Rats In The Gutter

Are Sharon and Kelly Osbourne wraiths reanimated by a Druid-cum-fishmonger? Is Whangarei ready for Samuel and Johanna’s eclectic spin on a regional Pretty Woman Remake? Are the Hunderwasser toilets 80 percent grout? Journey forth and discover if you dare (also featuring Ken Russel’s the Devils)

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This week the very-enrolled-to-vote rats discuss, among other things, the petty differences between Aussie and Kiwi approaches to getting the great unwashed to the polls. Dismal prospects aside (the future seems veeeeery touch and go right now) the rats are adamant that the flimsily symbolic act of voting could still count for something, despite the fact the system itself has long been bought out by a college of corporations and we’re all essentially feudalist serfs in a techno-rentier oligarchy (huge lols). Realistic pessimisms aside, the rats also tinker their halloween costume ideas, because there’s nothing to distract oneself from imminent doom quite like grinding on strangers in a slutty outfit.

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Despite some awful personal news pre-record, the rats persist like the showbiz rodents they truly are. This week our gutters overflow with classic anti America sentiment, disinterest in GTA release in November, refusal to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “The Birds” and of course a deep disappointment in male comedians (on going)

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Behind the paywall the rats discussed the importance of Journeying, and this side, where the freebies never cease, they discuss Learning, a symptom of journeying, but also not a given. The lessons must be EARNED. Like, realising ‘things’ in your thirties, which some (meaning anyone in their early twenties) might compare to going roughly into that good night, without realising that later life isn’t just an extended tragedy when your proximity to adolescence can no longer be pretended, like most American media would have you believe (because the teenage brain makes for better consumers). Also on the minutes this week; Ken Russels The Devils which gets a 4k remaster this year and which both rats are VERY excited for, the discrete charm of a Hessian slip (somewhere between Courtney Love and a North Korean internment camp), the various obsessions and peculiarities of Mossad, and a real argument for the posthumous canonisation of one Aileen Wuornos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this dystopian fever dream we call reality, with everything worsening apace (faster than a forgotten cube of Colby in the back of the fridge) it’s easy to forget that we once had different aspirations, that we once expected a rising gradient of liveability from our world, and not the agonisingly slow decline we all know and loathe. And yet the punch might be in really rubbing our faces in the muck, and NOT in fey delusions of well meaning individuals with authority and resources suddenly remembering they have a conscience and choosing to do things differently. Because if the room’s filling with smoke, then we may as well get high on the fumes of a dying world, rather than strain for a vanishing high ground that’s only going to be rubbed out by fracking or data-centre related erosion anyway. Or something. Also, Taylor Swift is a caucasian anti-christ and her musical offerings are more harmful to culture than the loss of our enlightened gay elders during the AIDS pandemic. Charli forever.

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