first time round the sun

"He's obviously cut the mustard many times..."
ANDY on learning that ALEX LLOYD first began making mediocre music in the 1990s



Listen to early Alex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os3hahvPJIw

give me the skinny

ANDY: [mispronouncing his order] Can I get a large skinny lah-day?
COFFEE SHOP GUY: Whoa, that sounds like a strange lady! Would she be tall but skinny?

how great quotes are born

Andy: You see, that is the art [pause] of finesse...
Cassy: [typing furiously] That's going in the blog.
Andy: What? [confused] Oh, let's just create a constant scripture of the movements coming out of my mouth... [sarcastically]

tough crowd

“It’s like you’ve grown up in the bloody outback, ‘cos you’re hard as nails…”
Andy to an unimpressed Cassy after she declares his Xmas cracker joke* unblogworthy

* Q: What do you call Snoopy dressed as a doctor? A: A dogter

soapbox

Leigh-Ann: Andy… what are you saying? Are you talking to yourself?
Andy: Nah I’m talking at large man, so listen in…

five star

"If there’s five boxes, you will tick each one. In a positive way."
Andy reviews Melbourne's controversial tram car restaurant

consider things from another point of view

"I just want to sit on a mountain ledge and throw paper aeroplanes. I want to see the tranquility that it brings, seeing the planes just flying in the wind, the way they float..."
Andy reclining in Cassy’s chair while she is out of the office