What is loosely termed....bleeergh.......

Good morning everybody. I've just woken up. My bloody computer is becoming more difficult as the minutes become hours and the hours become days. If it were a person, it would probably be one of those baby boomers that are pre-empting the time of which they are classified by modern standards as 'elderly'. They are quite rare they are, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I sometimes wonder what I'm going to be like when I reach the elderly stage. Hopefully I'll still be mentally intact, but I have a feeling I'll get arthritis from the amount of drawing I do. I get told that anyway. It's amazing how if you get told something over and over, eventually your subconscious believes it and you're stuck in that frame of mind for a long time.

Ok, I'm rambling on now. I'm just procrastinating from moving at the moment. I know I have to move at some point because I'm going to see a movie, but my body just doesn't want to. Ah well, I will just part with an amusing picture I found that tickled my sick sense of humour. Goodbye.

Introduction

Hello everyone. Forgive me, but I'm new at this thing. Not even 30 seconds on this and I'm already asking for forgiveness. Well....lets get started then shall we? I'm not going to go into the usual specifics , like 'I'm from here...' etcetera because I have discovered that it doesn't matter what you are like, people have a tendency to subconsciously hold geographic location against you. Take my favourite author, John Birmingham. In Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, it is written 'He is from Ipswich but asks you not to hold that against him.' I guess when you live with over 80 people over a period of 10 years, it teaches you a thing or two about life. I will tell you my name though- it's Rhiannon before you start singing.
I have very discerning taste in film, literature, art and music. Having said that, my taste is also eclectic- 2 of my favourite movies are Don's Party and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I guess that the only thing that isn't foggy about my taste is that I like something that is either cult or comedy. I think Quentin Tarantino is brilliant and Tim Rogers is pure genius. In case you haven't noticed, I am a big fan of You Am I and base a majority of my artworks around them. I draw mainly because it's wallet friendly and more portable, but I am a paint dilettante as well. I'm trying not to be psychotic about the whole thing because it's really just an admiration of the band and reacting in a way that is expressive to me, like someone playing their covers. I am also a keen writer and I hope to make money and fame with both things some day. Anyway, here are my favourites:

FILM

Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The Joy Luck Club
Kangaroo Palace
The Song Remains The Same
Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix
My Mother Frank
Evil Woman
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll
The Royal Tenenbaums
Mullet
Dirty Deeds
Kill Me Tender
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Edward Scissorhands
Muriel’s Wedding
Psycho (The original)
That Thing You Do
Van Helsing
Fear
Blow
Moulin Rouge
Muggers
Hercules Returns
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Little Children
Wonderboys
Weekend at Bernie’s
The Lara Croft movies
The Wizard of Oz
Fatal Attraction
The Sum of Us
Chopper
Sliding Doors
Team America
South Park the Movie
Knocked Up
Austin Powers Trilogy
40 Year old Virgin
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Harry Potter Movies
Wayne's World 1 & 2
High Fidelity
Joe Dirt,
Suburban Mayhem
Gettin’ Square
The Commitments
Stoned
The Cheech and Chong movies
Don's Party
The Castle
The American Pie Movies
Gimme Shelter
The Shrek Movies
Bend it Like Beckham
Anita and Me
Rat Race
Wedding Crashers
Detroit Rock City
School of Rock
Dan in Real Life,
Thirteen
Girl Interrupted,
Beerfest,
Super Troopers,
Almost Famous,
Kenny,
Baby Snakes,
The Wedding Singer,
Anger Management
Bowling for Columbine,
Sicko, Napoleon Dynamite,
Festival Express,
Billy Madison
Hot Fuzz,
Bridget Jones 1 & 2,
The Parole Officer,
Shaun of the Dead,
Notting Hill,
Son de Mar,
Love Actually,
Thunderstruck

And although technically not movies:

The Cream and the Crock,
Who Are These Rockstars
Rockwiz Duets Volume 2.

MUSIC:

You Am I
The Temperance Union
Tim Rogers
The Pictures
TnT
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Eagles
Jimi Hendrix
Jet
Aerosmith
Little Birdy
Matchbox 20
Maroon 5 (in the Songs About Jane days)
Green Day
The Sex Pistols
Bodyjar
Happy Mondays
INXS (before they shat all over Michael Hutchence's memory with Rockstar INXS)
John Butler Trio,
Fleetwood Mac (To some degree, the one song that pisses me off is the one I got my name from....)
Frank Zappa
Chuck Berry
Janis Joplin
Shivaree
Puddle of Mudd
The Seatbelts
Elton John
Franz Ferdinand
The Cure
Tex, Don and Charlie
The Cruel Sea
The Stooges
U2
The Darkness (God rest it's freaky falsetto soul)
Cat Stevens
ACDC
Midnight Oil
Supergrass
Suzi Q
T-Rex
Taxiride
Gloria Jones
The Stranglers
Johnny Cash
Jerry Lee Lewis
Something for Kate
Spinal Tap
The Ramones
Radiohead
Powderfinger
The Offspring
Neil Young
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Machine Gun Fellatio
KISS,
The Kinks,
Steppenwolf
Van Halen
The soundtrack to Rocky Horror Picture Show
And Team America
And tons more.

TV SHOWS:

Shameless
RocKwiz
Spicks and Specks
Worst Week of My Life
South Park
The Chasers
jtv
The Melbourne Comedy Festival
Skins
The Simpsons
Futurama
Please Teacher
Cowboy Bebop
Penn and Teller’s BULLSHIT!
The Mighty Boosh
Family Guy
American Dad
Rove
Flight of the Conchords
Real Stories
The Ronnie Johns Half Hour
The Sketch Show (I met Kitty Flanagan off it)
Skithouse
The Glasshouse (I have the DVD)
Black Books
Drawn Together
Skins
Extras
The Office
Rockwiz
The Robinsons
Underbelly
Canal Road
The IT Crowd
Weeds

BOOKS:

He Died with a Felafel in his Hand (you know you're a JB nerd when you purchase the comic version as well)
Dopeland
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
Evil Genius
Is it Just me or is Everything Shit Vol 1 and 2
Spotfull
The Bad Mothers Handbook
Bridget Jones's Diary
High Fidelity
About a Boy
Stupid White Men
Dude, Where's My Country
The A to Z of Lying
The White Masai
Chopper: From The Inside
I'm Sorry Little Man I Thought You Were a Hand Puppet
Happy Endings
Off One’s Tits
Macbeth
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Lost Boys (Sam de Brito version)
Vegan Virgin Valentine
Underbelly: The Gangland War
Plastered
According to the Stones
Rolling with the Stones
If You Weren't a Hedgehog and I Wasn't a Haemophiliac
Van Gogh’s Flowers
World Art
Brett Whiteley
Anything by Elizabeth Honey
Anything by Michael Leunig


QUOTES:

For anyone who has ever had close friend who seemed to go to the edge of their sanity after the break up of a relationship and you've been very surprised as they were a strong, intelligent person falling apart…this song is dedicated to you.....And the other meaning is that boys smell.
-Tim Rogers, explaining Luxury of Hysteria at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.

Darling, the only thing worse than being called a rockstar is not being called a rockstar.
-Tim Rogers

I'm not a big douche fan, but I tell ya what, one of those faucets up your clacker was pretty good..
- Tim Rogers

If you look closely at Rod Stewart's songs, he sounds like a dirty old perve!
-Tex Perkins on Tonight's the Night

Never have sex with your bandmates
-Tex Perkins

Deep in a juju, chasing the train.
-Howard Moon, The Mighty Boosh (Also nicked by Davey Lane)

Frank: Make way for this blind woman
Woman: I'm not blind!
Frank: What the fuck are you dressed like that for?
-Frank Gallagher, Shameless

You've got a rabbit come in and he has a big white face and you've got to leg it from him. What you have to do is throw peanuts at him or take off your boot and smash him round the head with it. Basically if he catches you, he just throws you on the floor and rapes you.
-Vince Noir explaining 'Pelt the Rabbit and his Big White Face'

Never speak again. You are essentially an oxygen thief.
-Russell Brand

Neil Armstrong....walkin on me' face.....Buzz...Aldrin...he walkin' on me' face.....uh...the...third one....spaceman...he walkin' on me face.....walkin' round and they lookin at...all the stuff.
-The Moon, The Mighty Boosh

You see Bunty, if you get a number that's a square logarithm of 12, then you win. But if I get in the big circle, then you have to buy me a drink.
-Frank Gallagher explaining darts

I've done all the dates, bought all the flowers, had all the candlelit dinners, sat through plays, went to gallery openings, expressed my feelings, came up with new ones I never even knew I had. I said all the right things, told all the right lies and still....not one drop of affection down south.
-McGann, He Died with a Felafel in his Hand

What about the people who get turned on by getting caught? They spread themselves out on the table, bang on a pot with a wooden spoon and scream out 'MUM! THERE'S SOMETHING WEIRD ON THE TABLE!'
-Patch on Masturbation.

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs?
-Vince Noir, The Mighty Boosh

She'll be my summer girl, she’ll have hair. We’ll frolic in the sun and play tennis in short shirts. We’ll swim in rivers and know what it is to love and in the autumn, I'll chuck her coz she's my summer girl!
-Bernard Black, Black Books

Apart from taking up ciggies full time, gaining twenty kilos and gambling, switching from Victoria Bitter to Carlton has been the biggest development I've noticed with Scorps in the last five years
-Ned Jelli, The Lost Boys

Wouldn't you like to say just a little while longer?
- Norman Bates, Psycho

Kath: Oh god, they've gone into a state of mutual admiration
Jenny: Yeah. 15 glasses
-Kath and Jenny, Don's Party

So that's it really. Hopefully I will not neglect this blog but basically I will be writing down anything that comes to mind, even though that's not always a good thing. So feel free to read as I tell you some tales, thoughts, opinions and quips from the darkside!