Dancers Wanted.

Preferably male, to perform in The Bedroom Philospher’s High School Assembly during Melbourne Comedy Festival. There are two dances in the show – a rock eisteddfod tribute and a rap song that will involve some hip-hop moves.

Experience is a plus. It’s a paid gig. It’s essential you can make the rehearsals below.
Rehearsals: (4-7pm)

Feb 21, 22

Mar 15, 21

Show dates are:
Mar 29 – April 8 (not Monday) every night at 7pm, Sundays at 6pm at the Forum Theatre.

Contact Justin: laptopping@bedroomphilosopher.com…

All details here: www.facebook.com/events/339777126053507/…

THANK GOD FOR MENTAL ILLNESS (Frankie – 2011)

After watching the music documentary Dig! I was checking out The Brian Jones Town Massacre. Wild front-man Anton Newcombe had called their 1996 release Thank God For Mental Illness and the title fascinated me. It was about the most audacious thing I’d ever seen. Who would dare celebrate mental illness in anyway? Mental illness was the thing of dreary pamphlets and scary people on buses, not critically acclaimed lo-fi albums from the American underground. Even if the title was being ironic, glib, sarcastic or otherwise, it genuinely encouraged me. My life was defined by psychological disorders and as a survivor, it’s something I wanted to wear as a badge of pride, not …

Thanks to all who participated in the Hippest 100 2012. Full list below.

Congrats to Giles Field (@GilesField), Mat Ward (@MatWard66) & Andy Hazel who all scored five entries apiece. What a result! The number one spot went to the only band that didn’t actually enter. Ironic? Thanks for all the support and retweets, and especially to those who sent in bands. I’m sorry I couldn’t fit everyone in. Take heart. Based on the results, I don’t have to play outside Safeway…but…we have a year to write and record all of these songs. Surely?

I’ll be launching my first book of tour diaries soon so stay tuned.

BP (aching back hidden dinner) x

1: Men Who Stare At Gotye …

• I have a book – The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries. You can buy it in selected stores (Sydney: Gleebooks. Melbourne: Metropolis, Paperback. More coming soon.) Or online  HERE. Details on the Melbourne launch HERE.

• Here’s my song about Australia.

• The  Hippest 100 has been run and won. Congrats to Men Who Stare At Gotye for taking out pole position. Thanks to everyone who participated and supported the countdown. Click the link for the full list.

• My version of Northcote (So Hungover) made up of YouTube comments is now available on iTunes.

• I supported the Dresden Dolls nationally in January. It was glorious.

• Tram Inspector finished #19 in Rage’s Top 50 videos for 2011. Thanks to everyone who voted.

• Here

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Tickets on sale soon. …

W/ The Awkwardstra.
Playing in the afternoon.
Details: thehillsarealive.com.au/what.php…

1971’s Harold and Maude is a twisted coming of age story and wildly eccentric romantic comedy. Harold is a deadpan and detached young man living in a mansion with his overbearing socialite mother. His favourite game is pretending to kill himself, either by hanging, fake blood in the bath or floating facedown in the swimming pool. His preferred pastime is attending funerals. It’s here that he meets Maude, a vivacious free spirit who steals cars and sees the world as her playground. She’s cheeky, beguiling and interested in Harold. She’s also seventy nine.

Thus begins this profoundly off-beat and darkly quirky tale, as Harold bounces between his suffocating home life and the dazzling dimension Maude paints for him. While his …

I’m not afraid of many things – pit toilets, wasps & developing schizophrenia mostly, but last year I developed a new fear that trumped them all. At 30, I didn’t think I could still be afraid of monsters, but alas, I discovered a beast in my own city, so creepy and insidious that I’d cross the street to avoid it, and bury  my face in my hands when driving past. Once home, the image of this faceless demon, writhing and cavorting with wicked vigour would blind my mind’s eye. The garish colours. The subhuman movements. The horror! Was I the only one going through this torment? Was there anyone else who understood my repulsion to this advertising anomaly? Cue David …

When I was four I must have bumped into the fridge one too many times as Mum rushed me to the local optometrist. One of my earliest memories is liking the touch of his hands on my face as he fitted my first pair of frames. I was severely short sighted, and as the years went on the lenses only got thicker. As a lifelong member of Four Eyes United (we’re taking the term back), I can tell you it’s a proud society, whose members know the sacrifices they’ve made to earn the ‘square flair’ they enjoy today. Recently there’s been a battle for membership, and I’m championing to keep it exclusively to those who have been diagnosed with Visual …

In Year 12 my friends and I went through a phase of reminiscing about our childhoods, in particular the cartoons we used to watch on the ABC. Of all the shows there was one that elicited the most passionate reaction. The Mysterious Cities Of Gold. Unlike other kids shows, the series was only screened once, and we had equally foggy memories. We pieced it together like detectives, remembering iconic images such as the gold condor, medallions, and the African dress of Tao. Post-school I continued my mission to track it down, traversing a labyrinth of anecdotes and bootleg tip-offs. In 2008 I found the re-released DVD set in J-Mag’s freebies bin – a surprising and sudden end to my quest. …

Issue 85

December, 2011.

**12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS VIDEO NOW STREAMING. CLICK ON SANTA TO WATCH**
**A VERY BEDDY CHRISTMAS EP OUT NOW**

LT BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday Miley Cyrus 19 today!
Happy Birthday Merv Hughes 50 today!

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ANGUS AND JULIA STONE …

Dear Santa
For Christmas I’d like a trampoline
And a Mr Fixem’s tool set from Bunnings
How are your elves?
Are there any girl elves?
I’ll leave you out some milk and biscuits
I hope you like barbecue shapes
At school Kurt said you weren’t real
So I pushed him into a bush
Dad’s gone off again
He’s not living here which is bad
I hope you can visit him in his caravan
Even though it don’t have a chimney
You could go in through a window
He doesn’t leave em locked
Oh well I better go
See ya Santa…

Jingle hell Jingle hell
Jingles go away
Oh how glum I am to ride
In a Daihatsu charade
Hey
Jingle hell jingle hell
Advertising’s in my brain
So not fun there’s nowhere to hide
In the Chadstone mall today

Dashing through the streets
In my Daihatsu charade
Over Punt road I go
Swearing all the way
Horns on taxis honk
Making spirits sigh
Oh what fun it is to live your life
Mostly out of obligation…