“Write like the wind!”, my doctor mum said to me the other day, and here I am, writing like the wind on the penultimate thesis chapter. My main aide: great music. Truly I tells ya, there’s nothing to fire one on like truly good music! Kills a couple of birds with one stone: you (obviously) have the happy tunes and therefore no longer sit in silence at the desk, so you don’t feel cut-off from the world. Furthermore, if like me you you listen to music that you already liked as a teenager, you even have the unexpected company of your Younger Self. Can be great – you’re so much more accomplished than her! Still as geeky, ok, but that’s good.
So yah, I am sitting here listening to Midnight Oil and I’ve got to say, what a great band!! Moves me to the core the way they’re fighting against racism, pollution, war and social inequality. That kind of sincerity and care about anything really is precious and timely. You don’t often find it, or when you do it often seems so trite and clichéd.
It took me a while to find a suitable track – stupid Sony Music Australia blocks most official videos. But this one here, ‘Put down that weapon’, seems a suitable tune for the day; from the 1985 album Diesel and Dust, the ‘weapon’ here is probably a nuclear one but this doesn’t dimish the necessity for us today to put ‘it’ down, whatever weapon it may be.
