SYN FM Wants Your Money

Hey folks.

You're awesome people. That new cologne you're trying doesn't even smell cheap!

As you probably know, I present a show on SYN FM. Our Donation Drive is running from Friday 25 May to Friday 1 June. Please consider giving a couple of bucks to the organisation because we need it and you'll get good karma. Yes, you!

Nothing explains things like a generic message, so take it away, facelessnamelessman!

One of these kids is not like the other one:

• Fairfax Media Ltd – $5.2 billion company
Radio, Magazines, Dating Websites
• News Corp – $81.8 billion company
Newspapers, TV, Websites, NRL
• PBL – $14.5 billion company
TV, Websites, Casinos
• SYN – Independent, not-for-profit organisation
TV, Radio, Websites, No Casinos

In fact only one of these is a kid. And it needs your support.

SYN is a young and critical player in Australia's media landscape. We're all aged 12-25, create radio all day long, make TV for five hours a week, and we're always online at www.syn.org.au.

SYN has been punching above its weight for nearly four years, but still needs your help. So if SYN helped you:

• get a laugh
• get an insight into how the whipper snappers think these days
• get a new perspective
• get a grip on real, gloss-free local culture

… then re-pay the favour and support SYN's donation drive: www.syn.org.au/donate. All donations are tax deductible.

Please consider forwarding this on to others.

Thank you for your support.

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STUDENT YOUTH NETWORK Inc.
www.syn.org.au

Reception: +61 3 9925 4747
Fax: +61 3 9925 4746

E-mail: info@syn.org.au

During the day, I can be found here...
The House of SYN
16 Cardigan Street, Carlton

If you wish to send me something, send it here...
SYN
P.O. Box 12013
A'Beckett Street
Melbourne VIC 8006

Thanks!

And don't forget about The Robot Invasion gig on Sunday! The Tote, 7pm. $5 Entry.

Oh, and send me $1000. This last part is especially compulsory. All of you.

And if you want proper charities to give your hard-earned to, try this one, or this one, or this one. But give to SYN FM too!

All Syntax and no blog would only make me pass

Well it's that time of the year again. First semester assignments and exams due like Flint.

The award-winning* blitzkrieg by The Robot Invasion is advancing well. To have the ability to either agree or disagree with me, come along to The Tote on Sunday 27 May. Doors at 7pm. $5. See poster.

'What poster?'

'This poster!'



As you can see, also playing are Rise and Shine and The Tabasco Junkies. (Warning: MySpace links.) We've already told the venue that you're coming, so if you don't it's like you're stealing money from CUB.

The Tote has a special significance because I've never been there, even though it's one of Melbourne's Music Pubs. For some pathetic reason or another it just hasn't happened. Me just being twenty years old is one of those pathetic reasons. Anyway, when mclusky came out to play Australia in 2004 I wasn't quite eighteen and I always regret not trying at all to get to their gig, which was at The Tote. Because, of course, mclusky broke up in January of 2005 to the ire of all sensible music lovers. That's right. If you don't love mclusky, you're an ice smoking Thirsty Merc fan.

I've got the last Syntax assignment due tomorrow. It's all about grammatical relations. Believe me, it's neither as moist nor as exciting as 'relations' would have you believe. My current procrastination regime involves a mixture of diuretics and drinking too much water. Not Shane Warne circa 2005 diuretics, just too much coffee and tea. By the time I get a genuine desire to start on my Syntax assignment it's squashed by an overwhelming need to urinate. I'm talking morning pisses, getting off an aeroplane pisses, a veritable firehose of waters into the water pisses.

Talking about aeroplanes, I've almost got a month to go til the uni trip to the States. We had the first meeting about it last week, with the second and third over the next two Fridays. Useless detail? Probably.

I'm listening to lots of Ween at the moment. It's really helping me with life. You should listen to Ween too. The Mollusk is my favourite album but they're all good records.

It's probably time that I get another cup of java and settle down to wait for the next call, but hey, look after yourself, eat fresh fruit and vegetables and talk to the elderly.

*Currently defined as winning a heat in Ruby's Lounge's Unsigned Battle of the Bands last Sunday.