And so it was without great pleasure that I forsook days of idling and Moggery in favor – could I have known? – of living out of a suitcase, carless in an exurb with neither mass transportation nor a middle class, a child of mega-malls finding with ominous permanency the truth about hot and dry weather.I am still poetasting nonetheless, or as we like to say in Phnom Penh: Hello again.Yes, well
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visiting the 80's tonightspecifically 1983lets see i got married and divorced in 1983(must've been the coke)i used to really REALLY hate the 80's music thingymaybe because during most of this time i was a total METAL head closed minded,big mouthed,BADASSoh got my first "REAL" ass whupping in 1983!!oh yeah AND thriller toohahahahahahahawell thank goodness i actually can now apreciate some of thi...
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I wanted to dedicate this upbeat post to the memory of Heath Ledger. I was really shocked and saddened to hear the news of his death. RIP Heath
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I'm always blown away when I hear about some celebrity, pseudo-celebrity, past celebrity, who lives in Montana. Before I moved here I had no clue about Montana, but apparently a lot of different people live here either full-time or part-time.My friend Chris, who owns and runs "Morning Glory Coffee and Tea":http://www.morningglorycoffee.net was telling me about how he was up in Livingston a wee...
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The first seven days are the hardest one hopes , I felt so tired at work this afternoon. Am ready for a break - me and a friend are going to head off to Northern Ireland in February to visit a friend , can't wait really.
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Yesterday we reported that Men at Work guitarist Ronald Strykert had been arrested for making criminal threats against the owner of a house that he used to own.More information has been released on the arrest and it is being reported that the criminal threats were against the group lead singer Colin Hay. According to the L.A. Times, Strykert threatened to kill Hay in December of 2007 and the F...
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This song's so funny. It really reminds me of when I was little and traveling. This post goes back to the countdown. When I was watching it they had this song on it and I found out that Colin Hay was actually in Men at Work! I was like dumbfounded by this because Colin Hay is all acoustic-like and indie now. Down Under is just such an upbeat song and it makes you wanna sing along just about eve...
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Pack up that Atari and take out those shoulder pads, kids: the 80's are officially over. While we were sittin' around and playing with our Cabbage Patch Dolls (seriously, though, those things are effing creepy), an Australian judge ruled this week that Men at Work may have plagiarized their worldwide hit "Down Under."The story goes a little something like this: some group called Girl Guides (wh...
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Ron Strykert, the founding guitarist for the 1980s Australian band Men at Work, was arrested on Valentines Day on suspicion of making criminal threats. He allegedly threatened the current residents of his former Hollywood home, TMZ... There's more on this story at the following link...
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Think the younger generation, growing up with visions of one day mastering Pro Tools, has fantasies like this?Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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Larrikin Music has sued Australian band Men at Work for stealing the melody to their 1980s smash hit "Land Down Under" from a campfire song won the first stage of its lawsuit on Thursday seeking royalties from the Aussie anthem. A federal judge ruled that publisher Larrikin Music owns the copyright to the tune of "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree" — a Girl Guide favorite from New Zealand to .
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