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The Daily Record has a new interview with actress Helena Bonham Carter where she briefly mentions her part in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. While most of the article focuses on her past career, Ms. Bonham Carter refers to the new Potter movie, calling author J.K. Rowling “a genius.” The actress also goes on to refer to her new role as the deatheater Bellatrix Lestrange who causes so much havoc at the Ministry of Magic.
“And Bella,” says Helena with undisguised delight, “is a very bad, bad, bad witch.”
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This is the first piece of ASCII art I’ve ever done, hence teh simpleness like whoa.
Its best viewed in courier new in a small size. For those who don’t know:
ASCII art is an artistic medium that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII. The term is also loosely used to refer to text based art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, like on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation.
OLD MAN EMU
Words and Music by John Williamson
© 1970 for the World by JULY MUSIC, Melbourne, Vic. Australia.
Let me tell you of an interview with an Old Man Emu
He’s got a beak and feathers and things, but the poor old fella ain’t got no wings
“Aren’t you jealous of the wedge-tail eagle?” – dom ba da little da da da(Spoken in tempo) “While the eagle’s flying round and round, I keep my two feet firmly on the ground
I can’t fly, but I’m telling you, I can run the pants off a kangaroo”.doo dee ba doo doo doo , boo da da doot doo doo doo
He can’t fly, but I’m telling you, he can run the pants off a kangaroo.Well he was the model for the fifty cents – oom ba da little da da da
The designer should have had more sense – oom ba da little da da da
If you take a look, it’ll prove to you, I ran the pants off that kangaroo.Doo dee ba doo doo doo…Boo da da doot doo doo..
Take a look it’ll prove to you, he can run the pants off the kangaroo.You can’t loop the loop like a cockatoo – Oom ba da little da da da
Swoop and toss like an albatross – Oom ba da little da da da
“You silly galah, I’m better by far, than a white cockatoo or a budgerigar;
They squeak and squawk and try to talk, why me and them’s like cheese and chalk”
Ba da da Doo dee ba doo doo doo…Boo da da doot doo doo doo
He can’t fly but I’m telling you, he can run the pants off a kangaroo…Well the last time I saw Old Man Emu – Oom ba da little da da da
He was chasing a female he knew – Oom ba da little da da da
As he shot past I heard him say “She can’t fly, but I’m telling you
She could run the pants off a kangaroo”. -Ba da da Doo dee ba doo doo doo Doo dee ba doo doo doo…Boo da da doot doo doo doo
She can’t fly but I’m telling you, she can run the pants off a kangarooWell there is a moral to this ditty – Oom ba da little da da da
Thrush can sing but he ain’t pretty – Oom ba da little da da da
Duck can swim, but he can’t sing, nor can the eagle on the wing
Emu can’t fly, but I’m telling you, he can run the pants off a kangaroo.Well the kookaburra laughed and said “It’s true, oom ba da little da da da,
Ha Ha Ha Ha Hah Hoo, He can run the pants off a kangaroo”
I was just surfing around wordpress, something I tend to do when I get bored and I found this post.
While I’m not at all shocked by this behaviour, I am rather bothered that people can find nudity in art (not to mention nudity in general) offencive. Everyone has a body, there are two types of body and most people are aware what the other sex looks like, there should be no offence to something so common. Are people offended by air now? There is often times more sexual innuendo in the media then there is in the majority of artwork put together. The human form has been painted many, many a time as has it been photographed, drawn, idolised, carved in any number of solid substances and yet they find a statue offencive?
Yes, I admit there are a growing amount of prudes in this world but the human body, no matter what size, shape or colour is a not disgrace. The human body is just that, the human body, something we all use, we all need, and it will always be around. Get used to it folks.
As an artist I am very much offended that people find artistic nudes offencive and I doubt the child was in any which way traumatised, I’m betting the parents were the ones offended and traumatised.
Sigh.
I don’t know really what there is to say, each generation, each era has its hopes, it’s dreams, wishes. I’m a dreamer, yes, and more then anything I want peace. At the moment there are 21 wars around . Possibly the most controversial is that of the Iraq war. Iraq is the Vietnam war of my generation and I wish with all my heart that it never happened because I’m not even sure the people of the world will survive long enough for the generation which this is intended for. My Grandfather, Mr John James Payne of Forbes NSW Australia, he was a soldier in Vietnam and he watched the news for the Iraq war and it tore me apart because in the faces of those young men and women he saw the same fear, the same pride and the same doom that he saw upon his own and his mates faces back in Vietnam. The only thing war will ever solve is over population because it kills us all a little, perhaps not physically but emotionally and mentally. It is and was not a war on terror, more it was a war of terror, of massacre and denial of basic human rights.
War goes with someone to the grave, I was not born in the time of Vietnam, I was born in January 1991 on the 12th, a fair while after that horrific war and yet I know the details and I know the pain that my grandfather went through and the pain that even after his death lingers like shrapnel amongst his family, his mates and I. Let it not be said that war gives character and strength, nor does it bring bravado. War brings discord and pain and suffering for the generation it is in and many after. Please, do believe me when I tell you this, I have always supported the troops but I do not support war. At the time of this writing I can only hope that when this is read by whomever receives it that war is but a distant memory, that disputes are settled in a decent manner, that substance abuse is abolished, cultures reestablished, that can trust again and so much more. If I should ever have children, I hope that somewhere down the line they have the peace I could only ever dream of because even if there is no more wars in my life I will remember and it makes me cry, it hurts more then a thousand cuts. I ask you, remember where you come from, don’t let history be forgotten because it’s a part of who you are, don’t listen to abusive idiots, make up your own mind and stand on your own two legs, listen to your heart most of all, it will never lead you astray.
Perhaps one day I’ll make it into a history book, but not just yet. Even if i don’t it doesn’t matter much to me. I have hopes and dreams so beautiful it hurts to think about them and I know that anyone can be whatever it is that they want if only they would try.
I wish you, dear stranger, all the best.
