This week's song is a Coelacanth track.Just when I'm getting my ass handed to me in the Jack Kerouac Memorial League and the Yankees are stumbling around .500, I am posting up this song here.
What is this? It's a baseball spiritual, for wont of a better genre.
The song started out long ago as a 2 chord jam between me and Chris. We had a few attempts at turning it into a song which never went anywhere, and it even had lyrics inspired by "The Book of Five Rings" by Musashi Miyamoto. Chella Elaine said she always liked that one, but alas, we never really had an arrangement that worked for it while we played as a 3-piece.
Many years went by and here we are, it's seeing the light of day as an homage to Roy Hobbs, as opposed to Musashi Miyamoto. Why? Because I was trying to dovetail it into the concept of 'The American Century' which has guided all the other Coelacanth tracks.
Anyway, do check it out. It's not half-bad at all in my estimation. :)
From The Letter Box
Came this link:Do you love Harry Potter, but think you're too old and too awesome to be seen reading the books?Indeed, it's very wrong... but the title with the little penguin caught my fancy!
We have the solution, my friend. Print these out and you can safely read your Potter in front of all those ex Navy SEALS at the local strip club.
Doc Terror
So...Dr. Haneef is released on bail, but Kevin Andrews immediately rips up his 457 visa, which sends the doctor to Villawood Detention Centre. You should've seen the idiotic Kevin Andrews on the 7:30 report.
All he did was basically say that he evoked the visa in his capacity as Minister for Immigration; that it had nothing to do with the court case where the Judge saw fit to grant Dr Haneef bail; and it was not going to affect the public at all. Over and over and over and over again. As if it were a mantra, more than a thought-out piece of action. I can't believe they let such a dimwit into seats of power, let alone in charge of a whole ministry... but we've seen that before with the likes of Ian Campbell and Amanda Vanstone. So much for the benefits of Democracy.
Worse still, Kerry O'Brien kept trying to squeeze him for a quote to recognise the difference between an "innocent association" and a "guilty association". Well, that's O'Brien insisting on a trial by media while slamming the possibility that the Government might have created a bias in the public perception regarding Dr Haneef. *Ugh*
What counts for democratic discourse is woefully inadequate in this country.
God help us all from these Anti-Terror legislation, for we are indeed more terrified of them!
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