LOL, watching Rage at the moment, and we have had Christina's Genie in a Bottle, Britney's Baby One More Time, and the Spice Girls Wannabe. Maybe it is they broke with this song hour or something - I remember hearing Wannabe for the first time in a Warsaw hotel LOL. Mmm, borst dinner, vodka bar pool playing, and the sense of loss throughout the entire city.
The Jewish Ghetto Uprising, the later Polish Uprising when the Russians sat on the opposite side of the Vistula waiting for the Germans to wipe out all the non-Communist Poles, the fact that after the war the city was a pile of rubble, and was completely rebuilt, Saxon Gardens and the Eternal Flame there - where the sense of military loss is in the very essence of the city, it means something different there to all the other battlefields I have been to. It is as if Sydney, Wellington, New York or Toronto had been flattened during wartime - not putting down Gallipoli or the Somme or Gettysberg or hmm Vimy Ridge, but the Polish capital city bled white for five whole years.
Imagine if Paris or even Rome had gotten that treatment during the war. Was a good documentary on SBS earlier in the evening, about how brutal the Eastern Front was, and how the Soviets weren't so much liberating Eastern Europe as taking reprisals against the Germans. Was it ninety or ninety five percent of all German casualties being on the Eastern Front? Something like that. And Warsaw soaks it all up - whereas Berlin felt like quiet humiliation for what their leaders did twice in the last century, but feels it has a right to mourn as well, and the post Soviet cities - Leningrad, Moscow, Smolensk, Minsk - all had a triumphalism in agony feel about their war memorials, Warsaw felt like just a quiet city that got flattened and then picked itself up and got on with things. Or have I taken too much poetic license in all this?
Hmm, have the Jacksons doing a double at the moment - Blame It On The Boogie, and Can You Feel It - the latter song the backing track to The Tamperer with Maya Feel It - memories of 1998 clubbing in Croydon coming back. Mmm, London, Radio One, all the touristy bits at the start of any London based movie LOL.
But my point, my point was, look at the music the guy made, up until perhaps the hubris of Earth Song back in hmm 95 or so? He had the kids wandering around him on the stage at concerts looking at him as if he was god or something? And now he, Michael Jackson, has just barely missed a bullet with this abuse case, and could either be shunned like OJ (although I think OJ has more to be legitimitely thankful for, with the strength of the respective cases, as seen by Joe Public here) or to make a comeback of some sort.
When I had a think about it, wasn't Howard Hughes the nut of the 50s and 60s? And they make a movie about him called The Aviator, well maybe in thirty or forty years time they will make a Michael Jackson movie called The Entertainer LOL. He never did look comfortable in those videos where he was supposedly chasing a female love interest though, hmm. And the only thing I have heard on the news from Mr Jackson since the trial was that he wasn't going to have kids sleeping over at Neverland anymore - well duh LOL.
This latest vid is of Michael at about hmm twelve perhaps singing Rockin Robin in black and white (the colour scheme on TV, not the later song LOL). In tasselled stars and stripes bellbottoms and a flowery vest - he really didn't have a childhood did he? Not giving excuses or anything, there is a difference between liking kids and having a mid life crisis as big as he seemed to from the mid nineties on...
What is this? Nutjob musician hour or something LOL? Just had Jerry Lee Lewis who married his thirteen year old cousin (how quaint scandals seemed to be in the mid sixties LOL) to Gary Glitter who if I remember rightly had kiddie porn on his computer hmmph. But it is good music, more's the pity - well, it's late at night, I can revoke that comment in the morning regards Mr Glitter's stuff LOL.
But dayum, these guest programmers tonight are good - Handsome Boy Modelling School, two American DJs. Although I am glad I missed Mmm Bop, and NKOTB's The Right Stuff - 'oh, oh ohoh oh' indeed LOL. I did catch Missy Elliot's Work It - geez, was thinking the song wasn't that old, but I remember it being out when I was gymming with SWI in Wellington back in hmm 2002. Where has this decade gotten off to?
I guess I can't stay up another hour just for one song huh? It is Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz, but hmm, I guess I can download it to listen to it ('I'm happy, feeling sad, I got sunshine, in a bag, I'm useless, but not for long, my future, is coming on, is coming on' - or did I get the lyrics wrong LOL). And if it was Israel's Son by Silverchair, and the High Fidelity Jack Black version of Let's Get It On instead of Tomorrow and School of Rock it would be much better.
Well, surprise surprise, the latest EU summit was a flop - lucky lucky Luxembourg, get to fob off all the issues to Britain as next rotating president. Just wondering, when was the last time something this serious happened to the 'European project' - serious in a derailing sense I mean. This is much worse than Austria democratically voting in some right wing nutjobs. Bloody Chirac wanting to deflect attention from the constitution vote to the UK rebate, we may see a two speed Europe or even perhaps the Brits finally becoming the fifty first US state LOL.
Goodness, just flicked to the cricket, and the Bangladeshi's only need 47 runs from six overs to win, with six wickets in hand OMG, can the Aussie team lose THREE in a row on this tour? And against Bangladesh of all teams? And Somerset, the team that pasted them so well the other day, lost to Scotland yesterday LOL.
And can advise that the programmers of Rage tonight, Handsome Boy Modelling School, can actually do OK music as well - in a slow, funky DJ kind of way. Just have to scoot soon because my four hour ISP window is about up, and I don't want or need to reconnect again.
Pauly
The Jewish Ghetto Uprising, the later Polish Uprising when the Russians sat on the opposite side of the Vistula waiting for the Germans to wipe out all the non-Communist Poles, the fact that after the war the city was a pile of rubble, and was completely rebuilt, Saxon Gardens and the Eternal Flame there - where the sense of military loss is in the very essence of the city, it means something different there to all the other battlefields I have been to. It is as if Sydney, Wellington, New York or Toronto had been flattened during wartime - not putting down Gallipoli or the Somme or Gettysberg or hmm Vimy Ridge, but the Polish capital city bled white for five whole years.
Imagine if Paris or even Rome had gotten that treatment during the war. Was a good documentary on SBS earlier in the evening, about how brutal the Eastern Front was, and how the Soviets weren't so much liberating Eastern Europe as taking reprisals against the Germans. Was it ninety or ninety five percent of all German casualties being on the Eastern Front? Something like that. And Warsaw soaks it all up - whereas Berlin felt like quiet humiliation for what their leaders did twice in the last century, but feels it has a right to mourn as well, and the post Soviet cities - Leningrad, Moscow, Smolensk, Minsk - all had a triumphalism in agony feel about their war memorials, Warsaw felt like just a quiet city that got flattened and then picked itself up and got on with things. Or have I taken too much poetic license in all this?
Hmm, have the Jacksons doing a double at the moment - Blame It On The Boogie, and Can You Feel It - the latter song the backing track to The Tamperer with Maya Feel It - memories of 1998 clubbing in Croydon coming back. Mmm, London, Radio One, all the touristy bits at the start of any London based movie LOL.
But my point, my point was, look at the music the guy made, up until perhaps the hubris of Earth Song back in hmm 95 or so? He had the kids wandering around him on the stage at concerts looking at him as if he was god or something? And now he, Michael Jackson, has just barely missed a bullet with this abuse case, and could either be shunned like OJ (although I think OJ has more to be legitimitely thankful for, with the strength of the respective cases, as seen by Joe Public here) or to make a comeback of some sort.
When I had a think about it, wasn't Howard Hughes the nut of the 50s and 60s? And they make a movie about him called The Aviator, well maybe in thirty or forty years time they will make a Michael Jackson movie called The Entertainer LOL. He never did look comfortable in those videos where he was supposedly chasing a female love interest though, hmm. And the only thing I have heard on the news from Mr Jackson since the trial was that he wasn't going to have kids sleeping over at Neverland anymore - well duh LOL.
This latest vid is of Michael at about hmm twelve perhaps singing Rockin Robin in black and white (the colour scheme on TV, not the later song LOL). In tasselled stars and stripes bellbottoms and a flowery vest - he really didn't have a childhood did he? Not giving excuses or anything, there is a difference between liking kids and having a mid life crisis as big as he seemed to from the mid nineties on...
What is this? Nutjob musician hour or something LOL? Just had Jerry Lee Lewis who married his thirteen year old cousin (how quaint scandals seemed to be in the mid sixties LOL) to Gary Glitter who if I remember rightly had kiddie porn on his computer hmmph. But it is good music, more's the pity - well, it's late at night, I can revoke that comment in the morning regards Mr Glitter's stuff LOL.
But dayum, these guest programmers tonight are good - Handsome Boy Modelling School, two American DJs. Although I am glad I missed Mmm Bop, and NKOTB's The Right Stuff - 'oh, oh ohoh oh' indeed LOL. I did catch Missy Elliot's Work It - geez, was thinking the song wasn't that old, but I remember it being out when I was gymming with SWI in Wellington back in hmm 2002. Where has this decade gotten off to?
I guess I can't stay up another hour just for one song huh? It is Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz, but hmm, I guess I can download it to listen to it ('I'm happy, feeling sad, I got sunshine, in a bag, I'm useless, but not for long, my future, is coming on, is coming on' - or did I get the lyrics wrong LOL). And if it was Israel's Son by Silverchair, and the High Fidelity Jack Black version of Let's Get It On instead of Tomorrow and School of Rock it would be much better.
Well, surprise surprise, the latest EU summit was a flop - lucky lucky Luxembourg, get to fob off all the issues to Britain as next rotating president. Just wondering, when was the last time something this serious happened to the 'European project' - serious in a derailing sense I mean. This is much worse than Austria democratically voting in some right wing nutjobs. Bloody Chirac wanting to deflect attention from the constitution vote to the UK rebate, we may see a two speed Europe or even perhaps the Brits finally becoming the fifty first US state LOL.
Goodness, just flicked to the cricket, and the Bangladeshi's only need 47 runs from six overs to win, with six wickets in hand OMG, can the Aussie team lose THREE in a row on this tour? And against Bangladesh of all teams? And Somerset, the team that pasted them so well the other day, lost to Scotland yesterday LOL.
And can advise that the programmers of Rage tonight, Handsome Boy Modelling School, can actually do OK music as well - in a slow, funky DJ kind of way. Just have to scoot soon because my four hour ISP window is about up, and I don't want or need to reconnect again.
Pauly
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