Metal City - Hai Ina Ia Mai Ana Ka Puana

BDO Notes - Part Nine

I'm still in the carpet bar. I want to leave, but I hurt too much.

Muse are derivative, boring wankers. And they can get fucked.

Gorgeous girl with the guy who looks like Austen Tayshus, but with a bad blonde dye job. What the fuck is up with that?

Lou Reed understood things that these namby pamby alternashit bastard bands never will - there is only beauty in pain if it is counterpointed by beauty in joy. This is why 'Street Hassle' may be the greatest song ever written. Lester was right in one sense, it is a sound album - not a song album. But the lyrics are so deeply moving, and so powerful that the tailor made for coffee shop circular cello riff stops being melodramatic and makes total and complete sense. I wonder if there'll be another 'Street Hassle' in my lifetime?

The Australian music industry has a hole left by the breakup of the Paradise Motel - a hole that may never be filled. Their cover of 'Drive' absolutely blows my mind.

We don't move - we don't advance. We are worthless necrophiles raping the dead bodies of cultures that have outlived their usefulness. It is everywhere here - re-engineered cultural material from the 70's, 80's and 90's. If done accidentally, as with The Spazzys, the results are not offensive, but reverant and deeply felt. In the case of some fuckwit in a Mr. T. shirt, it is a snide, patronizing and (unreadable). I wonder if Mr. T or Poison or Masaaki Sakai realise that they are being underhandedly ridiculed by the proponents of a culture of cynicism and self-loathing? Do they even care?

"When you're growing up in a small down, when you're growing up in a small town, when you're growing up in a small down, you say 'No-one famous ever came from here'."

Is there any situation where Lou Reed is not appropriate?

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