Drawing, reading, designing clothes, music, surfing, playing cards and dominos, animation, slow evenings with friends (and even slower morning-afters), travel, hammocks, skating, writing, Flash, shared meals, wine, adobe creative suite.
Music
The big old favourite ones - Tool, The Mars Volta, Radiohead, Tori Amos, At The Drive-In, Refused, Deftones, Beastie Boys, Muse, A Perfect Circle, Daft Punk, Elliott Smith, PJ Harvey, Lamb, Ry Cooder, Ben H, Pearl Jam, anything involving Mike Patton, The Bronx, Bjork; the recently high-rotated ones - Quiet Child, Battles, Martin Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra, Miguel, The National, Rogerthat, Bloc Party, Coldplay; some very excellent Australian ones - The Rooftops, Sydonia, Trinkets, The Beards, Tony Font Show, The Herd, Newtonheath, The Woo Hoo Revue, Darth Vegas, Doch, True Live, Secrets in Scale; the local illusion ones - The Dolphinarium Sextet, The David Hicks Defence Attorney; and of course, lots and lots of jazz, swing and croon (Dean Martin, Lady Day and Ol' Blue Eyes can cure just about anything ...)
are/why? is proud to endorse, support and/or have designed for the following bands, organisations and all-round clever cats:
NEWTONHEATH
TONY FONT SHOW (RIP)
SYDONIA
DOCH
GET UP!
PANIC PRODUCTIONS
FUSE FESTIVAL
Movies
Dr Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life is Beautiful, Pixar films, Adaptation, Ninja Scroll, Frida, I Heart Huckabees, Italian for Beginners, Edward Scissorhands, The Darjeeling Limited, The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Anchorman, Tekkonkinkreet, Waiting for Guffman, anything by Miyazaki (especially Spirited Away), Sin City ...
Television
Arrested Development (it's all about the illusions), Twin Peaks (thanks Jessie), Drawn Together, South Park, Flight of the Conchords, Samurai Champloo, Neon Genesis Evangelion, So You Think You Can Dance (Danni openly admits to this reality TV addiction), Skins.
Books
Fahrenheit 451, anything by Margaret Atwood (but Lady Oracle in particular), Isabel Allende or Neil Gaiman, 1984, The Neverending Story, Lord of the Rings, Mrs Dalloway, The Magic Faraway Tree, tales of the Otori, comics - especially Mr Punch, Comic Book Tattoo, Sin City, In For The Krill and The Watchmen, other "Nerd-Alert" books pertaining to other "Nerd-Alert" things like surveillance and punishment and troubled gender ... Hmmm.
Heroes
Our friends and family (the rad ones). And RAY. Sent to us by the IT Gods at the critical moment right before the horsemen of Armageddon at Fuse Fest 08.
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All are/why? designs are created by Adelaide artist and animator, Ry Wilkin. Below is are/why?'s most recent animation, life in a spotlight - a filmclip for Sydonia's beautiful track, Taste More.
Who I'd like to meet: Dead or alive ... Michel Foucault, Swoon, Stanley Kubrick, Brad Bird, Judith Butler, Os Gemeos, Frank Miller, Totoro, the person who invented World Free Comic Book Day, you (if you're nice, that is).
Club Blink is now a 3 level superclub that operates at 293 - 299 Brunswick St Mall Fortitude Valley, every Friday night. We celebrate our one year anniversary on Friday 7 August, where we will showcase the strength of the brisbane alternative scene right now. To ensure your place on the list, text your email address to 0415 692 901 and we will email you an invite and special VIP codeword that will get you in cheap and put you in the running to win a $500 bar tab!!
Guy Pratt in store THIS WEDNESDAY, 15th of July 2009, from 2:30pm. Guy currently plays bass with Pink Floyd and has recorded with the late Michael Jackson , Madonna, Tina Turner, Jimmy Page and many more. He will be here to have a chat and sign autographs.
You can also go in the draw to WIN a 100 watt Ashdown Five15 bass amp, just by showing up. So come on down and have a laugh … you may walk away with that Ashdown bass amp!!
hey how are you? wanna see us play tonight?? we are opening a massive show at the underground for a bunch of interstate bands including Wish For Wings.. we hit the stage at about 7:15pm!! hope you can make it... :) x luke
Come and support the The Kidney Thieves as they play alongside legends of heavy rock, Mammal, this Sun long weekend June 7. Then kick on at the official afterparty with special guest djs at the new club night MY PEOPLE (Free Entry with stamp). ON STAGE 8PM - GET THERE EARLY!!
Hey! How's it going? It's getting hot outside and it's time for indie films.
This month I'm promoting this Indie Film - "Gentleman's Choice - The Chris Adams Story" - a hard hitting documentary on the tragic death of a sports entertainer.
Watch it online ($5) or buy the DVD at http://gentleman.eyesoda.comGentleman's Choice: The Chris Adams Story Trailer
No worries! Seems you have to book people months in advance these days as everyone's so busy...!
Anyway I just read your highly entertaining newsletter and wanted to wish you all the best with the research/writing/nerdy things!! Do you have a topic yet or haven't you got that far yet?? Either way I'm sure it will be a masterpiece :)
I've been really well. Studying, drinking, studying, smoking, drinking and now Djing. It's all very exciting. How have you been?
June 7th will be "the debut". So I really do hope that you can make it. The drink specials are awesome, the dancefloor is hardly sticky anymore and I'll be Djing all that Djing goodness. Seriously what more could you want.
If you haven't already heard through the grape vine, the Emergenza World Festival is on and i mean like donkey kong! We The FAK will be battling it out against 7 other bands on SUNDAY the 28th OF JUNE at FOWLER'S LIVE, we need your vote at the gig to put us through to the next round, tickets are $13 from the band and we are on at 10 PM
For additional information feel free to contact the band,
No Way!! How are you? Haven't been on here in yonks...just got curious to see if my page was even still active or shut down! Must update mypage...I've so outgrown it, creak... old fart that I am these days! How is life treating you in Adelaide? The Sunshine Coast is now officially the Soggy Coast...bah! Rain, rain, rain...more rain is all it ever does these days. Great to hear from you! Busy with babies and crafts and drawing and maybe something in the pipeline re money for art...fingers crossed. XXX
Thanks for the add, Danni. Glad to hear my work isn't going entirely unnoticed =] Haven't touched MySpace in a while, or I would've added you earlier. Been a fan for a while.
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