My Torrent of the Week this week is The Rolling Stone Magazines 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. Lots of tracks in here I have never even heard of before. Lots I already have too but it doesn't hurt to have them collected together into a single playlist.
Had a surreal morning today. Was in the city at 8.30am having my photo taken by Julian Kingma, one of Australia's top celebrity photographers. We shot some stuff in Hosier Lane and some more behind Federation Square. I asked Julian what the favourite photo he'd ever taken was and he said this one of the late Rene Rivkin which he won the 1997 Melbourne Press Club Quill Award. We talked about the some of the people he's met, including Jamie Oliver, who he shot recently at the opening of Melbourne's Fifteen restaurant and says is a really nice bloke, and Samuel L. Jackson. What an interesting line of work. For the record (for you, Scott Sherman), Julian prefers shooting on non-digital cameras, although today he was using a Nikon D100.
The real question is what on earth was a celebrity photographer doing photographing you? :-p
Posted by: Miriam Parkinson | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 10:53 AM
well at least one passer-by suggested I was modelling the elvis sunnies.
Posted by: Cameron Reilly | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Actually I can really see some damned celebrity trying to make those sunglasses fashionable... I bet if nicole richie wore them then suddenly everyone would be wearing them and then you'd be forced to find some other way to stand out.
Posted by: Miriam Parkinson | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 12:49 PM
well i thought that was MY role. I've stitched up worldwide rights to them just in case I am a "coolhunter". :-)
Posted by: Cameron Reilly | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 12:52 PM
Yes well unfortunately I haven't seen you in any women's magazines recently so they're unlikely to get worldwide recognition. You'd also need to be a female celebrity who is already considered to have the ultimate fashion sense... Like sienna miller for example.
Posted by: Miriam Parkinson | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 01:08 PM
I remember the episode of X-Files years ago where Mulder was wearing them...
Posted by: Rob Irwin | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 04:00 PM
WHICH ONE???
Posted by: Cameron Reilly | Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 05:32 PM
Damn you for suggesting that torrent!
Now I have Rock Lobster Stuck in my head...
Posted by: Miriam Parkinson | Monday, October 16, 2006 at 01:46 PM
Another damnation for you from me...
I decided a couple of years ago to get all the tracks on the RS500 and finally completed this task earlier this year. Some of them were bloody hard to find (at least legit) so it took me about 18 months or so...
Now I can download the lot in one hit ! b'stard !
Now to the top 500 albums.
Posted by: Mike P | Monday, October 16, 2006 at 02:08 PM
hehe well I can make that easier for you too Mike. AllOfMp3.com has a the full RS500 albums list available.
Miz - that first verse always gets me...
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster
his EAR LOBE?? WTF?
Posted by: Cameron Reilly | Monday, October 16, 2006 at 05:13 PM
Its this bit that always gets me.
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
I've been going "everybody had matching towels" to myself all day *shudder*
I actually started dancing to the music in my head in a lecture today and got some weird looks. I stand out enough as it is by having boobs, I like to try to hide the crazy.
Posted by: Miriam Parkinson | Monday, October 16, 2006 at 05:22 PM