tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146903202008-06-24T23:36:40.637+10:00Ms .45noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-29137891590363026412008-06-24T22:59:00.003+10:002008-06-24T23:36:40.656+10:00

I was sorry to hear about George Carlin's passing, but 71 is a very respectable run for a guy who not only turned "Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker & tits" into poetry, but probably "nicotine valium vicodin marijuana ecstasy & alcohol... c-c-c-c-cocaine!!!" as well. This weekend, pull some bongs and watch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey in his honour. All of this

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-80612795748186719202008-06-24T22:54:00.001+10:002008-06-24T22:58:03.773+10:00

God, I hope it wasn't anything I did. George Carlin, Comic Who Chafed at Society and Its Constraints, Dies at 71

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-30328046104911685722008-06-13T20:58:00.003+10:002008-06-13T21:06:10.744+10:00

http://www.okcupid.com/iq-adventure-test?score=1263504531 This is the first and probably only time I will ever have a highest score for spatial analysis, so I'm going to enjoy it. The link is to my scores for OK Cupid's IQ Adventure Test - a horrible amalgam of IQ test and Choose Your Own Adventure, where a decision made at the beginning of the game determines the puzzles you'll be asked to

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-44923647729609728212008-05-25T10:05:00.012+10:002008-05-25T11:45:27.778+10:00

The challenge - type each of George Carlin's Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television into iTunes and see what comes up. Post some kickin' tunes. This week, the word Piss doesn't seem to be used a lot by my favourite artists (or even the ones where I've just gone "Meh, that looks interesting" on Hype Machine then forgotten about), but what lacks in quantity we make up in quality. Jon Cougar

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-52120943900844648942008-05-02T23:07:00.003+10:002008-05-02T23:15:22.341+10:00

For the many folk who have been coming here on the search "Jock Cheese", it is not Jock Cheese, the bass player of TISM, who died (despite what the Age and Beat magazine have to say), it is James Paull, the guitarist known as Tokin Blackman (but known to his friends as Jock) who has died of cancer at the age of 51. http://www.smartartists.com.au/artists/jock.php

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-78048277350002012872008-04-28T20:51:00.016+10:002008-04-29T20:19:02.640+10:00

So here's the deal. I want you to type George Carlin's seven words you can't (OK, couldn't - this is 2008, and on Australian television you just need a warning before the show) say on television, one at a time, into the search box in iTunes (or another player if that will work). Post a list of what comes up, and post some of the more interesting tunes. This will probably work better on punk rock

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-2988232987889049312008-04-28T20:29:00.001+10:002008-04-28T20:30:44.036+10:00

OK, here's the start of my meme. Watch and listen! Tomorrow you'll have homework.

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-15395719977576384792008-04-27T21:52:00.009+10:002008-04-27T22:55:06.199+10:00

Hello. I haven't blogged lately because I've been having too much fun. I do have what I hope will be a tremendously exciting internet meme coming up very soon, but in the meantime, here are some squibs. Old School Unionism - In which an old school Fabian has Ms .45 punching the air and going "Fuck yeah!". It's about the continuing decline in union membership in Australia and the unions' frankly

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-32023100235172368672008-04-12T21:55:00.007+10:002008-04-12T22:32:19.052+10:00

Kingdom of Loathing player Watts is hosting a competition in May - submit your zombie survival plan for three different situations (local, national and worldwide zombie infestation) and win great prizes! It's world-wide - if your entry wins, Watts will visit a website that delivers locally to your country and buy you the prize. The prizes are: Resident Evil 4, for whatever system suits you A

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-2592065939448134432008-03-30T12:07:00.007+11:002008-03-30T12:52:19.909+11:00

Back in December '07, Bitterandrew from Armagideon Time posted a summary of an old issue of Hit Parader from November 1981, which rather intriguingly mentions Cold Chisel as "an Aussie rock outfit deemed 'likely' to follow in the footsteps of AC/DC and Air Supply". I asked if he'd actually heard any Chisels and he was curious, so I thought I'd remedy the total lack of Cold Chisel on The Hype

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-59058078615017985692008-03-30T10:34:00.004+11:002008-03-30T11:28:20.787+11:00

I'm not the kind of person who buys everything on a label - I'd like to think people are over that by now - and samplers are often, erm, samply, in the one-song-is-awesome-the-rest-are-pants sense. But I downloaded Matador's annual sampler for 2008 (warning: that's a 70Mb zip file) in a flurried frenzy of downloading in preparation for Cherryrock08, and there's quite a range of decent stuff on it

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-89831366616798068802008-01-13T22:02:00.000+11:002008-01-13T22:22:32.432+11:00

Please to be noticing in the Not Music column to the right, a link to comic website Hark! A Vagrant! It's Canadian! It's Catholic! It's hilarious! (fails to think of synonym for 'very funny' beginning with a hard-c sound, can't be arsed looking one up) Click on Tesla to read about more famous historical figures. Margaret Trudeau, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry VIII and Marcel Duchamp provide fun for

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-23573307499390167482008-01-03T22:33:00.000+11:002008-01-03T22:48:19.164+11:00

They're at it again in a seemingly endless series. Jayisgames' new Game Design competition gives you eight weeks to design a Flash game with the theme "Upgrade". There are great new prizes but also new entry requirements, so be sure to read the entry form carefully. Good luck!

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-6746964185392364532007-12-20T21:21:00.000+11:002007-12-20T22:59:48.121+11:00

I didn't know this when I went in, but support act Telecom won their slot by entering a competition on RRR. They sounded like the sort of band who win competitions - quite competent, with nothing overtly bad about them. I think you know what that means, but you decide. Plastic Palace Alice were a tiny bit more interesting, but not my sort of thing. At first, from my position sitting on the floor

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-85567560234068308922007-12-17T00:23:00.000+11:002007-12-17T22:16:20.306+11:00

I probably should have known this before, but Steve Kilbey is frickin' hilarious. I only know two Church songs, and I think you know what they are*, but I thoroughly enjoyed The Church's set without knowing any of the music. It was a bit prog but not offensively so, and Kilbey is not afraid to take the piss out of himself and the audience. Like so: Because Sydney is better than Melbourne... [

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-36004311552671126992007-12-09T21:53:00.000+11:002007-12-09T23:21:39.524+11:00

Having seen ROOT! several times over the last few months, it was inevitable that the album wasn't going to be as awesome as the live shows. Whereas on stage DC Root sounds angry, or as angry as he ever gets in public, on the album he sounds like he's on Play School. It's like Tony Martin's story about seeing Neil Diamond live, but in reverse - whereas Diamond failed to deliver the line "Good Lord

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-75679978853655771992007-11-27T21:49:00.001+11:002007-11-27T21:51:01.676+11:00

It took me about four years to get into Electric 6, mainly because Danger! High Voltage! is, if not a novelty song, close enough if you need one. What converted me was the discovery that E6 are basically AC/DC on acid and possibly sleep deprivation. They bring the riffs and every other song is about fucking, with the additional benefit of strange, original and thought-provoking lyrics (admittedly

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-32621576015007902592007-11-24T23:55:00.000+11:002007-11-25T00:50:53.392+11:00

I'd like to believe that we have a new government because of this (slightly outdated, it's from a couple of years ago)... ...but to be honest, I think people just went "Ooh, shiny". I'm also less than stoked by the landslide majority in the House of Reps, but the really interesting place is the Senate, where the conservative parties (Liberals, Nationals, Family First) have 38 seats, the "left

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-675229684468701582007-11-21T19:04:00.000+11:002007-11-21T19:20:05.233+11:00

GetUp have created a rather nifty little website called HowShouldIVote.com.au, which allows you to fill in a quick quiz to establish roughly how you should fill out your preferential vote card for the House of Representatives. (Such an exercise for the Senate would require SETI to power, which is why they don't offer it.) It's not 100% foolproof - my results had the CEC ahead of the Greens and

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-17183508827517026722007-11-18T20:06:00.000+11:002007-12-04T23:22:26.697+11:00

I'm not gonna pretend I had an idyllic childhood - it frankly sucked - and, like all bullied children, I had my refuge. Others had dungeons and dragons or SF - I had rock music. If, for any reason, I'm ever called on to discuss my religion, I'll say I'm an atheist or agnostic (depending on whether it's a nice day or I've gotten laid recently), but it would be pretty reasonable, given the role

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-18917833719722584162007-11-18T11:57:00.000+11:002007-11-18T13:02:30.545+11:00

Last Federal Election, I spent a great deal of time printing out "how to vote" pdfs from the Australian Electoral Commission to reassure myself that I hadn't done anything that might have caused Family First's Steve Fielding to get elected. In fact, I hadn't - I'd spent a good ten minutes painstakingly voting below the line, numbering my preferences from 1 to about 15 or so, then going the other

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-2870995533820988782007-11-15T15:35:00.000+11:002007-11-15T15:42:33.176+11:00

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Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-42551195563197371832007-11-15T12:53:00.000+11:002007-11-18T13:21:00.259+11:00

This is a range of TISM mp3's for people who haven't heard any TISM or who have only heard stuff like Greg! The Stop Sign! They're in chronological order, and were originally intended to show the diversity of TISM's oevre... then I realised that I'd just picked comparatively obscure songs that I like and that weren't so topical they were outdated or incomprehensible to anyone outside of

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-84911121349216534942007-11-08T00:47:00.000+11:002007-11-08T00:52:23.573+11:00

Darren over at He's A Whore has a post devoted to 1987, the year I stopped listening to commercial music (actually, that's frogshit, I didn't really jump the fence until Nevermind was released). Of particular interest is the live set of Appetite for Destruction - scroll down for pure live pleasure. (Oh yeah, there's some U2 for the people who like that sort of shit.)

Ms .45noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14690320.post-61067495465159469662007-11-07T22:41:00.000+11:002007-11-07T23:35:28.224+11:00

In response to a reader posting (and by posting I mean "grovelling pathetically"), I'm posting a few tracks from a hard-to-find side project, Platter, by TISM's bass player Jock Cheese. A bit more information about this album can be found here. Up There Calisi La Traviata Don't Burn 'Em All JD Dave Grainey's Country Idyll (highly recommended) Free file hosting from File Den ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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