What are the three best things about living in Australia?
Tom Ellard: When the bombing starts, we’ll die second last, before New Zealand. It’s still possible to occasionally find something here that wasn’t designed in America, although that’s getting rare. Sometimes, the most interesting people to meet are the ones who don’t want to live in the center. MVRemix: What are the three worst things about living in Australia? Tom Ellard: It’s an island with a small town mentality, a world suburb. The people with fire in their belly leave here. Then, come back when they run out of ideas. Many good things are too far away, too expensive and too hard to get. MVRemix: What LPs have you been listening to during the last couple of days? Tom Ellard: Magma’s ‘Mkank Destruktw Kommandh’ because a friend said that I should hear some Magma. A lot of Residents stuff, old and new, trying to work out just where I started to dislike it. A recording of Kraftwerk, playing live as a guitar rock band in 1971, which reminds me a bit of Popol Vuh, which I like. MVRemix:
