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another crack at the same gem

I am intrigued by this version of 'This time' from Countdown, mainly because they're clearly not singing the same stuff as on the actual record, yet they (or Marc in particular) is plainly miming - badly, as usual. Still completely majestic. Poor Kerry Jacobson - pretending to play a dead man's beat. You will note by about 0:55 someone has given Marc a spectral icon to bandy.
Look I know it's been 32 years now, so I really should get over it myself, but I am still amazed that this group could lose their drummer to accidental death from heroin and just shrug and get on with it; I sort of admire it, but I sort of feel freaked out by it too. I suppose it was the times...? But no-one seemed to condemn them at all...?!

walker hutchence speed kills

I have been greatly enjoying Don Walker's book Shots. Some of it is pretty grisly. But that's Don Walker. I like this track too. The last time I saw it on YouTube some bright spark had cut the Walker half of the song out, thus creating bad art. Much of DW's solo work and the work he released under the name Catfish is very fine.

when life gives you lemons...

You are lucky, because they are expensive. Our lemon tree is always on the verge of giving us lemons but never quite comes across. It doesn't help that I am never quite sure which is the lemon tree and which is the lime. And you know, I have another question, are chilis baby capsicums? I have a video about Carthage, watched a bit of it, no good, then later I appreciated why I always felt a bit uneasy when I saw its title, it's because I confused it with carnage. So like Evie part 1, got my 'puter on the table, got the books to write the lecture, got the coffee on the stovie... for some reason it's not entirely coming together. There's no urgency I guess because it's almost all done really it just has to coalesce. What's coalesce again? Control+F5? Or is that the ejector seat?

old man

Yesterday there I was at the checkout at West Brunswick Coles, trying to swipe my medicare card in the swipe, er, thing. Finally I realised it was my medicare card. 'Oh christ,' I said, 'that's my medicare card.' The woman serving (ostensibly) said, 'I didn't want to say anything...' My only response was 'It's not a test!' Then I managed to find my real ATM card. 'See,' I said to the other customers and the woman, 'same green'. That must have reassured them.

seventh uncle

Just a belated acknowledgment that my fourth niece of seven nepheices was born on Monday. Her name is Florence and for the first day of her life she had a pointed head. I met her on Tuesday, at which time she yawned and shrieked. No pictures yet.