WHERE THE HOKEY POKEY "IS" WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

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Mark Mordue

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Member Since

over 2 years ago

Total Posts

67

Total Comments

102

Confession as Manifesto

My Back Pages

  • Mother Land - Dmetri Kakmi
  • The Boat - Nam Le
  • The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
  • Hunger - Knut Hamsun

My First Kiss Was...

  • To 'Only Women Bleed' by Alice Cooper. She was my first crush, long brown hair. High school, a party at a friend's, starry starry night, sitting on the dirty edge of a dug out hole where a swimming pool was yet to be built.

My Twenty Sixth Experience of Aliens Was...

  • THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, SAN MIGUEL INN, SYDNEY: 1982. A room of fear and anticipation. The band explodes on stage. A mix of violence and excitement challenging me morally and viscerally. Did I love or hate this? Art for animal hearts. "It's a wild world."

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    September 22, 2006

  • Age

    48

  • Location

    Sydney, Australia

This Moment's Vague Dilemma

  • How to get on board the new world

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Millthorpe Cemetery Blues
7 months ago

There's nothing like the afternoon rays of the sun. Like country roads and their turning. The AM radio pushes me on into a rising curve, into an Elton John song from the 1970s, 'Where to Now St Peter?' It reminds me of being 15 years old; of being 47 now: "I took myself a blue canoe and I floated like a leaf".A cemetery swings into view as I enter Millthorpe. White crosses and granite tombstone...

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Goodbye and Hello
7 months ago

Birds are shrieking through the trees all over Rushcutter's Bay in Sydney. It is as if something violent and tuneful is going on at once as we sit on a hotel sundeck and take in the riot around us. "Birds are cool," says Joan Wasser in an accent that fairly drips with New York tang, "but your Australian birds, o my god, I've never seen or heard anything like them. I mean, look at that… thing," ...

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May Your Hope Give Us Hope
8 months ago

Barack Obama stands in the torrential rains of Chester, Pennsylvania, addressing an 8000 strong crowd that has stood ankle deep in mud for hours waiting for him to appear. It is one of the great moments in the American election campaign, and a confirming symbol of the Democratic candidate's seemingly assured place in history when those elections are decided this coming Tuesday, November 4th: I...

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Quotes Afloat

  • "Drink this it'll grow wings on your feet..." - Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street by Bruce Springsteen

Top Artists This Week

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    Saturn Returns

    • Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
    • Richard Clapton - Prussian Blue
    • Neil Young - On the Beach
    • Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
    • Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns

    Songs of Innocence and Experience

    • 'Wild World' - The Birthday Party
    • 'Black Swan' - Thom Yorke
    • 'Buried Country' - Tactics
    • 'The United States of Warren Oates' - Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes
    • 'Amoreena' - Elton John

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