Lifestyle "1983 Redux Zeitgeist Surf School"

[3KZ is Football]

Claudine Gay...from what I'm reading in the New York Times...it was a case of they didn't interview any other candidates for the position...she was annointed to be the face of 'change' at Harvard after years of scandals...and all the articles/research that she plagurised. Academia is rotten to the core ask me...I worked in it for long enough.
So on that point CG is not comparable and my second point would be that token women don't exist in France (excepting Marrianne) not in Academia and not in life....as a culture and society they do take liberty, franternity and equality seriously...the convos around 'right speak', "cancel Culture' ' post feminism' and 'freedoms in the age of intellectual repression' are extant and rampant...just see what they put on TV.. philosophical discussions rate really well. Most French have opinions and can verbalise them extrordinarily well...it's their national sport.
Funny bugger starting off with a nice short patronising sentence of 3 words.
Yes, I it did dawn on me that it was more layered than the actual meme at face value....therefore a more considered creative post rather than trading memes.
You’re using sticky tape!....What plastic!...it's the old clag bottle or make up some flour and water paste...for ye olde memes.

My fear is that in a ‘post truth’ world, all bets are off and there are no rules or restraints. SDB would be torn down by the extreme right and their attack media, just because they could. Woman, Feminist, Public Intellectual strike, strike, strike. Fox News would be running with “SHOCKING CLAIMS have again resurfaced about Simone De Beauvoir and her relationships with a number of her students.” It would be a - LIVE AT THE WITCHTRIALS.”

Other than that, spot on about French Cultural life, as I perceive it from my week in Paris and view from afar.

 

[Pamcake1]

My fear is that in a ‘post truth’ world, all bets are off and there are no rules or restraints. SDB would be torn down by the extreme right and their attack media, just because they could. Woman, Feminist, Public Intellectual strike, strike, strike. Fox News would be running with “SHOCKING CLAIMS have again resurfaced about Simone De Beauvoir and her relationships with a number of her students.” It would be a - LIVE AT THE WITCHTRIALS.”

Other than that, spot on about French Cultural life, as I perceive it from my week in Paris and view from afar.

Yes post -truth and truthiness. The witch hunts have never stopped ever....just been more overt or covert. I don't fear it I know it...we are in the Hunger Games...if the truth be told. Or is that just my truth. SDB would more likely turn to what the Weathermen did...I'm not going to say the word as I've already discovered what filters are on this site once and don't want to get into a 'Brazil' situation....

 

[Pamcake1]

Sentinal Films File
1985 Brazil
Terry Gilliam.

opening scene in Brazil the fly landing on the type writer - Google Search

 

[3KZ is Football]

There he goes again! He hasn’t got a kind word to say about Simone.

 

[Mobbs]

1983 BINGO
Play the Game. Wendy & the Rockets.
Bet the song was better live.

The music clip ; Obviously Made in Melbs and shown on Countdown.
Clip Scenario includes; Venues, Fancy Mullets with Tuxes, Cars: FJ for the day & Mk II Jag for the night, heading out for the night with a bloke & a spare, Sport; Footy Carlton v Collingwood, Tennis, sprinting and Javlin throwing (*me it had it all), Pontoon & Champagne Glasses, Bubblebaths & Champagne buckets (timed to the words "Are you going to let it slip away"), Men shaving in Kiminos, Pearl clutching blokes in tuxes perving through windows, Leopard Coat & single shoulder dress, leather jackets and ripped off sleave T's and for the grand finish; the FJ breaks down on the Upper Esplanade St Kilda with the Espy in the background at sunset.
As Kath Day Knight would say about 'Play the Game', "It's Grouse Kimmy".

Wendy Stapleton (of Wendy & The Rockets) sometimes played at the Fitzroy Social Club after Roys matches!

There are other clips of the song which I think are better, btw.

Oh and Pamcake1 are you aware of the nzoz channels on youtube?

 

[Mobbs]

Another that I always enjoyed :
The Stems - Sad Girl

 

[Mobbs]

And here's Luxedo with Shakeout

 

[Mobbs]

And "Pump It Up" by The Automatic

 

[Pamcake1]

1978 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Years Model
Released March 1978 London (Australia 1979) on Radar Records (Columbia)



Single Pump It Up
"It was a satire. If you listen to the lyrics, it kind of goes against the grain of hedonism".
"Well, just how much can you ****, how many drugs can you do before you get so numb you can't really feel anything?"
Elvis Costello Ref; Wiki

" She's like a chemical......."



Quintessential Elvis Costello.
A Master of Style Irony...who filtered the lyrical, visual & audial to create the smartest satire on the scene.
Declan McMannis , style setter nailed the look tie, sharp suits, shoes & geek glasses...the straight man with the contrasting blast of cerebral punk. Michael Caine in 'the Ipcress File' with a wry smile smuggling the goods.
Looking smooth as & moving like a jerk....pin point acuracy targetting minimalist shark suited sarcasm sharpishly.

 

[Pamcake1]

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There he goes again! He hasn’t got a kind word to say about Simone.

Playing Games...The Algonquin Round Table were the apogee of word games......

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.” Dorothy Parker​

Meme Games the contemporary form....but there is a lot of slippage on the ice........

 

[3KZ is Football]

I love that Elvis Costello co-wrote this with Paul McCartney. I always loved his stuff, but “Spike” was the album when it dawned on me that Costello was one of the greatest songwriters of his era.

 

[3KZ is Football]

 

[3KZ is Football]

“Condemned by Pravda …” Smirk

 

[Pamcake1]

1984 Madam Butterfly (un bel dì vedremo) [one fine day] Malcolm McLaren
Release 1984 12" Single Virgin Records.



Genius Cross Cultural Mix Maestro.
The most divisive figure in the 70-80's cultural firmament.
Madame Butterfly the first opera electronic mix that soars on kinetic wings...a tragic tale of love filtered through a contemporary cross cultural fine sieve.
Who else could, sum up the story in a couple of lines "My white honky, I do miss him. Someday soon he'll come around. Just to stop my nervous breakdown" Mind you the song has 3 seperate titles that begs the question how much is too much.
And present it with the layered aesthetic visuals of the clip.......sweat soaked swampy longing...corrupted beauty... exquisitely neurotic exotica.
(Where do you think the idea for Robert Palmers clip Addicted to Love got it's clues from)
Another visual reference is Ingres's 1814 painting 'Grande Odalisque' come to life.
To view the clip just press play...access has been put through the contemporary censor filter = Art is bad for you.


Recomended Reading:
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman Pub. 2020.
An excellent read that details why a closer look at one of the most hated, misunderstood and most inventive creative figures of last century is deserved.

 

[Mobbs]

1978 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Years Model
Released March 1978 London (Australia 1979) on Radar Records (Columbia)

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Single Pump It Up
"It was a satire. If you listen to the lyrics, it kind of goes against the grain of hedonism".
"Well, just how much can you *, how many drugs can you do before you get so numb you can't really feel anything?"
Elvis Costello Ref; Wiki

" She's like a chemical......."



Quintessential Elvis Costello.
A Master of Style Irony...who filtered the lyrical, visual & audial to create the smartest satire on the scene.
Declan McMannis , style setter nailed the look tie, sharp suits, shoes & geek glasses...the straight man with the contrasting blast of cerebral punk. Michael Caine in 'the Ipcress File' with a wry smile smuggling the goods.
Looking smooth as & moving like a jerk....pin point acuracy targetting minimalist shark suited sarcasm sharpishly.

The version by Automatic was featured on the soundtrack to Occasional Coarse Language.

Btw I dunno if I'm doing this right so tell me off if you need to. The only word in the thread title I actually know the definition of is "1983".

 

[Braklet]

The version by Automatic was featured on the soundtrack to Occasional Coarse Language.

Btw I dunno if I'm doing this right so tell me off if you need to. The only word in the thread title I actually know the definition of is "1983".

Pamcake1 is definitely an 80s documentarian!

 

[3KZ is Football]

Ok - much has been made by the Academic Staff at the Surf School about the year 1983, but there is something people need to know. Minutes of our last Consultative Collective Meeting indicate that ‘the conch’ was passed vigorously about the room after a motion was put that 1987 was a better year. It was narrowly defeated, but you be the judge.

1987 Playlist

1. ‘Just Like Heaven’ (The Cure)
2. ‘Lips Like Sugar’ (Echo and the Bunnymen)
3. The entire first side of ‘Document’ (REM)
4. ‘Alex Chiltern’ (The Replacements)
5. ‘London’ (The Smiths)
6. ‘Birthday’ (The Sugarcubes)
7. ‘Deus’ (The Sugarcubes)
8. ‘Happy When It Rains’ (Jesus and the Mary Chain)
9. ‘Beds are Burning’ (Midnight Oil)
10. ‘The Passenger’ (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
11. ‘Hey Jack Kerouac’ (10,000 Maniacs)
12. ‘The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death’ (The Housemartins)
13. ‘Big Decision’ (That Petrol Emotion)
14. ‘Sally Cinnamon’ (The Stone Roses)
15. ‘Mandinka’ (Sinead O’Connor)
16. ‘24 Hour Party People’ (The Happy Mondays)
17. ‘Could You Be The One’ (Husker Du)
18. ‘I’ve Been Tired’ (The Pixies)
19. ‘What’s My Scene’ (Hoodoo Gurus)
20. ‘Little Lighthouse’ (Dukes of Stratosphear)
21. The entire first side of ‘Strangeways Here We Come’ (The Smiths)
22. ‘North by North’ (The Bats)
23. ‘Block of Wood’ ( The Bats)
24. ‘Do You See What I See’ (Hunters and Collectors)
25. ‘Dumb Things’ (Paul Kelly)
26. ‘My Favourite Room’ (Lime Spiders)
27. ‘Winterland’ (Died Pretty)
28. ‘My Bag’ (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
29. ‘Dream Baby’ (X)
30. ‘I Say Nothing’ (Voice of the Beehive)
31. ‘Don’t Argue’ (Cabaret Voltaire)

Looking at this list I am reminded of how good 3RRR Breakfasters was when Chris Hatsis was hosting. These 31+ nominations would pass as the core playlist for the program that year.

 

[Pamcake1]

The Red Hand Files ISSUE #268 / JANUARY 2024 KOOKABURRA, 1983, BY BRETT WHITELEY

I have relocated to my partner’s country in the last few years with my family and find myself questioning more and more what home actually means to me. As an expat yourself, how do you reconcile this duality? MATHEW, GREENCASTLE, IRELAND Do you miss home? ANNIE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Dear Mathew and Annie, When I’m dead and gone and they put my remains in the ground, it will more than likely be into British soil that I’ll go — because the life I have built is here, in England, specifically London and Brighton, two cities I have come to love. But the essence of those dusty, mortal remains will be fully and resolutely Australian. This essential Australianness is in everything I do, and finds its fundamental difference in every place I go. We Australians can assimilate quite happily, people generally like us, but we can never suppress our antipodean nature. We are marked by it. We Aussies are always chaffing, just a little, against the worlds we find ourselves in when we venture beyond our glisteningshores. My generation of Australians are stereotypically loud and abrasive, our gestures are wider and take up more room, we are ruthlessly funny, unguarded, contrary and inappropriate, yet conversely conservative, stoic, compliant, fair and reasonable, and we love our mothers. What makes up the Australian character now I can’t claim to know—it’s been nearly fifty years since I lived there, and perhaps the whole notion of a national character has been brought into question — but I recognise the essential Australianness that was baked into me by a brash Victorian sun in almost everything I do, everything I create. How do I reconcile my duality? Well, I hold nothing but the deepest gratitude and affection for the country that has looked after me for most of my life, and that has given me so much, personally and professionally, but at the same time I remain faithful to my inherent nature, shaped by where I was born and raised. I carry my Australianness with me, not as an overbearing identity, but as a true and treasured pride. I am happy when I am described as an 'Australian' musician. I still stubbornly hold an Australian passport. I eat Vegemite instead of Marmite. I watch Norman Gunston reruns. I still argue that The Saints started punk rock. And at times, like today, as I look out at the English sea, stormy and crashing, and see the people on the seafront straining against the freezing wind, or when I am approached by an Australian on the street and I keep them talking just for the melancholy pleasure of hearing their accents, or I smell a Eucalyptus tree (they have them over here!) and remember the glorious, abrasive, garrulous Australian bush, I find myself quietly pining for Australia because, well, deep down I miss the bloody place — the nature, the people, my mother, my family. And then it passes, this bitter-sweet temper. So, Mathew and Annie, I am an Australian living in England, with a wistful yearning for the place of my upbringing, but knowing I have become part of, and been shaped by, somewhere else too — Britain — and mostly I am happily reconciled to that. Love, Nick His copyright. If you don't follow the RED HAND FILES.....it's easy to....I'll post this one the latest but that's it.

 

[Pamcake1]

The version by Automatic was featured on the soundtrack to Occasional Coarse Language.

Btw I dunno if I'm doing this right so tell me off if you need to. The only word in the thread title I actually know the definition of is "1983".

Free School....radical learning in the teach yourself model....there's no right or wrong in how you want to structure yourself. It helps to give me how old you were in 1983...if you want that is. We are teaching our culture when we were 21 in 1983...or just telling tales of our experiences....because people will forget and a lot of us are already gone but this is what we experienced growing up in Melbs...and you can of yours, it's a two way street...we are here to learn too. So totally up to you Mobbs...

 

[Mobbs]

Free School....radical learning in the teach yourself model....there's no right or wrong in how you want to structure yourself. It helps to give me how old you were in 1983...if you want that is. We are teaching our culture when we were 21 in 1983...or just telling tales of our experiences....because people will forget and a lot of us are already gone but this is what we experienced growing up in Melbs...and you can of yours, it's a two way street...we are here to learn too. So totally up to you Mobbs...

I was 13 in 1983. I was also a country lad at the time and used to sit in the backyard with a radio and see how far away I could get a reception from a radio station. Once I managed one from New Zealand lol. I grew up with Glen Ridge hosting "Off The Record" and the first vinyl single I owned was Christie Allen

 

[Pamcake1]

I was 13 in 1983. I was also a country lad at the time and used to sit in the backyard with a radio and see how far away I could get a reception from a radio station. Once I managed one from New Zealand lol. I grew up with Glen Ridge hosting "Off The Record" and the first vinyl single I owned was Christie Allen

I spent my secondary schooling in the country 72-78...My year was the first year that Gough Whitlam made all schools in Australia CO-ED. So I went to a Boys Technical College....400 boys and 30 girls..great school...I know how to make a horse shoe from scratch...so if we ever need those again which we just might...you never know....My school produced a lot of guys who were the first computer engineers...I lived in a share house with a one he built & programmed a robot in the lounge (forgot about stairs though so very short lived) and I met one guy a few years ago older by a decade invented something to do with barcodes and gets a tiny fraction from each time they're read...nice guy loved chatting to him about the old school. Our local radio station was 3BO...2 channels on the TV...Nilvern Worm Commercials take up some real estate in my brain....but then the 3XY Fanta bus with Issy Dye came to the local pool one summer...and Countdown.....have you read Boy on Fire? It covers Nick Cave's growing up in Wang really well.

 

[Pamcake1]

I was 13 in 1983. I was also a country lad at the time and used to sit in the backyard with a radio and see how far away I could get a reception from a radio station. Once I managed one from New Zealand lol. I grew up with Glen Ridge hosting "Off The Record" and the first vinyl single I owned was Christie Allen

The first vinyl single I ever owned was "Imagine' John Lennon I saved up my pocket money in 1971 for it....If I had to go country & flavour of that time, I'd play this cause my Saturday is chill out with the domestics...love the dial tone.....

 

[Pamcake1]

Pamcake1 is definitely an 80s documentarian!

I prefer Cultural Gypsy or Anthropological Refugee.....if I had to describe what I'm doing here..........

 

[Mobbs]

I spent my secondary schooling in the country 72-78...My year was the first year that Gough Whitlam made all schools in Australia CO-ED. So I went to a Boys Technical College....400 boys and 30 girls..great school...I know how to make a horse shoe from scratch...so if we ever need those again which we just might...you never know....My school produced a lot of guys who were the first computer engineers...I lived in a share house with a one he built & programmed a robot in the lounge (forgot about stairs though so very short lived) and I met one guy a few years ago older by a decade invented something to do with barcodes and gets a tiny fraction from each time they're read...nice guy loved chatting to him about the old school. Our local radio station was 3BO...2 channels on the TV...Nilvern Worm Commercials take up some real estate in my brain....but then the 3XY Fanta bus with Issy Dye came to the local pool one summer...and Countdown.....have you read Boy on Fire? It covers Nick Cave's growing up in Wang really well.

I've not read Boy on Fire, but I did see Nick Cave once, somewhere in St Kilda. PS: My local radio station was 3WM.

Always liked Jon English and the Dark Horses album was really impressive to me. Obviously his talents spread well outside just pop music with tv, movie and theatre acting roles as well as producing his own musical Paris. Sadly gone now, fell ill and died while organising a tour! rip

Here is a song from (I think it was) Beating The Boards, called Sad News. It's just ... thinks of some sexy tech terminology to use ... catchy!

 

[Pamcake1]

I'm still voting with Ralph...1979....revisited: