A lot of demented things happened… barely got time to scratch my arse, let alone post on this forum. I’m not sure which supercedes the other in terms of importance, but either way, my hands were full…
Some of the demented things- ending up on national television (australia’s got talent- i know- wasn’t my idea- did it help a friend,who got invited) doing some industrial noise ‘alien rebirth’ that ended up with us getting booed offstage, organising a gg allin tribute on good friday that ended with the leader of the state speaking out against it (and trying to shut it down- but failing, in some part) and crossing paths with a bunch of washed up 80s hair metallers who got completely and utterly screwed out of their tour when they got down to australia (that story alone is beyond description in terms of fuckedness).
oh yeah, and exams, gigs, work, piano, wimmin… yeah… fuck all time.
ending up on national television (australia’s got talent- i know- wasn’t my idea- did it help a friend,who got invited) doing some industrial noise ‘alien rebirth’ that ended up with us getting booed offstage,
what happened with Australia’s Got Talent is a friend of Kriss Hades’ got in touch with me about ‘doing something on TV’. Before she mentioned anything, I had enough sense to know that whatever it involved, I had better be anonymous! She’s an absolute genius, but she’s pretty out there- and I say that with utmost affection- but I still knew it would probably involve something bizarre.
She makes sculptures out of collected trash that have a ‘cyberpunk’ theme. Occasionally, she gets asked from time to time to do nightclub performances with her stuff, usually ‘alien resurrections’ or whatever at fetish clubs, goth, steampunk, etc etc etc. She was working as a courier at Channel 7 and word got around the work place about what she did. Eventually, she received an email from the Australia’s Got Talent producers about doing a live performance. Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know. Either way, she rang me up and asked if I wanted to help. So, under the proviso that I remained masked at all times, I agreed to help. Really, it was more to help out and I was interested in seeing what went on backstage at these sort of shows. Even meeting the sort of personalities that would subject themselves to such public and personal scrutiny presented itself as an interesting prospect- and it was.
They were kind to us. We actually got booed offstage, but they edited that out! Annoyingly, though, they did edit in the music from Close Encounters, which was never a part of it. So… yeah, make of it what ya will!
The best part was, the most hated of the judges (or mean one, whatever you wanna call him), gave us the thumbs up and wanted us thru… I was standing there hoping he’d get outvoted because that was enough excitement for me!!!
that was great. i like when they synced the kick drum with the cuts to horrified audience members. well played, sir. i would have done the same as you in this situation, hahaha.
Kudos for going on the show and all and being…um…different - however, as Kyle himself so eloquently put it…“Was something actually supposed to happen???”
Nothing…happened.
It was almost as if the appearance was a chance for this girl to show off her sculpture and that’s…it.
Confusing and somewhat anticlimatic, it must be said.
The best part was, the most hated of the judges (or mean one, whatever you wanna call him), gave us the thumbs up and wanted us thru… I was standing there hoping he’d get outvoted because that was enough excitement for me!!!
I would have been satisfied with a thumbs up and a congratulatory going away prize of a $20 voucher for a meal at the Pancake Parlour.
Then I would have gone home and listened to some Scott Walker.
Kudos for going on the show and all and being…um…different - however, as Kyle himself so eloquently put it…“Was something actually supposed to happen???”
Nothing…happened.
It was almost as if the appearance was a chance for this girl to show off her sculpture and that’s…it.
Confusing and somewhat anticlimatic, it must be said.
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I have to agree. I was confused. I thought this was a chance to really ruffle some feathers. Obviously it was the girl’s act though and not yours.
As it was presented, I think it was close enough to some Lady Gaga shit that it could have gone somewhere if it had a point and the music was a bit more developed with maybe a dance routine.
I don’t know if you’ve heard the new Lady Gaga album but some tracks sound like they could be Combichrist songs if they had that LaPlague douchebag singing instead of her.
Like, you could have made the second round if that was the goal.
But if the goal was to freak people out it could have been freakier/a lot more offensive too so instead it was kind of somewhere in limbo.
Either way it’s really cool that you did it and you probably had little say in what the act would be, you were just participating in someone else’s thing. So very cool and job well done!
I have to agree. I was confused. I thought this was a chance to really ruffle some feathers. Obviously it was the girl’s act though and not yours.
But if the goal was to freak people out it could have been freakier/a lot more offensive too so instead it was kind of somewhere in limbo.
Exactly. A prime opportunity to ‘stick it’ to the mainstream clones. Alas it was not to be. Just some folks in kitschy post apocalyptic attire waving their collective arms about. I was getting ready for an all out assault. Damn!!
Surely there are better ways of getting yr sculpture seen on tv??
I don’t know if it was the intention but I thought that it was a more fitting performance than trying to shock with a big climax. Why? Because everyone is left stratching their heads going “wtf?!” Also these type of shows are so banal the Alien Resurrection could be seen as a swipe at the other acts, in that nothing really happens (EXCEPT THE ALIEN RESURRECTION, MOTHERFUCKER!!!). And also the editing of these shows is not always genuine, in that all those shocked faces may not have been in reaction to the Alien Resurrection performance. But lets hope they were.
Nice costumes but I agree that was pretty anticlimatic.
Not sure what the point of that was other than the fact there was no point? Maybe that was the ‘shock’ in itself - that you were taking the piss out of the thing.
I just get a kick out of going on national television and leaving everyone completely bewildered and very unsure of what they just saw and if there actually was an underlying message. Seems to me though, that she just wanted to show her art, and just wanted to play it up.
I don’t know why everyone is looking for meaning and message in the piece. Those shows are clean-corporate-family-friendly pieces of packaged sunshine.
The piece was chosen by the producers as one of the obligatory lambs-to-the-slaughter. They put stuff like that in to mix it up and add a bit of interest and/or comic relief. Such acts are never intended to “go all the way”.
Typical “Got Talent” format will be . . . .
Cute as a button 6 year old breakdancing prodigy.
A guy who can juggle
An amazing opera singer
Some goober who plays the national anthem by making fart noises in his armpit.
Obviously the fart guy is going to get chopped and there’s no chance in Hell of him getting by. There’s 50 billion other people with “better” talents that could have been put on the show, but that can get a bit boring, so they put the whack jobs on too.
I assume that the girl who was the leader of this group’s performance piece knew it was a one-time shot (if not, she’s totally delusional).
As for going all out for shock value — if it was gruesome or even mildly offensive they wouldn’t even air the segment. The fact that it was just a big pile of WTF and yet the filmed audience reactions (probably NOT all from this performance) look as if they’re watching a live Holocaust or something . . . that’s what’s funny.
I don’t think the piece “said” anything, and I don’t think it was intended to. It’s just pure goofiness. I do think they could have made it more of a performance with some more choreography and such, but . . . it is what it is . . . THE ALIEN RESURRECTION!!!
I don’t think there was a point other than WTF? I thought that WAS the point. The expectation of something, anything, only to be slapped with the Alien Resurection like a 500 lb tuna upside the head. Nobody had a clue. I thought it was great.
Exactly.
And the interview portion at the end was great too.
“Aliens don’t exist. There are no aliens to resurrect.”
“We make our own aliens.”