26-02-2010, 08:59 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:They played loud and constant Barry Manilow at some place in Sydney near the beach where there were yobbos and hoons in cars were congregating. It did seem successful in dispersing them. But Barry may well disperse anything.
Pumping out loud looped Barry Manilow tracks in a public place is surely the dictionary definition of anti-social behaviour.
Of course, classical music can have a truly subversive effect on even the supposedly irredeemable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJ2skOJvdY
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war