Lonerism Enjoyer And Old BoM Website Enthusiast Having A Rough Week

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A local man with certain tastes has admitted this week has been disproportionately harder than others he’s endured recently.

For the first time since the pleasant first few weeks of 2020, Tame Impala released a new album. This week, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) updated their pragmatic website to one that is slicker and harder to use.

Both of those things have weighed heavily on the mind of Tom O’Connor, just another man on the bus with our reporter this morning, hurtling towards Betoota’s beating commercial heart, where we will both trade bits our soul and expertise for money in which buys us tickets on this hellride of late stage capitalism that all of us have been strapped into against our collective will.

“I was kind of holding out for stuff that sounded more like Lonerism,” the 36-year-old said of Deadbeat, the new Tame Impala record.

“You know, that lushness. Melody. Relatable lyrics. Deadbeat sounds like I’m really having to try hard to prevent myself from slipping into a k-hole, in a strange nightclub in an unfamiliar city. That I’m on some filthy black pleather couch in Frankfurt, struggling to get up. My hands are sticky and I’ve lost my friends. Blinded by strobe lights, deafened by catchy, alien music that doesn’t put me at ease.  But I come good after a while. Afterthought is a fuken bop. I find my friends again and they were looking for me, which makes me feel good again. They want to go, too, which is great. I’m even happier. We get outside, it’s November in Germany. 3am. The air hits me like I’ve just been chucked out of a low-flying aircraft into the Southern Ocean. I’m back, I’m alive. That’s what Deadbeat sounds like to me,”

“Why can’t it just make me feel like I’m 23 again. Marginally employed and up for anything. Oh well.”

Tom shrugged.

“It’s like the new BoM website. What was wrong with the old one? It worked? People knew how to use it. Imagine being a farmer or something and being confronted with that. A website that’s been largely the same since 1998, all of a sudden, it looks a website you’d claim a welfare payment from. Why man. This is why we have to pay so much tax in this country, because it just gets spent on shit like this. I loved that old website.”

Another sigh, Tom looked ahead.

“When will it end?”

More to come.