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Hey kids, make your own message from JC here.

God will sit in judgement of which ones are the funniest. Amen.

This site has a number of fairly crappy quality mp3s of some songs pavement have covered.
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Ah they're smary and scruffy but you still gotta love them right?

The Killing Moon and Wonderwall ones are all I've sucked down, indie gold!

It seems that those crazy Christians from Potters House had something special in store for the kiddies this year…
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From the West Australian:

Trick or treat a church trick.

By DAWN GIBSON.
5 November 2003
(c) 2003, West Australian Newspapers Limited

Visitors to a Halloween haunted house were subjected to disturbing scenes of teen suicide and Bali bombing victims rather than the ghosts and ghouls they had expected.

About 800 people, including children aged under 10, are believed to have flocked to the haunted house in Beechboro last week after it was advertised.

But on entering the house, visitors realised the Halloween "trick" was on them. It is the headquarters of the Potters House Christian Centre and the experience was an elaborate attempt to get converts.

Visitors paid $2 each to be taken inside in groups of about 10 and shown graphic scenes acted out by church members, including a teenage boy lying in a bath with slashed wrists. This was followed by a man dressed up as the devil, who told the audience they were going to hell because they were sinners, and another who played the role of Jesus Christ.

A City Beach woman said the experience was scary but not in the way she had expected. Her partner was told that his mother, who recently died from cancer, was in hell because she was not a Potters Christian.

She said the walls were covered with black plastic, making it difficult to find the exit, and the group she was in were told they were not allowed to leave the room until at least one had joined the Church. A woman did and the rest were allowed to leave.

She had rung an information line in the advertisement but there was no mention of a religious group.

Another woman who contacted The West Australian was concerned that young children were allowed in, despite a warning on the advertisement that it was not suitable for children under 12.

She said the advertisements were misleading and she would complain to the Advertising Standards Bureau.

They did not mention that the event was run by a church group and gave the impression that it would be a Halloween-themed experience. A catchline said it would be an "audiovisual, multisensory, spine-chilling, fear-tingling, heart-thumping event."

Potters House Christian Centre assistant pastor Darryl Munckton said information line callers were told that it was a Christian group. Signs outside warned that scenes would be graphic and it was not recommended for people with heart complaints.

Mr Munckton said it was rubbish that people were detained against their will. His Church believed people had to have a relationship with God to go to heaven but this did not necessarily mean they had to be a Potters member.

An Advertising Standards Bureau spokeswoman said it dealt with offensive advertisements, not misleading ones. Any complaints would be sent to the Department of Consumer Protection. A department spokeswoman said she had not received any.

One day Lou, Matty Milner and myself decided that what the world really needed was a compliation album featuring those songs that could be considered a “call to arms”. The tunes that make people want to get together and start a revolt. The music that stirs the blood and brings crew together into some kind of mass rally. The songs that never say die. So, new from KLM-tel comes the power and the passion of A Call to Arms.
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A Call to Arms

Song/Artist

*Something in the Air/Thunderclap Newman
("we gotta get together sooner or later, because the revolution's here" - however, the lack of urgency expressed here is a tad disappointing)

*Won't Get Fooled Again/The Who
(Title, plus the line "Meet the new boss - same as the old boss!" - mmm political)

*We gotta get outta this place/The Animals
("We" - implies more than one person and is an integral part of many CTA songs to generate a rallying fervour.)

*Spice Girls/Spice up your Life
(Every gender and every nationality is encouraged, nay demanded to spice up their lives)

*Jailbreak/ACDC and Thin Lizzy
(Put them back to back on the album so the punters can compare and contrast the Antipodean and the Irish take on escaping from punitive institutions.)

*You're the Voice/John Farnham
(Pompous, full of tired cliched rhetoric, bagpipes - ah yes the ultimate
CTA)

*Power and the Passion Midnight Oil
(See above but minus bagpipes)

*Big Country/Big Country
(The bit after one of those bagpipe-emulating guitar solos where the dearly departed Stuart Adamson goes 'Ha!' - just makes one want to assemble collectively in a public space)

*Run to the Hills/Iron Maiden
(All in the title - those in Lesmurdie need not run as far as others)

*Walls Come Tumbling Down/Style Council
(From the get-go "You don't have to take this crap, you can actually fight back". With some bad ass fringes and pencil thin microphones. Presumably.)

*The Wall/Pink Floyd
(A wonderful yet belated attempt to get the kids to rally {to buy their
records} by a bunch of portly balding, superannuated rock dinosaurs.
Respect)

*Bound for Glory/Angry Anderson
*Holy Grail/Hunters & Collectors
(Both granted automatic inclusion due to the fact that they were mimed unconvincingly by their respective composers before AFL Grand Finals

*It's a Long Way to the Top/AC/DC
(Again with the Bagpipes and guitars emulating Bagpipes)

*It's Because I Love You/Master's Apprentices
("Do you want to do, be what you want to be" - plus a YEAH for
some positive reinforcement. Plus, it was used in a jeans ad and our Eastern Bloc Komrades know all about the revolutionary significance of denim.)

*We're Not Gonna Take It/Twisted Sister
(A shouted chorus, again the use of the word 'we' implying collective
empathy - Dee Snider, how did we overklook thee?)

*We Built this City on Rock n Roll/Starship
(Perhaps, perhaps not. Regardless, concrete may have been a more sensible foundation)

*Eye of the Tiger/Survivor
(Admittedly, one eyed tigers are not as scary as their fully complemented counterparts, however the name of the band is also inspirational.)

We'd like to hear any suggestions that we may have missed. But remember that we have a stringent selection policy.

Spike Jonze has been chosen to direct the film adaptation of the classic kiddies book “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak.

full story for cover illustration…

more info here

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This book, along with John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat are the two books that I remember most fondly from my childhood. Spike Jonze seems well suited to the project - hopefully he does it justice.