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My Life in Albums: 1999: Powderfinger, Pumpkins and an Eternal Nightcap
1999 was a big year for me. We moved to Brisbane. I started year 11 at school. I was suddenly meant to be taking things seriously. And I started earning a little bit more money than the $2 a week we were previously entitled to. So I could afford to buy a few more CDs.
For the first few months of our life in Brisbane we were living in a modernish rental house in Keperra. With a pool. Bells, and whistles. And I remember this song was doing the radio rounds…
Eminem didn’t really do it for me in a big way. I do remember enjoying Cake in that year…
But the defining album for me from 1999 was Powderfinger’s Internationalist. I bought it with the proceeds of an afternoon spent cleaning the fence at our new house (where my parents still live).
I also discovered the Whitlams, properly, in 1999, when I got me a copy of Eternal Nightcap (incidentally, we saw them two weeks ago with the Queensland Symphony. We had second row seats and they were amazing. Playing through Eternal Nightcap plus some more recent hits)…
This was also the year I discovered the Smashing Pumpkins. Thanks largely to my obsessive friend Benny. And my friend Damien who brought me a pirated copy of Siamese Dream back from China. Disarm has embedding disabled – and I think it’s the best song on that album, followed by Soma…
And Today…
This Ben Kweller cover of Today is pretty cool.
How to make a melting cake head
This is pretty hideous. But also pretty awesome.
Before being subjected to a heat lamp it looked like this:
Afterwards, it was a zombie like:
Have your shirt and eat it too
All novelty T-Shirt lovers love Threadless. Well, probably. If you are a novelty T-Shirt lover and you don’t – then please, let me know.
Threadless is good. But it lacks calories. So here’s a site that fixes that little problem. Turning this:
There are heaps more…
Bakers delight
Zombies eat brains right? Human brains. So we should totally eat zombies. But they don’t really exist. So they should be eaten in cake form.
But if you want to have your cake and eat U2. Or it too. Or eat something a little more human themed and realistic.
Mmm. Cake. The making of is incredibly detailed – and pretty spectacular.
Here’s a sample.
Let them eat cake
If you want to resign in style perhaps take a leaf out of this guy’s book (from Flickr) and bake your notice of resignation into a cake.
The written message on the icing says:
“Dear Mr. Bowers,
During the past three years, my tenure at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been nothing short of pure excitement, joy and whim.
However, I have decided to spend more time with my family and attend to health issues that have recently arisen. I am proud to have been part of such an outstanding team and I wish this organization only the finest in future endeavors.
Please accept this cake as notification that I am leaving my position with NWT on March 27.
Sincerely,
W. Neil berrett”