By PJK
I want to use this blog for a moment to promote a friend's band. They are called Retrograde Metamorphosis and they play a kind of avant-garde post-rock psychedelic shoegaze surf rock. Oh, and it's all improvised. Neat huh? They have a guitarist, a violinist, two synthesizers, and a drummer.
Here's a 10 minute clip from their first gig, at the TAFE Centre for the Arts. If I recall correctly they played for over a half hour, uninterrupted. They had some really trippy projections going in the background too that you can't see very well in the footage (cells dividing and insects and stuff).
Also check out their MySpace to hear some studio recordings.
Kudos level: high.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Sunday, July 08, 2007
ad-libbed.
By Challi
This is the Fisher-Price animal sounds farm.
This is a sticker.
These are TIGHTS!
This is handy!
but yeah, back to the animal sounds farm. To the untrained eye, it's just a crappy fiberglass toy barn with crappy toy animals that make sounds for the kids playing with it to listen to, and even to the trained eye it still probably seems like that. However, according to the ad for this product, it's more than that. Apparently it "gives kids a real feel for working on the farm".
Yes, because clearly all that farmers do is sit around and listen to their animals make noises. Forget about trying to make a profit off of them, they must of only bought their animals so they can listen to them and then go to sleep. Job done, now they can retire because they've listened to their animals make animal noises! Shut up, I was being sarcastic.
What this toy should really have to give kids a feel of life in the farm is to have toy crops and a sunlamp and have the crops be harmed by the suns powerful rays and lack of water so much that they die and be rendered useless so they have to be fed to the livestock. That's right, the toy should be drought-affected! Oh the fun the kids shall have when they learn how it sucks to be a farmer. Either that, or change the product's stupid slogan to something like "It gives kids a real feel of what it's like to play with a fiberglass toy barn that has toy animals in it that make noises" because that's what they're actually doing!
and here's an ad that's been freaking me out, for Coke and Coke Zero:
Ok, that's completely scared me off of Coca Cola for at least a minute. What I'm gathering from this ad is that, as soon as you take one sip of Coke or Coke Zero, you start having a huge uncontrollable epileptic seizure for a whole 4 seconds, which also involves speaking in tongues, saying incomprehensible crap like "Za Zang!". No thanks, Coke, I'll just stick to my red cordial.
-C
This is the Fisher-Price animal sounds farm.
This is a sticker.
These are TIGHTS!
This is handy!but yeah, back to the animal sounds farm. To the untrained eye, it's just a crappy fiberglass toy barn with crappy toy animals that make sounds for the kids playing with it to listen to, and even to the trained eye it still probably seems like that. However, according to the ad for this product, it's more than that. Apparently it "gives kids a real feel for working on the farm".
Yes, because clearly all that farmers do is sit around and listen to their animals make noises. Forget about trying to make a profit off of them, they must of only bought their animals so they can listen to them and then go to sleep. Job done, now they can retire because they've listened to their animals make animal noises! Shut up, I was being sarcastic.
What this toy should really have to give kids a feel of life in the farm is to have toy crops and a sunlamp and have the crops be harmed by the suns powerful rays and lack of water so much that they die and be rendered useless so they have to be fed to the livestock. That's right, the toy should be drought-affected! Oh the fun the kids shall have when they learn how it sucks to be a farmer. Either that, or change the product's stupid slogan to something like "It gives kids a real feel of what it's like to play with a fiberglass toy barn that has toy animals in it that make noises" because that's what they're actually doing!
and here's an ad that's been freaking me out, for Coke and Coke Zero:
Ok, that's completely scared me off of Coca Cola for at least a minute. What I'm gathering from this ad is that, as soon as you take one sip of Coke or Coke Zero, you start having a huge uncontrollable epileptic seizure for a whole 4 seconds, which also involves speaking in tongues, saying incomprehensible crap like "Za Zang!". No thanks, Coke, I'll just stick to my red cordial.
-C
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
donkey-punched.
By Challi
There's been a lot of talk going around that Shrek, the lovable bald green ogre version of John Goodman, should stop being used for advertising junk food, like cheesy bacon balls and Nutella, because, apparently, that would only contribute to the obesity epidemic.
but of course, that's stupid. Kids will eat what their parents give them and usually nothing else, therefore parents are the ones responsible for their children's health. So how freaking stupid must the parents be to assume that some food being represented a clearly obese, ugly, green monster could possibly be good for their kids? Not very stupid at all, actually. Parents are usually smart and they have enough common sense to know that cheesy bacon balls and Nutella are bad for their kids but they'll buy it anyway, ugly ogre or not, because they know it will shut the kids up.
Back to the point of a fat green ogre advertising junk food, it makes perfect sense, doesn't it? He's fat and he's promoting kids to eat stuff that makes them fat, and possibly green. If he was actually promoting food that was good and healthy for kids, it wouldn't actually work.
What really grinds my gears about all this is that all these health organisations and such are basically trying to eliminate the junk food companies' right to promote their product at all. They have a right to advertise as much as everyone else does. How else are they going to make people aware of their junk?So what's the mentality of these health organisations trying to get rid of ads and promotions like these for junk food? Apparently, it's bad for us. No shit! We wouldn't buy it if it wasn't bad for us. Are we now going to get rid of every ad promoting things that are bad for us? Well there goes all the ads for beer, Travel Auction, 4WDs, Optus and any ad for Big Brother, then what the hell's left?
If the people aren't aware of the product, it might as well not exist and will just be sitting on the shelves unbought and label-less. And although that's probably what is preferred by these protesters, you can't take away the right for us already obese people to enjoy such wonderful food as much as we want. We earned it!
So get stuffed!
-C
There's been a lot of talk going around that Shrek, the lovable bald green ogre version of John Goodman, should stop being used for advertising junk food, like cheesy bacon balls and Nutella, because, apparently, that would only contribute to the obesity epidemic.
but of course, that's stupid. Kids will eat what their parents give them and usually nothing else, therefore parents are the ones responsible for their children's health. So how freaking stupid must the parents be to assume that some food being represented a clearly obese, ugly, green monster could possibly be good for their kids? Not very stupid at all, actually. Parents are usually smart and they have enough common sense to know that cheesy bacon balls and Nutella are bad for their kids but they'll buy it anyway, ugly ogre or not, because they know it will shut the kids up.
Back to the point of a fat green ogre advertising junk food, it makes perfect sense, doesn't it? He's fat and he's promoting kids to eat stuff that makes them fat, and possibly green. If he was actually promoting food that was good and healthy for kids, it wouldn't actually work.
What really grinds my gears about all this is that all these health organisations and such are basically trying to eliminate the junk food companies' right to promote their product at all. They have a right to advertise as much as everyone else does. How else are they going to make people aware of their junk?So what's the mentality of these health organisations trying to get rid of ads and promotions like these for junk food? Apparently, it's bad for us. No shit! We wouldn't buy it if it wasn't bad for us. Are we now going to get rid of every ad promoting things that are bad for us? Well there goes all the ads for beer, Travel Auction, 4WDs, Optus and any ad for Big Brother, then what the hell's left?
If the people aren't aware of the product, it might as well not exist and will just be sitting on the shelves unbought and label-less. And although that's probably what is preferred by these protesters, you can't take away the right for us already obese people to enjoy such wonderful food as much as we want. We earned it!
So get stuffed!
-C
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Sunday, October 15, 2006
satire... or truth?
By PJK
Forget Ancient Greece. I think it's safe to say that political satire has found its golden age.
Or maybe not. Maybe satire doesn't exist anymore. Sad as it may be, that which we tend to think of as humour actually comes closer to the truth than the biggest joke of all, which happens to be modern political discourse. We live in a dualistic society entangled with invested interests, where ideology is disguised by convenient euphamisms. Even intellectuals regurgitate buzzwords fed to us by government speech-writers. Who then dares point out the absurd contradictions of our politicians and journalists? Who cuts through the bullshit and half-truths to get to the nutmeat of the issue? Only the sanest individuals among us can expose undiluted reality eloquently and for all time. We generally call those people comedians.
So the real question is, why isn't a satirist like Jon Stewart running the United States? Well, that's the premise for a new movie starring Robin Williams, "Man of the Year".
Sounds entertaining, but the reviews I've read were critical of the film — not for being controversial, in fact quite the opposite; many are saying it doesn't give enough to attention to addressing its underlying concept, which is what merits serious discussion. Satire and satirists aside, politics has abandoned reality in favour of becoming a deceptive fantasy-land, to the left and right of the poltical spectrum alike.
And if you aren't pissed off by that then I have grave concerns about our future.
Forget Ancient Greece. I think it's safe to say that political satire has found its golden age.
Or maybe not. Maybe satire doesn't exist anymore. Sad as it may be, that which we tend to think of as humour actually comes closer to the truth than the biggest joke of all, which happens to be modern political discourse. We live in a dualistic society entangled with invested interests, where ideology is disguised by convenient euphamisms. Even intellectuals regurgitate buzzwords fed to us by government speech-writers. Who then dares point out the absurd contradictions of our politicians and journalists? Who cuts through the bullshit and half-truths to get to the nutmeat of the issue? Only the sanest individuals among us can expose undiluted reality eloquently and for all time. We generally call those people comedians.
So the real question is, why isn't a satirist like Jon Stewart running the United States? Well, that's the premise for a new movie starring Robin Williams, "Man of the Year".
Sounds entertaining, but the reviews I've read were critical of the film — not for being controversial, in fact quite the opposite; many are saying it doesn't give enough to attention to addressing its underlying concept, which is what merits serious discussion. Satire and satirists aside, politics has abandoned reality in favour of becoming a deceptive fantasy-land, to the left and right of the poltical spectrum alike.
And if you aren't pissed off by that then I have grave concerns about our future.
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