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[cntrbry bnkstwn]

Where can I watch that my bro?

i rented it on itunes, but i think it's also streaming on amazon prime

 

[DaBulldog]

Dirty Money

That’s looks really good. Look forward to seeing that at some stage.

 

[Sandra's Bollocks]

There was another **** of a bird that trashed a heavy duty nest because the chick bird chose the other guy over him.

Story of my life. But then again, I was never great at building nests

 

[CroydonDog]

Dirty Money

Thanks for the reminder. I just realised there is a 2nd season, so will put that on my watchlist.

The Volkswagen episode made me cross the brand off for life. i personally think the penalties didn't go anywhere near far enough.

 

[Jabba the Mutt]

Just finished watching a 6 episode documentary series on 'SBS On Demand' called "The Devil You Know" (Season 2).

It revolves around a very strange conspiracy Christian cult developed by a person called Sherry Shriner and includes murder (?), shape shifting, suicide, lizard-aliens and has a 'cast' of really weird people.

The things people will believe never ceases to amaze me.

Very strange, a little slow but well worth a view.

(7.5/10) (0.5 given as it's available freely)

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

I've been recently watching People Magazine Investigates - a series of documentaries covering real crime cases. The episodes I've seen have been pretty compelling and well made. It's on Fox 136 ID (Investigation Discovery) Channel.

 

[alchemist]

Ken Burns' "The Civil War" is quite possibly the best documentary I have ever watched... I love history and studying wars from ancient times through to the present but I was never really interested in the US... more Australia, Europe and Middle East centric

but this documentary is 9 parts long and examines everything from the causes to the battles to the personalities to the average soldiers to the human cost to the legacies etc.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Ken Burns' "The Civil War" is quite possibly the best documentary I have ever watched... I love history and studying wars from ancient times through to the present but I was never really interested in the US... more Australia, Europe and Middle East centric

but this documentary is 9 parts long and examines everything from the causes to the battles to the personalities to the average soldiers to the human cost to the legacies etc.

I've been watching that again, the last few nights. Have it on DVD. It's an awesome documentary.

 

[alchemist]

I've been watching that again, the last few nights. Have it on DVD. It's an awesome documentary.

I loved it the second I watched it on TV... bought it straight away on VHS back in the 90's

 

[alchemist]

"Oliver Stone: The Untold History of the United States"

this is worth a watch... pretty much how Oliver Stone views American history post-WWII... not perfect by any means but an interesting view of history when the narrative is different

 

[N4TE]

Ken Burns' "The Civil War" is quite possibly the best documentary I have ever watched... I love history and studying wars from ancient times through to the present but I was never really interested in the US... more Australia, Europe and Middle East centric

but this documentary is 9 parts long and examines everything from the causes to the battles to the personalities to the average soldiers to the human cost to the legacies etc.

Cheers for the heads up might whack it in tonight

 

[Jabba the Mutt]

Ken Burns' "The Civil War" is quite possibly the best documentary I have ever watched... I love history and studying wars from ancient times through to the present but I was never really interested in the US... more Australia, Europe and Middle East centric

but this documentary is 9 parts long and examines everything from the causes to the battles to the personalities to the average soldiers to the human cost to the legacies etc.

Ken Burns certainly does a great doco and 'The Civil War' is excellent!
I've managed to catch his 'Country Music', 'Baseball' and 'The Dust Bowl' documentaries on SBS On Demand and they were all very good.

 

[belmore_utd]

I have seen that one. There's another where he finds bright things to pretty up his nest, only for another male to nick it when he's not looking lol. What a carnt.

Working on a farm I used a half rusted out water tank for meal breaks it was the only shade around. There was a bowerbird nest with different colours of blue string hung over a horizontal pole all colour coordinated. All the different shades were hung together but I decided to go all wingman for the bird and organised them from a dark shade of blue to a light shade.
When I come back all the string was scattered everywhere and the nest basically destroyed.
I thought maybe he had been attacked.
Next time I went back it was all organised and the nest rebuilt. I left some bailing twine there to further help the bro out. But when I came back 2 bowerbirds flew out as I approached it was all destroyed again.

Looking back I think I probably provoked a dv relationship and that poor chick bird probably got beat up cause the bro thought someone was fucking around in his nest

 

[belmore_utd]

The Spy in your Phone

Thats why, as a drug dealer I only communicate with pigeons.
They are extremely loyal when you get them hooked on crack

 

[Ripley]

Two oldies:

When We Were Kings. The Ali-Foreman Rumble in The Jungle. Rope a dope and that overhand right.

Stop Making Sense. Even if you’re not a Talking Heads fan, this is widely regarded as the one of the best concert films ever. Exuberant. You had to be fit to play in David Byrne’s band.

A sneak preview, a band that gave everything onstage:

 

[Ripley]

Stop Making Sense. Even if you’re not a Talking Heads fan, this is widely regarded as the one of the best concert films ever. Exuberant. You had to be fit to play in David Byrne’s band.

one of my greatest ever regrets revolves around this film and concert, if you’ll bear with me.

Narara 84, I was there. indeed was also there for Narara 83 when on the Sat night Cold Chisel, The Angels and Rose Tattoo blew the place to pieces, absolutely memorable night.

Anyway, back to 84 and where 83 was all Aussie bands, 84 had a much more international flavour. And heading the Sat night was a band I’d only heard vaguely - Talking Heads.

Now some dates are important here. The Stop Making Sense film concerts ( it’s a mix of a few, same venue) was filmed late ‘83. The film was released early-mid ‘84. Narara 84 was late Jan ‘84.

Sooooooo, the set this iconic band performed on that Sat night at Narara was the iconic set of Stop Making Sense in it’s entirety.

And me?

For whatever reason…. actually I know the reason - drugs… I decided to pass on this weird American band for the night and drop a trip I scored (did a bit of acid in my day and that was one of them) while drinking 2 litres of this shit wine you brought for $2 and wallowed on the bank of what passed for a “pond” but was actually a urine and shit filled mud bath. And the trip was a dud by the way.

This is what I did while one of the most iconic rock sets in history was being played which blew the place to pieces as I was told by those who witnessed it.

So anyway, what I guess I’m saying is…

Drugs are bad, m’kay.

 

[Disposable Hero]

one of my greatest ever regrets revolves around this film and concert, if you’ll bear with me.

Narara 84, I was there. indeed was also there for Narara 83 when on the Sat night Cold Chisel, The Angels and Rose Tattoo blew the place to pieces, absolutely memorable night.

Anyway, back to 84 and where 83 was all Aussie bands, 84 had a much more international flavour. And heading the Sat night was a band I’d only heard vaguely - Talking Heads.

Now some dates are important here. The Stop Making Sense film concerts ( it’s a mix of a few, same venue) was filmed late ‘83. The film was released early-mid ‘84. Narara 84 was late Jan ‘84.

Sooooooo, the set this iconic band performed on that Sat night at Narara was the iconic set of Stop Making Sense in it’s entirety.

And me?

For whatever reason…. actually I know the reason - drugs… I decided to pass on this weird American band for the night and drop a trip I scored (did a bit of acid in my day and that was one of them) while drinking 2 litres of this shit wine you brought for $2 and wallowed on the bank of what passed for a “pond” but was actually a urine and shit filled mud bath. And the trip was a dud by the way.

This is what I did while one of the most iconic rock sets in history was being played which blew the place to pieces as I was told by those who witnessed it.

So anyway, what I guess I’m saying is…

Drugs are bad, m’kay.

Guys and Gals your age are soo fucking lucky.
living through the 70's and 80's. The best years of live music in Australia

 

[Ripley]

Guys and Gals your age are soo fucking lucky.
living through the 70's and 80's. The best years of live music in Australia

70’s a bit early for me, but the 80’s any weekend, plenty weekdays (Wed’s always a big night) you could go to any of dozens of pubs or clubs throughout Sydney and see Australias’s top bands and plenty of internationals too.

Oil’s, Chisel, Mentals, Angels, Tatts, INXS (I mean fuck me, INXS we’re the Wed night house band at Sefton Hotel way into the 2nd album of their career). All of them and more up close and sweaty.

I could walk into just about any of the big hotels and clubs in Sydney these days, walk into the fucking pokies room and tell you that’s where I seen Oils or Angels etc etc. That’s what they did to the live venues, turn them into paupers casinos.

Absolute tragedy.

Anyway, I hijacked the thread, should be one for this subject which I might start one day, but for now back to the documentary.

 

[B-Train]

I started watching "I, Sniper" on SBS last night. It's about the Washington Snipers that killed 30 plus people. It's really well made.

Also Murder On The Bayou on Stan is awesome. It's basically a real life version of True Detective.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Ken Burns' "The Civil War" is quite possibly the best documentary I have ever watched... I love history and studying wars from ancient times through to the present but I was never really interested in the US... more Australia, Europe and Middle East centric

but this documentary is 9 parts long and examines everything from the causes to the battles to the personalities to the average soldiers to the human cost to the legacies etc.

It's a fascinating period of history. There are over a hundred Civil War veterans buried in Australia. One that I like to visit every now and then, is buried in Bowral. Started as a lumberjack in Canada, went to America and enlisted in 1861 in the 4th Maine Infantry, then later served with the 19th Maine Infantry. He took part in many of the most famous battles (some of his battle honours are on a plaque at the base of his gave, below). He finally ended up living in Australia, as a hermit in the Southern Highlands...