The wolf has cast aside his sheep’s clothing!
Without warning, without a formal declaration, Brett Holman, the autocrat of Australian airmindness, has perpetrated an act of stunning aural aggression! He has revealed his true bellicose nature!
The toady of Trenchard has responded to my peace-loving post of the Handsome Family’s “Amelia Earhart versus the Dancing Bear” with an unwarranted and premeditated provocation! In a shameless surprise assault launched from his South Pacific lair, he has attempted to overwhelm my pop-cultural defenses by linking to three aviation-related music videos on his blog! With cunning and duplicity the salivating cur has brazenly challenged me to a YouTube duel!
Posting the Lucksmiths was a clever and unexpected ploy! And the ethereal (though highly tangential) Lisa Gerrard almost lulled me into complacency! But the lickspittle Holman erred grievously! He invited the People’s scorn and wrath by unleashing the gaseous OMD! How quickly the sycophants of 80s synth-pop forget! The Avia-Corner is alert to such tactics and prepared to do battle!
War has commenced!
The lackey of Curzon will rue the day that he launched his sneak attack! My vast reserves of airplane songs will (metaphorically) darken the heavens above! He and his minions will cower beneath my air-music armada just like the sub-human creature-things in Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Blue Sky”:
Panic and despair will seize his very being! Woe will befall his blighted website as I unleash a campaign of total sonic war! The belligerent saber-rattler well knows that “the bomber will always get through.” And the devastation that I inflict with Motörhead’s “Bomber” is fearsome, indeed!:
Holman shall find no shelter from my wrath in the wake of his predacious first strike! My Dictatorship of the Air is well armed with a vast stockpile of deadly weapons and warriors, none more lethal than this “Jet Pilot” from System of a Down!:
SURRENDER, Holman! ALL IS LOST!
“I am become deaf, the destroyer of bandwith…”
April 4, 2007 - 11:19 am
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April 5, 2007 - 10:01 am
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April 20, 2007 - 9:59 am
[...] In light of the “war scare” that gripped a certain small corner of the Internet earlier this month, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to pass along news from Moscow about plans to construct a new museum devoted to the Cold War. The most interesting aspect of the proposed project is its location: inside a former military command bunker 200 feet beneath the city. [...]