Thursday, November 12, 2009

don't read the news...

SERIOUSLY.
It's bad for your mental health.
A brief run down of what the internet had to tell me tonight to send me to sleep:

http://www.theage.com.au/world/global-oil-supply-far-worse-than-admitted-20091110-i7gu.html?autostart=1
"The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, says a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying"
Nice.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/britain-presses-on-with-big-brother-telecoms-database-20091110-i7j4.html
"LONDON: Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by Britons is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by British law to keep a record of every customer's personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited"
NICE.

http://news.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/hayden-wants-aborigines-to-play-cricket-20091111-ia1t.html

Matt Hayden goes to the Tiwi Islands to promote sport, exercise and a healthy lifestlye amongst indigenous children. Fair enough...

BUT

He went there as an ambassador for the Macquarie Bank to kindly donate $24,000 of their money to the local girls soccer club...

Macquarie Bank CEO Alan Moss earns an estimated $33m a year.
Investment banking cheif Nicholas Moore earns $32.9m a year.
Head of corporate finance Michael Carapiet earns $23m a year.
Chairman David Clarke earned almost $19m last year.
Deputy managing director Richard Sheppard earned $10.2m last year.
NICE.

If these blokes donated their spare change to Haydos's valiant charity efforts, there would be a veritable fuckload of pretty pimped-out girl's soccer stadiums in remote indigenous communities in no time...
Just sayin'.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/rabbits-get-new-penises-20091110-i7kg.html
"SCIENTISTS in the US have engineered artificial penises in rabbits using cells from the animals to grow tailor-made organs, with some rabbits hopping to it and fathering baby rabbits within months"
Crazy...

The moral of the story is that the world is inconcievably fucked-up and incomprehensibly bizarre.
If you read about it before you go to bed you probably won't be all that keen on waking up.
Although you might find pictures like this by accident that remind you life is worth living..
Behold the East-African naked mole-rat:



Apparently an east-african naked mole-rat looks rather a lot like a penis with legs:
Heh.

Monday, November 9, 2009

chilled summer waves...

To celebrate the warm weather I've been checking out this so-called "chill-wave" genre on my too-regular breaks from writing FUCKING ESSAYS..
After essays..
SUMMER!!!
Lets hear it for summer. Clap! Clap! Clap!
Yeah! Woo!

Yeah so "chill-wave"..
This stuff simply oozes summer..
Intricately layered syched-out synthy waves of dream-pop beats dripping with woozy washed-out vocals..
MMMMM...

Memory Casette - Surfin'


Washed Out - Belong


and last but certainly not least..
Neon Indian
These guys are the shit and they're coming to Melbourne!!
They're playing at what promises to be a most excellently chill summer festival..
Sandcastles, a new SUPER-CHEAP festival being held on the hallowed sands of ye olde St. Kilda beach on the 9th of Jan..
The line-up offers up a diverse and generally delicious sonic platter..
Everything from Miami Horror synths to My Disco eerie-weird minimalism to The Frowning Clouds ramblin' rock n' roll..
Not to mention Neon Indian!!!
These guys make some seriously legit chill-shit.
If they don't inspire some super-chill babes to do some super-chilled dancing on the sand while the sun sets in a superbly-chilled fashion, I dont know what will.
Nomination for both funniest song title AND video-clip of the year to boot..

Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You


Did I mention SUMMER!!??
You, me, park, beer, watermelon. Now.