Life by Tull 24 Mar 2009 One of my favourite 70s songs, below the fold: “Life’s a Long Song”, by Jethro Tull, from the 1971 EP of the same name. For some reason the final episode of Battlestar Galacticaput this in my head. When you’re falling awake and you take stock of the new day, And you hear your voice croak as you choke on what you need to say, Well, don’t you fret, don’t you fear, I will give you good cheer. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. If you wait then your plate I will fill. As the verses unfold and your soul suffers the long day, And the twelve o’clock gloom spins the room, You struggle on your way. Well, don’t you sigh, don’t you cry, Lick the dust from your eye. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. We will meet in the sweet light of dawn. As the Baker Street train spills your pain all over your new dress, And the symphony sounds underground put you under duress, Well don’t you squeal as the heel grinds you under the wheel. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. But the tune ends too soon for us all. Sermon
Australian stuff Bastardry: On protest and on fascism 17 Mar 201417 Mar 2014 I attended the March in March protest against the current government of Australia yesterday. My legs still hurt. I’m sure that demonstrations were not so arduous thirty years ago. I noticed that this was a privative demonstration. It was not about something so much as against something, and the something it was… Read More
Epistemology Was Jesus a philosopher? 9 May 2010 A local philosophy mailing list has announced a talk being given by a philosophically inclined plumber on Jesus’ philosophy. This rather begs the question* that he was indeed a philosopher. Jesus certainly held ethical principles and taught doctrines, but that is insufficient to make someone a philosopher. Many people have… Read More
Education On non-cohort based education 8 Aug 2010 I’m going to rant for a bit; it’s Sunday here, so my Inner Preacher gets to play. Everyone is decrying the state of education, and how students know less and are unable to think, excel and so forth. Teachers, governments, and culture are all to blame, etc. It seems to… Read More
Reminds me of the first joke that I ever deliberately invented, back in the days when my age could be counted on my fingers. Q. What do you call a short song? A. A universe. (So life is the opposite of universe? Hmmm.)
Reminds me of the first joke that I ever deliberately invented, back in the days when my age could be counted on my fingers. Q. What do you call a short song? A. A universe. (So life is the opposite of universe? Hmmm.)
Always been a fan of the mighty ape, but now I see he quotes Tull!?!? Damn, now I might have to join the super-fan club.
Always been a fan of the mighty ape, but now I see he quotes Tull!?!? Damn, now I might have to join the super-fan club.