Kevin Rudd is great pretender. In reality Kevin Rudd is Fox who disguised in Sheep suit. Get over it. The feminisation of men continues worldwide. No, we are not the same,people have different colours, genders and sexuality. It is natural to make these remarks about the opposite sex. Was it the right time to say it, no but nobody died or even cried, what's the problem? Use your Facebook account to login or register with JapanToday. The Coalition is against this switch to an emissions trading system, in which the European Commission effectively sets our carbon price by manipulating its market in permits to emit carbon dioxide.
If the Coalition sticks to its guns, Rudd's plan is dead - unless it can bribe the Greens with billions of dollars of more dud green schemes just like the ones Rudd says he needs to cut. In fact, Rudd is merely bringing forward by one year Labor's planned switch to emissions trading, so any savings are also for just one year, as Treasurer Chris Bowen tried to point out to him: "It is a one-year figure based on the Treasury's view of the carbon price.
Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on 2GB this week not only conceded the obvious -- that the price set by Europe could well rise - but refused to rule out it rising to a level much higher than our carbon tax today. People with short memories may find it unbelievable that a prime minister could tell them such untruths with such moral conviction.
And here he is again, pretending to fix a tax that pretended to stop a global warming Rudd pretends is dangerous even though it's now paused for more than 15 years. The King of Seeming in an Age of Seeming. But for the most part, people in bands, they grudgingly went along with it and did it because everyone was doing it.
And it kind of it all became the kids from Fame. I kind of lost it at that point and started losing interest. I went along with it like a good citizen.
I made a ton of videos. And they were all appalling. But I did it because that was the name of the game, and we were trying to stay in the game and get on the radio. I think when we started, we didn't go along with anything; they came to us. But then it all went very flabby for about 30 years with videos. I think it's kind of leveled off now, because even bands are kind of finished — although I hear bands are coming back! Yeah, well, I was worried about it!
I was kind of bummed out about it. But I understand that there's a whole ton of young bands out there doing stuff. They have to play small venues, of course. And we didn't want to be household names. We didn't even want to be in the household! So, then all of a sudden it was this drive to be the biggest — and I wouldn't say I lost interest, but I lost interest in that aspect of it.
We were on the road, we were touring. I was not reading the press, because right from the start I didn't. I was distracted, actually. By the second album, half the band was dead, so I had other things to think about.
Are you still trying to get a band together? Obviously you love to keep busy , most recently with the Standing in the Doorway album and this accompanying documentary. Well, I can remember where I was sitting at my desk in school when it was reported over the PA system that the president had been killed.
And I hadn't heard anything new from Bob Dylan lately. It really blew me away, and it was the beginning of that lockdown.
So, I was sitting there with no outdoor space, in an apartment by myself, and it was pretty freaky at the beginning, because you really didn't know if you were supposed to touch anything or if you could go out. Nobody really knew what was going on. Then, when I heard that song, it really lifted me, I think. Certainly, clearly, it was a very poignant story, but Bob is always funny. And musically, it was interesting. And he was singing great.
And we enjoyed it and kept doing it. We didn't intend to make an album, and we didn't even intend for it to be heard. It was just something to do. Some artists were very creative during the pandemic, and others felt very stagnant and uninspired. It seems like you fell into the former category. I think that just this comes down to an individual.
Everyone was going through some sort of existential moment, trying to figure it out. Lucky for me, I live alone, so I didn't have to really refer to anyone else. I just had time on my hands. We had been ready to take off on a pretty extensive tour of more than 60 cities, now all of a sudden, it was just gone.
And I found that after the dust settled, it was interesting. I didn't think I'd been on a treadmill, but then I realized I had been. When everything stopped, I thought it was pretty cool how the whole world was arrested.
And it needed to happen. Everything was going too fast. Things were out of control just about everywhere you looked, and everything kind of had to pause. I missed that. I think it's good to stop everything. So, yeah, I dug it. You mentioned in your documentary that you live alone and you don't have a garden, and that you would spend weeks at a time alone in your home.
Well, you're taking one line that was taken out of context. It doesn't really matter what you say; anything that's quoted is already taken out of context, because it's out of the conversation. Which is probably why I don't read any of it, because it it's kind of a windup. I don't see my situation as particularly different from anyone else's.
Um, I'd like to think that I've been that clever and I really had curated it and really spent a lot of time on it, but I didn't. I didn't know half the songs. I mean, I love Bob Dylan and I know a lot of his music, and I had his records when I was a teenager and he's a major influence, blah blah blah — he is an influence on anyone that writes songs or likes music.
But I haven't had all of his albums. I guess what I'm saying is, I'm not a Dylanologist. The way we chose those songs is I just kind of looked at YouTube and tried to find songs that weren't like eight minutes long, that might've had like a chorus, that we can do it in a more song format. I mean, I don't always write choruses and neither does he, but you know, just songs that well that we could interpret somehow.
There's not much point in doing the really well-known songs, because everyone's heard them, and I've heard them, so you end up kind of doing them the way Bob does them.
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