Reasons you will hate me

Actually being a wanton harlot made the getting of religion considerably easier for Mary Magdalene. But she was probably the exception to the rule.

i worked as a census distributor/collector once.

IT WAS THE WORST MONTH OF MY LIFE!

i was abused by so many dodgy characters (british backpackers) that i actually started to believe the hype (that i was satan).

also, i ended up at wil anderson's house where he answered the door in a towel.

that's all i have to say about that.

oh, and i put it to you that when you are done analising your records, you and gab should alphabetise your dress up costumes by order of theme.

1. i'll put down blogger on the census form if you do. dare you.

2. re the red dots on albums: do you mean the artists on the albums with whom you had dalliances? or the albums to which you LISTENED while you were having dalliances (with completely unrelated people)

Sadly, the artists. If we were dotting albums we'd run out of stickers.

public service annoucement:

The Age appear to have 'updated' the article, so you can't actually read about curtis anymore, which is as sad as the fact she kissed him.

It is really odd that people actually like him. I don't get how you can like him.

Respecting the fact he is a cunt, i can fathom, but LIKE?

Hahahaha, you said goolies. I did not think that piece of vernacular was used in Australia, thatmade my day. God. i'm easily amused. Good luck with that alphabet thing.
x

This census I'm putting my religion down as Dudeism (pronounced like Judaism). For those who follow the Ways Of The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Our credo: The Dude abides.

I worked as an ASo3 at the DPC for the ABS (I love govt acronyms!) many moons ago and managed to fall in love with all the conspiracy theorists out there who fill out census fields with lines like ASK THE ATO!?!!!!! and YOU ALREADY NO [SIC] THIS! DON'T LIE!!!.
Bless. They think the govt has its shit together.

Dear Fits,

A) I think you should definitely put 'Blogger' as your religion. I know it's certainly becoming mine. Sadly we'll all end up listed as 'other' but it beats the hell out of putting down 'The Force' any day.

B) I too once alphabeticised* my CD collection - these days though it's all higgledipigeldy because I rarely actually get around to putting CD's back in the right place - they end up strewn over the floor, piled on top of the stereo, etc. Be warned - you're going down a dark and dangerous path!

*I started by genre but got stuck when trying to decide what the difference was between Goth and Darkwave. Then I gave up and went back to A-Z.

C) Pleasegodlethimdiesoonpleasegodlethimdie

Are you trying to say it doesn't, Dr Nic?



JUST YOU REMEMBER WHOSE SPECIAL DAY IT IS, THANK YOU.

I have always alphabetizes my records and CDs and thought it was a normal thing. I also put solo atrists under first names not last name.And soundtracks go under the title of the movie.

Look at what you've done. All it took was a passing mention of the blogger/census/religion section and everyone is off and racing. Being such an influential figure, in your reader's worlds at least, I'm sure you knew exactly what you were doing. I'm in!

I also put solo atrists under first names not last name.
WRONG! So WRONG! That way, Michael Jackson is next to Michael Bolton, rather that The Jackson 5. And many other worse problems I can't think of

And soundtracks go under the title of the movie.

Acceptable, but some people (not me) get all anal and store them under "OST", then alphamabetically by movie.

Also, don't fall into the trap of having a "The" section. It's painful. Otherwise, alphabetise away. It makes finding things easier, but you'll swear you've lost something if some disorganised slob puts back your Masters Apprentices records in a "the" section.

I was wondering where I left that A Kombi cd.

A Kombi is aka Curse of the SmallCock ... on John Howard's birthday *snigger*

an alphabeticised music collection is a sad one - it will never last if you're a real music lover (which i believe you to be). don't be fooled by music dorks, if it wasn't LP's they'd be collecting star trek figurines - the difference is only marginal. the anal music collector who sorts his collection methodically rarely listens to it. i reckon in 2 months your favourite cd's will revolt and rise to prominence and find their rightful place prawled around the stereo.

...er, "sprawled"

I am pro alphabetisation when it comes to sorting music collection. (But then, i am an anal virgo) Sure, the favourites will always rise and loiter around the stereo hot zone, but with a bit of a tidy up every couple of weeks, it keeps things in a bit of order and makes it OH SO MUCH easier to find CD's, especially randoms and things you don't listen to that often.

Dxxxx

ps Noodle the labradoodle BAHAHAHA

fitsy, go abc...

it's nice to look at what you own sometimes. who knows otherwise?

i sometimes have my wardrobe in colours, just because otherwise it gives me a headache of patterns and colours.... other times it's all strewn across my room in a truly unruly manner...

the pony party is thrown by my friend ronan, http://sexwithmusic.blogspot.com

you should come if you can, it should be fun, pony friday...

we also need cake...

This post speaks to me on multiple levels.

1) I am not an anal person, but do get a teeny tiny orgasm filing out forms and ticking boxes. It is a cross between being an important business man and going to the dentist.

2) I share a birthday with John Howard and Mick Jagger. I consider them to be like a cartoon angel and devil on my shoulder at all times.

3) Noodle the labradoodle is the best dog ever. I work on Sth Bank (assuming it was in Melb), and am going to hunt Noodle out and pat him.

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?....It could lead to dancing

...BOOM BOOM!...

Is Richard Watts trying to make it difficult for me to remain interested in gay issues from a political viewpoint?

P.S. I'll bother to read your response on Friday.

GET WELL GABI!

I have an ear infection at the moment and I have the film festival starting tomorrow so I don't have the time to get better at home.

Also, you can get a $5 bottle of wine if you take 5 people to the festival club this year.

I guess an ipod would make the alphabeticisation challenge easier. I really do understand the inherent superiority of digitisation, but I really can't let another information medium into my life just yet. I can't cope with "electronic mail", which I'm sure, like the "Internet" is just a fad.

I also put solo atrists under first names not last name.
WRONG! So WRONG! That way, Michael Jackson is next to Michael Bolton, rather that The Jackson 5. And many other worse problems I can't think of

IM WRONG!!!! You have Michael Bolton in your collection!!!!
Also Michael Jackson would be under a subsection of The Jackson 5. Yes I am very anal about the way I categorize my music collections. I have actually made a big wall unit with CD and vinyl sized holes so that each letter has its own box and can not be mixed up with other letters.
Note to self 'stop telling people about my OCD'

I'll consider putting down 'blogger'. I loved the Jedi idea from the last census but I didn't think I'd watched Star Wars enough to consider myself a Jedi.

1. "Baptist"? You know that, worse than giving them undeserved warm fuzzies about another convert, you've given the forces of religious darkness a tiny bit more credibility in the eyes of the politicians they're lobbying FOR EVIL?

2. How about in colour order? Someone had a photo a while back of an entire library of books sorted by colour. It looked FANTASTIC/a little camp. But pretty.

3. Another year closer to death. THANK YOU FOR FINDING SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT THE NEWS. I was weeping for a world that had endured him so long, but you make a good point.

(giggle)
Vegans in Leather
my friend recorded one of their albums here in adels.. yikes.

Did anyone see the news about the "security threat to the PM" during his morning walk?
A young male rower hugged Howard with a screwdriver in his (the rower's) hand.
Two questions.
1. Was I the only one who secretely hoped the hugger fell on his screwdriver as he excitedly ran off? and
2. On the few occasions that I have seen the PM, there is always a large group of people yelling abuse at the little fucker. Do you think the media prefers to show people hugging howard compared to abusing him? Is this an example of deep seated prejudice of the corporate media?

Oh bugger it, one more question. Should young people giving the PM a hug be shot at dawn?

I love the Census! You can indulge your creativity and zany fantasies.

I am a M, born 1975 (BC) with 615 children. I earn $56 000 per week as a greeting card salesman and own 932 fish and chip shops. I was born in Antarctica and have six wives. I am a devotee of the Jedi order and practice it 9 days a week. Life is gooooooood!

"well, the only people I know who actually do that are all my old music dork boyfriends. And they're kind of obsessive."

ah.

*spends 3 hours disordering record collection before Fitsy comes around*

For very long I have wanted to organise my collection alphabetically but I am stopped for the following reasons:

- I don't really have anywhere to store post-organisation music
- Do I put all the various artist ones under v for various or at the end or under the name of the compilation?
- I'm pretty sure I'll but solo artists by first name because it looks more ordered but it's just.not.right.
- Kinda lazy.

One day.

Big Snaps to you Ms Fits for undertaking such a task. I alphabetise everything... but must also suggest that some genre sorting is required. eg All soundtracks together in alphabetical order. And NO IT IS NOT JUST GEEKY BOYS THAT ALPHABETIZE. Besides, John Cusack was hot in HiFi..... Now let's start talking mix-tapes.....

great! can you influence FBF in the record alphabetisation thing? He currently does it by genre and I am sick of wading through miles of fucking funk and weird 'French Tekno' to get to his golden white labels from London/mum's original Gainsbourgs. (note: not a euphemism).

Although the drunk DJing disorder thing is a problem...let us know how it stands the test of time, so to speak.

i think if you put down blogger you have to really specify if its myspace, or blogspot or wordpress or others.

you know, just to be clear.

Alphabetise? It's hard enough just getting the CDs from the same BAND together.

Genesis go together - check. Early Phil Collins... I suppose that goes next to it? And Peter Gabriel, on the other side??? Aaaargl.

I told a woman from work the census was every 10 years. 1991: I was able to watch A Country Practice because my parents were busy. 2001: When I was a drunkard Uni Students. Oops, she might get angry with me.

I have always alphabetised (note spelling) my music. Not for my own benefit, I know the colour/font/image on every spine of every LP/CD I own, and where I saw it last. I do it so that house guests may peruse the colection at will, and find that particular Enya record they want to hear (just near Ethyl Meatplow, of course). Obviously bands who have numbers at the beginning of their name go numerically before the start of the alphabetised section.

Soundtracks go in a separate section. As do comedy records and spoken word. As do compilations. As do singles, 7", 10", and 12". It may interest you to know, also, that all my burned CDs are arranged in their cases by the same rules. I actually have separate cases for actual albums, and mix/compilation discs.

Yes it's anal, I guess, but also, it means that when I am drunkenly DJing, either for beer or beer money (or both) I can find the song I need before the 1.36 track I put on last has a chance to finish and leave me with a whole lotta dead air and angry, stationary punters glaring at me. Also, my burned Cds have little track listing sheets, complete with running time and track number, that go inside the plastic slip cover in the case.

Oh my god. We are never going to date, are we, Fits?

And one short word about the census. It's not the "government" collecting information, it's the public service. If you want them to move your nearest child care centre/dole office/dialysis clinic to where it's least needed, then by all means give them the wrong information. Otherwise, don't be so paranoid, they don't keep the data once it's in the computer. It's certainly not traceable in any way.

Why was it relevant to the news story to include both the breed and name of the dog? I can assume only to highlight how strange the woman was.
I prefer to imagine you walking past, having been out all night dancin' and not yet been to bed, and when he emerged yelling at him "Top of the morning to ya, fuckface".

And it is very wrong to put your religion as "blogger". Everyone knows you're supposed to write "Jedi" so they have to include at as an option next time. Even if it's not true.

By the way, at risk of sounding like a music dork ex boyfriend, in the past I have arranged my record collection by: Alaphabetical (artist only), Alphabetical (artist, then title), colour of the case, and now "most played by eye-level" since they are vertical racks on the sides of my shelving units. unless you know how much I play something, and are the same height as me, you won't be able to find it. Nearly as good as autobiographical.

oh fuck, I wrote "alphabeticisation". Could I have included more syllables? I'm usually a decent speller. Honestly.

mine started out alphabetised, and is now 'mostly alphabetised with all new new CDs I bought since I organised and haven't been bothered to fix up yet at the end'.

it's art in motion.

I would arrange my record collection only I have a major disorder disorder, and I cannot abide order. My psychiatrist is doing a study on my so they can include my diagnosis in the DSM V. I will be famous, FAMOUS LIKE A FOX.

Also, I have a job.

xoxo nora

Do you think the first woman in this clip could possibly be Curtis Sinatra, and Johnny is bending to pat noodle?
http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=20690&site=age&sy=age&source=theage.com.au%2F&t=4IUJR7&ie=1&player=wm7&rate=203&flash=1

I am not even sure where my physical music collection is ... in a box somewhere, maybe in a collection of green recyclo shopping bags?

All my music is digital these days. I order it using a cunningly complex neural network or, you know, bubble-sort.

I think treespotter VIII has just started us on the path to the Blogger Reformation. Abolish the Primacy of the Blogger Pontiff!

Ah, census. It was such a great milestone in our relationship. Still actually living in and out of each other's parents' houses, we spent the census night in our new, unrenovated furnished-with-nothing-but-a-dodgy-microwave-and-a-mattress flat, just so we could be officially "counted" as a couple.

On conspiracies: try working on the helpline during elections - any elections. The following is compiled of a selection of the loony comments I got - note that all these are actual concerns actual people have had:

Weirdo: What's the point of voting when you've already decided who wins?
Me: Votes aren't counted until (insert date here), nothing has been decided yet.
W: But I saw it on tv months ago - the Liberals won!
M: Sir, that was the Federal election. This one is your local government election.
W: Oh. Okay. And all these papers are faulty! It doesn't say who's Liberal and who's Labor!
M: Sir, it's a local government election, the candidates do not represent any particular political parties.
W: Oh. Okay. The ballot papers are too big! I can't fit them in the envelope! This is outrageous! My ten-year-old child could make a better envelope than this! I demand you give me a new envelope! I want to vote!
M: Sir, you can just fold the ballot paper.
W: Which way do I fold it?!
M: Whichever way you want, sir. It really doesn't matter.
W: Oh. Okay. This is an absolute disgrace, though. It's supposed to be a secret ballot, but it has my name on it - and you all keep records of who votes for who.
M: It is a secret ballot, sir. Because this is a postal election, your signature is used to cross you off the roll. Then that slip is removed from the envelope, so that when the ballot paper envelope is eventually opened, it will have no identifying marks on it whatsoever. I can guarantee that we do not under any circumstances keep records of who votes for whom.
W: That's all very well and good, but would you belive that is Robert Mugabe said that to you?
M: I can assure you, sir, that he does not work for us here.

Yes, I have actually been compared to Robert Mugabe. Betcha not all of you can say the same.