Art Ensemble of Chicago (featuring Fontella Bass) - 'Theme De Yoyo"

Fontella Bass

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

'Your head is like a yoyo, your neck is like the string. Your body's like a camembert oozing from its skin.

Your fanny's like two sperm whales floating down the Seine. Your voice is like a long fuck that's music to your brain.

Your eyes are two blind eagles that kill what they can't see. Your hands are like two shovels digging in deep.

And your love is like an oil-well. Dig, dig, dig, dig it, On the Champs-Elysees'.

Get it here.
(From 'Les Stances A Sophie' S/T.)
(Pure sassiness that even your most elderly relative will twitch to come this party season!)

Madness. Riding a bicycle at 107 miles per hour!

Worst xmas tree of the year? The winner...Melbourne

This monstrosity is in our City Square (and it was put up in October!)

Hee - Hee!

Xmas trees of the year!

David Hicks - restrictions lifted

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Countdown to Armageddon

Public Enemy & the Jungle Brothers at the Esplanade Hotel in St. Kilda on January 1st (SOLD OUT) and the 2nd. (Tickets here.)

With PE doing a gig in Brisbane also on the 1st before jetting down to Melbourne at least this time there will be an excuse for Flava to NOT know what city he is in!
(A reference to the time I saw them at Festival Hall & he bounded on stage here in Melbourne and told us how good it was to be in Sydney!)

Your weekly address from Obama

Hello Dan it's Joe here, I hope you are keeping well / It's the 21st of December now they're ringing the last bell

Paul Kelly - 'How To Make Gravy' Live 17th November 2006.
Make Poverty History concert Myer Music Bowl Melbourne.


"Hello Dan, it's Joe here
I hope you're keeping well
Its the 21st of December
now theyre ringing the last bell
if I get good behaviour
I'll be out of here by July
Won't you kiss my kids on Christmas day

Pleeeease don't let them cry for me

I guess the brothers are driving down from Queensland and Stella's
flying in from the coast
They say it's gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe, but that
won't stop the roast

Who's gonna make the gravy now?
I bet it won't taste the same

Just add flour, salt, a little red wine and don't forget a dollop of
tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang

And give my love to Angus and to Frank and Dolly,
Tell 'em all I'm sorry I screwed up this time
And look after Rita, I'll be thinking of her early Christmas morning
When I'm standing in line

I hear Mary's got a new boyfriend, I hope he can hold his own
Do you remember the last one? What was his name again?
(Just a little too much cologne)

And Roger, you know I'm even gonna miss Roger
'Cause there's sure as hell no one in here I want to fight

Oh praise the Baby Jesus, have a Merry Christmas,
I'm really gonna miss it, all the treasure and the trash
And later in the evening, I can just imagine,
You'll put on Junior Murvin and push the tables back
And you'll dance with Rita, I know you really like her,
Just don't hold her too close, oh brother please don't stab me in the
back

I didn't mean to say that, it's just my mind it plays up,
Multiplies each matter, turns imagination into fact
You know I love her badly, she's the one to save me,
I'm gonna make some gravy, I'm gonna taste the fat
Tell her that I'm sorry, yeah I love her badly, tell 'em all I'm
sorry,
And kiss the sleepy children for me
You know one of these days, I'll be making gravy,
I'll be making plenty, I'm gonna pay 'em all back."

(Paul Kelly)

The best Xmas song ever.

Play the 'Sock & Awe' game

Try to hit Bush with a shoe here.

BACK...

DON'T LOSE...

Painting by April Hoff.

Dick Cheney: Obama 'not likely to cede authority'

Story from 'Politico' here.

So let me try and understand this.

It's OK to go against the will of the people and to authorise all sorts of shenanigans in time of 'war'?
Sorry, you are part of a democracy.
In fact you pride yourself on being THE democracy which you then try and export around the world.
In my book - you call it 'war' then I think you should be tried for 'war crimes'.

Sexy secrets from the Syrian souk

Picture:BBC

Story from the 'BBC' here.

FIFA to allow 'GB' soccer team in 2012 Olympics

Story from the 'BBC' here.

(OK, so let's try and get this straight. GB equals Great Britain right and yet Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland ALL oppose this move and FIFA have no objections if ALL the players are English...No sorry, still don't get it!)