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  • DID THIS MOVIE PREDICT YOUTUBE/PODCAST CULTURE? Movie Musings #5

    Pump Up the Volume (1990) ***SPOILER ALERT*** Hard Harry is the alter ego of Mark Hunter, a high school student in small town America. Mark is an intelligent introvert who goes about not being noticed. Hard Harry is the rebellious DJ of a pirate radio station who tells it like it is. The station theme…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: A Hard Truth

                    “This used to be a place                  Where a man could find some work                  Put together Holdens or a foundry job at worst…” Chorus                 “They’re shutting down our town                  They’re cutting down out town                  No more production line blue collar can be found                  They’ll tear it to the ground…”…

  • THE NEW LORDS AND THEIR HEIRS: Rise of the Tycoons #8

    The surviving nomadic/ hunter gatherers kept doing what they did best. Some may have found a nice, secluded space and settled. Some of those may have grown and joined the space (as in taking it up) race. Many remained humble and lived a simple life; for as long as they could anyway. As for all…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #10

    Previously I used the image of Indiana Jones running from the giant boulder in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. Believe it or not I had another similar experience. I was helping my father and his mate (Steve) working on a brewery truck. We were delivering kegs and I was down in the cellar. Steve was…

  • MY TROUBLE WITH GRAN TORINO (2008): Movie Musings #4

    ***SPOILER ALERT*** I will begin with a question: Do you think that this film has a happy or at least a fulfilling ending? Every person I have asked usually says yes. Call me a jaded film buff, but I disagree. The final scene sees Thao Vang joyfully driving Walt’s prized Gran Torino – all has…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: I Need to Speak to The Person in Charge

    The people on the shop floor know they are just numbers, expendable numbers. They look at their supervisors (team leaders, leading hands or whatever other bullshit title) and know that those Schmoes are standing on even thinner ice. No sympathy for them of course, they took the step up, they enforce the shitty rules –…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #9

    As kids, Wayne and I joined forces to collect cans for cash, and we were always on the lookout for new hunting grounds. One day while riding on a train I noticed how many cans were strewn across the tracks. People were obviously just tossing their empties out the window. So, I came up with…

  • THE OPPORTUNISTS START GETTING THEIR HOOKS IN: Rise of the Tycoons #7

    Skip forward a handful of generations and some of the booming tribes will have grown into villages. They would be working out the most efficient use of their labour power and ensuring the necessary know-how gets passed along to the next generation. The better they are at this the more fruitful their harvest. Security was…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: We’re up to Our Necks in it

    Introduction I’m sure you are aware of this thing called ‘The System’. The term gets lobbed around often enough. Whatever you reckon it is, there’s no doubt we are all stuck in it, and apart from becoming a hermit or a corpse, there seems to be no escape. So, what the fuck is IT? And…

  • I THINK I JUST WITNESSED ONE OF THE GREATEST NOBLE SACRIFICES IN A MOVIE EVER!: Movie Musings #3

    GODZILLA (1954) ***SPOILER ALERT*** (If the title didn’t already give it away. Sorry) Without a doubt the most recognizable Kaiju (strange beast) in history. Godzilla was the embodiment of man’s destructive tendencies. A monstrous creature born out of hydrogen bomb testing, it is a devastating representation of the apocalyptic potential of nuclear weapons. I may…