Mental Notes January 2023: All the Rest Are Strangers
BRISBANE—I haven’t done a music review for 23 years, literally, so I sipped a few Coopers on the balcony and did this for a friend. Or possibly enemy, as no-one likes a reviewer.
In the Fade
Bush speech reaction: ‘Be very afraid’
Analysis: “Presidential inauguration speeches, especially in time of war, spark intense personal and political passions,” says the Christian Science Monitor, one of thousands of media outlets reporting US President George W Bush’s inaugural speech.
Eureka Stockade at 150
F103-a FLAUS 22 secs (Music begins) At this place, called Eureka, 150 years today, to the day, to the hour, a small band of about 100 diggers stood up for what they believe in, and some died for it. They were hard working men and women, engaged in honest enterprise… (Start speaking over music fade)
Mental Notes: May 2002
Peso playlist Wednesday May 1, 2002
Independence Day
When body surfing, stage diving and head banging came to Hong Kong.
Not Enough Rope; Honey, Fly By Night, May 11, 1996
greetings! i’m just doing my abdominal crunches for the dead can dance i/v tonight. oh well, back to the “ab roller plus” … adm schwarzenegg aaarrgh. With one’s back firmly planted against one of the many heaters spread throughout the Fly By Night Club you can sometimes forget that you are within a sheet-metal aircraft … Continue reading “Not Enough Rope; Honey, Fly By Night, May 11, 1996”
