links for 2007-04-26
40 songs that changed the world Jesus R.S. get your page titles in order (tags: music lists culture pop) Hotel-Reataurant-Grand Café Stravinsky (… and another one that should fix their page title)...
View ArticleNew chapter in Prolific story
I will be leaving Public Broadcasting to join the cross-media news service Dag.nl in Amsterdam as an ‘Entertainment editor’. I’m looking forward to hone my skills in a new environment. And to my new...
View ArticleSilence no longer sexy
Having blogged ‘privately’ at VOX for a year I am now starting to feel a little claustrophobic in the safe little world we’ve created there. I think I’m ready to blog openly again. I never thought I’d...
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Waxy.org: Daily Log: The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites “The accounts were all created by Piotr “Peter” Wyspianski, an SEO Manager at Sitelynx since June 2007.” (tags: spam seo) Paul...
View ArticleLife and how to spend it
Photographer Ken Rockwell has a section on his site ( Which I read for his excellent no nonsense photography reviews and articles.) called How to Afford Anything, answering the question how he is able...
View ArticleI got robbed
I was in town on Friday morning, on my day off, and tried to get some money from the ATM but couldn’t. I texted a colleague to ask if he’d got his salary yet and he had, so I went back home to check my...
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OH HAI 2009
How was your year? Mine was pretty good. I didn’t see a lot of gigs, but Leonard Cohen, Elbow, dEUS, My Bloody Valentine, Scott Walker’s Drifting and Tilting and the Rogue’s Gallery shows were very...
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Bizarre gifts – a Plinky prompt
I stopped them before they could go through with it, but two sweet, misguided, Irish friends of mine wanted to give me an orthopedic chair for my 40th birthday. Men! * rolls eyes* They thought since I...
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My nicknames
My friend called me 'Oos' [oas] in school. It's short for Van Oosten, which is part of my surname. When I was 26, I was given the name 'Von B' while on the road with a musician, and it stuck for the...
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If you pay me enough, I’ll sing these songs at a karaoke bar
Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack It's not embarrassing at all. Country Roads Take Me Home by John Denver I sang this in a pub lock-in when I was working in Northern Ireland, age 22. 'Are ye Dutch?...
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Goodbye beauty
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “A Late Quartet” (2012) I can’t sleep. I’m not usually this affected by celebrity deaths. I didn’t know him, but I adored and was in awe of his work, his talent. I had a...
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