{"id":21658,"date":"2014-06-06T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2014-06-06T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:29:46","slug":"three-directions-in-australian-pop-music-that-thankfully-went-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/three-directions-in-australian-pop-music-that-thankfully-went-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Directions in Australian Pop Music That, Thankfully, Went Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21680\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21680\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/picnic-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Seeking direction.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/picnic-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/picnic.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seeking direction.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last month\u00a0TCM (ie, &#8220;The Old Movie Channel&#8221;) featured a series of films from Australia&#8217;s early &#8217;70s New Wave. This gave me a chance to get sucked into <strong>Peter Weir<\/strong>&#8216;s hypnotic\u00a0<em>Picnic at Hanging Rock<\/em> for the umpteenth time as well as a chance to finally see his commercial breakthrough, <em>The Year of Living Dangerously<\/em>, which got off to a strong start before petering out in Important Old-Time Movie Cliches and not quite living up to its grand aspirations. (This may have been only the second time I ever saw Mel Gibson in a movie from start to finish. Weird.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, during the introduction to one of these Weir films the series&#8217; host, <strong>Jackie Weaver<\/strong>, the\u00a0Australian actress who played the Philadelphia mom of Bradley Cooper&#8217;s <em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>\u00a0character as <strong>Edith Bunker<\/strong> (a topic for another day: when will a Hollywood film get an actor to play a Philadelphia character with an actual Philadelphia accent) mentioned Weir&#8217;s 1971 short film, <em>Three Directions in Australian Pop Music<\/em>. Having dug the Aussie rock from that era that I stumbled across a few years ago (and I&#8217;m still looking for a killer comp of that stuff, if anyone has a recommendation), I had to track this short film down. Thankfully, someone had posted it on YouTube. The following directions in Australian pop music were, for the most part, left uncharted. Thankfully. See what you think&#8230;<em>after the jump<\/em>!<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHyu-NMc6AM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month\u00a0TCM (ie, &#8220;The Old Movie Channel&#8221;) featured a series of films from Australia&#8217;s early &#8217;70s New Wave. This gave me a chance to get sucked into Peter Weir&#8216;s hypnotic\u00a0Picnic at Hanging Rock for the umpteenth time as well as a chance to finally see his commercial breakthrough, The Year of Living Dangerously, which got <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/three-directions-in-australian-pop-music-that-thankfully-went-nowhere\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[382,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}