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Australian bands you should check out-6

Operator Please- A Song About Ping Pong

A band of 16 year-olds from the Gold Coast.

Formed for a Battle of the Bands contest. 

I love their energy. This video doesn't cut it. 

Great live! Kids these days...

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The Sleepy Jackson- Good Dancers

Dreamy stuff from this Perth based band

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Architecture in Helsinki - Hold Music

What happens when the nerdiest art kids form a band?

It's the perfect musical gang. Great live, they swap instraments

and dance around like freaks.  Very much a Melbourne band.

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Ground Components

Rockin stuff. These guys live down the road from us.
Very underrated indy band.

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Wolf & Cub
Great rawkin' band. Fuzz Guitars and two drummers!
From Adelaide no less.

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GOTYE

A sample nerd from the western burbs makes an amazing album!

Translates great live as well. Check out his other videos.

Pic of the day 26 October, 2007

Pic of the day 24 October, 2007

Grrrrrrr!!!

Cheney Pointedly Warns Iran

"Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on? . . .

"We're on a path to irreversible confrontation with a country we know almost nothing about. The United States government has had no diplomats in Iran for almost 30 years. American officials have barely met with any senior Iranian politicians or officials. We have no contact with the country's vibrant civil society. Iran is a black hole to us -- just as Iraq had become in 2003."

Link

Pic of the day 22 October, 2007

Alex  works his magic!

Pic of the day 21 October, 2007

The weather was beautiful today so we packed up the belly

and hit the beach. I did a bit of snorkeling and Mauzi

introduced grape to the sand and sun.

With only 3 weeks or so to go and the belly is getting pretty big.

Mauzi says she looks like a beached whale in this picture

but I think she looks great and she sure turned a few heads.

Coincidentally, a few minutes after this photo was taken

a group of school kids converged and tried to roll Mauzi back into the sea.

I had to convince them that whales don't actually come this far

into the bay this late in the season. I thanked them for their concern, 

bought them some icy-poles and sent them on their way

to throw sand on a guy in a tartan speedo.

(the sand throwing bit of that story is true)

Pic of the day 20 October 2007

Matt, yours is on the left

and Shinichi's is on the right.

Pic of the day 19 October, 2007

To celebrate my new Auz citizenship

we went out for indian w/ Mauzi's parents 

and our good friends Darren and Lucy.

The real milestone wasn't me getting citizenship.

It was getting Seamus to eat curry!

Pic of the day 18 October, 2007

Bush's job approval rating fell to 24 percent

from last month's record low 

for a Zogby poll of 29 percent.

Cheney's approval rating...

Can you record a negative percentile?

Here's another interesting fact:

"[W]hile Hayes said most of the criticism Cheney faces 'washes off of him,' he is bothered by the criticism over a hunting accident in which he shot and injured a fellow hunter.

"'He does not like people to think of him as not a good outdoorsman,' Hayes said.

Poor guy. 

Perhaps he can start another war and regain his manhood!

What a DICK!

Pic of the day 17 October, 2007

Mauzi made us Lamingtons.

I Became a Citizen Today!!

Pic of the day 15 October, 2007

Would you eat this????

Pic of the day 14, October 2007

The colours of spring

Pic of the day 12 October 2007

I sold merch at a Marilyn Manson show last week.

Have a look at the amazing assortment of choices!

MM pouting against a wall. 

MM pouting with hand over face.

 MM pouting in a blood spattered room. 

Oh yea, and MM panties (didn't personally sell a pair of those).

Hometown Crime

9:35 a.m.- [911] Caller from Kirkwood's Market advised they have a shoplifter dressed in a Barney suit in the store. Officer en route to pick up evidence. The Barney suspect has taken some batteries by placing them in the hollow head of the costume. He allegedly went out to a vehicle with Minnesota plates and placed the batteries in an "electronic item". Officer is with suspect, whose has given a full confession. Subject voluntarily returned stolen items and apologized to store owners explaining that this was all part of a JACKass style practical joke.
Suspect received a vicious beard shaving an was driven to the county line and told never to return to this sleepy little God-fearing town.

Smoking Video

Why is it that crazy looking people
always smoke like this?
(Sorry for the video orientation.)

Pic of the day 9 October, 2007

If you can't get to the beach.
You can always bring the beach to you.

Pic of the day 8 October 2007

Pic of the day 7 October, 2007

The Guestroom

All are Welcome

Pic of the day 6 October, 2007

The Alternative Aussie Citizanship Test

As some of you know I recently applied for and was accepted to become an Australian citizen. Just this week the government in charge put into place a citizenship "test" to help weed out such undesireables as those who do not know that cricket is the favourit national sport (among other trivial facts that can be memorised in about 5 minutes). 

Fortunately I made it in before the deadline (and I get to vote in the December election)

Here is an alternate test that didn't quite make the government's standards. 

Give it a go and see how "Australian" you might be. 

Matt and Shinichi, this especially applies to you!

Send your answers to jroth777@yahoo.com 

and I'll find someone who can help translate give you a grade.

LANGUAGE
1. Do you understand the meaning, but are unable to explain the origin of, the term "died in the arse"?

2. What is a mole?

3. Are these terms related: chuck a sickie; chuck a spaz; chuck a U-ey?

4. Explain the following passage: "In the arvo last Chrissy the relos rocked up for a barbie, some brevvs and a few snags. After a bit of a Bex and a lie down we opened the pressies, scoffed all the chockies, bickies and lollies. Then we drained a few tinnies and Mum did her block after Dad and Steve had a barney and a bit of biffo."

CUSTOMS
1. Macca, Chooka and Wanger are driving to Surfers in their Torana. If they are travelling at 100 km/h while listening to Barnsey, Farnsey and Acca Dacca, how many slabs will each person on average consume between flashing a brown eye and having a slash?

2. Complete the following sentences: a) "If the van's rockin' don't bother .. b) You're going home in the back of a ... c) Fair suck of the …

3. I’ve had a gutful and I can't be fagged. Discuss

4. Have you ever been on the giving or receiving end of a wedgie?

5. Do you have a friend or relative who has a car in their front yard "up on blocks"? Is his name Keith and does he have a wife called Cheryl?

FOOD
1. Does your family regularly eat a dish involving mincemeat, cabbage, curry powder and a packet of chicken noodle soup called either chow mein, chop suey or kai see ming?

2. What are the ingredients in a rissole?

3. Demonstrate the correct procedure for eating a Tim Tam.

4. Do you have an Aunty Myrna who is famous for her tuna mornay and other dishes involving a can of cream of celery soup?

5. In any two-hour period have you ever eaten three-bean salad, a chop and two serves of pav washed down with someone else's beer that has been nicked from a bath full of ice?

6. When you go to a bring- your-own-meat barbie can you eat other people's meat or are you only allowed to eat your own?

7. What purple root vegetable beginning with the letter "b" is required by law to be included in a hamburger with the lot?

CULTURE
1. Do you own or have you ever owned a lawn mower, a pair of thongs, an Esky or Ugg boots?

2. Is it possible to "prang a car" while doing "circle work"?

3. Who would you like to crack on to?

4. Who is the most Australian: Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, John "True Blue" Williamson, Kylie Minogue or Warnie?

5. Is there someone you are only mates with because they own a trailer or have a pool?

6. Would you love to have a beer with Duncan?

The people to be granted citizenship are the ones who call it a crock and cheat

Pic of the Day 4 October, 2007

Look Matt, a Shibuya shop on Elizabeth Street.
I bought something nice for Mauzi for the hospital.

Grape does flips!

Be patient, the fun begins at about 20 seconds.

Pic of the day 2 October, 2007

Not you mom

Pic of the day 1 October, 2007

For Buddha

Pic of the day 30 September, 2007

Pic of the day 29 August, 2007

Pic of the day 28 September, 2007

Pic of the day 27 September, 2007

Hometown Crime

4:11 p.m.-New Auburn caller advised there is a bear in a tree

just into Barron County on CTH SS.
There is a traffic back-up going on there as
the Amish are sight-seeing. Officer advised.