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Defining Moment

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I have been listening studiously to the aforementioned Berkeley podcasts and one of the many gems I have discovered from its analysis of Dostoevsky’s ‘Brothers Karamazov’ is that many of the characters come predisposed with their own defining childhood memory that shapes the manner in which they relate to the world. For example, Alyosha [...]

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Love Your Enemies: Back Catalogue Playlist #1

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

[In my rock n’ roll carefree past I had a tendency to give out playlists to friends without keeping a copy for myself. Later on I came to realize how defining some of these compilations were, and when, eventually, the songs piece by piece vanished from my computer, I was left with only a [...]

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Goodbye 2006

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Perhaps this will become an annual occurence, a celebratory playlist for the year in music… not so much a best of, or top ten, but songs that have an iconic swagger to them and which I enjoy. If this becomes a time capsule for the year I hope these songs say something interesting about [...]

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Little Britain

Monday, April 3, 2006

I grew up in a four corner town called Little Britain. As a child it was the center of the universe and my geographical understanding of what surrounded it was limited only by my imagination. Little Britain, population 300, is set along a creek which snakes through the middle of the town branching [...]

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Time Capsule 13/03/06

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Due to my exposure to BBC radio at work I have, much against my will, found myself talking with less and less irony in British idioms. Since about six months ago phrases like ‘man-alive’ and ‘that’s rubbish’ have become the norm in my day-to-day lexicon. I expect that one day in the near [...]

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