Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022
I, too, believe that the Socceroos (which is a silly name for a team) can win games as long as they swap out the whole team for the far more experienced, successful, and less well-paid women's team.
Otherwise, they're not good enough.
This is the leader of our opposition.
Ex-senior police officer from Queensland who operated under a regime that’s hard to descriibe. (Google Joh Bjelke-Petersen for some proto neo-fascism.)
Also the single most anti- immigrant politician in any mainstream party.
Familiar much? 🙄
So this excellent documentary turned up the National Indigenous TV channel tonight.
It reminds me of the way we resisted the National Front skinheads back then, but also makes me think that they might be n the parliament now 🤷🏼♂️
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8351520/
Interesting film though,, and well worth a look if you can find it.
Was just going through some images looking for something, and this delightful reminder of better times popped up.
Imagine relying on a space to differentiate your brand in this day and age. The Montreal Alouettes should've called themselves 'Les Roughrideurs' TBH. 😂
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
From the 'Rock n Roll Circus'
Exactly. It was about control, and the very flawed men who wielded it used the Bible and all that as a tool to be interpreted however they like.
Think of the crusades. For guys who “shalt not kill”, “love thy neighbour”, and “ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” they sure had no problems with convincing kings all over Europe to go off and unleash untold violence on their behalf 🤷🏼♂️
Yup. Only the other day, I listened to a podcast about Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was simultaneously the Lord High Chancellor of England under Henry VIII.
And Rodrigo Borgia springs to mind as another particularly political animal, but it goes way, way further back than that. Basically all the way to St Peter himself.
When the church and the law are essentially the same thing, it really brings out the venality in men who crave power. 🤷♂️
You'd think so, yes.
But then I remember that the archbishops and whatnot in both the Anglican and RC churches are, and have always been, more politicians than anything else. The faith bit sometimes gets lost a bit in the cut and thrust of it all.
Whether they were mates/relatives of kings, or persuading synods or conclaves to elect them to the top, they've only ever gotten the gigs by cosying up to whoever has the power to hand them out.
Good. At least some people in high positions are still capable of feeling shame.
It's a neat bit of work that the acronym spells out both Elmo's fav crypto and the old Venetian/Genoan title "Doge" that they used for their leader and which is not a million miles away from 'Il Duce" 😬
Someone tooted the other day about a guy who claimed to have voted for T**** because America was the laughingstock of the world under Biden.
I thought that was a pretty flimsy reason then because America absolutely wasn't the laughingstock of the world under Biden at all.
Now, however...
😂 you’d pass the character test for a visa! 👍
But if our conservatives somehow manage to capitalise on this neo-authoritarian curiosity and win next year’s election, all bets will be off 🤷🏼♂️
Then -> Now
The tide’s further out today, but you can see that the sand is finally starting to come after being washed away by the “unusual“ storm activity (translation: new paradigm caused by climate change) this winter. It was “unusual” alright. I’ve never seen that happen.
The sand’s covered up the rocks at the base of the stairs, and the beach is staring to look like it’s looked for the 25+ years I’ve lived here.
It’s difficult to describe how frustrating it is when the video game tutorial tells you to set the speed at 230 kmh, but the controls won’t go beyond 229 and you can’t finish the tute because you didn’t tick the box.
This clip jolts me every time: Put aside the bald head, and the mannerisms and facial expressions are just so similar...
Bad Religion - Requiem For Dissent
(Duisberg, Germany 2010)
The Clash - London Calling/ Train In The Vain
(Live On 'Fridays')
Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022