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[22 February 2008|11:58 pm] |
Today has been an insane day. A new U2 song leaked, recorded by someone outside the studio, and it of course sounded like the band were playing underwater - not to mention at the other end of a wind tunnel. Truly hideous quality. And a clearer clip surfaced of The Edge just rehearsing, playing scales, which wasn't terribly interesting. So you'd think that suddenly Interference would explode with thousands of posts over-analysing it.
You would be wrong. Instead, in a random thread voting on the worst song from the Pop album, the most insane spontaneous messageboard discussion in a long time took place. And somehow I managed to burn an entire evening on this thing. I even stopped paying attention to the cricket. It spawned a second thread. We've shot well past 1,300 posts with this in very short time. I think almost a quarter of those are mine. We managed to cover just about every topic under the sun, from Steven Wilson to Christchurch's cathedral and even a bit of terribly amusing wink wink nudge nudge innuendo - and absolutely no U2! Because, of course, who on Interference actually likes U2? That's right, nobody.
In other words, that's why I don't have a worthwhile entry for today. But the epic Postwhoring of Pop Survivor Round 1 needs to be commemorated for the ages, and that's what this is for. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun online. |
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| Advice and wisdom from my youth |
[18 October 2007|11:47 pm] |
Earlier this week, Kate and I were flicking through a diary I wrote when I was six and went on a holiday around New Zealand's South Island. I was honestly surprised at how neat my writing was and how I spelt almost nothing wrong, though as the diary progresses, my run-on sentences get worse and worse, to the point that some entries are one big sentence. Then we found what I did at the end to use up the remaining space.
My conclusion to the trip: "The holiday was great!!! You should have come, stupids! Seen an old road bridge? You should really see!!! Come on then pack!!! Are you stupid?"
Yep, you should visit the South Island to see AN OLD ROAD BRIDGE. Who cares about the Southern Alps? It's all about old road bridges.
( And then I wrote a bunch of short stories that I am sure will be classics enjoyed for millennia. The first in particular is masterful literature. ) |
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| Religious fundamentalists can be a seemingly endless source of amusement |
[18 August 2007|11:57 pm] |
Some of you are probably familiar with Jack Chick. He is a Christian fundamentalist best known for his "Chick tracts" that aim to proselytise and are full of all kinds of paranoid conspiracy theories, exaggerations, distortions of the truth, rabid anti-Catholic and anti-Islamic rhetoric, and outright lies and blatant misrepresentation. It's rather disturbing when you realise there are actually people in the world who take this nonsense seriously and hand out copies of the tracts in the hope of converting people; personally, I think those tracts do more to put people off Christianity than anything. However, when you block that reality from your mind, the tracts can be absolutely hilarious in their terribleness.
And I think I just found the tract that tops the lot: The Last Generation. Besides the usual traits of Chick tracts, such as conversion appeals that come across as offensive and everything appearing to be set in some bizarre 1950s alternate reality, this one really goes all out on the "complete absurdity" front. It seems to be on a mission to include as many ill-conceived Jack Chick stereotypes that can possibly be squeezed into one tract. The "new age healer" made me burst out in laughter, as did the "free drugs" sign on the desk in one scene, but the best part is one little footnote that "Bobby won't live long". Priceless.
Honestly, I can't believe this kind of moronic crap even exists. I suppose the best thing to do is simply to dismissively laugh at it. |
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| How to scare yourself. |
[21 September 2005|09:27 pm] |
Sometimes I do things that, once I'm done, cause me to stop for a minute and think "André, did you really just do that?" Today, I did one of those things. After the setlist of today's U2 concert became known, I was inspired to make a thread on Interference off memory (with U2-Vertigo-Tour.com open for cross-checking). This was not some fanladish trick to me, but just the basic recall of data like I would remember my mother's birthday or Kate's favourite colour. I then sat back and looked at it and thought "... WTF?"
( The thread post in question. I don't expect non-U2 fans - or anyone, really - to read it. Just glance at it so you get an idea of what I actually did. )
I am officially insane.
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I do not plan on seeking a cure for either my insanity or Memory Like A Sponge Syndrome. |
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