The promo clip, by Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls.
(Released as PK & The Messengers overseas).
Video by Sue Davis 1988.
The Story Is Old, I Know
7 hours ago
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Monday, 8 December 2008
Afghans win 'homeless' soccer world cup
"A-F-G"Story from 'The Age' here.
My vote for the first 'exile-oxymoron-of-the-year' award goes to the letter writer in last Saturday's 'The Age' who on hearing that a competitor in this tournament had disappeared with the possible intention of claiming political asylum wrote that we should just
"send the homeless back home."
Roman Kaminski from Lurg, you are an idiot!
More on the Homeless World Cup here.
My vote for the first 'exile-oxymoron-of-the-year' award goes to the letter writer in last Saturday's 'The Age' who on hearing that a competitor in this tournament had disappeared with the possible intention of claiming political asylum wrote that we should just
"send the homeless back home."
Roman Kaminski from Lurg, you are an idiot!
More on the Homeless World Cup here.
Delmore Schwarz 1913 - 1966
Delmore Schwarz was born on this day in 1913."You killed your European son
You spit on those under twenty-one
But now your blue cars are gone
You better say so long
Hey hey hey bye bye bye …
You made your wallpaper green
You wanted to make love to the scene
Your European son is gone
You better say so long
Your cloud is drifting goodbye"
Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) - “European Son
(to Delmore Schwartz)”
America, America!
I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it,
the lights, the stars, and the bridges
I am also by self-appointment the laureate of the Atlantic
-of the peoples' hearts, crossing it
to new America.
I am burdened with the truck and chimera, hope,
acquired in the sweating sick-excited passage
in steerage, strange and estranged
Hence I must descry and describe the kingdom of emotion.
For I am a poet of the kindergarten (in the city)
and the cemetery (in the city)
And rapture and ragtime and also the secret city in the
heart and mind
This is the song of the natural city self in the 20th century.
It is true but only partly true that a city is a "tyranny of
numbers"
(This is the chant of the urban metropolitan and
metaphysical self
After the first two World Wars of the 20th century)
--- This is the city self, looking from window to lighted
window
When the squares and checks of faintly yellow light
Shine at night, upon a huge dim board and slab-like tombs,
Hiding many lives. It is the city consciousness
Which sees and says: more: more and more: always more.
Delmore Schwartz
the lights, the stars, and the bridges
I am also by self-appointment the laureate of the Atlantic
-of the peoples' hearts, crossing it
to new America.
I am burdened with the truck and chimera, hope,
acquired in the sweating sick-excited passage
in steerage, strange and estranged
Hence I must descry and describe the kingdom of emotion.
For I am a poet of the kindergarten (in the city)
and the cemetery (in the city)
And rapture and ragtime and also the secret city in the
heart and mind
This is the song of the natural city self in the 20th century.
It is true but only partly true that a city is a "tyranny of
numbers"
(This is the chant of the urban metropolitan and
metaphysical self
After the first two World Wars of the 20th century)
--- This is the city self, looking from window to lighted
window
When the squares and checks of faintly yellow light
Shine at night, upon a huge dim board and slab-like tombs,
Hiding many lives. It is the city consciousness
Which sees and says: more: more and more: always more.
Delmore Schwartz
Today is the 28th anniversary of John Lennon's murder
Lennon giving Chapman his autograph just before the shooting.
Mark Chapman shot Lennon outside The Dakota on this date in 1980.Where were you?
I was in Liverpool staying with my Nan and then went to the riverside memorial concert on the 14th of December.
(Where I seem to remember Elvis Costello performing.)
See here also.
Texas cops get busted
(Thanx to 'Smeggers' for this)
Odessa (TX) cops bust a house where two xmas trees are being grown under lights in elaborate sting to expose illegal police conduct.
Full story here.
Odessa (TX) cops bust a house where two xmas trees are being grown under lights in elaborate sting to expose illegal police conduct.
Full story here.
Olmert condemns settler 'progrom'
"We are the children of a people whose historic ethos is built on the memory of pogroms," Olmert said. "The sight of Jews firing at innocent Palestinians has no other name than pogrom. Even when Jews do this, it is a pogrom."As a Jew, I am ashamed that Jews could do such a thing."
Story from the 'BBC' here.
No smoking in the White House
You may remember that Obama promised Michele that in return for her blessing to run for president that he would give up smoking, well he admits to sneaking a few in on the election trail.Full story at 'The Huffington Post' here.
I sympathise.
It is SO hard to give up.
Wasn't it Dennis Hopper who said that of all the drugs, nicotine was the toughest to quit?
Sunday, 7 December 2008
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