Posts by Joe Wylie
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What I can't fathom is that it has taken until page 13 to get to existentialism. Spooky.
Existentialism after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There is a spooky protocol to these things. Expect Jonathan Livingston Seagull by around page 17.
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Like Archie, but better than Archie.
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The feeling of 'selling out' comes upon one gradually. First, you take 240 bottles of Monteith's . . .
I'll drink to that. I just checked with someone who was rather more "on the ground" than I was back in the day, and my recollection is correct. "Selling out" was synonymous with liquid laughter, yodelling, and talking to the ground in technicolor.
Example: "We stopped at North Beach, where the poor bastard sold out and spent half an hour going through it looking for his contact lens. I never thought of him as a proper bodgie after that."
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To be fair, the actual contemporary music programmes, on Saturday afternoons, are generally very good, and very contemporary.
So they are. Much as I admire Zappa, he's very much an historical figure. Experienced him live in 1973, not easily forgotten, but comtemporary? No way.
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K. NatRad did a six-part doco on Zappa recently, The Radio is Broken. It was good to hear a locally-made but not locally-sourced programme. I guess it was made for the export market but still, it was nice to hear an international programme and one about contemporary music.
NarRad, where you can be 16 years dead and still "contemporary".
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totally on & OT - we are not the only animals that like to get wasted. Elephants are a classic example.
And also, from personal observation, ducks, Hanuman langurs, and guinea pigs. All from fermented fruit. With their ultrafast metabolisms guinea pigs get sloshed very rapidly, and sober up just as fast. Being somewhat stumpy-limbed, their leglessness appears almost literal. They're also unable to vomit. As a number of the so-called "lower" animals possess functional opposable thumbs, the ability to vomit might be a better defining characteristic of what sets us, along with cats, at the crown of creation.
Excuse me while I dump a hairball.
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it's all ova when something
wicker this way comes -
New Order notoriously made virtually nothing from Blue Monday in the 1980s (or from their records) although I'm sure they are not short of a few quid, but as of 2009, at least two if them still live in the same street they grew up in.
As the above video proves, they're 100% salt-of-the-earth bogans.
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The most obscure musical reference point ever on PAS?
Unlikely to be intended as a reference to Oz politics, but in the spirit of The Lizard's penchant for multiplicity of meanings:
Feathered Blue Meanies and
Budgie smugglers unite -
Oh, don't be ridicolous, Joe would never say something that causes offence.
(Kindly navigate to the top of the next page for his response.)
I did say I would drop it, didn't I? Nice to see I get called out anyway.Good morning Giovanni. That's right, it's the previous time you managed to get right up my nose. In the interests of promoting a degree of understanding, please consider that you know very little about me. Where I happen to live a number of my neighbours are blessed with psychiatric issues. Most of them are very nice people, but there are incidents, sometimes involving late-night ambulance callouts. More often it's pretty low-level stuff, and as it's something that the community is expected to wear it helps to be able to laugh. If you're offended by the way the attitude I've developed has coloured my views then I'm sorry, but I'm not apologising for biting back when you attempt to throw your weight around. If it were your blog, and I was your guest, no problem, but as far as I'm aware that's not the case here.
Thanks to all who expressed kind thoughts, along with a degree of tolerance that I probably don't deserve. As Russell once said, when it comes to being a nice guy, Ian Dalziel pretty much wrote the book. Would that I could bring such a large and generous mind to the party. Thanks also to Hilary for putting it so well - no, it really isn't worth it. I was a lot harsher than necessary towards you in a post here a while back, and you were remarkably tolerant. Thanks for that.
For the meantime, all the best to all of you.