These are some of the people I work with on a daily basis… If anyone has any jobs available for a copywriter please get in contact. Ta.

Long story short: We’ve been doing some research on Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ space program from the early ’80s. Basically, the USA pretended to build a missile defense program in outta space (SDI) that would make Russia’s nukes obsolete. The program was supposed to cost a trillion-billion-dollars. The Russians freaked out when they found out about this and went broke trying to build something to match the USA’s space lasers. Which never actually existed in the first place. Then communism ended.

There’s an article in that, somewhere. Especially since no one remembers the Cold War these days.

Decided it would be interesting to visit a Monster Truck show with a head full of mood enhances, drugs. It wasn’t. Nothing but row after row of ugly people

Article to follow – once everyone has sufficiently recovered from the experience to string thoughts together.

So there’s an entire room full of old magazines at the parents house in Brisbane. I’ve been scanning some of the more interesting covers and ads for some online articles / features / whatever. This is the Source back in 1994 – before Tupac became an international star. I’ll be posting more stuff over the coming weeks. There’s a huge back catalogue of videogame / hip hop and lifestyle magazines (e.g. The Face) to dig through.

We finally got our hands on the J Dilla issue of Wax Poetics (thanks John). To celebrate, here’s some Fuck The Police.

When Nirvana’s Nevermind replaced Michael Jackson at the top of the US charts in 1992 it was kind of a big deal. The album bought alt-rock to the masses, made Seattle cool, and saw flannelette sales go through he roof. It also killed the careers of every ‘hair band’ from the ‘80s. A couple of years later Kurt Cobain was dead and Pearl Jam were whoring the sound to 14 year old school-girls in suburban Australia.

P.S. Watch the video to the end to see Kurt fight his own security guard.

Hamtaro: Little hamsters, big adventures.

Wiley – See Clear Now
Not much in the way of ‘grime’ on this, but Summertime, Wearing My Rolex and the title track are on some retarded, stupid fresh club shit. 7/10

Common – Universal Mind control
Common has given up on being ‘conscious’ and spends the bulk of this album telling us about how he makes it with the ladies and wears nice jeans. The production is by The Neptunes and is ‘mad nice’. If you can deal with a brain dead Common this is actually okay. 8/10

Akon – Freedom
Worst. Thing. Ever. Minus -2/10

Ludacris – Theatre of the Mind
Features a track with Jay-Z, Nas and Ludacris that’s actually pretty good. Also, everyone who ever rapped makes a cameo on this. 7/10

If you smoked weed in the ‘90s then you’ll be familiar with Beavis and Butt-head. Created for MTV by Mike Judge (and running form 1993-1997), the animated TV series was pretty much aimed at stoners. The basic premise was all about (borderline retarded) teens Beavis and butt-Head sitting on their couch and slagging off music videos. This was interspersed with short episodes and eventually a full scale feature movie in 1996. Oh, and then some kid burnt his trailor park home to the ground (with his younger brother still inside) after watching Beavis doing his ‘Fire! Fire! Fire!’ bit.

So, we’re all up in Brisbane for the next week. It feels crazy sub-tropical.