lol

Commenting on the results, Cave said his ''first political act will be to introduce legislation forcing all Australians to lower their expectations''.

Probably so that people will be impressed by the forthcoming Grinderman album.

Australians would prefer to have a PM that has depraved sexual fantasies about Kylie and Avril Lavigne

Because as we all know every author/song writer/narrator has the same opinions/fantasies/breakfast as their characters.

More Woman's Day journalism from M+N.

But yeah, like I said in the other thread I don't doubt Cave voted for himself a few thousand time so he could get in the news again.

You're the Jonathan Holmes of Mess+Noise, happycow.

a similar poll on M+N’s sister website Fasterlouder

But who won the SameSame poll?
And why didn't we have one?

Because as we all know every author/song writer/narrator has the same opinions/fantasies/breakfast as their characters.

FYI happcow, characters come from people's brains. if nick cave's ''character'' had a sexually depraved fantasy about avril lavigne's labia, so by proxy did nick cave.

*happycow

And why didn't we have one?

let's do one now in this thread. we can tally up the votes at the end of the day. i'll start:

Marcus (UV Race)

Marcus (UV Race)

Johnny Casino.

If Australian are so keen on a misogynist, maybe Abbott has more of a chance than we know.

I like how MySpace is positioning itself as the new political voice. Must have been because The Drum got its own tv show.

More Woman's Day journalism from M+N.

No, there's more rigour at WD.

Marcus (UV Race)

the guy from cape cod affair

Dan Luscombe

Kate Alexa

Kate Alexa x 2

:-/

Marcus (UV Race)

When did 'Cave backlash' by hipsters begin? Was it with the forming of the Bad Seeds?

I've just tallied from the posts above:

Marcus Uv Race: 6 votes
Kate Alexa: 8 Votes

Pretty close but looks like Kate is going to win.

Marcus (UV Race)

Marcus (UV Race)

Though I bet at the first sign of a dip in public approval the UV Race powerbrokers will call a spill and install Al

Dame Edna's a musician now? (yeah, yeah, I know, Disco Matilda and all...)

Would vote Abbott over Cave.

This article should have been posted in the 'People are fucked' thread. I'd vote for a comatose three-legged goat before Nick Cave.

On the other hand, I would have voted for Rowland S Howard.

how the mighty have fallen, not so long ago the eddy current suppression ring would have had the balance of power. and now, it appears they're the australian democrats.

My vote goes to Justice Yeldham.

You can't be PM and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court I think, happycow.

Adalita

Tom

Vote 1 John Butler Fucks Kids

This article should have been posted in the 'People are fucked' thread. I'd vote for a comatose three-legged goat before Nick Cave.

yes but nick cave wears a suit and a goat doesn't. and nick cave has a vest sometimes too I guess..see my vest see my vest...do do do dod dododo

it's all about the suit.

Suited goat say stfu

that aint a goat in a suit. that's nick cave.

I vote Bob Log III, he's Australian now.

In semi-related news, I recently asked John Butler about the Australian political system.

AM: I believe you'll be back in Australia for the next federal election next month so I wonder if you'll be interested in discussing how you'll be voting?

JB: Okay [laughs] This will open up a can of worms, but here we go. I believe in the idea of democracy. I believe if I lived in a room with five other people and four of them wanted to do something and one didn't, then we should probably go with the majority. I believe in democracy. I don't believe the form of political democracy that we have in our country is necessarily a good example of democracy. I don't really believe it's democracy. I don’t know.

For example, in my state in Western Australia, [premier] Colin Barnett of the Liberal party got in. OK, get this: Labor gets more votes but between the National party and the Liberal party, they had more votes together. So, after the election's done, Liberals and in the National party make a coalition and they become the leaders of the WA government. That's not democracy. That's a fucking complete manipulation of a system right there.

More at: http://www.thevine.com.au/music/interviews/john-butler-_-'i-don't-think-democracy-is-alive-and-well-in-our-country'20100820.aspx

John Butler would make a great Treasurer, he's good with money and accounts and all that stuff.

I don't know what's more appalling about John Butler's understanding of Australia's political system: the fact that he doesn't know how a parliamentary coalition works (or, for that matter, that the Liberal and National parties have been in coalition for quite some time); the fact that his concept of democracy is five guys in a room doing what four guys in the room voted for (no concept of the ''tyranny of the majority'', then); or the fact that he's looking for a conspiracy to explain Kevin Rudd's deposition when it's perfectly explicable in terms of Kevin's relationship with the Labor caucus.

If John Butler is Australia's Woody Guthrie, we deserve to get Abbott tomorrow.

just fyi, the wa nationals & liberals were not in a coalition at the time of the WA election. they were seperate entities in this state.