tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post6211373791862720519..comments2023-10-09T07:04:49.539-07:00Comments on Writing: Even those homicidal reality show contestants had heard itfranzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-47282206324917915462009-04-22T23:34:00.000-07:002009-04-22T23:34:00.000-07:00Disappointed (or "Angry"? What's there to be disap...Disappointed (<I>or "Angry"? What's there to be disappointed about?</I>) - I'm not sure if it comes across in my previous blogs about moving to (and subsequently from) Bribie, but I was quite well aware of what the island was like when I moved there and I resent the title "silly bugger". If you'll pay closer attention to the blog, I prefer the term "<I>massive toff-nosed, chin-in-the-air, holier-than-though, elitist snob</I>". <br />This doesn't mean I can't complain about the place, point things out that I don't like and go so far as to say that <I>there was no mustard in the IGA</I>. <br />So there.<br /><br />And are you a pensioner, a retiree, a retiree's offspring or an unemployed Caboolture bogan? Or are you, like me, also a "massive toff-nosed, chin-in-the-air, holier-than-though, elitist snob"? This is pretty much my assessment of 20-something, Bribie-dwelling Joy Division fans (it does take one to recognise another).franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-52814741676392932832009-04-22T23:17:00.000-07:002009-04-22T23:17:00.000-07:00Well this blog just annoyed the heck out of me tbq...Well this blog just annoyed the heck out of me tbqh, and I am a 20-something, Bribie-dwelling, Joy Division fan.<br /><br />But really, if you didn't know what Bribie was like before you moved here then you are a bit of a silly bugger I must say.<br /><br />It is mainly for retired pensioners who can actually afford the rent/buying prices around here as well as their offspring, which occasionally includes Caboolture bogans who have lost their jobs (if they had one at all) and have nuzzled up to the olds for free accommodation.<br /><br />As for the no mustard thing, my partner has previously worked in all IGA here on the island and he is an avid mustard lover *shudders* and he has told me he got his fix from his workplace so maybe you just weren't looking hard enough?!<br /><br />As for Indian Brothers, it has multiple stores. The people that started it ARE Indian and ARE brothers, sheesh.Disappointednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-49788356794414670412008-08-08T06:45:00.000-07:002008-08-08T06:45:00.000-07:00I wonder if the 'kids' celebrate the irony of the ...I wonder if the 'kids' celebrate the irony of the Wombats <I>Let's Dance to Joy Division</I>?<BR/><BR/>Tough call.<BR/><BR/>I'm trying to remember the name of the web comic where I read (relating to a Kerry voter in the previous US election) 'if being the smartest mofo in the room makes me a snob then I'm a mofoing snob' - or words to that effect.<BR/><BR/>thanks for the nod on Audrey. Though I hang my head in shame for making lame Cosi jokes.myninjacocklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061734136188769866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-62473395329513979692008-08-06T04:53:00.000-07:002008-08-06T04:53:00.000-07:00Giggle - I'm with you there, actually. It turns ou...Giggle - I'm with you there, actually. It turns out that pretty much any popular book you could pay $25 in Oz will be $14 on Amazon, with 95% of the price being the cost of postage. The juiciest it ever got was when I was able to buy extremely large comic book collections for about 40% of the store price here and they arrive in A RAILWAY MAIL BAG!!!!<BR/>*shudder*franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-49440800057905240952008-08-06T04:43:00.000-07:002008-08-06T04:43:00.000-07:00Franzy,I challenge your contention that online boo...Franzy,<BR/><BR/>I challenge your contention that online bookstores aren't COMPLETELY BLOODY AWESOME.<BR/><BR/>I have gone crazy ape bonkers with my credit card on more than one occasion in the (admittedly less tactile) bargains section of Readings online. <BR/><BR/>Plus double bonus: you get exciting mail to wait for.gigglewickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15920541341649189801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-58733374203663211052008-08-05T21:59:00.000-07:002008-08-05T21:59:00.000-07:00River - Someone actually came into work yesterday ...River - Someone actually came into work yesterday looking for me on the strength of this blog ... they didn't have mustard though. Seriously considering altering all references to CC on this website as the google hits are creeping. And creepy.<BR/><BR/>Adam - I knew YOU would have heard of them. I think 'Control' is actually to blame for my blanket assumption that everybody knows who Joy Division is. One of my favourites for 2007.<BR/><BR/>Mele - Too right, luv.<BR/><BR/>Kath - Sorry mate - I heard it months ago now too. And sorry to burst your bubble of cool but I first heard about it from mum. (although she's a pretty fucking cool lady)<BR/><BR/>Neil - Maybe minus one for you for watching Spicks 'n' Specks but definitely plus two for nailing it on the head about Mavis.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-86652643025529802272008-08-05T21:25:00.000-07:002008-08-05T21:25:00.000-07:00gth - Mavis the rubber neck next door incognito!gth - Mavis the rubber neck next door incognito!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07039061025128321476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-87782676791174020572008-08-05T21:23:00.000-07:002008-08-05T21:23:00.000-07:00Even I've heard of Joy Division - it was the answe...Even I've heard of Joy Division - it was the answer to one of the questions on Spicks and Specks the other night. Can't remember the question but.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07039061025128321476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-58322128166032339402008-08-05T19:27:00.000-07:002008-08-05T19:27:00.000-07:00Oh thank god both Franzy and Gigglewick like 'Blue...Oh thank god both Franzy and Gigglewick like 'Blue Monday'. I was sixteen when it came out and I honestly, truly did *love* it (sick of it now though because it's still on fairly constant FM rotation). <BR/><BR/>And High Fidelity? One of my favourite books and flicks of all time.<BR/><BR/>Finally, the 'yep' song? For once, this nearly forty year old can say that she had seen it, loved etc MONTHS before funkier, younger Franzy!Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-20169217909806646872008-08-05T17:58:00.000-07:002008-08-05T17:58:00.000-07:00mele says:here's an argument pro bribie, and its a...mele says:<BR/><BR/>here's an argument pro bribie, and its a pretty big one: forecast this week, 22,21, 21, 22 etc. Adelaide 13...13 max. hail so loud i could barely hear mum on the phone the other day. bribie: quiet sunshine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-4558243973078881062008-08-05T08:08:00.000-07:002008-08-05T08:08:00.000-07:00Nice texture, sir.Heard of Joy Division? They're a...Nice texture, sir.<BR/><BR/>Heard of Joy Division? They're a religion here.<BR/><BR/>They helped us northerners find beuty in our own cultural wasteland of disused industrial revolution relics (hence Factory Records, alongside a real hero of mine, Tony Wilson)and working class angst.<BR/><BR/>Bribie can't be so bad, since you're there, I suppose is the message.<BR/><BR/>Have you seen 'Control' yet? If not, do...<BR/><BR/>http://momentum.control.substance001.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-76180101034138305762008-08-04T23:35:00.000-07:002008-08-04T23:35:00.000-07:00Culture shock getting to you?Nope, never heard of ...Culture shock getting to you?<BR/><BR/>Nope, never heard of Joy Division. I listen to country music. (yeah, yeah, I know...)<BR/><BR/>Anyone out there who knows Franzy's address, please send mustard.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-21976261506008247682008-08-04T20:27:00.000-07:002008-08-04T20:27:00.000-07:00Kath - Bless you. Thank god I'm not (so much of) a...Kath - Bless you. Thank god I'm not (so much of) a music snob that I could star in my own private version of High Fidelity right here on the island.<BR/><BR/>GTH - Cold. The Bribie bookstore wouldn't survive if they used the word 'culture' anywhere on the premises without prefixing it with 'horti-', 'aqua-' or 'perma-'.<BR/><BR/>Giggle - Actually, I like New Order better than Joy Division. 'Blue Monday' is in my top five songs of all time. True.<BR/>We do live in a cosmopolitan bubble in ours cities and it's been an incredibly educational experience moving here - I wouldn't change a thing.<BR/>1. Online bookstores aren't as deliciously impulsive as real ones, which I tend to treat as pay-per-hour libraries: the more time I spend reading all the books, the more things I feel impelled to buy before leaving.<BR/>2. What local music store? Actually - music isn't so much of a problem because I am the king of hoarding mp3s.<BR/>3. Still searching for leftie haven. The problem with the island is that once embitterment sets in, it is extraordinarily easy to simply get pro-active and leave.<BR/><BR/>Mele thought about volunteering at one of the local op-shops until I (boringly) pointed out that part of the proceeds from just about every op-shop around would go towards funding the kind of get-help lines which tell pregnant teenagers NOT TO GET ABORTIONS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE THERE ARE ALWAYS OTHER OPTIONS.<BR/>So now she write truthy blogs about seafood.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-28587979471467142832008-08-04T20:08:00.000-07:002008-08-04T20:08:00.000-07:00I've heard of 'em too. Like Kath, a country upbri...I've heard of 'em too. Like Kath, a country upbringing and extreme childhood precluded by point-in-time appreciation of them. To be honest, I prefer New Order, but only because I am a hideous commercial sellout. <BR/><BR/>It's really only through moving to a country town that one can truly appreciate the left-leaning, cosmopolitan bubble one has lived in previously.<BR/><BR/>As some one who moved from thriving metropolis (Melbourne) to much smaller town (yet to be disclosed) where until recently their idea of ethnic migration is my half-Chinese father moving here twenty eight years ago, may I recommend:<BR/><BR/>1. online bookstores<BR/>2. a close relationship with the local music store order guy (basically the only way to get anything more interesting than 'James Reyne's greatest hits'<BR/>3. seeking out the local embittered leftie haven. There will be one, but you may have to learn some kind of secret handshake<BR/><BR/>Whatever you do, don't get creative and join [insert service organisation] to "shake things up". Those guys are tough old buggers and they will defend livin' like it's 1953 TO THE DEATH.gigglewickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15920541341649189801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-14525859033580794672008-08-04T19:39:00.000-07:002008-08-04T19:39:00.000-07:00Yes, I've heard of 'em. Dreary dirge of a song, b...Yes, I've heard of 'em. Dreary dirge of a song, but not surprising seeing as poor old (young, painfully young!) Ian Curtis killed himself at the age of 24....then morphed into New Order....<BR/><BR/>I'd like to say that I was into both bands but I was only about 12-15 then and only had access to Murray Bridge's radio 5MU so it was Top 40 fare such as Madness, Foreigner, Racey, BoneyM, KISS and Joe Dulce.<BR/><BR/>GTH - Bribie Island's one and only bookshop? Part of their 'August - expand your culture' window display?Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.com