As we start to jet down the runway of a new year, I feel the need to press my nose against the economy class window and fix the past year in my stare as it starts to roll away. Although I know 2010 can’t see me anymore, I nevertheless find[…]
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I’ve organized a night of readings at KGB Bar, New York’s best known literary bar, for Tuesday 4 January 2011. The theme of the night is showbiz. I’ll be reading stories about my illustrious on-screen career as an extra on big budget movies shot here in Pittsburgh. I’ll be joined[…]
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British Chums In October, my former band mate and fellow life soloist Lucy alerted me to the existence of an on-line dating site that had the allure of an inbuilt screen against right wing loony romeos. This site hung off a highly respected and internationally distributed left-leaning paper based in[…]
Read More »I attended Moogfest in groovy Asheville, North Carolina, a month ago and realised a long held dream to pay my respects to Bob Moog’s family. I caught up with the lovely Michelle Moog-Koussa, and recorded an interview with her where she talks about the work of the Moog Foundation, Moogfest[…]
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America votes “They accuse us of discrimination. Of being against the poor, of being racist. But I say the real problem is ‘soft’ discrimination. Giving welfare, hand-outs to the poor. That’s soft discrimination!” Virginian Christian radio announcer and GOP supporter, Nov 2. My car radio broadcast that comment, as well[…]
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I may not be a Connecticut Yankee in Camelot, but shortly I will be something even stranger: an Australian raver in Nashville. A trip I have been dreaming about ever since I got to the Eastern seaboard is about to happen: an Americana music road trip through the Appalachians. An[…]
Read More »This Sunday 10 October is World Zombie Day. A whole lotta shambling is going to go on in downtown Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh’s video journalism portal has kindly put up I Walked With A Zombie as a feature video. The fun clip features footage from Pittsburgh’s 2009 zombie walk at Monroeville Mall,[…]
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Science fiction My Brisbane school mates and I spent our tweenage years crimping our hair, slathering on make-up and trying to pass for drinking age to get into outer suburban discos. At around the same time, Eric Zala and his friends were spending their Mississippi tweenage years making a blockbuster[…]
Read More »You’ve never seen anything like it The agent at the booth to the right of me was doing brisk business. Behind him was a plastic banner displaying a photo montage of musicians heavily jowled, paunched, but still throwing their silver hair around under purple stage lights: Eric Burdon and The[…]
Read More »The second episode of my mini-program ‘The Rebel Spirit’ is being broadcast on Australia’s ABC Radio National at 9.00pm Friday 2nd July (Aussie) time, 7.00am EST USA. It features an interview with the amazing American computer music pioneer Laurie Speigel, whose achievements include a record sent into space by NASA[…]
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