There is more to the world than Rudd's emails and rugby league.

While every news break I see here in Australia rambles on about some email Kevin Rudd may or may not of sent and just about anything that can be even minutely related to a rugby league player, something important and distressing has been happening on the streets of Iran.

Maybe it’s the fact that I am an international news junkie. Maybe it’s the fact that injustices really piss me off. More likely it’s the fact that I find Iranian women incredibly hot, but I find what is happening in Tehran really horrifying.

Now I am not one to jump on the USA bandwagon and instantly slander any leader that doesn’t fit into their mould of the new world, but Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blatant disregard for the democratic process and the rights of his people makes me feel about as healthy as he looks in the picture above.

While at this point there is no proof that the Iranian election was rigged, let’s be realistic here – it sure looks that way. As matter of fact, there is not much proof of anything that has happened in Iran over the past week, due to the fact that the world’s media has been banned. Banned from reporting the valiant protests of people angered by feeling rendered insignificant through the disappearance of their vote. Banned from reporting the brutal bashings and murders being unleashed by the pro-government Basij militia. Only chilling grainy videos from mobile phones have given any real glimpse of what is really going down in Iran.

But never fear! Iranian State TV here! Forget CNN or the BBC, luckily the Iranian “government” have decided that only one “media” outlet is capable of properly covering the crisis.

According to ‘Press TV’, the USA are to blame for the current shitstorm that the country is engulfed in. Yes, Barack and his crew are guilty of "intolerable" interference in Iran.

Now obviously the boys in red, white and blue got up to some intolerable interference in Iran back in 1953. In 2009, If anything, the problem is that the world community are guilty of intolerable non-interference.

The international community – particularly the influential USA and United Nations, must refuse to acknowledge the dodgy Ahmadinejad regime. He has cheated his people and the world.

To be continued.

Music – You arouse and disgust me simultaneously

Anyone that knows me at all well, knows that I have been told that I have ‘unusual’ taste in music on more than a few occasions. Well I don’t think I do, but if it is unusual to be bored beyond the point human tolerance with hip hop artists wearing bling, singing about ho’s and boasting about how many rivals they have shot; emo’s with vertical fringes, screaming then singing with a whiny middle-American accents and imposing their self-loathing upon me; and turgid Top 40 trash that is forgotten faster than whatever human interest story A Current Affair are pushing on any given week – then call me a musical weirdo.

Because I am a humanist and feel sorry for those of you who listen to shit music, and (more likely) because I haven’t posted a blog for some time, I have compiled a list of musicians/bands who are worthy of using their share of Earth’s oxygen. These artists do things differently in my opinion. Rather than knowing exactly which direction each song will go, you are left guessing. Clearly these are not the only musicians on the planet who don't suck absolute balls, but these are my standouts of recent times.


Check them out and become cool like me.



Crystal Castles




Heartsrevolution





M.I.A.




Ladyhawke




Nouvelle Vague



Kap Bambino



I salute the above saviors of musical integrity.

I think it is worth noting that my particular hatred of commercial hip hop had led me to make the following observation. Just like the the excesses of 80's hair metal contributed to its' downfall in the bleak financial times of the early 90's, those of the bling-obsessed hip hop world will do the same. There are only so many times people losing everything they own because of various global recessions can listen to some obnoxious rapper telling them how much cash they have before they turn off their so-called 'music'.