mong summer dream (now featuring added winter, also spring)

hny mongs, enjoy my fiendishly clever jeff lynne tribute

is this the new thread? if so pls to link to new & old threads

old springtime save our mongrels 2011

anyway wha happen

agh, cheers for picking up my slack

had a McOz today, feel like the most patriotic Australian ever (even more so than that swimming coach and that bloke from the war)

if there's an unflushed deuce in the men's, and there's no toilet paper in there, does that mean that the unflushing bastard is walking round with an unwiped ringpiece to boot???

that deuce should be wrapped up

Mayb he used the last of it.... wait no then where it is.. argh WTF stinkybum weirdo.

You just made me think about poos in toilets, I HATE YOU :(

just as i bite into a dumpling

dump-ling

i hate you

:D

hello from house-sitting land

lol @ username

hello

had a good nite out seeing gruntl3d and the P.K.E.

i'll be back inna hood on thurs nite

need to get 'amongst it'

Waitin on a thing. Not gonna jinx it til I know either way, cross all yer wotsits for me tho lads.

If it's the thing that I think it is (therefore stuff is crossed), we are also searching for a thing.

*gets out thing, plays with it*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOoKgK09fCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p490t_6Z9aY

Ads: sounds like ye on right track, I will also cross thingies.

Wait this sounds like a bad Ghostbusters slashfic now.

ew ugh

where is thing

maybe you can explain why this saturday there were 2-3 people at every inspection, except one at 1 pm that had seriously like sixty people

idk maybe justin bieber lived there

i do not miss going to OFIs

I do not enjoy the gettening up of hopes :( There were 3 other ppl/fams at this one. sixty people at one!? wtf, was it dirt cheap or something?

Its fu1t0n st btw

it was nothing, just a mid-priced pokey ground floor flat in c4rdig4n st

top luck w/ marg4r3t fu1t0n st

fondly remember proto-happy hardcore hit "marg4r3t fu1t0n's tr34t"

Poop, we missed out, but we were on a shortlist of 3 and Ive been reassured "theres nothing wrong with yr applications" so thats something of a comfort. Dammit its so much harder when yr being ultra-fussy :( I only ever find 1 or 2 places a month that suit.

agh crap

nothing wrong with being fussy btw, also there's some incredibly run-down crap in the s+k3 area atm

Aye Trayce. I've been saying "We'll move as soon as I find the perfect place" for at least nine months now. Still haven't found it, but I'm content that we haven't moved to somewhere that doesn't have all the features we desire or not up to my probably too high standards.

Yeah exactly. Where we are now is nice, but not worth what we're paying, when we can pay less for a huge kitchen with modern fittings, for eg. I feel a bit "lol yeah first world problems" about it, hey I have a roof over my head stfu, but ffs I'm 40 and Ive spent half my life in poky flats, if I cant afford to buy I should at least be able to rent a nice place, I can afford it dammit.

Granted, half the problem is where I want to live, if we went out even into the closer suburbs we'd get a much nicer place but fuck who wants to live in Pascoe Vale.

(or as all my friends out there insist, "west brunswick" har har)

Yeah exactly. Where we are now is nice, but not worth what we're paying, when we can pay less for a huge kitchen with modern fittings

Starting to wonder whether that is a pipe dream tbh. Looked at a flat in C4ulf13ld Nth, $430/wk, dog box, kitchen was part of the tiny living room, two tiny bedrooms, no laundry facility &c.

Ive found plenty of roomy places with seperate diing areas/kitchens, even 2 toilets/seperate laundries for 450, so its not that hard. its just a shit fight to get em.

But Im looking at villas/townhouses/houses. Im not even considering flats unless theyre hueg/have a terrace/courtyard. Not for that money. ffs I was paying $260 for a flat twice the size of my current house, only 3 years ago.

pour example: http://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-vic-st+kilda+east-406486071

ooer sounds nice. btw I can't help noticing that most of the flats on the market are ground floor, presumably coz they're so noisy that everyone keeps leaving.

slight reach but does a mong know a ~good~ literary agent for book publishing y/n

Aye Trayce. I've been saying "We'll move as soon as I find the perfect place" for at least nine months now.

we should do the banquet at P3rama sometime before you move btw

(as well as the wang double feature)

Sorry cuz, P3rama closed months ago so he could open a fancy new place in the city.

you broke it through lack of custom

you broke it

it was going well and then it went bad

I see what you mean now Trayce, we saw some really awesome rentals this morning

Yah its all about the patience i think, I've kinda given up again cos I've used up my leave now anyway and nick only has leave in late feb, but I guess we'll keep one eye out. Its all such a fucking pain in the arse.

hello from comedy giant smartphone land

judging by your IP i'm guessing you're not in melb

that's odd, i am here

won't be in two days tho, herro dere hobart

so do we know yet if holy ghost or any of the other dfa types are doing FMF sideshows?

guessing a few of you wild party fux will be new orderin'

wait hangon go previous, did you get iphone h-man

new order are touring? man i am out of the loop. And larfing like a drain at the fact EVERY OLD FUCKER I KNOW iS GOING TO SISTERS OF MERCY. I mean srsaly 3/4 the crowd will be goths I know. Sad wankers.

Mr Schettino insisted he was twice as far out and said the ship ran aground because the rocks weren't marked on his nautical charts.

However, he did concede he was manoeuvring the ship in "touristic navigation" - implying a route that was a deviation from the norm and designed to entertain the tourists."

http://images.wikia.com/es.futurama/images/e/e9/Zapp_Brannigan.png

"Kif, we have a conundrum!"

doh effed up the bbcode

now here is a route with some chest hair..

not iphone, galaxy nexass

ooooh

that reminds me, does anyone else think that the spin room logo looks a bit like fry's head?

http://www.thespinroom.com.au/wp-content/themes/Simplism/images/logo.jpg

lol

been thinkin baout availing myself of the spin room's servicez

incredibly so xp

lolll it does too

guessing a few of you wild party fux will be new orderin'

wld not pay $90 to see Bad Lieutenant, which is what this is tbh

already have a Future ticket, and if Nu-Order are up against Holy Ghost I will be missing them. If Juan's only DJing and not band-ing I'd skip him to do NO.

I am regretting my choice of clothing today I must say.

twilight t-shirt too big or

wrong season for culottes

Eff off Adam ;P

Nah I put on a flimsy summer dress (its gonna be 35 or something horrid today) but I didnt realise it was so windy, and this dress is... very short :/ Its so awkward I'm tempted to go shop for a new dress in my lunch break, ha.

ooer

Oh nice, I might go to this:

https://corner.ticketscout.com.au/gigs/233-michael-rother-dieter-moebius-and-hans-lampe

got tix yday

a friend of mine is in the support band, i'm guessing they're p stoked

Oh yar the uzis. R0b is always raving abt them.

I guess I better get a ticket before it smells out.

Arrghh WHY is it on a bloody Monday night.

Got a ticket anyways.

woo my pro one has arrived

my pro (1) has arrived

that's not true

lool

Dammit I was gonna make that joke. BUT I DIDNT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD SOUND LAME.

tribute dn

Haw.

Fuckin weather, wore a summer dress and now the weathers gone COLD again FUCK U MELBURRRN.

welcome

hope your dress was of a modest length today, Trayce. I heard some talk...

http://i.imgur.com/AEk3K.gif

oh lord what have I done

Bahahahaha

I have a story. Bear with me.

'er indoors's macbook just fell off our wireless network. I could not get it to work. I tried everything I could think of but fail fail fail. Eventually I hassled Twitter for a solution. Loads of people tried to help but nothing worked. In the end I somehow fixed it by changing the router's bandwidth setting from 20 MHz to 40 MHz, and for some reason it changed the channel from 12 to 1 without asking me. So I tweeted the thing about it changing from channel 12 to channel 1 without asking me, and G4bby Mi11g4te of "y0u're t3rrible muri3l" fame replied with "soory that was me". I have no fucking idea what that was.

one of my available wireless networks is (.)(.)

G4bby Mi11g4te of "y0u're t3rrible muri3l" fame replied with "soory that was me". I have no fucking idea what that was.

Loll wtf! I always get amused when ppl go OMG FAMOUSE PERSONG TWEETED ME IN REPLY... sorry Im not taking the piss or nothin :)

BTW you probably had a frequency interference, at a guess, but I know sfa abuot wifi, I mean I know how to set it up and make it work, but what causes it to fail, beyond "there are 3 brick walls in the way you dick" is not my purview.

Loll wtf! I always get amused when ppl go OMG FAMOUSE PERSONG TWEETED ME IN REPLY... sorry Im not taking the piss or nothin :)

Yeah, I don't ever talk about contact with omgfamous people (you know my attitude to the whole fame/debasement thing), it was just literally the last thing I expected at that point, roughly on par with a ribenaberry coming through the chimney and doing the charleston.

Re the interference, there's stuff in the same room that didn't miss a beat. This one MBA suddenly refused to even display the SSID after working for several months.

Eh, computer equipment is just fuckin fussy, really. We all the time get ppl ringing up going BUT IT WAS WORKING UP TIL NOW as if that guarantees something will work forever without fail, and come on, thats not how anything modern works! When yr toaster or TV breaks, you dont go BUT IT WAS WORKING TIL LAST NIGHT, you go "oh, now it's died. I gotta work out why". For some effed up reason people dont apply that thinking to internet, and demand that it be fixed NAO even tho there is 2308275487 things that could cause the problem (wifi, modem failure, overheating, interference, shitty phone lines, tram going past [not kidding], ISP's servers died, internationl link died, ddos attack, etc etc etc... )god Im glad I dont work helpdesk anymore.

Sorry that might sound like an attack on youse, not meant that way. Just general GAAAHHHRRR at customers haha.

Yeah yeah of course, I did loads of time on phone support too so I completely get that. Ordinarily I'd look at what had changed but nothing had changed. Google was useless and the MBA gave me zero help.

btw I see what you mean about the famouse persong thing, ugh it wasn't meant to come across like that at all, now I feel like a dick

Arrr shit that wasnt my intent at all haha sorry!

And it *is* very annyoying when something suddenly stops working for no raisin.

I know what you mean coz the one thing everyone gets in tech support is the 45 minutes of "it just stopped working I didn't touch anything" followed by "oh btw the cat pissed on it"

Hahaha yessss.

Back in the '90s (so pre-screen sharing etc) I had a woman who couldn't log into the isp through the terminal user/pass thing. Conversation went on for at least 15 minutes, spelling her user & pass, checking the case, checking the caps lock wasn't on etc. Turns out she never once pressed enter, so her terminal screen was like this

Username: jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123jwatkinsLEO123

how does one diagnose such a thing ffs

Yeeep thats one reason why I bailed on helpdesk work. You can't see what the idiots are doing, Ive heard so many stories about callers who say "yep" to everything theyre asked to do, and then admit theyre actually in the car/at work and not in front of said connection at all, I mean WTF. How do you think we're gonna fix it, with telepathy!?

oh god, that's ridiculous

Btw j1m feel free to edit my obnoxious post if it buggers yr width

there's nothing wrong with my width

f'nar

hahahah

I love how this gives the impression Jims been sitting in the bg all this time tolerating our nerdy whinging with a polite yawn.

hahahahahahahahahaha yes

my hipsterpad just autocorrected "hahahahahahahaha" to "hah aahahahahaha" wtf

I love how this gives the impression Jims been sitting in the bg all this time tolerating our nerdy whinging with a polite yawn.

not that far from reality!

sometimes I do imagine jim watching ilx in a fireman uniform

one of my available wireless networks is (.)(.)

u should try to 'connect'. honk honk!

waitin' on a Crust pizza delivery tbh. SO HONGRY

u should try to 'connect'. honk honk!

haaa

had crust last week. pretty nice but well overpriced

forgot to have dinner

ohm sweet ohm. rampant lollerdaze drinking/eating only added one (1) kilo, fair result i guess

'sup estela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQYIL8DXhU8&feature=player_embedded

la dolce vita right there

yo h-man are u rothering?

Man I better not forget to go to that show! Or battles this satdee

attn fitzmongs

http://indolentdandy.net/fitzroyalty/2012/01/22/banned-from-a-cafe-that-does-not-exist/

basically lol @ this cafe

Gold!

stencil's meltdown in the comments is spectacular

the hottest street art for the hottest artists

pathetic

i didn't think it was possible to be more of a dipshit than the blogger but there you go

that is hilarious. they just keep right on digging!

Phil H
20 January 2012 at 9:27 am

Hi Guys,

I just wanted to let all our fans know that our words were taken out of context.

Cheers
Phil and Christine

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brian
20 January 2012 at 2:06 pm

Fans? No one knows who you are. You haven’t opened and become ‘a Fitzroy institution’ yet. How can you be taken out of context when the context is obvious and explained?

This is fuckin hilarious!

HA

The bottom line is you’re banned, and when you’re the one walking up the street trying to get a coffee and can’t- it’s going to be your own fault.

well his name is phil after all

Within a few weeks we will be moving to a spot on the same block, we also have some of Melbourne’s hottest and hippest artists literally cueing up to get their stuff on the walls.

And with the menus themed around street art like ‘Reka Ribs’ ‘Perks Pizza’ ‘Banksy bacon burgers’ and ‘Shepard Fairey Bread’ it’s no wonder.

These guys are trollin, rite?

amazing

I love the "ppl who go to the Black Cat will come to us bc we have ART!"

Daren Duncan
22 January 2012 at 7:44 pm

Here here Brian.
What’s wrong with these people? I for one shall be sticking to Melbourne institutions like Black Cat and The Fitz. They might not have street art, but they have great coffee and great food and they don’t mind me pulling out the iPhone to do a little food blogging.

…..And I’ve never been given a free coffee :(

Just kidding.

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Phil H
22 January 2012 at 8:38 pm

Darren,

“and they don’t mind me pulling out the iPhone to do a little food blogging.”

To be fair you don’t sound like the sort of person that will be welcome at Stencil.

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"fuck off out of our shop" is an intriguing retail strategy

i want invader involtini

we also have some of Melbourne’s hottest and hippest artists literally cueing up to get their stuff on the walls.

LITERALLY

He keeps going on about free coffee. I think he really IS trolling! Weird.

by stuff they mean poo

literally cueing up

aspiring artists, yesterday

http://www.twcues.co.uk/img/twcues-specialist-pic.jpg

maybe "free coffee" is code for 'bumps of coke'

the next banksy

http://i.imgur.com/mK4ey.jpg

"spray cans" of Coke is killing me.

and "I just wanted to let all our fans know that our words were taken out of context." should be the ILE board descrip.

Simon
24 January 2012 at 3:50 pm

from their FB page:

We’re looking for funky street artists who want to put their work on the walls or even do some design work [we might even be able to sort out some some paint or coffee for your troubles!]

Which I find quite disturbing because they are essentially taking advantage of street artists trying to get free design work.

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yo h-man are u rothering?

feel like i could be down for dis

i'm goin too... fap in order!

~~fappenin is happenin~~

pizza twice in a week geez. not crust this time tho because and I quote "our oven is broken sorry" !?

phil h, inventor of coffee
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:48 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well his name is phil after all

― mazzy deathstarr (electricsound), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:48 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Can you fucking curtain-twitching busybodies LEAVE the government names out of it?

Enough already.

lololo

hawww

btw, phil h does it again:

http://indolentdandy.net/fitzroyalty/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stencilposter.jpg

oh hai lets blame grilld: http://indolentdandy.net/fitzroyalty/2012/01/24/stencil-cafe-fitzroyalty-libel-fraud-bribery-and-the-ethics-of-hyperlocal-journalism/#more-10883

^^ that is amazing

not crust this time tho because and I quote "our oven is broken sorry" !?

tbf that is a good excuse, you don't want a sac of uncooked dough and raw foodstuffs on ur doorstep now do you

cosign on the stencil thing, it just keeps getting better

!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!

It’s going to become a Fitzroy institution according to the brand new Fitzroyaltyblog at fitzroyaltyblog.wordpress.com

Jesus kerrrrrrist

reeeeeeally starting to think this is a gasp-style manoeuvre tbh

Holy shit this whole kerfuffle is the best.

I am now waiting for the "lol we trolled u guys good and u all fell for it like the FASCISTS you are" conclusion from "Phil".

APRIL PHIL U GUIZE

TBF, reading some of the other stuff on that site, the Fitzroyalty guy himself comes across as a bit of a nob sometimes.

Like, there's one kerfuffle where someone rather politely, I thought, apologuised for something, politely asked for a post to be removed and made it clear it was a private email and he was all LOL MY SITE MY RULES U CANT ASK ME TO DELETE SHIT OH PS FUCK OFF which was a bit :/

oh he's def a tosser

I'm suddenly reminded of a certain someone else I know who wanted to sue people over being banned from a cafe over a chai tea wankfest...

it was a shitty cafe tbf

Tru dat. Is it still even going?

nfi as i don't walk past it no more.. but yelp seems to think so

Yer I havent been up the RMIT end of that street in fnages. I havent even seen the new Doyle-er-iffic tramstops. Maybe I should scoot up to MelbCent after work.

they suck

i prefer them to the separated lanes further up swanston, tbh

I like them

A range of views there. Join us next week, on MongPanel, for another robust debate.

okay look, as long as peds look for bikes and bikes stop for trams I don't see a problem with them. imo once the whole of swanston st has been rebuilt (albeit alternate blocks only) it'll make loads more sense.

the one i get off made my walk to work more annoying, that's why i don't like it. as for its functionality i care not either way

get off at*

stencil shermozzle on crikey now, haha

now that's publicity

can i just also say, the poster for the rother gig is all-time i want one (1)

linky to shermoz?

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/25/pr-nightmare-for-new-cafe-as-blogger-bites-back/

Flat in the same bldg as a good friend of mine (ex flatmate too, actually) is up for rent in Elwood, we're all jokingly saying me and N should apply for it, it'd be like some kind of Seinfeld shit.

TBF, reading some of the other stuff on that site, the Fitzroyalty guy himself comes across as a bit of a nob sometimes.

Yeah, a bit: http://indolentdandy.net/fitzroyalty/2008/07/26/managing-the-underclass/

its cool bro im a eugenicist

hope everyone is having a good oppress minorities day today

not aimed at you j1m (you're not doing it anyway) but the whole 'STOP BEING RACIST YOU RACISTS' thing is well overdone this year

I've had a few Australian FB friends say that today -- why is it a thing? (iirc half the country is racist so...)

the backlash is good in principle but it's drowning out everything else

at least on ~the internet~

Its fine, as long as this shit stops:

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/hogg-tweets-australia-day-slur-to-muslims-20120126-1qix9.html

jesus christ

SO yeah, you know, I think sadly people still have a case for saying "shut up racists" :/

fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu

okay just wow at that. what the SHIT

Oh and it gets better! This morning apparently Tony Abbott said this about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: "He says he can understand why the embassy was established but he thinks times have changed for the better since then."

Completely unsuprisingly, then, this happened:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-26/riot-police-escort-gillard-abbott-from-protest/3795036

(bit convenient for the pics to look so damn drastic with oor PM being "dragged off" as if all hell had broken loose, mind u)

But for a political leader to even suggest that aboriginal people have it better now? FFS what is that man on.

Just went for a walk to the shops, and as I passed thru the local park, it was packed with ppl in singlets and hats and thongs, having picics merrily and drinking and playing cricket, with aussie flag beachballs, towels, and lilos scatered all about. I mean wtf, why dont they come out at boxing day, new years day etc? whats so special about today that it says THOU MUST CHAR MEAT AND DRINK BEER SITTING VERILY ON LAWNS.

why dont they come out at boxing day, new years day etc?

everyone's away / nursing hangovers!

xxpost wtf @ Abbott's comments.

This made me lol (from The
Age today): "After Ms Gillard was bundled into a waiting car & whisked away, a protester displayed one of Ms Gillard's blue high heel shoes, which had fallen off during her hasty exit, and shouted "Gingerella, come get your shoe!!"

GINGERELLA

end of lollerdaze and back 2 werk tomoz, booo

was nice while it lasted

Yah this was my last long weekend as well (had a Jan fulla short weekz)

Fuckin a this weather is crap. So hot.

to be fair, it has been six weeks. have to do somethin with myself eventually!

...

ha

melb once had cool changes

no longer

look u can't just float round endlessly like a pensioner or a dealer, it's not the real world

sure u can

I aspire to be a crazy pensioner asap tbh

http://www.eastsidedavecountry.com/wp-content/uploads/ear-horn.jpg

ITYM http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/d/d1/Crazycatlady.jpg

cripes

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/concrete-slab-falls-10-storeys-20120130-1qp08.html

amazing that nobody got squashed, that's not exactly a quiet area at that time

it fell exactly where i picked up my dry cleaning on friday

actually exactly, as in if i picked it up at 12 today i would genuinely be dead

RIP parallel universe adam

Yeah I read abotu this, thats a few doors up from where I work. Its a lucky thing thats a set-back sunken courtyard that no one much goes into, cos if that had been street frontage anywhere else Collins st, it'd have hit someone 100% guaranteed. Im actually amazed it didnt.

have been lined up with three (3) daets for the charity daet thing. first one on friday nite!

http://i.imgur.com/y2qSu.gif

anyone i know?

they're friends of d3b from work. do you know a s@lly or a krist3l or a f!ona?

where was all this hot demand before, i arks u

lololo

i do know people with these names but probably not the ladeez in question

I'm a charity case, can I have some dates?!

sign up trayce, ppl seem to go 4 the charidee angle!

my page

got the fuse for my pro 1 y'day so i was able to get it running

several things were immediately obvious, one is that it is very hard not to sound like yazoo, another is that it is very easy for it to sound completely insane, and finally there was a sound that from out of nowhere made me play the simpsons theme perfectly, which i have never been able to do before and then couldn't repeat with another sound..

it is very hard not to sound like yazoo

sounds good

could come in v handy

finest url: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-teens-should-read-raunchy-novels-and-straightup-smut-20120131-1qr97.html

A+

yes touring in april

conflicted

aphex twin 6 mar @ palace theatre (melb)

what the fuck is palace theatre (melb)

metro bro

good lord

eyeroll @ neighbours making their first non-white characters completely unlikeable characters

Erryone I know is peeing themseles over Afx... its as if he hasnt been before!

I thought abt Yes but it wont be Wakeman and crazy capes so eh fkit.

no but it will be squire in a golf leaf cardigan so

i thought maybe just stand out the front and play yes groupie bingo

thinkin baout phreakbeat combo 'wooden shjips' in march or whenever they here

tipping that won't be at palace theatre (melb)

lol

don't mind shjijijijips but wish i'd seen moon duo

I saw Moon Duo last year. Okay but nothing special and pretty easy to replicate. Simple beat + bassline, analogue freakout over the top.

Hey everyone, what's the Hapsburg?

'Hapsburg' is srs IRL damnyouautocorrect.com entry

^ looooool

Erryone I know is peeing themseles over Afx... its as if he hasnt been before!

Has he played as Aphex since 1997 though? he did BDO in collabo with Vibert in 2004, and I'm 99.6% certain he hasn't been since. And Future's been on sale since October, so ppl are excited about sideshows, not him touring at all. So if you weren't one of the 200 ppl that fit into Soho to see him in '97 - or were sick or working or travelling that night - it's FIFTEEN YEARS since he's toured at all. That's ...a reasonable amount of time to be excited about a return? People who weren't legal to go to clubs in 1997* are now THIRTY-TWO YEARS OLD. God forbid they might be excited, or only have discovered him since then.

*I saw him at BDO, and still have his oversized RDJ portrait, that fell out of the vagina-facehole of one of the eight-foot-tall dancing flourescent teddy bears, hanging on the back of my bedroom door at my mum's house.

xp when i first had my iphone and had not yet turned off autocorrect, i tried to text "hihi, what's the haps?" which came out "hibiscus, what's the Hapsburg?" i turned off autocorrect but this is still my favorite greeting.

also, hibiscus, mongrels.

hibiscus lxy!

Ola Sash, when you back home?

Has he played as Aphex since 1997 though? he did BDO in collabo with Vibert in 2004, and I'm 99.6% certain he hasn't been since.

Oh ok, I guess I hallucinated the gig at the Prince of Wales I saw him do in 2004 then. :/

never got into afx

(it wasnt collab w/Vibert - they played seperate sets and AFX did a proper show! No recognisable songs tho) xpo

Yer I'm a fan of his ambient stuff, but his hardcore stuff leaves me cold tbh. But R was/is heavily into Autechre and that jazz, so I was kind of inundated with it for f'nyears.

hihi lxy<3

N txted me recently to ask me to "grab some breasts on the way home".

I would love to have obliged.

hibiscus 2 u 2, lxy!

my daet 4 tomorrow is on the back page of thee age. celebrity daet.

*goes to tea room to scan papper*

WOW, you have a daet with Father Bob? :D

(j/k)

my daet 4 tomorrow is on the back page of thee age. celebrity daet.

is it suz4nn3 c4rb0ne

or did i just describe your intent

lool

spadghetty carBONEara

worst creamy sauce ever

>_<

OK looks like Melbourne was the only city that he did a sideshow in in 2004 - the BDO was absolutely positively Vibert collabo, as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axC-xznRo2w

Still think his first show in eight years/second in fifteen is worth getting excited over if you're a fan

new material on the way, apparently

i like selected ambient works II the best

not many club bangers on that tho

Analord was rly good blend of the ambient sound and rhythmic interests I thot

new material on the way, apparently

delayed (and Tuss being pseudonymous on Rephlex) so long due to divorce supposedly - he's been patiently waiting out earning anything until legals are sorted

y

OK looks like Melbourne was the only city that he did a sideshow in in 2004 - the BDO was absolutely positively Vibert collabo, as seen here:

Ah, that'd explain it! BTW i didnt mean to sound sarky with the "i must have hallucinated it" comment!

FWIW the show I saw was... a troll is the best word for it. No recognisable actual tracks, just a really cleverly assembled set of... parts, that made everything seem familiar yet not quite. Then it started to speed up and up and up til it had turned into utter chaotic gabber.

Then he stopped completey and started playing ska/jungle breakbeat shit o_0

Was a neat show.

saw the worst band last nite. the worst!!

what made them so bad? are they really worse than gang gang dance?

they did have one nice trick, in that they walked in the front wearing their amps, playing funeral march

did you catch their name

will look for name, idgaff myspace hasn't been updated in months by the look of it

just incompetent, drummer all over the shop, think they were aiming for sonic yoof discordance maybe. i leaned over to j0e at one point and said "this is like 'future shock' by the gordons, but really appalling"

haha

haitch i checked th3 ag3, your date is grace kelly rite

appears they were the s@t@nic r0ck3rs, lol

headliner de@th gh@t was pretty good tho, grunting vocalisation + sikkk improv drummer!

xp i've forgotten the other stuff on yesterday's back page, ur not looking at today's are you

oh i misread, nm

still, how good a blund date would that be

in starlet days rather than the irl 'dead for 30 years' current incarnation of course

blund, haw

blond date

Still reckon u should go on date w/father b0b

omg google father bob and find trayce

lol

hahaha =)

HE HAS EERIE POWERS U KNO

oh god, the beggars around here

was just chased up lt collins st by a bloke in a yellow vest (i think, didn't stop to look) hassling for $$$

Does he yell "aw COME ON, have a HEART!!" as he does it, and looks fairly together + clean?

(cuz that guy's been pulling out all stops lately - fake crutches and shit)

This was a new bloke! I know the one you mean though, he gets in your face and does the whole "OHHH COME OOOON, MAYYYYYYYYYTE" thing

xp fake crutches???? ffs

Well tbf maybe he really DID need them, but they kept reappearing and disappearing over varoius days. I dont like to speak ill of beggars, but when they camp out all day long in one spot it gets a bit frustrating - that guy's spot seems to be right outside my work (which is near to that Blue Bag sammich place)

Yeah, he used to camp on the other side (my side) so predictably that you knew when to pretend your phone had just rung. Now he's all over the place. He hassled me in upper Chinatown on Sunday, I mean

also usually I will give any excess food I might have to them (if they want $$$ for food, they will accept the food or stfu) but I won't so much as acknowledge the collins st bloke because he'll attach himself to me

also never ever give money to beggars <-- golden rule according to people I know who work professionally in such matters

BTW i didnt mean to sound sarky with the "i must have hallucinated it" comment!

Pffft, as if I have any objection to sarky or snotty in internet ~arguing~!

But of course, considering you feckin start it most of the time! ;P

Ad: btw srsly do we work across the road from each other or sommat? How have I never seen you? (have I forgot what you look like, haw)

maybe, I don't have hair anymore

schlafsphinx

i still have a nose, however

http://i.imgur.com/fxxQY.jpg

also i do not think u look like wrinkly cat

would enjoy being likened to a sphinx cat tbh

that sphinx wants to come out of the computer and have me rub his face

come on! come on lil fella!

what i wanna know is does their skin feel downy or like e.g. face or neck skin

coming xp

ew

i hear they get a lot of zits

pus in boots

you're fired!

despite that terrible pun i understand they (and similar dogs) really do need a bit of an oil rub to avoid clogged pores.

but then, don't we all

hai aussies this video has kangas in it i hope y'all enjoy it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79yAObJCgQ&feature=related

Oh god... what the hell...

omg t4d that's horrible

that particular videomaker has about 50 videos like mustache sally ... the one with "dancing with mel" may be the most bizarre of all of them.

i like how the horse just pops in from nowhere at 0.50

looooooool @ the horse

i don't think that kangaroo is really playing that drum part

i think this one is also relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03soFwPV9w0

"my crappy poser animation" from her own uploader comments ...

o_O

as per cat thraed I know devon rexes, not sphinxes, but based on rex bellies I think sphinxes would feel lightly downy, not like floppy jowls on a shaved old man

cool

though their floppy bits all over do look like boobjowls and such. the greatest/weirdest thing is how WARM they are, since the blood is warming the part you pat, not several mm away from it

Still couldnt get w/a skinless cat mself, but each to their own.

Man, it is gorgeous weather outside. Calm and warm and still and big moon bits.

yeah and 'er indoors insists on watching the sound of music

on that subject, kill me

/nelsonlaff.

I might step outside awhile. You know, I've whinged a lot about this house we rent but tbh I do love it, cramped kitchen aside. The only pissy thing is the rent raise. I should call them and ask not to raise it if we sign on another 12 months. I really cbf moving house.

It worked, Kit.

yes, I see

quite an display name

That's what Ed's mum said

how was daet h

p. good. just yakked over drinx for a few hrs. would daet again!

u gonna?

we'll see, maybe once this date month thing is done. think she's fairly busy with organising it!

always nice to look at v attractive person for a few hrs too, must say

tb

the things that haitch does for charidee

warms the heart tbqh

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/about-town/a-city-divided-20120202-1quub.html

Which side of the Yarra you live on speaks volumes - or does it? Natalie Craig finds out.

I am going to start called it "the brown line" btw

the thick, ropey brown line that separates us all

The ''southside'' is not just any old place south of the Yarra. It includes suburbs between the city and the bay, such as South Melbourne, Prahran, Windsor, South Yarra, Toorak, St Kilda and Port Melbourne. It stands for bay breezes, beautiful blondes, fitness, beer gardens, footballers, four-wheel-drives, hyphenated surnames, optimism and the free market.

The ''northside'' comprises North Melbourne, Carlton, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Abbotsford, Thornbury, Brunswick and Coburg. Bell Street is the boundary for northsiders. It stands for artists, warehouse parties, bicycles, underground music, lightless terrace houses, postmodernity and ''awareness''. It likes to think of itself as Berlin.

sigh

http://images.theage.com.au/2012/02/03/2935901/an-differences-200x0.jpg

sorry to ruin your morning

yet another demonstration of fairfax muppetry
fucc dis company

- or does it?

berlin wants to be north fitzroy imo

TBH the only time I ever heard this "lol north/south" thing come up, was whe I befriended some ppl who lived in inner north areas. Id lived here for years and not really heard it before that. It seems such a fitzy fixation.

that said that article is pure troll, as was the "lol tatts make you dumb" and "flag flyers are racist" articles. It stinks of such desperation. Between this and Reinhart basically buynig the paper, I'm gonna stop reading it. Fuck if I know what to replace it with tho, abcnews I guess.

The death of newspapers is massively overstated. They'll be kept afloat by people who HAVE to complain about how awful they are for a good 20 years yet.

It seems such a fitzy fixation.

daet said st. k suxx due to backpackers ruining it and she only stays due to job being there, would prefer thee north

backpackers do tend to make everything awful so she may have a point

St k proper sux because of tourists, that I dont deny. But it doesnt mean Windsor, or Balaclava, or South Melbourne or Elwood are crap! (theyre lovely). I dont "get" the vibe in fitz/clif hill etc at all tbh :/ dunno why.

But the fake tan Dahling set are eveyrwhere now, so the whole inner 'burbs are all ruined tbh

PS woooooahhhh this sudden rainy change is AWESOME *opens all the windows*

Id lived here for years and not really heard it before that. It seems such a fitzy fixation.

The north-south difference is quite striking imo – the mood is tangibly different. Also otm about St K, especially during the festival when it's just blue-grid bogans. Really hate going to Acland St now.

I mean we're still in St K E (obv) and love it to bits, no desire to move out of the area at all. People keep telling me that Yarraville is better and cheaper (it is) but I'm happy to pay extra rent to live where I want to live ffs.

Everyone I know says the same about Richmond, and tbh, I'd not mind moving to Richmond - but the quality of rentals in the area compared to where we are is suprisingly shithouse. Nothing is newishly renovated, all the houses are dumpy as fuck, that ive been able to find.

Plus, no parking *anywhere*

True, though not even remotely a concern of mine :P (besides, its walking distance to the city!)

lets not forget this cut out and keep guide: Autumn Almanac reviews Melbourne because as an insomniac, he can't sleep just yet

I think it needs updating, through - "Look at my phone it has Bluetooth" is a very mid-00s thing.

haha I do not remember doing that

bluetooth dude bluetooth

This Christmas, give it to her in the bluetooth

bluetooth dude bluetooth

you better not be using my material on those dates as well, son

lol

on friday's evidence my 'game' appears to be based heavily on slagging fairfax, so no difference from my 'internet persona' it seems

is it a winning angle?

ask again one (1) month

can do!

Fuxake. Make a passing comment on FB about not finding as many nice places to rent at the mo as I have in the past couple months.

Annoying friend starts spamming my post with rentals in Footscray "look at how cheap these are, so much cheaper than where you are". Fuck off woman, if I wanted to live in the west idve moved a long time ago. I said I dont want to leave the area and she's still at it.

&^%#$

And yet she bitches all the time about the crappy non existent PT (mostly only busses) and dodgyness of footscy station and wonders why its cheaper?

luv the scray. never seen so many pho joints in a kilometre square radius in my lyfe

yeah i mean i have no great desire to leave my area but i don't hate on the cray, there's lots of really nice parts of it and it's probably the best value housing in town at the mo

dead set there is a footscray/yarraville rental cult atm (I even tried that on with you trayce iirc)

it's not really a surprise though imo, i mean for people who need cheaper rent but to be close to town it's entering no-brainer territories

TBH Ive only ever passed thru on the train - I'm not judging the place. I'm annoyed that saying "we have chosen to stay in this area" means getting flooded with "but lol CHEAPER HOUSES" posts and one other dick telling me i need to "lower my standards" (he is a LANDLORD - he can eff right off)

Also its worth stressing, while I work CBD, Nick actuallyt works right up our end of st kilda rd, so moving west would be insanely pointless.

"lower my standards"

for a lot of rental places i've seen, lower standards = a carport or lean-to

ease of getting to work is key

for a lot of rental places i've seen, lower standards = a carport or lean-to

LOL I know right. Thats one good thing abt my area, at least (in the $$range we are lookin in) things are newly rennoed. The state of some places... dear god.

ugh i have a crankypants headache now.

your headache would reduce if you moved to footscray

lolol

DONT TRY IT

(ps lol)

awfully like those tourists who see you taking a quick self-portrait in a tourist trap and actually STOP YOU in order to offer to take it for you

just bugger off, i really really want to take this photo and/or live in the inner south-east

u savage

TBH I'd happily live somewhere like Sandringham or Aspendale but hilariously thats eveb more expensive.

I have to say if I moved to Melbourne, I would certainly consider Footscray. Regular trains to city, not concerned about it being a dodgy area (because duh, I live in Redfern and love it), convenient if I wanna go to see my sis, or where my parents are moving to as well.

Also because once I saw a Metro bit of signage advertising service interruptions/bustitution, and it was mistyped as "Footscary" and I liked that.

also can request in this thread that KBP does a Sydney suburb wrap-up, please.

and it was mistyped as "Footscary"

will do my best to crust this into the local vernacular

awfully like those tourists who see you taking a quick self-portrait in a tourist trap and actually STOP YOU in order to offer to take it for you

those horrible bastards

yo h-bruz are u nomming @ ebc tonite? we will be there from 7.15..

also can request in this thread that KBP does a Sydney suburb wrap-up, please.

I bet I can get pretty close to what he would write:

Eastern suburbs: Latte sipping homogays with expensive haircuts
South west: Azns
North shore: Nouveau riche azns
West: Cold Chisel dude Cold Chisel
Inner west: An oasis of Portuguese chicken in a desert of hipster skinny jeans and expensive parmas.

looooool

yo h-bruz are u nomming @ ebc tonite?

jajaja

Is there some special fud- thing on there or youse just like going there? (they do make nice meals I must say)

triv

Ah! Course.

I used to go to Corner triv occasionally w/mr bidness's gayng, they dont do it anymo tho I dont think.

Hey: there are some reasonably priced parmas in the inner west.

I bet I can get pretty close to what he would write:

A+++ would lol again.

And I just did.

woo part 1 of hols starts @ end of today

every day already planned out ;_;

curses

eh it's not so bad. 2 days at the beach, 1 day recording, 6 days of sorting and transferring vinyl to sell

I could go for some more hols. I want to go to somewhere like King Island and not see or speak to anyone for a week. Man that would be schweet.

http://7doigts.com/en/shows/5-la-vie

saw this 'adult circus' last nite, p amazing stuff, would recommend

were there clowns

no clowns, no bwar-baiting either

there were chix instead

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/2/2/129096133247477169.jpg

def fx supported by insurge

welcome to 1996 btw

i don't think i'd really want to be 21 again

although i did have a lovely hairstyle

undercut?

i'm not skrillex

"we're not Fugazi!"

nearly forgotten totally about insurge!

shjips tjicket has been purchased

Njice

nearly forgotten totally about insurge!

like I said on em an en, Insurge is the wrong era - should be Soulscraper

did insurge and def fx kill thraed??

what's hot yall

not much. week's holiday over ;_; at least i have another one next week

hay h-man i hope yr free fri nite

i am at this point!

await further instructions

oooooooer.

Ive been invited to some 'chiptune vs breakcore" gig this w/end at a "venue to be announced on the day" which sounds horribly like "this will be a shitty warehouse party that will get raided halfway thru" deal to me. Ugh. Also I hate breakcore. Is anything else on this weekend?

doesn't look like it. probably good as i have sunday recording. though i have a stall at a rec fair on sat

Which one? I wld buy all this vinyls (possibly)

ja jas

hoping someone pays top $$ for all these jandek lps

lol not me.

Heh I mite pop alongey tho. Somethin to do! I've been too much of a feckin hermit for some time now :/

(mayb shd ask certain-okc-dude-u-kno to come with, heh)

well i will have at least three fall records for sale i guess

lololl

http://www.theage.com.au/national/doctor-cleared-of-rude-comments-20120220-1tjrp.html

AN OBSTETRICIAN accused of calling a patient a slut and telling another ''you have just given birth to a family of haemorrhoids'' has been cleared of making rude comments.

The NSW Medical Tribunal also found Czech-trained Roman Hasil's behaviour, which included drink-driving offences and downing a six-pack of beer in a hospital car park, did not make him unfit to practise medicine.

But the 56-year-old could be struck off for an inability to practise medicine after sustaining a brain injury.

The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission submitted complaints made by 15 patients while he worked at Lismore Base Hospital between 2001 and 2005.

In its judgment last week the tribunal found that many of the complaints could not be substantiated.

The tribunal will set a date this week when it will hand down orders that could include Dr Hasil being struck off.

(jim don't let me down)

who among us hasn't been tempted to get fucked up in a hospital car park at least once

ts: sustained brain injury vs short term brain injury

bad pun tally: 0

jim you have let me down

coming up blank on this one

i thought you'd have piles of jokes, but never mind

i can't just pluck them like a grape

i'm varicose to just giving up on the whole thing

http://www.ther4g.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/I-missed-you.jpg

:)

oh i just remembered trayce that i have the first home video 10", found it while going through boxes, if you make it to the rec fair you can have it for nix

Oh sweet as! No I'll pay you for it, dont be silly. Is that the "Citizen" EP?

that you might/dialogue box

i had citizen but i don't know where it is or if i still have it

Cool either way, their vinyl is hard to come by (I have it all on mp3 tho).

why the fuck are Sisters Of Mercy playing two sideshows in Melbourne and none in Sydney? a full 15% of the population of my neighbourhood is goths with wrinkly necks

gothsintreeswithwrinklynecks.tumblr.com

hay h did you get the ~further instructions~

i did

u don't recall our FB chat,,,, on the topic?? ;__;

oh shi yes of course i do

having a bad day at work ;_;

misread that as gothswithtreesintheirwrinklynecks

was v confused

fetishes just get moar specialised by the day, good lord

Both sisters shows sold out here too i think. idgi. Hate that band.

Hey, lastfm eventz page sez mounto goatingt0ns are touring in May!

I will actually go this time round, I swear.

in press published an interview a couple of weeks ago iirc

tix went on sale mid-Jan

Weird, I didnt spot it in my usual mailing lists.

Yikes lucky I checked, tix were almost sold out already and the show isnt til May. Bloody eck.

prepare to be depressed

Australia's household debt as a percentage of disposable income has been stuck at 150 per cent – the highest in the world – for about five years. Twenty years ago it was 50 per cent. In other countries it has come down, albeit painfully. Interest paid as a percentage of income has doubled in 20 years.

And the underlying cause of this is the high price of land in Australia. It is one of the mostly sparsely populated nations on earth, yet the cost of land is among the highest in the world, crippling the citizens with massive debts and leading to hugely profitable banks.

The combination of rising population, a lack of arable land and artificial restrictions on residential development in cities has led to a six-fold rise in the median house price since 1986, from $93,000 to $550,000 now. Over the same period, average household incomes have risen 3.5 times.

It's true, as ANZ Bank's economists pointed out in a recent paper, that mortgage rates have halved over the same period, but that doesn't account for the psychological impact of debt that is 1.5 times income, on average, nor, more importantly, the fact that averages like these imply that many people are above average, and deep in the poo.

The result is that it's a major problem to means test the 30 per cent health insurance rebate so that individuals earning $124,000 and families on $248,000 won't get any help. All of a sudden lots of people on that sort of money are battlers now. Why? Because of debt.

soooo glad we never bought

battlers now. Why? Because of debt.

i don't buy this

last week there was a load of noise in parliament (mainly the coalition) claiming that rich people were doing it tough

also apparently there are ads with some woman standing out the front of a mansion whining about losing the rebate

masturebate, morelike

Aside from being unable to afford anything, at all, ever again in Australia, what have I missed in the last 11 or so months?

You back are ya?

Your football team has moved. To Hobart.

Oh, and "Baby John Burgess joins Balls of Steel Australia as the game show host from hell."

reprising his role

anybody have new order true faith 12"

need it to make a ~~seduction mix~~

I only got it on "Substance" and that seems to be the reg version

i have it d'ld from the recycle bloog

oh i got that too. was more about having vinyl versh to do mix start to finish on turntables. maybe i should look at renting CDJ for a couple days

I have some NO vinyl at home I can check once I get home... somehow dont think i have the twelvy of that track tho.

(also my vinyl is all in a right state :/ )

So what's going on down there now, political chaos or something?

mayhemming and hawing

So what's going on down there now, political chaos or something?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:29 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Peter Garrett's former boss resigned

rong thread ned

oh lord

k4th4rin3 murphy is a moron imo

what did she do

started an article with "Kevin Rudd appears to have launched an audacious pitch for the Prime Ministership with..."

sounds fair to me

this bit

"There is one overriding question for my colleagues and that is who is best placed to defeat Tony Abbott," he said.

"Tony Abbott is on track to win and has been for a long time."

as well as the other bits

i don't buy it, and now i pretty much entirely believe this whole twaddle was entirely media beatup with no substance

lol @ me talking like i know anything about politics

Be funny if so many ppl have given up on both sides teh Greens won.

Anyway isnt the next election not for ages yet? I can never keep track.

next year

or this thursday, take your pick

pm gillard has just announced a leadership ballot will be held on monday morning.

the leapfrogging on both sides is fascinating (as is the bridge burning, jesus christ)

I honestly stopped caring years ago :/

relevant quote from another bord

So it turns out I was wrong about Michelle Grattan making all this shit up.

oh no, she probably was still making it up

just that her invented reality and actual reality matched up for once

even a stopped clock etc etc

hi

Ha nyancat. Did u pilfer that off angru.

mite have done

Bloody hot oot.

good day for drinking imo

Would that I had anyone to go drankin w/ :(

im hittin the 0ldie w/ h-man

hrm. Wut time? I might actually drop in. I dunno. Depends how hot it is. Havent been to the oldy in ages. Or is the outside bit likely to be a sardine tin?

6ish. doesn't pack out til later

I'll let you know if I decide to come join yas. If you dont mind me invitin' myself along that is! I dont want to be a nelly nomates hanger onner.

loool

weatherz0ne's 'feels like' rating always bringin' the lols. how on earth was before feelun like 2deg less than actually was??

Shd say things like "feels like a dogs armpit".

good q, i think its algorithm assumes that the 'feels like' starts getting cooler below a certain humidity level.. xpost

Fuckin ell, 37 outside!? Maybe i dont want to be out drinking in this heat.

so legit otherwise. finest app!

that or angry brrrds

xp sure u do!

there ain't much else worth do in this heat