![]() Now wet weather doesn’t particularly faze us any longer (baptism of fire for me and touring in bad weather conditions). There was many, many articles and announcements on the media about La Niña weather system being declared, and above average rains on the way. And even then, there were many things to consider, such as an upcoming operation for CC (possible clashing surgery and recovery dates), being on call for the start of the fire/back-burning season and now it was a question of whether to take the bikes or the car. The planning for this trip, was at a max, 3 weeks window. So without either really agreeing to ideas for the next trip it was decided for us. however, I pulled out before we got to the end of the unsealed roads due to a cracked airbox, & CC ended up getting stuck out in the outback due to. This time better prepared.īack in 2018 we did a bike trip to get to the desert. Having tasted what a little bit of outback has to offer I am more than keen to go back. I’m also still walking on cloud9, post Dino Trail trip. He was animated enough when telling the stories that I took notice. He told of stories of ponder water next to tracks, wild-flower fields having popped up of bursts of colour, and there not being too much roadkill. Due to water having recently come down in large patches inland, the land was alive. So with that in mind but the want to use my work leave wisely another trip was in the making.ĬC having recently come back from the bowels of this great brown land, he reported the opposite. No border opening without quarantine, travel bubble not big enough & just too much uncertainly. However, as it is now becoming all too common, it got “Covided-out”. Originally, the Queen’s birthday long weekend was meant to be a bike trip, half way into NSW to meet the Sydney/ NSW NR crew. Sorry for going ham on this, I just really like talking about where he gets his ideas from and I've always wanted to share that connection I found.So things haven’t gone according to this plan: Planning for the Annual Qld / NSW get together ![]() "Empire" is a song on 2004's Grown Backwards that he had performed in concert in the 90's before polishing it and putting it on an album. For what it's worth, the episode is from 1994 and the album is from 2001, but some of his music has very long incubation periods. It's entirely possible that David Byrne and the writers of The Simpsons were both referencing something else that isn't easily searched online, but it's also not beyond belief that Byrne would have heard the phrase and included it in a song, since Television as a concept is such a repetitive theme in his music. When I came across the scene, I researched it and couldn't find any other version of the phrase come up. In Treehouse of Horror V, Homer holds a portable television and says "Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover," and is subdued from an urge to kill. A few months ago I was watching The Simpsons and came across those words again. For example, the Look Into the Eyeball song " The Moment of Conception" has the line "will you be my secret lover / mother, father, sister brother, too." The song is about a man blaming his evil nature on the conditions of his upbringing, citing his family members, TV and movies. I've found other Byrne things that I could only trace to one source. I suspect the phrase has existed before, but it wouldn't surprise me if he got it from there. The American Utopia album is also a lot about getting people out of complacency or learned helplessness. Or rather, urging us against complacency. It's just short of calling for revolution, really. It's about how a perfect future is impossible, but a better one is absolutely within our reach if we can unite against the forces that oppress us. And in his mind, this struggle toward an unattainably perfect world is the heart of the American experiment. He is describing a future that cannot exist, but the benefit and the sense of purpose in trying to achieve it. "There's a city in my mind," "it's very far away," etc. The word Utopia literally means "no place" in Greek, and it's the destination Byrne is describing in Road to Nowhere. It's about nothingness, sure, but it's also about trying to make the world a better place, even though the kind of world we're trying to make is ultimately unattainable. You know how Road to Nowhere is the final song they perform in American Utopia? That's because the song is one of the earliest examples of the concept in Byrne's work.
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