buy her candy

Yeah Yeah Yeahs sideshows

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:36:24 +1100

December 29: Festival Hall, Melbourne

January 8: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney

Tickets on sale November 17. Ticketmaster for Melbourne, and Ticketek for Sydney.

"I do think it’s a dangerous precedent for the ABC to decide what it broadcasts from week to week..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:38:03 +1100

“I do think it’s a dangerous precedent for the ABC to decide what it broadcasts from week to week because of outrage over taste and decency, especially when the Prime Minister has a nasty habit of weighing in with a jerk of his knee.”

- Julian Morrow, Andrew Olle Media Lecture 2009 (via heuteund)

"There is really only one city for everyone, just as there is one major love."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:48:15 +1100

“There is really only one city for everyone, just as there is one major love.”

- Dawn Powell (via In Which Nothing Will Cut New York But A Diamond - This Recording)

Melbourne Tumblr Meet-up

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:25:11 +1100

cankerbloxxom:

semisetadrift:

ninefruits:

Melbourne people,

Kate and Chrissy are going to be down from Canberra next week (and staying with me!), so we were thinking of having a little gathering on Thursday night, the 12th (unfortunately they leave Friday). Actually, Tash and Thao and I were thinking this. I haven’t run it by Kate or Chrissy yet, but I’m sure they are into it. And even if they’re not, they’re staying at my place so they’ll do what I tell them. Anyway, a bar in the city will be the most likely venue. Thinking Sister Bella at this stage, but anyone got any better ideas feel free to express them. Maybe somewhere at little less difficult to find for those who don’t know it?

This doesn’t need to be some official Tumblr-sponsored event or anything, just thought with Kate and Chrissy down it would be a good opportunity to meet-up since there are a few of us who will be hanging out.

Seeing as I am credited as a co-mastermind of this meet-up, reblogging is in order.

On a Tumblr-appropriate level of seriousness though, anyone in Melbourne that is free on Thursday night should come!

Grant, you are an absolute star. I love it when people make plans like this!! And I can assure you that Kate will be down. Luv u, Melbourne peeps!

This sounds most excellent! I give this proposal my full endorsement.

Only in Melbourne could we have a public holiday for a horse race.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:56 +1100

semisetadrift:

okayjokesover:

renne:

Not that I’m complaining, of course. A day off for the three and a half minutes of the race that stops the nation? FUCK YEAH.

do you know what’s better? canberra gets a public holiday as well. they were just like “fuck it, if melbourne can have one, SO CAN WE.” (or, they did last year? idk, help me out canberra people, i just remember being thrown by it last year.)

Fuck, Canberra get it? I grew up 200km outside of Melbourne and we didn’t even get it. Public servants, man.

Yeah, we’ve got one today, but I think maybe next year is the last one? It’s called the Family and Community Day, lol. They’re scrapping it, though.

Australian Sporting Event (noun)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:12:03 +1100

semisetadrift:

joshdivision:

fauxjew:

an excuse to drink and gamble at 1.30pm on a tuesday.

Practicing on getting my hair right for a dinner party I’m...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:42:36 +1100

Practicing on getting my hair right for a dinner party I’m going to tonight. We have to dress up as some sort of alter ego, and take a dish that starts with P. I’m going as a rockabilly girl and taking some Punjabi chicken tikka masala.

"Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:19:43 +1100

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself,a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”

- Alain de Botton (via happypoodlesandrawnoodles) (via onebadapple) (via literarypiano)

heuteund: Handheld composite.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:16:44 +1100

heuteund:

Handheld composite.

heuteund: 1.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:14 +1100

heuteund:

1.

Crush

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:09:36 +1100

filigree:

For starters, it was all
an accident, you cut
the right branch
and a sort of light
woke up underneath,
and the inedible fruit
grew dark and needy.
Think crucial hanging.
Think crayon orange.
There is one low, leaning
heart-shaped globe left
and dearest, can you
tell, I am trying
to love you less.

Ada Limón

"i would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, ‘oh my god! that looks so comfortable!’ that’s..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:58:00 +1100

“i would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, ‘oh my god! that looks so comfortable!’ that’s not what i want to project. but i’m not a sadist. i don’t believe suffering makes you beautiful. but comfort is not part of my creative process.”

- christian louboutin (via sarazucker)

This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Beauty and comfort don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

"If you ask girls and women how they would feel about encountering a group of guys while they’re..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:54:00 +1100

“If you ask girls and women how they would feel about encountering a group of guys while they’re alone in a deserted area, I bet the fear of gang rape and assault would be quite tangible, even if the men did not harass them. Why? Because even if we don’t know terms like “homosociality” or “hegemonic masculinity” and haven’t read the theories behind such terms, we know that most men are less like to stop or to listen to women when they are in groups. We know they want to impress their friends and many of them will do that at all costs. We know it’s best to book it out of there as fast as we can before they decide to do anything. And guess what, even if this isn’t true of all men, we don’t know which ones it will be true for. Our safety is not worth the risk of trusting a group of male strangers. (and if you say that’s unfair to boys and men who don’t hurt women, I agree, let’s do something about it!)”

- The cost of living in a patriarchal society « Stop Street Harassment! (via clingtomymouth)

Yes. For more on this (especially for the dudes out there in the audience), please oh please read the Shapely Prose article on Schrödinger’s Rapist.

(via thepoliticalpartygirl / robot-heart-politics / thecurvature / katoleary / alohanico / jgh)

thommo: Win? Fail? I like the moment you’ve captured,...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:04:24 +1100

thommo:

Win? Fail?

I like the moment you’ve captured, and the compsition’s really nice, too. The only problem I have with it, is that it looks a bit like an ad for the car!

Illegal downloaders ‘spend the most on music’, says poll

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:33:49 +1100

Illegal downloaders ‘spend the most on music’, says poll :

(via artistspaid)

Finally! Someone realised!

People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average of £77 a year on music – £33 more than those who claim that they never download music dishonestly.

…

“The people who file-share are the ones who are interested in music,” said Mark Mulligan of Forrester Research. “They use file-sharing as a discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don’t have any concept of music as a paid-for commodity,” he continued. “You need to have it at a price point you won’t notice.”

BBC NEWS | Health | 'Younger wife' for marital bliss

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:32 +1100

BBC NEWS | Health | 'Younger wife' for marital bliss:

cankerbloxxom:

The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts.

Awesome, I can’t wait to marry some old guy who is a fucking idiot. Jesus, who comes up with this shit?

“Experts”.

5¢ piece guilt

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:56:35 +1100

ninefruits:

What I really feel like now is some chips from the fish and chip shop just up the road. I have the exact change for some, but 30¢ of the change is made up of 5¢ pieces. For some reason I feel like a dick giving people 5¢ pieces. It makes me feel like I’m giving people the usless junk that I don’t want. It’s pretty much the equivalent of pissing on the cash-register. The dude there already hates me because I never order anything other than chips. I won’t be surprised if he throws my 5¢ pieces back in my face and tells me to go fuck myself. I would if I was him*

*I wouldn’t.

Incorrect. Working in a shop myself, I usually appreciate people paying in shrapnel*. We often run short, actually. So don’t worry about it, especially if it’s only 30 cents.

*The one exception is when people haven’t counted their change out beforehand.

home-made lemonade (via my flickr) #radsummer enters its second...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:58:40 +1100

home-made lemonade (via my flickr)

#radsummer enters its second week.

"It is common place to read a text message like this - ‘Hey. I’m on my way bak 4m de cine. B round..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:15:57 +1100

“It is common place to read a text message like this - ‘Hey. I’m on my way bak 4m de cine. B round 15mins. Gav’. For some, this is hard to decipher. For those in the know it reads, ‘Hello there, kind and friendly gentleman. I am on my way back from the picture house and will be home in approximately 15 minutes. Gavin.’”

- BBC - h2g2 - Neologisms (via semisetadrift)

Christian group banned from schools - ABC News

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:53:09 +1100

Christian group banned from schools - ABC News:

A Christian group has been banned from ACT schools while allegations about its practices are investigated by the Education Department.

Focus on the Family has been accused of vilifying homosexuality, and preaching religion to students without parental consent.

A spokesman for Education Minister Andrew Barr says the government launched the investigation after a complaint made by a parent at a Canberra high school.

The spokesman says the group had also run programs in five other schools, although no other complaints have been made.

The Australian Christian Lobby has attacked the investigation saying there is a place for a values-based program in schools, which covers issues like marriage and abstinence, as well as the dangers of pornography.

Ah yes, those traditional dangers of pornography and homosexuality.