another cold day in sydnee town
im up early
back in the saddle again
i just noticed last night
that about 50 per cent of shows on tv
are about murder
aint that strange?
that for entertainment
after a long day under the fluoros
or drivin a taxi (hi g + g)
or diggin' ditches
people sit around n watch shows about
murder
eg
forensic investigation
crossing jordan
(nothing to do with holly)
but" its a race against time as the entire morgue
works to stop a series of bloody murders"
then theres
serious crash unit
infamous murders
ncis(a pentagon cryptographer is found dead)
cold case
law n order
etc etc etc
jus' check yer local tv guide
youll be shocked by the blood n gore
thats dished up on yer screen
EVERY FUCKING NIGHT
can ya believe it
theyre dishing up murder
as entertainment
here mr smith
drink yer booze
smoke yer fags
n watch yer murder
n get back down that factory at 7 every morning
pay yer taxes
eat yer steak
and get yer 2 weeks holidays
out of 52
yeah theres a good deal for ya....
people i thought murder
was a crime most hideous
the worst n most unalterable crime
thou shalt not kill baybee
yet half or more tv shows are
dramatizations of this heinous act
sposed to "entertain" ya
whether its some english dopey detective
stumbling thru the clues in a little village
or some hard hitting yankee cop
trackin' down the bad guys in brooklyn
or some coroner in nsw
HOW THE FUCK DID WE COME TO ACCEPT THIS TRIPE?
cmon cmon
aint this just a small example of how its all gone so wrong?
ya cannae watch people creating life on yer telly
but every nite ya can see em getting blown away
poisoned
strangled
beaten
and then the gruesome inquests n trials
why the hell do we need this?
its bullshit, my people
pure bullshit
n they tell ya pots bad for ya!
the opposition leader in australia
eg the labor party dude
is a great pudgy useless slimy imbecile
hes had a million makeovers n new suits
still hes what he is
a great pudgy useless wally
no ones ever voted for the turkey
n they aint gonna start anytime soon
why why why labor...?
here i am
the next pm of australia
im here
im a genius
im a socialist
ive got charisma oozing from every poor pore
(its pouring)
im an ex debating champ
i could look good in an expensive suit n floral shirt
already got a sun tan..no extra cost for tanning lounge
ok i dont know anything bout the "issues"
but neither does olde useless they got now
i could be briefed n de briefed
i look good in my briefs actually
i'd withdraw all our troops from anywhere
i'd go for the rich bastards not paying any taxes
(a cuppla years ago one of austs richest men
claimed taxable income of 160 grand n got away with it!)
i'd fuckin sort it out for single mums, students, pensioneers
disableds n ex rockstars
we'd all be on easy street
if we sold a few of our useless fuckin jets
cmon who are we gonna dogfight with...
the red baron?
buy the kids in school some rockn roll instruments
didja know the greedy greedy bastards in parliament
also just voted to give emselves more super n more pensions etc
a bipartisan movement in fact
tha only thing those crooked lying swine could agree on
pay ourselves more
more perks, more lurks
have ya ever watched the disgraceful behaviour
(they screen "live" parliament between murder shows)
talentless tepid vapid insipid nobodies feebly rowing w/ eachother
(except about getting more money natch)
jesus politics is screaming out for me
someone with a bit of pizazz
(but not pizzas)
christ, i'd look good addressing the nation
can you imagine
"my dear fellow australians,
ive cancelled the war,
ive made marijuana legal
ive lowered parliaments wages, super n perks
n im givin it back to the nurses n hospitals
n schools n orphans n sick people etc etc
WHERE ITS SPOSED TO BE
didja know if one of these pricks can stay in for 7 years
THEY GET PAID FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES INDEXED TO INFLATION???
thats bullshit
why should they?
i'll fucking change all that
cmon peter garretts in there already
we need more olde rockers in there
we could fill parliament with em
WE COULDNT DO A WORSE JOB THAN KIM BEAZLEY
even his name...kim beazley
jesus
how can a man be called kim?
oh my fiendss
look around ya
this world is so mixed up
b bon sorry to hear bout yer kid
what the hells that about
we can invade irakistan
but we cant look after our own kids afterschool
but if ya vote for sk
im gonna put an end to it
im gonna ask them hard questions
im gonna get all that violence off the telly too
maybe people could watch some nice stuff for a change
stuff that dont de sensitize em to crime
get murder off tv
get morgues off tv
get the copsnrobbers off tv
get the guns n violence off tv
gee theres other stuff in this world too
like nature n art n music n
all kinds of lovely things
we should all be as happy as kings
listen if kim beazley ever wins an election
i'll run around bondi stark naked
with good on ya kimbo
tattooed on my ass
but i dont think its gonna happen
he aint gonna..
he cant...
he wont...
labor needs me
this country needs me
the world needs me
my first act will be to halve my own wages
i'll go on livin' in bondi
i'll go on space rockin' n bloggin' too
politics i'll sort out between my laps n chi gong
how hard can it bee?
theres a million advisers...aint there?
i'd whip the shiny bums into shape too!
i'd sort out the lot of em....
what are ya waiting for mah people
are ya voting for me yet?
if ya from somewhere other than orstrayliah
send in an absentee vote
fuck em
we need to cheat to make this happen
they dont play by the rules...
why should we?
soon i will be your beloved leader
and everything will be spacey
i wanna be elected!!!
the right hon. s j kilbey esquire
member for bohemia
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It has occurred to me that one must tear down the fabric of our evolutionarily messed up society just so that i may enjoy a beautiful blue sky unsullied by the blemish of a jet liner.
wish i could join you under such a sky, my bohemian friend.
murder murder murder.....**sigh**...we aren't so far removed from the ancient romans with their spectacles of death in the colosseum, are we?? human nature is the same now as then, and unfortunately i don't see it improving for the future....call me pessimistic, but that's my view. if things haven't changed in this amount of time, i don't see it happening anytime soon (or later.)
hell, yeah, steve~~i'll vote for you!! i'll expatriate from the united states, become an australian citizen, and vote for you!! you wanna be elected~~we want you to win. here's my vote, what ballot box do i put it in??
are you talking about politics down under or IN THE UNITED STATES OF FREAKIN' AMERICA??
oh, hell yes,,,,it's the same bullshit here too.
(and murder everynite on tv,too!
where is the football game?)
i'd vote for ya!! just move back to USA.
steve koontz
high point, nc
Ya got my vote.
I'm all for getting rid of that crap they call entertainment on our tellies.
All pollies are Slugs, Worms and just fucked up fat cats. Fuck em
DD
go on kilbs, I'd vote for you. Maybe in the meantime you can set up a cool cat rock god tent embassy somewhere.
xL
weeeeeeee! lookie here blogs all over the place Orpheus
politics are politics all over the place.
not worth anything because they don't cost anything
so we get what we pay for...
xo
Mary
The 2 party system, which votes on party lines is totally wrong. When one of them votes on conscience there is a major uproar. They have turned the parliament into a football match, full of fat drunks.
Beasley may get elected yet
(implausible as that seems) remember little johnny was a 3 time loser before becoming an enmormous loser.
Labour used to be for the ordinary person now I don't know what they are.
Bob Brown's having a go but he's a lone voice.
We don't hear much from Peter Garrett, asleep on the backbench.
SK's back!!!
Thats the fire we all know about...(best way to climb back to #1 is with bloggies like that.
Yeah!!!
I would not only vote for ya Kilb.. I would take a few portfolios..recline back in my office crankin up the Choich and free'in all the creative thoughts from my head (drawing,writing) Oh 9.45..meeting with the Right Honorable Kilbey Eskquire and discuss...Agenda.1 as the minister for broardcasting
The networks Ten, Seven, Nine.. Fox crap USA...(fuc et! anything from the states..can all fuc off...see ya Murdock..I hope ya REMEMBER PACKERS LEGACY...
abc network canne stay but needs a little renovation however.
"SK will ya sign off that one"...
"Sure will my dear Matt"
all you tv Exec Fuccers canne clean up the Yarra River with ya tounge..
ya got two days to do it! also ya aint never aloud to go to NeeewZeeeland..Banned
Yep DONE!
Hey SK ya wanna go down to that little cafe, grab a soy and manuka smoothie play a couple of songies on ya basse and draw up
a few piccies of our new parliment
Sure Matt lets go..
Lv
Honourable SK,
Big problem. To attract the popular masses you need to change your name. Something like Kyle Kilbey would fit.
I'll vote for ya, baybee!!
X
public television
is very nice though
Antiques Roadshow
and British Comedy!
Don't forget to make us a republic, el presidente.
Ya got my vote, SK. Being from a commonwealth country i must get some kinda easy entree should you win. in that case, i'm moving.
and if the straights overthrow ya and force you into exile, i know just the place to go on the lam (on the lamb ;-) Doh! I've said too much!
ryan
s j kilbey esquire
member for bohemia
has a nice ring to it
i'll have to vote
by absentee ballot
but you've got
my vote sk
your political
platform is
rock solid
and
you made me laugh
out loud
at least
six times in
this one bloggie
for that alone
i love you
make love
not war baybee
xoxo
diane
sk
i'm votin for the rock-god party. steve kilbo, yes indeed. we need a theme song though...what shall it be??? we'll run on jazzy reptile and we'll accept the nomination with unified field. next term we'll try easy.
yeah man count me in,
one more richard
I totally agree about the stuff they're filling TV-land with. I don't even watch TV any more other than little bits I see when other people are watching something.
I also agree with you about the political situation, in that I don't think the US is that different. Crooked politicians about, inflating their own egos and paychecks/pensions and little else.
I'm glad Garrett is in office (though I haven't heard anything about him lately?) and if you have the desire to serve then I hope you do make the effort. I have doubts about how much you can accomplish in office without playing their crooked games, but I guess there's only one way to find out.
Daniel W.
tv in the house brings:
cash cab
jeopardy
the office
coupling
my name is earl
on the tip of my tongue
the simpsons
masterpiece theater
battlestar galactica
lost
some food shows
sponge bob
no news (just the weather)
no murder
no unreality
no doctor shows
no mtv
no vh1
I'd like to kick the tv habit, yet I'm a recovering broadcasting major.
PS: Who the fk keeps calling me and hanging up???????????
Seriously...dude, I'd vote for you in a New York fuckin' minute (sorry Joycie)...a leader to be proud of. I am so sick of hearing Georgie spit out his back-peddling lies, all those fat old chumpy good ole'boys hovering around him nodding their heads. Only thing I ask is for you to make it easier for wayward "Amerkans" to emmigrate to Oz. I do love America in many ways, but, well...you know. That is where I belong anyway I think, Oz's calling man. As usual, I could not agree more. I love the RED BARON bit the most! That cracked me up, just picturing these F-whatevers skating around some floundering tri-plane(or bi-plane?) I almost spit my cokie cola all over my damned flouro-lit desk here at my werk place. Now, I have to go home and comfort my sweetie. She just lost her 36 year old cousin today that she grew up with in Poland, mother of two youngins, devoted wife. Sweet woman, nice spirit, I met her last year. Jesus Christ. So, Cheers! Here's to her. Thanks for making me laugh even at a time like this. Love ya, mate.
BV
Oh yeah, if it's not Murder on TV, than the other half involves swindling money, infidelity, gluttony, sloth, disaster, terror...all that good stuff. Sign of the times I suppose. Thankfully, there are still some quality shows fighing their way through the airwaves, like on Discovery and Public Television. ahh, well...
listen if kim beazley ever wins an election
i'll run around bondi stark naked
with good on ya kimbo
tattooed on my ass
VOTE BEAZLEY AUSTRALIA!!!!!
sk
you got my vote
"those crooked lying swine"
couldn't say it better
what i wrote 2 years ago was
"your politics make me sullen"
but i still wonder
if there is a word like "politikverdrossenheit" in english?
must be something like "sullenness of politics"
how do you call it?
(ok, i know, q&a time is over)
but anyway
perhaps you might like bits of the song
we'll rewrite it
for your election campaign
i could do the press and stuff
my beloved leader
m
I almost forgot...WHO do we get for the USA??? any suggestions? The Boss perhaps??? hmmm...
VOTE 1 STEVE KILBEY
YOUVE GOT MY VOTE SK!
-ALLEN
GALVESTON TX
...and you could change the national anthem to something catchier, with lyrics that everyone can remember.
'Travel by Thought' springs to mind.
Just imagine grand final day. The footballers lined up. 80,000 spectators with hands on hearts.
And SKPM, along with his (ex)Shadow Cabinet members MWP, PK and NP in suits and floral shirts cranking up the feedback.
Steve,
I guess you already know - there aren't any rules - except those of God and the Universe - everything else is a lie, an illusion.
Keep telling it like it is.
Ciao,
i'd vote for ya
but i'd love to see you bare arsed parading around bondi
I'll vote absentee then. The TV oozes shit over here every day; I can't watch much anyway, channel surf, then turn it off and put in a movie. I hear people at work talk about Survivor this, Idol that, another pointless game or somesuch - I ask "whatyre you talking about?" and get stares.
So, Peter Garrett's in Parlaiment?!? Didn't know that, but recall that he was an attorney before a bald rocker.
Good blog, enjoyed it! Run for office!
JJ
I've always wondered why we can't have a happy news service at 6.00pm, I'm sure it would outrate the normal news big time.
There is so much great stuff, so many miracles happening everyday - yet they gotta show us the bad stuff and too many bozo's just watch it.....
Get em Killer
Pierre
Rock me mister K
dutcho, found any action yet?? heaps of chics lurck around Bondi Junction....
Where can an absinthetea ballot be found?
you got my vote!!
and yes, tv is mostly blood, gore, crime scenes, investigations,police, criminals, etc... nature and art shows would be nice for a change..
i tell my kids that if you want to hear good music, gotta turn off the radio (at least commercial), to be entertained gotta turn off the tube.
Indeed, more old rockers in govt. would be a great thing. Peter Garrett is actually my local member!! That man is all abot intelligence and integrity, something so sorely lacking in politics. He's wisely keeping his head down until he has paid his dues and got the measure of the place. I have NO DOUBT that he will be a great force for change in parliament in the future. I have a picture of him on my fridge!
And God bless Lindy Morrison who I voted for when she stood up for the Democrats a few years a go.
B.Good
B.Bon
You probably dont read the Daily Telegraph but u mustve read each others mind - theres an article on this very subject on today's front page.
I believe u dont have much time for sport either but can everyone in cyberspace throw some good energy to the St George Dragons in the play offs.
How can u go past a team that has " when the saints go marching in " as their song.
Dutch Pierre ( as opposed to Pierre)
>>labor needs me
this country needs me
the world needs me<<
Couldn't agree more. My favourite quote, which is on my refridgerator, is "Be the change you wish to see in the world." This from Gandhi, who certainly was for his country.
You're still a young man Steve. None of us will ever change everything we'd like to, but it's my belief we can make significant changes, even if they're not earth-shattering. Go on! You know we're all rooting for you.
love,
denise
xxoo
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and words with the world. In exchange I would like to share some thoughts on Great Health
SK,
One of your best posts,
On fire
U got my vote
At least we will have something to look forward to if Kimbo does make it-however unlikely it is.
DR
You are definitely the man for us.
Your political platform is rock solid*
Like helium gas
Your education, poisoned-ivy league all the way
Your reputation in tatters? Barely matters.
Hit the campaign trail today
While the children play Grand Theft Auto
and blow eachother away!
*with apologies to the delightful Diane
c escherbach
"can ya believe it
theyre dishing up murder
as entertainment
here mr smith
drink yer booze
smoke yer fags
n watch yer murder"
prime time murder
you know
it's not unlike
supermarket
shelf stacking
all the best spaces
eye level
hand level
are filled with
killers
fat
saturated preservatives
chemicals
salt sugar
try finding something edible
it's either
way up high
or
down below
or stuck in a
low frequency ailse
corner
prime time murder
isn't that the objective?
desensitise 'em
and
maybe they'll fight for ya
when you need em
or
maybe they won't complain too much
'bout the wars
feed 'em crap
makem fat and immovable
plonk em in front of
telly
and drain their souls
of
sensitivity
but they forget
we're not stupid...
just
powerless
or so they think
i'll vote for ya SK
stack our shelves with health
fill our tellies with beauty
and i'll vote for ya
every time
I'll admit, I love most of those shows you hate. For me, it's absolutely not about the blood and gore, it's about solving the mystery and seeing the bad guys caught and punished. Maybe if that happened more in real life, I wouldn't be so interested in watching fictional justice. But all I have to do is look at the asshats running the free world, and the crap they get away with on a daily basis, and I get so angry, I practically have an aneurysm. So, I watch stuff where people like them get their due.
I was discussing the way overexposure to graphic violent images anaesthetized us just earlier today...
The world is a funny place.
'mixing pop and politics
he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment
and my usual excuses
then looking down the corridor
out to where the van is waiting
I'm waiting for
the great leap forward'
_Billy Bragg
Here's to a new golden age.
I guess by your yardstick Shakespeare was bullshit too. His plays were breeding grounds for murderous plots, stabbings and poisonings. What if Brutus surprised JC with some jazz instead of a blade. Not quite the same.
I'd vote for ya, mate!
hmmm.... yeah. We tried to elect Ralph Nader once. Look where that got us.
I'd vote for you, Steve.
You should read the open letter that John Schumann of Redgum wrote to Peter Garrett about the reality of life in Parliament.
Baldy might have had good intentions but he has been castrated by the demands and restrictions that party politics places upon any individual who gets into the game.
One thing that would give you more credibility than our current crop of pollies is that at least you're open about your drug use!
Last time I cast my vote for a leader, good or ill, I enjoyed a brief hour or so of feeling triumphant and hopeful when when my guy won. Bright New Day and all that. Then of course, The Great Recount. I'm still kinda bitter on that score. I now refrain from sharing my thoughts on The Powers That Be and the whole matter.
Regaining my momentum on that score.
How's health insurance down there?
@anonymous 2:57 - was it the original CSI with Marg Helgenburger and that silver-haired hyper-genius? That one was good. Solve the heinous crime in the lab with brains, not brawn. I actually stuck with that for awhile. Now it's the same as music - a good idea spawns three dozen copycats regurgitating a second-hand idea. It ain't pretty.
We were discussing this just last nite sk!! ..flicking thru' the channels waiting for "Carthage: A Roman Holocaust" (what do the historians think of this one?!) to come on the ABC, and yes, yet another new forensic show on other stations.. and then we watched the dvd of Bowling for Columbine and talked about how society would be less violently inclined if it wasnt in your face all the time!
Carthage: mass murder back in ancient history but no gore in this doco, unlike Hollywood tales.
Peter Garrett I think is biding his time or like most new pollies, he's been silenced by his party as happens??!! I dont agree with everything he says but he's willing to listen and seems a really reasonable chap. If you're reading this PG, I need to discuss something with you mate!
I've had pollies from all sides visit my farm this year and I can say that if THEY can be successful in politics, then Steve, you're a shoe-in but I'd hate to see you become downhearted and disillusioned or swallowed up in their games - the company car could be nice though! LOL
Sue
ps two aussie legends gone in one week - Brocky what a nice guy he always seemed.
One Nation under God
has turned into
One Nation under
the influence
of one drug
Television, the drug
of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T.V., I.T. satellite links
our United States of
unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely
addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching
T.V.
is the reason why less than ten percent of our Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican and
Apartheid is a new headache remedy
absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us that we're sitting to close to. . .
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and
feeding radiation
T.V. is the stomping ground
for political candidates
Where bears in the woods are
chased by Grecian Formula'd bald eagles T.V. is mechanized politic's remote control over the
massesco-sponsered by environmentally safe gases watch for the PBS special
It's the perpetuation of the two party system where image takes
precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to the fast food culture Where straight teeth in
your mouth are more important than the words that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected Willie Horton or Will he not get elected on . . .
Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding
ignorance and feeding radiation
T.V. is it the
reflector or the director? Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before
he's twelve years old and we wonder how we've
created a Jason generation that learns to laugh rather
than abhor the horror
T.V. is the place where armchair generals and quarterbacks can experience first
hand the excitement of video warfare as the theme song
is sung in the background
Sugar sweet sitcoms that leave us with a bad actor taste while pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video You heard the soundtrack Well now go buy the soft
drink Well, the only cola that I support would be a
union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allownace)OnTelevision.
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding
ignorance and feeding radiation Back again, "New and
Improved",we return to our irregularly programmed
schedule hidden cleverly between heavy breasted beer
and car commericals CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly
B.S. Where oxymoronic language like "virtually spotless" "fresh frozen""light yet filling" and "military intelligence" have become standard
T.V. is the
place where phrases are redefined like "recession" to
"necessary downturn" "crude oil" on a beach to "mousse" "Civilian death" to "collateral damages"and being killed by your own Army is now called "friendly fire"
T.V. is the place where the pursuit of happiness has
become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have
become sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of
children by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet
nurse that would create a cripple Television,
the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding
radiation
On Television . . .
does long distance voting count?
DON'T DO IT! IT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART!
Hi ! I can only speak fer m'self-- TV grizzlyness, Since; in real life, only an extremely small % of the bad guys get caught, (2%) in the land o'yanks. (somethin' like that) It's kinda nice to at least pretend our guys in blue can do better.(I witnessed a murder once, the gangbanger got away with it, In SPITE of my efforts) WHEN you become the GREAT LEADRE OF OZ; Can I defect? for political & (lacka) religious reasons? (resident pagan) The guy who does my taxes said I MUST make more donations to the Church. After addin' up the pile of tickets & stuff- It come out to $2,228- on this tour . Can I get a reciept? I'd like ta write if off. The next time we meet (if) May I bounce a quater offa yer bum? I'm guessin' it'd bounce a coupla inches AT LEAST..
that all sounds great steve, but do you think you could handle running australia and the united states? we need ya here too. don't know about kim, but all too familiar with little bushy. i like it though...long live the bohemia party!!! take care.
pardon the cliches.....but..... it's always darkest right before the dawn....breathe in, breathe out......the pendulum swings.....smile.....god loves you
Hey---Anon.2:57(pm)---Yer fom Helllay Huh? Me too
Hey---Anon.2:57(pm)---Yer fom Helllay Huh? Me too
i put all the bones in a pot and started the boil...
this is what ive come up with..
with the music ,the poetry and artwork..years ,lives of effort ,..and now the blog(yes it is part of the sk legacy now)..
you have made , on so many different levels , for so many different people,...you have made life easier .....
when was the last time we had druid/bard,cold world painter,poet win the nobel prize?,...
your a shoe in ,.. im serious....
d.
( i am really serious)
I think the argument is that they just go way OTT (which i just discovered means 'Over The Top' in cyberspeak shorthand)... moderation, moderation! Instead the powers that be want to overdose us on this stuff. Some forensics and how the mind ticks is really fascinating but we dont need every tom, dick and henrietta's version.
And I must admit i am a little guilty of enjoying The Soprano's!
b.bon - didnt realise you were in oz! shame on those so-called childcarers - that could be your first port of call Mayor Kilbey (well, you gotta start somewhere :)
i am none of the things listed below but if any one here is ...well lets get rollin ...
members of national assemblies and governments;
members of international courts of law;
university chancellors; university professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology;
leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs;
former Nobel Peace Prize laureates;
board members of organisations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize;
present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (committee members must present their nomination at the latest at the first committee meeting after February 1);
former advisers at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
lets get that nomination in ...
It is my belief that television is merely reflecting back to us who we are as a society. Until that changes, tv won't change.
It's far too easy to blame something outside of us for society's ills. If you took tv away, the things going on would still be going on.
love,
Miss Grove
ha, the right hon. s j kilbey esquire, pm
may i humbly suggest the following gentlemen as members of your cabinet:
the hon. mwp, minister of fuzz and 12-string affairs
the hon. pk, minister of e-bow and infinite sustain
the hon. tp, minister of (pacific) rim shots
raz
When you become supremw bohemian leader--Can/will ya DO SOMETHING about the $$$$$ of our beloved Kush? Leagal'rnot-450 an oz IS ABSURD!!! Co-Founder of the left side Wake&Bake(& 'casionally shake) club
"SK for PM" has a ring to it!
On the matter of parliamentary pensions, remember the Nationals Senator who lost his seat at age 33? He got his pension for life, AND, it was said at the time, if he got himself re-elected he would keep his pension as well as his parliamentary salary and get TWO pensions when he retired next! Makes murder quite appealing...
If Beazley wins, can I get my ticket for your Bondi show thru ticketek?
Isaac Newton was in Parlaiment; his only recorded activity was to be always staring out the window.
I enjoyed your John Howard imitation in San Francisco, the phone call & voice, turning aside while listening to "take another bong hit." Funny stuff.
JJ
Unbelievable...I just went on an hour long rant last night at a friends house. She's got something like 500 TV channels and I went through with the remote looking at all the murder and war stuff...Almost every channel!!!
Make's me glad I have watched almost zero TV since I sold my last one in 1993. Mind control... for the masses. Yer right on Steve.
What about the meat industry?
you could ban slaughterhouses
legalise mj
allocate funding for the education of ex-meat industry workers about the cultivation of hemp with the promise of better wages
create a profitable hemp trade within the country
ie. in two months, two acres of cannibus has the potential to make 2000 gallons of methanol...
which is an organic substitute for gasoline
and thereby setting an example for the world of an advanced society
thus generating an interest in Australia as a nation
and stimulating the tourist trade etc...
I would not vote for you.
The Western World doesnae need another ex-rocker, ex-movie star, ex-wrestling hero (i.e. Ronnie Raygun, Arnold Swastikanegger, Jello Bi-Afro). The problem? Where is representative government? Give us a 7-5 factory worker, a 24/7 single mom, a 365 problem solver. Western free society is based on representative government, yet we have little or none and now you just offered more of the same tripe - steal money from some and give it to others, censor what you (the state) see is unfit for consumption. Censor teevee violence? That will work just like censoring drugs and pornography and religions. If there's not enough money for ex-rockers and single moms, let's just take it (forcibly) from someone else. If there's still not enough, raise taxes. At what point does everyone get free stuff? When there's enough money taken to pay for it. Congrats, now everyone works for Big Brother. Go to work, pay Big Bro for all your socialist luxuries.
How about another soul-u-tion?
1.) End fiat currencies in UK, USA, EU, OZ. Governments power to create monies out of nothing is how wars are funded, how debt proliferates and ultimately strangles an ex-rocker's or single mom's or poor soul's chance of earning anything in stagnant, inflated, depressed economies.
2.) End Corporate Welfare (i.e. Corporatism). Even the richest guy in OZ or USA is a small cog in the wheel of the great machine. The great machine has their people in government assuring there is no representative government and that corporations get loophole laws in every country so they can pay third world labourers 13¢ a day, not pay taxes, etc.
3.) End all censorship, namely the kind that comes from media conglomerates and their propaganda. USA admits to $4 Billion in fake news. UK, EU, OZ?
If you want to do something good with your teevee after implementing 1-3 above, then let's air the trial (treason, crimes against humanity) and execution of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on world primetime. Then you can have murder and justice in one tidy 1/2 hour reality teevee show.
Finally, this is where i bid SK adieu. I came here hoping to find SK the poet laureate, perhaps a thinker. Instead, after a few months, I find a charlatan, one who supplants into his lyrics a bit of archaelogy, a bit of history and science fiction, and perhaps one or two words from a dusty unabridged Old English dictionary. As for SK as a thinker, I find a surplus of absence.
he knows he's a charlatan, just listen to "the disillusionist" from p=a, red prawn. but he's not a bad guy. he's well-intentioned, i guess, it's just that his eyes figure out a different world. he's naive concerning politics and that's no wonder. the guy has been drowning in rock n' roll and marijuana for his whole life, how could he understand the complicated engines of power? you missed the whole point here. it's good the things that you preach, man (or woman), but sk would be corrupted by power just like all the others. and i say it for the desperate way he wants to be riding on #1 of the charts. even little mentions to eroticism appeared as a form of teaser here. this is corruption. how #1 would he get in politics? but this is all teenage delirium. sk is still a teenager, peeple. he's writing in his ragged notebook while he's bored with the maths class or when he wants to pick a chick, that's it. why does he need be a hero in everything? we have the music after all. but, oh yes, don't come here looking for greatness, take care wit what you wish for.
Here at Kilbey Commune (Snake Valley, Aust) just had a little sun to get lappy on line, mine first.
We have no tele, not enough poewr, plenty poems.
The multitudes wanna bad though, wanna it all in colour. Well all we got is kero lamps and heaters and candles, and dodgy solar / battery thing...run out of stuff, already. A couple of unChurchy dudes ripped off the petrol to get away to big smoke Ballarat so we kinda stuck.
We all have a bit of jazz around smoky wet eucalypt fire and hit the sack so we ................ fuckin power.........canna .....,.,
Top 10 TV shows in Australia after SK assumes power:
1) The Life of Marc Bolan
2) The History Channel (of Hawkwind)
3) "Get Stoned and Paint"
4) Goldfish: Jokes Magic and Souvenirs
5) "The Straight Hunter"
6) "Gods, Goddesses, Myths, and Magic"
7) "Fun with Mushrooms"
8) "Law and Total Disorder"
9) Live SK TV Blogge
10) "Yoga and You"
p.s.: tv is a consequence, not a cause.
from #51 to #47.....the Right Honorable SK, Esq. slowly creeping his way back up the charts.
oh, the fickle world of blog ranks!!
jeez~~do ya think i'm utterly so bored here at work that i have nothing better to do than keep an eye on blog rankings?? nah.
;) **waiting on the 5:00 whistle**
hey~~SK Esq....esskay esskew....i like the sound of that!!
I've said the same thing for years! It doesn't take a genius to realise that saturating the population with tv shows 'bout murder for years on end,will sooner or later have a knock-on effect.Thanks to this kind of entertainment,a whole generation are becoming desensitized to images of murder,yet the government sits scratching it's balls....yawn....lecture over! anyhoo steve,think you should become PM then you could waive immigration rules for me,and other church fans!Think you and Peter Garrett should join forces and take over,show the useless fuckin politicians how its really done!a revolution-hasta la victoria siempre!!!
I hate to sound terribly uneducated, but I'm afraid that as long as we have humans in charge of this big blue beauty. It will always be the evil men in charge. sorry to be a downer ........
Nice rant today SK. Justice comes from the ground up, not top down.
On another note, I'm reading VanderMeer's Shriek (picked up a copy at the movie screening in SF) and it is really a joy to read. It was very cool the soundtrack you guys did to the film.
Go the member for bohemia! I laughed a lot at the murder on tv thing (ironically, mind!), I've always thought the same.
I really don't like TV. I haven't owned one for 15 years, instead I own an LCD projector. Yes, I know there are SOME worthy programs, but those I can just get on DVD or download from the internet. It blows my mind that people actually come home every day and watch that crap. I mean, do ANYTHING else, and you will be better off -strum your guitar, go for a run, pick up a book, chill out to a Church cd -one of my favorites :-)
lol get stoned and paint
More:
Bohemian Rap-City
Hippie News
Cookin' with Veggies
Twillies Playtime (Sat. morning)
Vishnu View
The Beard Show
I've thought of going into politics several times, too. I mean, how much worse (or better) can I be than the jokers in place?
It's nice to dream.
I may actually do it some day.
When I have nothing better to do, like... pay the mortgage.
V!
I'm Live in VA...Steve,if yoour PM in Aus , Then can the US have Marty as pres?
Some folks need to chill. This is a diary, diaries usually kept for fun, venting and dreaming outrageously with a pen in your hand. Most people keep theirs under a bed.
As for blog status, I think it has been a marvelous game invented for the readers. If it got to #1, us thinking we'd helped and all. Even if it didn't begin exactly that way.
Chill. The name is The Time Being. Not "For All Time." It's a diary, not a ledger or a prospectus.
I'll vote for you Steve -- early and often!
What I notice about so many of the programs on tv is that the victims are almost always incidental. You don't know them and you never get to know them. Often you only see them dead. They are just a device used to feed yet another "The folks in charge have this all under control" message.
alright, Mr. K.!
trivial or not - i don't care - i was listening some gilt trip in the car the other day... celeste(3.5; one of my doodles) asked "is this steve kilbey?" guess she listened well while residing in the womb
luv' + jazz
cracka
You have my vote Steve.
The thought of another term under the Howard government is enough to have me applying for citizenship in New Zealand. And if you could convince Robert Forster to be my local member in Brisbane that would be greatly appreciated. State elections today up here in Queensland and it's a case of the evil of two lessers, unfortunately.
You're right about tv but i think you'll find the few decent shows getting around aren't on Australian commercial channels (thank Zeus for Bittorrent, and of course SBS and ABC). What offends me most though is not the preoccupation with murder but rather the complete lack of diversity or imagination in drama shows. Doctors, cops and lawyers may be modern heroes of a sort but they make for extremely monotonous viewing with such a vast wealth of human history and experience to draw from.
Not available yet here in Oz, but if you get the chance watch the HBO/BBC production 'Rome'... I doubt i'm as knowledgable about ancient history as you SK but i found it to be an excellent blend of drama and fact (almost as good as 'I, Claudius'). Personally I think television has as much potential as music, film or any other modern media to make great art... unfortunately it so rarely does.
Not all Kims are bad... Mr. Salmon can certainly play a mean riff or three.
J.
"Sweed" love ya work mate......Oh so true and well written..need to hear more of ya here.
PS. Dutche Preeeire ya didnt answer my question???Those dragos are going down ma man.
Steve, I just had a vision of watching
Bill Mahar's "Real Time" show on HBO with
you in the room and laughing so hard I piss myself.
"i wanna be elected!!!"
didn't alice cooper sing that?
pass the eyeliner, and I'm there.
Well, Kim(Chi) is pretty good for the eating, like many of the men I know. ;) meow. scratch.
I like the kind made from beets and lots o garlic. Makes a good spread on toast with a little hummus and sprouts. Yum, Yummy.
Men -- sans the garlic -- Yum, Yummy.
ambnt1 - can you pitch some of those ideas to American tv? The closest we had to "Get Stoned and Paint" was a guy named Bob Ross....and he's not with us anymore. Really miss that guy.
No one is making "happy little clouds" anymore.
Steve, couple of links for yah. This guy has a very intelligent show (aformentioned "Real Time" on HBO) that discusses actual things that matter (what a concept!!) among an eclectic group of guests (politicians, scientists, musicians, authors, etc). He's of the Libertarian persuasian politically.
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/interviews/
http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/home.shtml
the humanities
i agree- much better tv
peace.
there are some things worth watching......like The Church "Live at the Basement" on Thurs 28Sep on the ABC :)
Bob Ross was sublime!
Still is!!
As far as selling murder as entertainment... I went on a rant about that long ago on this bloggy during one of the arguments regarding eating meat.
I keep hearing the ghostly voice of Hamlet's father saying, "murder", with a raspy rattle that shakes and fills one with a sense of foreboding.
Watch out folks, lest the dead come back to haunt us all and spur us on toward rebellion or, much worse, revenge.
Suppose it would be better than all this blood the media has us drowning in.
The just want to keep us Mindless, SK, not mindful.
Oh, that is..
They (not the) just want to keep us mindless...
lol.
Tired fingers. Tired back. Tired neurons.
Yawn... Steve boy get off your liberal soap box. Get a new story to tell. Don't you realize it is the liberal media that plays all the murder shit you are crying about? Funny how all the artists and musicians has the answers and think they are gonna change the world because of who they are. Brilliant! Please... make music and that's all. You are seriously damaging my interest in your band.
Steve, GB3 Emptiness Is Our Business just arrived today. Just finished listening to "Famished." Wow, it's lovely! Now on to the rest....
Re: anon 10.06
Sorry dude but SK can sprout what he likes on his blog and the fact is it resonates with most of us on here.
Steve is a whole man, as in can do music, politics, nature, love, whatever
Peace to you anon and may you find a good woman to love you.
anon,
ah yes the liberal media. that's a rich one in disguise olde boye. are ye from texas, somewhere other than austin?
i do think however if al gore had grown his beard during the campaign
and run on a pro-jazz/hemp agenda, that he would've won hands down.
economy for the states that have lost theirs to china and a homey good feeling for the yabbos.
anon richard
SK -
Step up on any soapbox ya like; it's yer blogge. We have a bozo here in the states that was drowning in booze and cocaine and got appointed Prez by the supreme court; didn't stop him. Cheney has 2 DUI's - them boys loved their drugs. And the conservative Disney/ABC/Rupert Murdoch/Clearchannel media to spread the propaganda.
Rant on, ArchDruide!
JJ
SK,
MAGIC AS ALWAYS. I RESIDE IN CHICAGO, MET U IN THE RAIN/FOG ON 8/18 HRS AFTER THE SHOW AND U WERE GRACIOUS TO SPEAK TO A FEW OF THE PEOPLE THAT ADMIRE U. MEDIA,IN ANY FORM HAS BEEN DISTORTED TO CHANGE OUR INTERPERTATION OF WHAT WE SEE,HEAR OR SAY. SCARES ME A BIT CAUSE I HAVE A 15 YR OLD BOY WHO IS BECOMING A WITNESS TO THIS INSANITY,UNLIKE I AND MANY OF US WHO DID B4,SEEM TO HAVE LOSS SOME TYPE OF CONTROL. TURN OFF THE T.V.---GRAB A BOOK, AN INSTRUMENT, OR SIMPLY A PAD AND PAPER AND CREATE !!!! RATHER THAN BE (ALMOST) FORCED TO BRAVE/ENDURE ALL THIS VISUAL/VIRTUAL NONSENSE.
AND TO BEN N KRYS(BLOGGERS), WHO WE MET AT THAT CHICAGO SHOW... KRYS WE ARE SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS...BE STRONG AND TIME WILL HEAL SOME OF THE PAIN.
SINCERELY,
DARRIN(DJK082067) AND LAURA
syrinx -- yes, the original CSI with Marg and William Petersen was all about brains, being smarter and craftier than the bad guys. Still is. Some of the copycats are good, too. I've been watching this sort of stuff since the '70s -- remember Quincy?
tokin' jester -- no, not from L.A., but Chicago, originally, and now northern Calif.
anon. 2:57 (aka Jill, who forgot to sign her last post)
Don't look now but one of the US networks is planning a show about a forensic scientist who's a murderer in his spare time.
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