Sitting 'round, killing zombies

tinybonehands:

So all the clubs in Fortitude Valley (aka where all the “clubs”/bars in Brisbane are gathered into two streets, aka a gaping opening to hell a lot of the time) have joined together to create a safety campaign entitled “Your Playground. Play Nice”. I feel like they really summed Australian society and its problems up nicely with this name. Generally I think the majority of Australians between 18 and say, 35 are giant children, attending universities dramatically dumbed down so that instead of striving for intellectualism students are striving for a piece of paper with their name nicely printed upon it. Watching television shows with nice keywords like “aussie battlers” so they know just when to get angry. Wearing thongs as to avoid the act of tying shoelaces, adorned in fluro coloured outfits. Fake tanned an incandescent orange, hair dyed a not too dissimilar colour. Fighting “faggots” who disagree with their News Corp informed opinions, after a few jagerbombs while rugby league plays. This isn’t even a high school level of behavior, one would expect more from a 16 year old. It’s ten year olds picking on the smaller kids, pushing them over for using a big and confusing word.

Orwell was concerned the government would force us into intellectual silence and that it would be the proles who would free us. Indeed the opposite is happening here, the general population is doing a fantastic job at slowly dumbing itself down while the government looks on with absolutely no idea what to do. When the current cultural icon is a thinly veiled mormon brainwashing, mixed with a dash of Romeo and Juliet, there is clearly a problem.

Of course this is mainly a Brisbane problem. Melbourne and Sydney have large enough sub-cultures/are geographically spread out enough to avoid these messes. But here it’s all just a giant brawl on the playground. I’m actually impressed club owners have finally realised this.

EDIT: I just remembered that we had to read Looking For Alibrandi. IN YEAR TWELVE. It’s basically an episode of Home and Away. This explains everything.

Though I can only speak for Sydney, practically every corner of this place is full of childish fuckheads from all corners. Don’t think that subcultures or geography stop this: the entire country needs help.

And Looking for Alibrandi is set in the inner west of Sydney, the “cultural hub” of Sydney with a “culturally diverse” family. Point proven.

lenier:

5 (actually six) very compelling arguments.

In order to not be yelled out sharply by not one, but two, female-types this weekend - I best keep these in mind.

I figured that after seeing Britney I can go no lower. but hey, these reasons will do just fine.

1. PJ Harvey (18) 
2. Pivot (12) 
3. Arcade Fire (10) 
4. Grizzly Bear (10) 
5. Silversun Pickups (5) 

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He cannot interview. At all.

Also: When this aired was probably the last time I remember actually watching a whole episode of Rove? Or maybe even before then. Not sure.

We’ve been able to interview Kristen Stewart at a number of round tables and press conferences over the past year or so and until now, she’s always appeared to be painful uncomfortable, swaying in her chair, constantly brushing her hand through her hair, and speaking in incomplete sentences. At the press conference for New Moon, she sat strong and declared her new found comfort in saying what she believes despite her fear of crowds (and I’m guessing blood-sucking journalists)…

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