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It was with some trepidation I set out on my bike today. The weather was wet and only going to get more electrical. Geez I'm glad I did. There was something on the ride in as the rain started to clear that was so idyllic that at the halfway point I started pedalling harder to remind myself of my own existence, as if I'd died and was in limbo like Patrick Swayze's character in Ghost. I must admit

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Greetings fellow worklings, In order to keep you in the loop of the latest gossip from our little corner of the world in one fell swoop I thought I'd post a blog entry.So, the news: Gabba's up the duff!Details I know so far:She's due in early January.I'm fairly certain I'm the father (thanks to those who have asked so far).We have a lot of house preparation to do which includes: babyfying Gabba's

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Dinosaur Jr filmclips mostly rock (Get Me is pretty bad though). The young skater in me loves this:Even though I am way too uncoordinated to cast even a sideways glance at a skateboard I wouldn't mind me one of those decks...

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I'm masochistically reading other people's emotionally over the top responses to Michael Jackson's death, from those more interested in celebrity than music (commenters on your typical News Ltd site, especially it being a lazy Friday), to celebrities that didn't know him (Veronicas talentless floozy: "I wish I got to tell him how much his music and existence changed my life"; Peter 'himbo' Andre:

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What if you could only limit yourself to the creative output of a certain number of bands. OK, the extreme version would, of course, see you as some type of stalking creepy groupie / weirdo dude / lady rather than simply a music obsessive, drunk and in front of a keyboard.Thinking what I might 'limit' myself into (past, present and future output):Sonic Youth (shit, does anyone need further

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Fifteen years ago I would never have thought that in 2009 we would still be listening to Kenny G or tinny piano solos while on hold (doesn't matter how virtuosic the playing is - it still gets piped down a crappy phoneline). There's a whole genre of non-threatening electronica out there built for and tested on shit computer speakers. Is it time to update IVR culture?

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I just finished reading and I'm very impressed by the following well researched and even handed repute to Ian Plimer's logic on Stu's blog:Ian Plimer on the Science Show

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Stu informed me last night that the Silver Jews are no longer. Hopes held that they would tour Australia have been dashed.My efforts to get them play our shores extended so far as to buy a t-shirt from Drag City with an accompanying (acknowledged by the Drag City dude) note pleading for them to play Adelaide. Stu's more ambitious plan was to advocate for a statue of Dave Berman to be commissioned

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I don't normally take paparazzi shots, you know. Robert Forster and Glenn Thompson in the crowd at ATP.

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Some funny moments at ATP:Mystery Act Grinderman's frontman, curator Nick Cave, mentions to the crowd that the sun is fierce. Without skipping a beat someone in the crowd helpfully throws up a pair of sunglasses which Cave catches. Putting them on he comments: "These are gay." Throws them back. "I'd rather go blind." A pause. "I mean that in the nicest possible way."The reformed original line-up

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I'm willing to agree with Stu that All Tomorrow's Parties at Mt Buller turned out to be the greatest music festival I'd been to.I provided feedback from their site and got a reply! Here's what I wrote:Hi ATP,I'm at a loss for superlatives that do justice to explain how good thisfestival was. A superb location that could accommodate a range of outdoor andindoor activities, stages that allow

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Yes, I have it on not so good authority it's his real one but just to let anyone (i.e. you the reader) know, it is lame and so is he. But if you google it, it does not show up as lame.The Killers are a lame name for a band too.I guess they're my band to hate for no good reason even though I don't know them or their stuff.

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Happy merry pagan-appropriated-in-reverse festive summer solstice day to you all!Whilst I digest the traditional family X-mas lunch under some warm sultry conditions I'm going to ramble off my year's 18 + 6 best ofs.Favourite listensBonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the LightI bought this on my last day of our trip to the States in San Francisco's Amoeba Records on the Haight (a brilliant

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OK, so you import all of your files on your brand spanking new MacBook (which you're kind of loving right now) and importing all of those years of accumulated MP3s which have been stored on an external HDD. And you use iTunes because, like 75% of the population you've got an iPod and CoverFlow's kind of cool, right?And as your files get imported you find plenty of duplicates which play the same

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Thought-provoking:http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/hands-off-coal-subsidies-all-you-renewafools/2008/03/31/1206850810815.html

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I don't do this often - I get most of my climate change information from sources Stu recommends. But I thought I should include this little rant of a reply to a workmate (Heals) regarding an Andrew Bolt column: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23444989-5007146,00.html. The reason it was sent around is that EDS, the company that both Heals and I work for, is an Earth Hour corporate participant

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Weird political dream again last night. For some reason I was made to dress like an African American (as opposed to my usual Anglo Australian style which probably isn't that Anglo Australian - I don't have a Dri-za-bone or Akubra or anything clichéd like that).Anyway, my negro name was Wilson Tuckey, but like Yossarian's Washington Irving and Irving Washington non-characters in Catch-22, Tuckey

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John Cale on "I Have A Secret":There's something just kind of creepy about the whole thing.

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I still like the Arcade Fire. They didn't suck. But listening to Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga today made me realise I made the wrong decision as to who to go see. Arcade Fire were just a whole bunch of people up on stage with really heavy instruments. Perhaps their sound isn't conducive to such a large open stage.Regardless, the BDO is also about sitting back and catching up with lots of people. Almost

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I haven't been to any of the other cities' BDOs but Adelaide's is pretty special just because it's smaller in size, from all reports it's less crowded than elsewhere, it's very enthusiastically attended (I wouldn't say there are that many fashion victims), and it's still part of a landscape where it's the rock festival - a lot of bands still pass over Adelaide's radar.In addition, this year's BDO

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My gig highlights are unfinished but what the hey, I'm publishin' it...Top whatever albums:Okkervil River - The Stage NamesDifficult to pick out of this one and Strawberry Jam. I'd say equal first perhaps. In addition to the lyrical density I loved the Bowie references (lyrically as well as musically).Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam / Panda Bear - Person PitchPerhaps it's unfair to put these

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.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC07259,originally uploaded by syscrusher. Gabba and I sampling the sashimi at the Tsukiji Fish Markets, Tokyo

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. You can check out my photos (including those from Japan) at flickr.com/photos/syscrusher.

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Palky interviewed me regarding Movember. You can read his interpretation (and some of mine) at his myspace page :http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=173585583&blogID=328367147

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Weird dream I had early this morning:I was at a party and everyone gradually stopped mingling and instead kept to their own groups. I was left talking to John Howard and his wife, Maxine McKew. She was doing most of the talking. She kept yakking on about her son, living somewhere overseas as an expat, who it was established was an acquaintance of mine. I couldn't help myself from staring at the

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