Dr Thompsons diagnosis...

The looming US presidential election has ramifications for every creature on this shithole planet.
Hunter S. Thompson had this to say - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7

Audrey

Samson clocks off work around the same time today because its tuesday its tuesday and tuesday is every other day. He skips through the carpark a battered station wagon keys in the ignition a police car speeding off into setting sun in the rearview. Samson leaps four stairs forwards purposeful stride through the hotel foyer golden crystal chandeliers donated by the mormon church next door swaggers towards the bar. Stop. Soft white material centimetres from his nose smells like gin. Black tie and tuxedo jacket hangs off broad shoulders both have a series of bloodstains. Why cant i look up at his face?
"Excuse me sir."
The mans big voice fills the hallway thick with sound.
"Sir...Sir, I can't let you in here today sir."
Why cant i look up at his face?
Samson looks at his shoes black leather cracked and disintergrating he is a dead weight on his sole.
"Sir...they told me sir...they told me that youd know why sir. Said theres someone waiting at home for you sir.
In the car speeding home Samson tunes in lets the radio fill the blank space in his mind.
Its a christian talk show first caller is Paul from Burnside with a bible battle cry for patriarchy.
"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church--he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
Samson pulls in at a service station injects liquid life into the old girl buys a packet of cigarettes and a daily newspaper headline reads "Wife throws husbands penis from window of moving car."

Avril dyes her hair!

Avril Lavigne has dyed her hair blonde because she is desperate to play Courtney Love in an upcoming movie.

The film, which will trace Love's life from her childhood, through her marriage to late Nirvana star Kurt Cobain, and will include her much-publicized battles with drink and drugs reports Teenhollywood.

Lavigne says, "Courtney is really nice and a great mom. It would be an honor to play her."

"I've been looking for a feisty role that suits my personality, and I think this is the one."

And former Hole frontwoman Love is anxious for Lavigne to portray her.

She says, "Avril rocks and is pretty enough to play me!"

Article from Ananova

Audrey - So if Courtney really is such a great mum, why was her daughter (Francis Bean) taken from her care? And i sure hope Avril has an interest in method acting. If i see this film, it'll be for the heroin, not the heroine.

Going in my ears today/tonight...

Nine Inch Nails - Broken (Nothing/Interscope) LP
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (Interscope/TVT) LP
Nirvana - Incesticide (Sub Pop/Geffen) LP
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather (Burning Heart) LP
Leftover Crack - Mediocre Generica (Hellcat) LP
Tool - Aenima (Zoo) LP
Static X - Beneath...Between...Beyond (Warner Bros) LP
Adelaide's very own 3D Radio 93.7FM
Radiohead - Amnesiac (EMI) LP
Tom Waits (with William S Burroughs) - The Black Rider (Island) LP

women of the red night - Audrey Autonomy 2002 

Letting the side down.

I cant seem to shake off a certain dissillusionment i feel concerning my current professional obligations. My body is shackled by lethargy, wracked by convulsions of apathy. I cant say that i'm completely ungrateful for the opportunity to study at university, and i'm generally satisfied with the content of the courses i'm enrolled in. I have no great difficulties working with the staff allocated to me and there has been no dangerous or lasting conflicts with fellow students.
There is a stupid negative stigma surrounding students on social security in this nation state. But work is work is work and this job sucks as much as the next. Work sucks by definition tiresome and repetative and this industry is exploitative and nasty. Sure, i have less contact hours than my friends in kitchens and factories and shopping malls but i get paid only enought to survive. Surrounded by dried out academics with spines made of dead twigs and bittersweet suburban white girls a little overweight more than a little naieve and they'll move out of their parents house when they marry a nice white boy with a good job who loves his country and is ruled by his cock. Sure, I've got more time where i'm free to spend, but i'm living below the poverty line. I shed my fair share of blood sweat and tears.
My back is bad, my eyes are sore and i ache all over. I have never felt so bombarded with a thirst for deep sleep and dreams. When i wake I just dont care enough. With every passing grade i still say ABOLISH WORK and then shake off assignment due dates like dead skin. Throughout my school years i resisted what i saw then, and see now, as compulsory miseducation. Should i attempt to manufacture greater respect for social institutions that i have deemed illegitimate? Should i obey obey obey alongside my fellow self obsessed servile sycophants. Should i pay for the priviledge? Universities are held to be utopias of progressive thought but its a tiny minority thats passionate, or even interested in social change on or outside of campus on a scale small or large. When i'm at work it seems i'm surrounded by the smell of submission to stagnation. Like Art Alexakis maybe I'm just a loser geek crazy with an evil streak, but I think i'd rather sleep and sit on my arse, read beautiful and subversive literature, tune in to great music, immerse my soul in love, smoke bongs and suck my own dick than travel an hour in order to better swallow the status quo. Sorry.

Audrey Autonomy 14/10/2004

Queeruption Presents OUtLaW

A benefit party for Queeruption 7 (Feb 2005 DIY Festival For Queers Of All Persuasions)
30 October 2004 9pm till late marrickville bowling club marrickville
dress for LAWLESSNESS!!!!! (dress-up space)
DJs - chris lego, fraughman, ken oath, mashie p, mime, mukole, nicky pee, nor@dre3nlin, zeitgeist.
Performance- keztril, manky daemon and much more.....
tickets available from: reverse garbage (addison road community centre, marrickville), paint it black records (6 enmore road, enmore), fish records (newtown), the record store (darlinghurst), UTS Students' Association, COFA Students' Association
cost:beforehand: $12 waged $8 unwaged
on the door: $15 waged $10 unwaged
if you live outside the inner city and can't get tickets call 0408671219 to book some (some conditions apply)
for more info check out www.queeruption.org

Going in my ears today...

The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (Shock) LP
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Universal) LP
NOFX - Punk In Drublic (Epitaph) LP
Portishead - Portishead (London) LP
Roadside Monument - I Am The Day Of Current Taste (Tooth & Nail Records) LP
Mindjive - Package Design (Burning Heart)
Sage Francis - Crack Pipes (Anticon)
The Secret Chiefs - Book M (Web Of Mimicry) LP
DJ Shadow - Pre-emptive Strike (MoWax) LP

Dont ever feel free my child...

Japanese Tag Kids With Chips
originally from the Inquirer, reBlogged by bev

JAPANESE SCHOOLS are experimenting with a scheme that involves giving children location computer chips.
According to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, the kids carry chips that have tiny antennae and can be traced by radio.
Electronic giant Fujitsu is providing the chips which send signals to receivers at school gates which records when a student enters or leaves.



Picture liberated from here.

Audrey

Get sloppy and slurred at Jive!

If you're vacationing in Adelaide (if you're smart you'll leave now) or maybe you have a deep love of rubber chickens then you should check out a bar named Jive.

In particular, i try to always make it to a little night they have called "Spoke N Slurred".
If you're lucky you'll see me stumbling through a little poetry.
Otherwise you'll see some of Adelaides considerably more talented artists performing.
See you there.

Audrey

JIVE
181 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA 5000
PH: 08 8211 6683
Wed - Sun, 3pm til late

Coming Soon:

6/10: Fastlake
8/10: Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist, Spike Priggin (USA)
9/10: Impunity, Jonestown Syndicate, Insect Seeking Technology
10/10: 1000 Nightmares, Wendy Icon, Equal Minded, Recrimination
12/10: Jive Exhibitions - Volume 3
15/10: Mark Eden Band, Plain Jane
16/10: Faker, 67 Special
17/10: Stringmansassy
20/10: Vincent Price
22/10: Lior CD Launch, John Woods
23/10: Elixir
27/10: Spoke N Slurred
29/10: Godnose (Bris)
30/10: The Trafalgars, The Specimens
31/10: Theatresports
4/11: Fourth Floor Collapse, Special Patrol
5/11: Mick Thomas CD Launch, Marcel Borrack
6/11: Mick Hart, The Phobias
12/11: Peabody, The Trafalgars, Booster
13/11: Fruit
14/11: Dawn Of Azel (NZ)
19/11: The Gels CD Launch
20/11: The Stanx, Shagpile, Kalis

Dr. Seuss explains why computers crash - mystery solved at last!

I got this in the mail today from Australian Writers Online, and i really dont have any idea why i'm so impressed with it. Check it -

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Hi all,Here at the desk of Australian Writers Online, computer crashes arecommon. I don't know about you but I always wanted to know why thathappens and the technical people never had an answer that I couldcomprehend. So I got in touch with Doctor Seuss, who gave me anexplanation that makes sense. This is what he said:"If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus isinterrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makesyour floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error toreport.If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data iscorrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation'shopeless and your system's gonna crash!If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says thenetwork is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packetswant to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by theprinter down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the sideeffects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse;then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'ma poet, the sucker's gonna hang!When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and themacro code instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you'll have toflash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM then quickly turnoff the computer and be sure to tell your Mum!"

With thanks to the DCLnews editorial and to Dr Seuss.
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growing old i suppose...

Its both empowering and depressing to watch inpiring individuals grow into items of irritation. Lars Fredrickson(Rancid, Lars Fredrickson And The Bastards) is a case in point for me this past year. I heard NoFX released a greatest hits...no response on that one yet either. wasn't there a line in a song of their that says "music written for devotion not ambition not for fame...dinosaurs will die..."... i'll always forgive you guys because NoFX are more than just an awesome band with a bunch of awesome records. they're a fucking awesome band with a bunch of really fucking cool records......

someone tell me i'm wrong but i'm sure i saw a poster somewhere of lars fredrickson selling shoes....and then there was the shampoo advertisment on tv.... some pretty odd pop punk hybrid music crap to propell him to stardom.... yeah yeah and we all know the story. i'm not condemning the guy yet, this year i've been getting a hell of a lot of happiness out of Rancid's 1995 LP "And Out Come The Wolves..." so hes not off the artistic roll call (apologies to Rev Bill Hicks. R.I.P) yet but still nobody i've spoken too has pleaded his case. G7 Welcoming Committee had this to say.

G7 REVIEWS LARS FREDRIKSON AND THE BASTARDS
Has anybody seen this living dip-shit's newest re-invention of himself? Here's a heads-up bozo: real studs don't have to *hire* naked ladies to take pictures with them and real gangsters don't *rent* replica glauck's for their photo shoots. They actually *own* guns. *Real* guns. I can't believe this nerd. I dunno, is there a state law in California that requires every punk band to be stupid, terrible and pathetic? They have a law like that up here in Canada in the province of Ontario.
Anyways, I gotta go. The naked ladies in our office are getting bored and Derek can only keep them occupied with his trick-shooting for so long.

And in other news: apparently the major record stores refuse to sell Leftover Crack's new LP "FUCK WORLD TRADE"..hmmm....i wonder why. I gurantee it wont be long no before i get my hands on the newest installment of that good o'l crack rock steady beat.

Be a good boy and learn to drive a horse and holden learn a hatred of speeding cameras and stool pigeons and fucking pigs you dig?
You will and be filled with your weekly prescriptions of hot dogs hamburgers hangovers headaches and helplessness.
Repeat work repeat work bone grindings bone grindings five or sometimes eight days a week and by fourty years old you're past your peak on the greyscales now your picture is most bleak.
But dont ever cry nor emotions express and cut your hair cause its a mess.
Be a good machine now boy wear jeans and not a dress.

Going in my ears today...

1st October 2004

The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (Shock)
Amen - Death Before Musick
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come (Burning Heart)
Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade (MP3s here)
Will Haven - Whvn
Aphex Twin - Druqks (Warp)
Spiderbait - Ivy And The Big Apples
Spooky - Found Sound (A&M Records)
Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender
Choking Victim - No Gods / No Managers (Hellcat)
The Offspring - The Offspring (Nitro)