If You Thought Nickelback Couldn’t Get Any Worse…
March 27, 2006
It’s two weeks ago now, but we had a great send-off from our Woolloomooloo crew the night before we flew down to Melbourne. Our mate Julian hosted the do – he used to be a barrister. Fortunately, for the sake of the entire postcode region’s safety, Adam managed to find Julian’s old barrister gear, and decided he wanted to try it on. He’s now morphed into some combination of Judge Judy and an Australian Chuck Norris. Australia, you can sleep safe at night.It’s almost time for my bi-annual dye-my-hair-a-ridiculous-colour event. I’ve already scratched blue, green and purple off the list – I’m thinking of perhaps getting a little homo and getting tips this time (I dunno, bright red with purple tips? Something like that). All I need to do is shave lines into my eyebrows and I’m probably a fully-fledged member of a 90s alternarock band.
Usually I go to a hairdressers to get this kind of shit done, but frankly, hairdressers scare me. There’s only two hairstyles in my repertoire – a $10 short back and sides at the barbers, then I just shave my head when it gets too long, then repeat. Simple, and doesn’t require the intervention of hairdressers at all.
Getting my hair dyed by hairdressers usually proves to be really freakin’ expensive, though. Perhaps I should let one of my sisters experiment with it all. Hmm.
Even if I do decide to go with a hairdresser, by default I can’t bring myself to attend the closest hairdresser to our place. They’re called Curlz, which I wouldn’t normally hold against them – but they use the Windows font called “Curlz” as their logo. Can’t anyone else see a bored designer flipping through a list of fonts trying to think of a business name, and farting out a logo in five minutes? The Quick Brown Fox clothing chain is also guilty of the using-font-name-as-font-in-your-logo offense. There’s more out there that I’ve seen around the city, and you shall all be named and shamed!
NATIONAL WARNING, I REPEAT, A NATIONAL WARNING – AN EX MEMBER OF THE MAVIS’S HAS SIGNED TO ROADRUNNER. Beware of the infiltration of Beki and the Bullets. The first single hits radio in less than two weeks – take cover! And, oh my god, check out this journal entry from their site:
The Melbourne Roadrunner party KICKED ASS!!!!…The Bullets doing Slipknot and Nickleback was wicked!
Egads, can you think of any stronger entertainment cancer than an ex-Mavis covering Nickelback?! Actually, yes, I can:
The popular TV series “Desperate Housewives” has always seemed to take place in a slightly altered universe, where perfect lawns hide the perfect murder (or three or four), and the infidelities and twisted social lives make suburbia look as dangerous as any scene out of “World of Warcraft.”
Come this fall, players of a new interactive game based on the show can create their own scandal — or work to uncover their neighbors’ secrets. They can even do a little shopping on the side.
More info on the game here. I may, ahem, be prone to watching a few episodes here and there of the show; but this game will only be cool if you can make that hot gardener guy bang all of the husbands.
