Nothing to say

well I havn't posted for such a long time and I have no excuse except for the fact that I have nothing to say. I am completely dull, I can think of no witty remarks to delight you with and I have no sarcastic comments to offer.

oh but I really hate Andrew Bolt!

Black People Love Us

Thanks to Krankiboy for bringing this sweet site to my attention.

Sally and Johnny are just regular guys but they were so well-liked by Black people that thought it'd be cool to honor their exceptional status with a ROCKIN' domain name and a killer website!! Please read the testimonial below from one of their black friends:


"After saying a multisyllabic word such as "understand," Johnny will often follow it with a translation for my benefit like "Dig?" I am glad that he makes his big words accessible to me.

Johnny always alters his given name and refers to himself in the third person -- for example, "J-Dog don't play that" or "J-Dog wants to know wusssaappp." It comforts me to know that my parlance has such broad appeal.

Sally has a habit of showing me her running tally of the number of black people she greets everyday. I feel unique and special to be part of her statistical list."

If the tram is due and Raj isn't there to catch it does the tram still exist?

Raj mused last night that he has been catching the same tram every day lately at 6.45am to get to work. He feels that he has developed a bit of mutual respect, a relationship if you will, with the other regular passengers. He wondered aloud whether they would miss him if he were to catch another tram, or even (more existentially) would they even exist without him there to experience their presence?

(spooky huh!)

Home for the Def Interview Part 4 - Final

If you could ban one musical instrument from existence, what would it be and why? (blogcritics interview with Frank Black)
Wow, that’s a real tough one, I’m really into music that’s got a lot of different sounds in it, y’know I think I’d ban guitars, just to make things difficult on the western world of pop music. I should try and record for a couple months without touching the guitar and see what I end up coming up with. Either that or the standard drum set, that seems to be one of those instruments that people would find difficult to remove or replace in music. Why do I just want to make everyone’s life difficult???

That is a good question, why do you want to make everyone’s life difficult? How would you respond if we challenged you to a guitar free release?

I don’t think I want to make everyone’s life difficult in every part of their life, but hell, if I get to take away just one musical instrument, I might as well make it force some sort of evolution. My response to a guitar free release would be tears. There would be tears during the creation of said release as well. Once it’s finished I would feel a sense of empowerment that is rarely known by mortals.

Describe yourself for the readers…Hi, I’m Home For The Def, a music maker from Adelaide who likes to stretch pop music out like one of those Stretch Armstrong dolls, tugging at it (like a fourteen year old boy) until it’s all stretched out of shape (like an eighty three year old man) and then trying to put it back together in some sort of aesthetically pleasing shape using paper clips (choose to discontinue the sideline metaphor here). Just like when you eat certain foods and they turn your urine a different colour, I regard listening to as much variety of music as possible as good fodder for making my musical urine turn different colours. I also run a home-recording label called Blank Tapes which puts out lots of (mainly) South Australian musicians who are generally a little left of the dial. If you want to know some more about my music, why not check out my website or email me slapmehighfive@homeforthedef.com

Home For the Def's new release 50/13 is now available (and very reasonably priced) through Blank Tapes and has sweet cover art!

Grogblogging 05

Date: Friday 14 January
Place: Bourgie, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne (near corner Hardware Lane)
Time: from 8:30pm

Meet bloggers and blog readers, drink copiously, flash your wobbly bits!

Yay! Christmas Holidays. Cheese anyone?

Please find below a list of the cool and not cool things that happened on my Christmas holiday.

Cool

1. Helicopter ride over the 12 Apostles. I've been in a helicopter! How cool am I?
2. Stayed at Number 13 on the Beach in Robe. It was so nice I wanted to stay another week! We played petanque and hoops!
3. Dinner at Stella. The best pasta I have ever eaten.
4. Caught up with my friend Jon in North Adelaide walked to Luke's house who wasn't home but that was fun anyway.
5. Beer at the Grace Emily with Nigel and Debbie. Are REM a gay band?
6. Christmas Presents. I got the best pressies ever and gave the best pressies too! My favorite was my curling wand!
7. My mum and I got each other exactly the same gift.
8. My mum bought large ammounts of cheese for us to eat.

Not Cool

1. Sunburn. I am only just recovering.
2. Lost friends. Disappearing into oblivion. I am sure you have a good reason for ignoring my messages.
3. Missing out on Karl's beard after Jon describing how awful it was I was looking forward to seeing it so much.
4. Rocketeer the movie. I watched it again. I used to like it why?
5. My mum bought lots of cheese for us to eat.

Take my poll on the question of REM's gayness that arose over recent drinks at the Grace Emily.

Chinese official press slam imitation? Is this supposed to be ironic?

Below is an excerpt from an article in today's Age about a new crackdown on Chinese dissident intellectuals. The article goes on to discuss the phenomenon of public intellectuals in China and the recent publication of a top 50 intellectuals list by a Chinese newspaper which was criticised by mainstream press like the China Daily for being unoriginal.

Writers at the China Daily seem to have a short memory for plagiarism. Perhaps they only consider this derivatory.

An insert in the Southern Weekend newspaper in October included a list of China's top 50 intellectuals as the writers judged them, apparently getting the idea from the British monthly Prospect, which had run a list of 100 public intellectuals.

The official newspapers slammed the concept, saying it aped a foreign publication and "drives a wedge between the intellectuals and the party". Intellectuals were not independent but "belong to the working class, and are part of the people, and are a group under the leadership of the Communist Party", it said.