Author: Davey Dreamnation
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Gowayz ob LOL: Iz In Ur Bodeh xtrc,
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1 min read
1. Iz in ur bodeh xtrc, Teh rms ob dey iz luvs purr meh. Iz w00t an iz purr dey, Dey not want! meh purr till iz go wif dey, respawnd dey, An puur dey, an den WTF dey ful wif teh LOL ob teh sowl. Iz not want dawted dat fose iz kurupt feir…
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Ps. Do they eat their chips with mayonnaise there?
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5 min read
A good friend asked me this question the other day, in reference to my (now officially longer than three months) stay here in the Netherlands. I began answering her question via email, however after a few paragraphs I realised that this information had to be made public. Speculation upon these and other matters then led…
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News, review(s) and booze
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3 min read
Tasmanian indie lit journal Famous Reporter has received a nice write-up/review in the pages of Wet Ink. Editor Ralph Wessman, who has been running the mag forever, has now certainly received at least one minute of his allotted 15 in fame terms—let’s see what we can do about the other 14.
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Chris de Burgh: At the End of a Perfect Day (1977)
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11 min read
I’ve been flat out digging through the online archives of the Chris de Burgh website, in particular the vast wealth of information contained within the Man On the Line (MotL) section, wherein Chris personally responds to questions and queries. While, unfortunately, the MoTL section has now been deleted from the website, thanks to the wonderful…
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Chris de Burgh on fame, privacy and fans
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I have always been very polite to my fans as long as they understand that there are public moments and private moments. Even on tour I demand my privacy, particularly if I am tired. And I can’t be available to all people all of the time. But I never forget my manners and so far…
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Info Rider
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2 min read
To bring it back to rock ‘n roll influences, when I was writing Neuromancer, I’m pretty sure I was listening to Springsteen’s Nebraska & thinking ‘OK, it’s not hotrods, it’s computers’. WILLIAM GIBSON horse & info rider blast straight towards boom in terrific slow motion just as faulkner described it smoke & thoughts plume into…
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Good news and bad
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**UPDATE** Cordite Poetry Review is now back online! The good news is that I’ve now narrowed down over 700 pages of submissions for Cordite 28: Secret Cities to just 50. The process was both fun and exhausting, although there’s a couple of pieces in there that (if I were the writer) I’d really want to…
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Unfinished Draft (1)
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4 min read
We had an important event at our place on the 13th ult. -our first little one. We are going to call him Eric Whitman. —Bernard O’Dowd, writing to Walt Whitman (1890)
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The Hague: “Haagse Bluf”
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3 min read
DNRC091 | LP | 2021 | DELETED
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Yet More Signs That Speak For Themselves
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Davey Dreamnation: That’s Buddha
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DNRC090 | Mini-LP | 2020 | DELETED
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W00t Wiitmeh: “To ah Commawn Pron”
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2 min read
B ceiling cat – b at eez wif meh – Iz r W00t Wiitmeh, libaral az lusteh Naychar; Not want till teh sun xclusd yu, do I xclusds yu; Not want till teh watars refewez rutsl can haz yu, an teh gowayz rutsl fur can haz yu, do meh Werdz Rutsl glstn an rutsl fur…