I don’t know if you followed this particular little saga, but thanks to some of our ridiculously out of date laws regarding obscenity, a man that simply wanted to screen a pointlessly violent, homoerotically pornographic film that was a travesty against god, nature, man and quality cinematography has now become vilified, nay, crucified by “The System.”

It all began back in July, 2010 as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Richard Moore, the director for MIFF received a letter Classification Australia that Bruce LaBruce (a man that should be granted honourary Australian citizenship for his name alone) “Ed Woodian” film L.A. Zombie was not going to be granted classification.

Things were looking up for intellectual snobs such as myself that like to see real arthouse films, such as animated fox puppets questioning their purpose in life. (more…)

Last year we posted an article on why being depressed is awesome. Or at the very least, why false positivity is actually bad for you.

Not only was that one of the more popular posts to make it onto here, it also had fairly decent scientific backing behind it. The kind of in depth research you’d normally expect from a Cracked article! Well, reading various psych and scientific journals has yielded a few more fantastic nuggets!

Let’s begin with the fact that people that are less optimistic often tend to make better judgment calls, that are a little bit more correct, factually speaking. “When you’re happy your brain is more likely subconsciously to base decisions on experience and knowledge you’ve already accumulated, such as stereotypes. When you’re sad, you pay more attention to new information in the outside world – a style of thinking psychologists refer to as “accommodative”. It works a bit better than that, too, if you know how to play your moods right. Happy people tend to be more gullbile, whilst negative people tend to be more convincing. I’d say it’s got something to do with the eyebrows.

And lastly, as it turns out, being an optimist is likely to see you die younger. So pray tell, where do we look on the bright side of  that one, fuckers?

Of course the irony here is that the people that are supposedly deviant sexual perverts that must have reached this point in their life through massive depression and childhood abuse seem peachy fucking keen… Turns out that those that are into pain and bondage tend to be happier with themselves.

So the next time someone tells you to cheer up, happily tell them to sit on it. Sit and swivel until they squeal like a pig on a honey moon.

Frankly, I’m over the shiny, happy people. Michael Stipe has a lot to answer for, as does modern pop music. But fuck it, if you keep going through life angry all the time, you just end up like Angry Anderson, and that means hanging out with scientific credentials like these.

A particularly good friend of mine came to town on Wednesday for the Iron Maiden concert, but ended up not going due to a whole bunch of circumstances that are straight out of the worst of soap operas. This culminated in myself and friend Cyraxis taking her out in the Italian district at about 2am for something to eat while she freaked out about catching a 6am flight in an attempt to get back home even faster than her previous travel arrangements, blowing a rather large wad of cash in the process… as opposed to blowing me, goddamnit!

Anyway, the place we ended up in happened to do milkshakes and serve booze. (more…)

March 12, 2011
3:30 pm	to	6:30 pm
7:30 pm	to	10:30 pm

Once again, the dark fashions come out and it’s time to see what people will be wearing out to clubs until the world’s end 2012, but contrary to popular belief, the world does not end with you. Dammit, why do you have to be so conceited?

Oh, right, goth blog…

This year’s Circa Nocturna is being held at Fitzroy Town Hall, and in a new twist, there will be two shows. (more…)

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