In time honoured Australia Day tradition, the Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown gets under way this morning, Australia wide, from 10am EDT.
If you’re in Sydney and want to make a day of it, head along to Parramatta Park, where the Triple J crew will broadcasting the show, or simply throw your own Hottest 100 party.
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Counting down the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 26 January, 2009 to the music subset
Vote for the best t-shirt design of 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 16 January, 2009 to the design and art subset
The Threadless Bestee Awards are on.
Vote for your favourite designs, though with about 300 choice designs to select from it may be not be all that easy…
Guerilla dining for Macquarie Dictionary’s word of 2008!
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 9 January, 2009 to the comment subset
Voting is open, until January 31, to select Macquarie Dictionary’s “people’s choice” word of 2008.
There are 95 words (and terms) in 19 categories, but “guerilla dining” appealed to me the most:
guerilla dining: noun dining at a restaurant that has been set up temporarily in an unused space such as a car park, beach, rooftop [...]
Photo: the last sunset of 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 to the snap shots subset
Actually this photo was taken a couple of years ago but I don’t think I’ve ever posted it.
Last post of 2008. Enjoy your NYE revels, and I shall look forward to seeing you, all bright eyed and bushy tailed no doubt, at some point on the flip side. :)
My Top 5 movies of 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 to the movies subset
Another “top something” list of 2008, but this time it is my choice of movies I’ve seen this last year. Seen is the operative word here by the way as some of these movies probably premiered in 2007. Anyway here we go…
Brideshead Revisited: there’s just something about this story of love lost and of not [...]
Triple J Hottest 100 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 30 December, 2008 to the events subset
Voting has opened for this year’s Triple J Hottest 100, regarded as “one of the largest public music polls in the world”.
The countdown of 2008’s top songs, as voted by Triple J listeners takes place, as usual, on Australia Day Monday 26 January 2009. It’s a cool sort of way to spend what is considered [...]
The 50 Best Albums of 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 29 December, 2008 to the music subset
As compiled by Pitchfork. While I’m not all that familiar with the work of the Seattle based Fleet Foxes, who top the 2008 list, this summarisation is somewhat persuasive:
They’re like two sides of a coin, and equally express the band’s mastery of its music, a catchall Americana that takes a wide slice of our popular [...]
The illustrated buzzwords of 2008
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 26 December, 2008 to the design and art subset
Another list of somethingorother for 2008, this time the top buzzwords of 2008, which is beautifully illustrated by Jessica Hische, and reason enough to have a look.
Photo: Christmas by day, Santa on the art wall
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 December, 2008 to the snap shots subset
Repost. I love this painting from the Cafe 105 mural wall, which I took two years ago now. Worth posting again.
Merry Christmas.
Photo: Christmas decorations courtesy of nature
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 December, 2008 to the snap shots subset
In bloom just in time for Christmas.
