Concerto for Group and Orchestra 1969

27 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Algernon

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Deep Purple, Jon Lord, Smoke on the Water

Playlist by Algernon

In recent weeks Jon Lord of Deep Purple fame died at 71. Jon Lord was a classically trained musician, he composed Concerto for Group and Orchestra . This was performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in concert in 1969, Child in time was part of the same concert. Thirty years later in 1999 Deep Purple performed the a 30^th anniversary concert this time with the London Symphony Orchestra.

1969 concert

Concerto for Group and Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG1h8FUIDNU

First Movement Moderato and Allegro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1JsoCHGB0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF98E699B35FA6092

Second Movement Andante

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGuxfcHt268

Third Movement – Vivace –presto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8kW7JLaWI

Child in time

1999 Concert , Four Scottish dances opened the concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAAc5u_YEVQ

Four Scottish Dances – OP59 – Malcolm Arnold. This version by the Sydney Youth Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLeY9ScE-UI

Ted the Mechanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT7XcYxco4M

Smoke on the Water

Therese Takes Aim at Job Scams

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Emmjay

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Bill Shorten Petition, job application scanning software, job scams, unethical recruitment

Friends,

As many of you will know, Lehan and more recently, Emmjay and FM have done it tough in the ongoing search for work. We’ve encountered some real acts of bastardry – with job applications being rejected by some dopey automated scanning software that just doesn’t work – how about getting a rejection email before you’ve finished submitting the application ?

We’ve also encountered recruitment companies who advertise jobs that are strangely already filled – when they’ve only been open for minutes – just to collect a bunch of CVs for later on. These people are the scum of the earth for falsely raising unemployed or under-employed people’s hopes.

I created a petition: Bill Shorten – Australian Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations: Ban online advertising of non-existent jobs & automatic resume scanning software, because I care deeply about this very important issue.

I’m trying to collect as many signatures as possible, and I could really use your help.

Or you can Email Bill directly at Bill.Shorten.MP@aph.gov.au

It’ll just take a minute!

Once you’re done, please ask your friends to sign the petition as well. Grassroots movements succeed because people like you are willing to spread the word!

Therese

Machan

23 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Lehan Winifred Ramsay

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Ainu, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

Story and Photograph by Lehan Winifred Ramsay

My friend came to visit me in Hakodate. He thought he would write a travel story for an inflight magazine while he was there. He called the City Hall to ask them about local artisans or people of interest, but the City Hall pointed him in the direction of a souvenir sausage shop, which he wasn’t really interested in.

I want to meet some Ainu people, said my friend. But it was common knowledge in Hakodate that there were few if any people in the town calling themselves Ainu. Then I remembered Machan. I’d heard from a journalist friend that he was Ainu. Machan was a little-bit-wild looking man who I often saw around riding his bicycle with his dog following along. We had talked a little bit a few times without any particular connection. He had a shop across the road from the International Hotel. So we went along to Machan’s shop.
Machan’s shop had a kind of log-cabin look to it, and inside it was a bit dark and a bit shabby. There were certainly some carvings of bears and owls, but they looked a lot like the mass-produced carvings you find in all the souvenir shops, and the recycle shops, just a bit dustier. Other than that there really wasn’t much you could buy. Mostly when it was warm enough Machan sat with his dog on the front step of his shop, which looked out on to the lobby of the International Hotel.

My friend asked Machan a bit about the Ainu. Did he know any Ainu people living in the town my friend could talk to? Not really. Did he know of any Ainu artists? Not really. Did he know of anything interesting he could write about? Not that he could think of. Anyone who made things? Nah. Machan’s shop is gone now, but it was there quite a long time.

Somehow the response we got that day did not surprise me. I used to see Machan around a lot, riding his bicycle, with his dog following along, one time he gave me a CD he had in his basket; The Beatles, for no particular reason; I took it and said thankyou. I like to see Machan’s life as a complicated and contradictory act of civil disobedience, of social education. Somehow I must have been prepared by the people around me to understand that. But here – I am speaking for him again. I will stop.

Prog Rock – Part 1

20 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Algernon, Bands at the Pig's Arms, Entertainment Upstairs

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Progressive Rock

The Mona Lisa

Playlist by Algernon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBsdHoTdOmc

Question – Moody Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk

Echoes – Pink Floyd (24 minutes in length)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pteh5hdZlg

Lamb lies down on Broadway – Genesis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-ASc0qkrM

Thick as a brick – Jethro Tull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOr_d0_IRdM

Your Move and I’ve seen all good people – Yes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH4LAitSXCM

Tarkus – Emerson Lake & Palmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tkXgw2OMY

Excellent Horse-Like lady – Bochonho Electric Music Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o3QQ1M2jtg

Moonchild – King Crimson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRJvq4Wd48

Tubular bells – Mike Oldfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8VsvJ40sM

Stratosfear – Tangerine Dream

Hog’s Bacon Particle Discovered !

15 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Emmjay, The Dining Room, Warrigal Mirriyuula

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crackling, Higgs Bosun, pork rolls, sub-atomic particle

After the discovery of the Hogs Bacon Particle the true nature of reality was revealed for the first time.”

Story by Emmjay, Digital gastronomy by Warrigal Mirriyuula.

Well, the sub-atomic nuclear physics community and the Australian Butchers’ Association were stunned today by the publication in Pub’s Monthly of the ground-breaking research at the Pig’s Arms.

Pub’s Monthly reported that noted gastronomic scientist, Granny, has unequivocal evidence of the existence of the long-postulated Hog’s Bacon Particle.

The Hog’s Bacon particle is the last piece in the theory of everything jigsaw that has been sitting on a table in the front bar, near the jukebox since Buddy Holly died.

In essence, probably lemon essence, the Hog’s Bacon Particle is the subcutaneous doover that gives crackling its cracklingness. Some pork roasts have crackling that doesn’t actually crackle at all while other roasts’ crackling is so crackly that dentists rub their hands together and plan for a new model Porsche.

Granny’s experimental evidence links the speed of the meat tray delivery van driven by DRMICK’s brother and the frequency that he had to stand on the breaks – that is the incidence of extremely rapid acceleration and deceleration – at the speed of lights in the inner west traffic grid – to the density of Hog’s Bacon particles in the crackling.

High density Hog’s Bacon particles accumulating in the subcutaneous lard deposits of the pork roast make for extremely crackly crackling. In a statement to the media, Granny pointed out that she had been able to conclusively prove the existence of the Hog’s Bacon particle through careful observation of the multivariate factors involved in the creation not only of the universe, but more particularly in the creation of her roast pork rolls.

Granny criticised what she described as “the ridiculous experimentation” by sub-atomic particle physicists working underground at CERN, saying that whereas they had spent over 17 billion Euros in the pursuit of the Hog’s Bacon particle, her roast pork rolls have been continuously available in the counter lunch menu at the Pig’s Arms since 1953 and now feature at the very affordable price of $4.00 including optional apple sauce. “Match that, you Hadron tonkers”, she said.

In an interesting twist, the IUG (International Union of Grammarians) threw a spaniel into the works by insisting that there has never been a Hog’s Bacon particle and that the missing piece in the theory of everything jigsaw on the table near the juke box in the front bar of the Pig’s Arms pub was a typographical error and that the real missing piece is in fact the Hog’s Bacon participle.

The IGU firmly believe that there is unequivocal evidence in Strunk and White of the existence of a fundamental participle that qualifies nouns but retains some properties of verbs like tense and government of objects – both at the astronomic and sub-atomic quantum levels.

The IUG point out the challenging idea that “crackling” is itself a participle and that that this indeed opens up the possibility that grammar is the underlying principle – even more so than mathematics, that allows scientists and philosophers to accurately describe the universe.

This observation is said to have provoked an unseemly scramble in the front bar of the Pig’s Arms with grammarians, butchers and sub-atomic particle physicists scrambling to put the last piece in the unifying theory of everything jigsaw.

Notwithstanding this contentious discovery, roast pork rolls will still be on the lunchtime counter menu at the Pig’s Arms – for $4.00 with optional apple sauce and Granny will be pleased to autograph all copies of the Pub’s Monthly, perhaps with a kind shout of a Trotter’s Ale celebrating her discovery.

The Next Episode

14 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Mark, Neville Cole

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Barrack O'Bama, Danny de Vito, Mel Gibson, Michael Jackson, Queen Latisha

The Usual Suspects

Story by the New Hung One On and Digital Mischief by Warrigal Mirriyuula

Hi, Sandy here. You know me, the local parish priest from Inner Cyberia at the church of St Generic Brand. Well yes, I’m on another assignment thanks to the Bish, you know Bishop Bishop. Here’s what happened.

“Sandy, it’s the Bish” says the voice on the phone.

“Hey Bish, I mean, I wasn’t even asleep or having an erotic dream and you rang me just like a normal person would do.” I inform never knowing what mood the Bish will actually be in.

“Like my erections Sandy, I’m getting soft with age” Oh, yuck, too much information.

“How interesting Bish. I’m sure someone out there must care” I reply rather nonchalantly.

“Now look Sandy” states the Bish, “There is something wrong in the good old USA and I want you to check with our North American correspondent, Neville Coal, about what in the hell, pardon Gordon, is going on, comprehende?” affirms the Bish.

“What’s going on about what?” I ask both stupidly and dumbly.

“Zarking Austro-Americans Sandy, get the picture, something has happened to Austro-Americans, get to Neville and find out otherwise you’re fired” barks the Bish.

So I hop a plane to LA and get a cab to the Lizard Bar and Grill, one of Neville’s favourite hideouts. So here is the interview in my usual format.

FOW: So Neville, the Bish tells me something has gone wrong with Austro- American relations. I mean have you guys run out of ghetto blasters or what?

NC: (with panic in his eye) We really shouldn’t be talking here out in the open like this. Quick! Follow me! I know a place where we won’t be recognized. (They run next door to Queen Lateesha Bar and Salon.)

FOW: Look, one thing that has always intrigued me is why all the fuzzy hair?

NC: Oh man! You jump right to the tough questions, don’t you? Wow! I have no idea. Hey Queen! This guy wants to know why all the fuzzy hair?

QL: What you talkin’ bout? Fuzzy hair? I don do no fuzzy hair. The only do I do is strong, black, firm African hair. Fuzzy? You crazy. That’s what you is!

FOW: So is it true that Michael Jackson wanted to be white and had his cock shortened?

NC: Are you asking me or the Queen?

FOW: You.

NC:Hmmm… Well this does happen to be a topic I am well versed in. I have a PPLBJ in Afro-American-Australian studies from the University of the Internet.

FOW: A PPLBJ?

NC: Yes. It’s an online degree. 4 days of intensive study – Google searches, Wikipedia, Facebook…the works.

FOW: Sounds challenging.

NC: Brutal. But it only cost me $49.99 plus tax, which I think is a bargain.

FOW: So the Michael Jackson question…

NC: He was the fifth Jackson, right? Sang that song Do Re Me, 1 2 3?

FOW: Let’s move on…

NC: Good idea. Your braids look great by the way. Queen, what does he owe you?

QL: That be only twenty dollar. You practically got no hair at all, Father Sandy…and it’s all weak and limp like…you sure you not using too much shampoo?

FOW: Can we get out of here?

NC: Let’s go to Devito’s, the dirty diner next door. The chicken and waffle pie there is to die for… (They run next door)

FOW: So Neville, is it true that Danny Devito is really black?

NC: That’s the rumor, yes. I heard he was blacklisted in the 60s.

FOW: I heard the other day that OJ Simpson regrets being a glass of orange juice. Is this true?

NC: I don’t think so… He called me up recently to sing a heartfelt rendition of “My Way” Regarding regrets, he said he had a few but did not mention anything about orange juice.

FOW: Is Mel Gibson a new wave intellectual or simply a tool?

NC: Oh God! Get down! (They duck under the table – NC whispers) Mel just walked in the door… I’m not sure if he heard you call him a tool but he looked ready for one of his infamous outbursts…and that’s not all…

FOW: (waiting) well…

NC: What?

FOW: You said…and that’s not all… What else is going on?

NC: Mel is with… friends. The whole ratbag pack!

FOW: Who is that?

NC: Father! Have you ever read a gossip column in your life? Every People reader knows who the ratbag pack is… Mel Gibson, Nick Noltie, Randy Plaid, Crispy Glover, Jokein Phoenix, Garee Busee…and, oh Jesus and saints, they’ve added a new ratbag!

FOW: Who?

NC: Actpoorly Sulkin. He’s one crazy-ass muther…excuse the French, father. Wait! I have an idea. Let’s sit up slowly then loudly ask me a question about tools and/or tool use. We have to pretend we are two hardworking handymen. That bunch of ratbags will admire two men talking about hardware. (they sit up slowly) Go ahead. Say something…but act natural f’christsake or we will both leave here with one less testicle…or worse, they’ll want to join us for lunch. Say something, quickly. Mel is giving us the hairy eyeball.

FOW: (loudly) Speaking of tools, can you hand a man a better spanner than a K-Mart special?

Mel Gibson: (butting in drunkenly) Good question, mate! I say you can’t go past a tool from Bunning’s…and I will kick the arse of any bastard who says otherwise! (He pants loudly like a charging bull).

Nick Noltie: Bugger off, Mel! I’m an Ace Hardware man! Ace is the place!

Garee Busee: You guys are busting the one nut I have left! You know Jack Squat Shit about tools. Let’s get even drunker and fight!

Actpoorly Sulkin: (lying on floor) I’m already too drunk to stand but I’ll fight you all night. I just wish I had a five gallon can of paint on a string with me.

Crispy Glover: Here. You can borrow mine.

Actpoorly Sulkin: Thanks Crispy! I don’t care what they say, you are a real pal. (They all start to fight each other.)

NC: Oh Christ, father… You’ve really set them off now. Quick let’s go to the Quik-E Mart. I need some cheese wiz.

FOW: (puffing loudly as they run to Quik-E Mart) Is Olivia Newton-John the best Austro-American singer of all time or should that honour go to Ella Fitzgerald?

NC: Hmm…for my money you can’t go past Dame Dolly Melba-Parton. What a pair of lungs that woman had.

FOW: (in the Quik-E Mart searching for Cheese Wiz) In the movie the Blues Brothers, the white folk wanted cheese wiz, fried chicken and dry white toast. Do you think they were really vegans?

NC: Don’t quote me on this…but I believe that fried chicken in this country now has so little identifiable meat in it that it is considered a vegan meal.

FOW: I rest my case.

le Tour de France

14 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Algernon, Bands at the Pig's Arms, Entertainment Upstairs

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le Tour de France

Playlist by Algernon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99gznekEOHA

Tour de France – Kraftwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR234BH9Cr4

Bike – Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGL4YRa7KPg&feature=fvwrel

Bicycle Race – Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmhMKWt8DI

The Pushbike song – The Mixtures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknAdVvNM

Brand New Key – Melanie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA

Handlebars – Flobots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62yWU4ryrgI

My White bicycle – Tomorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYv2n-hRsa0

Silver Machine – Hawkwind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgLOv0YSeo

Terry keeps his clips on – Vivian Sanshall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moi5GFfhrNo

Fat bottomed girls – Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQG6-DojVw

Nine Million bicycles – Katie Melua

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgINavmZCMI

Daisy Bell –Blur

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Ydri8Ekow

La Bicyclette – Yves Montand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1tvyfcezI

Stolen Bike – Pee Wee Herman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe_1B1P9Bw4

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize – Englebert Humperdinck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonnKhf-84g

Bicicleta – Toquinho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPGhq_X7oG0

Busted Bicycle – Leo Kottke

Abbottian Attack Dog

09 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Warrigal Mirriyuula

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cartoon, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott

Abbott with Abbottian Attack Dog – Morrisonii scottocious

Digital Mischief by Warrigal Mirriyuula

Boat People. Not New. Never New, Suddenly Unacceptable

09 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Emmjay

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Boat-people, SS Oronsay, Tony Abbott

People have been coming to Australia in boats for tens of thousands of years. Up until the last twenty years, there has been no problem about this. Which, in itself is a problem. Not that people should not be allowed to come to Australia by ship. The fact that some short while ago, navigating to Australia suddenly became a selective process IS both a trivial and a terrible problem – simultaneously.

OK for some. Apparently not OK for others.

Do you remember when the Australian navy dispatched a crew of brave sailors to the dangers of the Southern Ocean – to save a lone sailor. Who was participating in an around-the-world race. A bloody race ! For fun and for fame and money. A bloody race. Apparently it cost the Australian taxpayers several million dollars to fund the rescue. Not the once did they perform the feat. If memory serves me correctly, we also footed the bill and risked lives in rescuing the French woman Isabelle Autissier – 1,700 km south of Adelaide in 1995. Footnote: This woman was also saved when she had another go at upside down sailing 3,100 km west of Cape Horn in 1998. That time she was saved by a fellow competitor.

But rescuing sailors and others in trouble in Australian and international waters is both morally correct and what we are obliged to do under international maritime law.

So, it’s clearly OK for Australia to pick and choose who may come and how we treat them.

I would like to think that nearly everyone who makes the life and death trip to Australia – is welcome – especially in circumstances where this trip is no game. When people are fleeing certain persecution and death in their home countries, they are particularly welcome.

In fact we had a great track record welcoming such people to Australia – fleeing the hellish destruction of Europe in the Second World War, the civil War in Lebanon, the Vietnam War, the junta in Chile, famine AND war in Africa, War in Sri Lanka, War in the Middle East, War in Afghanistan. Over and over and over.

John Howard said WE will decide who can come and under what circumstances. He meant, “ONLY white people of whom I approve” can come. The rest, we’ll fuck around like they count for nothing. Disgraceful.

And his heir apparent has taken up the mantra. WE will stop the boats. We. That’s you, Tony and your mates. Not WE, but YOU ! Arsehole.

The SS Oronsay, 1951

After the Second World War, Australia was particularly accommodating to one class of economic refugee. These were our Ten Pound Poms – former Prisoners of a devastated Mother England who paid the princely sum of ten quid as their contribution to the Australian government’s cost of shipping their sorry (but none-the-less welcome) arses out from Blighty in (as Gez has said) rather comfortable cruise ships.

As opposed to paying tens of thousands of dollars or kilos of gold to the (now deemed as the lowest life form) people smugglers for the dubious privilege of setting to sea in a massively overloaded fishing boat of dubious provenance with gunwales less than a foot above the drink – for the privilege of facing indefinite detention and possible deportation back to the disaster from which these refugees fled.

Now I think it’s reasonable to imagine that a former refugee might be quite sympathetic towards current refugees. Say someone whose family had fled a ravaged England after the Second World War. But not one particular chap whose family sailed on the SS Oronsay in 1960.

Who is that chap ? Non other than our Leader of the Opposition. Dr No. One Tony Abbott – who has raised the bar on hypocrisy to an unimaginable height.

Still, Tony probably has a point. When he arrived it was a Terra Nullius crying out for immigrants of all kinds. But these days, after sixty years or so of generous immigration – Gordon O’Donnell, we even used to provide English classes back then – lifeboat Australia is suddenly discovered to be chockers. Bulging at the seams, we have no other choice but to take a hard line and protect our borders from these almost piratical queue jumping scoundrels. The 3% who attempt to sail in as opposed to the 97% who fly in and overstay their visas.

So, for saving us from more of his type, we should respond in kind and send Tony back to a post Thatcherite England – a place where he is bound to find a nation willing to embrace his values, speak his language and provide a climate as bleak as his spirit – or apparent lack thereof.

Tony Out NOW !