Driving off the Harbour Bridge into the city, I felt like I was in a dream. The glassy buildings parted down the middle by a concrete slippery-dip; the emblazoned logos and words crowding around me, neon-lit and shimmery.
This highway through a monument of human achievement never ceases to amaze me.
Facebook Mobile App: Leading the way in slow, boring mobile applications since 2008
Seeing an episode of Spaced on ABC2 tonight has compelled me to revisit this topic…
20. Futurama
Sharper than the Simpsons
19. The West Wing
Great writing if you can look past the US parochialism
18. Dexter
Michael C Hall helps this into the top 20
17. Garth Merenghi’s Dark Place
Totally offbeat, weird and hilarious
16. X-Files
One of the great male cop / female cop relationships
15. The Walking Dead
The most creative horror on TV
14. Oz
HBO’s groundbreaking series laid the platform
13. How I Met Your Mother
The best popular sitcom
12. Flight of the Conchords
New Zealand humour at its finest + great guests… Arj Barker!
11. The Inbetweeners
Hilarious bromance comedy with stellar acting
10. The Office
The original and best mockumentary
9. Entourage
Plays out like a 15 year old boys fantasy but is so watchable and addictive
8. Spaced
One of the smartest and least known comedies. Requires repeated viewing.
7. Carnivale
Extremely dark but beautifully imaginative with stellar production values
6. Boardwalk Empire
Superb acting
5. Mad Men
Everything about the production is . The characters are brilliantly complex.
4. Game Of Thrones
A huge story and huge cast. A true epic that doesn’t pull any punches.
3. Arrested Development
The smartest comedy ever written. I still pick up new jokes on the fourth and fifth time.
2. The Wire
A modern American classic. It covers so much territory.
1. Six Feet Under
My number one series - expresses perfectly what it is to be human.
Series that are on my watch list:
The Sopranos
Eastbound and Down
Breaking Bad
Community
Deep Sea Arcade - Outlands (Ivy League, 2012)
I listened to this album for the first time last night and I swear I went on this 40 minute journey through all the different music I obsessed over at various stages of my life. The 60s psychedelic influences are obvious (my newborn nephew could probably recognise the Beatles stamps throughout the record) but each song sounded familiar to me in a different way. In a good way.
The one thing you could say is, for an Australian band this album sounds VERY British. Listening to it is like getting shagged by Fem-Bots while Austin Powers dances groovily in the background. Again, in a good way.
If I’m not painting a pretty picture, imagine if The Stone Roses, The Strokes, The Shins and Mercury Rev were all sent back to 1969, jammed into an English spaceship and told to each create “One small song for man…”. Because that’s what it feels like on the middle stretch, from killer single “Girls” through to the blissed out “Together”. And then after a brief trip back to Beatles-land with old favourite “Lonely In Your Arms”, we get “All The Kids”, which sounds like Interpol (yes, Interpol!) sans the deep baritone of Paul Banks and avec the squeaky falsetto of Wayne Coyne! Mind blown!
My personal favourite is “The Devil Won’t Take You”, which is totally sexy and makes me want to go to Jim Morrison’s grave and sing to him. IN A GOOD WAY
Go buy it here
Compton, Brooklyn, Jo’burg, East Gosford….
Rising from the ashes of poverty and oppression, Lil $hmyl is the latest revolutionary to empower youth through the energy of rap music.
With unorthodox lyrical ingenuity, piercing social observations and an imposing physical presence, this young Aussie starlet from the NSW Central Coast may well be the saviour of hip hop. His commentary on reverse sexism, drug culture and the burden of polygamy is frighteningly perceptive, providing a platform on which he delivers sermon after sermon on the true nature our existence.
Watch his debut “Don’t F#ck with $hmyl”, featuring local talent Big Daddy D and filmed exclusively on location in East Gosford.
Doug & Mac.
This has to be one of the weirder pet blogs going around… replacing the pets’ eyes with their owners’.
The Twerps - Dreamin
I saw Real Estate on Friday night at The Standard in Surry Hills. I was, essentially, bored. So was everyone else. Bored with trying to stand out. Bored with pretending to be uncool. Bored with hating on hating on haters.
However!
The supporting act caught my eye. The Twerps play a similar brand of breezy, slacker pop, direct from 1994. They will soon fade out, once their sound gets replaced by the next… but for now, enjoy this half-asleep, uncool, hipster magnet.
NB: Not to be confused with the hard-prog anthem by Complete, “Dream-ing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WQbjekE2g
‘melting men’ installation by Nele Azevedo
Brazilian Artist Nele Azevado carved 1,000 figures out of ice on the steps of Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt Square. It was made to raise awareness about the rising sea-levels due to to melting ice.
(Source: crookedindifference)
