Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: Ms Higgins' part time double bass player and official historian

Ms Higgins' part time double bass player and official historian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:04:00 +0000

But was Manning Clark Missy?

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:36:39 +0000

And I was about to use “Enter Manning Clark: 36th Chamber of Australian History”. Too bad.

Nihil Young

Heh.

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:20:17 +0000

Liam, I’m afraid that when Leonard Cohen gets brought up on a thread, then nobody wins.

Reminds me, re L. Cohen, back in college we used to call him Nihil Young.

But don’t let me rain on the parade — have a great time at the concert, PC and the rest of you Cohenheads, and I hope it’s a grand show.

Btw, technical note re the recent blog outage: on a mobile, the home page now appears but you can’t access the links. Don’t know if that’s a generalized problem or not, though.

Damn, and that other thread shut down before I could use “I see a little silhouetto of a Manning Clark”. Vida es sueno.

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:04:26 +0000

Nickws, I'm calling the closed thread a win.

By: Tyro Rex

Tyro Rex — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:07:56 +0000

now here’s a funny video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4

By: Tyro Rex

Tyro Rex — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:01:50 +0000

@Helen @tigtog @FDB I got about six bars in and I had to shut it off. “Ironic” or not (and we’ve been I thought post-Ironic at least 5 years), bad overproduced music, is bad overproduced music.

By: FDB

FDB — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:46:55 +0000

It pretty much has to be, TT.

If it’s still possible for that much energy to be expended on such ridiculous crap without ironic intent, than I’d be even more impressed though.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:05:41 +0000

Actually, I just did a search on him, and he has an IMDB bio that's heavily slanted towards satirical comedy, so I think this music video may just be a viral for some new project. In which case, well played sir.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:02:37 +0000

Perhaps it was during- and post-Movember.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:41:39 +0000

Helen, that is gloriously naff. I think he missed the memo that the New Romantics trend long ago dropped off the perch. I found the switch between the Errol Flynn moustache as the hero and his Botoxed-smoothness in front of the wind machine very distracting.

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:05:04 +0000

Here’s a silly meme to consider if you’re bored.

Since Windows Vista seems to mow carry the “Chess Titans” chess program as a standard feature, it’s now possible to rate your own chess ability by using a fixed, common reference point.

For instance there are ten levels of play; I could defeat the computer pretty much reflexively, almost like tic-tac-toe, up to level three. At four I had to think about each move for a bit in order to stay ahead; by five the program was roughly equally matched with me, and by six the program could beat me regularly though not consistently. (At nine I got utterly clobbered.)

So I’d say I scored a five, not very good. I think Kasparov can sleep well at night without worrying about me.

If you’re running Vista you can test your skillz.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:47:18 +0000

It’s all a seamless tapestry, Helen! The epic struggle between good and evil, the acrobatic swordplay, the lime green guitar, the constant use of the wind machine …

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:03:30 +0000

What did it for you, Brett? the giant pterodactyls? the evil flying witchy-poo types? or the massive explosions about 2 mins in?

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:50:59 +0000

I’ve already been passing word of that around, Helen (but thanks for the hi-res version!) It is, quite possibly, the best music video EVAR.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:53:57 +0000

... The album it's off is called blue stone, but I'm thinking Blue Steel. Where's Owen Wilson? The explosions and giant pterodactyls are fab, but let me say, in the light of the AFIs being on and everything, that sometimes a big budget can be more of a curse than a blessing.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:44:07 +0000

Too. much. information.

Came across this fabulous celebration of wrongness at Bitch, PHD, where it comes with a monstrous coffee/soda-nasal-sprayage warning.

http://chrisdaneowens.com/video/Shine_large.html

By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:43:41 +0000

joe2 @ 17 -that’s a mere five times daily for forty years, mate. I’ve slowed down a bit since early puberty, but had quite a head start by then. If I’d had a generator strapped to my wrist at 13, I could have powered a small city throughout my teen years.

BTW, I never worked for News Ltd, though I did spend a year at the West Australian. Mostly I’ve freelanced.

By: joe2

joe2 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:47:13 +0000

“Zorronsky -where’d you get that figure from? I just did a quick calculation… have booked a PSA test for Monday a.m.”

Egad, Ozymandias @15, you must work for News limited.

By: Jacques de Molay

Jacques de Molay — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:48:07 +0000

Sadly it looks as if Wednesday nights episode of NEWStopia was the last episode for good. The final episode will stay up for free viewing on their SBS website for another couple of days so do check it out at this link. It’s basically an entire episode devoted to their “Inspector Herring” skits. Andre Rieu may make an appearance and meet an untimely demise.

http://programs.sbs.com.au/newstopia/

I do really hope the show will be back again and NEWStopia’s Kat Stewart picked up an award at the AFI Awards tonight for her role in Underbelly too.

By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:45:55 +0000

Zorronsky -where’d you get that figure from? I just did a quick calculation… have booked a PSA test for Monday a.m.