A great new interview with Enslaved's musical brainchild, Ivar Bjornson (far right in above image) has been posted online here. As usual, Ivar gives great answers, representing himself and his band with maturity and honesty.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Enslaved: Ivar Bjornson speaks.
A great new interview with Enslaved's musical brainchild, Ivar Bjornson (far right in above image) has been posted online here. As usual, Ivar gives great answers, representing himself and his band with maturity and honesty.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Steve Jobs Calls for End to DRM
In an open letter titled "Thoughts on Music" published yesterday on Apple.com (link), Steve Jobs elucidated his, and as such, Apple's perspective on the current landscape of digital music distribution and the role of DRM (Digital Rights Management) software that restricts how and where protected music is accessible. Addressing those who have called upon Apple to open its closed iTunes Music Store—iPod ecosystem, Jobs provided a concise history of how Apple forged relationships with the four major music companies (Sony BMG, Universal, Warner, and EMI) that would allow Apple to sell music online provided the content was controlled via music studio mandated DRM.
More here.
More here.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Keating the King.
I don't know why, but I've always loved Paul Keating.
Unlike many other politicians, there was something human about him, something really down to earth. Despite public anger generated by the recession back in the nineties, even at that young age, I had a feeling that this Prime Minister had our country's best interest at heart, and that he actually gave a damn about us. I didn't feel angry at him for the recession, I felt he tried hard to do what he could to keep us going.
In recent times, Mr Keating has surfaced here and there, giving speeches, and lashing out at the Howard Government's pathetic agendas which do little to make Australians feel any better about themselves.
Paul Keating's occasional popping around in the media makes me ache, I wish he would run for office again. Personally, I feel that if Mr Keating was Prime Minister again, he would be an incredibly successful one. It is so clear that he has risen to an incredible intellectual level and mature to new heights since his term ended. I feel like he has modernised well along with the world, whereas I feel like John Howard is firmly stuck in the Bronze Age.
I feel like Australia would relate to Keating, and I think he would have a much better understanding of current day Australia more than anyone else would, especially considering he played such an important part of our developing relationship with Asia (which our good mate Johnny Bush... oops I mean Howard) has managed to damage, and all the while practically making us another state of the US.
If it wasn't for Mr Keating, there's no way I could have gone to university, there's no way my family could have afforded for me to go, and there's no way I could have survived there financially.
I really feel like one day, I want to meet Paul Keating, and say "thanks. Thanks for allowing people like me to get an education and have opportunities in my life. Oh, and you're a fucking awesome bloke".
One part of Keating's charisma is his ability and talk straight down the line, and more importantly, his humour. I stumbled onto the Paul Keating Insults Archive today, and I can't help admiring him even more (not to mention laughing my head off).
Here's a beautiful example of the KING in action:
Reporter: You don't talk to ordinary people!
Keating: "Who says I don't ? Who says I don't ? I mean I see as many people as perhaps anyone in public life could..."
Reporter: How long is it since you've been to Fyshwick Markets ?
Keating: "Not long, not long. In fact if you get down to woollies at Manuka on Saturday I'd probably run over you with a trolley as I did a journo recently."
There were two major things I wanted to witness in my life.
1) see Iron Maiden
2) see Megadeth
I've done both of those. Now I will add a third thing:
3) to meet Mr Keating.
Bless you Paul, you fucking rock. God I wish you were our Prime Minister again.
Unlike many other politicians, there was something human about him, something really down to earth. Despite public anger generated by the recession back in the nineties, even at that young age, I had a feeling that this Prime Minister had our country's best interest at heart, and that he actually gave a damn about us. I didn't feel angry at him for the recession, I felt he tried hard to do what he could to keep us going.
In recent times, Mr Keating has surfaced here and there, giving speeches, and lashing out at the Howard Government's pathetic agendas which do little to make Australians feel any better about themselves.
Paul Keating's occasional popping around in the media makes me ache, I wish he would run for office again. Personally, I feel that if Mr Keating was Prime Minister again, he would be an incredibly successful one. It is so clear that he has risen to an incredible intellectual level and mature to new heights since his term ended. I feel like he has modernised well along with the world, whereas I feel like John Howard is firmly stuck in the Bronze Age.
I feel like Australia would relate to Keating, and I think he would have a much better understanding of current day Australia more than anyone else would, especially considering he played such an important part of our developing relationship with Asia (which our good mate Johnny Bush... oops I mean Howard) has managed to damage, and all the while practically making us another state of the US.
If it wasn't for Mr Keating, there's no way I could have gone to university, there's no way my family could have afforded for me to go, and there's no way I could have survived there financially.
I really feel like one day, I want to meet Paul Keating, and say "thanks. Thanks for allowing people like me to get an education and have opportunities in my life. Oh, and you're a fucking awesome bloke".
One part of Keating's charisma is his ability and talk straight down the line, and more importantly, his humour. I stumbled onto the Paul Keating Insults Archive today, and I can't help admiring him even more (not to mention laughing my head off).
Here's a beautiful example of the KING in action:
Reporter: You don't talk to ordinary people!
Keating: "Who says I don't ? Who says I don't ? I mean I see as many people as perhaps anyone in public life could..."
Reporter: How long is it since you've been to Fyshwick Markets ?
Keating: "Not long, not long. In fact if you get down to woollies at Manuka on Saturday I'd probably run over you with a trolley as I did a journo recently."
There were two major things I wanted to witness in my life.
1) see Iron Maiden
2) see Megadeth
I've done both of those. Now I will add a third thing:
3) to meet Mr Keating.
Bless you Paul, you fucking rock. God I wish you were our Prime Minister again.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Anthony Mundine: "Aborigines copped Holocaust"
Anthony Mundine has copped a lot of heat from the media and the public for saying some pretty outrageous things over the years. However, I found this latest comment from him in a story on the Sydney Morning Herald's website today to ring true (I also found it kind of ironic considering this very topic surfaces in the Paul Keating biography I've been reading).
Anthony Mundine has likened the British treatment of Aborigines to the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Mundine, who has released a rap music video of Aborigines tearing up a photograph of the Prime Minister John Howard and burning the Union Jack, says Australia needs to learn from the way Germany re-established itself after the Holocaust.
"John Howard has got to step to the plate, admit he is wrong, just like the Germans did back in the day and admitted under Hitler what they did and then moved forward," Mundine told Channel Nine.
He said the Union Jack was not a symbol to be proud of.
"It symbolises murder, raping, pillaging of the native people of the land," he said.
"The burning of the flag, we burn it, or the people burnt it, because they want to wash away with the dark side, with the dark past that Australia's got in its history and let's move forward, get a more unified place for the people."
In the video, the ritualistic burning takes place against the background of Mundine's rags to riches rap lyrics: "I am just one man, it ain't the whole of the nation, politicians won't say sorry for the stolen generation."
Anthony Mundine has likened the British treatment of Aborigines to the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Mundine, who has released a rap music video of Aborigines tearing up a photograph of the Prime Minister John Howard and burning the Union Jack, says Australia needs to learn from the way Germany re-established itself after the Holocaust.
"John Howard has got to step to the plate, admit he is wrong, just like the Germans did back in the day and admitted under Hitler what they did and then moved forward," Mundine told Channel Nine.
He said the Union Jack was not a symbol to be proud of.
"It symbolises murder, raping, pillaging of the native people of the land," he said.
"The burning of the flag, we burn it, or the people burnt it, because they want to wash away with the dark side, with the dark past that Australia's got in its history and let's move forward, get a more unified place for the people."
In the video, the ritualistic burning takes place against the background of Mundine's rags to riches rap lyrics: "I am just one man, it ain't the whole of the nation, politicians won't say sorry for the stolen generation."
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