Defectors - Forever and Never

Singularity PS3 game

This is a fucking great game, a thinking First Person Shooter, a innovative and interesting story, dynamic movements, violence and fun.

Highly recommended.

Daria Werbowy

The Danse Society - Somewhere

seduction

Electric Guitars- Eternal Youth

reminds me of wide-streets, terraces houses (Melbourne), sea breeze and a gorgeous girl drinking coffee

Tumultonomics - (update 4) Breguet Classique Complications Tourbillon Messidor Mens Rose Gold Watch 5335BR/42/9W6

In light of the Zenith watch review on Amazon refer: Tumultonomics - (update 3) Zenith Men's 96.0529.4035/51.M Defy Xtreme Tourbillon Titanium Chronograph Watch

More sardonic reviews (good stuff!) re: $100,000.00 priced watches on Amazon

"5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Bargain, October 17, 2010 Price $188,999.99

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Dylan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breguet Classique Complications Tourbillon Messidor Mens Rose Gold Watch 5335BR/42/9W6 (Watch)

I actually first saw this watch at a neat little store in Luxembourg, as I was refilling my ruby-encrusted helicopter with gasoline made out of unicorn tears. I passed it by, thinking nothing of it, but as I landed on the solid gold helipad of my fourteen-story chateau, it got me thinking: What am I missing in my life? I asked my pedigree manservant to fetch me the name of this trivial timepiece, and with a knowing chuckle I discovered that this Tourbillon watch came from the same countryside workshop as my armoir made of faberge eggs! Hearing this, of course, it had to be mine. Having purchased this watch, I can tell you first hand that it is worth every penny. The ability to tell the time when I look at my wrist is well worth the money. Of course, I had to buy three for my long-wristed manservant; sometimes it is a bit too much trouble to look at one's own arm. But whether you're scaling a custom-made solid platinum full-scale replica of Mt. Everest, or diving to the depths of the Adriatic Sea in your sapphire-encrusted submarine, you can be sure that this watch will tell you the time."

gasoline made out of "unicorn tears"...hahaha oh man that's good.

More reviews here

My fucked up left ankle

Old sports injury going back 11yrs ago although I can walk fine, run, kick and make love.

Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice

"You Only Live Twice or so it seems,
One life for yourself and one for your dreams.
You drift through the years and life seems tame,
Till one dream appears and love is its name.

And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on,
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.

This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice."

Creative Destruction quote of the month: November 2010

" Mr. Pink: I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's fucked up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big fuckin' surprise."

Mr Pink (Reservoir Dogs 1992 Directed: Quentin Tarantino)

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 6) Imperia Vodka

This is Vodka. Incredible, smooth and sweet. Pure quality.

It slaughters competition.

Facebook Movie 2010

I will probably wait for this movie when it hits the $5.00 blueray bin, or ex rental bin.

Simply no interest in how a sweaty, awkward geeky guy becomes a billionaire by rewiring, by default, not design, millions of years of human interaction via a database. In the 21st century we have 100's of 'Friends' that we may never meet in person. A healthy sign? Well obviously not. You give a good dose of your personal details to a private entity for 1min of fame with very little satisfaction.

See it is curious that you could be added to Sandy a 25yr old female and model Facebook page, who turns out to be Stan a 45yr male cross dresser who wears his gimp outfit when he logs online to Facebook.

Pass.

Faye Reagan

Too much excess creates cesspools, like too much rain, we get these puddles that form everywhere. Until it drys up. Our society/economic/socially is excess based driven, yes you can argue that a reset is coming, I actually believe this too. But in the meantime a shit load of cesspools out there, which can, at times, fuse into interesting aspects of popular culture. But that is rare on the whole, rather excessiveness maintains a cesspool fixture.

It is rarity, anticipation, seduction all wrapped into want and desire that creates are far more rewarding experience/s. Ok, I am rambling, but aspects of excess (and the cesspools it creates) from our main culture also form in parts of sub-culture, namely pornography. Which has it's place in our culture no doubt, but porn and the culture of excessive sexualization has kinda reached a peak. It is 'fast food' visual gratification, that works on a good day, but it's after effects are dulling. Meaning? It's boring. You can not build or maintain desire with pornography, it does it for you in a blatant barrage of imagery. Within is bland, unmoving and ultimately dissatisfying.

But sometimes good things push through, conscious or not.

Like Faye Reagan, beautiful features, divine red hair (red heads are divine), freckles. She looks striking.

(side note : The interviewer has to hit that awfully patronizing, 'she knows what shes doing', or 'she aint lost' label. Tedious.)


From Oyster Magazine

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 6) Glenfiddich 12yr old Scotch

My dear Dad (who is Scottish born) bought me a bottle of 12yo Glenfiddich.

Above is a 15yo, but the 12yo still makes a killer 'Rob Roy' Manhattan, still Glenfiddich should be drunk neat and NO ice!!! Jeez... otherwise a highlander would stick a fucking sword through your head!

Bauhaus - Passion of Lovers

An old clip. Yet it reminds me of a bohemian sexy girl living in a rundown loft and she wears Poison Perfume by Christian Dior

Two galaxies fucking

(pic of galaxies fucking like no tomorrow)

ok ok I am a closet nerd...love this stuff though



Colliding Galaxies Make Love, Not War

"ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2006) — A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.

The Universe is an all-action arena for some of the largest, most slowly evolving dramas known to mankind. A new picture taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the “best ever” view of the Antennae galaxies - seemingly a violent clash between a pair of once isolated galaxies, but in reality a fertile marriage. As the two galaxies interact, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.

The two spiral galaxies started to fuse together about 500 million years ago making the Antenna galaxies the nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies. Nearly half of the faint objects in the Antennae are young clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. The orange blobs to the left and right of image centre are the two cores of the original galaxies and consist mainly of old stars criss-crossed by filaments of dark brown dust. The two galaxies are dotted with brilliant blue star-forming regions surrounded by pink hydrogen gas.

The image allows astronomers to better distinguish between the stars and super star clusters created in the collision of two spiral galaxies. The observations show that only about 10% of the newly formed super star clusters in the Antennae will live to see their ten millionth birthday. The vast majority of the super star clusters formed during this interaction will disperse, with the individual stars becoming part of the smooth background of the galaxy. It is however believed that about a hundred of the most massive clusters will survive to form regular globular clusters, similar to the globular clusters found in our own Milky Way galaxy.

The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like “arms” extending far out from the nuclei of the two galaxies, best seen by ground-based telescopes. These “tidal tails” were formed during the initial encounter of the galaxies some 500 million years ago. They give us a preview of what may happen when our Milky Way galaxy likely collides with the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy about 6 billion years from now."

I can't wait!

Art: Photo (5)

Union Lane Melbourne City Australia. Artist (unknown)

Daisy Lowe

sucks she's got a boyfriend...as if that matters.

New habitable planet found

I love stuff like this, makes you feel...humble.

from the Telegraph 29th Sept 2010

"Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet of similar size to Earth in orbit around a nearby star.

A team of planet hunters spotted the alien world circling a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, 20 light years away.

The planet is in the "Goldilocks zone" of space around a star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to form.

"Our findings offer a very compelling case for a potentially habitable planet," said Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "The fact that we were able to detect this planet so quickly and so nearby tells us that planets like this must be really common."

If confirmed, the planet would be the most Earth-like that has ever been discovered in another solar system and the first strong contender for a habitable one."

Purple Diary Blog

I like Purple Magazine it's bible thick, nice and decadent with it's anti (anti?) fashion vibe, ego driven, sexual tantalization. A good coffee table mag. Olivier Zahm is the editor and he has his own blog, with contributory photos via Rachel Chandler a sexy girl that takes ok photos

Purple Diary

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 5) Bacardi Premium Back Rum

Actually this isn't too bad. Nice woody taste, full flavored, smooth rum. No complaints, trying this in a Voodoo cocktail (replacing the Blanco Tequila) tonight. Once tried I will post results and recipe.

Anna Christine

vamp look...damn she is sexy

Artwork (mine) - update 1

This is another one from a set, A1 (roughly) aluminum framed. Current price at $650.00

Please email for inquiry: sheolonearth@gmail.com

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

Reminds me of the most divine woman in the world.

Chimaira - The Disappearing Sun

Don't know much about this band. Cept these riffs. Nice

Creative Destruction quote of the month: September 2010

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 5) Taskmaster #1 (Marvel)

Finally Taskmaster gets his own comic. Great charterer, in my opinion, a benchmark for the male anti-hero. No victim, whinny, wimpy stuff here. Just a gun for hire that is all about trying to get 'some'.

Taskmaster's skill is that he remembers techniques/moves by other fighters/super heroes, a physical/mental reflex that is remembered once copied from an adversary. Problem is this skill has pushed out his other memories, the important ones. Like where does he come from? As Taskmaster has forgotten his pass. Writer Fred Van Lente gets the story going and keeps it straight to the point, witty with a enough 'pulp' in for good measure. The art by Jeff Paleo maintains the action and dynamics of the story.

All and all a very good start to hopefully will be a consistent run for the Taskmaster character.

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 4) ZUBROWKA Bison - Polish Vodka

Smells nice (kinda), with the Bison (one strand) grass in the bottle. But this is a ruff vodka, Luksusowa kills this. Not impressed as a sipper, not bad as a mixer. Overall a gimmicky, cheap tasting product. Pass this for a quality Vodka.

You want to impress your date for the night who aspires to sip chilled vodka ala Martini (although Gin is Martini...but what she wants, right?), don't order this one.

Creative Destruction Store - Female Genitalia 201 (Douglas O'Brian )

goddesses

David Bowie - Lets Spend The Night Together

sweet

Artwork (mine)

This is one of mine, approx a A2 size with aluminum frame.

I will be exhibiting this one (and others) at some point in the future.

Price (current) is $450.00AUD

Please email: sheolonearth@gmail.com for info

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 3) El Senrio Mezcal

This is nice, smooth with that distinct Mezcal smoky flavour, or as some mixologists like to say 'herbaceous'. Mezcal is a different from Tequila (although both come from the Agave plant) in the sense the very strong smoke flavour renders the drink almost useless for cocktails. As the Tequila has a smooth (better quality Tequila's) and more palatable as a cocktail base (re: Margarita). But, Mescal can be mixed, you just have to use your brain (not in the the cocktail!) and some creative ideas.

Remember the worm in the bottle is a Mezcal not Tequila.

Blondie: One Way or Another (1979)

This is a song about seduction right? Then rejection.... moving on etc. Suffice to say, damn great song from the late 70's

Creative Destruction Store - The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Despite the heading of the book, this isn't some doomsday advocate (or warning) manual, or even a representation of an 'end of the world fetish (ok...maybe a little)'. It is however a book that looks at the popular culture idea or the epicenter of destruction; that being New York City. Whether that destruction be from tidal waves, nuclear bombs, biological attack, aliens attacking, virus/plagues and even zombies. "The City's End" is a pop culture analysis of NYC and it's destruction.

from The NEW YORKER review (exhert)

"Max Page, a professor of architecture and history, charts the evolution of popular fears in films, drawings, literature, video games, and amusement-park rides. His argument that “each era has found it useful to destroy New York in its own particular way” draws on theorists like Spengler and Sontag, but they are less illuminating than the gleeful illustrations, which attest to the notion that “no place looks better destroyed than New York.”

D.L. & Co. - Black Wax Skull Candle

I guess you could say there is a running theme with the Creative Destruction Store - Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America and the Misplaced optimism is deadly - Alain de Botton, since this collection of wax candles are titled "Momento Mori" or "Remember your mortality"

Varoom Magazine #12

Very good art/culture magazine

Max Beckmann - 1919 Borneplatz Synagogue

If you ever get a chance to see the European masters whilst the exhibition is in Melbourne/Australian at the National Galley, see it! Of course the standpoint for me was Max Beckmann paintings, which I feel represents some of the best post modernism/cubisms style (German/ European) art you'll ever see.

The one painting that stood out for me, and there were many striking paintings, was the Borneplatz Synagogue pic painted in 1919 by Max Beckmann. The symbolism and his forecast of the destruction of the Borneplatz Synagogue in Frankfurt that occured in 1938 by the Nazi's who burnt the Synagogue to the ground. Beckmann was an artist that knew trouble was brewing, the painting was a symbolized forecast that the Jewish persecution in German was just beginning, thus the painting showing the sloping section where the Synagogue stands, with the wise cat looking in that direction; as if to know about the future. An outstanding modern artist.

Incredible.

Clips (bands): Devo (girl you want/gates of steel) and Flight Facilities (crave you)

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Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 2)

Not a big fan of vodka, but this Polish vodka (Luksusowa) is very good. Fresh tasting/smell (i.e not paint stripper), easy to drink (neat) and excellent to mix with. A quality Vodka.

Excellent for Vodka based Martini's (Luksusowa chills very well) and other vodka based cocktails.

Street Art/Stencil Art

For a spur of the moment on a bored Saturday night. Not bad. The breasts had a hell of lot of contrast detail (don't worry some nice naked stencils are coming), for the sake of a spontaneous stencil were removed. The face came out really well considering, as did the arms and hands above the head (hair). All and all the stencil works against a rough sand-plastered finish on a subway pass-way; kinda stands out with the red. 1st glance it looks like a women (as mentioned) stroking her hair, 2nd glance it looks like decapitation (arm, head) and blood.

stencil art - Buenos Aires Argentina

from: http://www.cambsas.blogspot.com/ (all photo credit)

I am a big fan of street art, my brother was/is a famed graffiti artist of Melbourne (Australia) and I like stencil art. It all mergers together: graffiti, the modern, the decay and imprint of the ambiguous. There is something exciting and striking about an image that has been improvised (it's not supposed to be there) onto a building or structure, but it is now part of the building/structure. I like that.

Anyway there is a club in Buenos Ares I don't know the name but apparently it's facade is covered in stencil/graffiti art. You know the name? Send me an email

Above is a stencil art from the streets of Buenos Aires Argentina

Creative Destruction Store - Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

In the vein of blog post Misplaced optimism is deadly - Alain de Botton


I love this quote re: Alain de Botton from the above link

"The modern bourgeois philosophy pins its hopes firmly on two great presumed ingredients of happiness, love and work. But there is vast unthinking cruelty discreetly coiled within this magnanimous assurance that everyone will discover satisfaction here. It is not that these two entities are invariably incapable of delivering fulfilment, only that they almost never do so for too long.

When an exception is misrepresented as a rule, our individual misfortunes, instead of seeming to us quasi-inevitable aspects of life, weigh down on us like particular curses. In denying the natural place reserved for longing and disaster in the human lot, the bourgeois ideology denies us the possibility of collective consolation for our fractious marriages, unexploited ambitions and exploded portfolios, and condemns us instead to solitary feelings of shame and persecution for having stubbornly failed to make more of ourselves"

I will be (slowly) migrating some of the MEC store stuff over to Creative Destruction

Metal: Obituary 'Don't Care'

"I really don't care" A kinda 'I am over it' mantra. Works for me on a good day...

Great stuff. I mean metal could define apocalyptic, turmoil, 'shit hits the fan' stuff more so than any other music genre. You gotta respect that.

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 1)

Gran Centenario Reposado. Here we go, this is the best Tequila I have tasted to date! Amazingly smooth, nice hint of spice, sweet agave taste is there (very important), floral (nose).

Not for mixing. Drink it straight in a sipper, double shot glass or aperitif glass. With a side glass of Sangrita.

Although you could make a killer Margarita, or Tequila Ricky with Gran Centenario Reposado, because it is such a premium tasting Tequila.

Excellent.

The surreal is the real.

And Hollywood has run out of ideas?...

"Beware of bank patrons bearing bouquets.

Last Thursday morning, the police said, a man walked into the Bank of Smithtown branch at 127 Seventh Avenue near 18th Street in Chelsea. He was carrying a multicolor array of posies in cellophane wrap, fresh from the florist.

The man produced a note from inside the bouquet and handed it to the teller, the police said. It read, “Give me all your $100’s, 50’s, don’t be a hero.”

NYT

flower man 'bank robber': "don't be a hero" !!! hahahahahah...great stuff

crazy cocktails - The Brain Hemmorhage

I like cocktails, I make them and I drink them and I serve them to guests.

The variety and choices of different cocktails is amazing; but the fundamental and extremely important factor is 1. You use premium spirits/liqueurs 2. Fresh Fruit and juices

There are some funky, messed up ones that work very well hence the Brain Hemorrhage cocktail.

Below are some pics of the Brain Hemorrhage (that I prepared):




15mil (or 1/2 ounce) of Peach Schnapps ( quality German spirit with no suger/not US made)

30 mil (of 1 ounce) of Baileys Irish Cream

Strawberry Liqueur like Creme De Framboise (French)

In a shot class add the Peach Schnapps first then layer the Irish cream (use a bar spoon to layer), next dribble the strawberry liqueur's over the Baileys Irish cream. Due to the Liqueur's heavy sugar content it should fall directly to the bottom on the shot class (beneath the Schnapps)

The out come will resemble a piece of brain floating in a shot glass with it's juices/blood.

The taste? Great! The Peach Schnapps mixed with the Baileys Irish Cream and the strawberry liqueur all complement each other very well.

Creative Destruction mini reviews

Aliens Vs Predator (P3 game)

Fuck what a crappy game. Short missions, terrible controls and a overenthusiastic mess by the creators. To think that the butnuts at the Australian Classification Review Board wanted to ban this for it's 'shocking' content. Bizarre.

Bioshock 2 (P3 game)

Boring, tedious and silly.

Melbourne City 'laneway' street art has peaked 2010

photo: C.D blog

A rough guess is the boom in street art on Melbourne's lane ways lasted form 2000 to 2008.

The local city council caught a wift of the boom (?) of street art and in 2008 decided to create a panel (street art assessment panel or if you prefer: SAAP) to judge street art as a protected 'tourist' resource. Hence in 2008 renown UK street artist 'Banksy' work was protected by a clear plexiglass sheet. Of course the irony is that until recently in April 2010, one of Banksy's other works was destroyed by council cleaners, doing what they do best; cleaning. But with council/gov interest you also get low level commercial interest. Which would be the clubs, bars, cafes that have sprung up around and inside these 'laneways', not to forget the development of apartments and refurbishment of various decrepit buildings (slightly above low level commercialization).

Similar to the now defunct 'hells kitchen' CBGB's (NYC) club and it's infamous laneway at the back of the club, which now has new apartments blocks at both ends.

So a seeping commercial presence has inevitably dulled the 'edginess' of Melbourne lane way street art, that and also the hundreds of 'bill board' posters (selling/promoting everything from shows, clubs, DJ's, hair products etc) that have sprung up in all of the laneways. To the extent that the Melbourne City council has erected frames on the side of lane way walls dedicated to billboards.

After recently visiting some of the laneways on Saturday 10th July 2010, it felt banal, boring and safe. With literally most of the art covered up by bill boards and council paint jobs.

We all just have to wait for the decay to set back in with the crazies, druggies, muggers returning in the near future...and of course the street artists.

Duckboard place Melbourne City. From here