People seem mildly interested when they learn I'm from Australia, but when they find out I'm from Tassie they get all excited. I'm not sure if it's because it has a great rep or because it sounds even further away and exotic or what, but I am proud of the state. Despite the crap that goes down. We all have that don't we ( Read more... )

A friend at work showed me this today, it's pretty bloody funny - there's a series of them but this was her favourite. Classic miscommunication between two flatmates. I can see this spawning a TV show - makes me think of Spaced and Flight of the Conchords and some British-Indian shows.

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(When he's talking about an ear disease - "ear impaction ( Read more... )

Aside from the last few days, we've been having some lovely spring weather. Spring is my favourite season, it always buoys me up. (Did you know they pronounce "buoy" as "boo-ee" here? Always makes me want to giggle!) I was full of new hope and goals the other day. It's amazing what a couple of days of wind and rain and dreariness does to your ( Read more... )

I just heard on CBC radio that the company that owns the rights to the Kookaburra song is suing Men At Work for plagiarism for "Land Down Under" (for back royalties, in other words ( Read more... )

I need to post my November book list but I still have 2 reviews to write and no time to really sit down and do it properly! My reviews have been really rushed of late. I'm always thinking, hours later, "Damn!" because I forgot something REALLY BIG that had been on my mind all through the book - how do you forget all that? Anyway ( Read more... )

I've finished getting all my book reviews up on giraffedays!! Your friends' lists are all clear now!! Thank you for your patience ( Read more... )

Ugh. Woke up this morning with one of those nose-throat-chest colds. It's a lovely warm sunny spring day, too. I think it's probably because I've been a bit down lately - you're always more susceptible when you feel mentally/emotionally crappy yeah.

So I've just the last couple of hours watching old clips of The Late Show and Black Books on ( Read more... )

You've gotta love YouTube, really, you just do.

I was having a nostalgia moment and it occurred to me to look up the "Five in a Row" songs that always make me laugh. And of course they were there!

D-Gen's "Five in a Row":

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Includes D-Generation piss-takes of the following famous Aussie singers:
1. John Farnham ( Read more... )

Okay so kat_nic has educated me and I've done a wee bit of Googling and found I was wrong about Michael Stipe - I could have sworn I saw his name on the soundtrack of Donnie Darko singing "Mad World" but no, I must have hallucinated it. It was actually Gary Jules, and a Michael Andrews arrangement. I read online that many people have confused Gary Jules' ( Read more... )

It's an Alan Rickman kind of day. I wish I had a CD of Rickman lines that I could listen to. Sometimes you just need to hear that voice, y'know?

I'm stealing yet another photo from Mum's flickr page, because she takes great photos and I like to look at them to de-stress.


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