One good reason to visit failbetter.com, in addition to the interview with Mary Jo Salter and good fiction and poems, is the funny author bio from Brendan Lorber. See you if you can figure out the funny references:
Brendan Lorber edits Lungfull! magazine and runs the Zinc Talk/Reading Series. He's six foot four and full of muscles. Occasionally he'll a speak in your language, but mostly he'll just smile and give you a Vegemite sandwich.
If you get it, leave a message with a hint in the comments area, but don't give it away...
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8 comments:
He's just a man at work. ;-)
Ivy,
hee hee..
ah, brisbane.
Lee
When were you in Brissy?
Actually I never was...I just wrote that as another tip to solve the bio. I have a cousin who lived in Sydney and I've met many travelers from there, but I haven't made it yet :(
I had a bite of a vegemite sandwich once... well, it was more like a piece of vegemite toast... blech blech blech. But then again, I'm no Aussie...
I've never had a vegemite sandwich, but I saw a jar of it once...didn't look too exciting, but I think some people love it.
Anyway, I guess Ivy and I are the only ones who got the 80s music reference...the catchy Men At Work song :)
"i come from a land under, where women _____ and men ________, [I never knew what they were syaing there] can't you hear, can't hear the thunder..."
Here are the complete lyrics [like you needed to know...]
Down Under
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,
"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Oh yeah, certain Aussies love Vegemite. It'd be one of the few things they pack when they go travelling anywhere far from home. And Brisbane's nice and hot, but not as nice or cool as Tasmania.
Ivy,
Aaagh I've been swamped and unable to thank you for the lyrics...I used to love that song...you gotta love (in small doses) the 80s...
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