So what happened guys? C’mon, no one is reading this, we can be honest, what the hell happened? You’re in limbo, like in a coma, we’re standing around the hospital bed of Australian democracy hoping for signs of life. Like that great video for Metallica’s One.
“Imprisoning Me
All That I See
Absolute Horror
I Cannot Live
I Cannot...
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Whats happening Faux Brother?
What I was going to tell you about, today I walked a lot, across tram tracks along cobbled roads under the sun, and rode the metro underground trains – up and down all the stairs, always coming up from them onto these streets and walking into them like stepping into...
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“Hold me closer tiny cancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
you had a busy day today”
That tragedy so common its become normal like bad weather. That leech sucking hope. That personal injustice. That grinning grim reapers lottery.
Every one knows one, or is one. I’m slowly losing one parent, year...
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The clocks have melted down the wall. Time has ceased to be a concept that can easily be grasped without some patient focused thought. The date on that wall is 2 weeks ago. Have I been here that long? If I protested that “No, my watch says its the 30th!”, and everyone else...
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Saw an interview on The Colbert Report with Anne Leonard, the creator of The Story of Stuff, a new book about consumption and materialism, the real cost of all the products we buy and our sole identity as consumers within globalised capitalism.
Check out the free 20 minute animated little documentary here. Its worth the...
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Isolation and travel. Coming from work Friday night and not seeing anyone until Monday morning. Just music, literature and film. Silence. Long hours of no voices except those of the artist.
What is it that so validates the work of artists? What value does it add to our life? Some very successful music books films...
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When I first read about Tarantino’s latest film last year I thought, fuck me, not another Jewish Revenge on the Nazi’s, America saves the world, Second World War genre film. For godsake, we get it ok. The Nazi’s were really evil. The Jews copped it really bad. The Americans were really cool and saved...
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“I’m gettin’ bugged driving up and down the same old strip
I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip”
So sang The Beach Boys in 1964, a simpler more innocent time. The United States massively escalated their military presence in Vietnam, Bob Dylan taught the Beatles how to smoke grass, Lenny Bruce...
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A recent post on one of our favoured blogs read with all the poignancy and familiarity of an old fuckfriend getting in touch for a sex session just for old times sake, and all those funny memories trickled back across the synapses creating visions of experiences long forgotten.
So as a tribute to all the...
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Who wants war? The military-industrial complex in the US who have a strangle hold on politics, that’s who. The outspoken Republican congressman from Texas, Ron Paul, has criticised the increase in troops to Afghanistan as a strategy of ‘perpetual war’, guided by the powerful war lobby who are using the ‘peace candidate’ Obama as...
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