Like most of the rest of the world, I was entranced to see that the spawn of the Dear Leader had got hisself a squeeze. A singer and whatnot, you know, as leaders are wont to do.
And I thought that the news that the biggest hit of the squeeze singer was Excellent Horse-like Lady would set the electro-sphere alight. But not it seems, everyone is taking it very calmly. After all, if America gave us Horse with No Name and the Beatles could give us Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey, then a musical juxtaposition of ladies and equines is a mere trifle, yes? While go0gle gave me umpteen trillion hits in a part of a nanosecond, they seemed to be all straight news stories.
One can listen about the horse-like lady here. (******)
Except this one: not taking the p*ss such as I have failed to do, but just commenting quite...yes, just quite.
Actually, it looks like a fascinating blog to check out.
(******) Oh dear god, I've just listened to it. If we moved North Korea to some obscure corner of Europe, I reckon we'd have a new Eurovision masterpiece on our hands. But I'd really love to know the words...
Showing posts with label decline of western civilisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decline of western civilisation. Show all posts
11 July 2012
22 June 2012
Sometime in the last few years - by which I mean a decade or so, they fly past so quickly - I started noticing and thinking about changes in popular music. I've been keen on popular music, of various genres I suppose, for some time but don't pretend to be an expert (until I've got a skinful, then I'm absolutely like every other expert).
But I started thinking that somehow songs were getting more realistic, more reflective of a broader take on life. The pop of the 1950s seemed so "white-bread" I guess (yes, this post will be littered with unsubstantiated, vast generalisations). The 60s were love love love and surfin', but even the evolution of pop/rock etc into the last 60s and early 70s, ie hard rock or whatever, didn't seem to change the subject matter (maybe exempt the Hair/JC Superstar kind of thing).
Hard rock bands had to slow down occasionally, hence Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love. A ballad, you see. Here, if you feel the need.
Then disco. Then punk, but somehow with the rosy tinted glasses of hindsight punk never really plumbed the depths of human emotion.
Sometime around this period someone will no doubt reference Joy Division but as I never heard them then, I can make another outrageous generalisation and move right along.
After returning to Australia in the late 80s I had a lot of catching up to do, as I'd been in parts of the world where contemporary music just wasn't available.
Slowly getting to my point, I think when I first heard Betterman I started thinking that popular music was reaching into the types of lives that many people were living where the world wasn't all roses and kittens. And I guess then I started thinking about the changes in society that I'd been privileged to have witnessed for some 50 years. But that's for another time.
Then this. That's my point. Spine-tingling on so many levels.
More later.
But I started thinking that somehow songs were getting more realistic, more reflective of a broader take on life. The pop of the 1950s seemed so "white-bread" I guess (yes, this post will be littered with unsubstantiated, vast generalisations). The 60s were love love love and surfin', but even the evolution of pop/rock etc into the last 60s and early 70s, ie hard rock or whatever, didn't seem to change the subject matter (maybe exempt the Hair/JC Superstar kind of thing).
Hard rock bands had to slow down occasionally, hence Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love. A ballad, you see. Here, if you feel the need.
Then disco. Then punk, but somehow with the rosy tinted glasses of hindsight punk never really plumbed the depths of human emotion.
Sometime around this period someone will no doubt reference Joy Division but as I never heard them then, I can make another outrageous generalisation and move right along.
After returning to Australia in the late 80s I had a lot of catching up to do, as I'd been in parts of the world where contemporary music just wasn't available.
Slowly getting to my point, I think when I first heard Betterman I started thinking that popular music was reaching into the types of lives that many people were living where the world wasn't all roses and kittens. And I guess then I started thinking about the changes in society that I'd been privileged to have witnessed for some 50 years. But that's for another time.
Then this. That's my point. Spine-tingling on so many levels.
More later.
23 May 2012
money makes the world go round
But increasingly money is not making the world go round except for an increasingly privileged few. Read a bit about how right here.
I love the author's preamble to the comments section.
I've been writing, on an occasional basis, for quite some years now on the unsustainability of the contemporary model of international finance. Every time I reckon it couldn't get any worse, I read somewhere about some arcane way in which it has. The fact that Goldman Sachs (or someone in some other firm) once described the clients as "muppets" now gives free reign for this term's incorporation into everyday usage. I wonder how muppets recognise themselves when they get documentation from their super fund, bank, advisor and so on.
I got one the other day, full of factual inaccuracies and such a lazy piece of work I felt like framing it. What I will be doing is writing back to tell them they've lost my business.
I hope it makes them feel muppet-like as that will be my intention.
I love the author's preamble to the comments section.
I've been writing, on an occasional basis, for quite some years now on the unsustainability of the contemporary model of international finance. Every time I reckon it couldn't get any worse, I read somewhere about some arcane way in which it has. The fact that Goldman Sachs (or someone in some other firm) once described the clients as "muppets" now gives free reign for this term's incorporation into everyday usage. I wonder how muppets recognise themselves when they get documentation from their super fund, bank, advisor and so on.
I got one the other day, full of factual inaccuracies and such a lazy piece of work I felt like framing it. What I will be doing is writing back to tell them they've lost my business.
I hope it makes them feel muppet-like as that will be my intention.
10 May 2012
cat empire
A short essay on (a) the decline of western civilisation because of the (b) rise of postmodernism.
Well it may not be postmodernism but it surely signals a decline somewhere.
What is it? Why, this.
Bring on the discussions, is this really a decline in academic rigour leading to the inevitable eclipse of all we hold superior, or is it the ongoing incursion of the realities of the postmodern world, and hence a perfectly legitimate area for academic analysis?
I'd be interested to see the quantitative component including details of the data collection mechanism.
Also, I don't think I've ever previously constructed a sentence that commences "why", comma, "such and such." I've read plenty, but. That's where I got it from, like.
Well it may not be postmodernism but it surely signals a decline somewhere.
What is it? Why, this.
Bring on the discussions, is this really a decline in academic rigour leading to the inevitable eclipse of all we hold superior, or is it the ongoing incursion of the realities of the postmodern world, and hence a perfectly legitimate area for academic analysis?
I'd be interested to see the quantitative component including details of the data collection mechanism.
Also, I don't think I've ever previously constructed a sentence that commences "why", comma, "such and such." I've read plenty, but. That's where I got it from, like.
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