February 2012
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I made a SoundCloud →
Do you like radio ads, interviews, news stories, sad electro and my sultry voice? Then you’ll luuuurve my SoundCloud. I made it today to send in for a radio producing job.
“Now, I’m a white person: it’s not my job to go in to bat and speak on behalf of...”
– TV’s white Australia policy | thevine.com.au
I have a look at the lack of racial diversity on Australian TV, inspired by Firass Dirani and Jay Laga’aia’s comments on that topic last week.
All I can say is, thank goodness Yumi Stynes and Caroline Tran were around while I was a teenager. But still,...
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (source: npr)
(via anachronistique)
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ay-cono asked: hey ellie! i'm going to be doing a short course in audio engineering in march. you seem like the best person to ask: are there actual jobs an unexperienced person can get after they do a course like this? i'm doing it because it's interesting, but like, it'd be nice to be able to pay some rent with it too. if it's totally unrelated to what you do, soz!
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A rant about the business side of entertainment
You don’t have to look far on the internet to find blog posts by performing artists whinging about how they don’t get paid enough, or in some cases not at all.
I’m on their side. It takes time to write material, rehearse it, refine it and get to a point where you can perform it live. Instruments, costumes, equipment, hiring rehearsal spaces and studios are expensive. Of course...
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Sad Electro
One of my assignments was to compose...
January 2012
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anywayyourun asked: YOU MET TWIN SHADOW. I'M JEALOUS OF YOUR LIFE.
I spent most of the day hauling amps around, setting up drums and plugging in mics. It wasn’t as glamourous and exciting as I thought be, though I don’t know what I was expecting. Highlights: Yuck, Anna Calvi, SBTRKT, and when I could get away from my stage - Pyjama Club and The Drums. I admired The Horrors skinny legs from afar. All the band riders requested fancy cheese. My favourite...
I’m doing sound at Laneway with SAE today! Nervous. Excited. NERVCITED. I hope I do a good job and do not get lynched by angry hipsters.
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Happy Drinkstralia Day
“Koreans are big drinkers!” observed a chef at work last night, whose kitchen staff are all from the same mighty Asian land as me.
“This tiny Korean girl I knew was about 48kg and reckoned she could drink as much as I could. So we went to a Korean restaurant and packed away 13 bottles of soju. When we got up to leave, I fell over a table. I can’t remember how I got home. I...
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