Here's to Bukowski, Whalemeat Angel of Light, here's to the Turkey Express and all lost turkeys |
DISCLAIMER: We'd be here all day with this one. But for the record, I drink a lot of coffee, I used to spill more booze than you drink, I once took the purple Hallmark oaths of marriage. Etcetera. ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:57:00 GMT |
THE LAST NOT-SO-GREAT No.1 COMB HIPPY |
So I traversed myself upon the Great Western Trainline like a passive punter on a Ghost Train and I went into town and I came out of town. And it was, it is, it will be a Ghost Train I ride, until I ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:32:00 GMT |
Mutiny In Heaven |
'Wrapped in mah mongrel wings, ah nearly freeze
In the howlin wind and drivin rain
All the trash blowin round n round
From slum heaven into town ...'
-Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Some questions...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:19:00 GMT |
Requiem for a Blood Relative |
He lived in a shed, he was apparently tall and had been a horseman but he'd been broken himself to a point where he swivelled like a wrecked and creaking hinge, and my father said he was the kindest m...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:51:00 GMT |
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Friends, excuse my tattered evangelist's robes here, excuse my battered soap box, but I hear tell the next Great Depression is upon us and soon we'll be jumping rattlers (boxcars) and shooting our own...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:47:00 GMT |
Last of the Roaring Days and Things That Fly |
' I think of London, I think of Mudgee
I think I'll stay and fight
Oh and set them up, we will drink tonight
Henry ...'
'Roaring Days', Weddings, Parties, Anything.
(T...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:02:00 GMT |
Poem for Remembrance Day |
This is by Martin Bell. It is one of my very favourite war poems, which is saying something. This is not wallpaper stuff. But I want to share it here on the eve of Remembrance Day.
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Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:23:00 GMT |
Paddy Goes To Babylon |
Righto, here's The Rumjacks song 'Paddy Goes To Babylon' for the stalwart hearties who asked what it was about. Not much of a narrative, but anyway, here she is.
And for those who know their sk...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:37:00 GMT |
Fireside lecture from Swan to his grandchildren |
( Elizabeth Swan and her wee brother Will Swan III sit by the roughly hewn fireplace in bright red and pastel blue Converse Allstars respectively. They sip cocoa from mugs laced with cinnamon, c...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:56:00 GMT |
