There's some pretty bad stuff here but I like both Gonna See My Friend and Amongst the Waves.

Spenno. Question for you totally ot. A pal of mine you know was saying aussies are bone deep racist and myopic and no way will they vote for marriage equality it's a step too far and then endless rants about the government there being proof of that and a postal vote just proves it. Where do you see it going?

I expect people will overwhelmingly vote for marriage equality, something the Prime Minister himself has openly stated he supports (so the government is against it, er, how...?)

Cool. I'm just Askin cos the no campaign there have flown out the 'spokespeople' that effectively lost the no campaign in Ireland to help them in the Aussie campaign. These guys literally won us a Yes with the most ignorant backward fear mongering nonsense imaginable. (If we allow gay marriage kids won't have a mother and father! / kids will be forced to learn gay sex education in school!) etc.
These same guys (David Quinn Keith mills Paddy manning) actually won the whole thing for us by the lying bullshit they came out with. They assumed people were dumb and ran with it.
They were mad wrong.
What's the process if the vote is yes? You guys gonna have a referendum? Or act of parliament follwong the vote?

The latter; this "vote" is essentially just a national voluntary survey.

Will they follow through in it though?

Of course they will. We have a (broadly speaking) right-of-centre government where the Prime Minister and party leader is a vocal advocate for the "yes" vote and where the remainder of the party, barring a few disproportionately vocal malcontents, is largely of the same view. I really have no doubts that the "yes" vote will win comfortably and that a same-sex marriage bill will be passed into law very soon after.

Cool. Australia is gay nirvana for the majority of people I know. Be interesting to see it happen there. You guys aren't troubled or divided too much along religious lines or any flip flop moralising (meaning a bush/Clinton/bush/Obama/trump thing) at least from the outside. I hope you all get it over the line. The sky won't fall.

Kind of odd to have that conversation in the Backspacer thread.

In light of Backspacer's birthday, I've made stip a new avatar to celebrate:

Or a less sparkly version:

Gonna See My Friend Get Married To His Life Partner

not really, backspacer is gay.

AL

This is everything!

I vote sparkly btw.

what used to be a house of cards has turned into a reservoir.

HOly shit.

No joke: I just opened this thread at the same time this song popped up and the same line.


Crazy times.

THis album is actually going down smooth right now on a sad and lonely strat night.

it's that strat/slow wavelength that can't be fucked with.

speed of sound is about to make things a whole lot smoother.

There are a lot of great songs on this album. I think Supersonic is actually underrated.

But yes, Speed of Sound is top notch.