One of the downsides of living in the Southern Hemisphere is that many of you Moggers are asleep at the time I'm in front of my Mac (which is not for that many hours a day anyway).So there is great potential for my posts to disappear into that infinite and ever-expanding black space that is the Mog-i-verse. Never mind, I'll keep posting anyway. I've resorted to looking at what time it is in LA,...
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the fine Domino label is engaged in the process of reissuing the catalog of The Triffids and yesterday i bought 1987's Calenture album. and while i had friends who loved them back then, my own relationship with the band was fraught with ambivalence as at the time i enjoyed some specific songs and David McComb's dramatic voice but never latched onto the whole package, and frankly thought of them...
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This album cover kind of reminds me of where I come from, in the the picture is the town of Mandurah in 1962. If the cover was Esperance in 1974 it would cut a bit closer to the bone since my home town is Kalgoorlie, but Mandurah is close enough.The video clip for Wide Open Road also makes me a bit homesick because it shows the Gin Gin general store, I played a game of football not far from th...
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You know the old Oscar Wilde saying, ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’? The meaning behind it seems to get grimmer and more perverse as we continue to watch train wrecks like Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears careen along in their lives – and into ours. The more voyeuristic our culture gets the less compassionate we become as a society. It takes a death t
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One of the downsides of living in the Southern Hemisphere is that many of you Moggers are asleep at the time I'm in front of my Mac (which is not for that many hours a day anyway).So there is great potential for my posts to disappear into that infinite and ever-expanding black space that is the Mog-i-verse. Never mind, I'll keep posting anyway. I've resorted to looking at what time it is in LA,...
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the fine Domino label is engaged in the process of reissuing the catalog of The Triffids and yesterday i bought 1987's Calenture album. and while i had friends who loved them back then, my own relationship with the band was fraught with ambivalence as at the time i enjoyed some specific songs and David McComb's dramatic voice but never latched onto the whole package, and frankly thought of them...
More >
This album cover kind of reminds me of where I come from, in the the picture is the town of Mandurah in 1962. If the cover was Esperance in 1974 it would cut a bit closer to the bone since my home town is Kalgoorlie, but Mandurah is close enough.The video clip for Wide Open Road also makes me a bit homesick because it shows the Gin Gin general store, I played a game of football not far from th...
More >
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