I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rockin roll and I'm a little bit drunk
Movies
Wes Anderson. P.T.Anderson. Todd Haynes. Todd Solondz. Lars von Trier. Coen Brothers. My Life Without Me. Half Nelson. Being There. The Station Agent. Donnie Darko. The Squid And The Whale. Sideways. Fight Club. You Can Count On Me. Solaris... basically American independent films. I also like old films, 80s comedies, 70s violent movies, 60s westerns... and i have a huge crush on James Dean... it's embarrassing
Television
My TV has a really old remote control that works on sound waves. it's really cool, the "up channel" button is broken, but i worked out that if you press the "mute" button and the "down volume" button at the same time it creates a frequency the same as the old "up channel" button, so it does the same thing! it's great. i haven't told my house mate yet though, i like to watch him flick through all 8 channels in frustration.
Books
Heroes
Wayne Carey, Ben Cousins and to a lesser extent Shane Warne
About me: I first came up with the idea for MySpace when I was about 8 or 9. Back then it was mostly done with paper and cassette tape mail outs. Although my own space got up to about 1500 profile views within a few years, the whole concept failed to fully grab the attention of the mass public. It wasn't until my brother Jim invented the Internet in March 1997 and suggested that I digitise MySpace that things really took off.
With the help of our brothers, Dan and Ben, we set about installing Personal Computers (PCs as they are now know) into every household in Australia.
A huge task for four young blokes from Griffith who at the time had very little experience with girls. However, after 3 months we'd set up internet terminals in 70% of Australian houses and renamed them "Internet Cafes". Then Ben, being the philosopher of the family commented "That'll do!" and that's how that simple catchphrase became our motto!
Who I'd like to meet: I think I'd really like to meet Jim, the Internet Warrior. Because I guess like most of you, as my life fades, and the visions dim, all that remains are memories... and I like to remember a time of chaos, of broken dreams and wasted time. But most of all I like to remember the internet warrior, the man we called "Jim". To understand who he was you have to go back to another time, a time when the world was powered by computers. They're gone now, swept away, for reasons long forgotten, without the internet we were nothing. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Our leaders blogged and blogged and blogged…. but nothing could stem the avalanche. The internet crumbled, the computers blue-screened. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the message boards it was a firewall nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The emos took over myspace, ready to wage war for 5 minutes of internet stardom. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Jim - the internet warrior. In the sputter of a broken CPU fan he lost everything. And he became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place that he learned to live again...
The basic difference between ASCAP and APRA is simple at the core. The ASCAP contract is non-exclusive where as the APRA contract is exclusive. When you give exclusive control to your copyright upto an NGO governed by corporate monopolists, strange things happen with your copyright. Strange illusions and explanations about copyright evolve through more NGO's that explain themselves to be councils for the people. The corporations have both sides of the coin and you by the balls, as they do with most things. The commons is most likely not the solution, yet exclusive control of your copyright, is for sure not the solution. You are tied to a Union that is a lie. How many live spaces can afford to pay APRA for your songs, is it working for you? ASCAP in the US allow artists to license their art using any creative commons license and remain a member, as their contract is non-exclusive. Australian artists can join/transfer to ASCAP.also:: Your in breech of your APRA contract with your content on myspace, yet myspace have agreed to pay the publishers for use of their content, yet not you the artist without a publisher, for use of your content... what to do? line up for some funding from the arts council...
I'm thinking that sounds like a plan. Although I'm not sure of how "big" a "one" I can have- work, uni,etc. But I like the idea in principle... I'll see you then.
Hey mate, what's going on? Sorry about the early bail on Friday night, I had to work on Saturday. I'm feeling more and more that gone are the days when I can wake up on your couch and go straight from there- I'm getting old I think... Love ya mate, talk soon.
Hey mate, Maximo Park was unbelievably awesome- i've never seen a band with so much energy. I, on the other hand, managed to come down with a shocking case of gastro about 5 minutes before they went on stage. Spewing. Literally. Still not feeling great. Catch up when I'm feeling better.
I can't remember the motivation we agreed upon the other night for this show. I'm a little hazy. Something about the Choir Boys and black wine being the new beer.
Tom, in the interest of ineteresting-ness, I'm making the answer to your question multiple choice. One is true, one is false - get it?
a) I am having a huge party featuring socialites, Ben Cousins, Cher, Wilco, and nude, Mexican midgets with little corn chip hats filled in the middle with salsa. You can break off the sides of the hat to scoop your dip. You are not invited to this party.
b) I have to attend a work love-in in Werribee which will likely involve hugging and catching my workmates and I will despise every second of said touching of their filthy bodies. Because of this I will organise a ceremony of heavy beer drinking somewhere in Brunswick next Friday. You will be invited to this ceremony.
yeah facebook is just not the same. I like the food throwing thing and the zombie thing but it's just an obvious waste of time instead of a subtle waste of time. I'm TOTALLY overcommitted this week. I will be getting drunk and dancing like a chimpanzee (apparently this is how i look whilst dancing) at roxanne on friday. you should come. and make like a primate.
I knew you were smart enough to get that one... Whe i first posted it, thousands told me "don't put that up, Tom won't get it". But I had more faith than them, Tom. I truly did. And my faith paid off.
Not all three? What are you, a woman? I don't exactly h=know what LTI is, but I'm always up for the ingestion of alcohol. Give us a yell when you're on your way.
