Wed 29 Aug 2007
This one i’ve been saving for a while. If you ever suspected Jeremy Clarkson was a twat, well here’s the proof. Almost 7 minutes of the best of the worst of Top Gear. And it seems virtually all of it is Clarkson stuffing up! Enjoy. Censored, but might require subtlety at work
Wed 22 Aug 2007
Man rock this! Just crank your speakers, watch this video and friggin’ break something. Originally this was a Tom Waits song (I Don’t Wanna Grow Old). So the story goes, when CJ Ramone replaced Dee Dee on bass, he suggested doing this song to revitalise the band. I think CJ was bang on the money. Although I need a hardened Ramones fan to tell me if that’s CJ on the bass in this vid. Because i’ve only ever seen him with short hair.
Wed 22 Aug 2007
That’s right. This week our own Prime Minister, or should I say ‘il Duce’ has announced his Fascistic intentions. On last night’s 7.30 Report on ABC TV, he started talking about ‘aspirational nationalism’. Make no mistake, just about any Fascist movement ever has had nationalism in there somewhere. I’m not suggesting for one second Mr Howard is jumping to the centre of politics, but whoever’s writing his speeches should’ve pulled him up on it.
And this whole notion of federalisation? Are you insane! The Labor state governments are the only thing standing in the way of this guy running the country! Besides local affairs need local representation, not a one size fits all approach to one of the most geographically dispersed democracies in the world - well at least while it still is. Dear boy, you’re showing your age. Time to smell the roses and retire.
John Howard the Fascist! (well a link to a newspaper article anyway).
Thu 16 Aug 2007
This week’s wacky moment is from a classic 1988 movie, The Decline of Western Civiliation part II: The Metal Years. Classic because it’s the most amazing expose of hair metal and all its tragedies - or tragics! And Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P. is the keynote speaker. if you’ve ever Googled ‘drunken fuckwit’, no doubt this guy would come straight up. Watch as he lives up the rock star life, with his mum (and presumably only friend) in tow after god knows how many bottles of Smirnoff. God metal was cool. I wish they would put this movie out on DVD in region 4.
I used to love this movie as a 15 year old git. Watch this clip and you’ll probably understand why.
Wed 8 Aug 2007
Heh, another week another wacky moment from Youtube. This week, still sticking with The Ramones, I found an episode of the Drew Carey show (circa 1998??) where Drew and the boys were starting a band. As part of the episode, they had cameos from all the cool guitarists of the day. Namely, Lisa Loeb, Rick Neilsen (Cheap Trick?), Slash, Matthew Sweet, Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) and especially Joey Ramone.
This one is funny, because Joey as far as I know can’t play guitar, and he especially can’t trash them either! But watch the 3 Drew Carey characters try not to piss themselves laughing when they get to the line "sorry, but we’ve already got a tall, skinnny guy!" (Joey was about 6′ 7"). Then as Joey storms away in disgust, the guitar chord gets caught on his boot, dragging the guitar along, making him look even more like a doofus. Champagne comedy.
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