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Hellvis

Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA


Joined September 21st 2006

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Google Ads Gettin' All Up In My Face

July 5th 2007 06:40
Hey Orblers,

I've been away from Orble for a long time with other commitments (uni, new job, magazine writing, love) but am ready to get back into the swing of blogging. I know I've been dangling that carrot for a while but I mean it this time.

Anways, I came back to my blog to find google ads messin up my posts, seemingly appearing after the first paragraph of every one.

I don't like it.

I'm a bit rusty with the whole my.orble thing and can't really figure out how to stop this.

Any help would fill me with the joy of a million milkshakes.
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HELP: I KILLED JOEBLOGG'S POST

January 22nd 2007 11:56
Hey Jon,

I did something really stupid: forgetting that when you put really long words with no breaks in them in people's comments that you make all the words run off the page.

Is it possible to fix this? Here's the post Noble Park Declares War On USA.

I have truly learnt my lesson. I promise never to do it again.

-Hellvis
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Comment by Hellvis
on Google Ads Gettin' All Up In My Face

July 8th 2007 02:32


Earache Hotel
The good thing about having a million milkshakes is you don't have to be too picky about the flavour. I'll chugalug a coupla chocalate ones in your honour though.

Thanks Ahmed. You're a champion.

Comment by Hellvis
on Dead Ringers

March 18th 2007 01:06


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Love this film. Really quite disturbing and beautiful. The instruments that one of the twins creates (can't remember which) made me wince and I don't even have a vagina (that I know of). I love how Cronenberg finds beauty in the ugly. Even those damn instruments were aesthetically pleasing.

Great review.

Comment by Hellvis
on An American Werewolf in London

March 18th 2007 00:52


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Hey Bryn,

I bought this recently. Great film and great review. The characters are really well drawn and I love the music ("Bad Moon Rising"!!!).

I like Jack's reappearances and ongoing decay. I especially like the scene in the theatre where all of David's victims try and help Jack convince him to kill himself. Darkly funny stuff.

What about American Werewolf in Paris? Any good?

Comment by Hellvis
on Are you an expert blogger or poser?

March 6th 2007 12:52


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I'm not a poser, I'm a POSEUR.

Comment by Hellvis
on John Doe’s Nominations: Best Pictures 1997-2006

March 6th 2007 09:08


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Hey JD,

I'm definitely out of the loop with a lot of these. My movie going dropped off a cliff after 2000 (the only year that I've seen all the films mentioned). I'll throw in my 2c anyway.

Glad to see Happiness get a mention. I love Aranofsky and wonder whether The Fountain will measure up. Anything written by Kaufmann gets my vote (except for Confessions which dissapointed me, and is the only one I've seent that I'd disagree with here). And Sling Blade! Hah! Makes me want to hrrrrmm go and get some hhhrrrrmmmm french fried potatas.

HrrrMmm

I'd chuck in for Pan's Labyrinth, but it's the only picture I've seen this year (sad, huh!).

Comment by Hellvis
on Mature Content

March 3rd 2007 07:23


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Why is it okay for Google to promote pharmaceuticals that have nothing to do with our posts on our blogs but we can't talk about drugs?

Earache Hotel seems like a magnet for earache remedies, constipation cures, and 'what God has provided for his children to relieve gout'. While I find this highly amusing (in a strange, almost dadaist way), I think the mature content move is sheer hypocrisy.

These ads try to shyster the innocent and impressionable to buy things they don't need, which seems much more evil than exposing them to a few rude words or pictures of boobies.

I smell the snake oil waft of a Today Tonight expose.

Comment by Hellvis
on Are Bloggers Vultures?

February 17th 2007 06:53


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Hey Brenton,

That reminds me of Henry Rollins's spoken word show in Brisbane a few years ago. I didn't go, but heard something about Rollins being mystified about the big deal that was made out of Kylie Minogue's breast cancer, and the media being so focussed on 'one caucasion tit.'

I blame TV (for everything).

Comment by Hellvis
on Speed reading

February 17th 2007 05:52


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I didn't realise there were replies here. Why wasn't I notified? I'm sure I changed the box to 'yes'. I hate you, technology.

What about books that deliberately deconstruct language to create meaning. I found the Naked Lunch (still probably my favourite book of all time) really hard to read, due to there being next to zero narrative, but it was quicker the second time.

I suppose with genre fiction like thrillers, crime, sci-fi, etc, we understand the tropes of the genre, so in a way, we have a rough idea of what's coming next. Experimental fiction tries to break down these barriers, but I wonder if you are exposed to enough of these books, does a pattern begins to emerge where they become just as comfortable to read as airport novels like The Davinci Code?

Comment by Hellvis
on Are Bloggers Vultures?

February 17th 2007 02:53


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Thanks Tacy,

The buzzardly nature of the press and society in general angered me at the time but I suppose I'm pretty numb to it now. My views haven't really changed (I've always found the need to pick over the death of celebrities kind of uncomfortable) but now I suppose I have an insight into the other side of it. I feel I can understand and tolerate it better, even though it sickens me, and I can't completely excuse myself because I do take some interest in these celebrity deaths; they're so pervasive it's kind of hard not to.

Sorry to hear about your sister. I know things can resurface but you've got to remember that your pain is yours and that's actually a precious thing. I know it can feel alientating, but I guess we can be thankful that the death of our loved ones isn't front page news and we can deal with it in peace.

Comment by Hellvis
on Are Bloggers Vultures?

February 12th 2007 08:09


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There's some good points here Brenton and Tracy,

What was weird for me was when the whole Steve Irwin thing happened around the same time my mum died.

It would anger me to hear people talk about how horrible his death was and how saddened they were, while me and my family were going through some hard and real stuff of our own. They didn't even know the guy and it seemd kind of insensitive and shallow. He was even on the cover of the newspaper where Mum's funeral notice was published. Of course his death was a tragedy, but do we really need to know so much about it? Same for ANS.

In hindsight, I guess some people need to experience death and grief in a way that is so remote its almost stylised. I can't begrudge them that, but I guess I find people's obsession with celebrity a bit hard to swallow in the first place, whether death is involved or not.