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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Dear Overland, please do not go on strike.
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4 min read
The strange thing about being overseas is that I’m still habitually sending my poems to Australian – as opposed to Dutch or European – magazines. Maybe that’s because my work is still written primarily for an Australian audience. But what does that mean, exactly?
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Yes, yes, I know …
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… i know, I know, yes …
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Time Out Amsterdam (Part II)
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Further to my post from a couple of weeks ago about Time Out Amsterdam, I can now proudly say that I’m a published author here in the Netherlands! Not just once, but three times! Bam!
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My new job …
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It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in the Netherlands for seven months now – it seems like only yesterday I was sitting in the Lambs Go Bar drinking tequila shots and then attempting to say goodbye to all of my friends in Oz. And yet here I am, with very little to show for…
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Simon Vinkenoog & Time Out Amsterdam
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Time Out has just started an Amsterdam-based monthly magazine and I’m happy to say I’ve got a story in the classical music section of their second issue, due out in November! The magazine’s website is pretty empty at the moment but it does feature one interesting video, a series of vox pops with residents of…
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We Will Disappear finally appears in Europa!
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It’s been a long time coming, but copies of my debut poetry collection We Will Disappear have finally landed on these nether shores. Over the fold I’ve posted some pics of the box and its contents. Yays.
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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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PICNIC08 PIX
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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)…