Post-purchase settlement blues - slowly, slowly

You Say It Can't Be Done (PDF, story).

It's all part of my Offline Almanac

A music download success story

On weekend time (and mind)

On learning Latin (ex nihilo)

Declining music sales and presses

Murdoch is guilty

The gourmet writing school

Speaking of cocktails...

Is travel all in the mind?

The Aristocracy of Art

This is a reactive piece. It's been bubbling for a bit, and needs further explication. And I should clarify that Lanier was the inspiration for it - his humanist critique of crowdsourcing is in line with this. And I do not deliberately cast myself as a "genius" by association here: I function more as a critic/theorist. But then every critical generation should throw up a genius like Ruskin too... See? Pure snobbery at work. It is and it isn't.

Lay all your love on me (Abba)

Play track(s)

The Only Living Boy in New York

Confessions of a Goldfrapp fan

A note on William S. Burroughs

Boredom makes interesting

The Opinionator

Jonathan Franzen vs David Foster Wallace

Please excuse all the typos today... I'm not sure my Royal was interfacing very royally.

Thinking 'bout Mogwai

Typeface Typecast (with 6 friendly faces)

Motivation for Creative Types (The Magic)

Just to clarify - this is a draft and I'd replace a few sloppy phrases and usages, like "media" in the first sentence, which should read "artistic works".

Goodbye Facebook

Archives Fine Books, Brisbane

The iPad/Gadget rant, slight return

Roadtrips and Wilco

Olympia SM3

Royal Arrow

Random weekly Hendrix-cast

How to make a good paella

See wikipedia.

Typewriter GAS

Venice typecast

ITAM and TCA

Bijou typecast

My new book: Song Logic - essays in music

Oh, and here's the electronic version of the link: songlogic.blogspot.com

European Hay

Brisbane floodcast 2

Brisbane floodcast