I am going to get my parents to draft me a fake logo. They are graphic artists.
Dear Shane McDonnell.
The Department of Community living Queensland enforces a standart of living for people living in apartment or close quarter living arrangements. It takes many complaints before a case is investigated.
Our investigator has observed music over 9.2dbs being played at 8-am on Sunday 13th of April. This is clearly outside of the legal and reasonable limit for community living.
It is a requirement upon receiving this letter than you cease any loud activities in your apartment and/or the surrounding area.
This letter is to inform you that nine (9) complaints have been made about the noise coming from your apartment. From six (6) different residences. If the Department receives another complaint police will immediately be sent to your residence to remove the offending article, and your landlord will be informed of the breach.
Further beaches will lead to immediate eviction, under act 12.3 of the community living act 1996.
We remind you the department only gets involved in these cases under extreme and unusual cirstances. This letter should be taken very seriously, any further action taken will go on your residency record permanently.
I am guilty as sin, of in the past, seeing my career as a competition between me and other musicians. Thankfully of the past 6 months, I have realized that competition is has been designed as a divide and conquer mechanism which permeates to every sector in society.
Its not mine, its been created for me, and I have adapted to it. But not anymore. I will share with you an outlook that I have which has made me a better human being, and a much happier one.
I think my theory will mainly be beneficial for the artists that read my blogs. However it maybe be helpful to everyone. I am not sure.
So my first affirmation (i know I am getting all newagey on you) is.
I Edward Guglielmino, in great health, will exist and create music for at least another 55 years, (probably another 75 with the technology which will be available in the coming years). Nothing can prevent that apart from death. No-one can stop me from creating music. Ever.
This affirmation helps to prevent me from doing somethings I have done too much in the past.
Comparing my success to other musicians in a competitive manner. I mean whats the point if we are all going to be around for 75 years longer so much will happen in this time for all of us.
Also feeling rushed to get great success is no longer a stressful reaction to my life’s ambition. I have so much time, why run to the finish line and tire out when I can stroll and observe the scenery of each stage of my life and my artistic career.
Second affirmation (sorry again) My path is my path alone, it does not compare or effect other peoples life paths unless they choose to use me an example, which is there condition not mine.
My music is unique because it come from inside me, (or maybe outside??). It has already taken me on amazing path, I have seen many many amazing things. It will continue to do so. Regardless of what happens to other people in the lives, their success or lack there of, will never effect or change my life path.
Everyones path is unique and unaffected by other peoples life choices, unless someone chooses to use you life as an example of something, (ei, fame, success, failure, arrogance, emulation, and so on)
But that is there problem, not yours, and there words about your path is a reflection of there own insecurities.
I’ve been watching Derran Brown for most of today on youtube. Its really interesting the way he explores psychological manipulation. He shows that most psychic stuff is a trick of the mind. He also shows how powerful the mind is.
Its a fine line really, but what you learn, either metaphysically, or physically that if you believe you are capable of something or can be convinced it comes true. I been feeling overwhelmed with happiness up until I realized that these seemingly spiritual moments I have been having lately could be just a trick of the mind. Or a form of self hypnosis.
Feeling down about it for a few hours cleaning my apartment, I released that it actually made me a really powerful being. If have been able to convince myself of my happiness and freedom. My understanding of how people and the world work, had come from inside me rather than from external sources then is not something to feel down about rather feel great about.
I have always believed that it would be a long wait until I made a good living of my music and art. Because a few psychic’s had told me so. But I’ve let go of this belief now realizing the belief has been holding me down. I have had good money lately, and been ignoring it, wait for the "big success" prophesied to happen when I am 32 by two psychics. those psychic’s because I am success full now.
Today, my main shift, is I have been thanking external things for my abundance and happiness lately. I thought I had nothing to do with me that I had unplugged myself from the matrix, but now I see I have spent the last 24 years trying to free myself from this illusion of life. I was a rebel in kindergarden (just ask my mum). So it was me after all. If you think I am being to humanistic, I still believe in some sort of "god" type character, I’m just not sure if he created man, or humankind created him. Imagine if we created god, what an amazing force humankind really is!
Currently
listening
:
Grinderman
By
Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave)
Release date: 10 April, 2007
It is my belief that the discovery that governments commit acts of terrorism is part of the world evolution towards 2012. Ill post some videos about 2012 later.
On May 8th, 2001, a press conference was held in New York City to announce the discovery of the possibility that an ancient civilization once existed on planet Mars.
The press conference featured Tom Van Flandern, a former Chief Astronomer for the United States Naval Observatory, Brian O’Leary, a former Apollo scientist-astronaut trained for America’s first manned mission to Mars, and Michael C. Luckman, director of the New York Center for UFO Research.
They describe a new human-like face, strange tunnels, pyramids and signs of current vegetation on Mars from among the 65,000 released NASA/JPL photographs taken by the Mars Global Surveyor.
I woke up this morning at 12:00 noon, and went to the kitchen to make an instant coffee. I looked out the window, too see if the coffee shop across the road was open today. It was closed.
I thought to myself.
"Man I would do ANYTHING for a latte"
and a little voice in my head said
"ANYTHING except walk 4 minutes down the road"
I laughed at myself for a few minutes. These are the moments I live for.
Currently
listening
:
Unplugged
By
Neil Young
Release date: 15 June, 1993
You can now download my records of nearly every possible mp3 server.
Also there are only 100 copies of tacky ep left. I don't plan on printing more. Hope to it and get one of the last copies. You will need to email me for that......Click these images to buy
The corporate media has stepped up an ongoing smear campaign against anyone who dares to question the government's leaky and falsified account of the events of September 11th 2001.
We received reports this morning that MSNBC ran a piece on Morning Joe during which a reporter called for anyone questioning the official account to be placed in secret CIA prisons.
One emailer wrote:
MSNBC Reporter on Morning Joe Today said "I hope there a secret prison for all 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists in Eastern Europe somewhere"
So when is it official that we live in the New Soviet Union, the U.S.S.A.?
Video of the piece has now surfaced on youtube. Watch as the reporter sardonically states "you don't do that because that's when the secret service steps in", while his yes people, including Joe Scarborough himself, who seem to be having their own conversations in the background, start braying "Tase him, tase him bro" like automated robots:
Evidently in the new America sign waving and enjoying your first amendment right is now considered a matter for the police.
After the comments, which are reportedly a year old, were hyped by the mainstream media, it quickly became apparent that a manufactured frenzy was in full swing when some newspapers wrote false reports claiming Cotillard had retracted her comments and apologized.
It is clear that this move was designed to foster a default position media response when it comes to any future story involving 9/11 truth.
With Oscar winning Hollywood actresses, legendary musical performers and a whole host of other notable public figures joining the hundreds of professors, scholars, former congressman, former intelligence agents and ex government officials that have questioned the official story of the attacks, together with the thousands of independent researchers, there is no longer any doubt that the 9/11 truth movement has gone mainstream.
In response there has been an increased backlash, driven primarily by a mainstream media in its realization that its archaic role and very existence is under direct threat from the huge awakening and independent search for the truth that is bubbling up to the surface of mainstream culture.
In its transformation from an underground phenomenon to a predominant cultural movement, 9/11 truth, as with any movement of significance that has come before it, has inevitably evolved and broadened, forging a truth movement per se.
This is something of which the establishment media is frightened to death.
There are, of course, those who will stick with the establishment, those who refuse to accept this cultural change, those who find it less appealing and more of a tiresome struggle to think for themselves.
The kind of people who will agree with Bill O'Reilly when he threatens any "truther", his definition of which is a person who does not agree with every uninformed thing he says.
The kind of people who will agree when a Fox News analyst suggests any "dissenter" should be or "beaten to a pulp".
Those people who, when we write an article detailing the building of concentration camps in America, will simultaneously deny the existence of those camps while calling for us to be incarcerated and tortured within them.
We keep coming back to the following quote but there is no other that better describes the awakening and the resultant backlash we are currently witnessing:
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
Picture this, people spewed into the streets. Television Cameras everywhere filming the chaos. This is not a chaos of violence and hate, this is a chaos of love, and friendship. The chaos of anti-establishment.
The fricken hecks and Lost of Love are the new Cori Delaneys of Brisbane accept we unite people in peace and freedom of expression, not war, not drunken violence. We bring evolution.
Lets show the people power in Australia, lets show that art is more powerful than any government, or enforcement agency. Lets show the systems of power that they work for us, and should fear us.
Lost of Love and The Fricken Hecks stand up against Terrorism of all forms, including the rate raise, enviro-mental, economic terrorism that is bought to you by the media and government today. (or as I like to refer to them as "the govermedia")
Ladies and gentlemen lets make a stand for Loverism. We are Loverists, our actions based in love not fear. Unite, Dance, Evolve. Free the spirt. Free the mind.
Love Lost of Love Love the Fricken Hecks
Hereby we start the end of the world as we know it, we start the new awakening towards 2012
My body is a temple So I am told So what I if I like throwing vodka and orange on it in the afternoon with breakfast So what if a black coffee and a cigarette makes me happy while sitting on the couch and watching "everything is illuminated" At 2 am it makes me feel good. I watch my gut grow, I love food, I love avocado and cream cheese on toast. Mexican for dinner. I have a yager bomb before work to make it more fun, It my temple. I joint before bed, A line of coke in New York.. Pot and Beer the whole time I am in Berlin. Sex with a stranger. Its my temple. Why do feel guilty for ing up my temple. Its mine God gave it to me. Who says I am meant to make my temple last forever. I seen some 100 year old temples and they look like . I would like to move to a new temple when I am thirty. One with a vagina
Its 2:19 am, and thanks to my new job at the troubadour I am now nocturnal. I think I have always been accept, now I don't have to scream in pain when I get up at 9:00 for some day job.
I love the night, its silence and solitude.
I have also discovered there is a term for being a nocturnal human. Delayed sleep syndrome, and thats its genetic and there isn't a thing I can do about it. Its evolutionary. When you think about it, cavemen needed night watchers who naturally stayed awake during the night.
So all my life I was in a mood till about 2pm, and now I know why.
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, EDWARD GUGLIELMINO, LIAM GRIFFIN
The Troubadour: 03.02.08
It's a sad but ironic fact that while the drizzling Sunday feeling has probably kept some punters at home tonight, the set that Liam Griffin delivers is perfect for such an evening. While appearing slightly nervous between songs, Griffin sans backing band serves up a set of sincere acoustic tracks, with sleepy guitar meandering through a mixed set of both new songs and tracks lifted from his EP Pictures. Unfortunately the chatty crowd talks over Griffin's new Single 'Until You Fall' but the joke's on them - they just missed a solo rendition of what could easily become the next big anthemic pop ballad.
Headlining band playing between support acts? What will postmodernism bring us next?! Cleverly crafted pop songs from TheKindness of Strangers, it would seem, as Brigitte Allen's impressive vocals and David Killen's quirky ukulele descend upon us with 'Ghost in Love'. Allen's velvety smooth flute adds a sense of charm and cl on 'Raindrops' and it's a feeling the band maintains throughout the set. 'Test the Edge' is given a darker treatment than on the Ampersand and Ampersand EP it comes from, with Alice Jones' drums giving it a mysterious and unnerving feeling. It's clear that each member of The Kindness of Strangers is talented in their own right, and the result is a band that oozes cl and flair without taking themselves too seriously.
Much of the small crowd gravitates towards the bar or door after the headliners finish, as one might predict, but still-to-play support Edward Guglielmino cares not. More to the point, the unusual order-of-play seems appropriate for Guglielmino's idiosyncratic tales of life and love. His amusing cynicism prevails as he wistfully winds through topics of doomed relationships, karma and the dilemmas of cheesy song dedications ("I know it's tacky to mention you in a song… but I miss you all day long" - 'Tacky Song'). As his deep baritone alternates with soaring falsetto throughout the set it's not hard to understand why Guglielmino has already drawn comparisons around town to the likes of Lou Reed and Jeff Buckley.
I arrived at the East Brunswick Club almost a moment too late, but happily caught the tail end of Sundown and/or last stand. Their sonic flow of electro buzzes and swirling guitar flooded the room, and later speaking with Adam I was informed that this was the first show with the new line up. The East Brunswick only held a handful of people on this peculiar night, yet that didn't stop the performers making spectacular music.
Next up on the bill was A Friend of Mine and they reminded everyone that loud 90's grunge was not dead, it was just sleeping. They had an eerie likeness of one of the greatest school bands ever: The Zit Remedy from Degri High. But this might be before your time kids; I mean it was the late 80's after all. On first impressions, however, I wasn't alone in drawing comparisons to Nirvana or Alice in Chains. Maybe it was also the overexcited smoke machine (haven't seen one of those in a while) which added to the school of rock authenticity as the guitarist shouted out "Does it look like my amp's on fire?" However, you couldn't turn a deaf ear to them; with double unison vocals which droned into a sea of power chords, and a drummer that rocked hard enough to put holes in your ear drums. The laptop beats also added a sophistication to what could be an easily pigeon holed group. A Friend of Mine gave the crowd a grand finale rock explosion, with extra smoke.
Next in line we had Lucien Simon from Tasmania. A man who is no stranger to the hard knocks on the road and has certainly done his time. Lucien is a troubadour hailing from one of the biggest bands of the Tie 90's – Dust. Lucien graced the stage; looking a little like he came straight from working on the railroad, with crumpled shirt and blue jeans and blue collar songs in tow. Instantly serving the crowd with his wacky sense of humour as he introduced himself and explained how he had blistered his pinkie. "I'm gonna play with pain," he joked. "A pain that's in my heart, a pain that's in my soul, a pain that's in my pinkie". And Lucien did just that – pionate songs of lost love and longing, yet retaining a waving fist of pride. "I bought me a bottle of wine so I could forget the time," he crooned.
It's the man's voice, which becomes wonderfully hypnotic. It's like Eddie Vedder and Mark Lanegan sharing a road story with Bob Dylan. Lucien is also, definitely, a storyteller. After the second acoustic onslaught, Lucien introduced drummer Stuart Braun (Dust) to the stage, and the two of them rocked out several acoustic driven roots songs, highlighting Stuart Braun's flawless skills, especially considering the two of them hadn't actually rehearsed in a while.
Lucien finished his set once again, solo with his acoustic charm and left the crowd wanting more, including me. As we waited for the second last performer I downed another pint of larger and heard Jessie Warren ( aka Carry Nation ) through the chatter. A friend of Edward Guglielmino and also a Brisbanite. However, this is where I have to be honest when it comes to critiquing an artist objectively, and it's hard to not be subjective. To start with, Jessie looks beautiful; a very attractive brunette and everything about her is sweet (including her voice). It would be far too easy to stereotype Carry Nation as a run of the mill Sarah Blasko or New Buffalo wanna be, however these are the instant comparisons that came to mind. Jessie has that little girl fragility on stage, and her voice often echoed reflections of the band Mum and a sultry Jewel, in her earlier acoustic years. There can often be indiscretions made by people when they see a sweet girl pick up an acoustic guitar and squeak out folksy love songs, but it may be because their approach is often heavily patterned to that genre. Carry Nation may not be quite ready to capture a full audience with every breath she takes, but given time and experience I'm sure she will find her voice.
Finally on the bill we had Edward Guglielmino (Brisbane). Ed walks out dressed in black, wearing his usual clic Buddy Holly style gles and a red Stratocaster slung over his shoulder, instantly owning the stage. "I am so famous right now I feel like a star," he teases as he begins to chug away on his guitar and breaks into a falsetto. Yet even slightly off key, like Neil Young and Robert Smith on crack. By the second song Ed is screaming: "If you want to feel my fire, look into my ing eyes!" Channelling Frank Black from 1987, with not a soul in the room stirring. You have got to love the man's presence. "Thanks Melbourne," he jokes and receives the laughs. "Sometimes you write songs that come true," he muses.
"Well this one is about a girl I used to see, but we broke up. It wasn't true then but it became true," he explains, giving a creepy smirk. "Baby wanted more, the mind is so vacant and her body is so raw." Through many of Ed's songs lies a dry wit and humour, as if he's writing the lyrics to amuse himself before all others. Ed plays with his voice, often shifting from low registers to sudden high-pitched notes, like Jeff Martin imitating Jeff Buckley, yet with an anomalous technique. Halfway through his set Ed calls up Lucien and Jessie to the stage to share a single vocal mic on 'Devils' Eyes'.
It would be a disaster if it was a full house, but, it's like a little family watching their friends in their lounge room. Lucien dances ridiculously in the background as Jessie sings wavering backing vocals (after one too many) and all three of them clown around like clroom mates. After the fun and games is over, Ed takes the stage solo again "Radio isn't everything," he jokes. "My space is the next big thing. Face book is gonna save my career." You've got to admire Ed's light-hearted cynicism; a casual and earthy sincerity mixed with a shrewd sense of humour. Ed closes the night with 'You are an Alien' with a long high falsetto reminiscent of Muse or Tom Yorke, but with perhaps more nostril involved, yet continuing to surprise his audience with a broken deep husk in the verses. Edward Guglielmino is a chameleon and a comedian, and proved to Melbourne that he's willing to metamorphosis at will, but he won't say the word 'f—k' because it's just too rock 'n' roll. I know what you mean Ed. Goodnight Melbourne.
I had a dream this morning, I was in a penny arcade with two girls, and a punch of hockey playing jocks called out to us. I turned around to face them, and several others appeared out of nowhere. They all wanted to bash me with there hockey sticks, and I called the cowards for not taking me on 1 on 1. They started laying into me, and the janitor came along to break it up. In the orgy of violence one boy broke his neck and died.
They carried him away, I went off to play my arcade games with girlfriends, the game was not a computer game, but like clay that morphed, little metal balls would drop from the top, and land in clay and your drop was to prevent the balls from getting too the bottom. There was for rows of gooey clay brick that moved each round, and you had to move they clay so that the balls wouldn't get to the bottom in less that 4 moves. I got to a level where two balls would appear so it was twice as hard.
Then once it was game over, I appeared in a court, unlike a modern one, paraded in front of a hateful crowd, with people hanging from the neck in the back ground. I was charged along with several of the boys in the fight, with murder. I was begging for man slaughter, the judge, who was also the president, would not hear it. The janitor was a witness, he was black and it was like the 1800 all of a sudden so he was afraid that he would get blamed too. He told the court we were all vicious. The judge was about the sentence us to death when a Priest came in.
The Priest was so old he looked somewhat like ET, and somewhat like a decaying body. His jaw was dislocated, and his eyes were black. His skin was like that of a burn victim. He walked like a puppet would walk, I thought that perhaps god has suspended him from string. He told the judge to spare the boys, and they could be under the care of the church. The judge/president feared the Priest, and allowed us to go with the Priest.
Then as soon as I was in the Priests care I released that I would have been better off dead. We had to copy verses from the bible into our books, from 5-am till 12-p.m. every day. One boy had done it for 10 years and now he had graduated to the priests sidekick making sure our verses where right after the priest finished at 6-p.m..
We had clamps around out jaws, and when we made a mistake we had to tighten them, ourselves, if we couldn't the supervisor would tighten them even harder.
Then once a week we were paraded in front of the towns people and lashed, until we bled. Except for some reason the Priest faked it with me, and he also stopped making sure my clamp was tight. Looking at his alien face, I saw that he had respect for me over the others.
I made my escape on one of the lashing occasions, as I ran around I released I was in Berlin, I was actually in a part I had seen on google earth before I fell asleep. I climbed up several buildings as people shot at me, and jumped on the back of a train.
Then I woke up, I wondered if everyones dreams were as complex as mine.
I drank to much after work the other night, and got home and threw up blood, I didn't think much of it. Then on christmas day I got sauced again, this time I got stomach cramps and umed it was too much turkey. The camps continued as did the blood, (not in the vomit, but I risk being to graphic).
I'd done this before, burnt a hole in my stomach from drinking to much, (note to self do not let a bartender pour shots into your mouth, and definitely don't egg him on). "Come on!" I yelled " I can take more than that!!"
But I love pain I do, I have only eaten carrot soup in the last day, trying to get my gut to heal, this morning I got up and had lemon in water, the day before I did nothing but it on the couch and feel the pain of my gut. Today I was going to do something, I felt that awful indoor staleness you get when you sit on your all day reading books.
So, I caught the 375 to Tim's house, on the bus listening to sigur ros, and having not eating anything in two days, I felt like death was upon me, it was beautiful. I nearly missed my stop. Tim and his girlfriend Bella were painting there new room, I tried to help, but I got paint on the floor. I told TIm and Bella the lecture my doctor had given me about drinking to much, and how I was bleeding on the inside. Tim felt bad, because it was he who was the bartender.
"Dear Tim, never feel guilty, it is after all, the bartenders job to get one drunk"
My mother picked me up and we went and saw "Hunting and Gathering". I was moving around in my chair and Mum asked me if I was okay. I looked at her "I'm in pain, got a bug"
In the car on the way back to my apartment, I told mum the truth, I was bleeding on the inside. She said "your getting to old to do stupid things", she suggested I make carrot soup when I get home.
So I did, the carrots weren't disintegrating so I poured the hot mixture of water and oil and stock and carrots into the blender. WIthout putting the lid on properly. The soup went everywhere including my arms, giving me nice first degree burns. My arms where stinging my and stomach was throbbing, I missed a girl I love so my heart was broken (the film reminded me of the girl).
I loved it. How great pain is. How refreshing it is to have burns blood, and emotion.
I feel a pionate disappointment, for how quickly you fell back into the bull.
All this city and its bull makes me sick, and these days so many people walk around and they are the personification of this city's bull. Its easy to be famous in a country town, you haven't achieved anything if you are. It means absolutely nothing if people know you name and stop you in the street. If you ed everyday on put it up on myspace, or facebook, and you lived in Brisbane people would stop you in the street too.
Its nice to feed your ego and I know what it is to have your ego inflated, but art that rests on a healthy ego seeks approval from the mes, and for the most part and art seeking approval isn't great art by history's own definition of great art.
Commercial music is simply little commercials for the artist in question, 3 and a half minutes to promote the performer, the one of most successful artist of the naughties was Eminem and he wrote awesome commercials for how great he is.
What of my idols? Bjork, Kurt Cobain, Buckley, Marilyn Manson? Thom York?. I believe that these are flukes, there is no denying that many of these stars wanted to be famous when they were young, but it was there art, not so much there marketing that got them there.
There is nothing wrong with dream of making a living from your art, but its sickening when someone wants to make a living off their face.
Currently
listening
:
Fear of the Sea
By
Gin Club
Release date: 03 January, 2006
Friends of mine are launching there single. flamingo crash in my opinion are the best band in Australia. Please if you haven't attended there show before make the effort to see them play.
xxx
details below.
It's Mystery Music! SINGLE LAUNCH Tonight! NOV 8 Kicks @ THE EVELYN, Brunswick St. Fitzroy FLAMINGO CRASH onstage 11.00pm w/ Hot Little Hands, Bachelor of Arts + DJ Hand Clappin'
Just got back from an album launch tour in Japan, and now launching the first single from the debut Flamingo Crash record TRIANGLE ISLAND in each Au capital city. The LP was recorded & produced by Magoo (Midnight Oil, Regurgitator) in Australia, mastered by Steve Fallone (The Strokes, TV on the Radio) in NYC, and is currently planned for release early 08 independently.
+ we're also bringing a themed surprise from Tokyo especially for the show!
I'm not saying that artists, musicians, writers, actors, directors, and philosophers are better than other people, just far more interesting.
I've been spoilt, I went straight from Studying Art and Uni to full time musicianship. I hadn't gone to bed earlier that 1 AM for over a year. I traveled the country and met amazing artists everywhere I went. The world was an amazing place full of free thinkers. I partied with my favorite rock star, and talked politics, I stayed up all night with a painter and made love and talked about whether god was in my head, or outside my head. I walked to the top of MT wellington and meditated all day. On my quiet days I would got to the cinema and see a few movies.
I need money all of sudden to sort out a few pressing issues (mainly a credit card debt), and I am working at myer full time. I told my boss I was a musician, and she asked me if I was going on idol next year. I told her that Bobby was a friend, she said "oh the weird one". I stood behind the counter all day and talked about the lollies at crazy Clarks with Jen, she ured me they were counterfeit Cadbury bars. During my break I decided I am that I am quitting at the end of the year debt paid or not.
On the way home on the train my ipod ran out of batteries. The group of women in front of me were talking about all the amazing times they had on the Brisbane transport system.
"Yeah one time, like, I caught the 211, and it ended up in Darra, (laughs) so I caught a taxi to Inala (Laughs)"
"That nothing me and trev, we caught a train, and it turned out to be an express ipswitch train, and we ended up in ipswitch"
"look at that guy! he is running, running for a train, on platform 5! must be inbound" said the morbidly obsese lady.
"Yeah not all the trains are inbound on 5, I thought that, but I got one once and there was track works and I ended up on platform 3 in Taringa"
I turned the less obese lady "Once I lost a gram of coke in Canada and found it in my shirt pocket in Tokyo, so I had accidently smuggled coke across three boarders, funny huh!"
Now that a story!
They were quiet for the rest of the trip.
Currently
listening
:
Grinderman
By
Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave)
Release date: 10 April, 2007
Edward Guglielmino Releases New Single and Announces Dates for Third East Coast Tour Of 2007
You could never accuse Edward Guglielmino (pronounce it "Goo-lee-el-mean-no" please) of making anything easy for himself. Since the release of his second record - T acky [A Very Tacky] EP - the Brisbane singer/songwriter has relentlessly toured the east coast of Australia and established himself quite the following in Berlin.
In 2007 alone, Guglielmino not only made the shortlist of five for the Grant McLennan Scholarship and played to over 5,000 people in two short months, but also he's received national airplay on Triple J and community radio and watched his music shoot up the overall Triple J Unearthed chart (his standalone single 'Crushed By A Late Night Dream' while his current release 'Devil's Eyes' crept in at number 19).
How could even this talented young soloist hope to follow all of this? Well you take a break from recording your long anticipated album, release a single and help to promote it by announcing, another east coast tour, his third for 2007!
'Devil's Eyes' is a slice of avant-guarde, pop brilliance - the kind that Guglielmino is rapidly becoming known for. Recorded at Mive Studios with producer Matt Redlich, the song features rising Brisbane chanteuse Emma Dean on backing vocals and has already received extensive airplay and even attracted the attention of Triple J music director, Richard Kingsmill.
"Guglielmino's got the same singing style as someone like Ed Kuepper. Not a typical rock n roll voice, and maybe an acquired taste. But he has also got some fine ideas of how to flesh out a track..." - Richard Kingsmill reviewing 'Devil's Eyes'.
And now the dates:
Friday, August 24 | The Globe (Brisbane) with Mia & The Cupid Arrow, Ghostboy and Golden Virtues
Thursday, August 30 | The Republic (Hobart) with Lucien Simon and The Front
Saturday, September 1 | Launceston Workers Club (Launceston) with Lucien Simon and The Front
Sunday, September 2 | Stage Door (Hobart) with Carry Nation, Lucien Simon and The Front
Wednesday, September 12 | The Empress (Melbourne) with Lucien Simon
Friday, September 14 | Country Club Showroom (Launceston) supporting Kate Miller-Heidke
Saturday, September 15 | Wrest Point Show Room (Hobart) supporting Kate Miller-Heidke
Wednesday, September 19 | Bar Soma (Brisbane)
Currently
listening
:
Stolen Apples
By
Paul Kelly
Release date: 16 July, 2007
I was so good at my leafleting job that I was promoted to supervisor, it is now my job to make sure that everyone hands out allot of leaflets during their shift.
Today a new young whipper snapper joined the team and leafleted near the train station.
I went to check on him, but alas, he was sad.
"Whats wrong" I asked
To which he replied
"That Christan dude is creaming me man, he is better than me, and handing out way more leaflets than me"
"Why don't we watch him for a while and see his secret" I said
The Christan leaflet-er had pion, he believed in what he was pushing, he went up to everyone, he had a crazy stare.
I said "pretend your an actor, your role is to copy him only do it with more pion"
The boy laughed and agreed to take part in the experiment.
Half an hour later, I had returned the boy had had a smile and had handed out a days worth of leaflets in 30 minutes, the Christan, had left defeated.
From this experience I can make two deductions.
1. If someone applies the pion of a fundamentalist to their work, they will out do all there colleges.
2.In a controlled environment Australians are more interested in discounts on lunch than Jesus.
I did a gig underneath the alibi room today, it was a poetry gig not a musician one, although I was asked to play music so i did.
Front row was a heckler, but he heckled like a fan does, not like someone who doesn't like your music.
He had a bright orange aura, and a great smile, and such a sense of rebellion about him.
He clapped loudly after each song and commented loudly on each song.
He had a video camera, held it up and filmed me.
After the set he introduced himself proudly he was none other than Peter Hore the Australian serial pest, it was a true honor to play for such a great artist, and a spirt of independence.
So this time I have come home to a new career in leafleting in the CBD. Work starts 6.30am so I get up at five and have toast and coffee (after to going to bed at about 1am), and watch Americana tele-ads, there is a new way to roast pork using the suns energy, boy thats exciting, after the riveting infomercial I walk to the city.
The disturbing thing is its still dark, and watching the sun rise over the city, makes me turn to PJ harvey on my ipod. Despite this beauty I still like to point out to my boss that even god didn't do anything that important until after light..........
Anyway, I am handing out leaflets, I see a sea of sad people going to work, not a single smile, I helps to reaffirm that job security is now a myth in most of the occident, and these people are more depressed than I am, even thought I probably earn a third of what they do.
As you can imagine, handing out leaflets, its really ing boring, so for an experiment this morning, instead of yelling "$5 cash cow" (don't ask), I yelled, "$5 dollar vouchers for those who walk up these stairs with a smile". Its funny how the 9-5ers need an excuse to smile, but they all did, smiled, and I handed out way over my targeted 1000 leaflets. (No lectures on the environment please unless you have paid me to be an artist this week, thanks)
Walking home at 9.30am I realized that my three hour shift had gone by really fast, and perhaps this morning I had fun. Fun at work????
In other news, my "Hobby" has taken me to number 19 on the triple j unearthedcharts, which is too far from number one, go rate and review it please, I promise you all that if I get played on triple j again, I will make leaflets with smiles on them(on recycled paper) and hand them out in the morning instead of "cash cows" (don't ask)
Currently
listening
:
The Queen is Dead
By
The Smiths
Release date: 25 October, 1990
LOST OF LOVE? Can anyone tell me how that Lost of Love band get gigs? They are incredibly crap! Why do talented people feel the need to indulge in such to mage their egos just that little bit further?
Maybe if they put a little of that spark they're trying to achieve into their own projects, which are pretty good, those projects might be ing amazing.
They seem pretentious and wanky about their band, but when I saw them play they just sounded like 15 year olds who just started a band, drank their mum's vodka and started annoying the neighbours. They're not even a good mess of noise.
It really does surprise me that they get gigs, but aren't they a Brisbane "super group"? Do they draw a good crowd these days at their gig?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- thought they were managed by ben preece or something like that....
were they not the band who caused the big furor with the cops and council when they
played in the rotunda?
they were asked to stop playing because they were so bad and disturbed the diners or something right?
And then posted a bulletin about how close-minded police stopped art, or some such .
I know Jackie and Ed, they started the band to people off.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- yeah that's what i'd be saying if my band sucked too
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- so if lost of love sucks, then what bands do you guys like?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- emma dean katie noonan kate miller-heidke various other women musicians
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- haha emma dean sings backing vox for the lead singer of lost of love, and he is touring with kate miller, hahahaha
Hobart airport, there is a fog in melbourne and my plane has be delayed 4 hours. Its ok, Hobart Airport is amazing.
So many world cl resturants, with fine wine and dining. Great coffee! and the people here are so well dressed.
There is an array of Judy free shopping to browse. I might just look for my favorite bottle of 1965 merlo.
Not to mention the world cl entertainment systems they have here. Cinema screens showing the works of Stanly Cubric and David Lynch.
I might just pop down and have a read of the updated version of Foucault's work concerning power, and the relationship between power, knowledge and discourse
I am so lucky to be caught in this world cl internationally courted airport, surronded by citizens of this country that truely represent the finest our nations character has to offer.
The government has admitted the need to secure oil supplies is a factor in Australia's continued military involvement in Iraq.
Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said on Thursday oil was a factor in Australia's contribution to the unpopular war, as "energy security" and stability in the Middle East would be crucial to the nation's future.
Speaking ahead of a key foreign policy speech by Prime Minister John Howard, Dr Nelson said defence was about protecting the economy as well as physical security, and it was important to support the "prestige" of the US and UK.
"The defence update we're releasing today sets out many priorities for Australia's defence and security, and resource security is one of them," he told ABC radio.
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..>"The entire (Middle East) region is an important supplier of energy, oil in particular, to the rest of the world.
"Australians and all of us need to think well what would happen if there were a premature withdrawal from Iraq?"
Dr Nelson said the primary reason for Australian troops remaining in Iraq was to prevent violence between the Sunni and Shia population, and to bring stability to the region.
"We're also there to support our key ally - that's the United States of America - and we're there to ensure that we don't have terrorism driven from Iraq which would destabilise our own region," he said.
"For all of those reasons, one of which is energy security, it's extremely important that Australia take the view that it's in our interests ... to make sure we leave the Middle East and leave Iraq in particular in a position of sustainable security."
Isolationism would not make Australia safer, he said.
When Australia joined the US-led invasion force of Iraq in 2003, the government said it was primarily because Iraq had weapons of m destruction that could pose a threat to the US and its allies.
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd will outline a section of Labor's foreign policy today in a speech in Sydney.
hey heads, there is this giant ball of energy in the sky that we can use for free. seriously, times like this I feel like doing something militant. Even though I know thats just as stupid.
I was having coffee with a friend of mine Rosie Burgess from Melbourne telling her about this doco, I was going to just send it to her as I have already put in it my blog. But since I have three times to subscribers now I will give it to you all.
"Its loaded, ice cold. Broken Spent, the paper flu in her hair!"
"the smell of blood on her parents carpet!"
"the drummer in her attic!"
"the lover(s) in her bed"
"the underwear in her freezer !"
"the penis in her draw, the vibrator in her boyfriends pants (ex)"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to pause for a moment and have a minutes silence for the very poor boy in the myer centre below -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EVERYBODY loves her, so what is the ing point! he thought as he wiped the stain off his tie, caught the elevator up the shaft, remarked on the use of the word "platform level, instead of ground"
"Well dear my myer one card still has its interest free days, and while i can I would like to put this dress on lay-bay" he said to myspace, which was so sick of hearing 20 something year olds make illusions about love for one-another-over-blogs that it almost translated it for him to plane old............... " "
"It tickles my fancy, I write songs for it, I want to be inside it. The other text messages, aren't gods like this lily. A Every(day) Dream is one that wakes you nearly every night a 3-am, tears and all, a hard on" said he.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She paused, she was so excited! she loved the attention, another blog about me (she thought). (she was wrong the blog isn't about her) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Your so vain you probably think this blog is about you!!!! "said myspace. The internet chuckled at how humans no longer talked in pure english, nor did they talk in 3d.
God remarked to the myer boy.
"That! time-shaft! look at it, There is the River Girl, The Poet, The Doctor, The Actor, They all bought you sadness!"
Sadness is a dress that fits awfully well!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please take the third word of every sentence and paste it into the comments below for a prize, a trip to the valley on the train with none- other than
Bartneder to my friend Ra'uf Lucien Simon of jamantican decent.
"yeah the booker really cooned up the bookings tonight!"
Lucien "sorry?"
"oh er I mean stuffed it up"
Monday, September 3 - For Immediate Release
EMMA DEAN AND EDWARD GUGLIELMINO PLAY A ONE-OFF FAREWELL SHOW.
They've been threatening to team up for a show for ages and now, in what can only be described as the most exciting double-billing announcement since the Powderfinger/Silverchair hook up, Brisbane's favourite chanteuse and male avant-guard singer/songwriter are proud to announce one very special evening of musical magic.
By any measure, critically or publicly, Emma Dean and Edward Guglielmino stand shoulder-to-shoulder as two of the best and most popular emerging young artists to come out of Brisbane for some time and together, will embark on a month-long trip overseas. Basing themselves in Berlin, Dean and Guglielmino will be playing shows and experiencing life all over Germany and Europe.
For Dean, it's her first trip abroad and is spreading her wings a little before heading home to begin work on her debut full-length album, anticipated for release in 2008.
Guglielmino is an old hat at travelling, particularly to Berlin where he already has a remarkable following. Like Brisbane, Berlin has been named one of the most exciting cities for music in the world.
Don't miss this incredible one-off show with Emma Dean and Edward Guglielmino playing sets with their own bands as well as teaming up for some very special surprises.
Monday, September 17 | Barsoma EMMA DEAN + EDWARD GUGLIELMINO: ALONE AND TOGETHER
MANY MUSICIANS argue on unconvincing grounds that there's something unique about their musical endeavors. That they are artists - when, in fact, they're merely conformist mouthpieces perpetuating the commercially-oriented status quo. These are the people that ensure that actual artists are reduced to scraping and scratching for the attention their art deserves.
Local icon-in-the-making Edward Guglielmino is a fitting example of the polar opposite - a young singer-songwriter with an authentic take on 'music as art'. The uniquely artistic strain in Guglielmino's music was recently recognised with due regard when he was short-listed for the inaugural and prestigious Grant McLennan Scholarship.
"It was really flattering for me, especially because I'm a really big fan of The Go Betweens and have been for quite a long time," Guglielmino beams about his short-listing. "My father used to play them to me in the 90s; that's one of the reasons why I applied.
"But I really didn't think they'd like my music, so I was so surprised when I was short-listed. They wanted 20 minutes [of recordings], so I sent in five songs - three from the EP and two new recordings, which were 'Devils Eyes' and 'Crushed By A Late Night Dream'."
Guglielmino - who has had songs from his aforementioned debut Tacky [A Very Tacky] EP spun on Triple J - has just released one of those acclaimed new recordings, 'Devils Eyes', as his next single, and the dark, autobiographical tune has already received national critical acclaim.
"I wrote it in high school," Guglielmino explains of the single. "I was 17 and went to this block of show homes - we found one with a key in the mailbox. We went in and drank vodka and cooked on the stove, I ped out in one of the cupboards. I woke up at three in the morning and called my girlfriend, and the first line of the song is from that.
"When I came home the next morning I wrote it in my bedroom and recorded it. I had a different voice when I was younger, so it was different. But I started playing it again recently and people started telling me they really liked it, so I recorded it. It's been doing quite well, which is really funny because I wrote it when I was 17 - maybe I should go back to high school."
'Devils Eyes' is just another overt ilration of Guglielmino's pion for creating rather than recycling, something which is quite close to the young lad's heart.
"I'm quite proud of the fact that I'm doing something innovative," he says. "I think that's making it harder for me in Australia than it would be if I was doing what a lot of the artists who get attention in Australia do, which is emulate stuff from artists overseas.
"I mean, you can definitely hear my heroes in my music - Nick Cave and Kurt Cobain are there - but I really think that if we want to evolve as a nation we need to have Triple J play more of the innovative stuff and less of the copied stuff. A lot of the [Triple J] presenters own my records and are quite aware of my music, but they can't get it on the air because it's too 'weird'."
Edward Guglielmino plays The Troubadour ((((ACTUALLY BARSOMA)))) Monday Sep 17. Tacky [A Very Tacky] EP out now independently.
