Tuesday, September 9, 2008


When the naughties have died and been reborn in a premature haze of nostalgia marketing and retro-dollar love-ins, I will feed my progeny for generations to come with my one-hit-wonder super group: 'Youtube Sensation'.


8 comments:

  1. Quickly - go register that name, www domain and brand right now, sonny boy!

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  2. Your acoustic album known as "Youtube Sensation Unplugged in Bribie" - catchy!

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  3. Do you really think that will generate enough income to sustain generations worth of progeny?

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  4. Can't wait to start the tribute band, TwoTube...

    Or Google Video Smash...

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  5. Kath - It's okay, blogs will legally binding when Youtube Sensation comes to town.

    Baino - Welcome to Single Sentence September! Thanks for the great furry flurry of comments! Can I count on you for some broad-based comment flaming when Youtube Sensation's inevitably self-referential video goes live?

    Shippy - I think we'll have to rename for the acoustic version: Tube Sensation.

    River - I'm leaving that in the capable hands of my manager. TooS?

    Miles -I would totally start an underground following for your tribute bands. We would call ourselves TwoTube Smashers and go around kicking in non-internet enabled TVs.

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  6. WAY ahead of you Franzy!

    I'm picturing:
    - A YTS clothing line called "BlogBoyz" (whose range includes the ubiquitous matching velour tracksuit);
    - At least 4 appearances in commercials for Japanese TV (where your yearly download royalties top EURO 1M);
    - A YTS video-game (available on XBox, PS3 & PC);
    - A spot in the Super-group, called "Fad", with your fellow members: Mark Zuckerberg, AYBABTU and the Star-Wars-Kid.

    AND don't forget the inevitable YTS reunion tour! (Scheduled for 2038).


    ...all we need now is a Turtle and a Drama (Moif & Trit?). Of course I'm Eric; I'm the short one!

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  7. I like it.
    You forgot Tay Zonday being roped in to produce our difficult second single.

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

Chinese food, not Chinese Internet!

Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32