For the second part I’ve concentrated on three, Rita Coolidge, Leon Russell and Joe Cocker. The selected are all from the 1970’s. Sit yourself down and A song for you are songs about or inspired by Rita Coolidge.
(Your love keeps lifting me) higher and higher – Rita Coolidge
We’re all alone – Rita Coolidge
Sit yourself down – Stephen Stills
A song for you – Leon Russell
A hard rains a-gonna fall – Leon Russell
Tight Rope – Leon Russell
Roll away the stone – Leon Russell
If I were a carpenter – Leon Russell
With a little help from my friends – Joe Cocker
She came in through the bathroom window – Joe Cocker
I subscribe for US$3 (patreon) per month to help fund them throwing shit at the worst government in living memory. Their take on the submarine fiasco is also a pearler.
Every year about this time, I look forward to the shortlisted finalists and winners in the Whitlam Institute’s writing competition for school age young people.
Do you remember optimism ?
It’s a welcome relief from the unrelenting grind of the 24 hour news cycle and the appalling dropkicks and fucktards that populate the halls of parliaments Australia wide.
This year the overall winner was a girl in Year 7/8 who addressed sectarian violence and killing in an amazingly poetic, elegant 500 words.
She is but one of a galaxy of incredibly passionate young writers who never fail to boost our optimism and rekindle the Light on the Hill. Gough would be proud indeed.
A Bruised And Bloodied Scotty Asks If His Colleagues Can Stop Throwing Him Under The Bus Every 5 Minutes
The Prime Minister is recovering after being thrown under a passing bus this afternoon by another one of his colleagues.
Earlier today, Scott Morrison was thrown under a bus by Liberal New South Wales Premier Dom Perrottet after the latter announced that microchipped travellers from overseas would be allowed to come here and not quarantine – provided they don’t have the Pangolin’s Revenge.
And just moments ago, his political rival Petter Dutton said he supports a net-zero Australia by 2050.
Borrowed with thanks from this week’s Betoota Advocate..
Last month Rolling Stone Magazine released their 500 best songs of all time. They did the same thing in December 2003which was referred to as the 2004 list, so it could be said a generation has passed since that list was prepared. The 2021 list has many songs from the 90’s, 00’s and 10’s and less from earlier decades particularly the 50’s, which probably reflects the contributors to the latest. In the new list only one songcomes from the period between 2004 and 2021 and only four of the top 10 from 2003 survive in the latest. Dreams by Fleetwood Mac didn’t even appear in the 2004 top 500.
The most represented year in the current list was 1971. The decades with the most entries in both lists were the 60’s and 70’s, nearly 70% in the 2004 and around 50% in the 2021. The 80’s and 90s account for about 30% in the latest list compared with half that in the previous.
The number in brackets is the songs place in each other’s list.
Today CNBC reported that there was a 24 hour blackout in Lebanon.
That’s catastrophic for a bankrupt nation with severe food shortages and as the CNBC report says, this caused food spoilage and food poisoning and God herself knows how anyone can operate a Covid hospital under those conditions.
So I thought I’d check up and see how you’re going cash wise, because, let’s face it, nobody wants to embarrass themselves by putting the bite on a pauper.
Boy was I relieved to see that you have $2 billion dollars. No wait, that was $202 billion. So I guess you’re probably not wandering around with the backside out of your pants and holes in your socks.
And then I remembered that the good people of Lebanon are out of cash and out of electricity. However, being in the Middle East, I’m guessing that they do have a fair bit of sunlight.
And I remembered that your company is in the business of generating electricity from sunlight and storing it in huge batteries.
Now you’re a famously smart guy and I’m betting that you can see where I’m going with this.
So what about you join the dots and show some magnificent global philanthropy. Nobody’s going to call you a mug for stepping in.
And I’ll be happy to put in a good word for you with the Nobel people. If they have’t got a category for single-handedly saving a failed national state, I’ll ask them to make one.
After all, you saved South Australia as a warm up for the major league.
If I see another news item showing a clip of a person getting a jab, I’ll spit.
As much as I’m keen on not being locked down – and I’m looking forward to seeing my kids and grand kids, I think it’s important to remember that 80% single vaxxed New South Welshpeople means that there will be over a million people in NSW including kids under 12 – ALL of whom have the potential to be Covid infected and infective in the community. (So do we, vaxxed people. It’s just unlikely that we’ll get very sick).
Let’s take a wildly optimistic guess that only 5% unvaxxed people will get infected = 20,000 and that only 5% of these end up in IC = 1,000 seriously sick people.
Did you know that NSW recently published the fact that 47% of people currently in intensive care (IC) are unvaccinated – and ALL the people on ventilators (which means they are seriously up shit creek) are unvaccinated.
This will put a massive massive strain on the whole health system in our state. FM works at a large private hospital (600 beds) and they are gearing up for a huge influx of Covid patients six weeks on from doing what Victoria did easing the lockdown and remember that that resulted in nearly 2,000 infections a day. So my guesses above could be WAAAY under the reality.
Let’s hope I’m wrong.
I’m not saying that NSW should continue being locked down like Fort Knox, but do take care brothers and sisters – and vax up to the eyeballs.
Whoever doesn’t believe that the ’70s were the epitome of Australian Cop Dramas, cop this …
Lockdown has provided a massive opportunity to romp through the best TV ever made. Once we exhausted Vera (The modern British version of Colombo), I slept through most of Midsummer Murders (REALLY ? Every week somebody gets knocked off in some bizarre ritual killing driven usually by greed and revenge). Surely if that happened in your borough, you’d move somewhere else.
Of course, there’s the many series of Death in Paradise. Same – but on a Caribbean Island. Shetland… what is it with islands and houses in isolated places that draws the murderers ?
Nora Linde with her Cop de Jour
And on SBS On Demand, for Pete’s (or was it Olaf’s) sake Sandhamn Murders on a Swedish Island where people go to bed in broad daylight. There’s more sex and a lot of drinking, teenage misadventure, infidelity, quite a lot of bicycle riding, running and scooting about in boats, more drinking, a lot of cop procedural but with that freelance nordic style casual dress and fine dining detective work.
There is a good looking boy cop played by a series of handsome nordic blokes, whose rather attractive – not too attractive but rather available female offsider would be a good sub at a pinch but the up close work is never consummated – leaving room for some tension with the female lead who starts out being a banking lawyer, and somehow morphs into a prosecutor who frequently finds herself running alternatively into the handsome detective and her ex-husband. There’s quite a lot of teenage girls being drugged and locked up in boats, and small lighthouse towers, quite a few mysterious drownings, amazing tans, lots of Volvos and BMWs and truly lovely seaside houses. Broken and repaired marriages. Traumatised children of divorced marriages, dodgy real estate deals and fraud. This is one island rich in motives, heads banged on rocks and bodies recovered from the sea in various stages of disrepair. Did I mention the drinking ? There are many bedside hospital scenes with people clinging to life and but for one or two, pulling through (Go for it Big and Hung !)
And everyone sounds like the Swedish chef in the Muppets.
But when it all boils down, Columbo is the real deal. The daddy sleuth of them all. Peter Falk won several golden globes / emmys and millions of fans.
…Inimitable style, incredibly slow pace, relentless pressure on the murderer., inexorable logic.. and smart arse murderers who take Colombo for a fool – big mistake…- this episode has a cameo appearance by Eddie Albert. Great line “Mr Colombo,. some men don’t like to go out looking like an unmade bed.
Note Colombo started at the same time as Bluey – what contrasting styles !
ANd the late night send-up… revoiced Bargearse
Sounds a lot like Judith Lucy, Tony Martin and Rob Sitch doing the voice overs…
100th anniversary of the opening of the Bank of NSW in Wodonga – Mayor Stone and original stone laying party
In which Viv takes on the vicissitudes of the retail finance industry
Five years ago I wanted to transfer a large sum of money to my daughter for her wedding. I went to my local branch and must have picked a day where I got the thickest person possible. This is what happened when I told her what I wanted to do:
Bank woman: Do you have internet banking?
Me: no. (Me, thinks to herself, well der, if I did why would I fucking come here to do a transfer)
Bank woman: $30 fee to do transfer
Bank woman: or $12 to do a bank cheque.
Me – I wanted it done electronically. I can write a cheque out anytime.
Bank woman: I could give you $ CASH and you could walk over and up to ANZ bank in Lavington.
Me: I might get mugged.
Me: here is the account number and BSB details
Bank: we need the address of the bank
Me: somewhere in Wodonga
Bank: have to have the street address. I could give you cash ….. blah blah
Me: I think I’ll just give my daughter a cheque after all.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 