some bullshit about gay marriage and gillard
Writing a tumblr post about gay marriage may be the most redundant thing of all time because basically everyone on tumblr supports gay marriage. Right? Imagine using tumblr and being against gay marriage in 2011. What the actual fuck. So yeah, this is mostly about wtf are you doing Gillard and the fact I haven’t written anything besides fucking ad copy for a month pretty much.
Firstly Gillard, I don’t even believe you’re against gay marriage. If you were against it, cool fine (not fine), you’re entitled to stick by your beliefs but the thing is, you’re not against this. If you weren’t the Prime Minister, if you weren’t vying to win the next election, then you would be supporting gay marriage; as the majority of your party seems to. Probably. I mean, I don’t know! This whole issue is the ridiculous.
Gillard! You’re driving me crazy! What even is your stance? Your not against gay marriage except that… you are? You’re allowing others to make up your mind for you and your pandering to homophobic voters. Fuck’s sake. Everyone knows politics is gross and basically void of any real aspiration (probably) but gross; gay marriage should not be an issue. We should get to stop talking about it. You should take some proper action, change the marriage act, see a minority celebrate a final step towards equality and sit back and watch as same sex marriage becomes accepted and nothing else fucking happens. Really, after the first few weeks of adorable photos of queers getting their marriage on the country is going to go back normal, people who were against gay marriage are going to forget they were against it and the people for it will attend marriages of their queer friends and relatives. Or maybe they’ll even get married to their same sex partners.
So pretty much shut up, Gillard. If you’re not going to do anything then stop pretending you care. You can’t pander to both sides of this argument because one side is rational and striving for equality, while another is bigoted and misguided. If Gillard was reading this (she never would obviously) I’d tell her to woman up (cool saying) and stand up for what she knows is right. I’m not going to change her mind about gay marriage being okay, because she already knows it is.
Liberal supporters get mad when you make bad jokes that don’t even make sense.
Dick Diver - New Start Again
Obviously this album is the BEST because I write about this band all the time and why they are so good at writing songs that truly sum up the Australian twenty-something city experience albeit with a strong rural grounding.
BUT could this song sum up my life any better at this point? EVERYONE SHOULD WRITE SONGS ABOUT BEING ON THE DOLE ALL THE TIME!
THE SLAP
Fuck off cultural cringe Australians because this show is REALLY GOOD! I mean sure it is very “first world problems” (ugh, is this saying over yet?) but mostly it is just a very well written and acted piece of Australian television. It’s sad that this is such a rare thing, sure we have some good television shows but it is rare for Australia to be producing one of the best dramas currently on television. Even rarer for it to be produced and broadcast by our beloved ABC. THANK YOU ABC!
Also, how good is stuff being filmed on location. Like when that actor guy (the actor playing an actor) got so mad and walked out of the house and into an actual street and you could see cars going past? I wish everything could be shot on location all the time.
(Yeah I know we’re only two episodes in and this has the potential to take a real slide but so far so good)
Single Twin - Long Wave
This is another Australian act who is writing songs that embody time, place and memory like few others. The production is lush and helps what is fairly simple shtick, Australiana tinged folk, stand out from others creating the same. Marcus Teague has perfected his songwriting to a point where it could potentially stand alone but thankfully Teague is not happy with the bare minimum in terms of production.
Teague has a lot in common with fellow Australian songwriter, Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo). Single Twin’s arrangements are simple but strong and lyrically there is a focus on nostalgia, not annoying 90s television nostalgia, but biting childhood nostalgia. Working alone, his arrangements are stipped back but never sparse and always build together in harmony. Teague is naturally able to capture moments that feel like old photographs with minimal and delicate prose, while he never crosses the line into trite and sappy.
Dick Diver - Through the D
There is something spectacularly Australian about Dick Diver. Whether it’s their strained vocals, noodling guitars or astutely observational lyrics; it’s inherent in every aspect of their music, right down to the raise in pitch at the end of sentences. Lines like “down the shops” are both universal and uniquely rural Australia, while the laconic storytelling vibe would fit well with a dad joke or an anecdote one of your old high school friends would tell you over a couple of Carltons.
Their songwriting is wimpy without being too faggy, they can hang with their city friends but when they go home to the country they can still hang with the boys. It’s an interesting dichotomy they have going on, that many artists abandon or never embrace, and it’s why they are one of the best and most unique Australian acts today.
Life is a very simple thing
I can’t decide whether I want to come home within in the next couple of months or in March 2012. I mean, it depends on if I can get a job here during the USA 2011 Depression but I feel as though I should make up my mind before any job interviews because otherwise subconsciously I will do a terrible interview and never be hired because the human brain is very great.
I’m going to San Francisco (again) tomorrow though after spending the last month in Colorado basically chilling out and looking at pretty mountains and I have a job interview on Thursday so uhh, I should probably be more great at making decisions. Worried if I got home too soon I will regret it but also, Australia is a very good place to live at the moment and maybe I should do the whole “living abroad” thing when I have a proper career and source of income and when the economy is not collapsing everywhere except in the country I was actually raised in. If I went home fairly soonish I would barely be in any debt and that would be cool but for some reason it feels like giving up?
I think I’m just homesick because I spent most of the past few weeks facechatting to the ultimate best people who I would like to see sometime soon.
I’m bored and feeling self-obessed (always). Enjoy this song I recorded a couple of years ago that is still kind of relevant to my life I guess. Or don’t enjoy it because me. Cool, night night.
I can’t believe that Harry Potter 7 isn’t out here yet and literally every person back home has already seen it. This is some bullshit. America is just the worst sometimes.
