Gay Your Life Must Be?

I've gotta apologise for my lack of blogging action...

Sorry...

It's because over the last two weeks I've been too busy avoiding swine flu and gangland murders... seriously, all the good shit happens 10 minutes north of Melbourne CBD.

Anyway, for todays blog you'll be treated to my unbiased award-winning journalistic expose on a court battle. Native birds of Australia take on a classic Australian song in a class action law suit.

Men At Work Vs Kookaburras of Australia

Exhibit A.


Remember this song?
How could you not? If you grew up in Australia, you sang it... we ALL sang it. Quintessential Ozzie nursery rhyme. A "seminal" song in all our lives.

Exhibit B.


Remember this song?

If you were a sailing fan in 1983 you would know that Australia II won the America's Cup. The fist time a non-american boat had won The Americas Cup in 6,000 years.

The boat had a SICK sound system.

After they won, they pumped "The Land Down Under at full volume across San Francisco Bay. It was an historic sporting moment and "Land Down Under" became the historic boat's official anthem.

That very day, Prime-minister Bob Hawke made it a public holiday and the whole country got wasted while listening to the song. Whistling the flute line stupidly with some serious national pride.

The song reached number one on Australia, US and UK charts... It made soooooooo much cash for it's songwriter Colin Hay and the rest of the boys in Men At Work...




BUT!!!!!!

There's a line of the flute theme is "allegedly" direct musical quote of the opening line of the Kookuburra laughs theme song. It enters the song about half a dozen times.

It's something that I've noticed for years but it's something that the publishers of the nursery rhyme only just noticed. Apparently after watching an episode of Spics and Specs. Now they're takin it to court.

It's quite possible that the publishers of the nursery rhyme will receive a payout of millions and millions of dollars...

So, since you're the jury.
Ask yourself these questions...

Does the flute line copy the nursery rhyme?
Is it obviously recognizable as a copy?
Does the flute line constitute a significant part of Men at Work's song?

If you ask me the answers are all... "f*ckin oath, yes"


But now it's your turn...
"TRIAL BY ILLEGETIMATE CHILDREN" requires you to leave a comment underneath this blog with the word GUILTY or INNOCENT.

If the answer is overwhlemingly "guilty" then I'll submit it to the supreme court of Australia and they'll tell Colin Hay (Men at work singer) to give a bunch of cash to every Kookaburra in Australia...

Don't be shy... if you get this blog via email, log into the site and leave a comment. Guilty or Innocent? Kookaburra or Colin? Patsy Bisco or Men at Work?

The Middle East and Porcine Influenza

600,000 Melbournian's are gonna get swine flu!
F*CK!

"Premier John Brumby called for calm after warnings one in eight - 600,000 Victorians - will get swine flu in the next 12 months."

It's alright though... coz the governement have STOCKPILES of a flu drug called Tamiflu

"Almost all H1N1 samples tested last winter were resistant to Tamiflu, the World Health Organization said"

DOUBLE F*CK!

The good news is that there's another drug that's way more effective and being bought by governments all over the world. It's called Relenza... I wouldn't mind buying some biotech shares at this point in time...

I think biotech shares'd be K-Rudd's GFC-Stimulation-$900 cheque bonanza well spent.

That's the hot tip.

I'd buy shares with my $900 for sure...
but I've just spent spent it all on a tattoo, some jeans, a bit of rent, a hoodie and the new Middle East EP.

People have blogged this band to the moon and back, my mentioning them here is nothing new. but seriously. The EP is close to 25 minutes long and world class.
This is the single, listen and love it.

Playing in Melbourne at The Northcote Social Club on Saturday 13th June. Who wants to come?