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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Happy New Year 2015! Selamat Tahun Baru 2015!

Sorry it's a bit late, but happy new year everybody! We hope you have a blast. 2015 is shaping up to be best ever (at least top 3).

Enjoy, and remember, you only live once, and you never know when you might fall down an open drain, so make the bloody most of it!

Love Murlbag and Fanzibear xx


Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Quote d'Jour - Civility

"Civility is determined by how you behave, not by what you wear."

- Murldogeth the Third, 2014


AKA Maketh the man the clothes do not!

So when that pesky bouncer puts his arm across the gate this weekend, again, just tell im wot u erd 'ere, you'll be fiiine...


Thursday, November 20, 2014

West Sumbawa - Beach Cows and The Blood Moon

Had a super fun surf trip to West Sumbawa (with a dash of Bali and Lombok) with some good buddies of mine a couple of weeks ago. We scored heaps of fun waves at Yoyos and the like, but more importantly we saw cows and a blood moon..


S U R F - Backside Jam With A Dash Of Face Plant

Splat du Jour at Ulu's last week..



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

S U R F - Uluwatu Gold

This oily little gem rolled through Middles at Ulu's on a relatively average day last Tuesday. The wave ran for 2-300m (I had to omit a lot of photos from this sequence) and was like catching a taxi from the southern end of Middles to The Peak. I was on my way back to the cave anyway so it worked out well :) Check out the empty wave in the background towards the end of this sequence - shoulda been on that one!



Photos by Uluwatu Barong

Friday, June 27, 2014

F I L M - The Grand Budapest Hotel & "Frank"

Wow, two great movies that I've been fortunate enough to enjoy in the last two days at Leederville's fantastic Luna Theatre.

If you like your movies offbeat and quirky, these two gems won't disappoint. (I'm not gonna say "Indie" and "arthouse" coz those terms seem so overused, but yeah..that's what they are.)

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Another Wes Anderson classic. I love all WA's hits (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Ltd.), but I reckon Grand Budapest is probably my favourite. Ralph Fiennes absolutely nails his role as the - heck I can't even describe his character, that's how good it is! Let's just say he's a fairly confident, well-spoken, overly-amorous hotel manager who at first appears sly and self-serving, but in the end you wind up thinking he's a bit of a champ -, and Anderson and his team's extraordinary skills of meticulous, all-encompassing stylisation of every scene are a feast for the eyes and an absolute pleasure to absorb. Highly recommend it!

Frank - Another fantastic film. I loved it. It's about a young Gen Y wannabe muso (loves his Twitter, Fbook and Ytube) who gets drawn into a kooky, mentally unstable, alt-experimental band, which he ultimately tries to bend into a mainstream shape to suit his own needs. I won't say too much other than, if you start watching it it's worth seeing it to the end to see the message revealed. Don't know the name of the young wannabe muso (sorry, bad movie reviewer), but Michael Fassbender plays Frank (who lives with a papermache head on his head), and Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the overbearing and intense bandmate Clara. Definitely worth a look if you like your bands (and films) unstable and experimental :)