| Men at Work – Down Under Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I'd sign it. | |
| Men at Work – Down Under Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I'd sign it. | |
| Men at Work – Down Under Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"this simbalises Australias exporting of Quality products and its refusal to buy second rate stuff." I reckon we may have cut one corner too many on State education. |
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| Men at Work – Down Under Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A "Combie" is one of those boxy VW Campervans, which surfers often own. They have a ton of room in the back for surfboards, and you can sleep in them. As for Markopolo2211's idea that "the thunder" is the Australian army, I have to say that the idea is so ultra-nationalistic that it makes me feel unwell. To me, it seems a lot more likely that "the thunder" is literally the thunder that precedes a tropical downpour in equatorial areas, such as Northern Australia. If the "the thunder is being used figuratively, I suspect that M@W are referring to how loud and obnoxious we Australians can be when abroad. If I were a shopkeeper at Kuta beach, who heard the "thunder" of a dozen pissed, loud-mouthed, ultra-nationalist Australians on the way, I'd "run and take cover" too. (Jeezus, the previous posts make me feel uneasy. Australia has a good standard of living, but the disparity between rich & poor has been growing steadily for the last 30-40 years, and our treatment of our indigenous citizens has been abominable. We do 'punch above our weight' in science and sport, but we're only willing to pay for the latter: Australian academics are pathetically underpaid in comparative (PPP) terms. Generally, we spend more time at work than any other nation in the developed world: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time The average Australian spends 1855 hours/year at work, which is more than the average Japanese worker and 200 hours/year more than the average first-world worker. We've been lucky to find ourselves sitting on the world's biggest sheep farm/open cut mine for the last few centuries, but that's not where the money will be in the future. It's incredible to me that Steve Jobs had a 'mere' $6.7 billion when he died, compared with Gina Reinhart's current $20 billion, almost all inherited from her father who 'made it' by landing the family Cessna in a gorge that had obvious chunks of (almost pure) iron ore showing. The Cessna plane was almost certainly paid for by the tax-payers (almost every expense is tax-deductible for farmers and hence subsidised by city people), but Reinhart and the other billionaires were outraged by the idea of a tax on mining super-profits. Shrug. What do we rule? |
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| David Bowie – Heroes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I was in my mid-teens when I heard this. Luckily my dad got a job in the Netherlands soon after, so I spent three months bumming around Europe when I was about fifteen. My first stop was Berlin and Hansa by the Wall, where this was recorded. The Berlin Wall was still there and I spent hours looking over the floodlit nightime snow & ice of no-mans land, while East German soldiers stared back. Magic. The collapse of the Wall was a good thing, but Berlin just isn't the same. |
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| David Bowie – The Bewlay Brothers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wouldn't say the song was meaningless. Bowie frequently used the cut-up technique (popularised by William Burroughs) which is like fridge magnet poetry: the selection of words is limited and the trick or art is to make something meaningful and interesting from the limited choices you're given. The fact that Burroughs used the same method doesn't make his writing 'meaningless' any more than Bowie's. (If you haven't played this game on a computer or phone or refrigerator door, see for yourself.) One last point. Do they lyrics really say "Bewlay brothers"? There are lots of places around London called "Bewley." |
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| David Bowie – The Bewlay Brothers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wouldn't say the song was meaningless. Bowie frequently used the cut-up technique (popularised by William Burroughs) which is like fridge magnet poetry: the selection of words is limited and the trick or art is to make something meaningful and interesting from the limited choices you're given. The fact that Burroughs used the same method doesn't make his writing 'meaningless' any more than Bowie's. (If you haven't played this game on a computer or phone or refrigerator door, see for yourself.) One last point. Do they lyrics really say "Bewlay brothers"? There are lots of places around London called "Bewley." |
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| David Bowie – The Bewlay Brothers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wouldn't say the song was meaningless. Bowie frequently used the cut-up technique (popularised by William Burroughs) which is like fridge magnet poetry: the selection of words is limited and the trick or art is to make something meaningful and interesting from the limited choices you're given. The fact that Burroughs used the same method doesn't make his writing 'meaningless' any more than Bowie's. (If you haven't played this game on a computer or phone or refrigerator door, see for yourself.) One last point. Do they lyrics really say "Bewlay brothers"? There are lots of places around London called "Bewley." |
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