Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer/ both great song and video

Other things...lots of policemen with guns in Melbourne this afternoon...news via WeChat. ...... And don't you think it is time we stopped using the term "American Intelligence?"

we get wise, if at all, by simple damage

life is good, life is bad, life is happy, life is sad, life is orderly, life's a mess. None of this will change. People will say you have to steel yourself for the task, or something bad will happen, but bad things happen anyway, as do good things, and there is no real rhyme or reason to it all at all. You know that just as well when you're 3 as when you're 63. I must note that while massage is very nice, it doesn't actually make life more meaningful than it is, and you don't get wisdom or clarity massaged into you...nor advised into you by well meaning folk in the health and psychology realms...nor do you get it in vitamins...or a combination of these tings.

we get wise, if at all, by simple damage

i notice the new head for Beyond Blue, the Australian National Anti-Depression organisation is the former PM Julia Gillard. Don't they realise that she caused the national depression?

Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash You Are My Sunshine

bob dylan & johnny cash - one too many mornings