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Baudolino

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    Vital Signs

    • Mogger Since

      February 23, 2008

    • Location:

      Scotland's Smallest County

    • Favourite Writer

      Umberto Eco

    • Red or White?

      White, more often than not

    • Number of legs

      Two, although not symmetrical

    • Pets

      Variable

    • Rarest Record in Collection

      The Wailers - Black Progress (white label pre-release)

    • Age

      50

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    The fado of the Alentejo: a dying form of music from a part of the world that may be abandoned?
    about 3 hours ago

    Perhaps a rather overdramatic headline, I admit, but there seems to be a decline of interest in fado amongst the younger Portuguese.More significant for this post is the possible future of Portugal's largest region, the vast area south of the River Tejo (Tagus in Spain) called the Alentejo (Pronounced Allen-tezhe). Its population density of 65 per square mile is barely one-fifth of Portugal's n...

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    Jamaican Funky Friday with Ras Michael
    about 22 hours ago

    Principally known for his more acoustic Rastafarian chants, in 1975 "Ras" Michael Henry and the Sons of Negus found their way to Tommy Cowan's Talent Corporation , working at Kingston's Dynamic Studios with an electric band featuring the likes of Carlton "Santa" Davis on drums, a still teenage Robbie Shakespeare on bass, Peter Tosh on guitar and keyboards, and Geoffrey Chung and Robbie Lyn on o...

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    Haunted House for Hallowe'en
    7 days ago
    • Artist:
      Windel Haye
    • Track:
      Haunted House

    Windel "Field Marshal" Haye is one of the most obscure figures in late seventies reggae. He cut three tunes for Studio One in 1979, one called "Flood Victim" on a remake of "real Rock", one called "Herb and Roots Style"on a new rhthm, that namechecked the then popular funk instrumental "Granny Scratch Scratch", and this being the other. The money he made from his brief time in the studio paid ...

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    My First Concert Was

    • Mott the Hoople/Queen Edinburgh ABC Cinema - November 1973

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