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Day-to-day minutiae.

  • Richard Tognetti on being an Antipodean in Oxford

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    I thought that our unique geographic identity would be taken as exotic and therefore: enticing. That wasn’t the case. A review on our first tour in Vienna was entitled: ‘Vom ende der Welt aber gut’ – from the end of the world but good. We also played in Oxford on that trip and a group…

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  • Pop lyrics: do they really matter?

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    Here’s an interesting post by Laurie Duggan on the wall of sound, where he makes the point that the vocal track on My Bloody Valentine’s song ‘Come In Alone’ works because of the wall of sound surrounding it. While I think this is true, a closer inspection of the lyrics to these kinds of songs…

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  • Wat is Burgerschap?

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    Check out this video, the second half of which features the K&D Den Haag Stylings appartement!! Unfortunately, BBQ and back yard not included.

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  • Coming soon to a browser near you: Cordite 28.1: Mulloway

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  • PICNIC08 PIX

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    Lasers not shown.

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  • The Sheep Market

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    I’ve been immersed in hi-tech today at PICNIC08, a huge design and innovation conference being held over 3 days at the Westerpark Gasfabriek in Amsterdam. Somehow I managed to get myself a press pass for the event, which plays host to a quite dazzling array of Web 2.0 gurus (already), corps, labs and testbeds and,…

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  • Boudewijn de Groot – “Meisje van 16”

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    These two videos speak for themselves, I think. In any case, I cannot speak for them yet, as my Dutch is not very good at all. Nevertheless I trust that you are enjoying these little trips down Tubenesia Lane as much as I am. Continue.

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  • Dream Team Update 2008!

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    Last June I wrote about my Bloglines Dream Team, based on the number of entries posted by 18 fellow bloggers. You may recall that while I was having trouble ever logging into, let alone reading from, the Bloglines web reader, when I did finally gain access it gave me a snapshot of activity on these…

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  • Pronouncing the Dutch Alphabet

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    It would be nice to think that the English and Dutch languages are similar. In many instances – individual words, phrases, roots – they are indeed related; however it is precisely their differences that make true understanding possible. This is immediately apparent when any native English speaker confronts the strange and rigid (and seemingly atonal)…

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  • Respect voor Darryl ft Ali B, Soumia & Ryan Babel: “Eeyeeyo”

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    OMG I heart Darryl

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  • We Will Disappear: the First Anniversary!

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    It’s a quiet kind of milestone but my book We Will Disappear was launched one year ago this weekend at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Quiet in the sense that I am about ten thousand miles from this year’s MWF, where some class acts will be performing.

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  • Ps. Do they eat their chips with mayonnaise there?

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    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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    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 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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  • 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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