Letter to The Age

I’d say it’s a 50/50 thing vis a vis getting published.. We’ll see!

With the election coming up, I took the time to review the policies of the two candidates as I felt that this election would have a huge impact on Australia’s involvement in the war on terror, our culture, our trade, healthcare, employment opportunities and a host of other issues.

You can only imagine my disappointment when I was told I was not eligible to vote. It seems you can only vote in the US Presidential election if you are an American citizen! I fail to understand why we are not allowed to have a say in our future. I would ask Australia’s leader Tom Schieffer to change this unjust situation in time for the November decision.

Everywhere I go…

For reasons I cannot explain, I have found myself listening to Royksopp’s “Remind Me” over and over ever since I got the new Ministry of Sound- Chillout 5 double CD. I liked the faster, dancier mix on last years Dance Annual, but there’s something about the simplistic Chillout version:

It’s only been a week

The rush of being home and rapid fading

Failing to recall

What I was missing all that time in England

I think it’s the mark of a great lyricist when you can get the listener involved and get them to feel something even if they have not missed anything in England ever…

Has sent me aimlessly

On foot or by the help of transportation

To knock on windows where

A friend no longer live, I had forgotten

Despite my prediliction for ruthless research, I have chosen not to do the research on Royksopp- but I’m pretty sure they are Scandanavians of some description. Given that English is not their first language, I find these lyrics to be beautifully wrong

..and everywhere I go

There’s always something to remind me

Of another place and time

Where love that travelled far had found me

I think this chorus (?!?) really seals the deal. It’s just a beautifully evocative sentiment. I find myself humming and singing these lines often lately. I must have some longing that I cannot quite put my finger on.

We stayed outside till two

Waiting for the light to come back

we didn’t talk I knew

Until you asked what I was thinking

Until you asked what I was thinking

Brave men tell the truth

The wise man’s tools are analogies and puzzles

A woman holds her tongue

Knowing silence will speak for her

Not sure about the last pair of lines. Is it a reference to domestic violence? IS it sexist in some way? Is it the Truth?

…and everywhere I go

There’s always something to remind me

Of another place and time

Where love that travelled far had found me

*sigh* Just great.

… and you thought your life sucked
I have this nightmare where I am caught out in a lie, total naked-like. total disaster horror show. Nowhere to hide and …. oh it’s awful… life ends as I know it.

Adam Clark is living this nightmare

Congrats to Fleur Leyden on her efforts in The Age. She has rightly kept on this, kept it in the public eye and I believe this has forced Media World Communication’s hand.

They (Media world Comms) are now truly, utterly, completely FUCKED:

Media World Communications has appointed an administrator to manage its affairs, amid accusations from technology specialist The Tolly Group that it was deceived by Adam Clark about the effectiveness of his video streamlining technology.

…On Monday, Mr Clark was sacked as a consultant and asked to resign from the Media World Communications board, along with his father Graeme Clark.

Yesterday it emerged that the Clarks had refused to resign from the board and were still saying that the technology worked.

Adam reminds me of Hitler in his finals days (not in a Nazi sense, but rather in an inability-to-acknowledge-defeat sense). As the Russians were entering Berlin on one side, the Brist and Yanks the other, he was still insisting that the war was winnable.

Adam, son, white flag time. You. Have. Lost.

Media World calls corporate doctor

You’ll get yours!!!

I may not have brought down a government, but I’d like to think I helped bring this guy down…

Media World pulls plug on inventor…

Adam Clark, inventor of the controversial Adams Platform Technology (APT), was yesterday sacked as a consultant and asked to resign from the Media World Communications board.

A report into the effectiveness of the video compression technology, considered at an MWC board meeting yesterday, concluded that APT failed to meet its claims under testing.

“Adam Clark is not able to demonstrate that APT is capable of producing compression of high-quality video down telephone lines,” said MWC chairman Michael Ramsden.

MWC technical staff also identified several “anomalies”, including the fact that the video file still played even after the APT computer program had been removed from the computer. The company, which is considering its legal options, has handed the report over to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. It is believed the fraud squad has also been asked to investigate the matter.

Someone get a rope, gonna have ourselves an ol’ fashioned lynching.

Tell you what people, I would like to put this little shit in the stocks so we could all go and “have a word”.

He is not a young man who will do well in prison… boo fucking hoo

Read the official release- it’s riveting