top 10 albums of the 1990s (imho)

naivety, hypocrisy and tplac

ms lin hatfield dodds, president of the australian council of social security (acoss), national director of uniting care australia and act australian of the year, yesterday withdrew from the olympic torch relay which will be meandering through beijing's sister city tomorrow. she cited recent human rights violations in tibet as her reason for abdicating her position, quote "i hope that it send a message to the world at large that human rights matter." human rights do matter, they mattered in 1989 and 1951 as well not just when the cameras are rolling

i have an opinion and i'm not afraid to use it

the well credentialed lars and the real girl suffered enormously from a supposed indie-crowd this past monday at the nova who for some reason believed they were watching superbad. a subtle, nuanced and well-handled piece was effectively ruined by an ill-tempered audience through whom a contagion of riotous laughter spread. any poignancy or deftness was routed by the gutbusting guffaws of the masses whose delight at the premise if not the execution was obvious. that i maintained any semblance of fondness for the film is a testament to its worth. themes of engagement, illness and alienation were addressed and, on the whole, satisfactorily resolved. this was not a movie about a sex doll with heart. this was a film with heart which i saw with a bunch of dicks.

guess who's back?

it is my intent to appear here again more regularly. but, as they say, roads paved with good intentions lead everywhere. i deactivated my facebook acount today. i don't know why. probably to stop feeling like this.

oh the lols

last night, election eve, amidst a well-meaning group of cocaine socialists, i expressed a degree of ambivalence regarding the possible change of government today. the prevailing opinion of this cohort seemed to be howard equals evil. evil which manifested itself in a litany of charges (the northern territory intervention, the children overboard controversy, the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the IR reforms, the refusal to ratify kyoto, the GST on sanitary pads, breathing). my poorly framed contention, furthered here, was that there is very little that differentiates the leaders. moreover, their argument seemed to be that rudd was worth voting for on potential. kevin rudd; he's not john howard. and i agree, he might be a good prime minister; there is just no evidence to support or refute such an opinion.

a service industry

drink whore: you're not going to pay with a fifty too, are you?
me: yeah
drink whore: i can't do that

quite pretentious, occasionally good

this blog (quintessentially)

working and sleeping. with occasional eating and crapping

life as i know it

everyone should see this now

certain songs they get so scratched into our souls

i feel like i wouldn't like me if i met me, i feel like you wouldn't like me if you met me...there's nothing to live for when i'm sleeping alone...i won't be saved...now that i've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again? ...will you be me? will you be me? wear my clothes, drink my coffee, write my mommy, do my homework, feed my babies, fight my crazies?