listomania
I spent the last hour or so poring over my shortlist for the triple J Hottest 100...OF ALL TIME. Entering puts you in the running to grab tickets to Reading this year (Gossip, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Placebo, Maximo Park, OMG). Clearly these were not decisions to be taken lightly.
Shortlist
Muse - Citizen Erased remove
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir remove
Libertines, The - Time For Heroes remove
Daft Punk - Digital Love remove
David Bowie - Space Oddity remove
The Tornados - Telstar remove
Patrick Wolf - Tristan remove
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (feat. David Bowie) remove
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps remove
You Am I - Berlin Chair remove
Michael Jackson - Black Or White remove
Muse - Hoodoo remove
Muse - Map Of The Problematique remove
White Stripes, The - 7 Nation Army remove
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower remove
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart remove
Xiu Xiu - I Love The Valley OH remove
Tricky - Ponderosa remove
The Strokes - Reptilia remove
Regina Spektor - Us remove
Radiohead - Myxomatosis remove
New Order - True Faith remove
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now remove
Kasabian - Club Foot remove
Franz Ferdinand - Dark Of The Matinée remove
The Cure - Inbetween Days remove
Bjork - Isobel remove
Bloc Party - Banquet remove
mmm, c&p. You can see I tried very hard to make it seem as if I cared about whatever happened before I was born, but that was just for show. Time for Heroes, Digital Love, Black or White, Myxomatosis, Maps, Hoodoo, 7 Nation Army, Club Foot, Inbetween Days, How Soon Is Now.
And also, for posterity, my library reciept for this semester:
1 Amerikan vintēji faburīkku : Amerika de atsumeta, henshū: Oikawa Saeco BOOK 2005 2 Aubrey Beardsley Stephen Calloway : Calloway, Stephen BOOK 1998 3 The big book of fashion illustration Martin Dawber : Dawber, Martin BOOK 2007 4 Born on a blue day : a memoir of Asperger's and an extraordi Daniel Tammet : Tammet, Daniel, BOOK c2006 5 Taking it like a man : suffering, sexuality, and the war poe Adrian Caesar : Caesar, Adrian, BOOK c1993 6 W.B. Yeats : selected poetry editied with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb : Yeats, W. B. BOOK 1991 7 Wolfwatching Ted Hughes : Hughes, Ted, BOOK 1989 8 Aubrey Beardsley : sixty selected drawings with an essay by Bridget Elliott : Beardsley, Aubrey, BOOK 1995 9 Stone Andy Goldsworthy : Goldsworthy, Andy, BOOK 1994 10 Time Andy Goldsworthy ; Chronology by Terry Friedman : Goldsworthy, Andy, BOOK 2000 11 The road to Wigan Pier George Orwell : Orwell, George, BOOK 1962 12 Embracing the wide sky : a tour across the horizons of the m Daniel Tammet : Tammet, Daniel, BOOK 2009 13 Selected short stories D.H. Lawrence ; edited with an introduction and notes by Bri : Lawrence, D. H. RECORDNG-OTHER 2000 14 England, your England, and other essays George Orwell : Orwell, George, BOOK 1953 15 Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of t Lauren Slater : Slater, Lauren BOOK 2004 16 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller : Miller, Henry, BOOK 1968 17 Birds of Tasmania : an annotated checklist with photographs R.H. Green : Green, R. H. BOOK 1989 18 Selected prose T.S. Eliot ; ed. by John Hayward : Eliot, T. S. BOOK 1953 19 Heaven and hell by Aldous Huxley : Huxley, Aldous, BOOK 1956 20 Selected letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Rupert Hart-Davis : Wilde, Oscar, BOOK 1979 21 Egon Schiele : the Leopold collection, Vienna texts by Magdalena Dabrowski and Rudolf Leopold : Dabrowski, Magdalena BOOK 1997 22 Selections. 1985 : Orwell, George, BOOK 1985 23 Shooting an elephant and other essays by George Orwell : Orwell, George, BOOK 1950 24 Select letters ed., with introd., by Richard Garnett : Shelley, Percy Bysshe, BOOK 1882 25 Tracey Moffatt editor-curator, Michael Snelling : Moffatt, Tracey BOOK 1999 26 Street art uncut Matthew Lunn : Lunn, Matthew James BOOK 2006 27 Color mixing bible Ian Sidaway : Sidaway, Ian BOOK 2002 28 Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake poets Thomas de Quincey ; edited with an introduction by David Wri : De Quincey, Thomas,
you know what, fuck you HTML. But no wonder I got absolutely no work done this semester, I was too distracted by Auchmuty.
Anyway, for someone so enamoured of what I like to loosely group "Ye Olde Times" this was a really interesting read. I've always been vaguely aware that if I actually had been born 100 years ago my life probably wouldn't have been a peachy appreciation of nights at the opera and the attentions of neatly-quiffed aristocrats. In fact, I've probably only ever one contemporary novel that reflected the cold peasant life of 90% of people in the 19th century, and that was Zola's La Terre. But that blog post and the comments are worth the effort, because yeah, I never really realised that I can only enjoy my time-travelling daydreams and romantic nostalgia thanks to my middle class white girl perspective. I can fantasize about life in another place and another time without having to doublethink my skin colour. So yeah, Racialicious has called me out on my lazy privelige yet again. :P
Shortlist
Muse - Citizen Erased remove
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir remove
Libertines, The - Time For Heroes remove
Daft Punk - Digital Love remove
David Bowie - Space Oddity remove
The Tornados - Telstar remove
Patrick Wolf - Tristan remove
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (feat. David Bowie) remove
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps remove
You Am I - Berlin Chair remove
Michael Jackson - Black Or White remove
Muse - Hoodoo remove
Muse - Map Of The Problematique remove
White Stripes, The - 7 Nation Army remove
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower remove
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart remove
Xiu Xiu - I Love The Valley OH remove
Tricky - Ponderosa remove
The Strokes - Reptilia remove
Regina Spektor - Us remove
Radiohead - Myxomatosis remove
New Order - True Faith remove
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now remove
Kasabian - Club Foot remove
Franz Ferdinand - Dark Of The Matinée remove
The Cure - Inbetween Days remove
Bjork - Isobel remove
Bloc Party - Banquet remove
mmm, c&p. You can see I tried very hard to make it seem as if I cared about whatever happened before I was born, but that was just for show. Time for Heroes, Digital Love, Black or White, Myxomatosis, Maps, Hoodoo, 7 Nation Army, Club Foot, Inbetween Days, How Soon Is Now.
And also, for posterity, my library reciept for this semester:
1 Amerikan vintēji faburīkku : Amerika de atsumeta, henshū: Oikawa Saeco BOOK 2005 2 Aubrey Beardsley Stephen Calloway : Calloway, Stephen BOOK 1998 3 The big book of fashion illustration Martin Dawber : Dawber, Martin BOOK 2007 4 Born on a blue day : a memoir of Asperger's and an extraordi Daniel Tammet : Tammet, Daniel, BOOK c2006 5 Taking it like a man : suffering, sexuality, and the war poe Adrian Caesar : Caesar, Adrian, BOOK c1993 6 W.B. Yeats : selected poetry editied with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb : Yeats, W. B. BOOK 1991 7 Wolfwatching Ted Hughes : Hughes, Ted, BOOK 1989 8 Aubrey Beardsley : sixty selected drawings with an essay by Bridget Elliott : Beardsley, Aubrey, BOOK 1995 9 Stone Andy Goldsworthy : Goldsworthy, Andy, BOOK 1994 10 Time Andy Goldsworthy ; Chronology by Terry Friedman : Goldsworthy, Andy, BOOK 2000 11 The road to Wigan Pier George Orwell : Orwell, George, BOOK 1962 12 Embracing the wide sky : a tour across the horizons of the m Daniel Tammet : Tammet, Daniel, BOOK 2009 13 Selected short stories D.H. Lawrence ; edited with an introduction and notes by Bri : Lawrence, D. H. RECORDNG-OTHER 2000 14 England, your England, and other essays George Orwell : Orwell, George, BOOK 1953 15 Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of t Lauren Slater : Slater, Lauren BOOK 2004 16 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller : Miller, Henry, BOOK 1968 17 Birds of Tasmania : an annotated checklist with photographs R.H. Green : Green, R. H. BOOK 1989 18 Selected prose T.S. Eliot ; ed. by John Hayward : Eliot, T. S. BOOK 1953 19 Heaven and hell by Aldous Huxley : Huxley, Aldous, BOOK 1956 20 Selected letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Rupert Hart-Davis : Wilde, Oscar, BOOK 1979 21 Egon Schiele : the Leopold collection, Vienna texts by Magdalena Dabrowski and Rudolf Leopold : Dabrowski, Magdalena BOOK 1997 22 Selections. 1985 : Orwell, George, BOOK 1985 23 Shooting an elephant and other essays by George Orwell : Orwell, George, BOOK 1950 24 Select letters ed., with introd., by Richard Garnett : Shelley, Percy Bysshe, BOOK 1882 25 Tracey Moffatt editor-curator, Michael Snelling : Moffatt, Tracey BOOK 1999 26 Street art uncut Matthew Lunn : Lunn, Matthew James BOOK 2006 27 Color mixing bible Ian Sidaway : Sidaway, Ian BOOK 2002 28 Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake poets Thomas de Quincey ; edited with an introduction by David Wri : De Quincey, Thomas,
you know what, fuck you HTML. But no wonder I got absolutely no work done this semester, I was too distracted by Auchmuty.
Anyway, for someone so enamoured of what I like to loosely group "Ye Olde Times" this was a really interesting read. I've always been vaguely aware that if I actually had been born 100 years ago my life probably wouldn't have been a peachy appreciation of nights at the opera and the attentions of neatly-quiffed aristocrats. In fact, I've probably only ever one contemporary novel that reflected the cold peasant life of 90% of people in the 19th century, and that was Zola's La Terre. But that blog post and the comments are worth the effort, because yeah, I never really realised that I can only enjoy my time-travelling daydreams and romantic nostalgia thanks to my middle class white girl perspective. I can fantasize about life in another place and another time without having to doublethink my skin colour. So yeah, Racialicious has called me out on my lazy privelige yet again. :P