Did finally get to sit through the full 200 minute version of Lord Of The Rings : Fellowship Of The Ring and the full second series of League of Gentlemen.
Anyway, quick sniff of the archives sees that I was sick exactly two years ago today. What does that tell me? I don't know.
Speaking of terrorists... went to the National Gallery Of Victoria yesterday @ Federation Square with a few friends, one of which has long black hair, a longish beard, tends to wear all black and is of asian appearance. As we went to go up the escamahlators my friend was asked to please put his backpack in the cloakroom. Fair enough I spose... except that when we got in there there were quite a few people in the gallery with bags of similar size to my friend. I'd ignore it as an isolated incident... except it happened at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art too. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive to these things but anyone of those old ladies could have had a nuke in their bag.
By the way, the ACCA is currently running a (free) exhibition "Retrospectology: The World according to Patricia Piccinini" which includes by far some of the best "real life" animal sculpture (and CGI) I've witnessed, not to ignore her other works. Well worth checking out. As my "terrorist" friend said, "give this woman a feature film to play with."
ClearChannel (the owner of nearly every radio station in the US) plans to sell CDs of the live concerts they record (Slashdot) at the show straight after the gig. Little information around this at the moment but the basic idea, the ability to legally buy live concerts broadcast on the radio and concerts that you've just attended is something I've wanted for years, ever since I first heard Triple J's Live At The Wireless.
The usual arguements are coming up over who owns the music, will the artists get screwed by ClearChannel, will RIAA ask for their cut, will people who wern't at the gig be able to buy the CD?
But the thing is... any band can do this right now with a $2000 laptop and a $1000 CD duplication machine. Plug into the soundboard, record using CoolEditPro, dump to CD after gig, duplicate. Within an hour of the gig you'll have CDrs available for sale. Any band could go out there now and sell recordings of their live gigs like Pearl Jam plan to for thier tour. But no-one is doing it? How many indie Australian artists do you know that sell their live concerts online? None. Why?
I know why our band doesn't do it... we'd rather record a nice studio CD and sell you that rather than some crappy performance of the same songs. We'd rather you came to the gig to see us live.
Either way, the day Triple J opens it's live music archive for sale for $15, heck even $30, a gig I'll be the happiest man alive.