FulltimeCasual

Hey all, Pete has invited me to help out with the blog. My Twitter handle is @zacislost, feel free to send a request if you aren’t an idiot social media spambot retard. Hope you like the posts.

For the last two weeks I’ve used my iPhone as my primary communications tool, for both web and phone. Here’s how it performed:

And finally, after 3 hours of “No Service”, this was one of many missed SMS’s to come through:

Last night i stayed up watching the Obama inauguration with the rest of the world. I even bought a six pack of Bud as a sign of good faith in my American brothers, but only drank one. That shit ain’t beer.

As a TV/Film site, i guess i should mention the coverage. In Australia, the coverage was OK, but a little frustrating. CNN was blocking Australia on its own site, yet CNN via Ustream worked. Al Jazeera and BBC World via Livestation had fantastic coverage, but the images were too choppy. CSPAN had hilarious Redneck talkback, but that kind of took away from the event. Channel 9 had Karl Stefanovic. After much jumping back and forth, I eventually stuck with Channel 7′s direct feed from NBC.

Anyhoo, the speech ‘Bama gave was a great as you’d expect from the man, but this little nugget amused me as much as it amused Ken Levine:

“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” I can just imagine George Bush hearing that, processing it, and fifteen minutes later saying, “Hey!”

In fact, there were quite a few indirect digs at Bush and the last 8 years throughout Obama’s speech, and each time NBC would cut to a close up of W for a reaction shot. They got nothing. W kept the same “i wanna go home” look on his face the entire speech.

Either way, it was a great night. Congratulations America, you done good.

On a side note, Oliver Stone’s W will finally be released in Australian Cinemas on February 12th. Two days ago DVD Rips of the film hit the tubes. I’ll leave that one up to you..

Justin recently wrote one of the best posts on this here site about dudes who get it… Although this isn’t film related, today I’m equally inspired by The Guardian Newspaper . The first newspaper in the world to offer full articles in their RSS feed.

Dear ABC, Fairfax, News.com.au etc… I now suck in all ‘print’ knowledge purely via RSS, and only to feeds with full articles. Sadly this means i really don’t know what the hell is happening in the world outside of Tech News, Mac News, Film News, and LolCats. Thanks to The Guardian, i realise we’re still at war, which is a shame, and that there’s been a spot of bother with the economy lately. 

Thanks Guardian, for realising it is 2008.

I just heard that Tony Martin will be “getting the arse” after this year, by the fucking morons at Austereo. 

Tony Martins Get This has been the best radio program in a decade, and the one thing that has brought me back to commercial radio, after a solid two years of listening to nothing but my iPod and podcasts.

I really dont understand how corporate media works. They seem to only promote the most mundane crap and cancel anything thats good.

Austereo, Get This was your Arrested Development. The intelligent, hilarious show that made up for the rest of the crap you broadcast. The show that made me think you werent as stupid as you clearly are.

I only hope another network will see Austereo’s mistake, and throw wads of cash at messieurs Martin, Kavalee, and Marsland.  And maybe, just maybe, they will allow the boys to play music that they want to play, not the high rotation shit from the Triple M catalogue.

Very bloody angry….

hey kids,

i’ll admit that i thought lolcats were cute too for about 3 minutes earlier this year, but man they got old quickly. i really hoped the fad would be short lived, but like pictures of britney spears vagina, they just keep coming back.

Anyhoo, while i can handle coming across the odd lolcat, i draw the line at lolspeak. Jesus, its only funny when there’s a fucking cat involved! It’s not rocket science people.

And if my twitterfeed is anything to go by, the only people who find lolspeak amusing are (ex)Microsoft employees…

please kids, make it stop.

In just plain fucking awesome news, apparently Kevin Rudd went to a Titty Bar in 2003. Allegedly, he was warned for being too touchy feely… His response, in true Australian style, was “I was too drunk to recall…”

The boy has my vote. I think i’ll try and capture the moment with Photoshop.

So the internet is abuzz with the new Labor Party site Kevin 07. I think i’ve made my political views fairly clear, but for those that came in late; John Howard is an amazing politician. As a human being though, he is a revolting, despicable little prick of a man. Let no one call Fulltime Casual one sided…

Anyhoo, i’ll leave all debates about the overall content of the site, and its design, to those that know what they’re talking about. What concerns me is the fact that the sexy Kevin07 tshirts are only $7 bucks. Thats pretty cheap…
God i hope the Labor party wasnt stupid enough to buy those shirts at a sweatshop. The second i get confirmation that those shirts were made by happy, well paid workers, i’ll buy one.

Fingers crossed.

For the seventh year running, the winner of Big Brother Australia is an inanimate carbon rod.

I can’t wait to see its pictures in Ralph yet again.

Nice one Australia….