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It’s 1983…
Side One
Side Two
Having decided to set the first half of my NaNoWriMo novel in 1983, I’ve been recalling things to mind. It was a big year for me, anyway, and I remember the soundtrack to the office Christmas party very well (Karma Chameleon, Let’s Dance, Every Breath You Take, Uptown Girl… I could go on), [...]
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Blogging Hiatus
Not retiring, or committing blog suicide, but doing NaNoWriMo for month of November, and because I actually hope to write more than the 50,000 word target, am starting early.
Work in progress can be found here for time being: The Obald
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Tags: nanowrimo
The Triangle
So I read and enjoyed my copy of The Triangle by Rashbre. The Triangle was the result of the National Novel Writing Month experiment, which runs each November. I’ve looked at it before but not been in a position to participate. I feel like this year, no longer being such a newbie as a teacher, [...]
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This is cheating, but when inspiration strikes, it strikes.
At a shade over 1.83 m in his size 9 Doctor Martens, Ronnie Smith was just tall enough to reach up on tip-toes to unclip the faulty fluorescent tube in the small kitchen at the top of the stairs. The flickering had been bothering him for days, [...]
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(blog) suicidal thoughts
Every time I go a few days without having anything much to say on this blog, I start to wonder if it isn’t time to commit blog suicide. It’s not about angst or self loathing or being fed up with the world, it’s just that I hate the idea of an abandoned blog. My old [...]
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(I’d love to link to this video but embedding is disabled.)
What a tremendous album this is.
Brad Paisley has always applied a certain amount of wit to his records, and has written songs full of sexual politics, sentimentality, and recreational drinking in the great tradition of country music. As well as being among the best guitarists [...]
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Tags: American Saturday Night, brad paisley
This fly-on-the-wall documentary was one of about three programmes that made up the BBC Four so-called Beatles Week. It was filmed by Albert and David Maysles, and is a reworking of an 81-minute film they made in 1964 called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA.
Some of the footage is familiar from the Anthology series, [...]
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Can’t pay, won’t pay
Beatles Day tomorrow. I guess there was some original thought that releasing this stuff in September would make Festivus shopping easier for any number of people. In reality, most people are so insane about credit and self-indulgent that they’ll just go out and buy it, so you’ll still have the conundrum about what to buy [...]
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Tags: Dollhouse, Whedon
Released in 1990, Trust has only been available on DVD in some territories. I discovered the fact of its availability in France relatively recently. Thinking to avoid the extortionate Amazon.fr postage costs, I decided to look for it in Fnac, a well-known entertainment/electronics emporium, on one of my regular visits to France. No luck there [...]
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Tags: adrienne shelly, hal hartley, independent cinema, indie film, trust, trust me
Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch
He says ‘I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin’
‘Cause some of that stuff don’t sound
Much different than Dylan
I hear down there it’s changed you see
They’re not as backward as they used to be
He’s gone country, look at them boots
He’s gone country, back to his roots
He’s gone country, a new kind [...]
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