Ah... but do we still get the last Friday in September off as a public holiday?
These are important questions that must be addressed by the highest authorities.
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It won't find its way into anyone's 'Uplift in Isolation' playlist, but a great version of a great song.
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But without the benefit of Google I'd go with Willie Nelson.
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Great song. Who did the original?
The song's ambience,rather than the specificity of the words, tonight strikes a chord. Lifes at a pivotal moment, almost balanced on a razor's edge, and any maudlin or self-accusatory song jockeys for prominence. Haven't heard Cash's version of the Nick Cave song 'mercy seat'.
Wish I had Spotify to create a playlist of similar dark songs. False economy. In lieu of spending a few bucks, my craving for some randomly pre packaged dark music is denied. You know those times when your thoughts and feelings fall into a groove, and compatible words, music, even visuals are desired to sustain it?
So let's go find Cash's 'Mercy Seat' version.
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The original of 'Hurt' is by Nine Inch Nails. The sound is more industrial, detached, barren in the NIN version, but Cash's voice manages to take the heartbreak of the tune and make it something even more traumatic. Impressive.
I like JC's version of 'The Mercy Seat', but I urge you to find some different Nick Cave versions of his own original. It's my favourite Cave song, and his piano-fired version adds another dimension to it.
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I have heard a few live Nick Cave versions of the Mercy Seat. I watched the JC version and like it, including the accompanying scenes from the old black and white Jimmy Cagney movie. But if raw emotions is what I'm seeking, which I am, I couldn't bypass Nick Cave.
Had a listen neilk. Don't think so.
It was an acoustic version.
They had a two hour segment of acoustic versions of songs.
The John Wesley one I listened to on youtube wasn't acoustic.
Love Nick Cave.
Australia, like most countries, under-taxes capital and over-taxes income.
We make this worse by allowing family trusts to distribute profit and income to low-tax paying family members (and their partners etc) every year.
Our superannuation system has been distorted by wealthy individuals shifting millions into a tax protected environment.
And negative gearing has inflated the residential property market.
The main beneficiaries of these tax deductions are the already-wealthy and older Australians.
The main long-term economic victims of Covid-19 will be poorer and younger Australians.
The closing of the economy was necessary on a number of levels. And the main health beneficiaries are older Australians.
Economic and social justice, and especially the wellbeing of our younger citizens, is dependent upon re-basing our tax system post-Corona.
PS many in the cash economy have been unable to get JobKeeper because they cannot demonstrate an income fall. Combined with ‘tap and go’, the cash economy is taking a big whack.
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People have always come up with conspiracies. Refusing to get vaccinated, the U.S landing on the moon, flat earthers… but if I’m to use my Facebook feed as evidence this has hit some sort of peak with the covid-19 pandemic.
Perhaps, some people feel better about themselves when they can belong to a small enlightened group that can “see the truth”; the rest of the masses are just sheeple that they can all pity.
For others it might be the inability to separate fact from speculation or just being awfully bad at basic maths. As an example, to assert that covid-19 is just like the flu is dismissing important data like the higher contagion rate of covid and how that exponential growth would play out over time to overwhelm health systems.
It is very confronting when bad shit that we have no control over happens and changes the way we live. People need to be able to explain and apportion blame: <Insert rich powerful human or organisation/government here> has conspired to do this, they want more power and control over us! Humans crave certainty, for some believing that the pandemic was engineered by Dr Evil is preferable to reality.
Government ministers can’t take a taxpayer funded trip to Bali without getting caught, yet here we have teams of thousands secretly installing virus spreading 5G towers. Even if they wanted to, the average large corporation or govt. department is too inefficient to organise any conspiracy of this magnitude. In one way, I hope my conspiracy believing friends get relief from that.
I probably could have spent the minutes that it took to write this doing something more productive.
Perhaps, some people feel better about themselves when they can belong to a small enlightened group that can “see the truth”; the rest of the masses are just sheeple that they can all pity.
For others it might be the inability to separate fact from speculation or just being awfully bad at basic maths. As an example, to assert that covid-19 is just like the flu is dismissing important data like the higher contagion rate of covid and how that exponential growth would play out over time to overwhelm health systems.
It is very confronting when bad shit that we have no control over happens and changes the way we live. People need to be able to explain and apportion blame: <Insert rich powerful human or organisation/government here> has conspired to do this, they want more power and control over us! Humans crave certainty, for some believing that the pandemic was engineered by Dr Evil is preferable to reality.
Government ministers can’t take a taxpayer funded trip to Bali without getting caught, yet here we have teams of thousands secretly installing virus spreading 5G towers. Even if they wanted to, the average large corporation or govt. department is too inefficient to organise any conspiracy of this magnitude. In one way, I hope my conspiracy believing friends get relief from that.
I probably could have spent the minutes that it took to write this doing something more productive.
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I theorise about conspiracy theories, too. They irk me as much as the word 'irk'. One problem is that genuine conspiracies happen from time to time, but conspiracy crackpots make it a harder task to make the case.
Some of them are self-serving. A fringe of climate change denialists are a case in point, the ones who argue that climate science is a hoax designed to empower a new elite, form a one-world government, and/or tear down capitalism. The gun lobby is another example, or the elements of it which tell us that gun massacres in the US are a hoax, part of a plan to get them to give up their guns/'rights'. Some of these people don't intend to establish their 'truth', but they're happy enough to muddy the waters of public debate in order to undermine any push for change.
As you say, others seem to seek gratification by holding onto a 'truth' which goes against the grain. Maybe they're harmless, but in times where public health relies upon the strength of each link in the chain, maybe not. Some it seems related to a distrust of expertise and authority, which has been building for a few decades now, and which manifests itself in unproductive ways.
My thoughts are a bit disconnected. Need my first coffee of the day to hook me back into the Matrix.
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Unlike most of us, he's been getting better as the years roll on. His voice is shot, not much to start with, but the songwriting is on another planet.
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The Cash "American" series albums were all very good. Included some sensational covers and duets. I think he even did a duet with Nick Cave but can't recall what song they did.
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I think that Cave went into the studio and played piano for Cash's version of 'The Mercy Seat', I have some memory of Cave being chuffed by it all.
They are great albums by the great man.
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i've had a computer for ages. I even invested in commodore 64s and dick smith kits in the early days. For much of that time, I've been using Microsoft windows and DOS before it. Also, for most of that time, I've been trying to find ways to escape the exorbitant prices of Windows....getting student versions. Trying to get fake copies etc. Unfortunately, I've still had to sink quite a deal of my hard earned money into buying Microsoft software.
Finally, there's a bit of payoff for all this investment. In a fit of shame a few years back and in an attempt to write his name in history for something other than selling overpriced software in a monopolistic environment, Bill Gates and his wife are putting some of my (and millions of others) money back into dealing with malaria etc and the corona virus.
Thanks a lot Bill. It's an interesting question about whether you've made an overall positive contribution to humanity but at least you're heading in the right direction.
Finally, there's a bit of payoff for all this investment. In a fit of shame a few years back and in an attempt to write his name in history for something other than selling overpriced software in a monopolistic environment, Bill Gates and his wife are putting some of my (and millions of others) money back into dealing with malaria etc and the corona virus.
Thanks a lot Bill. It's an interesting question about whether you've made an overall positive contribution to humanity but at least you're heading in the right direction.
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I gave you a like for the C64 reference.
I am moving boxes from my former house to my current house
In my break, I read that Elon Musk is selling all of his possessions (presume he will at least keep a Tesla and his undies)
The routine of pack and unpack is a reminder of material burden and waste
A part of me, maybe the Frankston part, would like to borrow one of Elon's flamethrowers and torch the boxes I have yet to lug
In my break, I read that Elon Musk is selling all of his possessions (presume he will at least keep a Tesla and his undies)
The routine of pack and unpack is a reminder of material burden and waste
A part of me, maybe the Frankston part, would like to borrow one of Elon's flamethrowers and torch the boxes I have yet to lug
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Very true.
Downsize, streamline, and simplify is my motto going forward.
I have too many "things" that add only clutter and stress.
Nothing like the stress of a move to bring all that to the fore.
Everytime the family has relocated it has been to upsize; next time won't be.
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