NOVA MC comes to australia for only one week!!!

she is so amazing!!!
direct from indonesia, female mc and activist, Nova is in australia for only one week, and we are putting on a film night for her to present......
click this link to hear her music
-----> mc Nova!!!

she features on our gooey on the inside comp, she is so fucking cool.
her music also featured in our FREE WEST PAPUA performance in 2008.

Nova is not only an amazing mc, but is a producer for ENGAGE MEDIA-- which is basically like an independant media network across asia pacific, check it out. click the word engage media to visit the site.

MONDAY 30 MARCH 7:30PM
FILM NIGHT
Activism in Asia Pacific
@Barricade Books, 62 St Georges Rd

*Presented by Javanese artist, feminist, Engage media Producer, activist
and rapper, Nova.*
www.myspace.com/novatwinsista

In town for only one week, Nova will be presenting films and giving *real
insight into Indonesian issues and activism*, as well as info on engage
media, which is an open source, autonomous news documentary website. It is
predominately produced by those otherwise ignored my media, with films
such as "The Country is not for the poor", produced by Urban Poor
Consortium.* *"NGATINI", produced by street vendors community in Salatiga,
Central Java, Indonesia. ETC ETC (please note these films will not be
shown but are just given as examples of the type of films produced)
EngageMedia is a video sharing site focusing on social justice and
environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific. It is a space for critical
documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the
dominance of the mainstream media.
come along !!!!!

NEW BABEZ IN TOWWWWN

HAVENT YOU HEARD??
ThERES A NEW GIRL IN TOWN \/\/\/\/\/\/
HI, HER NAME IS-----

!!!!!!!! tuffghost !!!!!!!!

so she is prrrrreeeeeeettttttty fucken amazing. . . . .. .

im really excited about her

and she DEBUTd this year at resurgence queer fest and blew our fucken sox off and our skirts up and hats to the side blah blah blah

anyway here is a video of her remake of I KISSD A GURL and she has made it fuken awesome and catchy.
check it out!~~~~~~~~

ON A BOAT, sydney style!! 4 realz

HOW TO START A SCENE FROM SCRATCH, taken from holly and kati's GOOEY project presentation, ELECTROFRINGE 08

What do you do if you're a cool girl or shy boy and you wanna make music or art or whatever!??! MAKE MUSIC AND ART IN YR BEDROOM AND THEN TAKE IT TO THE WORLD!!!! It doesn't matter if you live in New York City, or the smallest, most boring town in the middle of nowhere, you can make music in your bedroom you can put your art online, and organize shows and meet people who make art and do other weird things!!! I've got some hottt tips, but first an intro:

When i moved to Melbourne, I was totally devo-ed when i realised that there wasn't a cool girl art noise scene here!!! :( cos I moved from Brisbane where Toxic Lipstick and Anal Cookie and other groups like that did heaps of work to make space for weirdo girls and weirdo boys who don't like guitar music! So my first couple of months in Melbourne were spent sooking about not having a space to call my own, but then my friends and I decided to BUILD A SCENE FROM SCRATCH, to create a space (in our bedrooms//minds and even ON STAGE) for girl noise artists and musicians to show each other (and the world) the amazing things that we can do! And so Gooey On The Inside was born!

Now, after organising parties for over a year, I've made friends with with teenagers who sample video games in their hot tracks, ex-drug addicts who rap about the shit in their life instead of taking pills, awesome performance-art drag-queens who do tarot readings and everyone's make-up, and lots of sparkle-whaaaa babes who have come out of their shells cos they know that there is space to make the art they want!

So… if you make music and you are a girl (or if you are a shy boy, or queer, or if yr not rich or WHATEVA) it can be harder to get your stuff out there than if you're a regular all-boy rock band!!! But if you push through the obstacles, you will find that there are people out there in similar positions to you, and who make cool stuff as well (or they will after they get inspired by what you're doing!). Their lives will be enriched by the knowledge that you and your art exist!! Right now it might not seem like there's space for what you're doing, but if you just to stick yr elbows out and wiggle a bit, you will make some!! This is DIY culture: DO IT YOURSELF, because no one else will!!

PUT ON SHOWS
This is probably the most important thing you can do to create a scene. A show is a physical space where people can perform all the (h)art that they have made! It a place to meet new people who have been lured in by your awesome flyer design skills and want to have a good time. Its a place to express yourself and show off!

have some idea of what you want to happen @ yr show…
You can have acts or DJs, or anything that you think will make cool people come to your show (like vegan hot dog stalls, weird installations by your art friends, bubble machines, WHATEVA YOU WANT!!!)

find a venue <3>
Anywhere could be a venue for your show!!! Gooey On The Inside have put on shows in warehouses, art galleries, squats, our friends' lounge-rooms, in carparks, in clubs, in an anarchist bookstore and recently even at big festivalz! Each venue will have its good and bad points. If your show is in an art gallery there may be sound restrictions but you'll probably have freedom to do some weird shit up there. If your show is in a squat, you'll need to be prepared for the fact that cops could turn up, and if you want to use a club or a pub you'll have to negotiate with the booker who might want a guarantee of how many people will come or else they'll want your money! But always be confident about what you want to do when you are talking to the people who run the venue you want to use. In general, if you're a girl, men will talk down to you and assume you know nothing. THIS IS FALSE!! You can do anything you want!! Easily!!!

organize a PA or sound equipment for the event
Some people get really intimidated when it comes to sound equipment (including me about 6 months ago), but its actually not that hard:
A PA is a Public Addess system, its the name for what normally includes a mixing desk, and at least two speakers, and normally it might come with some shit mics. Venues like pubs and clubs usually have a PA already, but you'll need to hire or borrow one if your party is at a gallery or a house or squat (or just use amps + shitty speakers).
Get to know mixing desks, leads, jacks, etc and you will won't have to deal with loser sound guys because you will hear the problem and be able to fix it yourself!! But here are some basic stuff to remember before you become a soundmaster:
Before you play, ALWAYS do a soundcheck. Good sound is half your show. Talk and sing into the mic the way you will when you perform. If there is a bit where you yell, do it so the sound person knows. If you don’t like your voice sounding really low or really high, tell them and they can take out the tones you don't like. But you need to say what you want, don’t trust that they just 'know what they’re doing'… they don’t… BE CONFIDENT for real!!!!!
If you make electronic music and it doesn’t sound right when its playing thru the PA, tell the sound tech straight away. They might argue with you and tell you that its your computer or your gear or your ears, but it isn`t. Normally they haven't plugged in both channels of your instrument/computer/mixer etc or have put them into the wrong hole! Oops!

promote ya gig
Decide on a cool theme!! Some Gooey themes have been: clown, infinity, mad max sparkle apocolypse, birthday party, Ibiza beach party, goosebumps horror house, troll dolls, rave culture, the possilities are endless!
Make the flyer to match the theme using cracked versions of photoshop and hand draw colourful shit on top of it and then encourage people to dress up for the party. Make sure your flyer has ALL of the info that people will need, including the time, place, day AND date of your show, and also the acts who are playing the show! Give flyers to your friends and tell them if they start a band they can play too!!! Leave flyers at all the places you look for flyers (record stores, cafes, school/uni, clothes shops, youth centres). Put the flyer all over the internet and talk shit about your show (this is so fast for telling your friends to come party and you don’t have to print out onto old growth rain-forest).

cultivate community!
this sounds real posi, i know, but we're talking about nu-egg talent here!!! Once you're playing stadium shows you'll have heaps of time to think about whether your music is 'really good' or not. But right now, if you really want to create a new world for you and your allies, you need to believe in yourself as a radical performer! And remember, your friends are just like celebrities, they just haven't been exploited yet!

support the art
if your friend starts making raps or music or art tell them its awesome (because it IS) and then put on a party to celebrate it. (someone once asked me, 'but what about if your friend's art ISN'T good', but i've never come across this problem! 'good' is a totally subjective concept, and if Billy Ray Cyrus and his achey breaky heart could be a number one hit sensation of the early ninties, then there is no reason why yr friends can't play whatever they want at yr show, even if they just wanna bash on the bottom of icecream buckets and howl to the sky backed by a choir of stray dogs!!! also, if you don't like what someone does at your show, you don't have to ask them to play again, its good to try to have different performers at different parties too!!!)

co-inspire with your friends
never give up, no matter how many people tell you your music isn't 'good', let's push each other to become bigger, better, cooler, hotter, funner, freaks!
Remember to make a myspace if you are a cool girl artist + record songs in yr bedroom please, cuz the world needs it!! And then we can talk to each other and get inspired!

GOOEY ON THE INSIDE compilation JUST DROPPED!!!! in euro and australia!!!

buy our GOOEY COMPILATION CD!!!
Current mood: amorous
Category: Music

oh hey!!!
so we have these fkn AMAZING gooey on the inside compilation cds for sale.




they
1. have the best bands on them including
Toxic Lipstick, B12 Shot,
Ooujah and the Trash, Julia Rose, Una Nina Malvada, KT Spit, Pig+Machine, ultra violet mc, Pandie, C+Genik

and
MORE!!!!!



2. it comes with a poster AND a patch!!!!!

3. ITS REALLY CHEAP

4. the artwork is really cool......



5. they are really really rare, and if you get one, you will have a fucken piece of history/herstory etc etc

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you would like to buy one please contact us. we accept money order, paypal, sometimes trade, etc
just email us!!!!

holly- (europe)
shotflux@gmail.com

kati- (australia) stupiddumbstickers@gmail.com

xoxoxoxoxox
oxoxoxox

Currently watching: Times Square Release date: 2000-11-28

TOP 5 QUEER LOVE SONGS

well, since its that time of the year here's my top five list of queer love songs!!!:


1. When You Were Mine - Cyndi Lauper version (1985)
A cover of the Prince song, this version sung is by Lauper without changing the gender pronouns in the lyrics, which makes her version totally queer, because she is talking about her ex-lover now having a boy lover, which is not hetero.!:)

(in this version Cyndi enters stage via a big vaginal flap!!)

2. I Kissed A Girl - Jill Sobule (1995)
this one's a bit busted... (harmonica, anyone?!)

but its totally non-hetero, its the story of Jill talking to her friend about their boyfriends, 'He's such a hairy behemoth,
dumb as a box of hammers ' the friend says to Jill, and Jill responds that her lover 'Larry' has asked her to marry but she's waiting for a better offer. The two women laugh, drink, smoke, then make out.Jill acknowledges that while kissing another girl may not be a revolutionary action, it has made her happy:

I kissed a girl
Her lips were sweet.
She was just like kissing me
Kissed a girl won't change the world
But I'm so glad,
I kissed a girl!

this song also has quite an interesting hook, 'they can have their diamonds and we'll have our pearls', in which 'pearl' could definitely be interpreted as an allusion to the clit.

this song is heaps gayer than Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl, featuring the lines, ' I kissed a girl just to try it, I hope my boyfriend don't mind it', and 'it felt so wrong, it felt so right, don't mean i'm in love tonight' which is kinda radical love but still privledges tha het'.


3. Strip For Me - Gravy Train (2007)

Ok, Gravy Train are hella gay. Obviously. Strip For Me, featuring the line 'You may be the gayest fuckin' guy in town but I like dick and you have a weiner.' Gravy Train have this whole schtick, like, its all about really hott gay guys that straight girls are really resentful of, ever heard the song 'you made me gay'?) but this song is just too good to skip, a queer HIT!


this video is a fan art. i love it because i love drag kings and the fact that a lot of drag kings perform in really similar ways. also i wish that was my bedroom, this version ends with drag king saying, 'oh my god, that got my glasses foggy...'

4. They're Not Gonna Get Us - t.A.T.u (2002)
Everyone knows that Tatu were a totally manufactured teen lesbian duo, created in 1998 by a businessman who had realized that the most searched terms for porn were 'teen' and 'lesbian', and that he could make some money. On this premise, he brought Lena and Yulia together (then both 13 years old) and they recorded 200km in the wrong lane which spawned the hit singles All The Things She Said and the Smiths cover How Soon Is Now.
They're Not Gonna Get Us is in the distinctive t.A.T.u style of overdriven almost nu-metal techno and boasts such teen angsty lyrics as, ' My love for you, always forever, Just you and me, all else is nothing, Not going back, not going back there, They don't understand, They don't understand us '(fades to epic echo....)


this video clip features Lena and Yulia hangin tough on the back of a huge truck plummetting through the snow without a driver!! that's HOTTTTT! note the smashed glass effect when they are singing as the video was only filmed with the girls singing in Russian.

5. Gold Star - O.T.T. (2008)

This song is hot. Not only is it a love song, and a queer pride song, but its also a banging dance track. Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Oscar Nutt and the Trash are total party people who make homo electro and wear excellent costumes. Gold Star is the idea of being totalz gay, 'i'm a gold star, a puritan gay, i wouldn't go straight, even for one day' is the chorus and the loooove affection comes in a sing, songy, almost lullaby, ' Gold star,
Shining bright,
will you be my baby tonight?
Gold star,
I've got so much pride,
too much loving that I just can't hide.'
if you weren't a gold star before listening to this track, you'll probably be wishing you were by the end *sigh*

this is O.T.T.'s myspace, Gold Star is the first track on their player.!

so what's your favourite queer love song? PEACE OUT!

DATELESS DISCO!!! feb 14th melbourne!!!

hay come party and dance this valentines day!!!
don't worry about romantic love, lets get in on some DANCE LOVE!!!
with baaddd (kate from toxic lipstick + emily hasselhoof), DJ pandie ft. kt spit as well as kabbuki bukkake and CHICKS ON WEED!!!!
+ DJs spinning good music 4 eva!!!!!!
fuck valentines day. come dance.
descriptions of these hott babz coming soooon!!!!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

NIYI ON THE ECONOMY AND RAVING

This year and the next one is going to get fucking GRIM. Jobs are going to be lost, crime is going to go up, and money you thought you could bank on isnt going to be so dependable anymore. Basically, its all going to get shit from here on in.

Pretty soon, the world will need free thinkers to rebuild the mess.

Not only are you encouraged to go out and rave, BUT YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS IT RIGHT NOW.

When the whole world is going tits up around us, NOW is the time to RAVE. NOW is the time to PARTY. NOW is the time to get CREATIVE.

NOW is NOT the time to stop DREAMING.

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Music Policy

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Those looking for a standard music policy, I suppose you will end up elsewhere eventually............We started you off EEEEEZZZ, I suppose it was an easing-in moment of sorts.

expect the music to get WEIRDER, HARDER, AND MORE NINTH EYE.

Starting with our half-hour classical music session when the club opens (I KID YOU NOT.)

Prepare to SKANK to BACH

AMAZING <3

ELECTROFRINGE INVITES CREAM OV TROUBLE MAKERS = ~~~~~~~GOOEY ON THA INSIDE~~~~~~~~

"Between Birchville Cat Motel (NZ), KK NULL (Japan) and Maruosa (Japan) there is a multicoloured bouquet of noise musics, worth hearing indeed but less interesting to write about. (“Loud!”) RAVENATION though, is a performance worth detailing—worth, even getting thrown out of for disorderly behaviour and sneaking back in over the beergarden fence. Curated by Melbourne performance collective Gooey On the Inside, the show assembles a kind of mocking electro cabaret that veers between deft satire and simple mockery but mostly hangs out in the vicinity of general mayhem.

Half a generation since the festival was founded, Electrofringe’s early days are already fodder for (re)appropriation by the young turks as much as the pop culture canon; everything from breakcore to cabaret is compressed in RAVENATION into a parodical three hour hyper-rave with smoke machine, lasers and fake MDMA included, not to mention an animatronic latex penis mask, all broadcast in animated GIF art on Myspace. These folks are not just staking out a claim for their area of practice on the fringes of the mainstream, but wresting it back from the ageing cohort who now run the flagship, and producing an impressively slick show while they’re at it.

Programming touring international artists is fantastic for Electrofringe’s profile; but it’s the ability to invite the cream of troublemakers into the halls of marginally-more-power that keep it alive and relevant. I can’t wait until Gooey on the Inside get their comeuppance in turn in a few years’ time."

see tha whole article here from RealTime Arts magazine

see photos of RAVENATION here

love love xx x x x

fashion hayley @ infinity party!!

http://fashionhayleyhome.blogspot.com/2008/08/tokyo-weekend-in-melbourne.html

this is Fashion Hayley's post about the infinity party from august.
its got a bunch of photos too!!!
x x x


kati and holly (by fashion hayley)

DANCESAFE!!!

http://www.dancesafe.org/
erm, chase the lazer?!
Disclaimer: This website provides health and safety information only. We neither condemn nor condone the use of any drug. Rather, we recognize that recreational drug use is a permanent part of our society, and that there will always be people who use drugs, despite prohibition. The drug information we provide, therefore, is meant to assist users in making informed decisions about their use. We do not make the claim, nor do we imply, that the use of any drug can ever be completely safe. All drug use contains inherent risks. We assume no responsibility for how the information on this site is used.

gmail no tities crapb

so it seems that gmail noticed us talking about the crab, and how it, according to eli 'looks like tits' and so they made new rich emoticons!! so the crab doesn't look like tits, and instead it looks like a crab, and it moves:


yeh sorry, blurry and cute, eh!??!!?!

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html


i love you <3

secret admirerers???

SO......
me and holly have been talking and we are realllly confused about how we have so many hits on this blog.... i mean....really??
really???
only two followers are listed!!!
and one of them is gooey on the inside. and the other one is me.
does anyone else we know read this?
you should add yourself to the followers so we can see if this counter thing is real coz it says we get 12,000 hits per day and thats totally wack
xoxoxoxo

WILL THE REAL 3D PLEASE STAND UP!?!

i drew this//i wish i had some 3d shadez...

suxxx about the world economic collapse

now i can't buy shit for cheap.
x x x x x xx x
bring it on
x x x
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i <3 gmail chat

www.i.gave.you.crabs.V.v.V.com
www.soz.com
soz.about.that.com

i <3 V.v.V

ps. +/'\
x x x x

do you reckon this dog is real?X?X?X
ps. 12,000 people per day look at our blog, SCORE!!!
x x

holly fluxxibition

drum roll....
get ready for the HOLLY FLUXXIBITION!!!
next friday night @ DISCOBEANS!!!!
with rainbows, string and PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES!!!

and japanese food (by yuka) and booze!!!
x x x xx x
<3

advanced style

look at this blog:
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

its like FRUITS!! but its all senior citizen babes!!!
x x x x x x x xx

UV UV UV Ultra Violet GLOWWWW!!!

kati and i went to Thread Den last night and saw Seamstress, 'five solos explorign the dancer's relationship with costume'. it was fucking amzing, each performance was so different
including one under UV light!!!
which led me to wonder.... what glows under UV light!?!?!?

includes PISS, CUM and PLANTS GLOW RED!!!!!!!

that's hot.
i <3 chemistry
x x x x x x

DISCO BEANS ART MARKET HOSTED BY GOOEY ON THE INSIDE!!!

hey1!!
we chucked an art market!!
it looked like this!!!




look at the photos here!! x x x

booyah!
and i love this new spring AND i love art!!!
x x xx

RAVENATION: GOOEY ON THE INSIDE AT ELECTROFRINGE

WE CAME HERE TO PAAAAARTY

SO DANCE CUZ SOMETIMES THATS ALL YOU CAN DO.......

candy pushers!!!

yo check out what's going on in canada!!!!

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/black-market-chocolate-bars


eeeeeat caaaaandy!!!!
<3 <3 <3

SEE US AT TINA

WE ARE GIVING AN ARTIST PRESENTION ON GOOEY ON THE INSIDE AT TINA
ON THE SUNDAY AT ABOUT 12.30PM

WE ARE ALSO CHUCKING THE PARTY ON SUNDAY NIGHT, AND AN AFTER PARTY IN A SECRET HOT FKN LOCATION

XOXOOXOXOX
XOXOX
SEE US THERE......

PANDIE RULES!!!

what a fucken sweet amazing hardworking BABE!!!

like, PANDIE is going to Europe next week to meet up wit HALSZKA her partner in crime from c*genik!
soooo happy for her!!
so glad to know her!!!
x x x x xx
oh my goodness!!!!
<3<3

i want a baby blue satin hat soooo bad!!!

here is one that NAMALEE is wearing. :

she's fucking amzing
my perfect one would say NY on the front or some shit....
ps. do you remember in year six when every boy had this hat!??!:

and the symbol just looks like it says SEX, check it!

hot hot hot hot trans lego toys

hey
our our cooooool friend lisa in ireland, who i randomly met in an elevator in tokyo a few years ago, and at fkn rauberhole gig.......
sent me this photo!! its so awesome, its genderqueer and trans lego!!!!
LOVES IT
LOVES ...IT

hey, we ran into this little guy in the city....<3

alomixta online exhibtion

alomixta .. . . .. . . .. .
online exhibtion collaborative 3d virtual world rainbow sparkle


it opens online TODAY

xooxoxoxoxooxoxox

male dominated festivals are boring!!!!

OI
listen its so weird and boring when you go to something and everysingle person on stage is a guy!!
after like, the third hour i start feeling so weird.....
anyway
i got this email from Meredith music festival pre announcing their line up, and it was all fucking men!! except for that band beaches, and the girl from archetikture in helsinki...and all the music looked so FKN BORING ....
chek it

HOLY FUCK / LITTLE RED / MGMT / SAUL WILLIAMS / MAN MAN / THE BRONX / MUSCLES / FINAL FANTASY / TAME IMPALA / BEACHES / THE MOUNTAIN GOATS / TEN EAST / THE RUBY SUNS / BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES / COMBO LA REVELACION / YACHT CLUB DJS / GRAND SALVO / ADAM GREEN / THE DATSUNS / ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI / REGURGITATOR

....................
i fkn hate guitar music, but even more i hate boring ass dudes up on stage whinging with guitars. fuck. theres enough. doesnt anyone wanna listen to something wierd or different???

and so i sent them an email, it said

"hi AUNTY MEREDITH

why dont you represent women?
why is everyone on the line up a man except that girl from archetetire in helsinki, and beaches???
theres even a band called MAN MAN
and your just bringing out the GUY from mouldy peaches ? ? ?"

they wrote back...

"Dear **************,
We don't chose bands on gender, just good music and who is available to play. I agree though...I wish there were more women. Would you like to start up a band with me and we can apply to perform?

 Love,
 Aunty"



WHAT THE FUCK???
what a bunch of idiots 
and seriously, who the fuck wants to listen the franksinatra-esque
NYC crooning of the guy from mouldy peaches.
un. be. lievable.

DISCO BEANS ART MARKET!!!

hey, if you are in Melbourne, come to this next Sunday!!



hey, yuka and i (and other amayzing cunts) are organizing this artist market next sunday, and then monthly after that!!!

disco beans was like the bestest venue crazy thing run by yuka and john harte in osaka but now they live in Melbourne!!!! and its totally cool!!!!

if you want a stall, or more information, please email me: shotflux (at) gmail. com

its the first eva Melbourne Disco Beans Art Market, and its gonna be nutz, because its HIGH VIBES fest as well!!! which means that High St will be filled with intense drunk munters and party animals!!
fucking crazy and fun and stoopid, like groups of people dancing on bales of hay to LUST FOR LIFE in front of that big snicker's poster wit MR T on it!!!

love love holly!!
x x x x
ps. its totally spring, i lov it!!!!

wow, i want the limelight!!

i love back up dancers' facial expressions!!1
soooo hot!!!

we have a cd!!!!

hi.
this is what the art looks like for our cd
its gonna be so cool once its made and done
you probably will want one, cuz the music on it so fkn swt!!!!!!
its available from the 2nd of october 2008
BUT IS EXTREMELY LIMITED PRESSING!!!!!

GOOEY kids dismantle the NT INTERVENTION at roughly 120bpm

stop the intervention
converge on the centre

we want the government to:
stop the intervention
restore the racial discrimination act
respect and restore aboriginal land rights and land ownership
provide jobs and community services for all
negotiate respectfully with aboriginal people
recognise and respect aboriginal control of aboriginal affairs

ZENTAI better than a bearsuit!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentai

well, i'm totally afraid cos i can't see your face, but, fucken cool man!!!
wow!!!

via Regrette and Kt Spit...

Bjork had some moderate differnces with the press this past weekend, when she reacted to an item in the The Reykjavík Grapevine crediting Valgeir Sigurðsson with writing the arrangements on her 2001 album Vespertine, although this was not the case at all. She took the liberty of correcting the respective article, offering the true full credits of the album and then went on and accuessed the journalists of sexism, not necessarily the Grapevine, but rather press in general. She accuses writers of discrediting female electronic musicians by assuming that the writing and production of much of this music is done by men. Here's what she said, as posted on bjork.com:

"i saw in the last issue of iceland's newspaper in english: "grapevine", that valgeir sigurðsson was credited for having written all the instrumentals for my album vespertine. could i please offer a correction:

i have noticed last 7 years that mr. sigurðsson has often been credited for either writing or producing that album. i´d like to say that he didn´t write it or produce. he was a computer programmer for a third of it and a recording engineer for a third. The other two thirds were done by other engineers and programmers.

here is the creditlist to show you the correct crediting of vespertine. i don´t understand where that misunderstanding has come from

could be one of four options:

1 :the pop critics of this world have not totally yet worked out the difference between engineering, programming, writing and producing electronic music. visually this appears very similar. a man/woman sitting in front of a computer. not as different as for example a drummer, a brass arranger and an engineer. but these are 3 completely different jobs which journalists must start to see the difference

2: it could be that this is some degree of sexism. m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected website pitchfork.com where they assumed that diplo had produced all of her kala album without reading any credit list or nothing , it just had to be, it couldn´t have been m.i.a. herself! it feel like still today after all these years people cannot imagine that woman can write, arrange or produce electronic music. i have had this experience many many times that the work i do on the computer gets credited to whatever male was in 10 meter radius during the job. people seem to accept that women can sing and play whatever instrument they are seen playing but they cannot program, arrange, produce, edit or write electronic music.

3: i´ll admit that one thing could confuse things: people have to use their ears and actually read the creditlist to get this information. all the music i have made: like for example string arrangements, synthbasslines or programming of electronic patterns, i never play myself live because i want to give 100% of myself into the singing i either ask the computers to play it or i get other musicians to play it. this could confuse things.

4: one thing that could have kept this misunderstanding alive is that neither me nor valgeir sigurðsson have bothered to correct it

but i am doing it now

i hope this correction will be a positive input into more discussion about this
c
warmth
björk.

p.s. just read that pitchfork.com credited nico muhly for the choir arrangement of "hidden place" from vespertine. also that he has done string arrangements for me. this is not true. journalists: please read the creditlist before you write your articles."

GOOEY @ DISCO BEANS!!!!!

THIS PHOTO IS REALLY AWESOME.
WE LOVE DISCO BEANS GALLERY!!!
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4 REAL!!!

GOOEY ON THE INSIDE IN SUPERSUPER!!!!!

hi!!....this is an excerpt from SUPERSUPER magazine, where Gooey On the Inside featured......
xooxoxoxox

mini burgers

well, aren't mini burgers cute.
whether they're from LORD OF THE FRIES or the internet.
i tried google image searching 'mini burger' and this came up:
and this, which is cool and also really weird because its my friend Tallace:

but also really weird.. like, is this some google cookie shit?!?!?!
does it come up for everyone looking for mini burger?!
x x x x

who's afraid of kathy acker!?

i went and saw

WHO'S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER?

last night...

but:::

A couple of weeks ago, one of my lecturers asked me to describe Kathy Acker to the class... I said that she was a feminist writer who explored dream/women's (or at least her own) experiences of sex and childhood sex/incest.

My teacher's face contorted, 'mmmm, I don't think that's what she did...'

I freaked out, embarrassed at my now seemingly 'wrong'/'sexualized' reading of Acker. I went home, couldn't sleep and stayed up all night reading My Mother:Demonology:A Novel. By sunrise, I was satisfied that my description of Kathy Acker was, at least, not inaccurate.

Who's Afraid Of Kathy Acker is a documentary written and directed by Barbara Caspar, released in 2008, which contains heaps of footage and photos of Acker, and interviews with her contemporaries and lots of interviews with students and men who had slept with her saying things like, 'she was like an androgynous little girly sex kitten'.

To start with, Kathy Acker was/is an North American writer... performer, pornographer who died in 1997 of breast cancer. This documentary... seeks to construct Acker as a feminist writer warrior who is simultaneously an outsider punk type, and a brilliant intellectual.

The documentary has its weaknesses, pretty much all interviews take place in front of book shelves, or, if its a musician being interviewed, in front of record collections. There is even some boring footage of Acker being interviewed by some clueless dude on Radio National in Australia... which is just kinda boring and pointless.

And there was footage of her at early readings, and her experimental porn movies, so if you're worried about nudity, prepare to see some vaginal close-ups.

A friend who I watched the documentary with asked, why make such a linear, ordered documentary about a woman who said that very quickly she was bored of standard biography form?

I must say that I loved seeing footage of Kathy Acker, I loved all the seemingly randomly inserted excerpts from her work that made it into the movie, I loved the construction of big bad New York City as a main character in the movie, but I didn't like the sexual banter from the men... many of whom didn't actually seem to know Acker significantly apart from instances of sex! Go and see it if you can. Its not brilliant, but its got rare footage, and you will probably be inspired to write or make some porn or something by the time the movie is finished.

YAH AYHA YAH!!!

also kathy acker interviewed the spice girls just before she died, this is tha link!!1x

we enrolled in sista she hip hop school

hey do you have a big dick?

sista she does.
we are doing sista she hip hop classes every weeek, they are really fun and amazing,
we are making up swt raps and dance moves, and eating heaps and heaps of tim tams!!!!!!
oh and we are making a filmclip!!!

its pretty good.....
FULLY SELF STYLED

INTERVIEW WITH TOECUTTER

3:09 PM me: hay toecutter
can i interview you one day??
like really short and awesome funny and cool???
x x x x
t03cutt3r: like now?
i just woke up to balls on my face pictures
me: yeah ok
t03cutt3r: thank god for digital cameras
3:10 PM me: pictures
you just woke up to it,
like just understood it
or physically woke up to
virtual balls??
what the fuck.
3:11 PM t03cutt3r: woke up to photo on a camera of ahab balls on my face
ugh
me: hahahahaha
so can i interview you?
t03cutt3r: yes
me: where are you?
t03cutt3r: in rome
just finished the tour with ahab and realicide
3:12 PM about to drive them to the airport
me: what is the most memorable show you have played say in the past month??
t03cutt3r: well
err
rotterdam was pretty amazing
robert from realicide recorded it
3:13 PM me: what was special about it?
t03cutt3r: apart from me playing a 12 min version of best party ever there was very little music
me: ahahhaaha
t03cutt3r: it was mostly me hanging shit on everyone
me: do you have any EURO fashion tips taht you can give me??
what is going on wit that???
3:14 PM t03cutt3r: yeah, we are way ahead of the times, in australia
me: really?
t03cutt3r: like they are just getting into tonnes of fake shiny things right now
3:15 PM me: what kind of hairstyles are cool funky or hot????
or
3:16 PM t03cutt3r: errrrr
I think grown out mohawks are the best
me: yeah!!!
3:17 PM t03cutt3r: like floppy dog looking ones
me: in color or natural??
t03cutt3r: eau naturale
me: yes!!
t03cutt3r: but like you WERE punk
but now know better
but only just recently
me: yup yup yup yup yup
t03cutt3r: shit
gotta go
me: it can all happen so fast
x x x x x x
3:18 PM t03cutt3r: hey hey
email me
I will reply asap
x
me: ok
t03cutt3r: dave
me: x x x x x

OK::::
can you still remember australia?


Nothing is closer to my thoughts: right now I really cant wait to get back, although I AM in the best place in the UK, staying with the Backlash crew, Armegge:DON, post Geordie Gabba Mafia (DJ Smurf, et al)... Newcastle!! The further north you get from London the more aussie people get - less stuck up, busy, cheaper, etc.


if so, what was the best product available from alfalfa house when you worked there??


Mmmmmmmm, so much good foods! I can never get sick of it, also, it almost always changing. I am looking forward to going back to work there - good people, terrific conditions, and i love co-operation! It's all the people who hate to work for bosses. But products, hmmmm, I guess Ilike avocados, with salt and pepper, or a fucking apple which sounds like your biting into a 4 month foetus skull, but less juicy. mangosteins, errrr, and the day we were serving the strawberry guavas from the backyard of the co-op!


what are yr music euro tips for oz mutherfuckers??


DONT DRINK OUT OF ANY RIVERS IN EUROPE! Me and Robert Inhuman (from Realicide) were VIOLENTLY ILL with liquids out of control leaving our bodies. I half filled a waste basket with vomit, but robert produced something which was almost a greeny black, like seaweed he said.

Oh, wait. You said MUSIC. Right well, for music you have Electromeca, wot a genius! Hmmm, I really cannot recommend Captain Ahab enough - I love those guys, and their shows were SO amazing - it sounds like they may be coming back to Australia for Electrofringe. I like Felix Kubin, Mr. Oizo, DJ Got Headphones, and of course, Kikifruit!!




tell me about kiki fruit!!!is it girl or boy (or something else)
what do they look like and play and shit??
(you know how i wanted to know about that shit)


Kind of a weird skinny dude, super nice! I got three books of his art, which was our stroke material for the tour. We all found his material to be boner producing. His music is really really great, he dressses up in like a disco klu klux klan outfit, like pointy hat with shiny stuff all over it, and a kind of tunic, with his skinny legs sticking out in gold tights. He MCs with a super heavy vocoder effect
which basicly makes it sound like he is a honking canard from deep space. Looking forward to his record release... Stroboscop!!! Which we thought at first was Like (st)ROBO_COP, which makes me laugh a lot!!


do you have new euro hobbies????if so, please explain...................................


I bought a portable water filter which i use almost every day to purify my water - I have decoded that water is about the most importastnt thing ever for my body
so I want to be conastantly supplied with the best quaility I can get. AND I am NOT going to PAY for water....


what is the best thing you have bOUGHT or been given on this tour??


The best thing I think I got on this tour was from the realicide guys - John who runs a distro called OUT FALL CHANNEL, based in cincinati I think. It was a small A5 zine writtten by this guy calls himself Jim Swill, the book is called "The Great Equaliser". It's A series of poems written in a remote farm, during a churning session of self discovery. SUPER personal drivel. A lot about death and masturbating. Fascinating.



have you experienced any weird or funny weather that you would want to talk about??


WTF?? No, sorry.


what is the best food you've had?where was it from??

Marseille we got fed the ankle of a pig
was really fatty and nice, then potatoes were lush- it was all farmer direct from the local market.
The show was shit tho...


have you made crazy new music??????? what is yr DIRECTION right now?????

No, House, still, babe, 100%house, babe. ____ tiss ka tiss, ____ tiss ka tiss, ____ tiss ka tiss, ____ tiss ka tiss


do you have anything else that you want to say!!!!?????
please do.


Read ENDGAME 1 + 2 by Derrick Jensen - anti-civilisation
Listen to kikifruit, captain ahab, electric kettle.

Melbourne International Animation Festival

THUMBS DOWN!!!!!
could this suck anymore!??!!
last night kati and I went to watch the BEST OF
and so many of the animations were... like... a weird bald man in a prison like setting... being oppressed by a bigger man, and with some insect friend.
totally shit and boring.

there were a couple that were ... ok, like... Energie! by Thorsten Fleisch (Germany) and the one that was an animated movie accompanying an interview that a teenager conducted with John Lennon in a hotel room in... 1968? in which that lennon guy says, 'if you run around wild you get smacked...thats the way of the universe.'(I Met The Walrus)

sweet.
best of sucked.
the end.
x x x xx x

THIS IS NOT ART [tina] electrofringe closing party......

RAVENATION
))>><<((
FOREVER
Leave your boringness at the door and exercise zero caution as you enter the fantasyrealm...

/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_*gooey on the inside*/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_

lose your crapshit pens + paper + mouseclick RSI crusted over heard and SURRENDA 2 the hard (soft + loving) NRG/NKOTB/GIRL RAP MUSIC pulsing thru yr veins.

/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_*gooey on the inside*/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_

Become overwhelmed + mystified as we switch OFF the big lights and switch ON the strobe.

/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_*gooey on the inside*/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_

Featuring:
Tranny Cops Rave Safe Team)
and starring:
b12shot,ultra violet mc, Fanny Fighters, Pig+Machine, Press Eject, DJ Simu
Dress code: mashed-up rave

ELECTROFRINGE 2008

WE ARE GONNA CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SHIT