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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.

I'm going to dust of the ol' red suit and head to the Victoria Derby tomorrow. I will join Alex Stuckey and James 'Frog' Fogarty in the general admission area… Roly P. Nattrass will be there, but in the members area of course.

This could be my only income for a while so I need to pick a winner, please hit me with any trackside knowledge.

If you stick your melon out the window tonight (Oct 29th) you just may get to see an Aurora! More likely here in Perth, even more likely in Boyanup or some other country hamlet where the weather's good. Apparently it might even happen before 11 PM, check the link

link

Expressed in more scientific terms by a Mr Man from the U.W.A. Physics department in the full story.
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word straight from some Physics guy:

The sun has been very active lately, but much of the media hype has not
come to pass. Things may be different tonight. The X17.2 solar flare of 28
Oct (1110 UTC), the second biggest of this solar cycle, emitted charged
particles directly towards earth. It is estimated the shock front will hit
about 1500 UTC (11pm WAST) on the 29th and may produce an aurora visible
from our latitude. It may even be as good as the great aurora of March
13-14 1989, then again it may be a fizzer. It all depends on the polarity
of the magnetic field of the arriving plasma relative to the earth's.

badger's translation: If you stick your melon out the window tonight (Oct 29th) you just may get to see an Aurora! More likely here in Perth, even more likely in Boyanup or some other country hamlet where the visibility's good. Apparently it might even happen before 11 PM, check the link

<a href="http://www.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=4&SecID=2&SecName=Alerts%20and%20Warnings&SubSecID=4&SubSecName=Aurora%20Alert">link</a>

I had my last day at Rehame today. Due to the litigious nature of this company I won’t say to much about them, suffice to say that I am the fourth to walk from night shift this month (out of a team of 10 or so reporters)… people don’t leave unless something is rotten, and as Paul Keating was fond of saying, “This fish is rotten from the head down”.

Eloise 36, an ex-employee of Rehame, has written an eloquent account of work practices here, many thanks to crikey.com.au for the link.