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For six years I did a comedy radio show called A Walk in the Black Forest, which was basically a panel show where we’d talk about current events, pop culture and weird shit from the Internet. That was ten years ago, and since then a lot of commercial radio shows have picked up on things we were doing. (yes, we’ve had people confirm their theft)
After a four year break, due to “creative differences”, the three of us got back together for a reunion show, which went to air on 6th August 2005, almost four years to the day. This enclosure is a copy of that show.
We’re currently thinking about whether we should start the show up again, but podcast it as well as broadcasting it on radio. What do you think? WBF is an acquired taste, and takes a few listens to get all the layers. I think that was part of the beauty of it, different people could listen and have completely different views of what happened. There’s also a lot of in-jokes, which people would only get if they listened from week to week. This show is no different.
While this reunion show wasn’t particularly good by our standards, it’s a fair indication of our style. We used to do a lot of special segments as well, but we didn’t for this one. I’d love some feedback, particularly from people outside Australia, where the humour may not go down as it would here.
Sorry about the size too, and the quality. The tracking went quite bad for the first few minutes.
…from Lane Cove. Having just moved house, this is the last video I’ll do from my old door step. Pretty crappy one, but it had to be done.
Sleep deprivation can do this to someone. Or maybe that’s just how I am. You be the judge… I’m a truck drivin’ man…
It has been a strange couple of months. For the past week, I’ve been sick and moving house, an interesting combination: recover for a day, move some stuff, recover for a day, move some stuff… Before that I was in Canberra for two weeks, where I most likely picked up the flu, and it was so bloody cold.
All the while, waiting for Telstra to move my ADSL connection again, so having no Internet at the same time as everything else was happening. When they finally did get it connected, it wouldn’t work, with my ISP telling me “oh, they probably didn’t jumper the modem at the exchange, that’s their usual mistake”, and then a Telstra techo telling me “yeah, it’s probably not jumpered at the exchange, some of our guys have no idea”. Great… just great… Yes, it wasn’t jumpered at the exchange. Seriously, Telstra should be dismantled and sold off in little pieces, with the copper infrastructure transfered to another government organisation. They’re completely clueless.
So anyway, now I have Internet access again, and this is the beginning of my backlog of videos. This was shot during the weekend between my two weeks in Canberra…
More footage from the getting my bike video, which I decided to scrap.
A couple of months ago I had to pick up my bike from being repaired. With buses, trains and taxis, and countless changes to the plan due to track and road works, I ended up with an hour of footage, which I edited down to about 20 minutes. Too long. So I scrapped most of it and did this video and the following one from the debris. At least it freed up 30GB on my hard drive…
Yeah, like really, what is it with drag pants? Why do people drag their pants around?