tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16433673771581851272024-03-14T05:33:04.132+11:00Point and ShootPoint: What's on my mind..
Shoot: news and views of photography & visual art...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-78649737187546411662013-11-08T13:26:00.001+11:002013-11-08T13:26:57.075+11:00How to make sewage look good....<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wow, have I been slack... long time since I posted here. And not because life has been boring, I just think I have too many choices about posting on the internet. I may have to whittle down my options and 'consolidate' my web presence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, here's a bunch of images from a visit to the <b>Werribee Sewage Treatment Farm</b>. Yeah, I know, not exactly a place you'd think to take a camera. If you are thinking big buildings and miles and miles of pipes, you'll be quite surprised. I didn't see a single significant structure, but there is plenty there to photograph.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-78996236924732709852013-05-22T12:37:00.001+10:002013-05-22T12:37:38.727+10:00Same sex marriage, love and refugees...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A hot topic currently is 'same sex marriage', with people from all sorts of fields being asked to make comment on it... politicians, church ministers, celebrities, even footballers (just to add the surreal to the situation).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And lately I am being asked what I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Straight off the top of my head I think, 'Who cares what I think. What possible relevance does my opinion have?' The facts are, some people of the same sex fall in love, some have affairs, some live together, some want to legalise their relationship. My opinion is of negligible consequence to all of that. Yet the questions keep coming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So for what it's worth (very little actually) here's what I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's a topic that is being pushed to the fore at the expense of what I consider far more weighty issues in our society, like Australia's inhumane treatment of refugees. The breakdown of families and the consequent problems that causes young people. The selfish vapid and empty 'look at me' ethos of the celebrity that our media pander to and our young people aspire to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Against this, how my friends Joey and Peter want to live is small potatoes to me. What they want won't bring Australia into a moral morass. We're doing that fine just on the refugee issue thanks very much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then there's my friends who say 'But you're a christian, shouldn't you be toeing the church line?' Well, yes I am a christian, in that I have surrendered my life, present and future to God and His grace. And what I read in His word are things like "Do not judge, lest you be judged", "God loved the world so much He sent His Son so that we may be saved", "He who is without sin may cast the first stone", "Come to Me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest", "And they shall know you are Christians by your love".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, as a christian, I'm all about emulating the very basis of God's character - Love. Yes, there is judgement in the Bible, but that's not my job, and I am in no way qualified to judge ANYONE, being just a sinner saved by grace myself. And I don't know a single other christian that is any better equipped than I am to do God's job for Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've had friends who are so riled up about it from the other end of the scale too, saying things along the line of "I believe in equality and if you are against same-sex marriage then you are no friend of mine and you are a bigot." Well, from my vantage point, that's bigotry itself.... saying 'if you don't agree with my opinion on this topic then I have no time or place for you in my life, as your opinion goes against my opinion'. Yet they seem to think that gives them the moral high ground, when all it does is potentially drive otherwise good caring people away with hatred and hostility. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may have noticed that I haven't stated unequivocally whether or not I support same-sex marriage. I could cover all sorts of arguments, like is marriage a legal or religious institute... what parts of the Bible are relevant today?... Are we a christian nation?... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All these are furphies, like having a theological debate over should we help the homeless. It turns into a wordfest. So I will reiterate... Why do you think my opinion is so important that you need to know. How I live is far more important than what I think about one issue. And here is how I endevour to live - Love God, love others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you don't understand that answer, then I suggest you put aside all thought of these 'hot topic' issues like same-sex marriage, and meditate for months on just how you live, and whether or not love is the basis of all that you do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Greg Carrick</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-19716798803042477402013-03-31T09:29:00.000+11:002013-03-31T09:29:29.058+11:00A week to live. (Confession of Depression)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have lived with depression since I was a teenager, although I didn't know that until I was 40. I thought it was just my mix of being an extrovert/introvert. That and the blanket of silence that stifled any talk of depression among men, the heavy grey lives that edged closer and closer to the solution of a shotgun or fatal 'single car' accident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Loss is a major component of depression, and it starts with losing the truth. Your brain lies to you, telling you black is white, and white is black. I believed that no-one loved me, no matter what they said, as there was absolutely nothing about me that was at all lovable. My sense of self worth had been sucked into the black hole that also took my humor, my smile, and worst of all, my hope. When I lost all sense of hope, that was when the inevitability of suicide was most in my thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The lies that were in my head drove me down a road that had no turn-offs. It was a lie that my wife didn't love me, but I believed it to be true. It was a lie that I was worthless, that there was no glimmer of value or good in me, but that's what I believed. It was a lie that I had no choices left in my future, that killing myself was just a matter of time, but I was heading there without slowing down or seeing a way out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Being so badly depressed affected all areas of my life, I ran my own business, and that went down the drain, as I had no energy or inclination to keep it working. I felt I was a failure there as well. My friends were hurt by my 'attitude' and to this day I have lost some through those times. I don't give any the blame, as I know how low I got, but it was just another example of how I had no glimmer of light or happiness in my life. Everything was broken.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-13642360588988128712012-08-28T00:43:00.000+10:002012-08-28T00:43:21.871+10:00Red Pill Blue Pill<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the film 'The Matrix', the choice is given to take either the 'Red' pill, or the 'Blue' pill. The blue pill lets you believe in the world as you have grown up to see it, but the red pill will transport your understanding of the world to how it really is. <br /><br /> Well, today, I'm offering you the chance to take the red pill! <br /><br />You see, the 'world' that you live in is, not so much a lie, as a severe distortion. You (and I) are used to thinking that the world that we live in is the same world everyone lives in. <br /><br /> And therein lies the lie. <br /><br /> Your everyday world (and mine) is actually more like a gated community, separated from the majority of the world and acting in a very insular way. <br /><br /> Firstly, to be fair, the reason we see our 'world' as the real one is because we control and consume the major media outlets. So our 'News' is largely a navel-gazing exercise. We read about ourselves, we watch TV about ourselves, we listen to radio talking about ourselves and we visit websites geared to ourselves. <br /><br /> Yet we are the minority. <br /><br /> Now, I've made several claims here that I really need to back up, so I've used figures released in March 2011 by Nielsen Online. (Found at www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) <br /><br /> Broadly, just 30.2% of the total worlds population (now 7 billion) use the internet. To turn that around just under 70% of the world do not use the internet. The reason I'm picking on the internet first off is that it is the vehicle that most media people (and most companies) use to measure what they call 'the world'. For example, there's a lot of press given to the (unreal) claim that one gadget or another (e.g. iPhone) will 'change the world'. To believe this sort of hype, you'd have to completely ignore the fact that even less people use internet connected phones than use the internet in general, bearing in mind that internet users are in the minority anyway. <br /><br /> You may be rolling your eyes now and yelling at my blog that this is just marketing at work. Yes. Yet that's the way we think. We think that the world is 'connected' and that we're all in the same boat, living the same sorts of lives. We lie to ourselves, because we're too tired, too lazy, too brainwashed to think beyond the hype. <br /><br /> I'm in Australia, where just 60% of people use the internet. That's right, 4 out of 10 people I pass in the street don't use the internet. If you are reading this in Nth America (even more inclined to think they are 'the world') over 20% of your fellow Americans don't use the internet. If you are in Europe, almost half are not connected. In Asia, less that 25% are internet users. And in Africa, almost 9 out of 10 people don't use the internet. It all adds up to more than 2/3's of people in the world aren't online. At all. <br /><br /> So much for 'our world' being the norm. <br /><br /> So what's my point exactly? <br /><br /> Just this. Open your mind. Don't swallow blindly all the claims we hear/read/see every day that the way we live is the way the world really works. Get your brain out of the gated community and see the world as it really is. <br /><br /> Oh yeah, are you a Christian? Agnostic? Muslim? 'Middle-class'? Home-owner? Well, you're in a minority. <br /><br /> Have a nice day :)</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-65849432416725374212012-08-24T16:15:00.000+10:002012-08-24T16:15:19.715+10:00Life is....<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you spend much time trawling the internet, or hanging out on social media sites, you will no doubt have come across things like these....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where they fall short is the actual advice. None of these quotes will answer the quandaries that the world faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Matthew 22, Jesus gets tested by the religious leaders of the day as they try to trap him: </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="text Matt-22-34">Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, <sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-23907B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)"></sup>the Pharisees got together.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="text Matt-22-35" id="en-NIV-23908">One of them, an expert in the law,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-23908C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)"></sup>tested him with this question:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="text Matt-22-36" id="en-NIV-23909"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"> </sup>“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-26341549751881920242012-06-22T16:47:00.001+10:002012-06-23T10:40:56.823+10:00Choose Happiness<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The voice-over is taken from an interview on <i>The Bat Cave</i> - <b>YVFM 99.1</b>, the music is <i>Richard Bone</i>'s <b>Far From Yesterday</b>, and the images are all from my photography archives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Syria's government reported that nearly 90 percent of voters had approved a draft constitution introducing democratic reforms, including a multiparty system. The referendum was boycotted by opposition groups and condemned by international leaders. "To open polling stations but continue to open fire on the civilians of the country," said British foreign secretary William Hague, "has no credibility in the eyes of the world." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Activists reported that at least 140 Syrians had been killed in recent days in Homs, where government shelling also killed two Western journalists. In her final dispatch, one of the journalists, Marie Colvin, wrote, "I was met by a welcoming party keen for foreign journalists to reveal the city's plight to the world. So desperate were they that they bundled me into an open truck and drove at speed with the headlights on, everyone standing in the back shouting 'Allahu akbar'--God is the greatest. Inevitably, the Syrian army opened fire." <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the only U.S. Marine to be found guilty of any charge related to the 2005 killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha, was honorably discharged. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Afghanistan, about 40 people were killed, including two American military advisers, amid protests over the burning of Korans by NATO personnel at a Bagram Air Field garbage pit. President Barack Obama apologized to Afghans for the error, prompting Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum to say, "I think it shows weakness." <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mitt Romney praised Michigan's automakers during a campaign stop in the state, saying, "I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually. And I used to have a Dodge truck. So, I used to have all three covered. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The German Bundestag voted in favor of a $170 billion bailout for Greece, the largest share of which will be funded by Germany. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Royal Bank of Scotland announced it would pay out about $630 million in bonuses despite an expected $3.5 billion in losses this year, the fourth in a row it has failed to post a profit.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">British Labour MP Eric Joyce was arrested after he became enraged in a House of Commons bar, hit several fellow MPs, and headbutted the MP from Pudsey. "There are too many f*$##@ Tories in here," said Joyce. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Police in the Indian state of Kerala continued their murder investigation into two Italian marines accused of shooting two Indian fisherman from the deck of the oil tanker Enrica Lexie.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More than 1,000 passengers on the Italian cruise ship Costa Allegra were adrift following a fire off the coast of Seychelles;<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Italy began selling off a group of Sardinian lighthouses in response to its debt crisis.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The group of scientists at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory acknowledged that readings it reported showing neutrinos to have surpassed the speed of light may have been caused by a faulty connector. "This connector was not perfectly plugged," said Gran Sasso director Lucia Votano. "Okay?" <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Naples, Florida, man was charged with aggravated assault after brandishing a weapon outside a bank and telling deputies he was the director of the CIA, Elvis Presley's brother, and half orangutan, and that he needed to call the "fusion center" to ask about his monkey blood. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clouds were found to have been getting lower for the past decade.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Astronomers confirmed the existence of a "waterworld" exoplanet 40 light-years from Earth.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered solid buckyballs (buckministerfullerene) in outer space. (buckyballs are basically soccerball shaped)<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whitney Houston was found to have been the subject of 10 percent of all U.S. media coverage during the week after she died.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Michigan man whose son died in Iraq, angry that Houston's home state of New Jersey was flying its flags at half-staff in her honor, burned a New Jersey state flag on his backyard grill. "It was $12.95," said the man of the flag, "and it was the best money I ever spent."</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-78749778645877916402012-02-25T11:19:00.002+11:002012-02-25T11:19:29.833+11:00To my Pines groupies...<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">A quick thanks to all my new supporters from 'The Pines' who have been listening in to The Bat Cave each Monday on YVFM 99.1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've made up a sting, in honour of you all, complete with your 'Porn Star' names :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A prison fire in Honduras killed 359 people, making it the deadliest such fire on record. An inmate was reported to have started the fire after phoning the state governor's office and saying he was going to burn down the prison, then lighting his bedding on fire. The facility was being supervised by 12 guards, who prevented firefighters from entering while the fire spread. "The guards first thought they had a prison break," said the director of Honduras's prison system, "so they followed the law saying no one could enter to prevent unnecessary deaths." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Icelandic musicians protested the State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland's ban on Motorhead-brand shiraz, named after the English heavy metal band. "It is a violation of human rights," said Solstafir lead singer Athalbjorn Tryggvason, "to not be able to buy yourself red wine."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Dave Mustaine, lead singer of the heavy metal band Megadeth, announced, then denied, his endorsement of G.O.P. presidential candidate Rick Santorum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Two F-16s intercepted a Cessna carrying 40 pounds of marijuana over Los Angeles after it entered the airspace of Marine One, which was transporting President Barack Obama on a fundraising trip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Six weeks after signing the Shark Conservation Act into law, Obama ate lunch at one of the few California restaurants still serving shark-fin soup. The president "ordered a lot of dim sum takeout," said White House press secretary Jay Carney. "No soup." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University declared the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, which burned through the latex gloves of the researchers assigned to pick it, to be the hottest pepper on earth. "There will be a run on seeds and plants," predicted grower Jim Duffy. "Like Cabbage Patch dolls right before Christmas."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Adventurer John Fairfax, who lived as a trapper in the Argentine jungle as a teenager and as a pirate-ship captain in his twenties, and who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a rowboat, died at 74. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A man reportedly suffered a heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass burger at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. <br />Calcutta prepared to be painted blue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />German academics voted "shitstorm" the most useful English loanword in the German language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A British Airways flight attendant was arrested for writing "The bomb on board will explode at 16.00 GMT unless our demands are met" on a bathroom door during a flight from Tokyo to London. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Journalists documented the rise of rabbit-petting cafes in Tokyo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />An increasing trend is the spread of decaf "babyccino" coffees from Australia to Brooklyn. "My child has been going to cafes since he was a newborn," said one Brooklyn mother. Babyccinos, said the Australian inventor of the instant babyccino, "interrupt workflow, create milk wastage, and can be served at a dangerous temperature to a vulnerable consumer."</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-53727236085814076532012-02-16T17:57:00.004+11:002012-02-16T17:59:00.630+11:00Weekly World News<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>....and here's a wrap-up of the Weekly World News</i> :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greece's parliament approved an austerity bill, cutting 15,000 government jobs and reducing the minimum wage by 22 percent in exchange for $170 billion in bailout funds from the European Union and the I.M.F.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />More than 80,000 protesters marched in Athens on Sunday, some of them looting and vandalizing local stores. At least 34 buildings burned, including a Starbucks and an underground movie theater once used as a torture chamber by the Gestapo. "This is worse than the Forties," said an elderly woman. "This time the government is following the Germans' orders." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />While striking in Brussels against an increase in their retirement age, hundreds of firefighters broke through barricades outside the prime minister's office and soaked riot police in water and fire retardant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A man was arrested in The Hague after trying to throw a marijuana snowball over a prison wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Dutch ice skaters expressed hope that the extreme cold in Europe, which has killed more than 500 people, would allow them to hold the traditional 124-mile Elfstedentocht speed-skating race for the first time in 15 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Anonymous hacked into the servers of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs, gaining access to staffers' email accounts, many of which had the password "12345." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Following complaints from Catholic officials, President Barack Obama amended a recently issued mandate requiring employers to provide free contraception to employees. "Thanks to President Obama," said Southern Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, "we are all Catholics now." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Florence Green, the last known veteran of World War I, died at age 110 in England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />singer Whitney Houston died at age 48 in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A Wisconsin company was reported to have granted a four-year-old's Christmas wish for a $380 "Persuade" dual-flush toilet. "'Mom, wouldn't that be great if I could have this?" the boy said during a visit to the company's showroom. "Could you imagine all of the things I could do?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />New York City hotels announced plans to issue panic buttons to their maids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />British mathematicians used the Rapunzel Number to solve the Ponytail Shape Equation. "We all have likely wondered about the fluffiness of hair," said Raymond Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems at the University of Cambridge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Following incidents in four other states, the notorious Piggyback Bandit was spotted in Minnesota, where officials feared he would again rub the necks of high school athletes and jump onto their backs. "It's the creepiness of the behavior that alarms most people," said a North Dakota activities director. "It's a little creepy." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Filmmakers raised money to release a movie about Osama bin Laden and an "army of zombie terrorists." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />In the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth formally rededicated herself to England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />English gardeners dug up a bed of blue centaurea growing in the shape of a swastika in Weston-super-Mare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Newtown Creek sewage-treatment plant in Brooklyn planned a Valentine's Day tour package including gifts of Hershey's Kisses and views of its stainless steel "digester eggs," which process millions of gallons of gas and sludge each day. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-51413350062100949152012-02-12T16:27:00.002+11:002012-02-12T16:27:27.945+11:00OMG!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The account of the <b>resurrection of Christ</b>, as recorded in <i>John 20</i> is probably a very well read scripture... but as I went over it again recently, a new thought occurred to me (new to me anyway).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here we have a real <b>OMG</b> moment, and it brings vastly differing results to three people... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the story, we have three characters,<i> Mary Magdalene</i>, <i>Peter</i> and <i>John</i>. They are very different people who all have a common experience, they are all witness to the open tomb of their Lord, yet their reactions are vastly different. For those who want it, here is the account from John's gospel:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26869">1</sup> Early on the first day
of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb
and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26870">2</sup>
So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26871">3</sup> So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26872">4</sup> Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26873">5</sup> He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26874">6</sup> Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26875">7</sup>
as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The
cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26876">8</sup> Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26877">9</sup> (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26878">10</sup> Then the disciples went back to where they were staying. </i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26879">11</sup> Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26880">12</sup> and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. </i></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26881">13</sup> They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26882">14</sup> At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26883">15</sup> He asked her, <span class="woj">“Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”</span></i></span> </div>
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me where you have put him, and I will get him.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26884">16</sup> Jesus said to her, <span class="woj">“Mary.”</span></i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, first up, we'll look at <b>John</b>, who was known as '<i>the disciple whom Jesus loved</i>'. Here was a follower who's faith in Jesus was unflinching, built not on logic, persuasion or rhetoric, but love. He enters the opened tomb, sees the grave clothes neatly folded up, and immediately believes! He doesn't need to be led through the steps of what Jesus said and did to come to a conclusion, he understands straight away that Jesus is alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next we have the much maligned <b>Peter</b>, a man who is at this point full of self-loathing, recrimination and has lost belief in himself. He is at such a low point mentally and emotionally that he has given up on himself as a follower of Jesus, and soon decides to throw it all in and go back to fishing as a living. He looks into the tomb, sees exactly what John has seen, and gets,... nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It won't be for another week before Peter has to face his 'demons', when Jesus gently re-validates him, and restores him strength and leadership through a showing of love and forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mary</b>, who's back-story with Jesus has led her to a deep and abiding love for him as a man and her Lord, is devastated at the 'desecration' of the empty tomb. When she looks in, after Peter and John have run off to tell their story, she sees a new thing - two angels are now in the tomb, and she then encounters Jesus himself outside the tomb. Jesus gave her all she needed to give her the joy she would feel, just one word - he called her by her name. Mary needed that personal, close and intimate encounter to bring her into the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The over-riding point I got from all this is, Jesus knows us intimately, knows how we think, knows what we believe, knows our strengths and our weaknesses. And he deals with us in just the way that heals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, here it is, the end of another year, and the blogernets will be overflowing with '<i>What a Year That Was</i>' posts....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's true we'll never see another like it, simply cos you can't go back (unless you're the <i>Doctor</i>'s companion). But the world keeps turning and the sun will rise on 2012 without a jolt or murmur. Yet I will look back briefly, just to see if the monsters have stopped their chase...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't make any new year's resolutions 12 months ago, so I can score 100% for not failing any. That's a good way to start. I'm still alive, and for a guy who has in the past been a step away from depression-related suicide that's also a bonus, although 2011 was not by any means a bad year. I can count my blessings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Work has been slow, with occasional photoshoots (I got to shoot the World's Greatest Treasurer...) and some steady delivery work to bring in the $$. So I'll be looking for something that can inspire me and be enjoyable while earning me a crust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've helped some groups and people get books published, and put out some <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/elijah/portfolio">2012 calendars</a> of my own work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My trusty <b>iMac</b> crashed, so I had to replace that, which made me think what can I do on an <b>iPad</b>? Is it an expensive toy, or can I do my work on it? After a slow start where the apps seemed geared towards fun rather than functionality, I'm getting to discover that some serious work can be done, even on the original iPad (which is what I got).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a photographer (among other things) so I've been playing with photo apps, and let me tell you, good ones are thin on the ground. The usual suspects are fine and fun - <i>Camera+</i> and <i>Instagram</i> are great for the 'retro' look that's a craze on the internet. But I need something with a bit more bite, as I usually work with <i>Photoshop</i>, and those apps don't have the chops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First up I tried <i>Photogene</i>, which has some good controls built in - but runs out of puff before the finish line. A good try nonetheless. Then, hidden in the deep dark recesses of an app review, was <i>PhotoForge2</i>. Now we have controls for curves, levels, brightness/contrast, HSL, vibrancy, Unsharp Mask, white balance, and more. There's also a plethora of presets that people expect nowadays, to replace photoshop 'actions'. In the mix is a range of camera, film, lens, filter, flash, developer and paper choices! And layers, this app does layers! And it also comes with a multi-level undo. Now this is more like it! All this for $10, and it replaces more than 90% of what I would do in photoshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a printer, I relied heavily on the <i>Pantone PMS colour matching system</i>. The print world revolves around it. But a PMS colour book costs hundreds of dollars, and there's more than one needed. So of course now there's a cheap app from <b>Pantone</b> with all that on board. One gripe I have is you can't do a search, typing in 330 and getting the colour and breakdown with it - seriously, why not? But it does have a good touch for designers, photographers, printers and decorators, you can upload a photo (of say a shop interior) and it will hunt up the PMS colours in that photo. Great for web designers and interior decorators etc. Get it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For audio work, which do occasionally for my radio show, I've got most bases covered, except for a decent replacement for <i>Audacity</i>, but I'm hopeful! I have <i>Dragon</i> for converting speech to text, <i>Speak It</i> for converting text to speech, and <i>Translator</i> who knows why as our guests are all English speaking, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. But I do need an app to do serious editing work on sound files and export as mp3's. I'll probably find one next week...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for fun, I look to the early days of PC games and came up with <i>Retro Pinball</i>, which is <i>Epic Pinball</i> rebuilt for the iPad - seriously awesome :) Then to top it off, I came across that psycho pair, <b>Sam n Max</b> in the game <i>The Penal Zone</i>. Who could ask for more? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So with all its ups and downs, the year hasn't been too bad. The thing is, a lot of this stuff is just things. And things come and go. There's more important stuff that makes life worth living. So when I put my iPad down, life doesn't just stop! People are important, relationships go on, they sustain you, help you think and grow, and come with their own rewards. And above all that, there's a God who has proved to me that he will '<i>never leave me or forsake me</i>'. He's there in the bright sunlight, he's there in the darkest pit. If I turn my back on him, I can't see him, but he's still there, guarding my back. That's my greatest treasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All the best for 2012.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-13428094680764277472011-12-17T13:29:00.000+11:002011-12-17T15:50:03.803+11:00Making it App'en<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Although I use <b>Apple</b> computers for preference, my philosophy with phones has always been '<i>Keep It Simple Stupid</i>'. I don't want a phone that takes photos. I have very decent cameras for that. I don't want a phone that tells me where to go, I have a <i>Melways</i> for that. I don't want a phone that knows all and answers my questions, I have a wife for that! All I want my phone to do is make calls and txts. That's it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So the world of <b>Apps</b> has been growing around me with no discernible effect. Until now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out of a mixture of curiosity and excess cash (temporary), I bought an <b>iPad</b>. I don't really know why. I certainly don't need one. Everything I do for my business I can do far far better on my <b>iMac</b>. So put it down to mild insanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being part Scottish, I hate to spend list price on anything (and I mean ANYTHING). On the flip side, if something is on special and I don't need it, I may well buy it anyway, 'cos it saves me money! (refer back to the mild insanity part...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So my <b>iPad</b> is an ex-demo iPad 1 from Apple. Not pre-owned as such, but pre-pawed, if you will. Saved a couple of hundred on it, thank you very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the platform aside, it's the apps that the iPad is all about. Lots of them. Way too many to get all caught up in, as of Dec 2nd, there were 1,000,000 apps to choose from. So I trawled review sites for the low-down on downloading useful apps, just to keep things under control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kept my list pretty short, just to give me time to road test the apps and not be overloaded. In trialling them, so far I've only given two apps the flick, so prior research pays. The ones I'm left with are pretty good, but <b><i>I'd love to hear from my readers what apps you guys find useful and fun</i></b>....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To begin with, I went for apps that were free (that Scottish thing again), but a few apps I paid a dollar or two for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I began using the '<b>Notes</b>' app that came pre-installed, but soon switched to '<a href="http://www.evernote.com/"><b>Evernote</b></a>' as it synchs with my desktop computer. It will synch with yours too, whether you use <i>Apple</i>, or some monstrosity from the dark side :) It also can handle pdf's, pictures and websites pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a reader (I used to read a book a day, for years), so this whole <i>ebook</i> thing is a boon. So yes, I have <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/ibooks.html"><b>iBooks</b></a>, and a few free novels on board. I also have <a href="http://www.kobobooks.com/?utm_source%20=Clixgalore&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=clixaffiliate"><b>Kobo</b></a>, which isn't as intuitive. But it's great to have the flexibility to read books from all 'camps' and not have to own three different readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being a photographer, I wanted some photo apps. I know, I know, the <i>iPad 1</i> doesn't have a camera... But I have a dozen perfectly good cameras, both film and digital, so why can't I just upload pics onto my iPad? Well, I had to figure that one out myself, apparently MOST iPad users get one with a camera if they want to take photos, go figure! So after some experimenting, I found you CAN upload photos via an attachment for either an SD card or memory stick ($30 at Apple thanks very much). So you plug in your memory doohicky and the pre-installed <b>photo</b> app will upload the photos of your choice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then you can use apps like <a href="http://campl.us/"><b>Camera+</b></a> to manipulate them with a variety of built in 'styles', which is a bit of fun. It ain't photoshop, but none of them are, even the app from Adobe. But its fun and it works. One tip though... once you're done manipulating, make sure you '<i>Save</i>' before you '<i>Share</i>' or your pic will be a useless bunch of blurred pixels. Once 'saved' though, the resolution will be fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those addicted to social media (and who isn't) the <i>best app out there by far</i> would be <a href="http://flipboard.com/"><b>Flipboard</b></a>. It's a home base for all your social media sites, and it does a lot more too.... First up, it works, visually, like a magazine. So if someone posts on <i>facebook</i> a link to a website, then pictures or video on that site are featured prominently, along with the lead paragraph of the story. And you can flip through <i>facebook</i>, <i>twitter</i> etc like a magazine, which becomes a visual feast for the user. AND if that's not enough, you can also choose a host of other services to include in <b>Flipboard</b>, alongside your social media sites. So I have News streams, <i>Time</i> magazine, <i>Tech</i> news, <i>National Geo</i>, <i>Gizmodo</i>, <i>Dark Roasted Blend</i> and more, all updating with their latest, and it was all <b>FREE</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I go to church, I usually choose if I take a nice modern language Bible, or my trusty 'direct translation' version with me. Now I just take my <b>iPad</b>, cos its got both on board. I trialled a couple of 'Bible' apps, and the one that won me is simply called '<a href="http://www.youversion.com/free-bible-apps"><b>Bible</b></a>'. Put out by <i>YouVersion</i>, it can access a huge range of versions wirelessly, or you can download them for use when your out of network range (which I often am). So I've got the <i>NASB</i> (for purists) and <i>The Message</i> locked and loaded. You can change the text size, and also have a 'low-light' option so the screen doesn't spotlight you if you're in a darkened auditorium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a news junkie, or more correctly, a newspaper junkie. I've had newsprint on my hands since I left school back in the 70's. I've printed them, done the layout, hunted up stories, taken photos, made up headlines, designed them from the ground up, owned them, published them, distributed them, and loved them. So of course, I had to have some newspapers on board. The best Australian paper (<i>no arguments here, I'm right</i>) is <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/ipad-app-landing/"><b>The Age</b></a>. When I got it it was free, and I download The Age every day. You have access to all the stories, and galleries of photos (which I love, being a photographer). One small point, the Green Guide on Thursday has the articles, but not the TV guide - maybe cos I'm on the free version? Overall a marvelous app for news junkies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that's news, what about magazines? Plenty out there, and I have <b>AU Magazine</b>, which seems to come out monthly, and has a great standard of layout and visual appeal to go with the written content. Not so much a lifestyle mag, but interviews with a large cross section of people/achievers here in Australia. Great stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I mentioned before, I like to get things for free, so when I saw I could get <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/inpress-magazine/id459659009?mt=8"><b>Inpress</b></a> for free, I jumped at it. Very handy not just for an extensive gig guide, but as I do a radio show or two, the up to date info is a boon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hate typing? Get <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764?mt=8"><b>Dragon Dictation</b></a>. It's the best speech to text app, as they've been in the business for years and have all the bugs ironed out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the film 'The Matrix', the choice is given to take either the 'Red' pill, or the 'Blue' pill. The blue pill lets you believe in the world as you have grown up to see it, but the red pill will transport your understanding of the world to how it really is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Well, today, I'm offering you the chance to take the red pill!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />You see, the 'world' that you live in is, not so much a lie, as a severe distortion. You (and I) are used to thinking that the world that we live in is the same world everyone lives in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And therein lies the lie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Your everyday world (and mine) is actually more like a gated community, separated from the majority of the world and acting in a very insular way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Firstly, to be fair, the reason we see our 'world' as the real one is because we control and consume the major media outlets. So our 'News' is largely a navel-gazing exercise. We read about ourselves, we watch TV about ourselves, we listen to radio talking about ourselves and we visit websites geared to ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Yet we are the minority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Now, I've made several claims here that I really need to back up, so I've used figures released in March 2011 by Nielsen Online. <span style="font-size: small;">(Found at www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Broadly, just 30.2% of the total worlds' population (now 7 billion) use the internet. To turn that around just under 70% of the world do not use the internet. The reason I'm picking on the internet first off is that it is the vehicle that most media people (and most companies) use to measure what they call 'the world'. For example, there's a lot of press given to the (unreal) claim that one gadget or another (e.g. iPhone) will 'change the world'. To believe this sort of hype, you'd have to completely ignore the fact that even less people use internet connected phones than use the internet in general, bearing in mind that internet users are in the minority anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />You may be rolling your eyes now and yelling at my blog that this is just marketing at work. Yes. Yet that's the way we think. We think that the world is 'connected' and that we're all in the same boat, living the same sorts of lives. We lie to ourselves, because we're too tired, too lazy, too brainwashed to think beyond the hype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I'm in Australia, where just 60% of people use the internet. That's right, 4 out of 10 people I pass in the street don't use the internet. If you are reading this in Nth America (even more inclined to think they are 'the world') over 20% of your fellow Americans don't use the internet. If you are in Europe, almost half are not connected. In Asia, less that 25% are internet users. And in Africa, almost 9 out of 10 people don't use the internet. It all adds up to more than 2/3's of people in the world aren't online. At all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So much for 'our world' being the norm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Just this. Open your mind. Don't swallow blindly all the claims we hear/read/see every day that the way we live is the way the world really works. Get your brain out of the gated community and see the world as it really is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Oh yeah, are you a Christian? Agnostic? Muslim? 'Middle-class'? Home-owner? Well, you're in a minority. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The picture that springs to mind when you mention '<i>Homeless</i>' is the older man who sleeps near a dumpster, wears layers of smelly old clothes and rambles incoherently about paranoid fantasies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In reality, being homeless can encompass many states of living. You may be couch-hopping, staying with friends for as long as you or they can stand it. You may be sharing part of a room, living behind a curtain to mark your space. You may be camped out in a caravan or bungalow, one step off the street. Being homeless has many faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People who are homeless are stereotyped as 'losers', long-term unemployed, addicted to drink, smokes and illegal drugs. In reality, many homeless have tertiary educations, a long history of reliable employment, families and friends. Life can take a turn and cast you into a precarious situation in very short time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Employment problems, often outside your control, can make you lose your house. Relationship problems can escalate into marriage breakdowns, forcing you out without accommodation or secure income - bingo, you're homeless!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anchor Inc recently asked me to get involved in a project about homelessness. The idea was to give 20 of their clients (who are 'at risk if homelessness') a camera, and get them to 'document' what they thought 'Home' meant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These participants were from all ages, all demographics, and all were living in a variety of homeless conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When they received their cameras (<i>Panasonic Lumix DMC-S1</i>) some were familiar with such a compact, while others said to me "this is my first camera, I've never had one before in my life".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I ran a session on how to operate the camera, another session on rules of good photography, then a last session on how to break those rules. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After getting their photos over the next few weeks, I had to choose images, get them printed (thanks <i>Croydon Camera House</i>) and frame them all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition that resulted is not an 'Art Exhibition', although if art is what moves you, then many of the images may be termed as art. Many of the photos, when they are put with words, open your mind to understand the impact on everyday life that such hand-to-mouth living makes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition is on at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum in Lilydale until Nov 4 2011. I urge you to visit. You can also see the images on the <a href="http://www.anchor.org.au/homeis">website</a>, or check out the presentation on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1hQOyJ81tY">YouTube</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Bat Cave</b> (<i>Yarra Valley FM 99.1 Mondays from 9 pm to midnight</i>) have a fair few local artists in playing live and being interviewed. So the logical thing was to get those interviews onto YouTube for all to enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm uploading them under the name <b>BatCaveRadio</b> so you can probably hunt them up that way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Doc White</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/kqsU7en6nsg">http://youtu.be/kqsU7en6nsg</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/1YdhSLISMRw">http://youtu.be/1YdhSLISMRw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/cBe3U24vyL8">http://youtu.be/cBe3U24vyL8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/TP0j-DSfc9I">http://youtu.be/TP0j-DSfc9I</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rod Fritz</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/dDcxuZPggnA">http://youtu.be/dDcxuZPggnA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/6tV1_I9BBls">http://youtu.be/6tV1_I9BBls</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/momXo1YQ-Gw">http://youtu.be/momXo1YQ-Gw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>Ben Kelly</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFtAI0z52b8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFtAI0z52b8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG26gwCkxT0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG26gwCkxT0</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPhUP_7acnA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPhUP_7acnA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Stephen McCulloch</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQ1Ma-CHIk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQ1Ma-CHIk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>Grace Knight</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-E3Ih1BFI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-E3Ih1BFI</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIR1dtXHmU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIR1dtXHmU</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> Tom Rule</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcpY44lsmYw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcpY44lsmYw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJ19JmDODA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJ19JmDODA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wCiXAwGiQc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wCiXAwGiQc</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>Franc Smith</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3gC5MljM3Y">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3gC5MljM3Y</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCl9e4xs1WQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCl9e4xs1WQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>James Wade</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XgcVQjKK8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XgcVQjKK8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Cej-S8Gf4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Cej-S8Gf4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC-lNaxXRQE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC-lNaxXRQE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>Jessica Isgro & Dean Morley</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMgX9MFu00">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMgX9MFu00</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4THTc98cac">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4THTc98cac</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9KVet4rlfk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9KVet4rlfk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInnVyXJOgg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInnVyXJOgg</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Marisa Yeaman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zkt7VL-QM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zkt7VL-QM</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-m42gCo_ws">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-m42gCo_ws</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGfFV7eZJ8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGfFV7eZJ8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXeFEYB6l5k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXeFEYB6l5k</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>Marina Prior</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxtkhtDG9B4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxtkhtDG9B4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Eddie Cole</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS5EYe5PmVk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS5EYe5PmVk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGViJnjSlBo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGViJnjSlBo</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgrr49cgdS8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgrr49cgdS8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dom McKay</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eX3oO9uAxc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eX3oO9uAxc</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLv21t59dA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLv21t59dA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZZXJD3dgQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZZXJD3dgQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucpWSz2-pRE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucpWSz2-pRE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UViXqteDs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UViXqteDs</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzl5N27DuW8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzl5N27DuW8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dom BB Troughton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fku1vMgdAVw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fku1vMgdAVw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCYzl8ooT4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCYzl8ooT4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0isulb0QY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0isulb0QY</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Leigh Sloggett</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/slgIVU30bq8">http://youtu.be/slgIVU30bq8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Catfish Voodoo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4iGYU1Zpp4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4iGYU1Zpp4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Zeptepi</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOKIBjP60s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOKIBjP60s</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTujyF-4pkc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTujyF-4pkc</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4bJDI-ODA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4bJDI-ODA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWGCklzGqU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWGCklzGqU</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dave Diprose</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgrcoDQowQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgrcoDQowQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taj3KUBel0U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taj3KUBel0U</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG8X3Wb7jgQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG8X3Wb7jgQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMlEUd6lnA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMlEUd6lnA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_QT9KE1qP8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_QT9KE1qP8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reshFZ_hkYE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reshFZ_hkYE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Holly-Jo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ugOEsW6uxg&feature=relmfu">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ugOEsW6uxg&feature=relmfu</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/7iGgDRf-I7Q">http://youtu.be/7iGgDRf-I7Q</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/54K8uqnqjCQ">http://youtu.be/54K8uqnqjCQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/k_7l_nNzuq8">http://youtu.be/k_7l_nNzuq8</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Barry & Rob Dickins</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDiSMQVDeBs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDiSMQVDeBs</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/gregcarrick/sets/barry-dickins-on-the-bat-cave">http://soundcloud.com/gregcarrick/sets/barry-dickins-on-the-bat-cave</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Adrian Austin</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2-mNGeshA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2-mNGeshA</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tThNa76bpag">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tThNa76bpag</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCys5VKEcj4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCys5VKEcj4</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ja-2o3v_0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ja-2o3v_0</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ash King</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzAFNDYKkuQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzAFNDYKkuQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZyq2qaopBM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZyq2qaopBM</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKpLIyQe4E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKpLIyQe4E</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dylan Redman (and Jimmy)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUUI94RBJW8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUUI94RBJW8</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ciG-KVP7Vk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ciG-KVP7Vk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLcfYgfxjDY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLcfYgfxjDY</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsDKIsqaPm0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsDKIsqaPm0</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>David Knight</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtEigeWjP4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtEigeWjP4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMz1_WjtfM4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMz1_WjtfM4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3H_VsIhneU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3H_VsIhneU</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXr75lDKbw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXr75lDKbw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Cr Tim Heenan - Homelessness</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cVp_sPzyzQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cVp_sPzyzQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXZx-gzhzs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXZx-gzhzs</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-i2Pr80Kk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-i2Pr80Kk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Greg Carrick - Art & Photography</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf-Kmf9PF4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf-Kmf9PF4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxq9f18PJac">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxq9f18PJac</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hiding With Bears</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofGdUO06H4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofGdUO06H4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_Ght-tU4Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_Ght-tU4Q</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oem1Rgas1Zk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oem1Rgas1Zk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJaii_2cv0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJaii_2cv0</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tozo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5P8FEPEKsk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5P8FEPEKsk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL33JrNyMIU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL33JrNyMIU</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHi6gqddlFI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHi6gqddlFI</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Leticia Maher</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpKIecm553g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpKIecm553g</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKWyJkaJ-A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKWyJkaJ-A</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFcIwxPNdKI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFcIwxPNdKI</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Emilea Jayde (& Phil)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8tjEE8mr04">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8tjEE8mr04</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07ODvYOHqA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07ODvYOHqA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro7mgoqLE0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro7mgoqLE0</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoB7a88fFes">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoB7a88fFes</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tabasco Tom Rogerson, Tim Hackett & Kaitlin Rogerson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3pIrYhnNQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3pIrYhnNQ</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWp5UKmOfsk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWp5UKmOfsk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVPONJz21I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVPONJz21I</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2W0Uj3TdoU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2W0Uj3TdoU</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Levi McGrath</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6LO2jHcB5k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6LO2jHcB5k</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFs7SwX5cSU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFs7SwX5cSU</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Compliments of Gus</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzhfVQfuwM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzhfVQfuwM</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Joel McKerrow</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVu8bbwOMi0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVu8bbwOMi0</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF00lPiNqw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF00lPiNqw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRo5TSuXvNU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRo5TSuXvNU</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD5RZDPuj9Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD5RZDPuj9Q</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I21Ksd-E_fE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I21Ksd-E_fE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Katie Harder and Band</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qTqDyeLRw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qTqDyeLRw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExmUaVCDTOk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExmUaVCDTOk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJk4oHotBuI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJk4oHotBuI</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBbfhfHht8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBbfhfHht8</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Simeon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZCnbRwTMBE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZCnbRwTMBE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpPZc6in4c">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpPZc6in4c</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT7_QW9wLr4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT7_QW9wLr4</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzYQ_z35EjA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzYQ_z35EjA</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Madeleine Mei</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMqx8Os9AY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMqx8Os9AY</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfUrZ3C6EGg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfUrZ3C6EGg</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGZ9Iz4E9Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGZ9Iz4E9Q</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIlQT79E34k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIlQT79E34k</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Carolyn Oates</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ7Sud3byVs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ7Sud3byVs</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olt_R0pT8Xs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olt_R0pT8Xs</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpMs7d_NlvA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpMs7d_NlvA</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Buffy Sainte-Marie</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up4vDoWJriA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up4vDoWJriA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjbidjIivY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjbidjIivY</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9XoLbmxrA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9XoLbmxrA</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">As more interviews take place, I will post them here on </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Point & Shoot</b><span style="font-size: large;">... Watch this space :)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-62837257190901392862011-04-13T12:45:00.002+10:002011-04-25T12:45:50.188+10:00The Bat Cave<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes great ideas don't come in a flash of insight, but insinuate themselves into place until you simply can't ignore them anymore.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the 'new' show on <b>Yarra Valley FM 99.1</b> each Monday from 9 pm has been a slow but sure process that has grown into existance over the last few months. <i>Dom Troughton, Greg Carrick </i>and<i> Dave Ashworth</i> have been steering the Folk/Roots/Blues show into a new direction mainly without even a solid plan in place.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CKUMU81075E/TaUNjawzeRI/AAAAAAAAAOY/5-UWJo2GJnI/s1600/batcave+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CKUMU81075E/TaUNjawzeRI/AAAAAAAAAOY/5-UWJo2GJnI/s1600/batcave+logo.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">'<b>The Bat Cave</b>' will still start from the base of Roots/ Folk/Blues music, and, as usual, will probably get hijacked and taken to strange and new territory within the first hour! The culprits for this may range from Iggy Pop, to Lou Reed, to some obscure Reggae artist... but the ride is always worth it.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We will also be trying hard to kidnap some unsuspecting local muso and grill them in <b>The Bat Cave</b>, forcing them to play live for us and tell their life story. We've recently had <i>DYKO</i>, before he gets on the plane for Germany, <i>Jesse Mitchell</i>, and <i>Carolyn Oates</i> who played songs featured on her latest cd.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4TIecJT0hKU/TaUNa3Hdd1I/AAAAAAAAAOU/2pzP1pJdwpw/s1600/Caz+Oates+sml.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4TIecJT0hKU/TaUNa3Hdd1I/AAAAAAAAAOU/2pzP1pJdwpw/s320/Caz+Oates+sml.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming up will be: April 18, <i>Madeleine Mei</i>; April 25 Buffy Sainte-Marie interview; May 2 <i>Simeon</i>; May 9 <i>Emilea-Jayde</i>; May 16, Katie Harder.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xBKeTdiIWnc/TbTf0t_ukOI/AAAAAAAAAOc/bS5sG-FOBlU/s1600/buffy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xBKeTdiIWnc/TbTf0t_ukOI/AAAAAAAAAOc/bS5sG-FOBlU/s320/buffy.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Above: Buffy Sainte-Marie signed our Bat Cave signature guitar </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and posed for a photo after the interview.</div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So tune in to YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the <a href="http://www.yarravalleyfm.com/">station website</a> every Monday night from 9 pm. If you are a local muso who would like to come in and play, then email me at <a href="mailto:gcarrick@gmail.com">gcarrick@gmail.com</a></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-19065389532767303732011-04-06T11:35:00.000+10:002011-04-06T11:35:43.390+10:00"I eat up at the Logan"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just back from a weekend at the Logan Pub. Logan is near St Arnaud, Victoria. In Logan, apart from the pub, there is.... nothing! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">So why go there? A friend of mine, Jim (pictured below) has this strange hobby where he likes to play music through a thumping big sound system, and he needs to find places remote enough to crank it up... so Logan Pub is perfect. The Pub is also famous in its own right, being quirky enough to win the Best Aussie Pub award at least once.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T3wFf3talPw/TZu7MY89-6I/AAAAAAAAANE/n6_fw5BvqjY/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T3wFf3talPw/TZu7MY89-6I/AAAAAAAAANE/n6_fw5BvqjY/s320/logan+pub+bikes+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">So we go there and set up two stacks of speakers, powered by a bank of three to five 1000W amps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSJ_ejxLmVY/TZu7Ltib0tI/AAAAAAAAANA/Ti14stdAKNQ/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSJ_ejxLmVY/TZu7Ltib0tI/AAAAAAAAANA/Ti14stdAKNQ/s320/logan+pub+bikes+1.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The weekend was actually a Bike Show, and we went up to provide music. Quite a range of bikers turned up, so there were nice sleek modern German numbers... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X7NBbBYD5dg/TZu7NPkD9jI/AAAAAAAAANI/X9Q_qpGGJug/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X7NBbBYD5dg/TZu7NPkD9jI/AAAAAAAAANI/X9Q_qpGGJug/s320/logan+pub+bikes+5.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ..to marvellous British machines from the past.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ADg-R2XYd3s/TZu7OFUN06I/AAAAAAAAANM/vV2uL-e3OLY/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ADg-R2XYd3s/TZu7OFUN06I/AAAAAAAAANM/vV2uL-e3OLY/s320/logan+pub+bikes+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This triumph was pretty much all original, and looked and sounded great.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q2g9boVB_ts/TZu7OlqYrxI/AAAAAAAAANQ/o87XCSzvlaE/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q2g9boVB_ts/TZu7OlqYrxI/AAAAAAAAANQ/o87XCSzvlaE/s320/logan+pub+bikes+10.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some dude started playing honky tonk jazz on the piano in the pub, but I never did get his name...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QFSB--8TNcA/TZu7PB9CIjI/AAAAAAAAANU/SEQx2_g2K_M/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QFSB--8TNcA/TZu7PB9CIjI/AAAAAAAAANU/SEQx2_g2K_M/s320/logan+pub+bikes+11.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the 'shop-bought' machines was this home made chopper, with a Yamaha engine, very minimalist.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MvAwoodiKt0/TZu7P4hUk_I/AAAAAAAAANY/OtjcG0JAI-A/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MvAwoodiKt0/TZu7P4hUk_I/AAAAAAAAANY/OtjcG0JAI-A/s320/logan+pub+bikes+12.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, you have to have a bunch of Harley's at a bike event, so there was a good range.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e0QVRS8tvQk/TZu7QtzFbnI/AAAAAAAAANc/RfQ390yLcFI/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e0QVRS8tvQk/TZu7QtzFbnI/AAAAAAAAANc/RfQ390yLcFI/s320/logan+pub+bikes+14.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is what they think of car drivers...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WsU61jivCGM/TZu7RM9IKRI/AAAAAAAAANg/puMSgtzOKHo/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WsU61jivCGM/TZu7RM9IKRI/AAAAAAAAANg/puMSgtzOKHo/s320/logan+pub+bikes+15.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of the riders brought their swags with them for overnight.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zBl3Wgm7lOc/TZu7R33m18I/AAAAAAAAANk/5_0MekUMfHw/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zBl3Wgm7lOc/TZu7R33m18I/AAAAAAAAANk/5_0MekUMfHw/s320/logan+pub+bikes+17.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">There's a lot more drinking room outside the Pub than in.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9SagBsf-7rI/TZu7SUyQQYI/AAAAAAAAANo/N0zt2UfWw4M/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9SagBsf-7rI/TZu7SUyQQYI/AAAAAAAAANo/N0zt2UfWw4M/s320/logan+pub+bikes+20.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Harley was one monster of a bike, huge, heavy and powerful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-12jh3M_6RRQ/TZu7TMubBAI/AAAAAAAAANs/XMFHziF6pxY/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-12jh3M_6RRQ/TZu7TMubBAI/AAAAAAAAANs/XMFHziF6pxY/s320/logan+pub+bikes+22.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the Logan Pub, where the meals are worthy of a song:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I eat up at the Logan</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">the meals are really big,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">you don't get any health food,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just Bacon, Pork and Pig"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zI707ZlVToc/TZu7T58tLZI/AAAAAAAAANw/UqeDl8bY_O0/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zI707ZlVToc/TZu7T58tLZI/AAAAAAAAANw/UqeDl8bY_O0/s320/logan+pub+bikes+25.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very Australian.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0iQ28avMhrs/TZu7UE_C8rI/AAAAAAAAAN0/NX7I90sZSP4/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0iQ28avMhrs/TZu7UE_C8rI/AAAAAAAAAN0/NX7I90sZSP4/s320/logan+pub+bikes+26.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jim and I, during our 12 hour marathon of playing lots of LOUD music for the crowd.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ilYrexAdRw/TZu7U7Cnm0I/AAAAAAAAAN4/S-ORAgeb4k8/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+28.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ilYrexAdRw/TZu7U7Cnm0I/AAAAAAAAAN4/S-ORAgeb4k8/s320/logan+pub+bikes+28.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bikers set up their swags wherever they parked their bikes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uaPPnu2Oazs/TZu7VbO1MmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/_ulg5vRKh3Y/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uaPPnu2Oazs/TZu7VbO1MmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/_ulg5vRKh3Y/s320/logan+pub+bikes+30.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Harley was ridden by a biker lady called 'Crackers', whose standard response to things was to calmly take a penny bunger from her pocket, light it up from her fag, and toss it at you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J78ZzPlBJB0/TZu7WONqA6I/AAAAAAAAAOA/mtvnbFsODrE/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J78ZzPlBJB0/TZu7WONqA6I/AAAAAAAAAOA/mtvnbFsODrE/s320/logan+pub+bikes+31.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Easy Rider mural was set up behind the stack of amps, and although it looked pretty cool in the daylight, at night it was lit by ultra violet lights, and turned very trippy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kHwjwAmZ_3o/TZu7W_XO9dI/AAAAAAAAAOE/E8bzccw70S0/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+32.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kHwjwAmZ_3o/TZu7W_XO9dI/AAAAAAAAAOE/E8bzccw70S0/s320/logan+pub+bikes+32.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was trialling a new camera, with a 36X zoom. This is it at the widest angle...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vsBPjFSPsWs/TZu7XbyFawI/AAAAAAAAAOI/dNwtGSX2F58/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vsBPjFSPsWs/TZu7XbyFawI/AAAAAAAAAOI/dNwtGSX2F58/s320/logan+pub+bikes+33.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ..and from the same spot at it's greatest zoom. I really should have used a tripod, but didn't bring one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JwCW6xieUwc/TZu7XssHOzI/AAAAAAAAAOM/71zZ_NnEv-c/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JwCW6xieUwc/TZu7XssHOzI/AAAAAAAAAOM/71zZ_NnEv-c/s320/logan+pub+bikes+34.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the mural at night.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AM--gZ58tOo/TZu7YGrimPI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/RcyhYs4Tvzk/s1600/logan+pub+bikes+35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AM--gZ58tOo/TZu7YGrimPI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/RcyhYs4Tvzk/s320/logan+pub+bikes+35.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">All in all a great weekend. Everyone behaved and had a ball. I recommend dropping in at the Logan next time you're anywhere near, it's quite an experience.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-89297704677642406622011-02-14T10:06:00.002+11:002011-02-16T10:22:39.205+11:00Yeehaa, I'm Country<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not being a musical man, I look in awe at people who can play instruments, sing and even write songs. A number of my friends are talented musically and have done the hard yards to make it all look easy, and it's a joy to hear them play their music and see people listen and enjoy it.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm pretty eclectic in my music taste, it's probably easier to say what I don't like, rather than list what I do. My 'don't like' list is pretty short: <b>Disco, Country</b> and 'doof-doof'. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I know I've already put some people off-side and you may be thinking 'What's wrong with Disco/Country/doof-doof?' Well, it's all a matter of taste. And you don't need taste to like Country!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whenever I hear the strained voice of a country singer, my insides clench, my brain tries to shut down and I look for an escape route. It's even worse when the singer is Australian and the sound coming out of his mouth is fake American.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, I will admit that <i>some</i> country songs have pretty good lyrics, praising love, faithfulness and a good dog, its just they sound like they are being sung by a constipated clothes wringer. Yet country music still evokes many of the backwoods, uncultured and uncouth sides of life, where the men are unwashed yokels, and the women are hard done by slaves. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I figured the best way for me to express what country music brings to my mind was to write a country song. And if you like it, feel free to sing it. If you don't like it, remember its satire :)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ten Gallon Hat</b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All lyrics by Greg Carrick:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I'm a simple country bumkin,<br />
The banjo I did learn,<br />
I play all kinds of musics<br />
Both Country and Western.<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country</i> <br />
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chorus:<br />
<i>Got a 10 gallon hat on my 1 gallon head,<br />
I had a lobotomy,<br />
I go boot scootin' every night,<br />
I'm proud to be country.</i><br />
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<i>I got me a hoss, I got me a dog,<br />
I married me a girl,<br />
her name was Tiffany Moonbeam<br />
but I just call her Merle<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country </i><br />
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chorus<br />
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<i>I grew up in a trailer park<br />
Got a gun rack in my truck,<br />
I'd bulldoze all those greenies,<br />
cos I don't give a stuff.<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country </i><br />
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chorus<br />
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<i>I drink my moonshine whisky<br />
That I make in my still,<br />
I drink it by the gallon,<br />
but 1/2 a pint's my fill.<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country </i><br />
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chorus <br />
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<i>I hang around the pool hall,<br />
In my check shirt and my boots,<br />
I hang out with the good old boys,<br />
We get back to our roots.<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country</i> <br />
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chorus<br />
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<i>I beat up on my woman<br />
Just like my old Papa<br />
She's black and blue and pregnant too<br />
Just like my dear old Ma.<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country</i> <br />
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chorus<br />
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<i>I drink up lots of bundy<br />
And I'm drivin' me a tank,<br />
I'm ashamed to be an Aussie<br />
Cos I'd rather be a Yank<br />
yeah I'm Country<br />
Yeehah, I'm Country </i><br />
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chorus</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-18254702600013764282011-01-13T12:43:00.000+11:002011-01-13T12:43:10.321+11:00Queensland floods<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A quick note to let you know that all proceeds from January sales of my 2011 calendar will go towards the QLD flood relief.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The calendar features lovely photographs from all around the Yarra Valley and the Dandenong Ranges.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can check it out and buy on-line here:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Calendars<br />
<a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/elijah/calendars/6050009-1-ranges-and-valley-views">http://www.redbubble.com/people/elijah/calendars/6050009-1-ranges-and-valley-views</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They make great gifts too :)</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643367377158185127.post-64496877007654551542010-12-21T16:23:00.000+11:002010-12-21T16:23:12.309+11:00Christmas Blues<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other day one of Australia's pre-eminent Christian musicians lamented <i>"There are so few of us left"</i>. The feelings of despondency was akin to the complaint of Elijah <span style="font-size: small;"><i>(1 Kings 19:14)</i></span> when he felt all alone, that there were no strong people of God left.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Of course, feelings are notoriously unreliable, and God had to remind Elijah that not only was he not alone, but there were 7000 others whom God had his hand on, and spurred Elijah on to get on with his work for God.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Feelings of alienation and loneliness can be amplified when you are in the company of those who are feeling joyous, happy and in the mood to celebrate. Those of us who get melancholy, or even depressed can find seasons like Christmas a real trial. With the public urging of <i>'goodwill to all men'</i>, and the tinsel cheerfulness of a holiday season in full swing, the advertisements full of happy glowing families and couples, the expectation that you too will be cheerful can be an overwhelming pressure.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
And if you are a Christian, the fact that you would rather run a mile from the 'happy happy joy' crowd can make you feel like a fraud, a fake, a failure. You cringe at the idea of being in a group of laughing chattering optimists, so you avoid meetings, ignore invitations to events and stay well clear of anything that smells like a party. And you wonder, in self condemnation, "What's wrong with me?".</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
You are not alone in wanting to crawl into your shell and be alone at these times, you aren't the first to feel bereft of friendship, happiness, help and understanding. David wrote whole Psalms of abject loneliness and despair <span style="font-size: small;">(Psalm 38, Psalm 88)</span> with no light shining at the end of the tunnel, no nice happy ending. David knew times where he felt utterly alone and hopeless. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet David also knew the truth of a God who would not leave him to the darkness, no matter what his feelings were like. David knew the difference between the feelings of despair and the truth of God's love for him.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
All well and good for David, but what about us?</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
We are taught in the Bible that Jesus was our substitute sacrifice, taking the punishment of our sin on the cross, and freeing us from the wrath of God, bringing us into a new relationship, where God saw us as righteous through Christ. Yet there is more! </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consider the loneliness that Jesus experienced. His followers, who had sworn black and blue to stick with him even to death, had all turned tail and run. There was no comforting words or presence during his torture and trial, no softening of the horror of the crucifixion, and when Jesus was at the depth of his torment, he felt the worst abandonment of all, crying out <i>"My God, why have YOU forsaken me?"</i>. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Christ went through the ultimate loneliness in his time of trial and need so that we never have to. Consider the promises that Jesus will <i>'never leave you or forsake you' </i><span style="font-size: small;">(Hebrews 13:5)</span>, and <i>'The Father will give you another helper, that he may be with you forever'</i> <span style="font-size: small;">(John 14:16)</span>. These promises are real, and to be relied on much more than our feelings. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
All the punishment that our inbuilt sin had coming to it has been enacted on Jesus, and there is not a jot left for us to bear. We are now fully and completely in God's family and care, safe in the work of atonement made by Jesus. Feelings may come and go, but God's truth is what we can count on.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262016770191618177noreply@blogger.com1