Saturday 7 September 2013
Fuck off Google...
Friday 6 September 2013
X Marks The Spot
Christos Tsiolkas: The Jesus Man (p 280)" - Mum, I'm ready.
She's voting at my old primary school. The day is not cold, not quite warm. Mum looks pretty good, a white vest, a long skirt with a discreet split. The grounds are full of people handing out leaflets, how to vote cards. My mum dismisses all of them and goes straight to the Labor Party representative. The smiling woman tries to hand me one as well.
-No, no thanks.
Her smile fades.
-Take one, Mum orders in Greek. I shake my head.
She walks in line exasperated.
-She'll think you're a Liberal, she whispers, then finishes loudly, and we know there is nothing more embarrassing than being a Liberal."
Thanks Rupert Murdoch, but Australians can choose their own government
Funnily enough this ad was banned from the major networks out here...
Billy Bragg says:
The Labor Party are offering a hotch-potch, thrown together from all the ingredients left in their cupboard. Anyone ordering this must be fearful of a right-ward lurch at the last moment that threatens to put each forkful in the ear instead of the mouth.
The Coalition are offering up something that looks decidedly slimy. The fact that they’re reluctant to tell you what’s in it doesn’t help. And has for how much it’s going to cost you, well you’ll just have to wait and see.
Everyone knows that they’re good for you, but in the testosterone driven political climate of the Antipodes, will enough people order the Greens to make a difference to the outcome?
My advice? Ask the waiter for a box, take the whole thing home and see if the dog will eat it for dinner.
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Thursday 5 September 2013
Don't Forget
Ramjan found me. She is a small woman, and Tony Abbott was (and is) a strong man. She was very shaken, scared and angry. She told me that Abbott had come up to her, put his face in her face, and punched the wall on either side of her head.Political Animal
So, I am a witness. Her immediate complaint to me about what Abbott had just done had the absolute ring of truth about it. I believed Ramjan at the time, and still do. Barbara Ramjan has been telling that story about Abbott ever since.
People's whose phone calls with Barrett used as evidence today: @ageis @vivienweisman @ggreenwald @patrickmcguire @edpilkington @mmhastings
Wednesday 4 September 2013
John Zorn & Friends Will Play Next Year’s Adelaide Festival
“Zorn is indeed the point where all the trends of New York’s downtown music scene meet” (The Telegraph)
Maverick composer John Zorn makes his first and only appearance in Australia with a star-studded 40-strong ensemble of long-time associates and friends. An icon of the New York downtown music scene, Zorn’s genre-bending alchemy of avant-garde, jazz, klemzer, punk, pop and classical traditions has created a prolific body of game-changing work with projects including Naked City, Masada, The Dreamers and Moonchild.
This exclusive Adelaide series is an unmissable opportunity to experience one of the most compelling and profoundly influential artists of our time.
Tuesday 11 March: Masada Marathon
Wednesday 12 March: Classical Marathon
Thursday 13 March: Cobra (6pm), Essential Cinema (8pm) and Zorn, Graves, Laswell (10pm)
Friday 14 March: Zorn @ 60
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