Another musical dispatch from the front

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Once again another fascinating insight into just what makes our society tick, and at election time the belief, via the immediacy of graffiti, that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  What is it about Graffiti? The immediacy, the subversiveness, or just the truth behind a scrwawl upon a wall that makes it so effective as another lone voice out there in the wilderness? 
Frank is a lone voice and for this we are truly worried, because the background noise at election time makes it difficult for voices to be heard. Voices which are drowned out by the wit and wisdom of our politicians who give us ” Clean Coal” and the thrill of an upcoming ” Commonwealth Games” as a sop to the absence of imaginative public policy.
No fear, Franks voice rings crystalline and clear. That’s why no one can hear it. Cos though his dispatches are full of laughter, sardonic, observation and wit he can’t compete against a dog whistle and a well tempered Ukulele. 
He writes….
Hi again

Long before the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy morphed from a literary university cult classic into a New Zealand film, I recall reading about some graffiti written on New York subway walls:

“Gandalf for President” and “Remember, Frodo gave his finger for you”

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JQ1q-13Ek

The sounds of silence of course echo the current election campaign when it comes to Climate Change. Talk about a naked Emperor sitting on an elephant in the room!

Also, very appropriate to the election is my all-time favourite graffiti from a book by Eduardo Galeano (somewhere on a wall in Quito, Ecuador):

Basta de hechos, queremos promesas (enough of deeds we want promises!)

This from a Dispatchee: Someone wise, an old Greek fellow, said Democracy is inherently corrupt as it is based on promises!

No subway walls between Alice Springs and Yuendumu, all the same a graffiti sequence can now be read on the back of traffic signs on the Tanami Road:

‘Justice for Walker’

‘Leave your guns at home boys’

‘Don’t take your guns to town son’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnowGbiUp4

and ‘No Guns in Yuendumu’

And just like the famous ‘New Zealand Sucks’ graffiti invited the ‘Australia nil’ response, so too the ‘No guns in Yuendumu’ has been enriched with “how we gunna hunt im that turkey”

I can just picture it:

“Mr. policeman, can I borrow your Glock to go hunting with?”

Incidentally for at least one year now, there are no kangaroos roaming this part of the world.
Climate change might have something to do with it. Local Yapa have no explanation, maybe one of you might have?

Frank

Some music from the land that yielded my favourite graffiti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kQZHYbZkLs