I've been in a Tegan and Sara phase for a long time now, their album The Con has been my addiction since it's release. They have recently been knocked off their place on the top of my list by We Are Scientists. I was sent along to review their gig in Melbourne last month and since then I've been hooked. The live show these guys do is part stand up, part gig. I absolutely love Impatience from their album Brains Thrust Mastery.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
I want to believe: The X-Files love song
I don't know too much about Rhett and Link but they have made this great video dedication to The X-Files.
Check out Rhett and Link's website for more songs about Dead iPods and Facebook.
Check out Rhett and Link's website for more songs about Dead iPods and Facebook.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Simpsons- Election Day
While I'm not as devoted to The Simpsons as I once was, there's no doubting they're still the touchstone for many pop culture nuts...I love this election day clip.
Jade Becomes A Triple Threat
The Put Jade on Neighbours campaign is arguably the most ridiculous (and unsuccessful) stunt going around, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up...Here's my latest installment, this time I have my own reality tv show.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
socially awkward moments, revisted...part one
I was talking to a friend of mine who is living in another country on IM...her computer starts to die so we decide to continue the conversation on the phone...as soon as we start talking I'm starting to feel the pressure to talk, I can't think of a conversation starter despite the fact we'd just been typing to each other for the last hour or so...so then as soon as I can I'm handing off the phone trying to get away from a conversation I was quite happily contributing to on my computer...finally I'm given a topic of conversation to talk on and spend the next 20 minutes in a wave of ups and downs trying desperately to avoid the awkward silences and trying not to think because that's when the awkwardness seems to be at it's worst...
Friday, August 8, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
reflections from the heart of an addict
there's been a lot said about the X-Files movie over the weekend, sure enough it's definitely a wedge issue...
so just to add my two cents to the millions of cents already floating around out in cyberspace, as an out and out x-phile i like to think i'm basically the core audience for the film.
inital thoughts...walking out of the film the first time i was perplexed, i couldn't figure out how i felt about anything. was it what i anticipated? no...but is anything in this life, let alone the x-files ever what we expect it to be.
in the six years that i've watched and rewatched every episodes, got countless friends hooked on the show, and desperately waited to find out what had become of my heroes, i hoped it would be something that would recapture everything i felt when i watched the show as an angsty teenager. in a somewhat sad revelation about myself, mulder and scully were so important to my angst years i can basically relate every episode back to what was happening in my life at the time.
anyway back to i want to believe, by the time i woke up the next day i decided i wanted to go and watch it again (something people without an interest as intense as mine will not be inclined to do). upon a second viewing i enjoyed it a lot more. but for me the things that stand out, that i enjoyed were purely based around mulder and scully and the evolution of their relationship. when i first started watching the show i was a staunch no-romo who ultimately turned shipper once i realised their relationship was in fact a strength rather than a weakness, particularly in the way it's played.
ultimately i want to believe that this film will do well enough that we will get further installments in whatever format they may take. if not i guess i'll have to be content to live my life free of new x files and happy to make up my own mind about where my not so imaginary friends are...at the end of the day i left the film for the second time, went home and began to rewatch some of my favourite episodes over again, i guess some addictions never die.
so just to add my two cents to the millions of cents already floating around out in cyberspace, as an out and out x-phile i like to think i'm basically the core audience for the film.
inital thoughts...walking out of the film the first time i was perplexed, i couldn't figure out how i felt about anything. was it what i anticipated? no...but is anything in this life, let alone the x-files ever what we expect it to be.
in the six years that i've watched and rewatched every episodes, got countless friends hooked on the show, and desperately waited to find out what had become of my heroes, i hoped it would be something that would recapture everything i felt when i watched the show as an angsty teenager. in a somewhat sad revelation about myself, mulder and scully were so important to my angst years i can basically relate every episode back to what was happening in my life at the time.
anyway back to i want to believe, by the time i woke up the next day i decided i wanted to go and watch it again (something people without an interest as intense as mine will not be inclined to do). upon a second viewing i enjoyed it a lot more. but for me the things that stand out, that i enjoyed were purely based around mulder and scully and the evolution of their relationship. when i first started watching the show i was a staunch no-romo who ultimately turned shipper once i realised their relationship was in fact a strength rather than a weakness, particularly in the way it's played.
ultimately i want to believe that this film will do well enough that we will get further installments in whatever format they may take. if not i guess i'll have to be content to live my life free of new x files and happy to make up my own mind about where my not so imaginary friends are...at the end of the day i left the film for the second time, went home and began to rewatch some of my favourite episodes over again, i guess some addictions never die.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Interesting Characters Found On Public Transport
This week...
a girl who decided to tweeze her upper lip and eyebrows between Flinders Street and Box Hill...
a girl who decided to tweeze her upper lip and eyebrows between Flinders Street and Box Hill...
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