The Arts
A system in which taxpayers help rich people hang pictures for their friends.
Ban Them All!
I’m not sure what’s worse: the over the top rants regarding either minor or non-existent misunderstandings of Australian aborigine culture in a children’s book, or the abject, groveling apologies from the author and publisher.
Prominent First Nations writers have also criticised the book, accusing Oliver of engaging in cultural appropriation, and his publisher, Penguin Random House UK, of making serious errors in judgment.
The award-winning Kooma and Nguri author Cheryl Leavy, who specialises in nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature, told Guardian Australia she was troubled by the book’s themes of child slavery and child stealing, and the appropriation of culture for personal gain.
“There is no space in Australian publishing (or elsewhere) for our stories to be told through a colonial lens, by authors who have little if any connection to the people and place they are writing about.”
Zappa Channels The Allman Brothers
A Guitarists Guitarist
You can see the whole concert on Prime if you’ve got it “Jeff Beck -Performing This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott’s”.
Zappa plays Zappa
Larry Carlton
Still Kicking
Attention, Music Lovers
Still Kicking
Why Music Sucks
Don’t Oppress My People With Your White-Ass Folk Music
Obviously, activities that are chiefly indulged in by white people – in this case, folk singing – must be deemed suspect and found problematic with great urgency, and then probed for hidden wrongness. At taxpayer expense.
Making Music Suck (even more)
“That Day I’ll Always Remember…”
“Free Drinks and Nibbles”
Many Hands Make Light Work
From The Latest Broadway Show
Avert Your Eyes
The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark “nationalist feelings.” The museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, has undertaken an overhaul of its displays… The new signage states that pictures of “rolling English hills” can stir feelings of “pride towards a homeland.”
One Mic, One Guitar…
Radical Regurgitation
On the incantations of progressive art:
I think it’s fair to say that, whatever her creative limitations, Liberal Jane, aka Ms Caitlin Blunnie, does like her slogans. One might say incantations. Almost all of which have an air of self-satisfaction, as if some previously unregistered profundity had been heroically unearthed.
One creation extols the radical virtues of skiving in the workplace and not doing the work one is being paid to do. “Craft is resistance in a late-stage capitalist society,” reads another. Also, “Self-love is self-care.” “Riots, not diets.” “Hex the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.” “Fantasy is for everyone.” “Abortion builds new futures.” Oh, and “Smash the state and masturbate,” and “Stretch marks are ubiquitous to the human experience.”