Aussie Music Monday #2

This song by Birds of Tokyo has been great for me this week.  For anyone thinking, “Hey isn’t it Wednesday” might I recommend Cee Lo Green for you this week. Ok ok, just joking, th reason I am behind is because I have been worked pretty hard this week polishing concrete in random, however scenic, areas outside Adelaide.  Birds of Tokyo and their song Plans is just mellow enough to keep me sane after working 9 hours in the 90 plus degree heat we’re having here. 

Band: Birds of Tokyo

Origin: Perth, West Australia

Genre: Alternative

Sounds Like: Snow Patrol, Plain White Tees,Dashboard Confessional

Score: Five Kangaroos

Weekly Traditions

So I am restructuring my blog in an attempt to get some regularity in my posts. 

I have started and posted weekly topics.

Aussie Music Monday and Oz Word Wednesday. Any ideas for the other 5 days of the week would be appreciated and considered. 

Currently up for Friday is Photo Op Friday. 

Oz Word Wednesday (#1 Nov 17)

I'm going to keep this short and sweet.

This Wednesday's word is Sook


Sook

-noun: a weak and or cowardly person or being.

i.e. After striking out Tom became quite a sook.

Sookie
-verb: To pout or act in a lowly manner.


i.e. She got sookie when the pub closed early on her birthday.

Feel free to use these whenever you choose. I'm sure no one will understand you

Aussie Music Monday (# 1 Nov 15)

So for my first installment of my ongoing Aussie Music Monday. I'm going to throw out a few songs that are hot on the airwaves in South Australia right now.

The first is an Australian band called Short Stack.  I like their stuff its catchy but I'm not ashamed to listen to it in public, *cough*Willow Smith*cough*. Well, that is if I still had a radio--damn thieves.  But I digress.I love Planets but We Dance to a Different Disco, Honey isn't too bad either.

Band: Short Stack
Origin: New South Wales
Genre: Punk/Alt Rock


Similar to: Panic at the Disco,My Chemical Romance, The Killers

Planets

We Dance to a Different Disco, Honey

 Next is a song that, I must warn you, will most likely be stuck in your head until you die.  The song is I Like That. In simply typing the title the chorus is now streaming in my skull. Sa-weet, it was quiet up there anyway.  I'm not an expert on techno/ house/ electronic but I'll give it a shot. Sorry Riley for desecrating your genre. 

Band: Static Revenger & Richard Vission
Featuring: LUCIANA

Origin:USA, USA, UK
Genre: House/Techno/Electronic

Similar to: LMFAO, Benni Benassi
I Like That: Static Revenger & Richard Vission Feat LUCIANA

Lastly and you may hate me for this song. Is a house song. Its just too much to explain. If you listen long enough you will think you're riding in a Bentley top down with Papa Smurf and Hillary Clinton its that ridiculous.  I went through two packs of glow sticks in the first hour after hearing it. I warned you.


Group: Duck Sauce
Origin: The Moon (can you tell I'm serious about this)
Genre: House
Similar to: ??????


Duck Sauce: Barbra Streisand

Bucket List

As an eventful evening with the Young family wound down tonight we opted to watch 'The Bucket List'.  I have never seen the movie although I had prepared, and failed, a College Life Bucket List.  I have always felt that I have this foresight that is not granted to many people of my age.  I have always planned, goal-set, striven, accomplished, evaluated, revised and repeated.  While growing up my actions were always guided by how any decision fit into my goals.  As the oldest brother I also felt compelled to be a good role model.  Not to say I never made a poor choice, but I avoided some decisions that I feel most teens and collegiates make as part of the process of growing up.  However, in doing this I feel it has deprived my life of a certain spontaneity and inserted some sense of self consciousness I did not like.   Hence the abrupt change I have undertook the past few years. 
   I, myself do not have a tangible Bucket List.  My Bucket List is in the form of my adoption of a new self awareness.  I want my life to be an adventure. I like to think of my life as a story and I, as the author, hold the responsibility of writing a quality story.  I have always despised the average, the mediocre, and plain. I would rather undergo a epic disastrous failure of a day then to sit back and look at the day without having a story to tell.  I want to be able to sit down as the old man at the bar and tell some young fella about the days I spent playing baseball in Australia with Tom Brice and Quincy Latimore or maybe the time I vanished into Brazil, or maybe its something less monumental. Maybe its telling that same young man the story of when, due to of a misplaced wallet and a flat innertube, a friend and I found ourselves hitch hiking with one shoe and a wet satchel filled with empty beer on a windy road between no-where and who-knows-where. 
      The point is I don't have a scribed list, nor do I want one, telling me I wanted to do this specific thing.  My list consists of this one thing; I never want to miss out on my life and never do I want to look back and think, "Those were the days". In my opinion when a person feels the best days are behind them,they stop living and simply settle for an existence.  

Tele and Radio

One of the greatest things I've discovered in Australia is the media.  The Australian culture is very laid back in terms of restrictions.  This leads to a array of comedy that the US is not prepared to experience.  TV shows are held to similar standards during the day but after 9pm most of the restrictions are lifted. So profanity, and partial nudity are common.  During my first week here a network channel broadcast almost in entirety the movie Superbad complete with "Oh my god thats the coolest fucking story I have heard in my life!Can you tell it again,Do you have time?" and nipples on the front cover the convenience store's magazine.  I was surprised, but hardly offended. I noticed that the late night TV, which were all similar to Conan, Who's Line Is It Anyway and Saturday Night Live were allowed to swear at will and did not hold back verbal assaults on whomever they pleased.  I've seen billboards that read Hot as Hell? Job's a Bitch? I know this wouldn't fly in the States but it isn't cause for concern. 
     Currently there are two ongoing stories that I'm curious to find how they may unfold. The first is a serious as it is disgusting.  Joel Monaghan, a star South Australian  rugby player, has been caught in a situation that I'm sure has Tiger Woods feeling sorry for the guy.  Pictures surfaced on the net of Monaghan staging a sex act with the family dog. The picture was a result of a drunken party prank wherein Monaghan most definitely had a serious lapse in judgment and well- species. 
     The second story has been dubbed Gorillagate.  A local zoo has been accused of not having genuine animals, but in fact having people dressed up in animal suits.  A family has gone to the press and accused the zoo of having people in costumes not real gorillas.  In a stranger twist, the allegations are true.  Before you think that the Australia zoo's are frauds there is something to be explained.  The zoo agreed to let local radio hosts Himash and Andy test the new gorilla enclosure before the real gorillas arrived.  Throughout the day the two radio personalities testing became more and more, shall we say evolved. They began with normal wrestling and play but by the end of the day the "gorillas" were playing frisbee and racing remote control cars. 


http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/joel-monaghan-in-tears-after-quitting-the-raiders-20101109-17lff.html

http://www.safm.com.au/shows/hamishandandy