tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117235302024-03-15T05:49:08.448+11:00Pop Goes Canberra!I heard your daddy said that I'll mess with your head, but I'm only setting you free...
...Canberran pop culture commentary from a ridiculous perspectivePopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-6442570136314776622008-11-23T14:56:00.003+11:002008-11-26T09:59:49.678+11:00Visit to Canberra (by guest Qld-based blogger)<h3 class="western" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normalfont-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>Share our Story</i></span></h3><h3 class="western" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">As PopGoesCanberra is well aware (but has sworn, on his laptop’s life, not to disclose), there is a tiny part of me, somewhere behind my left ventricle, which secretly misses Canberra. Yes, scoff if you like. Lay out your arguments with the giddy confidence of a jumped-up private school mock-mooter at the national finals. Play back to me secretly recorded audio-files of my own incessant whinging sessions. Remind me of that phrase I once uttered emphatically: Canberra is to a person’s soul what Facebook is to blogs like this one. (OK, so I never uttered that particular phrase, but I’m sure I thought it in your presence, PopGoesCanberra – that makes you an accessory [editor: what on earth are you on about?]). Let’s just say, from my Uncle Travelling Matt vantage point, there is something unique and enticing about the chance to visit the ACT – a chance I recently grabbed with both hands. </span></span></h3><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" height="245" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbncnxq_11d7x33pdw_b" width="313" align="bottom" border="0" name="graphics1" /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My facial reaction at receiving my e-itinerary<br /><br /></span></span><p class="western" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">Mindful of the rights of landlocked states to protect their borders from unauthorised immigrants (whether arriving by rickety fishing boat along the Murrumbidgee River, or being smuggled in on a short-stay visa with a troupe of Ukrainian folk dancers</span><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">), I tread carefully through customs control at Canberra International Airport, having hastily discarded the thirty kilograms of citrus product I’d brought with me to ward off scurvy. (it was going cheap at the Big Orange firesale, alright?) Let’s face it, the last thing I wanted was to draw attention to myself and end up on an episode of Border Security. We’ve all shuddered at those clips of innocent holidaymakers returning from the coast being approached outside petrol stations in Queanbeyan by DIAC officials posing as coyotes. So naturally, I was alarmed when a woman approached me clutching what appeared to be an over-sized clipboard. Of course, I had heard about the ruthless tactics employed by undercover Tourism ACT representatives, these ‘honey-pots’ posing as federal officials, wielding an array of coercive questioning powers and a dazzling knowledge of cold climate wines. The clip-board gave it all away, though. ‘Here on public service business’ I mumbled, eyes cast downwards in shame at the oxymoron I’d just uttered. And she let me pass.</span></i></span></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" height="104" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbncnxq_12hswcn2f9_b" width="489" align="bottom" border="0" name="graphics2" /><br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The ultimate ruse: casual talk of botrytis and well-drained granite soils are familiar lead-in to a short period of detention for new arrivals to Canberra, often forced to fill out a survey before being allowed to go free. </span><br /><br /></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><h3 class="western" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-size:+0;"><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Like any modern traveller, I was keen to blend in with the locals, and obtain the most authentic experience possible. So after meeting my travelling companion at the baggage carousel, we made our way immediately towards the largest, most uninviting building we could find and sat there, motionless, for most of the day. If the rights of landlocked states to protect their sedentary organisms extend to temporary visitors, we certainly enjoyed all the indulgences Jervis Bay has to offer. This unique juridical structure, I later learned, is the model (some jurists claim) for the laws now applicable in Summer Bay. These entail, of course, the right to summons a grand jury of twelve extras to the Diner to drink milkshakes. And the right to bare arms. </span></i></span></span></i></span></h3><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" height="194" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbncnxq_13ctjs8xgx_b" width="194" align="bottom" border="0" name="graphics3" /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><img style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" height="194" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbncnxq_14hcrh23dz_b" width="194" align="bottom" border="0" name="graphics4" /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><img style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" height="194" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbncnxq_15g9hvr3fg_b" width="194" align="bottom" border="0" name="graphics5" /><br /></span><h3 class="western" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: italic; TEXT-ALIGN: centerfont-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-size:+0;">Spaghetti straps, complex woven hair arrangements, and cropped tees. All permitted items of female leisurewear in the liberal enclave of Summer Bay, known in legal circles as the ‘New Amsterdam of New Holland.’ </span></span></span></span></h3><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;">Fortunately, I had consulted my Wallpaper Guide to Canberra before leaving home, so I knew just where to go to experience the ambience and bustle of the ACT fine dining circuit. And, despite not having a reservation, my travelling companion and I were lucky enough to score a rickety stool at the Qantas Club at Canberra Airport, uncomfortably close to a woman with a Frente-sized clipboard, and flanked by a security detail of drug scenting cocker spaniels named ‘Lightning’ and ‘Dianne.’ And so, as we toasted the glorious Territory sunset, and considered moving outside to the spacious conditions of Gate Lounge Twelve, we truly agreed that if you never never know, you’ll never never go...<br /></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" height="156" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbncnxq_16rcftf6gw_b" width="156" align="bottom" border="0" name="graphics6" /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Scenes of casual, long sleeved elegance at Canberra’s exclusive Qantas Club, open 0515 to last departure. Located at Level 1, next to Gate 12. Reservations not required, provided you have a large clipboard, inappropriately sized laptop satchel, or festive lanyard. </span></span><br /></div><br /></div></div><p class="western" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal"></span></i></p><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"></div></div>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-87493386566551342612008-01-26T15:16:00.000+11:002008-12-11T22:53:46.139+11:00Australia Day Live 2008: review<div style="text-align: center;">Australia Day Live is over for another year.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Let's review it in pictures!!...<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/24/jules_lund300_080123041753422_wideweb__300x328,1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/24/jules_lund300_080123041753422_wideweb__300x328,1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"I'm not Sandra Sully, nor Gretel Killeen, nor Andrew G."<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q8UgjokrI/AAAAAAAAAJo/rQD2rNtEpqQ/s1600-h/small0001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q8UgjokrI/AAAAAAAAAJo/rQD2rNtEpqQ/s320/small0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159643383629124274" border="0" /></a><br />This is just nice.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q8_AjoksI/AAAAAAAAAJw/WLzJ5jmNDNw/s1600-h/small0002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q8_AjoksI/AAAAAAAAAJw/WLzJ5jmNDNw/s320/small0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159644113773564610" border="0" /></a>"I really should be assisting Karl and Lisa in the ratings battle with Sunrise but right now I really can't be fucked"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q9QgjoktI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/AAsm8iupISI/s1600-h/small0003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q9QgjoktI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/AAsm8iupISI/s320/small0003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159644414421275346" border="0" /></a>"The cigarette and the collar only accentuate my shit-hotness"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q9jQjokuI/AAAAAAAAAKA/LnvHxSyguR0/s1600-h/small0004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q9jQjokuI/AAAAAAAAAKA/LnvHxSyguR0/s320/small0004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159644736543822562" border="0" /></a>"Wear a belt, boy" - <span style="font-style: italic;">concerned parent</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q92wjokvI/AAAAAAAAAKI/bdQeJ34nQl0/s1600-h/small0005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q92wjokvI/AAAAAAAAAKI/bdQeJ34nQl0/s320/small0005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159645071551271666" border="0" /></a>"Yes, along with making amazing pop music, I do a bit of pickpocketing on the side" -<span style="font-style: italic;"> random Veronica<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q-UwjokwI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/nRlTZKUjog4/s1600-h/small0006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q-UwjokwI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/nRlTZKUjog4/s320/small0006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159645586947347202" border="0" /></a>"Hey, security dude, hook me up, I wanna feel a drumstick in my tummy" - <span style="font-style: italic;">Veronica 1 to Veronica 2<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q-sgjokxI/AAAAAAAAAKY/3UrF7pZ2owY/s1600-h/small0007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q-sgjokxI/AAAAAAAAAKY/3UrF7pZ2owY/s320/small0007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159645994969240338" border="0" /></a><br />The Veronicas hard at work.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q_DgjokyI/AAAAAAAAAKg/cZTkf9Lc1_s/s1600-h/small0008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q_DgjokyI/AAAAAAAAAKg/cZTkf9Lc1_s/s320/small0008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159646390106231586" border="0" /></a><br />"Why am I here?....Canberra fans are such bogans..."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q_SwjokzI/AAAAAAAAAKo/92z3XOmwe-c/s1600-h/small0009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5q_SwjokzI/AAAAAAAAAKo/92z3XOmwe-c/s320/small0009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159646652099236658" border="0" /></a><br />"I wasn't alive when Blockbusters was on the television, so I have no idea who the man on the big screen is" - <span style="font-style: italic;">guy wiping his nose<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></span>"I look like a bit like Boyd from Neighbours, except my muscles aren't as big"<span style="font-style: italic;"> - guy in singlet</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rAJAjok0I/AAAAAAAAAKw/P0-5NiwHA_M/s1600-h/small0010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rAJAjok0I/AAAAAAAAAKw/P0-5NiwHA_M/s320/small0010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159647584107139906" border="0" /></a>"I have two plastic phalli jammed between my legs"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rApwjok1I/AAAAAAAAAK4/WYDi8QHXqJM/s1600-h/small0011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rApwjok1I/AAAAAAAAAK4/WYDi8QHXqJM/s320/small0011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159648146747855698" border="0" /></a>Testosterone-fuelled, 'yoof' rampage while Indian sex guru Ben Lee sings on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rBBwjok2I/AAAAAAAAALA/wupDSCGMxAM/s1600-h/small0012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rBBwjok2I/AAAAAAAAALA/wupDSCGMxAM/s320/small0012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159648559064716130" border="0" /></a>"I'm not really into Ben Lee either"<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rBQgjok3I/AAAAAAAAALI/UXHyHxaUHEk/s1600-h/small0013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rBQgjok3I/AAAAAAAAALI/UXHyHxaUHEk/s320/small0013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159648812467786610" border="0" /></a>Oestrogen-fuelled 'yoof' rampage<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rCYgjok4I/AAAAAAAAALQ/0PG4oZvXLpk/s1600-h/small0014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rCYgjok4I/AAAAAAAAALQ/0PG4oZvXLpk/s320/small0014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159650049418367874" border="0" /></a>PopGoesCanberra = lost for words<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rCnQjok5I/AAAAAAAAALY/Nu0vLPPtsl0/s1600-h/small0015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rCnQjok5I/AAAAAAAAALY/Nu0vLPPtsl0/s320/small0015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159650302821438354" border="0" /></a>"Hello! Hello! Nice to see you!"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rC3Ajok6I/AAAAAAAAALg/7-Daeokyp0M/s1600-h/small0017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rC3Ajok6I/AAAAAAAAALg/7-Daeokyp0M/s320/small0017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159650573404378018" border="0" /></a>"Take a walk along the beach? Sure...but don't try to touch me, don't try to touch me" - <span style="font-style: italic;">Girl with pink handbag to man in jeans</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rDNgjok7I/AAAAAAAAALo/CcbMLYIsNxo/s1600-h/small0018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rDNgjok7I/AAAAAAAAALo/CcbMLYIsNxo/s320/small0018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159650959951434674" border="0" /></a>"I prefer to rampage, fuelled by testosterone, and make strange signals to bloggers, rather than watch a man with curly hair and facial hair 'sing' "<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rDpgjok8I/AAAAAAAAALw/v5YUx0QPAtk/s1600-h/small0019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rDpgjok8I/AAAAAAAAALw/v5YUx0QPAtk/s320/small0019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159651440987771842" border="0" /></a>Need we say more?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rD2Ajok9I/AAAAAAAAAL4/28LWmyrk2dM/s1600-h/small0020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rD2Ajok9I/AAAAAAAAAL4/28LWmyrk2dM/s320/small0020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159651655736136658" border="0" /></a>Pretty lights on Parliament House!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rD_gjok-I/AAAAAAAAAMA/cQ9Ae6h0O2Y/s1600-h/small0021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/R5rD_gjok-I/AAAAAAAAAMA/cQ9Ae6h0O2Y/s320/small0021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159651818944893922" border="0" /></a>"My name is Ricki-Lee Coulter and I am disgusted that Channel Ten choose to censor my 'Love is all around' video by removing the loving gay kiss on Sunday mornings."<br /><br />***********<br />Totally not-thought out rating for Australia Day Live 2008: 5/10.<br /><br /></div>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-14365263989125789992008-01-23T21:29:00.000+11:002008-01-23T22:00:37.557+11:00"My Family": Worst British comedy ever?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sitcom.co.uk/my_family/graphics/my_family_series7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 219px;" src="http://www.sitcom.co.uk/my_family/graphics/my_family_series7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Family">"My Family</a>" is awful! It is even worse than "No Job For A Lady", a hideous sitcom starring Penelope Keith where she plays a lady parliamentarian.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sofacinema.co.uk/guardian/images/products/4/80574-large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.sofacinema.co.uk/guardian/images/products/4/80574-large.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Meanwhile, "The Complete Guide to Parenting" is very good. Very good indeed. Best line tonight was when the New Zealand Au Pair was complaining/crying about her boyfriend dumping her "this girl who works there, she's a trainee baRIsta, she tixted me and shi said 'fuck off you kiwi slag". !!!!!PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-5343265950086751272008-01-14T22:05:00.000+11:002008-01-14T22:07:50.703+11:00Seen at Coles Manuka.... (#2)<div style="text-align: center;">...a guy who looks just like the actors they use in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Bill </span>to play pedophiles. I would say he looked like a pedophile but we are not sure we've ever seen one.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.badzena.com/nixon/nixon1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.badzena.com/nixon/nixon1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Phil! Neil! I know his psychological profile. I will get him"</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-41206442365679339292008-01-14T21:53:00.000+11:002008-01-14T22:04:33.547+11:00Seen at Coles Manuka...<div style="text-align: center;">...a checkout operator who looks just like Ben McKenzie!!!!!!!!!!!<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/77029326.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193E7907F767875D197FA176D1CC862B279284831B75F48EF45"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 224px;" src="http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/77029326.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193E7907F767875D197FA176D1CC862B279284831B75F48EF45" alt="" border="0" /></a>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-58268550364320499052008-01-13T18:57:00.001+11:002008-01-13T20:32:03.376+11:00Coming to you from a hot and steamy Canberra couch....Happy New Year all!<br /><br />Due to popular appeal (from the likes of the wonderful <a href="http://cfbgoespop.livejournal.com/">CFBGoesPop</a> - coming soon with a new <a href="http://cfbgoespop.livejournal.com/497708.html">Nikki Webster telly show</a> - and <a href="http://eurotrash.blogspot.com/">Eurotrash</a>) PopGoesCanberra is back, with a new camera too, so it'll be quite a multimedia affair, in theory.<br /><br />Coming up, we hope to bring you reports from Darwin and Kazakhstan.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For now, a quick restaurant review wrap-up from around Canberra.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Cape Cod</span><br /><br />Clever seafood, friendly and professional (and HOT) service, great wine.....this is a great Canberra restaurant.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Cream</span><br /><br />A case of all style and no substance. These try-hard, bland, up-themselves-with-their-icky-hair-and-average-food-at-above-average<br />price restaurants are just becoming all too common around Canberra these days. Nice toilets though.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Babars</span><br /><br />Babars new premises in the Canberra Centre are open and I wasn't tempted to go and try the food because of the truly hideous colour scheme. Cool in summer perhaps but the red, black and the white are totally unwelcoming.<br /><br />I can't be bothered doing any more, because PGC hasn't been able to afford eating out much lately.<br /><br />On a dining related note, what is with the throngs of people all sitting there eating at Cream, Sammys and Wagamama in the Canberra Centre. The food is sort of alright, but where do these people get the money and the impetus to sit there up there like stuffed monkeys with bogans driving around in cars all around them, on a weeknight? Seriously!<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-5578189043536236052008-01-13T18:52:00.000+11:002008-01-13T18:56:32.296+11:00This is quite amazing<div><object height="331" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x3deha"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x3deha" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="331" width="420"></embed></object><br />Can you ever imagine Celine Dion boogieing while Rihanna sings with a contestant on Australian Idol?<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3deha_rihanna-feat-claudia-dont-stop-the_music">Rihanna Feat. Claudia - Don't stop the music [Live]</a></b><br /><i>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/wonderful-life1989">wonderful-life1989</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></i></div>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-53910409968949194372007-10-05T16:07:00.000+10:002008-12-11T22:53:46.670+11:00Callum off "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwXVC9MmJjI/AAAAAAAAABE/2sHQCo7tbR0/s1600-h/windowslivewriterareyousmarterthana5thgrader-1438020070926-215710.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwXVC9MmJjI/AAAAAAAAABE/2sHQCo7tbR0/s200/windowslivewriterareyousmarterthana5thgrader-1438020070926-215710.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117730798340286002" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Note him.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwXU7dMmJiI/AAAAAAAAAA8/vvRGvlp0fFk/s1600-h/callum256.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwXU7dMmJiI/AAAAAAAAAA8/vvRGvlp0fFk/s200/callum256.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117730669491267106" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Bet you he's the next Matt Corby! He's got the hair, a better personality, and he's even got the flanny!<br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwXY6dMmJkI/AAAAAAAAABM/10ZvV1cs36Q/s1600-h/ecards_matt_promo_76x65.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwXY6dMmJkI/AAAAAAAAABM/10ZvV1cs36Q/s200/ecards_matt_promo_76x65.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117735050357909058" border="0" /></a>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-91468098206942150792007-10-05T13:36:00.001+10:002007-10-05T13:56:32.701+10:00PopGoesCanberra's famous mega chart rubbish wrap-up1 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Sean Kingston <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bogan Rubbish</span></span><br />2 IN THIS LIFE Delta Goodrem <span style="font-style: italic;">Absolute wonderfulness</span><br />3 THE WAY I ARE Timbaland Feat. Keri Hilson <span style="font-style: italic;">This is actually quite good</span><br />4 STRONGER Kanye West <span style="font-style: italic;">Boring rubbish</span><br />5 HOOK ME UP The Veronicas <span style="font-style: italic;">Disappointingness</span><br />6 BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY Fergie <span style="font-style: italic;">Cringeworthy baby missing blanket rubbish</span><br />7 HEY THERE DELILAH Plain White T's <span style="font-style: italic;">No idea, probably rubbish</span><br />8 SHUT UP AND DRIVE Rihanna <span style="font-style: italic;">Really quite good</span><br />9 CAN'T TOUCH IT Ricki-Lee <span style="font-style: italic;">Really quite amazing</span><br />10 HOW FAR WE'VE COME Matchbox Twenty <span style="font-style: italic;">Probably rubbish</span><br />11 THNKS FR TH MMRS Fall Out Boy <span style="font-style: italic;">Sounds good on a footy advert</span><br />12 THE PRETENDER Foo Fighters <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />13 LOVE TODAY Mika <span style="font-style: italic;">Scissor Sisters wannabe rubbish</span><br />14 DANCE FLOOR ANTHEM Good Charlotte <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />15 WHEN YOU'RE GONE Avril Lavigne <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><g><br />16 AYO TECHNOLOGY 50 Cent Feat. Justin Timberlake <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />17 THE TAKE OVER, THE BREAKS OVER Fall Out Boy <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />18 LOUD Shannon Noll <span style="font-style: italic;">Disappointingness</span><br />19 DESTINATION CALABRIA Alex Gaudino Feat. Crystal Waters <span style="font-style: italic;">This came out four years ago, it was good but did nothing, they add some annoying horns, and Australia loves it</span><br />20 I GOT IT FROM MY MAMA Will.I.Am <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />21 TEENAGERS My Chemical Romance <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />22 WAKE UP CALL Maroon 5 <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />23 1973 James Blunt <span style="font-style: italic;">Total rubbish</span><br />24 OVE ME LIKE THE WORLD IS ENDING Ben Lee <span style="font-style: italic;">Tibetan rubbish</span><br />25 UMBRELLA Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z <span style="font-style: italic;">Still brilliant</span><br /></g>26 KISS YOUR MAMA! Vanessa Amorosi <span style="font-style: italic;">Again, more disappointingness<br /></span>27 BLEED IT OUT Linkin Park <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />28 DEAR MR. PRESIDENT P!nk <span style="font-style: italic;">Sentimental rubbish</span><br />29 JUST A SONG ABOUT PING PONG Operator Please <span style="font-style: italic;">Assuming it's rubbish</span><br />30 WALL TO WALL Chris Brown <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish<br /></span>31 CLOTHES OFF!!! Gym Class Heroes <span style="font-style: italic;">Possibly rubbish</span><br /><g>32 SOUND OF FREEDOM Bob Sinclar & Cutee-B Feat. Dollarman & Gary Pine <span style="font-style: italic;">Probably rubbish</span><br />33 OPINIONS WON'T KEEP YOU WARM AT NIGHT Kisschasy <span style="font-style: italic;">No doubt rubbish</span><br />34 LOVESTONED Justin Timberlake <span style="font-style: italic;">Dido's song was better</span><br />35 WHAT TIME IS IT? High School Musical Cast <span style="font-style: italic;">Christian Fundamentalist rubbish</span><br />36 NO LONGER THERE The Cat Empire <span style="font-style: italic;">Trendy left-wing Adelaide rubbish from Melbourne</span><br />37 GIRLFRIEND Avril Lavigne <span style="font-style: italic;">Annoying rubbish</span></g><br />38 UFO Sneaky Sound System <span style="font-style: italic;">Brilliance</span><br />39 F.R.E.S.H. Scribe <span style="font-style: italic;">Kiwi Rubbish</span><br />40 DON'T MATTER Akon <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />41 ONE MINUTE Kelly Clarkson <span style="font-style: italic;">Probably rubbish</span><br />42 SONG FOR MUTYA Groove Armada <span style="font-style: italic;">Alright. </span><br />43 INCONSOLABLE Backstreet Boys <span style="font-style: italic;">Alright. </span><br />44 BUY U A DRANK (SHAWTY SNAPPIN') T-Pain Feat. Yung Joc <span style="font-style: italic;">Definitely rubbish</span><br />45 GIVE IT TO ME Timbaland Feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />46 BETTER THAN The John Butler Trio <span style="font-style: italic;">Truly awful rubbish at its worst</span><br />47 GLAMOROUS Fergie Feat. Ludacris <span style="font-style: italic;">Rubbish</span><br />48 GRACE KELLY Mika <span style="font-style: italic;">God-awful rubbish. </span><br />49 CANDYMAN Christina Aguilera <span style="font-style: italic;">Annoying rubbish. </span><br />50 NEVER AGAIN Kelly Clarkson <span style="font-style: italic;">She was good on Australian Idol this week wasn't she!<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-62457823898000674952007-10-05T13:24:00.000+10:002007-10-05T13:30:46.409+10:00Great stuff: Fireman Sam<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40975000/jpg/_40975900_fireman2_203.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40975000/jpg/_40975900_fireman2_203.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Possibly the best kids show currently screening on ABC TV? Not that I see many. And it's not in the calibre of Astroboy, Belle and Sebastian, Superted, etc...but it's darn entertaining and has a great theme tune. <br /><br />And do you realise, it has a character called <span style="font-style:italic;">Bella Lasagne</span>? It's true! She's Italian! Isn't that wonderful.PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-9793191389781807282007-10-05T13:19:00.000+10:002007-10-05T13:24:31.291+10:00Great stuff: The Flying DoctorsThis is being repeated at the moment on WIN TV. What a great show. There was an awesome episode once when they were in the plane and encountered UFO activity! So exciting. <br /><br />You know what is missing from modern Australian dramas? Heart. What was the last Aussie drama to have heart? <br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PfyxThcqF3I"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PfyxThcqF3I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-70174025963818169032007-10-05T13:12:00.000+10:002008-12-11T22:53:46.841+11:00The Public Sector Informant - the most boring newspaper ever?'nuff said.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwWtB9MmJhI/AAAAAAAAAA0/I35yzofy9v0/s1600-h/psi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/RwWtB9MmJhI/AAAAAAAAAA0/I35yzofy9v0/s200/psi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117686800695305746" border="0" /></a>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-34436838801502498872007-09-20T14:15:00.001+10:002007-09-20T14:25:26.674+10:00Summer is coming - Mamma Mia, give me a sangria!Here at PopGoesCanberra we are huge Gunther fans, and were quite late to discover this video of his that came out in June or so...it's AMAZING! This may well be our summer 07/08 theme!<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Ola Ola...ra ta da ta da!</span><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X8BeCz2V7dc"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X8BeCz2V7dc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-62144862904073370732007-09-08T21:45:00.000+10:002007-09-08T21:56:58.997+10:00What's Not (hot)Many things are not hot at the moment in Canberra.<br /><br />First things first.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BMWs</span>. What were once nice cars have been taken over by total and utter bogany types with hideous mullety hair who want to show off a lot and be very silly, really. And they usually have silly customised numberplates too, and drive too fast.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The staff at Fitness First Deakin</span> - they have all changed - why so? The old ones were nice. These ones are all young and quite unhelpful. PGC prefers young and quite helpful.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Young men at Coles Manuka buying condoms excitedly at 6pm on a Saturday night</span>. We don't want to know that you are having sex tonight, lest you set off our envious sexometers!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Sideshow on the ABC</span>. It's not very good really.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Air Crash Investigations being on at the same time as Summer Heights High. </span><br /><br />Traffic lights along this section of Ballumbi St, Civic:<br /><br /><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&s=AARTsJqzARj-Z8VnW5pkPMLMmZbqrJcYpw&ll=-35.279153,149.135714&spn=0.005255,0.006437&amp;z=16&output=embed" frameborder="0" height="300" scrolling="no" width="300"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&om=0&ll=-35.279153,149.135714&spn=0.005255,0.006437&amp;z=16&source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small><br /><br />They are terrible! They are not sychronised at all and once can be quite possibly caught by five in a row turning red one after the other!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lack of street sensuality by Canberran folk. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gatherings of young men in hoodies, smoking, outside McDonalds Manuka.<br /></span>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-90072820297070098632007-09-08T21:27:00.000+10:002007-09-08T21:44:08.626+10:00What's Hot<ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook </a>(that's where we've been for the last four months - sorry)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Australian Idol</span>, just so you can watch it and then go to <a href="http://scott2bc.blogspot.com/">Scott to be Certain</a>'s HILARIOUS commentary</li><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.abc.net.au/summerheightshigh">Summer Heights High</a>. A taste:<br /></li></ul><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HlqNvh5J6eI"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HlqNvh5J6eI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">BWO</span>. Look! Their new album is out shortly!!!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.electronordica.com/images/newspix44.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.electronordica.com/images/newspix44.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Neighbours</span>. It's quite good, with its fancy new look and quality actors like Jane Hall, Steve Bastoni and co.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hoodies</span>. Nice ones. Not ugly ones.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">APEC Australia 2007</span>. Something interesting on the news for once!</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The ski season</span>. It was cold! But now it's hot, so the snow is melting :(</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The weather</span> - warming up, a little</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robyn </span>- gracing Australia with her pop presence. Look at her hair!<br /></li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.idolator.com/assets/resources/2006/11/robyn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 63px; height: 62px;" src="http://www.idolator.com/assets/resources/2006/11/robyn.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-3602073876142298972007-09-08T20:07:00.000+10:002007-09-08T21:23:44.449+10:00What's HotYellow. Yellow is hot. Evidence?<br /><br />The new Sugababes video "About You Now":<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/945sEEXD_QU"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/945sEEXD_QU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Verona's amazing "La Musica" from this year's Melodifestivalen:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FAzq8IvOjlY"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FAzq8IvOjlY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-64509678311610016412007-06-25T22:00:00.000+10:002007-06-25T22:01:53.019+10:00What if Canberra were actually Poland?It would be something like this maybe! Or not...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8hEGRDJ6Vow"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8hEGRDJ6Vow" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-45527883333127179632007-05-24T20:29:00.000+10:002007-05-24T20:57:30.652+10:00Coles Manuka: Worst supermarket in Canberra?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/britney_spears.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 205px;" src="http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/britney_spears.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The answer is surely yes.<br /><br />For the person who has just moved to the inner south of Canberra, Coles Manuka at first delights the senses. It is central, accessible, and stocked with a wide range of grocery items. It even has a little Asian and special foods section. Wowee.<br /><br />But it starts to tire very quickly.<br /><br />Most noticeable at first is the bizarre smell when you walk in. It's a complex blend of checkout staff greasy hair, doughey bread, half-cleaned floors and almost-off fish. Even Monsieur Grenouille from <span style="font-style: italic;">Perfume: The Scent of a Murderer </span>would be disgusted.<br /><br />Next, the prices. There are some decent specials, but the fruit and vegies are nowhere near the taste and good value that you'll find at Fyshwick markets. The breakfast cereal<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ingrealestate.com.au/investment/images/projects/listing/Manuka%20thumbnail%202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 101px;" src="http://www.ingrealestate.com.au/investment/images/projects/listing/Manuka%20thumbnail%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> PopGoesCanberra prefers, Carmans, is approximately $0.25 dearer than at Woolworths. Nice eggs are ridiculously expensive.<br /><br />Finally, the checkout operators. While there is the occasional stunning one who <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.celebslam.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/shania-twain-kennedy-center-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 161px;" src="http://www.celebslam.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/shania-twain-kennedy-center-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>really should be in an Eastern European gay porn film, the vast majority have absolutely no charisma, dry, flaky lips and a weak "how are you" and "mind if I put the meat in the same bag?" They also have no idea how to work fast (obviously never been to Aldi) and tend to pack your bag in a way that makes it topple over as you are picking it up so your eggs all break, or just as you are getting out of your car at home the bag collapses because it is so weak and your yoghurt goes EVERYWHERE.<br /><br />It's great that it employs local young people, but like, WHATEVER, how about sending them on some kind of course and developing their service skills? For fuck's sake...<br /><br />I won't mention the decidely middle of the road soundtrack, that fails to inspire, apart from the occasional slice of Bardot or Shania Twain. BWO would NOT go astray.PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-21673562997685160052007-05-19T13:24:00.001+10:002007-05-19T13:25:12.521+10:00As It Is In Heaven<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">You've all got to see it! Look! This is the trailer! It's Swedish and perfect and wonderful! It's on at Dendy now!<br /><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iLEMyfqKid0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iLEMyfqKid0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-78428081870529286512007-05-19T13:13:00.000+10:002008-12-11T22:53:47.310+11:00Can you see why PopGoesCanberra loves the Gold Coast?<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">I mean, it's a bit different to Canberra, isn't it?</span><br /></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/Rk5r_4YknfI/AAAAAAAAAAM/1Lncq84I-Gs/s1600-h/100_5013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3I2R7Qh7m_M/Rk5r_4YknfI/AAAAAAAAAAM/1Lncq84I-Gs/s320/100_5013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066105376049765874" border="0" /></a>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-42715323394269647422007-05-10T20:51:00.000+10:002007-05-10T20:59:45.987+10:00Epic new BWO videoPopGoesCanberra has returned from Brisbane (report coming soon, features photos from PopGoesCanberra's amazing Robyn - including a Nicole Ritchie lookalike up-close and personal on the Gold Coast) to find the amazing new BWO video has landed. Look at it!!!!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eKmoT6ng02Q"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eKmoT6ng02Q" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Just in case you are blind and can only listen to the song, which you will hear is amazing, the video features Martin looking amazing, Marina looking amazing, Alexander looking as silly as usual, plus loads of animal-like creatures, including a cute little mousey one! Oh, and lots of lovely lasery light beams!<br /><br />Meanwhile PopGoesCanberra is impressed with <a href="http://eurotrash.blogspot.com">this new Canberran blog which transplants all the good stuff in PopGoesCanberra and puts it on an enviable trip to the Eurovision Song Contest</a>.PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-16825916909108141222007-04-25T20:23:00.000+10:002007-04-25T20:33:11.860+10:00Natalie Barr from Seven Sunrise gropes budget airline guestAfter the Long Tan delayed ANZAC dawn service/Keven Rudd fiasco, another scandal has struck Channel Seven's <span style="font-style:italic;">Sunrise </span>program. <br /><br />A video that reveals newsreader Natalie Barr's previous life as a budget British airline flight attendant has come to light on YouTube. Watch at the 2 minute countdown mark as she goes too far with a security check on a young gentleman patron! <br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rJTNcaCRlB4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rJTNcaCRlB4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-72970417653285659572007-04-22T15:43:00.000+10:002007-04-25T20:34:09.567+10:00Napisan TragedyDisaster struck at PopGoesCanberra headquarters today when a wonderful stripey jumper from <a href="http://www.retrostar.com.au">Retrostar </a>in Melbourne was dunked in Napisan without being colourfast tested. Stripes are now gone and pinkypurpleness is spread throughout the jumper. <span style="font-style: italic;">Absolut</span> tragedy.<br /><br />Good news? <a href="http://www.ausculture.com">Ausculture</a> Jess has got a JOB spouting the nonsense that she sprouts, <a href="http://www.defamer.com.au">here</a>. <br /><br />BWO are launching <span style="font-style:italic;">Chariots of Fire</span> in the UK and did an amazing performance at Popjustice Live 2.0 in London of their brilliant cover of Alcazar's <span style="font-style:italic;">Saved My Pride</span>. Cheer yourself up by watching here. Note Martin's nice singlet, hair and arms, Alexander's facial hair and don't note Marina because you can hardly see her in the dark. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q7Xizxe_4iE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q7Xizxe_4iE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-88752322862455440152007-04-14T22:26:00.000+10:002007-04-14T22:53:01.835+10:00Crap Food on Qantas flights: an updateYou know how we were saying that it's good how on the Dash-8 services you sometimes get nice crackers with nice cheese and nice wine? Well apparently that's only after 4pm. Before 4pm, you just get crap paninis, as per usual. I made it quite clear to the male trolley dolly (sorry, been watching too much <span style="font-style: italic;">Mile High</span>) that I was not happy with this situation:<br /><br />- Do we get nice crackers on this flight?<br />- No, that's only on flights after 4pm.<br />- Oh.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">10 minutes later while he is serving tea and coffee:</span><br /><br />- Do we get nice wine on this flight?<br />- No, that's only on flights after 4pm.<br />- Oh.PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11723530.post-22242750878376533842007-04-14T22:20:00.000+10:002007-04-14T22:25:55.907+10:00Lovely Canberra Autumn Evening - a haiku by PopGoesCanberra<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Acorns fall around</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dido drifts across the night:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">While Flag meets black cat<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Well, do you like it? </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div></div>PopGoesCanberrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03443208938865237046noreply@blogger.com0