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Comment on the prime of life – the first 100 pages by Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:28:24 +0000

memoirs of a dutiful daughter p 210 penguin edition ” .. joined forever by a common disquiet.”

Comment on why am I listening to No ti pierdas by Chambao? by Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:03:28 +0000

Well actually updating of last.fm seems to be missing what I play through my slimserver [thing that sends itunes music wirelessly across the house to the stereo] which is a bore as that is most things ..

Comment on flitting by Stefanie

Stefanie — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:50:15 +0000

Hi Gordon! Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Comment on garden sale by flitting « Another Bridge

flitting « Another Bridge — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:10:31 +0000

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Comment on Fear of Music by Peter McCarthy

Peter McCarthy — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:38:18 +0000

Does anyone know where to find this pamphlet? I want to read it.

Comment on not wasting words / book to film by Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:53:35 +0000

And perhaps it is related to this conception of Hemmingway’s “if you want to write fiction you have to sow ideas through gestures rather than abstractions. But sometimes you want to think Big Thoughts and that’s what nonfiction is for.” Modernism 101 perhaps. (quote from Kirk Curnutt’s imaginary coffee with Hemmingway).

Comment on Fear of Music by clovelly4208

clovelly4208 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:15:26 +0000

Mike – you should see the long discussion of this kind of fear of music in the Oliver Sacks book – he cites a number of examples similar and not so similar to yours, and the various successful and unsuccessful treatments or management strategies people experienced.

Comment on Fear of Music by Mike Stewart

Mike Stewart — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:05:30 +0000

I have had a fear of music for 6 years having enjoyed music on a deep level for 30 years. After listening to any melodic or musical line which I enjoy I very soon have headaches and I loose the ability to think coherantly, in the past or the future.This hangover can last from a few hours to days.

Has anybody experienced the same?.( I am not listening to Heavy Metal but to a broad taste of music both live and recorded.)

Comment on How disruptive was old school punk? by Craig

Craig — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:03:26 +0000

What I wanted to say was that punk might be the last moment in Australian history when an event or trend largely hatched in the old imperial metropolis was taken up here as though we were the same people as Londoners, living the same lives, sharing the same thoughts. There was no impulse to question whether leather jackets and buzzcocks records could transfer seamlessly to Sydney.

When I said that, or something like it, I immediately began to wonder.
Iggy Pop, the Ramones, Detroit music generally came independently, partly
via the accident of Denis Tek being in Sydney. Still, I think London remained
the greatest source of it all, and it was to London, not any American city, that ambitious musicians wanted to go and “make it”. This was a last gasp of the cultural colonial relationship I wrote about in the Melbourne magazine Meanjin (vol. 63 no. 3, in case you’re interested) in 2004.

Comment on How disruptive was old school punk? by clovelly4208

clovelly4208 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:51:17 +0000

Des wrote me:

How “new future [and] boundless hope” sit with No Future is
interesting. It’s exactly what I’m kicking around at the moment but
looking at a kind of “positive” nihilism in Nietzsche, which I
couldn’t quite articulate the other day (still forming you see .