January 2010
One of my managers listens to LBC in the office, I have no idea why. For those of you who don’t live in London, LBC is the talk radio show that taxi drivers listen to. You know the kind. The presenter offers up some contentious topic that’s vaguely in keeping with current affairs and then field calls from idiots and racists. The other day they were discussing, of all things, eating...
Ugh ...
I just confirmed a gig at a (relatively) big venue for another band I’m in. Though I find many of their policies somewhat grating, I’m not really in a position to turn down gigs at the moment.
However, I just wanted to highlight something in their T&C.
“We have a zero tolerance policy on bands/artists that we consider to be performing songs, giving statements on stage, or...
Media "encourages attacks on Muslims" →
I’ve taken to stealing one of the complimentary newspapers we get in work and having a quick browse through it at lunch each day. This article especially caught my eye though. It’s hardly a ground breaking discovery, but it is encouraging to see an official report on the subject.
This is one of the few subjects I get genuinely worked up about, mostly because 15 years ago this would...
Dear Anyone From Australia Who Might Be Reading...
Is there any truth whatsoever in this article?
Bad Reputation:Interview with Penny Arcade
themerchgirlnet:
kusamapyjamas:
You’ve been performing Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! since the 90s. Can you say something about how the show has changed in terms of content over the years?
My last shows of B!D!F!W! occured in Australia in 1995. In 2007 I was asked to reprise the show for OUTFEST , the LA film festival. I improvised around the ideas that no one wants to be gay or lesbian now;...
“The thing that pissed me off about punk was you had to learn 3 chords to be in a...”
– Daniel Miller (founder of Mute Records)
“Understanding that our oppressive situations were not our own fault—were not, in...”
– Taken from the introduction to The Personal Is Political by Carol Hanisch
Reasons I Left Ireland →
I just found out about this from a friend.
Basically, if you are an artist, living in Ireland, you can apply for a tax exemption. This means you don’t pay tax on any money made from your artistic endevours. Bertie Ahern, our former Taoiseach, has recently been granted this right for sales of his autobiography. Yes, the book technically falls within the guidelines set out at it’s...
Push for Looser Pot Laws Gains Momentum →
graveyardshiftin:
“What message does legalizing marijuana send to the youth…?”
So let me get this straight … Medical Marijuana is a-ok, positively a boon in fact, but socialised health care and gay marriage will bring the nation to it’s knees? Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK AMERICA?
I’ve never been a massive fan of legalisation, mostly because the people who push for it are always...
Cabaret Burlesque - DECISIONS!
themerchgirlnet:
Right. What routine do I do? (there are videos in this post, so if you’re on the Tumblr dashboard, click through)
Option 1: A drag king/magician routine, set to Prisencolinensinainciusol (currently my first choice)
Option 2: A quick change (maybe??) to Good Dress
Option 3: A story act to Hot Tub Blues (this isn’t the official video, there isn’t one, but DAMN it’s good):
I...
Remember all those times you spent ages on the internet finding out where my nearest GP was? Walked me through the whole process of getting myself registered? Finding little loopholes and set backs and ways around them? Remember how you did everything for me and all I had to do was call them and everything would be OK?
Well, now you know why I never did.
As the only person you trusted with that...
“It should be unacceptable for us to say that lying about one’s abilities is...”
– plasticbag.org: Should we encourage self-promotion and lies? (via themerchgirlnet)
I’m not very good at lying, especially when it comes to how awesome I am. Unfortunately, this has been the single biggest hinderence to my career as a musician. The sad fact is, I need to play gigs in order to...
Remember the other day when I suggested that you go talk to someone because you’re worse than you should be? Well, it wasn’t me telling you to get over it already. I know you and there’s a pretty big difference between feeling shitty because your boyfriend broke up with you and being so depressed you can barely get out of bed in the morning. You’ve gotten bad again, and...
Mixcloud Competition →
I’m considering entering this. The line-up looks pretty fucking awesome and I’d like to take my stuff out into the real world again. Music is never as much fun when you’re just messing about in your bedroom.
Possibly the most detailed essay plan I've ever...
1) Few minorities outside of Bad Brains. Total sausage fest.
2) How did Punk become political? New York bands arguably not political, 1st wave of British bands - outside maybe clash - arguably just trolling irl.
3) Fag rock (Jayne County/NY Dolls) as first punks. Proto-Queer Core?
4) re: aggression - Reactionary art rarely pretty (Guernica, Howl etc) Possible frustration at failures of...
I dont know why this shit still surprises me
other-stuff:
see-saw:
Galactically vile Christian cleric Pat Robertson told his CBN viewers today that Haitians are “cursed” because their ancestors “swore a pact with the devil” to liberate themselves from the French in 1804. “True story.”
Via Gawker with video
Gawd! Think how screwed we’d be if this didn’t suprise us — that man needs to have his mouth taped shut or to be locked up for...
Afshin Ghaffarian, the secret dancer, and his... →
themerchgirlnet:
Stuff like this is why I’m wary of going back to Malaysia, even though my parents are nearly begging me to “compromise”. Either I keep doing what I do, and get arrested for indecency and ISA, or I rot at home because I don’t have many options.
… is ISA what I think it is?
Anyways, stay where you are. You’re far too clever to fuck yourself over by going back home...
Contemporary art trends over the next decade « The... →
fionchadd:
themarriageofadeadblogsing:
themerchgirlnet:
I’m particularly interested in this:
8. art salon (tribes) : Ok, so the super-rich clusters of collectors and art dealers have defined the last 20 years to most of us. Where they are located was everything i.e. New York, London, Paris. What they bought informed the rest of us what to aspire to buy and what to create. Things are...
crushes:
trendy girl,
you like bands that are good when they have become bad, but you should know, i liked you before it was cool.
— ahead of the curve
Posted by an internet friend. It made me laugh, but only because it’s secretly true.
Contemporary art trends over the next decade « The... →
themerchgirlnet:
I’m particularly interested in this:
8. art salon (tribes) : Ok, so the super-rich clusters of collectors and art dealers have defined the last 20 years to most of us. Where they are located was everything i.e. New York, London, Paris. What they bought informed the rest of us what to aspire to buy and what to create. Things are turning upside down from this model as art...
“If you’re angry about race, but not particularly interested in understanding...”
– I still haven’t seen that Crash, and this kind of makes me feel slightly justified in my instant knee jerk reaction about it. Personally, I never heard anything about it, I just thought the poster looked crap. It looked like somebody trying to make an arty Rom-Com.
It didn’t help that...
“I am doing a routine about how the media has cheapened and exploited burlesque...”
– Help needed with routine! - Ministry Of Burlesque Community
(via themerchgirlnet)
Fuck yeah! I went along to a friends night that he had organised, as a college social, which was supposed to be a burlesque ball. It wasn’t, it was a bunch of 18 year old college girls wearing corsets and...
2010
I was born in 1986, I can legitimately claim to have seen four decades now. But all the boxes I’ve ticked in my life, from first kiss to first house, have pretty much all been in the last 10 years. One could be forgiven for imagining there would be some sort of ceremony or drama about the occasion.
I ended up missing the whole thing really. When the clock struck 12 I was in a mad rush to...