tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post4918798991709491758..comments2024-03-29T06:12:04.668+11:00Comments on loon pond: Day 1, and the Caterists hover in to view, their populist-denouncing sails powered by taxpayer funded grants ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-23187686030572885772016-03-23T18:49:06.432+11:002016-03-23T18:49:06.432+11:00LC: ... I think of Bob Dylan, who gets the inflect...LC: ... I think of Bob Dylan, who gets the inflections of street talk, the inflections of conversation, and does that with such mastery ... where you can hear a little tough guy talking. You can hear somebody praying. You can hear somebody asking. You can hear somebody coming onto you. When you're composing that material and you know that it's going to occupy aural space, you can compose it with those inflections in mind. And of course it does invite irony because that irony can be conveyed with the voice alone whereas on the page you generally have to have a larger construction around the irony for it to come through. You can't just write, " What's it to ya? " If you sing, " What's it to ya? " to some nice chords it really does sound like, " Well, what's it to yah, baby? " But.just to see it written, it would need a location.<br /><br />INT: How much connection do you feel with Dylan's music, or with others, like Joni Mitchell, for example? Whose music is closest to you now...?<br /><br />LC: Well, like the Talmud says, there's good wine in every generation. We have a particular feeling for the music of our own generation and usually the songs we courted to are the songs that stay with us all our life as being the heavy ones. The singers of my own period, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, all those singers have crossed over the generations. But we have a special kind of feeling for the singers that we use to make love to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45253706369199750742016-03-23T17:40:33.787+11:002016-03-23T17:40:33.787+11:00Bye bye you carry on with your war mongering again...Bye bye you carry on with your war mongering against them that don't think like you. There are lots of places you can go to win arguments about politics and hear lots of echoes from people who enjoy the type of interaction you prefer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72080662847550026402016-03-23T15:56:44.521+11:002016-03-23T15:56:44.521+11:00"Try Jobs for what?" For answers to your..."Try Jobs for what?" For answers to your feedback problem. "Some thing is happening and you don't know what it is" - like Jobs quoting Dylan quoting Mark's oracular pronunciation on Dastyari and Conroy: "But many that are first shall be last, and the last first."<br /><br />So now Di Natale is a warmonger. Wow! I doubt there is any sane reply to that tag that would satisfy you, so I'll leave you the last word echoing there with you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13987229738239452492016-03-23T15:04:34.678+11:002016-03-23T15:04:34.678+11:00Try Jobs for what?
What is it about winning being...Try Jobs for what?<br /><br />What is it about winning being a bad thing for everyone that you warmongers don't understand? Ever thought about winning people to your point of view rather than trying to win and insist that you do know what is happening.<br /><br />You could try Leonard: he was far more interesting than Dylan with his sneering. Leonard also knows that things are gonna slide, slide in all directions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-37307832030516115332016-03-23T14:38:41.266+11:002016-03-23T14:38:41.266+11:00Sound like Mr Jones? Perhaps that's down to yo...Sound like Mr Jones? Perhaps that's down to your echo chamber. Try Steve Jobs:<br /><br />Come writers and critics<br />Who prophesize with your pen<br />And keep your eyes wide<br />The chance won't come again<br />And don't speak too soon<br />For the wheel's still in spin<br />And there's no tellin' who<br />That it's namin'.<br />For the loser now<br />Will be later to win<br />For the times they are a-changin'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-2728483629403024382016-03-23T14:15:21.164+11:002016-03-23T14:15:21.164+11:00The Happy Birthday Party? Oh goody, a party for th...The Happy Birthday Party? Oh goody, a party for the duopoly twins replete with the same old party games. Musical chairs anyone, or pass the parcel?<br /><br />Any miscue, as you put it, that advantages the LNP to that extent will be because Labor stupidly doesn't stand with the Greens but continues to attempt to split the progressive vote by heeding and echoing Dastyari and Conroy's loosing personally vested interest claims.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35215923430405495572016-03-23T12:28:53.604+11:002016-03-23T12:28:53.604+11:00The funny, tragic and pathetic thing is that this ...The funny, tragic and pathetic thing is that this simplistic, one might dare to say simple-minded loon, somehow thinks that loon pond is associated with either the Liberal or the Labor party or that even more peculiar beast, the Liblab ... but then anyone associated with the thought crime of worshipping turtle-necked black skivvy wearers has possibly deep personal problems the pond doesn't need to know about ...<br /><br />As for the deep recesses of anger that lead to the notion that it was a comeback, as opposed to a likely reality, what can you say? Let's see how it all turns out. The pond's own party, the Happy Birthday party, is sadly unlikely to have the balance of power, but if the skivvy wearer has miscued, and the Liberals gain control of both houses, what a groaning and a sighing and a lamentation and a casting of ashes there'll be ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42977408637431017222016-03-23T11:36:21.124+11:002016-03-23T11:36:21.124+11:00Hmmm dude what you got? Nothing but angry ranting ...Hmmm dude what you got? Nothing but angry ranting at the simplistic level of an angry white man who knows what is right and good.<br />You sound like Mr Jones in Dylan's song. Some thing is happening and you don't know what it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24398220662423694432016-03-23T10:31:11.176+11:002016-03-23T10:31:11.176+11:00That's your comeback? Labor koolaid is it? Ano...That's your comeback? Labor koolaid is it? Another pathetic hollow rant for hollow old Labor. You've got nothing for all your desperate grasping of the old party line, and it's clear you know it. Have another drink to liblab.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13871914242458142592016-03-23T08:12:33.148+11:002016-03-23T08:12:33.148+11:00The pond is home to loons and it seems some worshi...The pond is home to loons and it seems some worship at the font of the black turtle-necked skivvy ...but then stupidity is rampant and everywhere, and soon enough they'll have facilitated the return of a Liberal government with control of both houses. A triumph of policy astuteness that would make a Black Knight green with envy...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61202221463602836902016-03-23T07:40:40.694+11:002016-03-23T07:40:40.694+11:00A whinge, GB.A whinge, GB.Mercurialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531202189169082683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-91434506303769033302016-03-22T20:18:06.444+11:002016-03-22T20:18:06.444+11:00Any point to it, GB? Fewer useless timeserving se...Any <a href="https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/710241727173386240" rel="nofollow"> point to it</a>, GB? Fewer useless timeserving sell-out Labor arses on seats perhaps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-62476219166439572602016-03-22T18:46:32.623+11:002016-03-22T18:46:32.623+11:00Very nicely articulated, Anony. Now, is there any...Very nicely articulated, Anony. Now, is there any actual point to it ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88469578359782924702016-03-22T18:44:37.326+11:002016-03-22T18:44:37.326+11:00Yeah, but then remembering who and what Harradine ...Yeah, but then remembering who and what Harradine was, it wouldn't be real hard for a Howard, supported by an Abbott, to know all you'd need to know about our "Father of the Senate".<br /><br />Indeed, all three would have been in furious agreement about matters female in particular, wouldn't they.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-31093528054490643362016-03-22T16:50:46.819+11:002016-03-22T16:50:46.819+11:00Of course Howard liked the fact that you knew wher...Of course Howard liked the fact that you knew where Harradine stood. That was important so Howard could feather whichever nest Harradine happened to be cultivating. As long as the feathering did no long term damage to Howard's prospects, he was happy to deal with Harradine.<br /><br />Know your enemy, know what you need to offer them to get their agreement, know what it will take to make them turn. Howard had that knowledge in spades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-30006642154743797632016-03-22T14:14:04.050+11:002016-03-22T14:14:04.050+11:00"So how's it going now?"
Nicely tha..."So how's it going now?"<br /><br />Nicely thankyou. Who is the ETU going to turn to? Laboral? Your Billista colours are showing by reading more into the feigned angry outburst at a keyboard by a couple of ETU strategists than is warranted by the transaction.<br /><br />How can you give any credence to Di Natale being "surprised" or that he "didn't know"? FFS, how dumb or brainwashed can you get? Apart from not being able to be read into his tweet that initiated the responses they are simply ridiculous claims. ETU officials are simply about being seen to respond to the phony Laboral spin about their position on senate voting that some ETU rank and file card carrying laborals have recently bought. Where's the ETU going to turn? To liblab? IMO it'll make no big difference if they do now the Greens will have increased Senate and Reps exposure, but I don't think they will. I went to the meetings and actions in Brisbane, and the Greens and ETU together were at the core of protest against Newman. Fuck, at times even the Katters turned out, but as I recall Labor was nowhere to be seen. Fucken laborals, always ready to be sold another major bridge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com