i can say what i want to

Five Sharp - a design studio that steals

2008-11-14T14:10:00.005+10:00

Well it's turned up that a member of a design forum i frequent - QBN - has had some of their folio stolen and used by a design studio called Five Sharp (www.fivesharp.com). The weird thing is that the designer has never worked there and in fact never even heard of them.

This brings into obvious question the ethics of such a design studio as well as what other work of theirs is stolen? Is anything in their portfolio actually theirs?

To many people this may seem not so important but in a field where the difference between getting and not getting work is guided by the folio (as well as budget obviously) it becomes a very real issue to any working designer. It also begs the question 'will i as a client actually get a result i expect?' as the folio dictates the kind of work you can expect from a studio and guides where you might spend your budget.

Now this may not be the company's fault. It may be a single person there has passed off work they have stolen as their own to flesh out a folio or get a job and then this piece of work has been used by the company as a marketing element (a fairly standard practice in my experience). For this reason the designer has been in touch with the company and will hopefully get a good result.

If any other graphic designers stumble across the path of this blog entry and discover some of their own stolen work please drop a note and let us know!

Below is a screenshot of the stolen work on the Five Sharp website:

Adobe - Get fucked (in lieu of a clever title)

2008-10-20T11:30:00.003+10:00

just thought i'd share.

i pre-ordered CS4 (design premium) upgrade as well as the After Effects CS4 upgrade. i did this to save $200 on the CS4 upgrade price. the discount was simply for CS4 preorder, it had nothing to do with After Effects.

When After Effects was released on the 15th my business credit card was almost full so i received an email telling me that the After Effects order couldn't be completed and had been cancelled. fine. i logged on and bought it with the newly filled up credit card.

turns out the CS4 upgrade was also cancelled, without any notice to me. the email didn't mention it but did list the items cancelled as After Effects CS4.

now it seems that because the order was cancelled i can't have the pre-order and have to simply buy it at the full price.
why is this the only online transaction in the last 4 years that hasn't asked for payment by a different source instead of simply cancelling. and why was it cancelled without actually telling me? because if i do actually want the upgrade i have to pay the full amount anyway and have no other option except not buy. obviously $200 isn't a huge amount to them but is to me. also, $200 x however many people this happened to adds up.

after a long phone call to their help desk i now know i am less than the chewing gum stuck under their cleaner's shoe. the woman on the phone was fine but the company policy is 'eat shit scumbag' as far as i can work out. the catch-22 being that i can't have a pre-order price when it's already been released. stupid me.

here's a small amount of evidence that any company without competition can become very unfriendly and pricks towards their market. who said a monopoly was a bad idea?

just thought i'd share a real story about a company i have actually stood up for in the past. fuckers.

quotes for the day:
“I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
- Steven Wright

old news but fuck-it

2008-07-01T11:33:00.002+10:00

Not being one for knowing when the point has not just been made, but beaten, drugged and buried but the CIA in some 3rd world nation, i thought i'd share some older nuggets of joy i'm listening to again.

Son Of A Bush - PE

NWO - Ministry

David Cross - The Week Football Stopped

quote for the day:
People would say to me, 'Bill, you vote for Clinton, he's gonna raise your taxes. A vote for Clinton is a vote for higher taxes.' See, I have news for you, folks -- the reason I didn't vote for George Bush is because George Bush (along with Ronald Reagan) presided over an administration whose policies towards South America included genocide. So the reason I didn't vote for him is because he's a mass murderer. I'll pay that extra nickel on a liter of petrol just knowing that little brown kids aren't being clubbed to death like baby seals in Honduras so Pepsi can put a plant down there."
- Bill Hicks (1961-1994)

Letting You

2008-06-26T08:45:00.003+10:00

The sky is painted black
The smoke pours out the stack
One hand upon your heart
One hand behind your back
You train us how to act
You keep the fear intact
The imminent attack
Everything is right on track

And we are letting you get away
We are letting you get away with it

Upon our plates to feed
The dying left to bleed
How much we really need
Your politics of greed
The cancer takes ahold
The wolf is in the fold
Our destiny's been sold
We do just what we're told

And we are letting you get away
We are letting you get away with it

Your armies filled with hate
Believing your charade
Begin to suffocate
For us it's far too late

And we are letting you get away
We are letting you get away with it

- Nine Inch Nails

quote for the day:
"A functioning police state needs no police. "
- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
- Noam Chomsky

"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
- Noam Chomsky

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice..."
- William Faulkner (1897-1962)

1300flowers, a flower delivery company

2008-06-17T11:52:00.009+10:00

Alrighty. A while ago (read: February. Valentines Day to be precise) I wrote a blog entry in anger towards 1300 flowers - the Australian company that delivers flowers via online and phone bookings. I won't go into this problem, but I wasn't happy. Without any other voice to raise I vented through my blog. Let's face it, I'm the only one who would read this badly written collection of half-assed rubbish so it was more a cry of the impotent than anything else.

Since then I have recently been contacted by the company in regards to the previous blog posting, as it's ranking in Google's searching was very high and was creating negative publicity. Hard to imagine my poorly written, metaphoric fists-thrown-at-the-gods would actually achieve anything.

Anyways, the company contacted me very pleasantly. They have said that the company was new then and undergoing growing pains. The problems have been addressed and they are working diligently to fix these and further issues. All very politely and professionally. They didn't even ask for the offending blog entry to be removed. So I have removed said blog entry. Completely of my own volition and unprovoked or pressed. No payment, bribe or similar passed anywhere.

In my ranting and subsequent self-back slapping I have of course ignored the fact that thousands of people were and are very happy with 1300 flowers. They have made many a person happy. For this reason and the fact that I own a small business and have no doubt left a trail of semi-unhappy clients from time to time I felt it necessary to remove the entry from public consumption.

However, I have created this new blog entry as a reminder that even a complete nobody can effect some small amount of publicity, good or bad, and that people shouldn't be ignored out of laziness or arrogance. It must also be asked that if I hadn't created a blog entry that got some modicum of attention, would I have been contacted? Has anyone else who doesn't own a blog been similarly contacted? It's a valid question I think.

I'll also say I'm pleased to see that a small public voice can be heard and actually (well, hopefully) change some things for the better. Not that my blog will do that, but that the possibility of negative fallout from any other public web-based forum will. The modern carrot on a stick if you will. Like many religions, business runs on the threat as much as the thought.

I wish nothing but the best for the company and hope anyone who uses their services has a great experience.

quote for the day:
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

The Rapture. The event, not the band.

2008-06-04T11:03:00.005+10:00

I love seeing the opportunities people use to cash in. Anything is fair game and usually it's an obvious and ugly ploy but occasionally you see one that just makes you smile. A cynical, sarcastic smile, but a smile none the less. I just stumbled upon one such beauty.

You've Been Left Behind
This here is a website tailored to Christians who are sitting around, waiting for the express elevator to God (the Christian one, not one of the many others which may or may not be the a. same dude or b. a figment of an average imagination) called The Rapture. Basically Jesus (the son of the aforementioned God, not a south american citizen) returns, other mixed spirits (left-overs of the dead, not alcohol) hang-out and all true-believers (read: God-Fearing Christians) are beamed to God (whether Scotty has anything to do with the beaming or not has yet to be confirmed or denied, although now he's on the other side there's a good chance he'll be involved).

So the website basically allows Christians to store emails and documents for their heathen friends which will be supplied to these poor lost souls 6 days after the main event. Of course we may all have more pressing things to do, like dodge floating-burning skulls (see: Doom) than check emails. The awesome catch is that you pay a yearly membership fee which will apparently 'drop proportionally to the number of subscribers'. Awesome.

My question is that if the 'Christians' that set-up the site are, as i think they would be, reaming fellow-believers out of cold hard cash will they still be allowed boarding-passes to the main event or will they be left behind to run tech-support for their site?

quote for the day:
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)

iRony™

2008-05-08T15:12:00.004+10:00

Anyone out there scratching their heads at the base irony that is the Beijing Olympics 2008? Over the years sports people have been hauled over the coals (figuratively) for debasing the image of the games whereas the games are to be held in a country that quite literally does the same for who knows why? Traffic infringement? I realise it's an overworked point but it's still there.

But then to add to this iRony™ is the fact that most of the people out there protesting the Chinese infractions to basic human interaction (or Tibet. maybe both) then go home and use one of the many new household items they got cheap in the last few years thanks to parallel importing and China. In the words of Stephen Colbert "thank you China, our happy meals are made possible by you…" (2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner).

We wont even mention the yellow cake we seem self-interest bound to export to anyone out there yearning for enriched uranium. With a sticker on the side of the barrel marked "not for weapons".

"…Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense…"
- Terry Pratchett

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding"
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive"
- Robert A. Heinlein (1807 - 1988)

this is your subconscious calling

2008-02-24T17:33:00.006+10:00

we spend a great deal of time chasing the chattels of an apparent successful life. the goods that will define us to the outside and inside worlds. it becomes, or i should say has become in my experience more of a dividing line as i've got older. initially your life is one of promise and constant flux. of aiming and planning, floating and dreaming. but one day you suddenly think, the day of promise, the future you aimed at is already here. you go from being someone that had potential to just someone.

that isn't meant to sound as negative as it does so bare with me. all i mean is that when you bridge the gap, cross the invisible line of teen-to-young-adult to a fully fledged 'sir' or 'maam' you go from potential-you to what you are. that's not to say there isn't constant potential and possibility with every waking day but as you enter the world of mortgage, early-mid career, marriage, kids and car loans the potential becomes less easy to grasp. it becomes easy to let the dreams go as some kind of childish naivety. that's also not to say what you are isn't good, it's just never quite what you were expecting.

so along come the goods, as an ever-present reminder of how damn well you're doing. the new car, the jewellery, the 'right' dvd collection, the cd collection, the 'important' authors sitting untouched on that imported designer bookshelf modular unit, at least i think that's a bookshelf? another angle is the fitness trip, the gym membership and the unfortunate attraction to sleeveless t's. maybe you're the coke fan hanging at whatever club makes the coolest statement this week. the filler and padding of modern life.

does the collection of filler and need to appear a success to the outside world show a shallowness on the inside or simply a lack of knowing what else to do? the real problem is that the moment you've grabbed one more ornament you're already bored and looking for the next. if nothing else it's a very real issue that you may find yourself reading one or all of those fucking catalogues the mail box is stuffed full of every other day.

is there more though? is it naive to think life is meant to be a tad deeper? is life meant to be anything at all except the continuance of itself. probably not, but inbetween the starters pistol and the final skinny fucker in a cowl who's "come from the village about some reaping or some such" there's opportunity for more than dying with the most toys. it's really what get's you through the day and far be it from any fucker to dictate the rules of life's engagement.

so the truth lies someplace inside. probably right next to the colon. fuck the 'why am i here' and 'what can i buy while i am ambulatory' and focus more on what is it i want to be doing while i am taking space? many people never worry about this shite and have a great time. fuckers.

quotes for the day:
"Being an adult is really challenging. When you're young, you can rely for so long on being promising, and then you have to stop being promising. You want to say, 'Hey, can't I be promising any more?"
- Ethan Hawke
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people."
- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”"
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)

bollywood confused virgins

2008-02-19T07:44:00.004+10:00

So I read a while back that many song and dance scenes in Bollywood musicals are actually metaphors for love and sex scenes, being that socially the more explicit cinema isn't accepted. I've heard it as fact but wouldn't be surprised if it were crap. If it is true though, it could really screw with some people's perception of reality. I mean, no matter how fucking crazy some people seem to distort reality to suit any angle. My premise / query / joke is that I wonder if some naive your kid asks some girl he gigs out for a date, if things get a little hot would he break into song and dance thinking of that as the correct act of intimacy? Could he in fact be turned on by that kind of activity rather than the more traditional walking hands and salival cross-over? Could we see some dude jumping out of the shrubbery in some park, scaring the crap outta some chick by dancing in front of her?

quote for the day:
“If God had intended us not to masturbate
he would've made our arms shorter”
- George Carlin

iTool - Lottery Confusion

2007-11-15T14:45:00.000+10:00

The frightening level of stupidity mankind can show at times makes the whole idea of Darwin's evolution seem unrealistic. Instead of survival of the fittest it has to be survival of the luckiest. We have to be, as a species, an Inspector Clouseau of the animal world. Somehow still existing through severe ineptitude as though we're actually here as comic fucking relief for some yet undiscovered audience. So to help illustrate my point, here's a fantastic story of mankind at it's finest.

'Cool Cash' card confusion - Ciara Leeming (3/11/2007)

A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - because players couldn't understand it.

The Cool Cash game - launched on Monday - was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won.

To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing.

But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards. The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.

Read the whole article, it's liberating to think that on those down moments in life where you think that you're an uninteresting, non-achieving waste of space there's always someone considerably worse.

quote for the day:
"Having a great intellect is no path to being happy."
- Stephen Fry

Kanye West and Rainn Wilson Rap Battle

2007-09-21T15:16:00.001+10:00

I know nothing about Kanye West but just watching this I like him. Anyone willing to have a laugh and say 'I never win...' is always good in my books. I'm sure he'll sleep tight now.

Jim Carrey at Meryl Streep's AFI tribute - Hilarious!

2007-09-19T20:27:00.001+10:00

MC 900 FT. Jesus - But If You Go

2007-09-16T09:05:00.001+10:00

Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues

2007-09-16T08:57:00.001+10:00

Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues

Exits to freeways
wisted like knots on
the fingers
jewels cleaving
skin between
breasts.

Your Cadillac breathes
four hundred horses
over blue lines
you are going
to Reseda
to make love
to a model
from Ohio
whose real name
you don't
know

you spin
like the cadillac was
overturning down a
cliff on television
and the radio is on
and the radioman is speaking
and the radioman says
women were a curse
so men built Paramount
studios
and men built Columbia
studios
and men built
Los Angeles

it is 5 am
and you are listening
to Los Angeles

And the radioman says
it is a beautiful night out there!
And the radioman says
Rock and Roll lives!
And the radioman says
it is a beautiful night out there
in Los Angeles
you live
in Los Angeles
and you are going to
Reseda; we are all
in some way or
another going to
Reseda someday
to die
and the radioman
laughs because
the radioman fucks
a model too

Gone savage
for teenagers with
automatic weapons and
boundless love
gone savage for
teenagers who are
aesthetically pleasing
in other words
fly
Los Angeles beckons
the teenagers
to come to her
on buses;
Los Angeles loves
love

it is 5 am
and you are listening
to Los Angeles

I am going to
Los Angeles
to built a screenplay about
lovers who
murder each
other
I am going to
Los Angeles
to see my own
name on a
screen, five feet
long and luminous
as the radioman says
it is 5 am
and the sun has charred
the other side of
the world and come
back to us
and painted the smoke
over our heads
an imperial violet
it is 5 am
and you are listening
to Los Angeles.

You are listening.
You are listening.
You are listening.
You are listening.

Just a Minute with Jason Bateman and Michael Cera

2007-09-14T17:48:00.001+10:00

For any Arrested Development fans out there. If you're not yet one then you must simply be a terrorist.

David Cross on flags and patriotism

2007-09-12T19:23:00.001+10:00

Final Fantasy Advent Children Tool The Pot AMV

2007-09-12T19:08:00.001+10:00

Tool - The Pot

Who are you to wave your finger?
You must have been outta your head
Eye hole deep in muddy waters
You practically raised the dead

Rob the grave to snow the cradle
Then burn the evidence down
Soapbox house of cards and glass so
Don't go tossin' your stones around

You must have been high
You must have been high
You must have been

Foot in mouth and head up ass
So whatcha talkin' 'bout?
Difficult to dance 'round this one
'til you pull it out, boy

You must have been so high
You must have been so high

Steal, borrow, refer, save your shady inference
Kangaroo done hung the jury with the innocent

Now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye, eye
When you pissed all over my black kettle

You must have been high
You must have been high

Who are you to wave your finger?
So full of it
Eye balls deep in muddy waters
Fuckin' hypocrite

Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent

Now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye, eye
When you pissed all over my black kettle
You must've been...

So who are you to wave your finger?
Who are you to wave your fatty fingers at me?
You must have been out your mind

Weepin' shades of indigo
Shed without a reason
Weepin' shades of indigo

Liar, lawyer; mirror, for you, what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

Now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye, eye
Now when you pissed all over my black kettle

You must've been
High
High
High
High

Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
Ganja? P-lease,
You must have been out your mind

MINISTRY- N.W.O.

2007-09-12T18:58:00.001+10:00

And almost finally, a fucking classic. Says it all. New World Order.

Minstry - New World Order

all the locals hide their tears of regret
open fire cos i love you to death
sky high, with a heartache of stone
you'll never see me cos i'm always alone

how to love without a trace of dissent
i'll buy the torture cos you pay for the rent
tied high with a broken command
you're all alone to the promised land

i'm in love with this malicious intent
you've been taken but you don't know it yet
what you will know must never live to be found
cos it's the subject of the eyes of the drowned.

History Project: A Perfect Circle

2007-09-12T18:56:00.001+10:00

The song was originally written about vietnam but this version was released for the latest population control exercise. No doubt some poor fuckers in 30 years will be releasing it again to an apothetic audience.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Mother, mother,
There's too many of you crying,
Brother, brother, brother,
There's far too many of you dying,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some loving here today

Father, father,
We don't need to escalate,
You see, war is not the answer,
For only love can conquer hate,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some loving here today

Picket lines and picket signs,
Don't punish me with brutality,
Talk to me, so you can see,
Oh, what's going on,
What's going on,
Yeah, what's going on,
Ah, what's going on,

In the mean time,
Right on, baby,
Right on, Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong,
Oh, but who are they to judge us?,
Simply because our hair is long,
Oh, you know we've got to find a way,
To bring some understanding here today, Oh

Picket lines and picket signs,
Don't punish me with brutality,
Talk to me,
So you can see,
What's going on,
Yeah, what's going on,
Tell me what's going on,
I'll tell you what's going on,
Right on baby, Right on baby.

A Perfect Circle - The Noose

2007-09-12T18:45:00.001+10:00

A Perfect Circle - The Noose

So glad to see you well, overcome them
Completely silent now
With heaven's help
You've cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead

Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's
Atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn
Before us all
So glad to see you well

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead

With your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin'
Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin' down

Your halo slippin' down
(I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends)
[repeated]

Your halo slippin' down
Your halo's slippin' down to choke you now

Capitol G (George W. Bush)

2007-09-12T18:40:00.001+10:00

a day late and a few dollars short with this one. i love cynical 'in character' tracks. i'm betting the same people who didn't realise dennis leary was taking the piss with 'asshole' won't get this either. i guess the saddest thing is that the sentiment shared in this track is one held by so many people.

NIN - Capital G

i pushed a button and elected him to office and a
he pushed a button and it dropped a bomb
you pushed a button and could watch it on the television
those motherfuckers didn't last too long ha ha
i'm sick of hearing bout the haves and the have nots
have some personal accountability
the biggest problem with the way that we've been doing things is
the more we let you have the less that i'll be keeping for me

well i used to stand for something
now i'm on my hands and knees
traded in my god for this one
he signs his name with a capital G

don't give a shit about the temperature in guatemala
don't really see what all the fuss is about
ain't gonna worry bout no future generations and a
i'm sure somebody's gonna figure it out
don't try to tell me how some power can corrupt a person
you haven't had enough to know what it's like
you're only angry cause you wish you were in my position
now nod your head because you know that i'm right - all right!

well i used to stand for something
but forgot what that could be
there's a lot of me inside you
maybe you're afraid to see

well i used to stand for something
now i'm on my hands and knees
traded in my god for this one
he signs his name with a capital G

life - art, the whole confusing thing...

2007-08-08T10:48:00.000+10:00

Well here's a funny one. A couple in the UK who met while posing as married for a photo shoot are about to actually get married. News.com.au's link: Wedding brochure couple to marry

It reminds me of the TV series Scrubs. The episode My First Step ended with the charaters JD and Elliot bungie jumping. Apparently the stunt doubles who actually jumped (and were bungie corded together for a few hours) met there whilst tied together and eventually got married.

Another one I can think of was the actors playing mum and dad in Ferris Beuller's Day Off got married after they met on set. Apparently they've since divorced, oh well.

quote for the day:
"Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?”"
- Rita Rudner

oh dear.

2007-07-31T19:23:00.000+10:00

This takes the cake. Well, takes the paper napkins that came with the cake anyway. Porno Origami. That is, origami for adults showing adult 'concepts + themes' (check the cover below for examples of those). Far the fuck out. How far gone was the so-called origami master that mastered these origami masturbatory nightmares. I mean it's funny as fuck but who seriously sits down with a few hundred sheets and decides to crank out these numbers?!?

Fortunately Amazon has made available to the confused public a few 'inside the book' images so using the links below you can buy yourself a piece of future humankind or take a peek inside (a free peek too, not a $1 for 2 minutes).
:: Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults - Master Sugoi
:: Take a peek at 'Master' Sugoi's masturbpiece.

quote for the day:
"My girlfiend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert' I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine"
- Emo Phillips

the two corey's

2007-07-25T15:46:00.000+10:00

Awesome. I loved both Corey Haim and Feldman during the 80's. Granted looking back a lot of those films haven't aged well but in their time they rocked. So when they both went down the drugs / minor crime / cliche downward spiral I was a tad saddened for the guys. Well 20+ years on, they're back together thanks to the current trend of so-called 'real-life tv'. Yep, Feldman + wife are putting up the Haim in their house for a cliched but enjoyable Odd Couple ripp. Watch the trailer, I'm looking forward to it (although since we don't have Foxtel I'll have to buy the series on dvd). The one thing I like with the show (before actually seeing anything but the extended trailer) is that it's an improv 'version' of themselves. So the fact that it's staged and set-up is a given. Hey, so are all the other co-called real-life shows, at least they're being honest!

The Two Coreys.

Quotes for the Day:
"It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin." - Corey Feldman
"You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday." - Corey Haim

gay marriage for angry straight men

2007-07-25T09:25:00.000+10:00

Awesome. A recent court ruling in Orange County (LA in that country known as the United States of America) has stated that a gay couple who had registered as domestic partners and use 1 surname are still only co-habiting. This ruling meant that the man who initiated the court case still had to continue paying the monthly alimony to one of the aforementioned couple, his ex-wife. Gold. Let's see how long before gay-couples are suddenly legally offered the ability to be as unhappy as straights.

Alimony provides a same-sex union test (LATimes.com - July 22, 2007)

quote for the day:
The Massachusetts court decision to allow gay marriages this week may prove to be a divisive issue in the upcoming presidential election. President Bush is likely torn because he has to protect what he sees as a sacred institution and yet he knows gay marriage would boost the economy because you know those gay guys would go all out. We're talking about designer wedding cakes, $20,000 sleeveless tuxedos, giant naked man ice sculptures that pee mojitos. They'd hire Pattie La Belle as the band, give out African parrots as party favors. It'd be ridiculous. Remember, whatever your political beliefs, a vote to allow gay marriage is a vote for a fabulous economy.
- Tina Fey