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Whacking Permalink Archive 30-5-03 Find out your Geek Rating. I scored
12%. How did you fare?
This comes only a month after the death of Daijiro Kato, who crashed into the barrier at the Suzuka MotoGP race. There has been much talk of removing Suzuka from the MotoGP calendar for safety reasons. Yet that racetrack is a kids playground compared to the IOM road circuit, which on average kills around three racers every year. The brutally unforgiving nature of the place means an accident - which might not even cause a bruise on a closed racetrack - may mean certain death when the rider collides with one of the countless poles, buildings, brick walls, trees or fences which line the entire circuit. One day,
this festival will be legislated out of existence. If you're interested
in making the pilgrimage, you'd better go next year, because something
tells me the TT wont be coming back to the island in 2005.
Like many Australian political has-beens (Keating, Hawke and Mugabe's bum-boy Malcolm Fraser), Deane isn't enjoying his time out of the limelight, and has taken to offering his wisdoms to the populace to ease his Influence Deficit Disorder. Deane was the left's wet dream: an unelected individual who could stand before the nation and lecture us all on meaningless feelgood gibberish like 'reconciliation', 'multiculturalism' and pretty much any other load of crap nobody outside the Radio National crowd cares about. In doing so, he gave every Phillip Adams listener the momentary illusion that divine wisdoms were being decreed, and the ignorant nation would surely rise up and actually give a shit. Sadly, the Howard government kept winning elections thru appealing to issues that actually mattered to people - like the economy and national security - and this ageing farthose realised that maybe we weren't listening to him after all. But like all the lefties suffering Irrelevance Syndrome, Deane has put this rejection down to an evil, nasty, racist government, and not the fact that the Australian people - the most decent of all on earth - actually don't care. The person I was watching TV with tonight offered perhaps the best final statement on Deane: "silly
old cunt" Strawman
over at the libertarian.org.au
site, has a brilliant post on just-convicted stockbroker and high-flyer
Rene Rivkin who has just received a
ludicrously excessive penalty for making three hundred and fifty
dollars on a share deal. I think I just found religion. Sometimes you wait for things and they let you down.
All we had to document Zeppelin's live career was the abysmal The Song Remains The Same concert film-cum-conceptual art. A dull performance, weedy sound and lifeless visuals made that an endurance test. So, twelve long years, and finally the news I've been waiting for: the Led Zeppelin DVD is coming out. A double-disc set of the legendary but never heard gigs at the Albert Hall, Earl's Court and Knebworth. I finally picked this up tonight. I've watched it. My verdict? stunning Genuinely great performances, sound so sharp and crunchy you could cut thru it with a knife. Wonderful visuals. Incredible to finally hear so many great live versions of their songs. I haven't watched much of the Albert Hall gig yet, but disc 2 along is worth the price of purchase. The version of Kashmir will just make you shit. If you've ever been a Led Zeppelin fan, you need to buy this DVD - now. And it
blows away the memory of Page-n-Plant's godawful Unledded project. According
to Ross
Gittens, globalisation might actually be good for developing
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Former
Governor-General William Deane - hero of the left and insufferable windbag
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Around
1991, I read about a whole series of Led Zeppelin concerts which had been
recorded on film, but never released. As a Zep fanatic, I was desperate
to see these, and hoped they would be released eventually, though the
chances never looked that great.