Pozorblog » ODS http://www.pozorblog.com Politics in Slovakia and Beyond Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Life imitates Onion (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AC/DC) http://www.pozorblog.com/2009/03/life-imitates-onion-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-acdc/ http://www.pozorblog.com/2009/03/life-imitates-onion-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-acdc/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:17:35 +0000 admin http://www.pozorblog.com/?p=167 First there was the monument to Bon Scott (among other ‘died young’ rockers) in Samorin, Slovakia (http://pozorblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/meet-the-new-boss/).  Now we find an even more astounding tribute: “AC/DC Inspired Czech Leader’s “Road to Hell” Riff” (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/czech/?hp).  It is hard to say which part of this story would have been more astounding in, say, March 1989: that the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic attended an AC/DC concert or that AC/DC was still touring.

Regardless, it is tempting to follow the lead of Scott Brown of “Springtime for Dubcek” (http://springtimefordubcek.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/for-those-about-to-shock-we-salute-you/) and speculate about other songs that Topolanek might have used with regard to administration policies:

  • Money Talks
  • Nervous Shakedown
  • Back in [the] Black

In general the list applies better to the Clinton adminstration.  Alas, Vaclav Klaus does not appear to have attended any in the mid-1990′s AC/DC concerts.

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