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AN INTRODUCTION

o we finally come to the first ever issue of Rotting Corpse Magazine, the magazine that has been several years in the making. It all started with a mid week drinking sessions and evolved into a monkey on our backs that we couldn’t shake. Some say it was their favorite magazine never to be published and it often looked like it would stay this way. There was a period of 3 or 4 years where it looked like it was over. We ran through a designer, numerous writers, photographers and alcoholics in that time.

Rotting Corpse was resurrected abotu 3 years ago with our new designer T:V coming to the fold with fresh ideas and a boost in much needed enthusiasm. We got busy with some brain storming sessions, that ended with us storming our

brains with alcohol and not much else. We even finished a copy of the zine scrapping it at the last minute. We then decided to focus on our website, which gave us the chance to learn how to write properly (still learning) and master parts of the current social media madness. This year we buckled down and we’ve pulled the magazine together a mere 3 months after the deadline we set ourselves.

This issue we have an interview with Sydney electronic band Bon Chat Bon Rat, south Sydney skateboarder George Kousoulis, an unedited ramble from travelling guru Ryan Neale, and we delve into the mind of a former child acting star to find out what he’s up to twenty years later.

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DF’S ACID TOUNGE v., hat·ed, hat·ing, hates. v.tr. 1.

1.(a) To feel hostility or animosity toward. (b) To detest.

2. To feel dislike or distaste for: hates washing dishes. v.intr. To feel hatred. n.

1. Intense animosity or dislike; hatred Hello friends. I have been offered a chance to rant (or vent) about a certain subject that is close to my heart.

Hate.

Why hate, I hear you ask? I’ll fuckin’ tell you why, I assure you, but all in good time.

You see, to clarify, I don’t HATE in the sense of say, Hitler hating the Jews - that’s a little extreme for my taste.

But he hated nontheles, however thats where the similarity ends...maybe.. I’m getting sidetracked, forgive me.

I do not come from a poor family.

I have not had a hard upbringing.

In fact, I am an only child who loves (and is loved by) his parents... I’d do anything for them.

My hatred doesn’t stem from any family related issues, or the fact I was bullied at school (i have a shitlist as long as my dick and I assure you I am like an elephant.. no, I don’t have a huge sex organ,i never forget, dummy) My hate comes from somewhere far darker and deeper than that.

It comes from “realisation”. Realising the fact that the world we live in is an utter shitstrom and everyone is too fucking dense to do anything about it.

Sure we can CHOOSE to NOT invade other peoples countries & kill everyone (but wheres the fun in that) Sure we can choose to hold fundraisers for bushfire victims, famine and various other “natural disasters” ( Hey, Bono & Geldof, where DOES all that $$ you raise end up anyway?” Oh thats right, big-ass mansions, teen hookers and Coke habits, my bad.

Sure we can CHOOSE to not listen to Parkway Drive, Sneaky Sound System, Lady GaGa and various other faggy

forms of “music” or any other form of pop-culture for that matter (See The Farmer Needs a Wife)... give me a fucking break. Kids these days eh...

But sadly we Choose NOT to choose not to.

We ignore every sane & rational thought regarding anything that could be harmful or detrimental to us.

I hate the fact that I am switched on enough (and I know there are a few others of you out there) to know when to say no, yet the majority of the world are not.

Anyway, as this is an introduction article, I won’t get too into it. I’ve touched on a few gnarly subjects already, and i assure you my distaste for world powers, governments & myspace won’t go unheard, but for now I will leave it at that.

If you know whats good for you, you’ll listen (read) up, it’s cheaper than a shrink and far more politically incorrect.

If not, you are just as fucked as everyone else, thereby, proving my point..

Good work, dickheads. \m/ -DF

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BON CHAT, BON RAT Bon Chat, Bon Rat (BCBR) are a fast rising electronic band from the southern burbs of Sydney. They’ve been gaining all sorts of positive attention after releasing their debut EP for free on the interwebs, and have recently signed to forward thinking Sydney record label Future Classic.

Rotting Corpse caught up BCBR for a quick (Bon) chat.

RC: How long have you dudes been doing the BCBR thing?

BCBR: We’ve been around since June 2009, when we played our first show on a sandstone building in Oatley park. It was a small gig we organised ourselves with some friends and friends bands. Currently we rehearse, write and record all our music in a stone masonry warehouse, it can be loud and sweaty at times but we are usually the culprits.

What would be some of the major influences for the band?

Influences include everything from our surroundings and experiences we have to the work of other musicians.

In our newer songs we are trying to use more space and concentrate on detail as opposed to our busy layering on the EP. Musically we all have slightly different tastes but generally we enjoy forward-thinking popular electronic music. That is the kind of music that we all strive to create.

Are there any local bands on the scene now that give BCBR raging semis?

Locally we really admire bands like Parades, for their extremely well recorded and written album. Seekae for their phenomenal production skills and progressive electronic ideas. Megastick Fanfare for their intense and innovative live show. As well as bands like Collarbones who also perform excellent electronic music. Also keep and eye out for new Melbourne producer Hugo Frederick too.

if they hated it, at least they’ve heard it,’ was our attitude.

However we were able to sell a few to the old fashioned folk who still listen to CD’s in their cars. All our radio play is owed to the amazing organisation that is FBi Radio. FBi and community stations like it are the best thing in the music industry at the moment.

How did getting signed to Future Classic come about?

They were looking to expand into signing some live acts and they approached us after hearing the EP. They wooed us with some coffee and Coopers Pale Ale and it was a done deal.

Any massive plans for the near and not to distant future?

Some exciting shows are coming up, including supporting Toro y Moi at Good God Small Club on the 22nd and 23rd of Feb. In Late February we plan to drop a tie-over single Black Bird in the Alps to keep things rolling until the album is ready in the twilight of 2011. There will be an east coast tour to launch the single so keep your eyes peeled for Bon chat, bon rat in March and April for some new live tunes and perhaps a t-shirt to blow some money on.

Any last words?

Also we have some remixes that are being cooked up by some of our friends for your listening pleasure.

How did you find releasing your EP for free download? Did it help with getting your music heard and played on the radio?

Releasing the EP for free just seemed to make sense. It didn’t cost us much to make so seemed a bit unfair to charge our friends or any one to hear it. We basically just wanted people to hear it. ‘If they enjoyed it excellent, even

SELF TITLED Bon Chat, Bon Rat Available now as a free download via their myspace. Forth coming release sometime in 2011 thru Future Classic

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“My good friend Professor Foreskin had his thigh done, so every time he takes a shit, he can look at my face which I think is pretty cool and on some levels spiritual...�

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jackson barton is baby richard Jacko opens up about Mila’s Jolovich’s milk machines, heroin and spiritual shitting.

RC: So Mr. Barton, you were once the extremely cute ‘Baby Richard’ in the movie, Return to the Blue Lagoon.

Lets start at the beginning, how old were you in the movie?

JB: When I stared in the feature I was 82 years old. Minus 79 years.

How did you slime your way into the movie?

Well the movie is actually classified as soft porn, so when the director saw me in the infant porn film titled ‘Hora the explorer,’ he saw my raw talent and I was instantly scouted for the film.

Do you remember having anything to do in the movie?

Yeah, I remember sucking on Mila Jolovich’s milk machines which where extremely decadent. I also beat a tiger shark in a swimming race across the lagoon... I got heaps of roots after that.

Did your career rise to new heights after tackling Mila’s mammories?

Ah not really. I contracted HEP C and was unable to work, but before the sickness set in, I helped launch Huggies nappies in

Australia which really gave me the shits... after I pissed.

We hear you still cash the odd royalty check?

Yeah I’ve been getting a few, but I still prefer the dole cheques.

Like all child stars, your innocent persona disappeared pretty quickly. Tell us about your dimise.

I was pretty cute, but after I hooked up with a few other drop out child stars, I hit the drugs pretty fast and hard - that was at age six. By the age of seven, I was a full-blown heroin addict.

I’ve sorta come off it now, but only because I’ve run out of money.

What are you thoughts about Baby Richard being immortalized in tattoo form?

I think it takes a special person to hold that shit down. My good friend Professor Foreskin had his thigh done, so every time he takes a shit, he can look at my face which I think is pretty cool and on some levels spiritual.

Any last words?

PSST HONKKK!!! Shane Warne is the man and Micky Avalon should eat a dick, and choke on it.

A LONG RAMBLE

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oday we live in a technologically advanced, highly integrated, global society in which vast amounts of information can be accessed and shot around the world at the drop of a hat. As soon as we peel open our eyes in the morning we are faced with hordes of information that we will absorb, critique (hopefully), internalise and use to create our own individual realities and define the world in which we each live. Advertisements, news, mass media, sport, movies, newspapers, magazines, radio, youtube, billboards, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Sorry, Trainspotting flashback... anyway you get the idea.

All this information is constantly being stuffed into our eyes and ears shaping our lives and how we live them. If you accept this fact you will agree that the role of modern media is a powerful tool used to shape our opinions, outlooks and ultimately our minds.

Who is the media? Who’s showing us this information, who’s it aimed at, how is it presented and why are we being shown?

The media is used to present information in a way that will illicit a particular response from its target audience. How about for an example we take a MacDonald’s Happy Meal ad.

What have we got? Attractive mum with attractive kid, kid just finished sport, they go into Macca’s, kids beaming, kids shitting his/her pants with anticipation, kid asks for Happy Meal, cut to misty lens shot of meal, extended section on the amazing piece of plastic crap that accompanies the meal, outro shot of kid climaxing over his/her toy whilst mum

smiles at kids satisfaction. So what is the purpose of the ad?

The ad’s are aimed at kids, they tell kids they’ll be happy if they get Macca’s, they tell kids they need that toy to be happy, they teach kids the actions necessary to get Macca’s, they even show them Maccas should be used as a re-enforcement for achievements. Their saying ‘Hey kids this will make you happy, you need this, look, other kids are doing it, here’s how you need to go about it’ Genius! Child propaganda!

So you’re saying, “What’s the big deal, let the little boogers have their Macca’s” O.K. I’ll let child brainwashing slide!

However, once you start to look at the operations of large media institutions, the agenda of the governments and elites they serve and their presentation of information to illicit certain responses in the public, things start to get a little more hairy.

Before I go David Copperfield and start unveiling systems of propaganda I’ll need to provide you with a little background information. There are two common views on the role of news media in our society.

1) Media’s role is to provide a check on governments, corporations and the powerful forces in society. The media through investigation and honest reporting upholds the people’s rights to know the truth and to keep the powers that rule us honest and accountable to us.

2) The alternate view is that media will uphold the economic, social and political views of the elite class in society that dominates the economy and thus largely controls the media and the actions of government. In this view the media serves the interests of the powerful.

truth or paranoia?

Just before Buck Neale aka ‘The Peanut’ disappeared into the Himalaya’s, he sent us this little piece. Is this the ramblings of a mad man?

Ok...You still with me fuckers? One more piece of back info before I explain the propaganda framework. It has long been realised by governments and the ruling class that their greatest enemy is the population itself. If a population feels politically enlightened, informed and empowered, god forbid, they may start wanting to be part of the decision making process, they may start to question the people in power, shit! This could even bring about a healthy democracy in which the people are the power and we can’t have that! The government and corporate sectors have always been fearful of a mobilization of the herd against them. I mean shit, what if people actually wanted to have a say! They may start requesting all kinds of crazy things like better healthcare, capping of corporate salaries, more focus on social planning and welfare rather than focusing on the ‘really’ important things like big profits, big business and the accumulation of mass wealth. This could prove inconvenient for the wealthy and powerful as they don’t want to give up the power systems that have provided them with the lifestyles they’ve become so accustom to, so they need to ensure the masses stay passive and submissive. Now up until the 20th Century this was easy, you just coerced the people, whack, bang, whip, off with his head! However with the introduction of human rights governments and the elites realised that they needed a new form of control. If they could no longer control their bodies they must control their minds!

So how do they go about this mind control business you ask?

Well the media as a propaganda tool is a highly effective and highly utilized method. So let’s look at the systems that have been put in place to ensure the ‘right’ information is being

broadcast to the public.

In totalitarian (strictly government controlled) societies when governments use news to spread propaganda they don’t care if you believe it or not, they present you with a clear party line and you obey.... or men with hoods will come to your house at night and take you away! It’s a little different in Western democratic states, in that they don’t articulate their party line, that’s a mistake, they presuppose it. What does this mean? It means they present you with a planned and restricted amount of information on a topic to frame the resulting debate; it’s kind of like a loaded dice. The result is 1) It creates the illusion of a free thinking society due to debate and 2) it ingrains the party line in your head without you recognising it, it becomes like breathing. It’s sometimes called “Brainwashing under Democracy”!

Let’s use an example to make it a little clearer. How about the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Almost all reporting on Iraq presupposes the U.S. government’s party line of ‘America knows what’s best for the world, America is the conscious of the world and therefore AMERICA OWNS THE WORLD!’ It doesn’t matter if the writer of the article or the newspaper is on the right or the left, just about every mass media article rests on the assumption that AMERICA OWNS THE WORLD, which is no coincidence. Go look at some articles for yourself, the common themes are ‘Is America winning the war?’ ‘How much is the war costing America’, ‘Should America withdrawn troops?’ ‘Are the American public for or against the war’ ‘Is America bringing hope and democracy to the people of Iraq’ ‘Was America’s involvement in Iraq

worthwhile?’ even if they said “U.S. failed in Iraq and killed lots of people America suck’s” it doesn’t matter, it still rests on the presumption that America has a right to police the world. I mean what would happen if Russia or China decided to do their bit for the “War on Terrorism” and say, declared a “War on Terror” in Pakistan? I’ll tell you, headlines round the world reading “Russia/China good intentions or hidden interests? Russia/China attempt to help or trying to further communist hold over the world?” Why? Because Russia and China don’t own the world, America owns the world and because we’ve all accepted this, when the U.S. invades countries it’s in the name of freedom and apple pie and if other countries did the exact same thing they would be instantly accused of trying to take over the world. I mean for fuck sake, they sold it to us with the catch phrase a “War on Terror” it’s a fucking paradox by definition! The U.S. Army manual defines Terrorism as “The calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious or ideological in nature”. So by adopting the U.S.’s own definition of terrorism, it’s pretty clear what they have done is waged large scale internationally backed terrorism against goat farmer terrorism. But you can’t call America a terrorist, even though by their own definition they are, no, no, no, the mass media will never back it because the U.S. know what’s best for the world, they’re pushing the “Peace Process” and anyone opposed to the non-sensical notion of brining peace through war is getting in the way of the U.S. restoring peace, thus they become supporters of terrorism….hmmm convenient! Remember fellow cattle, terrorism isn’t what the most powerful nation in the world does when it bombs and oppresses entire nations, it’s what ‘THEY’ do, you know the…third world rag wearing, dark skinned, Islamic extremist men with the fuzzy beards.

Tell me, where are the news stories reminding us that in the 80’s Iran-Iraq war the U.S. removed Iraq from the international terrorist list and provided Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, helicopters, fighter planes, CIA Intelligence, biological weapons (including anthrax) and the means with which to build nuclear weapons, all which he used over an 8 year U.S. backing period, to kill between 50,000 and 186,000 Kurds (people occupying the north of Iraq) and 300,000 Iranians. And why at the time did the U.S. think providing their best buddy Saddam with the weapons and intelligence to become an aggressive genocidal dictator was the right move? Well in 1988 the Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy stated “The U.S.-Iraqi relationship is…important to our long term political and economic objectives”. Translated this means when Iran and Iraq began warring the U.S. saw an opportunity to gain control over two countries that were historically opposed to U.S. interests. So essentially the U.S. said to Saddam, we’ll provide you with the weapons and know how to win the war and once you’re in power you’ll co-operate with our corporate (namely oil) interests in the area.

I guess the U.S.’s conscious for the people of Iraq and the Middle East must be more of a recent thing hey? Interesting that this conscious for the people of Middle East began after ‘THEY’ allegedly (inside job, inside job) flew some planes

into U.S. builds and Saddam told the U.S. to fuck off he doesn’t need them anymore. So now we’ve got the U.S. going back into Iraq to crush a dictator they helped create because he’s no longer co-operating and to regaining weapons of “Mass Destruction” they provided him with in the first place.

Let’s please also remember that while all this is going down hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens become statistics. Then the U.S. runs the bungled Iraqi elections and puts into power a president sympathetic to their interests, puts a host of corrupt ministers in government and trains up the same bad guys that worked for Saddam as police. If you read the ‘2005 U.S. State Department report on Human Rights Practices in Iraq’ there are numerous examples of human rights violations by the Iraqi Ministry of Interiors and it’s police units. For example “On May 5, the bodies of 16 Sunni farmers..detained by men wearing police uniforms, were found in a mass grave near Sadr City. They had been fatally shot in the head , and the corpses showed signs of torture. The Ministry of Interiors officials promised an investigation into the killings, but no results were available at year’s end.” So as it stands the U.S. declared war on Iraq, bombed the shit out of them, got their new puppet leader that’s happy to let rich Americans continue making billions off Iraq’s oil reserves while the Iraqi people starve and then empowered a new bunch of dictators under the disguise of democracy leaving the people of Iraq as oppressed as they were when they put Saddam in power the first time. Funny how history has a way of repeating itself for the convenience of the powerful!

Now that’s a fucking informative article! Can you tell me why a 23 year old retard, sitting at his home computer can state more useful facts about Iraq in 2 paragraphs than all the investigative journalists at Newscorp? Yes? No? Well here’s a couple of clues.

1) Media sources are often owned by highly profitable mega corporations e.g. Newscorp (Rupert Murdoch) = The Telegraph, The Australian, The Wall Street Journal and Fox. These mega media companies make money by selling their readerships to businesses that advertise in their paper. Neither Newscorp nor Holden (for example) that advertises in The Herald’s ultimate concern lies is the integrity of reporting.

Their paramount interests lie in making money. So why would the Herald, part of Newscorp, a mega corporation start backing reporting suggesting “U.S. Imperialism: Promoting terror in Iraq for corporate interests. History Repeats!” Newscorp knows very well the game of corporate interests, they’re one of the biggest media conglomerations on the planet, why would they expose the corrupt imperialist capitalist system they use to make billions from, for all I know Rupert Murdoch could play golf with an American Oil Tycoon. Moreover, why would they risk losing advertising opportunities to do so? Who in their right mind would fuck themselves in the ass twice?

2) People that make it to be editor of a mass media newspaper are conformists. They have to be if they want to stay as editor. People who have the ability to critique and think freely are often removed from positions of power through a social filtering system. The filtering system begins

in kindergarten and flows through the whole educational system and up the corporate ladder. People who are overly independent or defy convention and authority are either removed from the ranks or blocked from promotion.

So by the time a person reaches the editors position of an agenda setting newspaper they have internalised the values that you can’t do or say certain things otherwise you’ll be removed, simple!

3) Articles that make big claims require a hell of a lot more work and journalists like everyone else have deadlines. Radical articles mean you have to do a lot more investigations, it means you have to have lots of solid evidence to back your claims. If you use the standard stories and information provided to you by other larger media sources you don’t have to worry so much about investigation and backing your claims.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying there aren’t fantastic journalists out there that dedicate a lot of time and effort to try and expose the truth behind events and stories. What I’m saying is these journalists may often have their stories edited or pulled, or they may be relegated to the metro section, or they may only be rolled out when the paper sees it fit to include a gritty, hard hitting, confronting story.

What I find most worrying in all of this is that news reporting is only one piece of the propaganda puzzle. The Australian public is a rather depoliticized bunch, add this to the fact that the ordinary person is to overworked by an employment system that wants to keep the truth from them, because they need to pay back the banks that want to keep the truth from them that they don’t have the time or the effort to do the necessary digging. Throw in mass marketing and consumerism, and you’ve got more distractions, the kids are nagging for an i phone or the newest piece of shit they saw on that previously mentioned Happy Meal ad, that means your going to have to work harder and not fuck up,

you can’t afford to be lippy, jobs are scarce at the moment because the big, rich bankers made a boo boo lending money they never had in the first place, charging you interest on it, with their greed eventually culminating in a “Global financial crisis”. Throw in the dumbing down of the nation through mindless mainstream television (e.g. Dancing with a stars pet DIY rescue a biggest losers crime scene in Miami) sprinkle with hypnotic message-less and creatively starved plastic pop music (e.g. Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Katie Perry) drizzle with Zoo magazine and Rugby League and finish off with a pair of Tsubi jeans people pay $300 for the privilege of not being able to wash because the members of the opposite sex that can’t think for themselves either are obviously impressed by overpriced, stinky, inferior, ball crushing fashion.

When you start putting all the pieces of the puzzle together it really isn’t that hard to see a picture of a modern society in which people are force fed with all the ingredients necessary to prevent them from thinking for themselves which would then allow them to properly critique the masses of shit they are fed on a daily basis. Thinking critically is not a hard thing to do, you don’t need to be academically smart to do it, that’s just the impression they create to deter you.

If you can follow the workings of an NRL season you have the brain power to question the bullshit you’re fed about global politics, all you have to ask is, Why? I concede that information on the NRL is easier to come by, their throwing the shit at you constantly, it’s a useful distraction, that’s why most people in Australia know the in’s and outs of national sport and not international politics, not because ones intellectually harder than the other, it’s because one has a thriving culture around it and an abundance of easily accessible, honest information and the other doesn’t.

How’s about next time you go on the internet to look at porn, before you touch yourself, try and find one piece of information that digs deeper than the standard views presented by mass media. Try watching a youtube video of Noam Chomsky, look up the U.S. contra involvement in Central America, try declassified CIA documents, the U.S. militarization of space, the HAARP military weather control project, the history of the reserve banking system or the concentration of nuclear weapons per country, the history of the U.S. and Israel, U.S. and Israel’s vetoing history in the U.N., the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Come on you pussy’s give it a try, you might even discover that thinking for yourself and exposing the powerful douches is liberating, worked for Jimi Hendrix! Shit, it’s got to be more interesting than reality television! It’s all right there, hidden right in front of your faces. Start to free you mind, start to you free your world, start to fight the MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! MIND CONTROL! Mwahahahahaha!

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profile: george kousoulis RC: So George what’s been going on lately?

GK: Ey, just been skating a bunch, I got back from a trip in W.A. which was sick and now working for the man while he’s holidaying in Japan.

What were you up to in W.A? I went on a GMTA/Butter clothing trip all the way down south to Albany with a bunch of stops at parks and spots along the way. Some camping, skating and good times hanging out with the crew.

How’s your relationship with GMTA/Butter at the moment?

Been on the GMTA flow program for a bit now, also do a bit of work for the brand in NSW so it works hand in hand, the boards skate good and crew is tight so I’m down for it.

It was my first time in W.A, so got to meet all the butter homies, they were all cool as from the word go, cant wait to meet up and skate again soon.

How you finding the Sydney skate scene at the moment? There’s a few new parks popping up and more planned, is it making life any easier?

Its always a half hour drive at least from Cronulla too skate something decent at the moment, but end of this year with the new park here it will make life a lot easier! Waterloo is the

meetup spot, which is an amazing plaza and some new parks popping up like Macquarie fields, Rockdale and Hunters Hill are always fun with the boys.

Do you think Sydney compares with other states for parks and skate terrain?

I love skating Sydney, cruising around town is always amazing but slowly spots are dying or getting skatestopped. Ideally we need a park in the middle of the CBD like Melbourne and Adelaide. Saying that there is always something fun to skate you just have to make a little effort.

What Sydney skaters do you reckon are killing it at the moment?

Jake Hayes, Dean Palmer, Marty Girotto and Rhys Grogan Any shout outs?

My family and grandparents, Ben & Karmen @ GMTA, Jake Demos, Hadenham, Gav @ lodown, OOK posse, W.A. Homies, BCN, Athens Sydagma crew, Raja Nasuta bros, Pup, Getrad, Uncle Phillip for buying me my first ever board & anyone else I forgot who is killing life.

What about last words?

Have one, make it two, cause when your dead no more for you!

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I don’t know who are worse. Radiohead the band, or Radioheads fans. Either way, I’d much rather get my pubic hair plucked out one by one with blunt tweezers than endure an album of theirs in it’s entirety ever again, but endure King Of Limbs I did.

The result is contrived, melancholy bollocks. Radiohead seem to be a band that people that don’t actually like music listen to. Much like Death In June.

Jog On. - DF

PANDA BEAR Tomboy

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In 2008 I was in Indonesia with a sore knee when a new friend I knew for about a day gave me some prescription drugs too “help” with the discomfort.

The drugs ended up being the strongest available Oxycodone which he had a prescription for. Saying this after a few beers I went to bed and put on my new favorite album “Person Pitch” by panda bear. I was starting too hallucinate and could see the music as it played. It ended up getting so intense I had too turn it off. Tomboy holds up to, if not surpasses person pitch. Now I just need some oxycodone. - BG

ART vs SCIENCE The Experiment Here’s an experiment. Fuck Off. -TV

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Firstly, your corpse pain is about as scary as Peter Criss wearing a Hawaiian shirt, and secondly, you’re music isn’t even heavy, so i have no idea why it’s not just called “Black”. In fact i might start a petition to get the word “Metal” omitted from the term “Black Metal” altogether. Go whack on Slippery When Wet if you want to hear a cracking good “Metal” album. If you have ears that REMOTELY work, you’ll want to avoid this motherfucker like the plague.

-DF