ELEKTRO SAURUS LOVE

ohay,

2009-09-18T04:23:00.000-07:00

so, it seems i haven't blogged for a very long time.
since then i've gotten obsessed with donnie darko UH-GAIN! and fallen in love with Monorail Cat! Thank god for teh intrawebz!!!1!!11
i have become a total rebel, seriously i'm such a bamf these days -____-"
and i like this band called enter shikari, yuuh, they're pre' great.
i decided on what job i would like :D
i decided high school isn't so bad after all!
and i am crazy for small plastic cups of frozen reconstituted orange juice affectionately known as OJ cups.
Here is my song:
my OJ cup is frozen hard,
makes me say,
"oh my lawd!"
thank you, for blessing me with
80 cents to pay the canteen fee,
it tastes good!
and i know, as such,
this is my OJ cup, you can't touch!
okay so maybe it's not very original but the lyrics mean so much to me! n___n
so, i suppose i've changed a lot since i started this blog, maybe that's a good thing for the people who read this or maybe not, but it's good for me.
oh and the chuck palahniuk writes the most incredible books.
good day.

I missed you :)

2009-05-06T20:26:00.000-07:00

I'm back like ~~cooked crack~~....the cat in the hat! hah I see no one missed me :/ well...I don't have very much to say, I was just in the mood for posting today as I am home sick with a suspected case of swinefluenza (or so everyone keeps saying) umm I don't have much news. I feel like changing the 'unprofessional' layout of my blog. oh on Monday I have an interview with one of the biggest corporations in the world...they're going to pay me their blood money for turning burgers over so fat people's hunger can be satiated. I feel a little bit bad about this. My mum says I'm selling out and preying on peoples addictions and supporting globalization and all that but then she's not the one paying for all the stupid things I suddenly decide to want (i.e. 12 plastic 'deputy sheriff' badges from cheap as chips ;; thanks grandma C:)I do need money. I feel sad because I live in a world where you can't get money without hurting someone or doing something damaging. Aaanyway here is a short list containing things I love at the moment....
LOOKBOOK!
it is so interesting! it's amazing how cool some people are! and it makes me want to go to finland and sweden...the awesomest countries on our earth.
anyways NEXT thing is the band P:ano I don't exactly know how to describe them. Their myspace says indie/folk/pop but y'know that sounds boring. They use so many interesting sounds in their songs, my favourites being 'dark hills' and 'hiroshima mon amour' But yeah, P:ano are simply the best...well second best. I still love Emmy The Great with all my heart.
and lastly Edie Sedgwick! I don't think there'll ever be a celebrity (?) / famous figure I love more. ever.
here she is with bffl andy warhola. (L)

umm that is about all for now... goodness what an atrociously disorganised post! well I'll leave you with this hilarious (?) advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes...
love, peace and hairgrease ^^
ho ho ho

Sorry.

2009-04-08T04:10:00.001-07:00

hello. my life is a bit of a farce and I don't have much time for you anymore. But I still love you. I'm very sorry. This is not the end. This is just me warning you I we might not talk for a while.
Sorry.......^__^

Of Intergalactic ice confectionaries, New Order and the future that never was...

2009-01-31T21:11:00.000-08:00

We are in the midst of an angry heatwave and there is much sweating and gnashing of teeth but there is an answer...Zooper Doopers!!! They come in 16 cosmic flavours including Fairy Floss Forcefield, Bubblegum quasar, deep space Lime, Jaffa Jetstream, Toffee Apple taser, Strawberries & Cream cluster, galactic grape, Rasberry rocket, solar Shebert and many more. I know that totally sounded like an advertisement but it was just me expressing my love for the little tubes of frozen sugar water...I thought they were a relatively obscure product but on googling them I found a heated and often amusing discussion/debate on the best and worst flavours on inthemix.com. In my humble opinion the best is grape and the worst Beaming Banana although Jaffa Jetstream was pretty foul as it tasted like chocolate as well as orange which isn't the best flavour for what is essentially icy cordial. Sigh I don't believe how much I just talked about ice blocks. In other news I've gotten into New Order their best song being Blue Mondays of course they are in no way as good as Joy Division but I'm enjoying them nonetheless.
One thing before I stop typing...does anyone wish they lived in the future of the 50's??

I'm really getting into the whole retro-futurism thing at the moment. It's really interiesting to see peoples depictions and predictions from different eras...they're way cooler than current foretellings (no pun intended) unfortunately I think that's because modern predictions are more accurate..in other words the future will probably be real boring...especially for this blog. It tires me what do other people think about PERMAMENT DELETION??
I think it's time for a nap.

R.I.P.

2009-01-31T21:02:00.001-08:00

Lest We Forget
Today is the day the best show on Nickelodeon was pulled from free to air television in 2001.
Rest in peace Rocko, Heffer, Filburt, The Bigheads, Dr. Hutchinson, The Woolfs and Spunky.
And god bless Joe Murray.

Koga Family Park

2009-01-31T20:44:00.000-08:00

Koga Family Park is located in Shiga prefecture, Japan and I desperately want to go there mainly in the hope that I get spirited away but also just because I find it really interesting to see those huge structures being eaten by the jungle and it makes me imagine Dreamworld in this state. How weird would that be? Overgrown Australia..

CuteXdooM2:Anita Fontaine;GoMA

2009-01-31T19:35:00.000-08:00

When I was at GoMA (gallery of modern art in Brisbane) I came across this amazing video game in the New Media art exhibition. It's called Cutexdoom2 which sounds like a scene kid's myspace name but is in fact an interactive art installation in Playstation2 format about the strange completely unexplained obsession the world has with all things kawaii.Here is a description by the (australian) artist Anita Fontaine "Cutexdoom is where extremist nu-wave cults and consumerable plush icons unwillingly combine." Playing the game is exhausting for the eyes as colours flash pulsate and zigzag across the screen, static roars and the landscape warps, blurs and glitches intentionally. It was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had and now I'm hellbent on figuring out how to get hold of the game...at GoMA I think I accidentally drowned the protagonist Sally Sanrio in some noxious looking rainbow coloured water trying to escape Yumi-Co's toy temple (Yumi-Co is a cult of fanatical worshippers of cute..their god is an adorable robotic panda)... Yeah I could'nt get many pictures but there are more on her Flickr...But ANYWAY definitley check out the video on her site. Really do. It's masterly.

CUSTOMiZED SUGaRY GOODNESS DiSPENSERS!!

2009-01-31T19:14:00.000-08:00

ATYPYK make PEZ even cooler than they already are. Impossible you say? Believe.

Mentally ill bats have flow.

2009-01-30T22:20:00.000-08:00

Hi , first post of the year...I'm back from Brizvegas and I've started high school (scary!) am still contemplating the termination of this blog because I can't be bothered posting these days and I have waay better things to do. Ummm I've been rewatching long-forgotten childhood favourites (technically I'm still a child lol.) on Youtube such as The Brave Little Toaster (which despite containing the most disturbing dream sequence in the history of G-rated movies remains one of the sweetest animations Ive ever watched) and Ferngully:The Last Rainforest.
I know Ferngully is majorly majorly corny, out of date( I don't think anyone has used the expression 'bodacious babe' for at least 17 years) and initially made as extreme enviromentalism propaganda but at the age of 6 I was crazy about it...actually I was pretty scared of the motor oil drinking demon and I hated those australian fairies. But I LOVED the bat and his song. Laugh at me all you like...

I probably broke the VCR by rewinding back to this multiple times...
anyway I will post again when THIS HEATWAVE IS OVER because it's making my logic erratic..

2008

2008-12-29T15:39:00.000-08:00

For me 2008 seemed more futuristic and progressive than past years. Maybe it was Obama, maybe it was me realising at the start of the year that top 40 music was not the only kind or maybe it was the giant Hadron collider. I don't know. You may have noticed deteriation in post quality I think the end may be near for ELEKTRO SAURUS LOVE but there will be different, better things in the year 2009. I'm looking forward to it.
Here is my entertainment summary of the year, if you think mine is utterly offensive to the name of good stuff or you feel like it, leave your own list in the comments boxx...

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
2. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
3. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
4. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
5. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
6. Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
7. Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
8. Noah & The Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
9. Covox - Infiltrator
10. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. Crystal Castles
2. Noah & The Whale
3. MGMT

TOP 5 FILMS
1. Inland Empire
2. Tekkonkinkreet
3. Eagle Vs. Shark
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. The King Of Kong

TOP 7 TV SHOWS
1. The Wire
2. The I.T Crowd
3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
4. The Mighty Boosh
5. Flight Of The Conchords
6.Skins
7. NCIS

HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR
Getting a new president.

DISSAPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR
That people I thought I knew were singing Nickelback and Lady Gaga songs and doing the Soulja Boy dance.

Here are Some Pictures...

The fate of the world is safe with Crystal Castles
Noah & The Whale

May the trippiness continue in 2009
Inland Empire
Tekkonkinkreet
Eagle Vs. Shark
The Wire The I.T. Crowd

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Obama !!!
And so concludes the post (and the year) so, see ya'll in 2009.

WOW SUPER COOL ETCETERA

2008-12-15T17:32:00.000-08:00

Street artist Flying Fortress has done the inevitable and made a vinyl toy of his famous army bears with none other than L.A.'s Buff Monster and of course it's glittery and cute. I might actually get one seeing as it is Christmas soon.Not that I'm the biggest supporter of Christmas.
I think it's a kind of plague that causes our culture to buy a lot of stuff. No one needs Christmas crackers really do they?

Impermanent Albert & Random thoughts

2008-12-15T17:17:00.000-08:00

The best ever excuse to refrain from car-washing! For more click here.
I'm in limbo it's the holidays I must save myself from daytime TV and excessive amounts of Caffeine and public swimming pools and Magpies. I think Magpies should be abolished or at least sent to a sanctuary where they put ex-politicians so they can eat their eyeballs instead of mine I just hate their I-Vant-To-Make-Your-Hair-Into-My-Nest schtick. Sorry if I've offended any Magpiphiliacs or Magpies.
*sigh* I'm going mad.

I had a budgie but it died.

2008-11-28T19:04:00.000-08:00

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I depleted the world's supply of exclamation marks. My extended hiatus from the blogosphere was mainly due to internet faliure and incoming year 7 graduation (I know, I'm small.)I did'nt really mind the break though. I heard that old Aristotle quote 'We are what we repeatedly do'and I wondered if I really wanted to be just a blogger but I don't think I'm quitting anytime soon.
Anyway on with the stuff...

Okay super thanks to Peaitlreiecnia author of the amazing always interesting AWKWARD DIGGRESSIONS? blog for this shiny award, see I've never been tagged before but I'm just gonna follow these regulations.....

Write 6 things that make you a happy chappie.

Then award 6 'kreativ'*wince* bloggers.

Then include a link to your kind friend that deemed you 'kreativ"*eurghh* enough for an award.

Then add the links of those you have awarded an tell them in some way they have been tagged.

6 Things That Make Me Happy...

1. Seeing my baby sister Miriam being all cute and stuff

2. The Moomintroll books by Tove Janson that I read as a kid and still read regularly.

3.When you're at a dull as dead people function and you make a bored little kid laugh.

4. When you make some friends who are as crazy as you.

5. Spongebob marathons. There I said it. Don't tell anyone.

6. Thinking about the future, the one where the cities have fallen and we have lost power over nature.

(I don't have a picture for that at the moment)

So yeah.

Now I'm going to tagwagon...

My Best friend Maggie and her Weirdology blog

The super cute Pink Lemonade Stand blog

Awesomely Awesome Tokyobunnie blog

Maddie's music/life blog: Irrelevant twaddle from yours truly

The POP CULTURE BLOG (what I imagine my blog would be like if I was cool :)

And finally Filosofia a smart thought -provoking blog

And there you have it. I'm going to sleep now.

The Trapdoor or I have turned into an old whinger

2008-11-15T18:01:00.000-08:00

I don't remember any important or momentous things that happened in my early youth (like,5 or 6) but I do remember this show. It's original and entertaining plus the theme song is so bad it's good. My favorite character is Boni followed closely by the thing upstairs . I remember sitting and watching this a very long time ago along with Rugrats,Daria,The Angry Beavers and Rocko's Modern Life. They were so good, the kids TV shows at the moment are banal and stupid the originality, quality and intelligence has deteriorated but it's meant to be the other way around, there should be better shows now...We've devolved and it's annoying.
Anyway what was meant to be an appraisal of how good The Trapdoor is has become an extended lament about the state of childrens programs today.
What are everyone else's favorite bygone cartoons?

Sublime Stitching

2008-11-14T01:52:00.000-08:00

This site has inspired me to start stitching there are so many cool patterns and kits you can get
I love the Julie West one with the bumblebee...

Coffee Things

2008-11-01T23:43:00.000-07:00

This thing (above) is so cool it's actually an espresso machine....for mad scientists! It looks so much better than the brick things with all the pointless settings. And while we're on the subject how good is the caffeine molecule bling and awesome 'I am not a paper cup' ceramic 'mug' up top both from Thinkgeek.

Dusk Til Dawn 2

2008-11-08T22:31:00.000-08:00

While the official video is really cool (Pip Brown a.k.a. Ladyhawke stars in her own little B-Grade horror musical) this second take is heaps better cause' it stars her family and friends! I have'nt really heard of a muso doing this before. The tune itself is super catchy which is what you can expect from the kiwi queen of 80's revivalism (seriously she makes legwarmers and synthesizers seem like they were invented this year). Anyways take a look you might recognize some familiar faces such as Sia Furler and Dev Hynes.
bang bang bang on the wall....

"The Birds! The Birds!"

2008-11-12T00:37:00.000-08:00

Possibly even better than those mutilated Barbies with melted hair that are hidden in the untidy rooms the world over , is this 'Hitchcock Barbie' inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds.
This is only a blueprint though, fingers crossed Mattel decides to sell these.

My Pet Monster he's a friend you can depend! My Pet Monster he's a monster of a friend!

2008-11-13T00:13:00.000-08:00

Lol I want one of these so much! They stopped making them in the 80's so they can be hard to come by now but there are some on ebay. If I ever do get one I promise not to channel Julian Hamilton and wear it on my head on national television.
Actually if the chance arose.....

Plush Love

2008-04-25T00:47:00.000-07:00

I'M applying for this job at a bowling alley (random, i know) BUT i know what i'll be spending my 1st paycheck on ... HEIDI KENNEY'S ADORABLE PLUSHIES!! this NYC artist is so totally radical! She makes everykind of plush from muffins and lollipops to bizarre werewolf creatures and even a plush toilet!!(go figure!) check out her website and see all the wacked out soft creations she has made! i jfeel so sorry for these little melted icecreams*sniff* Anyway i was thinking of bringing Miriam an um Crying Cactus plush...

anyway cyaz *plush!plush*

THE POST (da da da daaaaaa!)

2008-04-25T00:09:00.000-07:00

Hey Kids,

Welcome to my wonderful BLOG!

I also welcome super lil' Miriam Susannah Bell who came into the world at three minutes past seven o'clock on thursday the twenty-fourth day of the month of april! *GASP* Welcome Mimi :)

Just about the healthiest baby alive and so pretty! We luv u mia bear!!

p.s. dont'cha just love the orange sock :)

Also as you well know if you are an aussie its ANZAC DAY (and probably other nationalities aswell) lest we forget and all that, early rising 4 the dawn service:)

pretty important day though, it was actually mizza's due date.(note how i have so many names for her already!)but yeah to buisness! this blog is where im gonna put stuff i love and/or hate, random ramblings, links,vids, my fav pictures all that , stuff thats important to me, all the fruitful product of my hours long cool hunting quests across the WWW !yay!

thats al4 now but...

I'LL BE BACK!!

The Cans Festival

2008-05-24T17:32:00.000-07:00

A Banksy Organized Spray-Stencilling marathon? I never got an invite :(
The Cans Festival was held in a tunnel underneath Waterloo station and it was all Banksy's idea!
Watch the video below
xxA

Lupe Fiasco

2008-10-09T16:13:00.000-07:00

In this picture he may look like another irritating hipster rapper but Lupe Fiasco is actually the Saviour of modern hip-hop. His songs address issues such as refugees, gang wars, corrupt police, the exploitation of indigenous Americans, child soldiers, terrorism, violent video games and their affect on kids the list goes on. Here are two of the music videos...
Little Weapon the best song of 2007 (video is made up of parts of the movie Blood Diamond so is quite violent)
American Terrorist this song needs repeated listens almost every single lyric references an issue that could be discussed for hours.

Thanks everyone for all the comments...

An Englishman In New York

2008-10-27T02:58:00.000-07:00

Banksy wreaks creative havoc on NYC.
Bless him.

Kris Moyes Fan Club

2008-11-01T21:57:00.000-07:00

In my mind Kris Moyes is a modern hero of music video (and other stuff) directing like up there with Gondry and Jonze and co. He has directed videos for Sia, Hercules & Love Affair,Wolfmother,Cut Copy, a super crazy one for Architecture In Helsinki and an equally psychedelic clip for The Softlightes. Plus he is catching up to big brother K.I.M. in the fame department. now go watch some videos now on his site or on the tube...I recommend Softlightes Microwave Song...
That is all.