Monday, September 13, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Most popular tattoo brand names!
Cool lawyers prove they're cool by DOING A SURVEY ABOUT WHICH BRAND NAMES MAKE FOR THE MOST POPULAR TATTOOS.
The results are horrifying.
Vegemite? QANTAS?!
1. Harley Davidson
2. Nike
3. AFL (Australian Rules) club logos
4. Vegemite
5. VB
6. Disney characters (various)
7. Holden
8. Ford
9. Fox/Alpinestars (motorcross)
10. Triple J (radio)
11. Louis Vuitton
12. Chanel
13. Playboy
14. Coca-Cola
15. Jack Daniels
16. Jim Beam
17. Mountain Dew
18. QANTAS
19. Triumph (motorcycles)
20. Gibson/ Fender
The results are horrifying.
Vegemite? QANTAS?!
1. Harley Davidson
2. Nike
3. AFL (Australian Rules) club logos
4. Vegemite
5. VB
6. Disney characters (various)
7. Holden
8. Ford
9. Fox/Alpinestars (motorcross)
10. Triple J (radio)
11. Louis Vuitton
12. Chanel
13. Playboy
14. Coca-Cola
15. Jack Daniels
16. Jim Beam
17. Mountain Dew
18. QANTAS
19. Triumph (motorcycles)
20. Gibson/ Fender
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Shag! This is the show we're doing!
Big Bowls
Yeah, it's going to rule. It'll be a Bowlo Thursdays rap show in Petersham, Sydney. Remember it's a fundraiser for FBI 94.5, the premier community radio station in Sydney. There'll be Shag, Shantan Wantan Ichiban, 16Tacos/Jon Valenzuela/Tilted Page, Jozz Scott and Max Gosford from Claws and Fangs, and Peach playing songs from his Beef and Tripe Mixtape (with possibly a few new ones from his Off the Grid mixtape).
Is that how "googleability" works? Did I hit enough buzzwords?
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Yep
Re-posting stuff from other more popular blogs is not kosher I know, but this is fairly solid.
Taken from Stuff White People Like:
All music genres go through a very similar life cycle: birth, growth, mainstream acceptance, decline, and finally obscurity. With black music, however, the final stage is never reached because white people are work tirelessly to keep it alive. Apparently, once a music has lost its relevance with its intended audience, it becomes MORE relevant to white people.
Historically speaking, the music that white people have kept on life support for the longest period of time is Jazz. Thanks largely to public radio, bookstores, and coffee shops, Jazz has carved out a niche in white culture that is not yet ready to be replaced by Indie Rock. But the biggest role that Jazz plays in white culture is in the white fantasy of leisure. All white people believe that they prefer listening to jazz over watching television. This is not true.
Every few a months, a white person will put on some Jazz and pour themselves a glass of wine or scotch and tell themselves how nice it is. Then they will get bored and watch television or write emails to other white people about how nice it was to listen to Jazz at home. “Last night, I poured myself a glass of Shiraz and put Charlie Parker on the Bose. It was so relaxing, I wish I had a fireplace.” Listing this activity as one of your favorites is a sure fire way to make progress towards a romantic relationship with a white person.
Along with Jazz, white people have also taken quite a shine to The Blues, an art form that captured the pain of the black experience in America. Then, in the 1960s, a bunch of British bands started to play their own version of the music and white people have been loving it ever since. It makes sense considering that the British were the ones who created The Blues in the 17th Century.
Today, white people keep The Blues going strong by taking vacations to Memphis, forming awkward bands, making documentaries, and organizing folk festivals. Blue and Jazz music appeal mostly to older white people and select few young ones who probably wear fedoras. But that doesn’t mean that young white people aren’t working hard to preserve music that has lost relevance. No, there are literally thousands of white people who are giving their all to keep old school Hip Hop alive.
Even as you read this, white people are telling other white people about the golden age of Hip Hop that they experienced in a suburban high school or through a viewing of The Wackness.
If you are good at concealing laughter and contempt, you should ask a white person about “Real Hip Hop.” They will quickly tell you about how they don’t listen to “Commercial Hip Hop” (aka music that black people actually enjoy), and that they much prefer “Classic Hip Hop.”
“I don’t listen to that commercial stuff. I’m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know? KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, you know, The Old School.”
Calling this style of music ‘old school’ is considered an especially apt name since the majority of people who listen to it did so while attending old schools such as Dartmouth, Bard, and Williams College.
What it all comes down to is that white people are convinced that if they were alive when this music was relevant that they would have been into it. They would have been Alan Lomax or Rick Rubin. Now the best they can hope for is to impress an older black person with their knowledge.
Taken from Stuff White People Like:
All music genres go through a very similar life cycle: birth, growth, mainstream acceptance, decline, and finally obscurity. With black music, however, the final stage is never reached because white people are work tirelessly to keep it alive. Apparently, once a music has lost its relevance with its intended audience, it becomes MORE relevant to white people.
Historically speaking, the music that white people have kept on life support for the longest period of time is Jazz. Thanks largely to public radio, bookstores, and coffee shops, Jazz has carved out a niche in white culture that is not yet ready to be replaced by Indie Rock. But the biggest role that Jazz plays in white culture is in the white fantasy of leisure. All white people believe that they prefer listening to jazz over watching television. This is not true.
Every few a months, a white person will put on some Jazz and pour themselves a glass of wine or scotch and tell themselves how nice it is. Then they will get bored and watch television or write emails to other white people about how nice it was to listen to Jazz at home. “Last night, I poured myself a glass of Shiraz and put Charlie Parker on the Bose. It was so relaxing, I wish I had a fireplace.” Listing this activity as one of your favorites is a sure fire way to make progress towards a romantic relationship with a white person.
Along with Jazz, white people have also taken quite a shine to The Blues, an art form that captured the pain of the black experience in America. Then, in the 1960s, a bunch of British bands started to play their own version of the music and white people have been loving it ever since. It makes sense considering that the British were the ones who created The Blues in the 17th Century.
Today, white people keep The Blues going strong by taking vacations to Memphis, forming awkward bands, making documentaries, and organizing folk festivals. Blue and Jazz music appeal mostly to older white people and select few young ones who probably wear fedoras. But that doesn’t mean that young white people aren’t working hard to preserve music that has lost relevance. No, there are literally thousands of white people who are giving their all to keep old school Hip Hop alive.
Even as you read this, white people are telling other white people about the golden age of Hip Hop that they experienced in a suburban high school or through a viewing of The Wackness.
If you are good at concealing laughter and contempt, you should ask a white person about “Real Hip Hop.” They will quickly tell you about how they don’t listen to “Commercial Hip Hop” (aka music that black people actually enjoy), and that they much prefer “Classic Hip Hop.”
“I don’t listen to that commercial stuff. I’m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know? KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, you know, The Old School.”
Calling this style of music ‘old school’ is considered an especially apt name since the majority of people who listen to it did so while attending old schools such as Dartmouth, Bard, and Williams College.
What it all comes down to is that white people are convinced that if they were alive when this music was relevant that they would have been into it. They would have been Alan Lomax or Rick Rubin. Now the best they can hope for is to impress an older black person with their knowledge.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
*ozhiphop update*
Amazing clip. Solid song.
Dialect and Despair - Prolific from Daniel Principe on Vimeo.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
So what will *you* be doing on 19 August?
This could turn out to be the most classic night ever, you realise.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Peach and Shag Go To the Movies
Just to get us pumped to go to Predators, I thought we should reflect on another amazing movie.
Kazaam
Wikipedia highlights include:
"Max eventually finds his father, only to learn that he is a musical talent agent who specializes in pirated music."
"Max confesses to Kazaam that he and his father aren't really connecting, though Kazaam attempts to shirk the issue with some rapping."
"Kazaam transforms Mr. Melik into a basketball and then slam-dunks him into a garbage disposal."
and...
!!!
"Unfortunately, Kazaam discovers that Max is dead and becomes despondent. Feeling sad, he tranforms into a higher level and becomes "djinn", and is able to bring Max back, re-unite him with his family, and give Max's father a second chance at life. In addition, Kazaam also becomes human..."
!!!
Kazaam
Wikipedia highlights include:
"Max eventually finds his father, only to learn that he is a musical talent agent who specializes in pirated music."
"Max confesses to Kazaam that he and his father aren't really connecting, though Kazaam attempts to shirk the issue with some rapping."
"Kazaam transforms Mr. Melik into a basketball and then slam-dunks him into a garbage disposal."
and...
!!!
"Unfortunately, Kazaam discovers that Max is dead and becomes despondent. Feeling sad, he tranforms into a higher level and becomes "djinn", and is able to bring Max back, re-unite him with his family, and give Max's father a second chance at life. In addition, Kazaam also becomes human..."
!!!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Not much time has passed
So you know.
This is one of the most important songs in my life. And were actually at this show. I got the single with this acoustic version signed.
Life is amazing.
I've also done an edit (that confirms life - and friendship with you - is amazing)
Edit:
This is one of the most important songs in my life. And were actually at this show. I got the single with this acoustic version signed.
Life is amazing.
I've also done an edit (that confirms life - and friendship with you - is amazing)
Edit:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Shag, I need your professional copywriting opinion
Taken from Rapper AFS's Myspace
"Suspense crossed with mysterious experience that ignites creative spark, is just a minimal description. AFS - the new face of urban music continues to break boundaries.
"The controversy surrounding the artists compelling lyrics provides an ‘artistic explosion’. Passion, energy & complete dynamic driving a strong influence gives us a clear visual.
"But the music is nothing that of raps expected culture, AFS finely divides the passion of a diverse commercially based foundation around an exploring suspenseful dictation of the world around us. Throughout the years, AFS earned unanimous recognition & creditability amongst the underground rap scene even whilst in his early production stages.
"From his lucrative descriptions, to his catchy well defined choruses, to the lyrical complexity yet smooth characteristics displayed consistently this single Just Imagine is a clear representation of the artists technique in not only rap but his technique in constructing music for all people of all ages."
This is perfection. Surely.
"Suspense crossed with mysterious experience that ignites creative spark, is just a minimal description. AFS - the new face of urban music continues to break boundaries.
"The controversy surrounding the artists compelling lyrics provides an ‘artistic explosion’. Passion, energy & complete dynamic driving a strong influence gives us a clear visual.
"But the music is nothing that of raps expected culture, AFS finely divides the passion of a diverse commercially based foundation around an exploring suspenseful dictation of the world around us. Throughout the years, AFS earned unanimous recognition & creditability amongst the underground rap scene even whilst in his early production stages.
"From his lucrative descriptions, to his catchy well defined choruses, to the lyrical complexity yet smooth characteristics displayed consistently this single Just Imagine is a clear representation of the artists technique in not only rap but his technique in constructing music for all people of all ages."
This is perfection. Surely.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
We have good friends.
Good friends who do things that make me proud we're friends with them.
Observe our Tilted Page friend, Jon Valenzuela:
Observe our Tilted Page friend, Jon Valenzuela:
Fucking magnets; how do they work?
Shag, in a parrallel life, in a another world, in another time, maybe we would have been Juggalos. Can you imagine how bad our teenage skin would have been had it been covered in shoe polish every time we went to an all ages pop-punk show?
Imagine how pumped we would have been when we found out what the Black Carnival was. "It's God! And Christianity!"
After Shaggy (lol! Like your name!) wonders all about Fucking Magnets and How They Work, he has a line like, "and I don't want to find out from a scientist."
The real question is...
Do you believe in Miracles?
Will we always be...
Homies?
Imagine how pumped we would have been when we found out what the Black Carnival was. "It's God! And Christianity!"
After Shaggy (lol! Like your name!) wonders all about Fucking Magnets and How They Work, he has a line like, "and I don't want to find out from a scientist."
The real question is...
Do you believe in Miracles?
Will we always be...
Homies?
Monday, June 21, 2010
Somewhere in the history of our blog...
... there is a photo of you where it looks like you wee'd your pants.
Fair's fair.
Me in December 2005 at, like, my second ever battle.
And the payoff...
Dickies shorts!
("They're so baggy, man. They're like the World's Most Perfect Shorts.")
Fair's fair.
Me in December 2005 at, like, my second ever battle.
And the payoff...
Dickies shorts!
("They're so baggy, man. They're like the World's Most Perfect Shorts.")
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Shag, I'm basically doing this post so there is somewhere to host these photos!
What!
Who would do that?
You see it's Classic old OZZHURPHURPdotCOM Food Day today. What you have to do is post up a recipe of something you've cooked for everyone to go, "you cooked THAT?! YOU FAG/CUNT."
Mine's braised shin of beef.
Should be fun.
HERE IS THE THREAD
My dish has: Ingredients
Techniques
Processes
And...
...
an anti-climax!
Who would do that?
You see it's Classic old OZZHURPHURPdotCOM Food Day today. What you have to do is post up a recipe of something you've cooked for everyone to go, "you cooked THAT?! YOU FAG/CUNT."
Mine's braised shin of beef.
Should be fun.
HERE IS THE THREAD
My dish has: Ingredients
Techniques
Processes
And...
...
an anti-climax!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
How to bludge/DRM
OK, you know Digital Rights Management? You know how it used to mean "you can only burn a CD from this iTunes song five times" and now it means "I used to be a big, important media corporation but I don't think I am anymore"? Well, yeah. The handling of Gordon Ramsay's amazing Kitchen Nightmares is a case in point.
You get three fifths (3/5!) of an episode free on youtube, and then you have to go and buy the rest ("get them hooked, then they'll buy the DVD"). Some people are idiots.
Amazing show, though. Maybe we should make our blog about food? Are there even any blogs about food? Would ours be the first?
You get three fifths (3/5!) of an episode free on youtube, and then you have to go and buy the rest ("get them hooked, then they'll buy the DVD"). Some people are idiots.
Amazing show, though. Maybe we should make our blog about food? Are there even any blogs about food? Would ours be the first?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Which scares you more?
I know you're a tough guy (totally) but I reckon there's a good chance that either of these things would have stopped 16 y.o. you from running away from School Assembly on the night of the Loretto Kiribilli Year 11 formal.
amiright?
amiright?
Friday, April 16, 2010
It's Fridaaaay! Big boy type shit, son.
I'm a loan you a quick four or five bucks BUCK! BUCK! BUCK! BUCK! BUCK!
Blow the horns on 'em. Not now, but right now.
You're driving to Batemans Bay right now. No doubt you're listening to this song the whole way! Good idea!
Blow the horns on 'em. Not now, but right now.
You're driving to Batemans Bay right now. No doubt you're listening to this song the whole way! Good idea!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
OK, listen to (i.e. look at) this:
Hypnotised?
"Yes, I am a professional. Yes, I am oddly apologetic about it. And it also makes me feel kind of jolly (but still uncomfortable)."
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