Using up all my available desktop pooter time until again removed to the wilds of Rockhampton and the concomitant need to blog on a laptop, whose controls I do not understand, at a coffee table, which makes my neck ache, I learn that one of my favourite lines from one of my favourite songs is a reference to William Yeats with (possibly, it was David Byrne after all) a passing glance at African literature.
Larvatus Prodeo has a lot to answer for, but who would have thought that this would be amongst it? Note: this is a hat tip, even if delivered in a grudging, curmudgeonly fashion. LP has great posts but often the commentary gets out of control. However, to acknowledge where it is due, they actually do have commentary and quite a lot. We can but dream.
To coin another cliche: "will this do, John?"
(I was sure that is a song title but be blowed if I can find a reference...anyone?)
Speaking of music, here is a picture of some being made (Halfway at the Powerhouse, Brisbane).
(*) Do doot, doot, do de doo doo doo doo etc etc..."things fall apaaaaaart, it's scientific..."
04 January 2008
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"Cultural elites don't exist" ?
of course they do - on more than several levels - I'm not going over to That Nasty Blog* to read twaddle.
*if you hasver a lot of Commentors, a fair few are gonna be masty. That ruins the whole point of having a blog.
I only get nice people and I like to keep it that way. Don't want to be 'alpha' like Laugh At Us Rodeo.
Hi Anne
I didn't mean to buy into whatevre the argument was at LP, it was just that I was (insert suitable adjective here) to discover yet another *deep* cultural reference in a *pop* song. Deserves a post all on its own.
So... It's commentary you're after...
Hi Gerry
Well it looks like I've been getting it simply by asking the question "what do we do/write about next!"
Been there, done that, got the blog...
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