Comments on: Power plug

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:37:31 +0000

It’s often the way… something starts out really good, gets popular becuase it’s good, gets less good because it’s popular and sells out… It’s the circle of life, as far as media is concerned.

You’ll all know I’ve sold out when I colour my comics using only standard pepsi-colours.

By: Ben

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:23:46 +0000

Meh, JJJ sold out.
Did you know that JJJ was the first station in Aus to play Eminem and I think also with Limp Bizkit?
Even tho they are continually playing new non mainstream music, the ratio of good music to shite mainstream music is getting far worse.
Listen to the first Hottest 100 and then to the last few.
The firsts one were great, you couldn’t hear that music any where else, except maybe early sunday mornings on Rage.
Now the Hottest 100 almost resembles Pepsi Chart Hits or any other pop compilation CD.
They have started advertising alot more aswell.
I realise that it is their own products or other music events, but still, JJJ shouldn’t have ads.

By: justine

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:19:35 +0000

ugh, trust ben to diss triple j. i am a very faithful listener. be quiet ben.

By: sitting pugs

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:58:50 +0000

I know what that’s like. I started listening to Asian pop music my last year in high school–the radio was silent since, with the exception of the news and classical music stations (and only as part of the alarm when I wake up).

By: Oystein

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:55:25 +0000

Try waffles with bacon. The combination of crunchy, delicious bacon and sweet, sweet waffles is surprisingly good

By: sitting pugs

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:53:07 +0000

Do you also like the idea of CD cover art (and liner notes) as a fetish?

By: Fesworks

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:00:20 +0000

Do you like Waffles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtlaTNI1TaU

By: Seraphine

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:38:10 +0000

comic waffles?
why hasn’t that been done?
why? why? why?

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By: Adam

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:39:00 +0000

Thanks – although I can't take credit for this one since it is reader generated... It makes a nice change for the word 'simple' to be used as a compliment and not as an insult. Hey! I just realised the link between you and Day in Pictures, aces.

By: Ben

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:56:58 +0000

Nope, stereo is a legitimate term for a piece of tech.
You buy a stereo or a tv.
It also happens to define a sound formatt.

” there’s something about the lack of control, having music delivered to you via the tastes of another…”
Sounds a little BDSM to me.
Might try it….

By: joenis

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:39:55 +0000

dude seriously i love the simplicity of your humor. good s**t man.

By: Adam

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:30:15 +0000

Mixapes… I have a small fascination with them, as I do any technology that has become a retro-word.

‘Mixtapes’ will be used as a phrase even after people have forgotten what ‘tapes’ are. Similarly, I still refer to my CD player as a ‘Stereo’… the technological equivalent of calling my television a ‘colour’.

I’d highly reccomend giving the radio another bash though, there’s something about the lack of control, having music delivered to you via the tastes of another…

By: Ben

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:48:27 +0000

I want waffles now. WIthout bacon.
Dunno why you made me think waffles.

By: Adam

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:33:12 +0000

I was thinking webcomics cooked into bacon that you could read and eat when you’re done.

By: Ben

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:26:42 +0000

I’m not a big fan of radio.
I used to love it, I loved our nationwide youth station JJJ, but then it turned as pop and self-promotional as the regular commercial stations.
Also, it moved on from the 90′s rock and grunge, bastards.

I love the idea of internet radio, but I am confused by the fact that you can just download the music free from any number of file sharing apps for the same amount of bandwidth.
I have yet to seriously use internet radio because I am normally using my limited bandwidth on downloading or content browsing.

I think I need internet radio, I am lacking new music in my life.

By: Brandy

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:48:03 +0000

I haven’t listened to the radio in any form since I was a young teenager. Since then, I’ve survived on mix tapes (mix cd’s doesn’t have the same ring) and downloaded music.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:27:53 +0000

Webcomic bacon? Is that like bacon shaped like characters from all your favorite webcomics? Or perhaps regular bacon with little comics drawn on them?

By: Seraphine

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:32:09 +0000

I love the idea of music as fetish:
a feather duster (sans dust)
lightly applied to the cheek,
across the back of the leg,
commercial free radio
until the ears begin to redden.

By: Adam

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:06:06 +0000

You know what’s great about CKUA? It’s the fact that it has the BBC world service on at 9.00.

I might have given terrestrial British radio a bit of a kicking, but I can only say good things about the World Service… and BBC Radio 4… and occasionally 2 and 6… but other than that it’s rubbish.

I’ll certainly be giving them a listen, thanks.

By: Fesworks

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:32:28 +0000

Huzzah!

By: deadlytoque

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:55:22 +0000

If you're searching for new and different radio, I recommend ckua.com. And don't mind that they say "every stream costs us money, so please donate." I give them $30 a month, so you can be on my tab. They play a wide variety of folk, blues, jazz, and even some of the less-played mainstream music. It's a rare day when I have to turn CKUA off.