You may have heard of couch surfing, arranging casual accommodation around the world. This literally surfing couch certainly has “location” for the traveller, in the river next to the Kwinana freeway around Comer Street Como. I thought it could be a companion piece to Eliza on the other side of the river, but the trail of broken pieces from the freeway looks more like a fallen off the back of a truck job. It seemed so poetic even surreal wallowing in the waves. Thought it might be time for some The Worst of perth video too. Thanks to Jack for pointing me to this great worst. Also mentioned in Australian Cycling Forum.
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Last time I saw this couch it was in the emergency lane of the freeway. I assumed it had fallen off the back of a truck. Obviously, rather than the authorities pick it up, it was left there and somebody has tossed it into the Swan.
What are the odds it’s a Merry’s item??
“For lovers of weather, come into Merry’s for these great soppy specials.”
Merry’s? If I have learnt one thing from TWOP, it’s that it is Merry’s for leather.
Is it an Anthony Murry’s?
Because I notice they have ditched their awful (and by awful I mean quaint) 1970s fuck typeface in their logo for some sort of mid-1990s type.
I think this ’80s era couch was freaked out by that and escaped.
love the new banner. This could be an icon for the Perth lifestyle
lazy apathetic garbage, but near the ocean.
where’s the fridge?
somebody needs to put an old standard lamp and a TV next to it, and a carton of Emu.
Still laughing
I used to take deck chairs, a table and a few bottles of vino out to the sandbar off Rocky Bay in North Freo and quietly enjoy a bit of time on the river. A couch would have been perfect.
TLA, you should have availed yourself of the opportunity to sit in the couch for a TWOP pic opp.
I didn’t want to get my feet or arse wet. Also as you can see from the video those waves were dangerously big. Would have been like riding a soggy mechanical bull.
How about you, me and outrage sitting there in suits sans shoes sipping cups of tea out of fine china cups? Could be a good promo shot down the track…
I would have thought 30c ciggies and baijiu out of cracked glasses but yeah…
I’m thinking that the council will have exploded the carcass before outrage returns.
If it’s still there let’s do it.
Instead of jumping on the Big Couch, we could be humping on the quokka pouch.
Oh, good morning nurse: is it time for my special cup of tea already?
Didn’t Men At Work do something like that in one of their videos?
This site is full of bad karma Dude, attackin that Chimes dude yesterday. An he’s tryin to save the planet from shit. An here obviously the Flung Shi has been workin to place the couch there man. Dolphins are die-ing in the river dude!
Yes I wonder if those dolphins are being tested for couch poisoning?
An even worse the Russian mafia has monkyed with my gravatar.
I love the movie.
it could do with some music, rather than just the sound of the wind, although the wind does add a certain desolate weltshmerz
may I recommend ‘Sailing By’ by Ronald Binge.
I couldn’t be fucked editing the sound
I think that haunting piece of music from Withnail & I when they’re wandering about the Welsh countryside would fit quite nicely.
Never been able to find that music anywhere though…
Get in quick Cookster only
£48
Welsh? …Welsh!?
that’s the English fucking Lake District. Sleddale Hall, Shap, to be exact.
and you call yourself a fan?
Meh, geography, schemography… I only cared about the drugs.
I LOVED the Cornwall Carrot…
Camberwell carrot,
or was that a set-up?
Or was it Cambridge?
I would have chosen , but it’s not free on the accursed inter-tubes anymore.
But you can rip said Audio here.
I’m also thinking that the awful Mark knoffler(?) local hero music would have been good, or “Hey true Blue” the worst song in the world, would have been a fitting tribute to a hardworking aussie going to a watery grave.
Jeezus TLA, I was actually thinking about that song in the shower this morning…
You were grabbing your local hero in the shower?
he can wash his Knopfler as fast as he likes
When we made love you used to cry!
I thought “What About Me” was the worst song in the world.
That isn’t fair Golden1
You’re singing it in your head now, aren’t you?
I’m singing it out of my head!
Well! You just take more than you give!
Hazy Shade of Winter by Bodyjar, not the old coots
I quite like that, skink, although I thought TWOPradio only had one song.
p.s. Any danger of an Xtranormal version of yesterday’s “About *CHIMES RS ENTERPRISES*” text, or even better, this one, or a mashup of them both ?
How did that comment get down here ? I was referring to “Sailing Away” by Ronald Binge, skink. It’s been a long day.
Doesn’t get any better than Ron Bilge for sea going musicky music. You get the impression of sailing and wind and sailing then falling asleep. A mix up of all three (W& I, R &R , RB)would do the trick.
edutainment : Ron with his invention of upside and back to front
music is in effect the Peter Sculthorpe of his time and place.
It reminds me of the dancing plastic bag scene in American Beauty.
Oh, yes. And a happy coincidence that the trippy music from that movie would work beautifully
Found that music…
I think if the photo had been taken on a rainy day like today that music would be fitting, however it’s a sunny kind of shot so I propose the Picnic at Hanging Rock flute theme music.
Ha, I’m a member of couchsurfing, but we offer a *much* nicer couch near the centre of Freo :D
This couch in the Swan probably smells a lot better than one I heard about recently smelling of bum though.
I would have gone with The “Worst of Perth blog (always hilarious)…” rather than “(quite often humorous)” though.
Yeah…I’m not good at giving (or receiving) compliments, so you’ll have to be happy with that :D :P
There used to be a caravan park at the bottom of Comer St – a couch in the river across the road in those days would have been quite a tourist/traveller attraction…
Around 20 years ago at a party in Booragoon (???!!) a late friend of mine was telling me how, when he was a teenager circa 1979, he was walking along that very piece of shoreline (he was living in Como at the time) when he suddently got horny and felt compelled to masterbate. A couple of years later he ran into a girl at a party who started telling him about the time she saw some creep on the Como foreshore having a wank.
If only he’d had the couch instead of having to lie on the sand next to the jetty…..
It would give you something to look at rather than the Swan brewery lights.
I once tried to set fire to a mattress that was floating past my deck on Regents Canal in Hackney.
Fucking glad I failed as the bastard thing floated right in under the deck and would have burned us down.
I used to marvel at the blokes lined up each Sunday morn catching baskets full of fish that looked like badly malnourished sardines… wtf did they do with them???
Permission to go off topic? Compiling a list of the unfunniest comedians. So far I have:
- Glynn Nicholas
- Rod Quantock
Ooh ooh – Kym Gyngell and Shane Bourne
Daryl Somers
John Blackman
Hamish & Andy and every other so called FM Breakfast Jock.
Millsy.
and Mikey Robbins
and Corin Grant
and the Chaser’s Bore On Everything
wil, ooh aren’t i ever so naughty, anderson.
Peter Berner, although he isn’t supposed to be funny i don’t think.
and Rove, because even if someone does manage to write a funny line for him he will stuff up the delivery and that dreadful Peter Hellier
Is it me, or does Rove bear a passing resemblance to our own Lazy Aussie ?
It’s you Frank.
I like Peter Hellier.
well I knew someone had to.
I think you could stack two Roves one on top of the other and still not overtop LA.
both literally and figuratively
Max Kaye
minus the e (kay)
I was going to say I was born a Max Kay man…
Dave Hughes!!! I can’t believe no one else has said Dave Hughes!
Even if he was funny, I’d still want to hit him with a frying pan to stop that godawful noise coming out of his mouth.
I’m pretty sure Dave Hughes and Brendan Grylls both share the same parentage or have some kind of family link with the similar sounding voice, appearance and that lisp.
DH is pretty good.
agreed.
Eoin Cameron?
and Ross Solly
You forgot Russell Woolf and Tom Badderly as well – Western Suburbs Twats, the pair of them.
Luckily I am still at my cooshy govie desk at that time
JULIA MORRIS!!!
Tim Minchin and that Akmal bloke.
Are you saying Tim Minchin is not Funny??
Tim Minchin is hell of annoying.
Wow of all the people to call annoying TM would be one of the last people I would have thought offensive.
I am starting to suspect a generational gap is emerging in comedic tastes.
So you’re calling Ljuke an old cunt?
No I’m the old cunt.
wouldn’t it be easier to compile a list of Aussie comedians who ARE funny?
I recall an episode of the Glasshouse when Ross Noble and Bill Bailey were guests, and they ran rings around Hughes, Grant and little Wil. They went off on some riff about skateboarding hedgehogs, or something, and the rest couldn’t keep up.
Yep your’e right. One of my faves is Greg Fleet.
Stories about being smacked off your dial can only elicit so many laughs though.
Greg Fleet’s spot on The Smallest Room in the House is still one of the best things I’ve seen on TV.
Not if youre partial to the stuff yourself.
Sadly true.
I like Greg Fleet too. and Akmal Saleh is always good value.
Akmal Saleh would only ever be good value if you got him free with that couch
Harsh reality – maybe he only looked funny in comparison to the other comedians on GNW that time. Will review and get back to you. Definitely don’t want the couch.
Shaun Micallef – Newstopia was teh lulz
Play all three tunes at the same time… couch music, worse than the crap kids listen to these days.
Steve Vizard would have to be up there; as would Madge Sablawjahjoweverthefuckyouspellhername and the rest of the Fast Forward cast.
Mind you, watched the first episode of Whatever Happened to that Guy? with Pete Moon and thought it showed some promise (but not enough to get me to watch the second one).
I agree – Rove is not funny, period. Chaser was way way better when doing CNNN (Andrew Hanson must be one of the most talented people on TV), although they still show moments of brilliance.
But here’s an interesting one. A few years back, coming back from Kalgoorlie, I stopped in at Merredin for the night and who was performing on a double bill at the local pub – Mark Jackson and Chopper Read.
Read came across as nothing more than a self rightious, bully murdering, fascist; Jackson, on the other hand, had immpecable timing and, at times, was actually amusing. Wouldn’t have thought it seeing him play for South Freo all those years ago.
And on the subject of Read, Ronny Johns is only really funny when he does his Chopper act; and what about Merrick and Rosso? They aint that funny either…..
Too bad Jade Hurley didn’t try comedy – he deserves to be on somebody’s cringe list.
Has anyone seen that bloke McDonald? I think his first name’s Andrew, or Malcolm or something… touch of the Kym Gyngells about him.
Haven’t seen his live act Cookster, but Bento tells us his style is Bourgeois.
I’m led to believe his ‘put down your pens’ bit goes down a storm in The Big Green.
You’ll find seven standup snippets here, shazza.
I’ve always been a big fan of the Chinese nipple cripple sketch – I wonder if he does a version of that referencing the characters from Monkey, rather than Bruce Lee?
I think you should all get over yourselves. Everyone of the comedians mentioned had made me laugh at least once – even the ones I hate!
And even the ones who aren’t comedians but have been bagged here anyway are far more interesting to listen to then you lot banging on about 6PR and the West Australian and Patti Chong.
What is the point in compiling such a list Cookster? Just write your name at the top of the page and be done with it.
Sorry .. was that a bit harsh?
I thought it was taken as given that, collectively, we are the funniest bunch of cunts this side of Ugly Dave Gray.
I feel like I’ve just been crashed around the head with a pair of brass cimbalis…
Thank you, thank you…
Yeah Cimbali all these comedians are a bit like Elvis … crap an prolly around Freo somewhere but they do brighten up your day from time to time.
The Russian Mafia won’t let up.
You really laughed at Max Kay?
Well at him rather than with him.
Cookster did forward some terrible internet shit about tasers yesterday guaranteeing I would laugh. I didn’t. It was total crap. So you may be right that cookster is not in the best position to judge. i really would like to know what the deal is with peter berner though. What is the deal?
I do believe he is an artist – I saw something once where he was doing a portrait for the Archibald
he is a lawyer by trade.
very harsh. But for the record Rove and Peter Hellier have never made me laugh – Ever. And Kym Gyngell and Shane Bourne so offended me in their incarnations as “serious actors” that I will never again attend any show they have anything to do with, no matter how good my mother says they were in MDA or GP or whatever the hell it was.
Aren’t we a bit antsy today? I thought the taser shit was good. Quite a yarn and it had nipples in it.
Hey, I owned that couch in the early 1990s. I was wondering where it got to. How long did you say it had been there?
Didn’t even notice that it had gone past 100 comments. Started out with a couch in the river, and ended up calling Tim Minchin crap.
Just in case Tim reads this – I love you and your work Tim.
Happy to report the couch is still there. It has been repositioned on the bank with river views, and could perhaps be sold accordingly
Poor Crab and dont worry i like The Hoobs been watching it since i was 3 thats a very long time and never get sick of it. I dont know how its intresting but it is some how.
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