No guest today, just a bit of a chat about:
Robert Rodriguez’s cooking show on the Sin City Recut DVD
this report that less than 7% of Australians believe cosmetics advertising
a review of “The Receipt” by Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch, currently showing in the Melbourne Comedy Festival
ExxonSecrets, a site that helps you follow the money behind [...]
I was just preparing to record a show on Ezra Pound, perhaps the most influential poet of the 20th century, when I came across this site, which used to carry copies of some of Pound’s best works.
On the site, you can read this recent announcement:
Canto I
by: Ezra Pound
Copyright law was designed to be a [...]
On November 24 I went down to the Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne to capture some video of “Buy Nothing Day”.
Download for iPod / iTunes / Quicktime.
Watch as the protesters get harassed by street cleaners in the employ of THE MAN!
Soundtrack is NEW MUSIC by the one and only PUBLIC ENEMY
from [...]
Some quotes to think about…
So by the end, they (MSNBC) were ordering us, if we booked one guest that was anti-war, we had to book two that were pro-war. If we booked two guests on the left, we had to have three on the right. At one meeting a producer suggested booking Michael Moore and [...]
To celebrate the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF G’DAY WORLD this month I’m introducing the new new format. Helping me out today is my good good buddy Shane Williamson and his crapola microphone.
Shownotes:
Male chimps like a bit of MILF. - link
The concept of the “jolt” from Kalle Lasn’s book “Culture Jam”. - link
“Most Iraqis wish [...]
For those of you in Melbourne town, I’ll be taking my video camera down to the Bourke Street Mall on Nov 24 to cover “Buy Nothing Day“. Why not come along and join in the merriment?
According to Wikipedia:
Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. It was [...]
Kalle Lasn talks about using TV commercials to disrupt the propaganda of corporations who are propagating dangerous memes. This famous TV commercial featuring Yul Brynner helped change the attitudes people had towards smoking cigarettes.
Accordng to Wikipedia:
Brynner died on October 10, 1985 (the same day as Orson Welles and my 15th birthday) in New York City [...]
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