Vlad n U 2
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This timothius seems like a cool guy, would be cool if he still existed on this forum.
I don't see how that's relevant. I'm pretty sure my mother would've been happy to keep mothering me at home for years, but I was an adult so I moved out. Staying home into your twenties is a bit sad if you ask me.
Before the set there's whispers that it's going to be unmissable, and it's confirmed when early in the night I see Kirin J Callinan in the crowd at Brothers Hand Mirror, whispering in the ear of a huge, tanned partybro. Not exactly the type I imagine him to pal around with, so automatically I assume he's a setpiece. The set itself begins with an explanation from Kris Moyes: the organisers had censored their planned performance, so they're just going to explain it to us. The crowd start booing the organisers. Moyes shows us a diagram of how the next part was supposed to go, involving a member of the audience called Billy. More a crude drawing, actually. Looks like it's been done in MS Paint over a photo of the empty amphitheatre. The crowd start laughing at the drawing. Billy comes up on stage. The crowd start cheering for Billy. Then they roll the video of Billy staring into the camera as a hand holding an iPhone comes out of the corner of the frame and holds the screen up to his face. The screen begins flashing. Billy's eyes glaze over, his body starts spasming and he slumps to the floor. Turns out Billy suffers from epilepsy. The crowd start booing Callinan and Moyes. Suddenly it seems like everyone's shouting "fuck you!" or "you're a dickhead!" and one woman starts in on an angry tirade decrying their act. "That's nice, but it's not really relevant," says the artist. She storms out. The music starts.
If he really got a kid from the Royal Children's and induced a seizure, that is downright fucked up. Sickening.
Do you wish you were there cos you could have seen a guy have a fit...?
(And yes, I know staying at home and never moving out is different from moving out and going back again, so I guess that renders most of the above moot, but I'm very tired and can't be arsed deleting it.)
So if anyone wants to explain to me (in a "___ for Dummies" kind of way) the whole Israel-Palestine conflict that would be great. It's one of those world issues that I'm not really across and I realised that the other day when someone said "Jews hate The Age because it has traditionally been pro-Palestine". Am I mistaken in saying that it's about Palestine's fight to become a country in its own right? And how does it involve Arabs?
I'll get to this properly tomorrow, but it involves Arabs because Palestinians are Arabs, in the same way Germans are Europeans.
And although The Age has traditionally had something of a pro-Palestinian slant, or at least been sympathetic to their plight, these days it's more mixed, especially with their willingness to publish Dvir Abramovich's material, which ranges from mediocre to kneejerk humourlessness to outright drivel.
There was the popular belief that every nation should have its own state; the French should have France, the Serbs should have Serbia, etc.
Both sides claim their violent actions are self-defence - who's the aggressor and who's the aggrieved? They aren't easy questions to answer.