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Charlie's Manifesto

from Rolly Nice by The Finks

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I don’t believe the old poems. I don’t believe anything that anyone sings. I don’t believe in rhyme. I don’t believe that something is better than nothing. I don’t believe the future will be better than the past. I believe that the present is what happened five minutes ago, plus five minutes. I believe in uncertainty. I believe in saltwater. I don’t believe in charity. I believe that everything is personal. I don’t believe that anyone can like anyone else as much as they like themself.

I believe in kissing. I believe in drunkenness and headaches. I believe in caffeine. I believe there is such a thing as too much caffeine. I believe in citrus. I believe in Panadol. I believe the smell of a sick person’s room. I believe in knees and toes and hair and skin. I believe in dandruff and morning breath. I believe that sleep is underrated. I don’t believe that, if you eat your crusts, you’ll get curly hair.

I believe in competency. I believe in boredom and routine. I believe that we are what we repeatedly do. I believe that all we can do is what we’ve learned from others. I believe that all we’re doing is what we’ve seen others do. I don’t believe that anyone actually knows what they’re doing. I don’t believe that having kids makes you a better person. I don’t believe that being a bad parent makes you a bad person. I believe that success is a form of deception. I believe that the big and significant is contained in the small and insignificant. I don’t believe in public displays of discipline. I don’t believe in the Freudian slip. I believe that art is a crutch.

I believe in food. I believe in food that you can eat with your hands. I believe in the pleasure of hunger before a meal. I believe in the difference between salty and sweet. I believe in tomato sauce sachets. I believe in a banana for breakfast. I don’t believe in expensive wine. I don’t believe that baked is necessarily better than fried. I believe that the lamington and the Anzac biscuit are probably New Zealand inventions. I believe in fruit bowls. I believe in leftovers. I believe in vegemite toast.

I believe in baths. I believe in hay fever. I don’t believe that, when it’s really hot or really cold, it will ever be anything but really hot or really cold. I believe in afternoon naps. I believe in sunburn. I believe in a well-lit room. I believe in public transport. I don’t believe in country towns. I believe in aloneness. I believe in houseboats. I believe in movie theatres. I believe in getting away with murder. I believe that the antidote to happiness is knowledge. I believe that vague people are liars. I believe that, if you put an onion in the ground, you’ll just get more onions.

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from Rolly Nice, released May 25, 2018

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The Finks Melbourne, Australia

The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished.

The Finks have released a steady stream of quietly uncompromising music via Milk! Records since 2012 – three EPs, two cassettes, four LPs and a handful of singles. Critics have described The Finks as “crushingly beautiful” and “perhaps the most underrated act in Australian music”. ... more

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