Archive for "Feb 2010"

Comedy Festival posters: the Facebook quiz

I spent some time with Sarah yesterday going through the Melbourne International Comedy Festival program and enjoying the head shots and ads. Clearly there’s a number of quite specific poses comedians default to when they’re getting their photo taken (this chap pointed one of them out here). So we separated the many shots into a [...]

Tweeted on 2010-02-28

If you were a comedian, which of these comedy festival posters would you have? http://nakedfella.com/blog/?p=533 #minewasnumber3 # Synth joy for today: Billy Idol gets smooth. From his "Cyberpunk" album, it's "Adam In Chains": http://tinyurl.com/ycmdm6y #synthtastic #fb # How does @DalaiLama expect to get his message of peace to the world when he's using RealPlayer for [...]

Tweeted on 2010-02-27

Glenn Close interviews director of "Up", makes him cry: http://tinyurl.com/ybgm478 #hesalsothevoiceofdug #squirrel #fb # Hasselhoff's bad acting before he started embracing it: "Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD". http://tinyurl.com/58lvvd #eyepatchdoesagreatjob #fb # The only Olympics-related video I'll be watching: @nytimes on the history of Olympic sport pictogram designs. http://tinyurl.com/ylqe3zq #fb #

Tweeted on 2010-02-26

From four years ago: my very silly Beaconsfield telemovie, "Shaft of Hope"… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMsDjBcHXf4 #myoldrope #fb # Cheers @kinokofry. Wish it had the full scale of notes, but still a very cute musical toy: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix #fb # From 5 years ago: Kickin' It With Mr Flig. "Trouble just squeezed itself in your eye, shitfuck." http://tinyurl.com/ycpd95c #myoldrope [...]

Tweeted on 2010-02-25

From six years ago: the theme from "Herman, the Legal Labrador", as performed by Metzengerstein. http://tinyurl.com/yjrxl72 #myoldrope #fb #

Tweeted on 2010-02-23

Save Live Music in Melbourne rally was fun. Sad opposition pollies holding signs reading "Liberals Love Live Music" were generally ignored. # Tony Martin loves hanging shit on people who play synthesizers. Maybe this is why: http://tinyurl.com/yb3s4mg #synthtastic #fb # Getting a bit sick of these "animate a whole film and get paid if you [...]

Tweeted on 2010-02-22

Most important letter I've sent in years: "No longer at this address". Bugger! #dontstress #thiscanbefixed #fb # Support WFMU, NJ's freeform radio. Best blog on the web: http://blog.wfmu.org Their pledge page: http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/ #wfmuthon #

John Howard’s Knees

About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called “The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard’s Knees”, a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings. Those knees secrete some kind of powerful magic, tempting violence from [...]

Tweeted on 2010-02-21

Episode 12 of the feted webcomic "Showman? The Bret Braddock Adventures" now online: http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/?p=73 # Comedian Adrian Calear is on page 5 of today's Sunday Age, sans most clothing. #fb #

Tweeted on 2010-02-20

Law Abiding Citizen vs Edge of Darkness vs Shutter Island: which is the "cop"-est cop movie of these current releases? #copactionvideo #fb # First TV pilot based on a Twitter account. I give up. http://tinyurl.com/yew3cwn #fb #