Many regular GrodsCorp readers will be aware of PRODOS’s homage to privatising the ABC, named, ingeniously, Privatize (sic) The ABC. The website (really just another vehicle for PRODOS to make some cash off merchandise of dubious quality) features the song and it’s lyrics. That’s it. I was expecting some kind of detailed strategy to sell off the ABC, but trust PRODOS to leave the actual problems of selling off the ABC to someone else. In the magical world of PRODOS, all you really need for your dreams to come true is a song in your heart, and a house left to you by your parents.

Unfortunately, the American band Sparks beat PRODOS to the punch, releasing their ode to the privatisation of the ABC back in 2001. The song is called Now That I Own The ABC and is quite a rarity, as it was released only on the Australian edition of their album Balls and as a promo single. The song actually received fairly substantial airplay on Triple J, no doubt due to the satirical nature of the lyrics.

So, click here to find out how to write a real song about the privatisation of the ABC.

1) Samuel Gordon-Stewart, Independent
Independent candidate for Fraser, Samuel Gordon-Stewart, has launched his campaign with a press release and the unveiling of his campaign website. Some of Samuel’s policy positions include:

* The nationalisation of education and health, with plans to move government funding from the private sector to the public sector, and provide bulk billed health and dental services in as many areas as possible. Samuel is also committed to ensuring the ACT education system, particularly the college system, is used as the basis for the national education system.
* Bold new initiatives to stave off drought and replenish the farming sector, and therefore make the economy better, and improve the standard of living for regional areas.
* The acceptance that Climate Change is a mostly natural phenomenon, and that we need to plan around the natural climate cycle.
* Economically sustainable targets for the reduction of pollution, and the introduction of renewable energy to improve the air quality, and therefore our standard of living.
* A majority government owned national fibre-to-the-node high speed broadband network, and the urgent provision of broadband services to all areas of the nation that do not currently have them.
* Oppose the Tralee development in favour of a Googong development to prevent excess aircraft noise over Canberra.
* A speeding up of the rollout of digital radio, and government assistance to ensure that no broadcasters are adversely affected by the change.

2) Stalker turns stalked
Iain; Hall, the internet’s most illiterate blogger, has threatened another blogger with police action over alleged “cyberstalking”. Of course, anyone who’s been following the actions of Iain (Nice;person) Hall since his early days in the blogosphere will laugh heartily at the irony of this development.

3) Ahhh, memories
Do you know how sounds can summon powerful memories? Well I found this video on the YouTubes the other day. It’s the opening titles from the UK Sky TV’s Sky Sports News. I was freelancing as a director at that channel between 2000 and 2002, and I had to listen to those opening titles a dozen times a shift. Took me back is all I’m saying.

I have created a third song, which may interest followers of Alan Jones. I used his bootleg tapes to create a track full of clap along fun.

Download FUCK IT.

Warning: Not for the easily offended!