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Monthly Archives: April 2007
>Don’t be ridiculous…
> The Firewire connection on my Panasonic DV camcorder stopped working the other day. Hadn’t used it for ages and I wanted to transfer some NZ filming to the Mac. Nothing. Camera not found.A couple of weeks outside warranty. Sod’s … Continue reading
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>The Midweek Mixtape – 18 April 2007
>Mix and Match #4(OK, who made last week disappear…?) Stand out track? “Difference” for utter heartbroken emotion,“The Road” for the segue from Danny O’Keefe to Jackson Browne studio to Jackson Brown live. (Fucking proud of that one. Analogue tape deck, … Continue reading
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>Не спросите мне (about Kazakhstan) – #4
>Back in the corporate life, I had a customer in Kazakhstan.Start-up airline – the type that most people wouldn’t touch with a bargepole but which our sales people used to sign up regularly Sort of like the kids bringing in … Continue reading
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>31 Songs
>“High Fidelity” was the starting point. I watched it twice on the way back from Singapore and would have managed a third time if the IFE hadn’t stuffed up. I watched it again. And again. And again. No-one else I … Continue reading
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>And colour you like ….
>….as long as it’s pink.
Don’t ask me (about who the * is Alice) #3
You’ve all heard of Smokie, right? Smokie, the band that backed Peter Noone (of Hermann’s Hermits fame) in the early 70’s and who – if there were any justice in the world – should have sunk without trace? Smokie, the … Continue reading
>You’ll never walk alone…..
>On June 2, 2007, our friend and fellow blogger Scott Malchus will be participating in the Great Strides Walk at the Westfield Town Center in Valencia, CA. Scott’s personal goal is to raise $2,500 in donations for cystic fibrosis research. … Continue reading
>For free
> I slept last night in the Fairmont hotel (laughs)I went shopping today for jewelsThe wind rushed around in the dirty townAnd the children let out from the schoolsI was standing on a noisy cornerWaiting for the walking greenAcross the … Continue reading
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>The suffocating ignorance
>Meg at Not a woman of few words had a good link to an Radio New Zealand interview with Shelley Gare. the author of Airheads (which I haven’t read, but it comes highly recommended) It recalled Jeffrey Hart’s review of … Continue reading
>The Midweek Mixtape – 4 April 2007
>Mix and Match #3 Getting good by now – steep learning curve. This runs to 90 minutes and 11 seconds and it must have used every single molecule of CrO2 on the fucking tape. High fives all round when the … Continue reading
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