Sunday, December 9, 2007

*Tag* I'm it.

Memes are always a bit naff. And I'm actually quite bad at them. But, at the end of a long day of advanced bogonics (you'll find out what that means in due course), it seems like the perfect wind down. Milly Moo has tagged me and I accept the challenge!

1) Eight things I am passionate about:
The people I care about
Writing
Cooking
Music
Travel
Happiness
Comics
Stories

2) Eight things I want to do before I die:
Go to Japan and eat the cuisine.
Go to Scandinavia in the winter.
Eat an entire pig.
Own a Nissan Skyline despite how embarrassed or mockful everyone I know and love will be.
Drive a Ferrari. Fast.
Publish a(nother) book and have it not be trashed as badly as I have trashed others.
Get my PhD.
Cook for someone famous. (I'm scraping the barrel here).

3) Eight things I say often:
Fuck.
Motherfucker.
Champ.
Chief.
No.
Bro.
Yo.
Hmm.

4) Eight books I've read recently:
The Cursed.
My Swordhand is Singing.
Lemon!
Extra Lemon!
Dreamrider.
The Trial of Colonal Sweeto and other stories.
The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
Monster Blood Tattoo by DM Cornish.

5) Eight songs I could listen to over and over:
Blue Monday by New Order
Jambi by Tool
Know Your Enemy by Rage Against The Machine
Got Glint? by The Chemical Brothers
Nessun Dorma as sung by Pavarotti
Rez/Cowgirl (live) by Underworld
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk (I liked it way before Kanye mashed it up)
In White Rooms by Booka Shade

6) But if I were doing a triple CD set, I’d include (8 x 3 = 24)
I mentioned above that I was passionate about music, so much so that I don't believe that I can restrict I my music taste to 24 songs within an efficient time limit. That is, if I were to do justice to this question - whittling down my favourite music to just 24 - I would not be doing justice to the other things that I am passionate about: writing, friends, family, cooking. It would be a full time job and one for which I would not get paid. And after all that, I couldn't possibly do justice to my passion for music by cutting it down to 24 songs. Sorry.
Next!

7) 8 things that attract me to my friends:
They laugh at my jokes.
They tell good stories.
They are all very successful.
They are all part of me.
We agree on most things, but thankfully not all.
They still surprise me.
Most of them can juggle to a certain extent.
They would say the same things about me.

8) 8 movies I've watched at least into double figures
Life of Brian
The Holy Grail
Wayne's World
The Meaning of Life
Terminator 2
Star Wars
... and that could be about it. Which is surprising, because I'd always rather watch a movie I've seen before than one I haven't, but I suppose my saner friends have restrained me from the kind of madness that takes this practice into double figures.

So who do I tag?

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Lion - Welcome to Blogworld, buddy. Here's something naff for your second post!
Jimmythins - Something to do until those movies get posted
Sf_dtail_49
Jono


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GTH - Will of the 'not public' profile has taken the first cherry from his tree! It was indeed from the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art. And as I explained, this was an illegal photo (see previous post's comments about museum guards and life-sized porcelain sculptures of Michael Jackson and Bubbles). Welcome Will, to the honour wall!
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousMonday, December 10, 2007 at 2:10:00 AM PST

    I - too - loved Daft Punk's Guitar-shred-sample-song WAY before Kanye decided to make money off of it.
    At least it will mean that there will be a lot more 15year olds at the next Daft Punk tour!

    ...Oh crap.


    PS. Check out the "Daft Punk Hands" videos on You tube, quite clever and great dexterity.
    I'd send you the actual link except I am writing this from work and the bloody mind control net-filter now prevents Youtube from brightening up my work day.

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  2. AnonymousMonday, December 10, 2007 at 2:27:00 AM PST

    I don't do memes, they remind me of chainletters too much.

    So it looks like you're still it. Don't go saying there's no touchbacks.

    -The 327th Male

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  3. RiverMonday, December 10, 2007 at 11:55:00 PM PST

    I don't know any of that music, but I love the Monty Python movies.

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  4. RiverTuesday, December 11, 2007 at 12:51:00 AM PST

    Bugger! Your header had me googling Gedenke which translates to think of or remember. It looks like a grave marker for a soldier (is that a world war helmet and belt/bandolier?) The word is German and now my eyes are spinning from seeing all those words I can't read. There's also sheet music titled Gedenke according to google. Can't figure out a connection to your header though.

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  5. RiverTuesday, December 11, 2007 at 12:52:00 AM PST

    Is it a memorial wall that you saw on your European holiday?

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  6. Kath LockettTuesday, December 11, 2007 at 1:40:00 AM PST

    Wayne's World - of course, it's one I've easily watched into double figures as well.... and Star Wars (all of 'em, thanks to Love Chunks' obsession).

    Your header has to be some WWI memorial in Germany somewhere?

    Oh and tell us about the book - where's it on sale, has it sold, have you done signings anywhere etc etc

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  7. RiverTuesday, December 11, 2007 at 10:37:00 PM PST

    Yes, please, tell us about the book.

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  8. franzyTuesday, December 11, 2007 at 10:49:00 PM PST

    *sigh*
    You must a) have primary school-age children who b) take home that Scholastic bookclub newsletter through which one may order books. I don't even know if it's on sale yet! Rest assured it's not in stores, though. It's not even listed as published in the national library yet...
    If you manage buy a copy I will gladly sign it!

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

Chinese food, not Chinese Internet!

Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32