the death of iblog


sadly when i had to reformat my hard drive recently (don't ask!) the iback up of the iblog ifile which keeps track of everything in the iblog idatabase proved to be hopelessly out of date - as usual when something goes wrong with this crap software it really proves how totally useless it really is and rebuilding the file proved less than satisfactory ... so : you guessed it : my experiment with iblog is well and truly over - if i could get the rupees and the hours and days of my life i have wasted on this completely useless software back i would be younger and richer but alas.... i think we are going to have to put it down to experience ... thus the "more" link below will actually take you to the good old ephemere blog on blogspot which is where i will be blogging exclusively from now on using the wonderful macjournal which is not really a blogging tool but it has a feature which allows you to publish to blogger - so : no more updates here ... please adjust your bookmarks! etc......

Mon - February 28, 2005    more  

 

gimme an F


get your arses down to kmart you hippies - they are selling copies of the hard to find woodstock diaries dvd for 14.95 - this is the real woodstock festival (1969) not the sucky 1999 version and contains a bunch of material which doesn't appear in the normal woodstock documentary - made for tv in 1994 the dvd consists of three one hour parts each of which concentrates on one of the days of the festival - footage of audience and performers is mixed with some contemporary reminiscences from the organizers - total running time nearly 180 minutes

Wed - January 5, 2005    more  

cees nooteboom


cees nooteboom : "A writer is a person who writes about countries which do not exist. Or about countries which do exist but which they furnish with mountains that do not exist...."
quoted by sebastian smee in fantasy island weekend australian review 24.12.04

Tue - December 28, 2004    more  

what to do whilst marking student essays during a locust plague



well the locusts are here and a good essay is hard to find (although you could do worse than dip into best australian essays 2004 companion volume to the excellent best australian stories 2004 edited by frank moorhouse which features a story by wagga's own i.j.oog) and when marking student essays it is a good idea to have something else at hand the same time ...

Wed - December 8, 2004    more  

electrofringeprojections 2004 showcase


electrofringeprojections 2004 showcase
newcastle region art gallery 9/11/04

how many ideas does it take to make an artwork?

the answer i would humbly suggest is : more than one - but perhaps the title of the festival which accompanies newcastle's electrofringe this is not art is apt

what it more disturbing is that it takes two curators (gail priest and sumugan sivanesan) and 16 sponsors to enable this woeful rubbish to be exhibited

Thu - November 11, 2004    more  

it's spelled "girl"




i previewed it
what seems like a lifetime ago but now the new club diana album is out and you'd expect no less : it is a beauty - unfortunately the dutch goobers made a mistake with the spelling and so now the album is in the shop as "grill" ... ah well ...

Wed - November 3, 2004    more  

john peel - the legacy


some genius (or an idiot with lots of time on their hands) has compiled a list of links to freely and legally available mp3 files of songs played by john peel over the years

Fri - October 29, 2004    more  

c505


c505 is yoshi sodeoka (i think)

Wed - October 6, 2004    more  

hitler : a film from germany


hmm you can download the entire 7 hours of hitler a film from germany (1977) from syberberg's website

"...Syberberg believes Hitler is the subject of our century, and one that needs to be explored at many levels, so that we can discover the little bit of Hitler in all of us...."

Fri - October 1, 2004    more  

on tonight's saftmasheen (30.9.04)


tonight on the masheen (10.30pm fm107.1 wagga - and minidisk/mp3 by request :) new new and new old stuff fresh from melbourne and a few old favourites - i will play at least one track from patti smith's glorious legendary live set at cbgb's in 1975 and then there is the brand new full length release from new buffalo (which is a singer called sally seltmann from melbourne) and which is mind bogglingly brilliant and thanks to sarah i have discovered joanna newsom who is awesome and i will be playing tracks from the milk eyed mender

Thu - September 30, 2004    more  

the american dream included in best australian stories 2004


i.j.oog's the american dream has been included in best australian stories 2004 edited by frank moorhouse and published by black inc

Tue - September 28, 2004    more