Don Arthur has one of the best Ozblogosphere posts of the year up on Troppo - on the phenomenon, beloved of Miranda Devine, of South Park Yoof Conservatism.
But if you want to see the true face of Howardian youth in all their marketing student cocktail swilling glory, try this site. A credit revolution breeds conspicuous consumption and vapid fabulousness. Lifestyles of the young and feckless. Still, as long as everyone’s happy, Janet Albrechtsen is too.
Southpark, anyone? Comrades?
So Brisbane.
So first up against the wall come the revolution.
Paris Hilton meets Brisvegas.
Like a sports model search at a City club.
3000 unique visitors a month, hey? How long does it take LP to get 3000 unique visitors?
2 days.
Yeah but you let any old riff raff come here not just an exclusive group of 18-35 year-olds with high spending capacity and active social lives. If you aimed at that market you’d only have me and Fyodor.
Well, Amanda, I guess I’m a 37 year old with a diminished spending capacity and a fitfully active social life.
As the Cold Chisel song went, “come on up to my room babe, I need a co-star, and I can’t afford to be too choosy”.
That’s the only time I shall ever quote Chisel.
Whats wrong with Chisel?
Nothing with the songs like “Plaza Hotel” that Jimmy Barnes doesn’t sing on!
ahh god puke! i hate pretentious sydney wannabees but that lot of tossers takes the cake!!! lets face it brisbane is hardly centre of the world who do these wankers think they are? it’s the annual general meeting of the young liberals.
sorry i’m very grumpy about the origin and the ref’s performance (qld’s 15th man - kimmorley the 14th) and now i see this tripe. ugghh.
ye of little faith rex. we’ll get there.
Is there a football game on? I noticed all the restaurants were empty when I walked down to the shops before and that would also explain the periodic cheering I can hear out the window.
Yeah, you Queensland bastards just beat us in the State of Origin.
Oh. How exciting. Is book shopping a sport?
Dagnammit. But I am very happy for Michael Hagen.
yeah he finally won a game.
back to the topic, albrechtsen opens with;
But isn’t it the conservatives who push the climate-of-fear crime-on-the-rise paranoia? So this is admitting, that despite the daily telegraph’s best efforts, oldies believe the evidence in front of them - something most progressives have been saying for years (the evidence on quality of life issues typically tell you things aren’t as bad as the media likes to make out)?
And how does that excuse the fact that a certain section of the community live in abject poverty? Yeah, who cares, we’ve got “the sunbar” in cosmopolitan “world city” brisbane.
Precisely, Rex. On one hand we’re all meant to be relaxed and comfortable if not euphoric, and on the other we’re all meant to be alermed and constantly alert.
Same sort of phenomenon in Blairland - Macmillan redux says you’ve never had it so good and on the other hand society is falling apart in front of our eyes with disrespectful anti-social hoodie wearers everywhere.
On the rare occasions I’ve been to the Sunbar, everyone I’ve spoken to (aside from friends I’ve been with to observe the wannabe fabbo people in action) has worked in marketing. Hmmm. Just round the corner you’ve got Murris living in the park, smack deals going on and down the road heaps of displaced mentally ill people living on the street and in hostel accommodation. But I guess you don’t notice that when yr speeding off in yr BMW towards your riverside apartment. Or it gets dismissed as “colourful inner city street life”.
To quote another line from the good Doctor: “I know these people in my BLOOD”.
Pick up technique leaves a bit to be desired on the part of the 24 year old Marketing “execs” with their heavily mortgaged Teneriffe loft apartments who frequent the Sunbar.
According to SoBrisbane, there’s only one event taking place in Brisbane that they will either be covering, promoting or partying at. And that happened on March 31st. They really should get out more often.
To paraphase the old advertising saying - “Half of the money you spend on marketing is wasted. The problem is telling which half”. Not a problem though I’d imagine for anyone who’s hired the SoCrap crew to do a little viral spruicking.
Their platinum credit cards have been repossessed after the last interest rate hike, I’d say, Nabs.
people who try hard to be cool are not cool. the coolest people i have hung out with are actual jazz musicians. most of these people put up no airs and are totally unselfconscious about being ‘hip’ and yet they are (as well as being awfully generous about sharing spliffs with total strangers). they also dress in ways that would result in refused admittance to the hangouts of marketing execs. yeah, the other kinds of places i detest are places with try hard anal dress codes.
Jazz musicians, of course, had the original cool!
Jazz musicians also have a cool pick up technique. I recommend the Bowery on Wednesday nights - if yr in cosmopolitan Brisvegas.
‘Is book shopping a sport?’, Mark asks.
Nope. It’s an art form, an eminently civilised pastime and an essential survival skill.
And how dry, utilitarian and uninspiring the internet has made it, to be sure. Why idly order volumes on line, when one day you too could find yourself in a stuffy antiquarian bookshop in Annapolis, MD, stumbling across ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’, by Franz Werfel, husband of Gustav Mahler’s widow, and becoming hooked on page one, as once it happened to me. Treasured memory.
Jason,
Is a “hard anal dress code” more uncomfortable than a suit? Yuppies aged 18-35 with high disposable incomes and active social lives really want to know.
Mark’s just jealous ‘cos he only qualified on the “active social life” front, and everybody knows that’s much less important than being young and rich.
The whole idea is preposterous. The only creatures more ridiculous than the egregious Sydney BCBG are provincial wannabes.
Even my uncool at school clique would have dismissed them as tryhard. In fact we still would. Pretentious prats.
“lets face it brisbane is hardly centre of the world ”
Hey, it is in StarTrek!
I am sure that an email bombardment campaign to that effect would put some noses out of joint.
Too pretentious to be a nerd! Haha!
Haven’t you heard of the concept of “hip mid-youth”, Fyodor?
I’m in it, Grampa.
Just kidding - you’re one hip hombre, no matter what Albrechtsen & Devine (or Huey Lewis, for that matter) say.
Aw, shucks, thanks, Fyodor.
Have been spreading the hip mid-youth love at Fits’ place - 29 is the new 28! (It’s her birthday if you want to go and offer felicitations).
Trackback: John Howard is not Cool. (Does LP support trackbacks?)
LP does - but you need to add /trackback/ to the end of the url, Down and Out.
Oops, I meant to fix that. The trackback URL can now be copied from the box above the comment submission form.
Thanks, Rob.
Hey kids, just thought we’d drop you a line to let you know that we are well and fine and just popping over to europe with our platinum cards next week (and don’t worry, there’s no need to stress over interest rates when daddy’s paying). Although we love Brisbane, we need some more materialistic stimulation (i.e. shopping ridiculously over-priced luxury labels and drinking ourselves silly on too much bollinger). And feel free to remark on my terrible spelling or muster anything else pseudo-intelligent you can think of (can you even say that?), because I’m simply too busy to proof-read anything.
also, just wanted to say that we’re really sorry that you guys didn’t have any friends at school (or uni if you were able to afford the fees). although we might seem bad, we would actually have taken the time to talk to you. we might have joined the dark side of capitalistic, Howardian, South Park Yoof Conservatism but we’re not evil.
lots of love,
SoBrisbane
Don Marco,
Permission to jibe, sah?
Oh, yes.
Hey, Mark, is that for real or is it the other Ron leg-pulling?
No it’s for real.
Ron,
Did it take you a whole week to come with that witty riposte, or did the snark outsourcing get bogged down in contract negotiations? You can never get good help these days, and it’s hard going when even pseudo-intellectuals look down on you.
I’m sorry to hear you’re leaving for Europe. Just remember that they don’t always speak English there, so be sure to bark slowly in a loud, braying voice…no change there, really. Don’t worry: they’ll get your measure soon enough.
If you feel like coming back, don’t. The Europeans obviously need your bon chic and joie de vivre more than we do. Besides, they’ll write you off as nouveau riche Kontiki trash the moment you front up in your cardy.
Haha, Fyodor.
You think you’re so smart and you really did reveal some insecurities of yours in that comment. La di da! You’re not as intelligent as I am!
Wow! John can type without thinking…
John, who doesn’t have an email address, will also find that most of his comments have been deleted. I’d have emailed him politely to point out that purely abusive and vexatious comments are not permitted, but wasn’t able to. He should take note in future.
just a quick comment that sobrisbane is under new management and will be launching sobris v2 in November.
no more fluffin around i’m so cool bullshit…a site for bris creatives to showcase their works - be it in fashion, music, art etc…
lilbirdy.
Wow, a twist in the sobrisety.
Maybe Ron didn’t come back from Euroland after all.
hmmm… its lookin a lil better than last time…
we’ll just see how it goes
F&$# sobrisbane.com
They are still complete and utter chats in need of a cock-punching.
So utterly pants.
I’m all in favour of people being successful and enjoying life - I’d like everyone to be able to do that.
But it’s annoying when their “circle of concern” (a cliche but a good one) extends just to themselves or their own family - it’s particularly annoying if they’re “successful” on any of the usual indicators.
We’re probably just overreacting. My guess is that it’s just advertising…
i like it!
it shows a sexy side of brisbane.
its not going to agree with everyone but i’m sure they’re aware of that.
- paul simmons
is that wanky site still going?
i went to a sobrisbane event and it was fullllll of wanker try hards!
i feel sorry for people who follow these guys!