of The Forthcoming?
Beneath the Destruction,
Lies a hate with no function,
Before us lies death with no chance of redemption.The earth burns,
We turn to god,
Your blind faith has failed us,
Scavenged the earth, the rest will die,
We have paided the price.We run in fear,
Screams bellowed by tears,
We fear the night,
A death worth than torture a world wide slaughter.Death has become our life,
The Forthcoming is upon us.
Thanks. Have a good one.
DILEMMAS
Consider this thorny little brain-teaser.
If you had to choose between reading the recently published ‘Things Bogan Like’ (Hachette) or watching the Austen Tayshus live stand-up DVD ‘Totally Out Of Control’ (Kaleidoscope), what do you think would be the most efficient method of suicide? Throwing yourself in front of a train?
Think of the effect that would have on the poor train driver. Why are you so selfish?
Maybe you need to have a think about the direction your life has taken. The perfect soundtrack to such self-reflection, of course, is the Gather Around Me podchat starring Ben “Fingers” Pobjie and Cam “Fashion Blogging” Smith.
There have been six entire podchats released since we last bothered to update this blog. Take from that what you will.
Download the latest one here. It is about Peter Costello and Burma and new political paradigms. It is a very classy affair.
Tax Reform by Les Murray
The latest member of the Gather Around Me team, poet Les Murray, gives us this poem:
I saw a tax the other day
And it spoke to me of simple folk dancing in the bush
Spurning the devilish entrapments of city life
And letting peach juice run down its chin, the tax said to me
Let the sun shine on the daughters of Ivan
He also joined us on our most recent podcast, in which we discuss all things lettuce and papal.
It continues
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It continues.
It continues – boop boop boop – like Donkey Kong.
Why is that not an expression? Surely it is just as valid.
Anyway, Ben “Wanna See A Dead Body” Pobjie and Cam “Blame It On The Bossa Nova” Smith have continued to dissect the election through a series of mini-casts.
Download Episode 2, which concerns campaign fatigue and people stealing fruit from migrants.
Download Episode 3, which is possibly in CRAZY STEREO, and features informed critique of newly released policy.
It’s On
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It is on.
It is on – boop boop boop – like Donkey Kong.
That poor monkey. He just wanted to sit on top of a crane and throw barrels around.
The election is on! It is going to take five weeks. It doesn’t seem like a long time now, but it will in five weeks. To celebrate, Ben “Angel Eyes” Pobjie and Cam “96 Tears” Smith will be doing a series of mini-casts… WHENEVER THEY SO CHOOSE.
Purple Haze
The Warwick Daily News reports:
IT stands as a tribute to American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix and his signature song Purple Haze, but a group of Warwick mums wants to be clear on one point.
While their tree entry in this year’s Jumpers and Jazz Festival might have been inspired by the song, commonly believed to have been penned during Hendrix’s drug-induced phase (courtesy of purple LSD capsules), their inspiration is more innocent.
In their case LSD stands for: Latte, scones and dessert.
Fuck off.
An interview with a man whose hands have touched the lips of Boom Crash Opera singer Dale Ryder on many occasions
This week’s podcast is a very special event! It consists of an interview about the ROCK AND ROLL LIFESTYLE with former Trial Kennedy and Boom Crash Opera tour manager Scott “Top Cat” Redford.
He talks about the rock and roll lifestyle, the heady world of high finance, getting into crazy fights, and much more. For “political wonks” there is an anecdote about the time he met Kevin Rudd. It is an anecdote chock full of JUICY SHOWBIZ/POLITICAL GOSSIP!
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Memo Triple M: If Eddie’s ratings don’t pick up, we’re available…
So once upon a time, there was a columnist in Melbourne’s largest (in width) daily newspaper. You may have heard of her – she forced herself upon the late Steve Irwin’s mutant child Bindi at the Logie Awards and then opened fire on Rove McManus’ new bird with a spray from her MAC-10.
That columnist was Toni Jordan.
Catherine Deveny, however, merely tweeted a couple of things on Logies Night and she lost her entire job at The Age and also all of her sponsorship deals with Uncle Toby’s. Hardly fair!
Anyway, I think everyone can agree that it is probably for the best that Catherine Deveny is not just roaming the streets unsupervised, so we got her on the podcast.
We talk about lots of stuff.
