Kick It [Sunday May 18th, 2008 at 5:41pm] Kick It Peaches + Iggy Pop I know I should probably post something with more substance, but I'm tired and lazy and I've been living on herbal tea, rice and vegetables for the last two days. Besides, it's Iggy Pop. And Peaches. TOGETHER. CMNT

SH:V [Saturday May 17th, 2008 at 12:45pm] Silent Hill: Homecoming trailer collection via silenthill 3 CMNT . CMNT

Praise! [Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 7:26pm] I just got a phone call from Savers in Brunswick; I have a job interview with them at 10:00am tomorrow morning. I may not even get the job, but still... Oh Happy Day Sister Act 2 ...so I have a thing for gospel music, pfft! 2 CMNT . CMNT

Shannon Larratt Leaves BME [Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 7:08pm] Just found out via Technoccult that Shannon Larratt, co-founder of BME: Body Modification Zine and writer of ModBlog, will be leaving the website. After a personally difficult legal dispute over BME, I’ve had to face the potentially insurmountable reality of being massively in debt, and I have chosen to transfer the business to Rachel (the details of this deal are sealed, so please don’t ask). Within the month my role at BME will come to an end, and new staff (made up largely of people who’ve been working on BME for some time as well) will be taking over. I will no longer be writing online about body modification, although I will be maintaining my regular blog and other projects of course, as well as working on several body modification book projects which I am eager to complete. Read the full ModBlog post here Holy. Shit. Welcome back Rachel, and here's to you Shannon. Best of luck for the future. CMNT

Arcane [Sunday May 11th, 2008 at 1:32pm] Things. Why I Loathe (and Adore) Steampunk - a well-written something by Mr. Theridion Grallator about how Steampunk's growing popularity is slowly destroying it. Slow Wave - Jesse Reklaw asks people to tell him their dreams, and he turns them into comic strips. Hilarity, awkwardness and revulsion ensure. Newspaper blackout poems by Austin Kleon. Austin takes newspaper articles and turns them into poetry using only a sharpie. I tried to find out where I found the aforementioned articles. I really did. Either way it was probably either An Odd Mixture of Elements, Coilhouse or Technoccult. If I'm wrong please feel free to throw something at me. 2 CMNT . CMNT

Bored [Sunday May 11th, 2008 at 12:27pm] I'm Bored Iggy Pop Well fuck, I am bored. Boredom always sneaks up on me on sundays. Which is very inconvenient, because everything that's worth visiting is shut on a sunday. It's not like there isn't anything to do around here, but it'd be nice to get out of the house for an hour or seven. Last night wasn't very boring. My cunt of a neighbor decided to broadcast some god-awful bogan rock, to the entire suburb, at top volume, in the middle of the fucking night. CHRIST. I ended up calling the police around 2:00am but cancelled after the noise ceased. At least his family don't live with him anymore. Honestly, it was like living next door to the fucking Manson family. No kidding. 2 CMNT . CMNT

Bach's Toccata et Fugue [Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 6:55pm] Musician - Hans Andre-Stamm Instrument - Pipe organ Wonderful video of master organist playing Bach's Toccata et Fugue. This masterpiece never fails to give me chills. And the musician is adorable; what a calm face! 2 CMNT . CMNT

[Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at 1:17pm] Bess, Javas, Christopher Lee Donovan I cannot, for the life of me, think of anything to post. Zilch. Nada. Zip. Maybe I should clean my room. Haphazardly stacked books and newspaper articles are a fire hazard you know. I'm hoping that something from Victoria University will arrive in the mail soon. I'd love to be able to start my course, and find a job, and save some money, and move out to somewhere small, clean and quiet. This place feels like a madhouse sometimes. CMNT

[Monday May 5th, 2008 at 7:18pm] ...And there goes my last shred of composure. Today I got to meet this man. His name is Neil Gaiman.. At first I didn't think I had a hope in Hell when I got to the State Library people were handing out numbered tickets my number was 15 then after half an hour of drawing in my moleskine someone says numbers 11 to 20 can come in for the reading so I went in waitied and then he arrived and he talked and sounded like Alan Rickman but not and he read from his new book and did Russian lady voices and Cockney voices and he was warm and friendly when I got to meet him and I gave him my sketch of Death with Black Eyes and we chatted a little bit and it was nice chatter not awkward chatter and then he looked me in the eyes and smiled and said "thank you for the present" Oh my GOD I GOT TO MEET THE MAN WHO'S INSPIRED ME SO MUCH OVER THE YEARS TODAY I MET NEIL GAIMAN. 5 CMNT . CMNT

I BE GOING TO THIS [Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 9:50pm] Neil Gaiman. Mon 5th May 1.00pm Author Talk & Signing - FREE EVENT Location Centre for Youth Literature State Library of Victoria - Village Roadshow Theatrette 325 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC Contact- 03 8664 7014 4 CMNT . CMNT

[Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 12:40pm] UK to make kinky porn a crime Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated. When Graham Coutts was jailed for life Jane Longhurst’s mother, Liz, began a campaign to ban the possession of such images. Supported by her local MP, Martin Salter, she found a listening ear in then home secretary, David Blunkett, who agreed to introduce legislation to ban the possession of “violent and extreme pornography”. This was eventually included in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which gets its final reading this week and will get Royal Assent on 8 May. Until now pornographers, rather than consumers, have needed to operate within the confines of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act (OPA). While this law will remain, the new act is designed to reflect the realities of the internet age, when pornographic images may be hosted on websites outside the UK. Under the new rules, criminal responsibility shifts from the producer - who is responsible under the OPA - to the consumer. But campaigners say the new law risks criminalising thousands of people who use violent pornographic images as part of consensual sexual relationships. People like Helen, who by day works in an office in the Midlands, and enjoys being sexually submissive and occasionally watching pornography, portrayed by actors, which could be banned under the new legislation. Full article @ BBC Via Violet Blue I have but one word to describe this; bollocks. 10 CMNT . CMNT

[Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 11:35pm] The Billy Letters n the late '90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy. To his surprise, replies soon started pouring in. Everyone from Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (on tree-fort diplomacy) to Oprah Winfrey, Mister Rogers, Janet Reno, and members of the Supreme Court had words of wisdom for Billy. ("I like the Egg McMuffin," wrote Justice Clarence Thomas when asked about his favorite McDonald's food. "Actually, I like almost everything there.") Responding to Billy's idea for a "Hustler for kids," Larry Flynt wrote back encouraging the fourth grader to "Hang in there. You'll be 18 before you know it." As it turns out, no group hates to disappoint a child more than convicted killers, all of whom responded promptly to Billy's questions about dropping out of school. Their letters, published here for the first time, range from criminally insane to downright sensible, offering snapshots of the personalities behind some of America's most hideous crimes. Recently, Radar asked Billy to follow up with his mentors as a college student. Full article @ Radar. Click the letter to read the correspondence between Billy and Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Ted Kacynzski (the Unabomber), and other infamous figures. CMNT

beinArt [Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 9:22pm] Today while in Brunswick Bound, I spotted a book titled Metamorphosis. It features the artworks of artists from beinArt: Surreal art collective. And it is fucking mindblowing. Daddy's Girl, Michael Hussar I've been browsing this site for hours now, and it's making me want to drag out the easel and oil paints again. Artifical Love, David M. Bowers LOOK for yourself. 2 CMNT . CMNT

I've got a hole in me pockit. [Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 5:02pm] I grew up with this film. It helped shape me into the person I am today. The Yellow Submarine. Featuring The Beatles. Eleanor Rigby Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band CMNT

[Monday April 28th, 2008 at 5:10pm] Mental Detox Week: The Aftermath. Brain no function good. Too much reading and writing and thinking for myself. Watched TV a few times when good programs were on, otherwise avoided it like plague. Sort of. Will be back when I can be arsed thinking. 3 CMNT . CMNT

Doll army. [Sunday April 20th, 2008 at 2:51pm] I'm sitting here in the loungeroom on the computer, and aside from my grandma banging around with some bricks outside (what is it with elderly people constantly messing around with things), all is quiet. No TV, no gameboy, no radio, nothing. I keep forgetting how nice peace and quiet is. Tonight Hi Ball Burlesque, Ms Rocket and Kelly Ann Doll are going to be performing at the Order Of Melbourne. Admission is $20. I have $20, but that $20 is meant to last me all through next week. If I go, I'll get to see one of the best burlesque acts around. If I don't I'll have money to keep me sane through next week. It'll have to be the latter. See, if I didn't have to blow my money on medicine and food, I'd have enough to go see them. But things happen, and I guess I'll have to deal with more of these situations until I find a job, which'll hopefully be any day now. Anyway, I think I'm prepared for next week. I've got around 14 as-yet-unread books to keep me entertained, and money for travelling and buying tea with. But I forgot to grab the earplugs. To be honest I'll probably cave in and end up listening to the radio with headphones on again if I stay at home too long. Everyone makes so much noise around here, even when they don't mean to. Either that or I'm just way too sensitive. Mental Detox Week planner + Check out as many galleries as possible. + Read. + Start making things out of/repairing those clothes that have been sitting in the repairs/rags drawer for lord-knows-how-long. + Learn to cook a new something that tastes good and is easy to make. + Make wall hangings. + Encourage self to start working on art diaries again, just in case I stumble upon the money needed to do an arts course in the far future. + Catch up with friends. + Write songs on guitar. + Go for evening walks when bored. + Turn crappy chinese parasol into whacked-out lace parasol monstrosity. + Find quiet spots. + Learn to Crochet. AGAIN. + Attempt to make that sparkly black and red throw rug with the feathers and weird patches again. + if throw rug fails in comfort stakes, turn it into a ginormous wall hanging thingy. + Brush up on toy-making skills. + Turn crazy amount of scraps and whatnot into army of mutant punk humanoid dolls. + Plan world domination. Or set up that account on etsy. CMNT

Mental Detox Week [Friday April 18th, 2008 at 1:22pm] The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult - yet also how life-changing - a week spent unplugged can really be. More details @ AdBusters I'm doing this. It'll be an experience, that's for sure. Though if anything, it's my family that needs to detox. Now THAT would be entertaining. I'll probably spend the week reading in cafes, or browsing art galleries, or working on whatever projects and tasks I've left to gather dust. The one thing I see being a problem is the Noise. My usual way of dealing with the noise around here is shoving on my headphones and listening to the radio. I'll probably grab some earplugs, or just stay at the cafes and libraries longer. If I had the courage to, I would probably do things to my family so they would have to join in. You know, hide the game consoles and the remote control (TV can't function without it) in my room and lock the door, mess around with the computer settings, those sorts of things. But I should be realistic; if I really went ahead and did the aforementioned I would probably get ripped in two. And I'm not entirely kidding. edit: Actually, I won't even give in to those juicy SBS documentaries. I'll be farewelling the internet, the stereo, the various gaming consoles, the discman, the DVD player, the computer and the Idiot Box itself for a whole week. Thanks to theamaranth for making me aware of this. 12 CMNT . CMNT

Hans Bellmer [Sunday April 13th, 2008 at 4:45pm] La Poupée, les Jeux de la poupée 1938 Cephalopod 1900 c. 1939-49 ??? c. - I became obsessed with Bellmer after doing an assignment on him during my VCE years (shame on me for not recognising the Bellmer photo I posted earler), though thanks to Silent Hill II I now get a little chill every time I see one of his works. 2 CMNT . CMNT

The Shoebox World [Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 9:18pm] Seeing the world through a shoebox. Rainy spring afternoon from Remyyy on Vimeo What an interesting concept. CMNT

Inspiration [Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 7:37pm] London 'Living Statues' & Street Performers - Part Two By LifejourneyGuy The Dresden Dolls ~Debut CD Release "Living Statues" By Slevnor74 Yes this video isn't all about Living statues, but it does feature a few very interesting ones. CMNT

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