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Thank goodness for the library! After a week in Aus I’ve found a source for free, reliable, internet. We joined the library at Noarlunga yesterday and I spent an hour in wireless surfing bliss. It would have been more than an hour but apparently there is a download limit that I exceeded fairly rapidly. I […]

 

 Jane's Addiction - "Pigs In Zen": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
AM, the FM, the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?”
-The Clash - “The Magnificent Seven”
The fact that we arrived in Sweden yesterday unbruised and still speaking to one another is testament to […]

 

 The Clash - "The Magnificent Seven": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Today at A Free Man: Who is Eugene Francis Jnr?
Most of my interviewing lately has been of bands and posted over at A Free Man. But I haven’t abandoned the format on this site and I’ve got a cracker for you today!
I am a huge fan of podcasts. I listen to all my favorite American […]

 

 Sparklehorse - "West of Rome": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I was thrilled when I drew Jennifer from No Place Like It for my second go at the Great Interview Experiment. Like your underwhelming correspondent, Jennifer is an expat (a Canadian in Paris) dragged overseas in a net of romantic entanglement with a furriner. Like myself, she seems happy to stay in her adopted home. […]

 

 Count Basie - "April In Paris" [3:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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According to one of my favorite fairly reliable sources, Obama won 65% of the Democrats Abroad Global Primary (69% in the UK). It’s a binding primary, folks, so chock up Obama’s 11th straight win.

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Living abroad as an expatriate can be a slightly disorienting experience and one of the ways of keeping one’s equilibrium is to surround oneself with the vestiges of home. Some expats take this to the extreme - making little replicas of their homeland wherever they go (this is why there are so many English pubs […]

 

 The Dandy Warhols - "Sleep" [5:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Something about the Thames bursting its banks for the second time in six months put me in the mood for one of the Big Easy’s most famous exports today. Like all of my favorite southern foods, this one required a little bit of fiddling to compensate for ingredients that aren’t easy to find here in […]

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“And so we’re told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year’s Day…”
-U2 - “New Year’s Day”
Everyone who grew up in the deep South knows that Hoppin’ John and collards bring good luck for the […]

 

 U2 - "New Year's Day" [4:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“What’s gonna set you free?
Look inside and you’ll see.
When you got so much to say
It’s called gratitude.”
-The Beastie Boys - “Gratitude”
I hope that you will indulge me in a bit of cheese this Friday afternoon. I can, on rare occasions, spend a fair bit of time feeling sorry for myself. I have been known to […]

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“Some of them go for the sailing
Brought by the lure of the sea
Tryin’ to find what is ailing
Living in the land of the free…”
-Jimmy Buffett - “Banana Republics”
OK, this post may permanently ruin my indie-rock credibility, but one can not control what iTunes spits at you when you give the software the power of choice. […]

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