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[krenske]

yep im wondering how many of ye pianoforumisers are from that superior country called australia...

[brewtality]

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4952.0.html

[Tash]

yeah i was about to say there's already at least 2 threads on this

[Cecin_Koot]

I am

[julie391]

yep im wondering how many of ye pianoforumisers are from that superior country called australia...

btw - i got your private message - and sorry but i cant divulge further

[adrian]

Yepp...Im from Australia.  Is anyone from Perth, Western Australia??..I am..

[Asho]

Yeah I live in Australia.  Any tasmanians out there?

[dmk]

There may be tasmanians out there....but would they admit it......!!!!

[Asho]

Whats wrong with Tasmania?It is ok.  Barely.  Not much here, granted, but UTAS is apparantly really good, people are OK. 

[Tash]

tasi has beautiful scenery i loved it. but as a place to live it'd be a whole. the 'city' part of hobart is like a street! nah tasi's ok i liked the airwalk thingy and some other really nice places

[Asho]

I never said tassie was a huge metropolis! All its cities are holes.  But you're right Tash, it has beautiful scenery.  The Tahone (?) airwalk is very nice, and sights like Port Arthur penal colony and Cradle Mountain are also good.

[Tash]

OH i really liked port arthur the night tour thingy that freaked me out it was really cool there! yeah and cradle mtn was lovely it was all very inspiring. i came back going oh maybe i'll paint a landscape, but then remembered that i hate painting landscapes so ditched that idea. but it was a nice idea! tasi'd be nice to paint...

[brewtality]

i think Sydney's north shore is a hole 

[galonia]

My geography teacher always reminded us that all of Sydney is a hole.  It's in a basin or something like that (I never turned up to geography class, I hated it, but he was my roll-call teacher as well, so I'd pick up these bits and pieces occasionally).

[Asho]

The Port Arthur ghost tour was great, but I thought it wasn't as scary as it could have been.  Cradle Mountain is amazing, takes your breath away.    Maybe you could write a peice of music inspired by the landscape Tash, that would be just as good as a painting, if not better? Heard of a Tasmanian who did a song about Kakadu national park,Peter Sculthorpe i think.

[galonia]

Sculthorpe also wrote "Mountains" which was inspired by Cradle Mountain I think (is that the dark stormy one? - like I said, I don't know any geography, so no idea which mountain is which).  "Mountains" is a piano solo work, "Kakadu" is for orchestra.

[dmk]

Mountains is great! I've played it before (still play it..!!) its actually kind of creepy and scary at the beginning.  Any of you guys played this one???

Tassie is beautiful, the Gordon River is fantastic and Hobart is a georgeous city but I could not live there.

Whats wrong with Tasmania?It is ok. Barely. Not much here, granted, but UTAS is apparantly really good, people are OK.

The tassie people are good and some of my best friends went to UTas (It is a really good uni....!!)  Bagging tassies is just a mainland hobby, really we are just jealous that your environment is a lot cleaner and nicer than ours, but I'm a Sydney girl at heart!

[Tash]

i think Sydney's north shore is a hole

it is not! the north shore is the bomb! sure half of us private school kids are snobbish brats and complete skanks (not me!), and chatswood is a bit boring, hmmm yeah it is a bit boring... ah well it looks nice and i like it:)

as for composing tasi, well i suck at composing, so i think i'll leave that to someone else hehe

[brewtality]

yeah the north shore's orright i suppose, i was just saying that to bait you

[Tash]

well it's better than the western suburbs, not that i have anything against the western suburbs except for the fact thar it's a hole and is too far away from the beach...

[e60m5]

i think Sydney's north shore is a hole 

O_O

DUDE

That's my home turf... quit steppin'!

Wahroongah all the way!!!!!

[brewtality]

hahahaha, chill. I was just saying that coz tash called canberra a hole
btw my fellow aussies what are you doing on Australia day? i have to go to an engagement unfortunately so i probably won't do anything exciting.

[Tash]

i'm such an unpatriotic person, probably nothing. i've never celebreated australia day in my life haha. however my sister who is off balleting in england at the moment the head of the boardin house is letting the 4 aussies there have a little australia day for everyone so they're cooking aussie food and stuff- first time she's ever celebrated it and she's not even in the country!

oh i did call canberra a hole didn't i hehe. i'm going down there sometime soon to visit relatives or something how very exciting

[Asho]

I'm with tash, probably nothing.  But we'll be eating lamb.  What do you guys think of the new TV adds with Sam K in them.  The one with the line (goes something like)

[We don't want no vegetarians ruining Australia day]
They can go get stuffed
The know the way to the airport, and if they don't I'll show them

Personally i thinks its very funny!  Satire at its best!!

[brewtality]

er i can't say i've seen that ad. Maybe it hasn't been shown here? i don't even know who Sam K is.
 It seems that most people don't really celebrate Australia Day, my family used to go watch the firework (crappy canberra fireworks that is) when i was a kid but haven't for a while

[galonia]

Who is Sam K?

My friends and I used to go out to the city and see the fireworks.  But we stopped doing that years ago.  Then my godparents always invited me to go with them to Parramatta park for those fireworks.  But they're overseas on holidays this week, so it means I won't be doing anything for Australia Day.

[Asho]

Sorry, I couldn't remember his full name, its Sam Kekovich.  Former AFL player I think, used to be on the Fat on ABC.  Now he's doing Lamb adds.  Take a look at one of the news reports of it: 

https://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11982250%255E662,00.html

[galonia]

Maybe it's just a Tassie thing?  Not all advertisements are shown in all states.

[Tash]

no it's in sydney it's funny! i saw it last night for the first time but i'd heard about it before. it's just one of those kooky lamb ads, funny guys i love the one with all the butchers dancing around in the street with kitchen things it's hilarious. but apparently all the vegitarians got offended and complained about this ad

[Asho]

I saw an article ages ago about how the add with all the butchers dancing about was banned in New Zealand, because it offend some group.  Can't fathom why though? 

By the way, did you all eat lamb on Australia day? 

[Tash]

hmmm don't think i did. no i was having lunch with a friend and was eating turkey...my bad...can't even remember what we had for dinner but i payed mum out for not making lamb

[galonia]

Hey, Sydney-siders - last night's storm was really cool, especially since I was listening to the last movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the time, so it was all very dramatic.

But this afternoon was a bit much!  I was on the bus at the time, and watching trees fall onto the motorway and block the road was quite scary.  Then arriving into my area and having half the roads blocked by trees was a real pain!

This is what you get for living in the leafy suburbs, I suppose.   

[Tash]

yeah crazy storm, talk about the incredibly bizarre weather we've been getting this summer, after a practically rainless winter. i don't think it was too bad up here though, we didn't get any blackouts or anything, and if there are trees on the ground i haven't seen them.

did you hear about the Queenwood girl who got crushed out camping by the tree falling on her tent? how awful was that, a friend of mine knew her really well

[Muzakian]

Anyone else from Adelaide here?

[lenny]

Hey, Sydney-siders - last night's storm was really cool, especially since I was listening to the last movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the time, so it was all very dramatic.

the 6th symph storm mvt wouldve been more appropriate

[galonia]

You may be right, lenny, but I haven't got through all the symphonies yet.  I need time to work my way through them all.

[Tash]

random question for you aussies- have you seen the giant ad/poster thingy all over the place that has a big POW written on it, and then in small writing says 'for impact, posters are invincible'? i want to know what it's about! does anyone know?

[galonia]

random question for you aussies- have you seen the giant ad/poster thingy all over the place that has a big POW written on it, and then in small writing says 'for impact, posters are invincible'? i want to know what it's about! does anyone know?

I must be ad-deprived.  I haven't seen these, nor have I seen those Sam Kekovich lamb ads yet either.

[Tash]

well they're all over melbourne but i've only seen one at sydney airport so far, but then again i haven't really been exceptionally social in the past 2 days. but the lamb ads are gone now, just watch out at the train stations or somewhere for the giant billboard that says POW!

[galonia]

the 6th symph storm mvt wouldve been more appropriate

OK lenny, I've listened to it, and yes, the storm mvt is very evocative, but it is far too short to describe the storm we had that week.

[lostinidlewonder]

I live in KWINANA, which is like 25 kms south of PERTH WEST AUSTRALIA... hooray. i live in the most isolated western city in the entire world

[Tash]

lol yeah i know how that feels, lived in some hole of a minig town called warrego in the northern territory for a year, about 5hrs north of alice springs. had a very small population, the junior school (and there was no high school) consisted of about 12 kids and 2 teachers!

[janice]

I think all of you Aussies should meet!  You could schedule a little get together!  That would be so cool!

[lostinidlewonder]

Yeah and throw a few Kangaroos on the barbie

[Tash]

yeah if we all lived in the same city. well galonia and me are in ths same uni- in fact i was standing outside the red centre the other day ooooh, for all we know we've probably walked past each other like 50 times

kangaroos are apparently a great source of iron!

[galonia]

yeah if we all lived in the same city.

That's right - it's only a 50-plus hour drive nonstop from Sydney to Perth, after all!

i was standing outside the red centre the other day ooooh, for all we know we've probably walked past each other like 50 times

Did you check out the etchings on the side of the Webster building, tash, which are meant to be the digital representation of a Vine composition?

kangaroos are apparently a great source of iron!

I was in an Indian restaurant a couple of months ago and tried tandoori kangaroo.  It was rather strange!

[brewtality]

kangaroo meat? yuk  the most exotic meats i've eaten are turkey and duck.

[Tash]

turkey is not exotic! what are you talking about i eat turkey all the time, it's great on sandwiches with cranberry sauce! mm duck is yummy too though, and apparently kangaroo is nice i haven't tried it though, just can't bear the thought of eating a native animal!
and no i keep forgetting to check out the vine piece whenever i'm at uni, and then i'll get home and be like dammit i forgot again, so i will try to remember this week!

[piano_learner]

and apparently kangaroo is nice i haven't tried it though, just can't bear the thought of eating a native animal!

You can't eat Skippy 

[galonia]

random question for you aussies- have you seen the giant ad/poster thingy all over the place that has a big POW written on it, and then in small writing says 'for impact, posters are invincible'? i want to know what it's about! does anyone know?

omg, tash, I've seen them now!!!  I starting catching the train a couple of weeks ago, because my bus service became really bad, and I have seen these billboards with POW on it.

And the weird thing is, I'm up in Brisbane typing this, and on my way up, on the highway between the Gold Coast and Brisbane, I saw one, too!

I think they're ads for the billboards - telling businesses that they should advertise using billboards.  Bizarre!!!