The Boring Like a Drill Subject Index

Paved with good intentions
Tuesday, August 17, 2004

August Drag (low budget version)
Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Signs of life
Thursday, September 02, 2004

Don't know which is worse, the David Rosetzky bandwagon, or the making-jokes-at-David-Rosetzky's-expense bandwagon
Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Small Art World
Monday, September 13, 2004

The BLAD artist interviews, no.1: Stelarc
Thursday, November 11, 2004

Why I am not a painter
Sunday, December 05, 2004

The BLAD artist interviews, no.2: Ricky Swallow
Monday, January 10, 2005

Out of the loop
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

The BLAD artist interviews, no.3: Danius Kesminas
Sunday, March 20, 2005

The centres of tradition
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

The Henry Moore/Jeffrey Smart Container
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Pity she never did any self-portraits
Sunday, September 18, 2005

It's a stopcock boxlid. You're welcome.
Sunday, October 16, 2005

Great moments in art criticism: losing your bottle
Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Great moments in art criticism: a clarification
Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Creepy old man update from my dad
Monday, November 14, 2005

Great moments in museum curation
Friday, January 20, 2006

Great moments in museum curation, part 2
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

"...Someone looks at something (detail)"
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Problems again
Thursday, March 16, 2006

Looking at Philip Guston
Saturday, March 18, 2006

More about Guston
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Guardian scoop: Picasso shot Archduke Ferdinand
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Hang the curators! Then rehang them.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Abstract Expressionist Sunday, Part I: More about the Rothko Room
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Abstract Expressionist Sunday, Part II: Even more about Philip Guston
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Man is the measure of all things miserable: a visit to the Pompidou
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Looking at Looking at Art
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXV: More and more, these people run your world
Monday, July 03, 2006

"Remarkably boring sonic content but being free of musical substance can firmly be considered 'sound art'"
Monday, July 24, 2006

Grand disillusion: it's taken me this long to finish posting about the Berlin Biennial
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

That's probably a "yes" to the former, then.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Simultaneously overenthusiastic and excessively lethargic
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Another London Pilgrimage: Wyndham Lewis
Sunday, November 19, 2006

A quarter of a million people sitting at home watching TV
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Contextualising the contemporary artist within capitalist society: a case study
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Truly, this man was the Jesus of Cool.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Tourists at the Gates of Hell!
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Sol LeWitt died on Sunday
Monday, April 09, 2007

Filler by Proxy L: Special Commemorative Edition ($250 unframed, $350 framed)
Monday, April 30, 2007

A long - probably one-sided - conversation about the merits of tubular steel-framed furniture.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

I am the passenger
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Australia as a Picturesque Ruin
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Gone to the bar to talk about art*
Monday, September 03, 2007

The top ten photos in my Flickr account
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

A Man in Love with the Past: the year in retrospect
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Vaucanson's Duck
Sunday, January 06, 2008

"You've been in the house too long," she said.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

"The Age Demanded" (forgotten post from December)
Monday, January 21, 2008

Dear University of Wales Press,
Monday, January 28, 2008

Visible cracks, real and illusory
Thursday, February 07, 2008

They Must Be Architects
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Filler By Proxy LXII: Take the L...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Big Book of Bentham
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Ghost Sites and Grey Areas
Monday, April 21, 2008

News from the Pavilion
Thursday, April 24, 2008

New Show! Redrawing
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Have you heard, it's in the stars
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Robert Rauschenberg
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The Secret History of Peckham
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

"I don't know what that means but I think there is a suggestion of indecency about it."
Friday, May 30, 2008

Australia decides that 15 year olds may look at other 15 year olds after all
Saturday, June 07, 2008

Mock Tudor No.2 (Why doesn't someone get him a Pepsi?)
Saturday, June 07, 2008

String Quartet No.2: The Installing
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Meet Seixya
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Pavilion Plot Thickens
Sunday, June 29, 2008

New on the Art pages
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Beautiful Waste
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

2000 Guitar Solos
Monday, August 25, 2008

The Weekend that Wasn't
Monday, September 15, 2008

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Music

No Go the F-Lo
Monday, August 23, 2004

Jumbled in the Yooralla box: part 1 of a series maybe
Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Fumbling Towards Nirvana
Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Filler by Proxy II: Worse than it Sounds
Thursday, September 02, 2004

Coming Attraction, Friday 3/9/04
Thursday, September 02, 2004

For a while there I forgot I was supposed to be talking about music and stuff
Saturday, September 04, 2004

Jumbled in the Yooralla box part 2: The heat-death of the 60s universe edition
Monday, September 13, 2004

How I went to Newcastle full of dreams and returned a broken shell of a man with nothing to show for it but some new enemies and my host's house keys
Sunday, October 10, 2004

Filler by Proxy V: The Ten Greatest Albums of All Time (inspired by Rolling Stone Magazine)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Whack the masonite up on the pool table and get yer tits out
Saturday, December 04, 2004

Swings and Roundabouts
Sunday, December 12, 2004

Filler by Proxy VI: No such thing as coincidence
Thursday, December 23, 2004

Filler by Proxy IX: Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Brain
Monday, January 17, 2005

Does this count as Binge or Purge? (Summer Fun Pak*)
Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Fun with Farsi, Pun with Parsi
Sunday, February 06, 2005

Trailer: Who Killed Classical Music Again?
Monday, February 07, 2005

Nightmares in demography
Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Filler by Proxy X: The Ten Greatest Songs To Listen To While Making Sweet Love If You're A Premature Ejaculator
Friday, February 11, 2005

Filler by Proxy XI: Your Band Sucks
Thursday, February 17, 2005

News that would be truly astonishing in an alternate universe
Friday, February 18, 2005

Excuse me, is this the queue to kick the corpse of rock and roll one more time?
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Got it live if ya want it! Hello? Hello?
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Small Man Syndrome
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

"If you went to the Pixies this year, you are the enemy." Oh, and Nick Hornby's a cunt.
Friday, April 01, 2005

The Heat of the Moment is All that You Need
Friday, April 01, 2005

Le Royaume-Uni: Nul Points
Monday, May 16, 2005

She Bangs the Drums: Eurovision review (part 1)
Sunday, May 22, 2005

"Today I had earplugs in, and the sound was wonderful!" Eurovision wrap, part 2
Monday, May 23, 2005

Harold Faltermeyer must be pissed off, or relieved, or something
Friday, June 03, 2005

"Death we expect, but all we get is life."
Monday, July 18, 2005

Russell Crowe, please get your band back together
Friday, July 22, 2005

"Dylan & Sleater Kinney & the Beach Boys & Jimmy Cliff & Sam Cooke & Bobby Bland & Joe Strummer; pretty much the whole history of recorded music."
Sunday, July 24, 2005

And definitely no "Sometime in New York City", either
Thursday, September 15, 2005

A Public Service
Saturday, September 17, 2005

Be afraid: Linda Perry is also involved somehow
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

You will hate the cheese and pickle: Cousin Norman redux
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Another week, another excuse. Oh, and this post is about Xenakis.
Saturday, October 22, 2005

Sorry, that last post turned out to be about Stockhausen. This is the one about Xenakis.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Xenakis, continued
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Enough with the Xenakis already!
Saturday, October 29, 2005

Classical music sucks: just ask the people paid to promote it
Sunday, October 30, 2005

Filler Frenzy!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

For One Week Only: String Quartet No.2 - Canon in Beta
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Psychology: Never Again
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Haunted by Leo Sayer, and other bad flashbacks
Thursday, December 15, 2005

News Flash! I am old.
Monday, December 19, 2005

Solstice Special! The greatest song ever, never done better
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Filler by Proxy XXVIII: The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Maybe the next post will be about Elliott Carter. This one ended up being about darts.
Monday, January 16, 2006

Carter, gotten. Note the sense of ambivalence throughout.
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Hurry! Only 33,113 weeks remaining.
Monday, January 30, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXX: Billy Stewart sings 'Summertime'
Friday, February 03, 2006

But when barrel-scraping stage musicals became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about Ben Elton became louder and louder...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Filler By Proxy XXXI: The Infamous London Records Chat Archive
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Heavy Metal + Curling = HEARTS ON FIRE
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Continuing intimations of senescence
Monday, February 27, 2006

In the back room of a pub in Dalston
Friday, March 03, 2006

Tomorrow: Review of the Icebreaker gig at the IF Festival
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

A rare musical event: a bad Philip Glass performance that isn't Glass' fault
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Name your ironic, Pavement-type indie band
Saturday, March 11, 2006

Have my ears gone insane?
Monday, March 13, 2006

The Boring Like A Drill Hit Parade
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Repeat Play
Monday, May 01, 2006

Beckett and Gaburo: Let's Dance The Screw
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Name your Japanese hip hop posse
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Countdown to Eurovision: "Oh my god, don't stop the voting!"
Monday, May 08, 2006

See America! Go to Paris.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Countdown to Eurovision (2): Meet the losers
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Countdown to Eurovision (3): The Eurovision Drinking Game
Monday, May 15, 2006

Frederic Rzewski: a short, stupid confession
Monday, May 15, 2006

Countdown to Eurovision: a clarification
Thursday, May 18, 2006

"Craziness is going on!": Eurovision wrap 2006 (part 1)
Sunday, May 21, 2006

32.5 drinks and counting: Eurovision wrap 2006 (part 2)
Monday, May 22, 2006

Political music. No wait, come back!
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Google search result #667 for "Dan Brown sucks".
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Brand New You're Retro: Elysian Quartet at Cargo
Friday, June 09, 2006

Highway 61, revisited
Saturday, June 10, 2006

Suck it, play it, put it in pocket.
Sunday, June 11, 2006

'Highway 61, revisited' revisited
Sunday, June 11, 2006

György Ligeti, RIP
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXIV: Another Great Italian
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXV: More and more, these people run your world
Monday, July 03, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXVII: Filler by Proxy Week Continues! Oh yeah, and music stuff.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Name your quirky new band of critical darlings and their overrated debut album
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Rediscovering the secret history of music: NMAtapes
Thursday, July 20, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXVIII: Billy Joel - American Idiot
Sunday, July 23, 2006

"Remarkably boring sonic content but being free of musical substance can firmly be considered 'sound art'"
Monday, July 24, 2006

In other words, Crowded House.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

A brief history of time
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Why we do what we do
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXIX: Slow News Day Lets Nerds Settle Scores
Sunday, September 24, 2006

The Fall and the Liminality of Kitten Kong
Friday, September 29, 2006

Filler by Proxy XL: An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Magic 693: an appreciation
Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Night We Burned Down Bimbo Deluxe
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Filler by Proxy XLI: Don't you just fucking hate them?
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Magic 693: The Listening Test
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Filler by Proxy XLIII: How long until someone makes an opera out of this?
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Index update? What index update? (Equine Remix)
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Zen and the art of Magic 693
Monday, December 18, 2006

So wrong it's right: Morton Feldman
Thursday, December 21, 2006

A Very Feldman Christmas
Friday, December 22, 2006

Filler by Proxy XLIV: Party Like It's 2003!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Leo Sayer's quest for acolytes continues unfulfilled, for now.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Gubaidulina at the Barbican, Wolfie Adams at the Lakeside
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Will I regret not spending an hour travelling out to Croydon last night to pay 28 pounds to see Steven Seagal play guitar with his blues band?
Monday, January 22, 2007

Saturday Drones Club, Part 1: Phill Niblock
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Everybody thinks Tubby the Tuba; nobody ever thinks Ludwig the Tuba.
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Saturday Drones Club, Part 2: Stockhausen
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Filler by Proxy XLV: Grapple With It
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Dusapin, Francesconi, Ferneyhough, and Kurtág; or Francesconi, Kurtág, Ferneyhough, and Dusapin; or Kurtág, Dusapin, Fransesconi, and Ferneyhough.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hardest Way To Make Easy Living etc: Philip Glass at 70
Sunday, February 04, 2007

Filler by Proxy XLVII: Great Drinker, Great Thinker
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Pianophiles, you've been Hattoed
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Truly, this man was the Jesus of Cool.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Shuffling with someone else's mind
Thursday, February 22, 2007

The iPod meme update: my dad clarifies the situation somewhat
Monday, February 26, 2007

Stockhausen, Sirius, and Self-Belief
Monday, March 26, 2007

Someone please reassure me I didn't dream this
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Filler By Proxy XLVIII: The Right Kind of Pain
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

This Is It! This is the New Music! Again. More Stained Melodies
Monday, April 02, 2007

He Comes Back from a New Music Gig Feeling Disgruntled!
Monday, April 23, 2007

Satyagraha and living with contradictions
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Seriously Comma
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Filler by Proxy L: Special Commemorative Edition ($250 unframed, $350 framed)
Monday, April 30, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Countdown to Eurovision 2007: Meet the Losers
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The Eurovision Song Contest Drinking Game, 2007 Edition
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Fly home daughter, cover your ears: Eurovision, the Movie!
Sunday, May 13, 2007

The generic Eurovision Song Contest 2007 wrapup
Monday, May 14, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A Proustian Rush
Thursday, May 17, 2007

We connect John Cage with James Bond.
Sunday, May 20, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

"Why? You ask but it beats me. I feel it done to me, and ache."
Thursday, May 24, 2007

The Invisible Academy
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Back, by request
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Lost Feldman piece recovered!
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Everybody's Got One
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Another day, another musical institution turning against its fans.
Thursday, June 07, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Thursday, June 14, 2007

One or two things I learned at the Venn Festival in Bristol
Monday, June 18, 2007

What's on top of the pile? (blind item)*
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

One last thing I learned at the Venn Festival
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

A long - probably one-sided - conversation about the merits of tubular steel-framed furniture.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Filler By Proxy LIII: New Noise Makers (and more goddamn nostalgia)
Monday, July 16, 2007

Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Friday, July 20, 2007

Gig Action! Placard Festival
Sunday, July 22, 2007

Explaining all about String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta)
Monday, July 23, 2007

Live from the Rockin' Air-Laptop World Championship!
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Look here, we'll draw you a chicken.
Friday, July 27, 2007

Post Placard (one-hour jet lag)
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Placard Condensed
Thursday, August 02, 2007

30 years on, Leo Sayer is still alive
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

More Stained Melodies and Gratuitous Noise
Friday, August 17, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Keeping the Magic Alive
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

The two halves of my brain are at war with each other!
Sunday, September 02, 2007

On Friday evening he stood around on the bank of the Thames for an hour. Then he went to the pub.
Sunday, September 16, 2007

I suppose this is the world's way of telling me I should buy my own turntable
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The New New Magic Online Survey
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Work in progress: Sketch for "A"-16
Monday, September 24, 2007

Filler by Proxy LIV: Actually James, you'd be surprised how often it works if you just tell it to them straight.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

What's on top of the pile?
Thursday, September 27, 2007

He's sick, but he still takes a plastic cup of cheap red wine into a Nono concert
Friday, October 05, 2007

"Now that things are so easy, there's so much to do." Nono, Tarkovsky, Facility, Impossibility.
Monday, October 08, 2007

The New Magic Online Survey: Gene McDaniels vs Susanna Hoffs
Friday, October 12, 2007

Filler by Proxy LV: All together now! "If they can send one Eurodisco group to a war zone, why can't they send all of them?"
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Attitude Problem 1: Haswell and Hecker at Conway Hall
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Attitude Problem 2: Glenn Branca at the Roundhouse
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Looks like someone left the brown M&Ms in the bowl
Friday, October 19, 2007

St Paul's Pianos With Real Nightingales
Sunday, October 21, 2007

He takes his girlfriend to a Philip Glass gig but forgets to mention that it will be five hours long.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Enough Nono for Now
Friday, October 26, 2007

Toot toot! I forgive Richard Taruskin. Toot!
Saturday, October 27, 2007

The New Magic Online Survey 4: Citizens on Patrol
Friday, November 02, 2007

Ben.Harper live in Melbourne
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Me, direct from New Zealand! (new gig)
Saturday, November 24, 2007

Winter 2
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

What's on top of the pile? (Housesitter edition)
Thursday, December 06, 2007

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Friday, December 07, 2007

The Other Film Festival, part 1
Sunday, December 09, 2007

The Other Film Festival, part 2
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Filler by Proxy LVI: Carlos Santana Shreds!
Friday, December 14, 2007

The New Magic Online Survey 5: Not really number 5 because I missed one or two, but still.
Sunday, December 16, 2007

We connect Karlheinz Stockhausen with Ezra Pound
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The One Who Was Neither Or Nor (live in Melbourne and/or Brisbane)
Saturday, December 22, 2007

A Man in Love with the Past: the year in retrospect
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Until next year (actually, I could do with a Coopers now)
Monday, December 31, 2007

Winter Music
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Magic happens.
Saturday, January 05, 2008

Vaucanson's Duck
Sunday, January 06, 2008

He's not going away in a hurry
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Last year's new year's resolution, or Is Music Art?
Saturday, January 12, 2008

What's on top of the pile?
Monday, January 14, 2008

The Magic Listener Advisory Board Top and Bottom 5 for 2007, as voted for by people like you. Well, me really.
Sunday, January 27, 2008

British, up-and-coming
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Filler By Proxy LIX: Pli Selon Pli
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Countdown to Eurovision starts a little early this year
Sunday, February 10, 2008

By "next week" I meant of course "next next week"
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Countdown to Eurovision: the first battle is won
Saturday, March 01, 2008

At least two reasons why Jane Siberry has been frolicking in the surf of the oceans of madness all these years
Sunday, March 02, 2008

A bit of shush
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Visualising Music
Sunday, March 09, 2008

This is probably as good a time as any to lay off the Magic 693 posts for a while
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

DIY Stockhausen
Monday, March 17, 2008

Sweding Stockhausen
Monday, March 24, 2008

Three tunes I have heard coworkers unconsciously humming to themselves over the years
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Filler By Proxy LXI: New directions in music appreciation
Monday, March 31, 2008

Filler By Proxy LXIII: Twelve Going On Sixty
Monday, April 14, 2008

Countdown to Eurovision: Dogs and Cats Living Together, Mass Hysteria
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Henry Brant
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Tristram Cary
Monday, April 28, 2008

New Show! Redrawing
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Magnificent Bastards
Saturday, May 03, 2008

Countdown to Eurovision: Just when you thought Cliff Richard couldn't possibly get any sadder...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Otherwise, you can go read Opera Chic
Thursday, May 08, 2008

Countdown to Eurovision: Could be worse, could be Des Mangan
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Prometheus versus the Minotaur, part one
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Prometheus versus The Minotaur, part two
Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Eurovision Song Contest Drinking Game, 2008 Edition
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Countdown to Eurovision: Meet the Losers
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Eurovision 2008: the pre-game warm-up
Friday, May 23, 2008

Welcome to the Belgrade! Let's Get Crazy! Eurovision wrapup 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008

I still can't believe it took four guys to write this
Monday, May 26, 2008

Like a Lizard Drinking
Monday, May 26, 2008

Stockhausen takes the High Road, Tudor takes the Low Road.
Friday, May 30, 2008

Mock Tudor No.2 (Why doesn't someone get him a Pepsi?)
Saturday, June 07, 2008

A Friendly Reminder
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

String Quartet No.2: The Installing
Saturday, June 21, 2008

More David Tudor Quotes
Sunday, June 22, 2008

String Quartet No.2: The Performance
Thursday, July 10, 2008

What's on top of the pile?
Sunday, July 13, 2008

More about Carl Stone
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Old School Is Built On The Ruins Of The New School
Monday, July 21, 2008

Now with its own web page
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Stained Melodies: Expanded Special Edition Director's Cut Redux 3D
Monday, July 28, 2008

Stockhausen: The High Road
Monday, August 04, 2008

The Buddha died a natural death.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Obsolete Guitar
Thursday, August 21, 2008

It resumes. Not normal, but service.
Sunday, August 24, 2008

2000 Guitar Solos
Monday, August 25, 2008

Notations
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Good Old New Musical Resources
Sunday, September 07, 2008

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London

Let’s get this over with
Sunday, May 15, 2005

The centres of tradition
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

More about British cooking, deduced from the smells and sounds from next door
Thursday, May 19, 2005

News Flash! (Of interest to low-level druggies only)
Friday, May 20, 2005

Adventures Close To Home
Friday, May 27, 2005

The first London pilgrimage: Ezra Pound
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Librarian Logic*
Monday, June 06, 2005

Boss to Customers: You Stink
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Who are the People in Your Neighbourhood?
Sunday, June 19, 2005

Exile in Neasden
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Because sometimes a sheet of A4 and some Blu-tack just won't do
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

There goes the neighbourhood
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

If only I'd packed my fridge magnet
Thursday, July 07, 2005

Groundless Speculation
Monday, July 11, 2005

Pausing for reflection... zzzz...
Friday, July 15, 2005

What's with all this "we" stuff? (A poor excuse for a thinkpiece, but mercifully shorter.)
Thursday, July 21, 2005

Never watched the show, but still...
Saturday, July 23, 2005

Twenty Views of the Gherkin
Sunday, July 24, 2005

The Henry Moore/Jeffrey Smart Container
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Going Through the Motions: London Bombing Update
Saturday, July 30, 2005

How Bad is British Coffee?
Thursday, August 04, 2005

A second pilgrimage, of sorts
Saturday, August 06, 2005

Not dead yet, but working on it
Monday, September 05, 2005

"It must be very difficult coming to London from Australia, having grown up so far away from the cultural centre of tradition."
Saturday, September 10, 2005

And definitely no "Sometime in New York City", either
Thursday, September 15, 2005

Of course, the window has been vandalised, but that should go without saying
Sunday, September 18, 2005

New Gherkin!
Monday, September 19, 2005

Jenny Holzer is alive and well and working at Gatwick Airport
Thursday, October 13, 2005

"London. Og."
Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Title Pending
Sunday, November 06, 2005

They're big and salty and brown
Monday, November 21, 2005

Postcard from London
Sunday, December 04, 2005

And I don't feel so good myself
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Third Pilgrimage: St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
Thursday, December 15, 2005

I'm sure he was questioned by the police but had a watertight alibi
Sunday, December 18, 2005

Starting the year as we mean to go on
Monday, January 02, 2006

Great pub toilets of Britain: The Museum Tavern
Monday, January 09, 2006

How Bad is British Coffee? Part 2.
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Stupid Kids These Days With Their Good Health and Their Robust Immune Systems
Monday, February 27, 2006

Advanced East London Infiltration Techniques: Social Engineering
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

London Field Guide
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Advanced East London Infiltration Techniques, part 2: the Hard Sell
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Go outside and take a walk in the sunshine for once
Sunday, June 18, 2006

Advanced East London Council Works Budget Justification Techniques
Sunday, June 25, 2006

Euston: Bend Sinister
Saturday, July 01, 2006

Speaking of crap photos...
Monday, July 03, 2006

Ah fooked dis place afore yew!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Advanced East London Citizenship Ceremony Techniques
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Advanced East London Evangelical Techniques
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

A potent mix of critical opinion and biographical fact
Friday, October 20, 2006

Later, the pelican explained that it got the idea from reading my blog
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

London: City of Disappearances
Friday, November 10, 2006

Another London Pilgrimage: Wyndham Lewis
Sunday, November 19, 2006

Contextualising the contemporary artist within capitalist society: a case study
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Dalston Kingsland, North London Line, 6.00pm
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Can't believe the NHS is losing money with careful organisation like this
Sunday, March 04, 2007

Tourists at the Gates of Hell!
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Dormobiles of Brockley
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

We connect John Cage with James Bond.
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Dormobiles of Brockley Redux
Sunday, July 08, 2007

It's all harmless British eccentricity until someone loses an eye
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Next thing I know it'll turn out that St James's really was eaten by a giant adenoid
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Dormoblies of Brockley (Slight Return)
Thursday, October 11, 2007

I have a feeling we're not in Crouch End any more.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Brockley Nocturne with Effect of Dormobile
Monday, January 21, 2008

Overheard on the DLR (Heron Quays Station)
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Swings Like a Pendulum Do
Friday, February 29, 2008

They Must Be Architects
Thursday, March 06, 2008

April in London
Sunday, April 06, 2008

The Secret History of Peckham
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Pavilion Plot Thickens
Sunday, June 29, 2008

A Dozen Dormobiles
Monday, July 14, 2008

May as well punch Jamie Oliver
Sunday, August 03, 2008

"We stopped at the IKEA café, where the coffee was cheap and the service friendly, but we didn't see anyone writing poetry"
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

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Writing

Burning with procrastination
Saturday, November 06, 2004

Survey says: Australia irrelevant to Scientologists, Randroids
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Update: Australia's favourite books
Sunday, December 12, 2004

Articlus stupidium
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The London Review of Books personal ad of the month, February 2005
Tuesday, February 08, 2005

The London Review of Books personal ad of the month, March 2005
Friday, March 04, 2005

If Dan Brown were a rapper he'd be on remand by now. Never mind.
Sunday, March 06, 2005

Filler by Proxy XIV: Trenchant, Incisive
Monday, March 21, 2005

Filler by Proxy XV: PostSecret
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Found Writing: The Long Dark Bundoora of the Soul
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

"If you went to the Pixies this year, you are the enemy." Oh, and Nick Hornby's a cunt.
Friday, April 01, 2005

Found Writing 2: A Cautionary Tale
Saturday, April 02, 2005

The London Review of Books personal ad of the month, April 2005
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Filler by Proxy XVI: I'm Enjoying the Sodomy, Though
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

The London Review of Books personal ad of the month, May 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005

Filler by Proxy XVII: a labour-saving device we should all get behind
Monday, May 16, 2005

The first London pilgrimage: Ezra Pound
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

The London Review of Books personal ad of the month, June 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Filler by Proxy XVIII: If you can't say anything nice, come sit with me
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Filler by Proxy XIX: That's Stallone on the right
Thursday, June 09, 2005

Pelion on Ossa
Monday, June 20, 2005

The London Review of Books personal ad of the month
Sunday, July 03, 2005

Filler by Proxy XX: ? ?? ???? ??? ???? ???????? ????????
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Filler by Proxy XXI: Utilitarians in the News
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

"Dylan & Sleater Kinney & the Beach Boys & Jimmy Cliff & Sam Cooke & Bobby Bland & Joe Strummer; pretty much the whole history of recorded music."
Sunday, July 24, 2005

Well, at least it might stop them reading Dan Brown
Monday, July 25, 2005

Filler by Proxy XXII: Backstroke of the West
Monday, August 01, 2005

A second pilgrimage, of sorts
Saturday, August 06, 2005

Cock and Bull, or how to talk youself out of leaving the house and paying for a movie ticket.
Monday, October 24, 2005

Shit, shit, shit.
Monday, November 28, 2005

"The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart. Well, actually some of us are pretty dumb."
Thursday, December 01, 2005

The Enigma of the Voynich Manchester
Friday, December 09, 2005

The Third Pilgrimage: St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
Thursday, December 15, 2005

I'm sure he was questioned by the police but had a watertight alibi
Sunday, December 18, 2005

How to pick the winners - just don't spend it all at once
Sunday, January 08, 2006

Sprung Bad! A Million Pieces of Shit update
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

"Gert Northrup was kind of a weird looking specimen, the other girls thought."*
Wednesday, February 08, 2006

And then I'll take the Million Little Pieces and I'll jump on them until, until you've had enough!
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Book corner: Survey says "Duh!"
Thursday, March 02, 2006

Repeat Play
Monday, May 01, 2006

Beckett and Gaburo: Let's Dance The Screw
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Filler by Proxy XXXIII: The World According to Google (Da Vinci Code Version)
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Google search result #667 for "Dan Brown sucks".
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Suck it, play it, put it in pocket.
Sunday, June 11, 2006

Germaine Greer: I learned everything I need to know about criticism from Stephen Potter.
Monday, June 26, 2006

Have you decided to be a genius yet?
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I have been reading Boswell by Stanley Elkin
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Literary gaffes: a nitpicking footnote to Boswell
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Take Back the White
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Why I don't read Patrick White
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Great moments in poetry: Charles Olson writes to his would-be publisher to discuss the typesetting of proofs for his Maximus IV, V, VI, 1968
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Au Tombeau de William McGonagall
Sunday, August 20, 2006

This is how you Take Back the White
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Vivisector month, week one wrapup
Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Vivisector: Another chapter, another cliché
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Filler by Proxy XL: An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Patrick White is a middlebrow hack.
Monday, October 16, 2006

London: City of Disappearances
Friday, November 10, 2006

Another London Pilgrimage: Wyndham Lewis
Sunday, November 19, 2006

The Patrick White Reading Group is back
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Test your word power against a dead squirrel
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Not Wanted on Voyage: Further Perils of Categorisation
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Literary Stowaways of the Antipodes
Thursday, April 12, 2007

The Kurt Vonnegut post
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Filler by Proxy XLIX: "Great Expectations presented as a log flume" - I'm not making this up.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Filler by Proxy L: Special Commemorative Edition ($250 unframed, $350 framed)
Monday, April 30, 2007

Page 946. In fact it's cold and wet outside this evening, but still...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Filler by Proxy LI: Embers
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Anatomy of a Nerd (13.5% vol.)
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Not the popular American musician
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Australia as a Picturesque Ruin
Saturday, August 18, 2007

The secret history of the twentieth century, continued
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Next thing I know it'll turn out that St James's really was eaten by a giant adenoid
Sunday, September 30, 2007

We connect Karlheinz Stockhausen with Ezra Pound
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Filler by Proxy LVII: Things Ain't What They Seem
Friday, December 28, 2007

A Man in Love with the Past: the year in retrospect
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Dear University of Wales Press,
Monday, January 28, 2008

World Class Anxiety (part one)
Sunday, March 23, 2008

World Class Anxiety (part two)
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Filler By Proxy LXIII: Twelve Going On Sixty
Monday, April 14, 2008

The Big Book of Bentham
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Hopelessly Devoted to Who?
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

"We stopped at the IKEA café, where the coffee was cheap and the service friendly, but we didn't see anyone writing poetry"
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Obsolete Guitar
Thursday, August 21, 2008

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Stupidity

Not sure about the "great crowds" bit, though
Sunday, August 22, 2004

Dog Bites Man: Editorial Page 12
Saturday, September 04, 2004

Besides, he has the worst porn star name ever
Sunday, September 05, 2004

Some journos still haven't gotten over seeing Zsa Zsa Gabor in Queen of Outer Space all those years ago
Monday, September 06, 2004

Australia's Week of Shame
Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Update: Phelpsy for PM! (cue laughter)
Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Filler by Proxy IV: Doesn't anyone round here like Peter Phelps?
Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Australia's Election Day Outrage
Sunday, October 10, 2004

A sobering moment of insight
Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Phelps Watch: a nation holds its breath
Wednesday, October 27, 2004

People or things I have been mistaken for, or allegedly physically resemble, in increasing order of ridiculousness
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Short, disgusting confession
Monday, December 06, 2004

Hokey Local News and the Two Minute Hate
Tuesday, December 07, 2004

The miserable few who doubted my powers must now bow down before my genius
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Spammers challenge slackers: find the angle
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Swings and Roundabouts
Sunday, December 12, 2004

What I did on my summer break
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Articlus stupidium
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Since you asked: yes, this site runs on self-indulgence and stale jokes
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

If you're talking to me your cult must be in trouble
Sunday, February 06, 2005

"there are more things / twixt the vermiform appendix / and nirvana than are dreamt of / in thy philosophy horatio"
Monday, February 07, 2005

Designations of Geezerhood
Friday, February 11, 2005

Help a clueless Chinese student uncover Hitler's mystery
Monday, February 14, 2005

Phelps Watch: Are you sitting down?
Wednesday, February 16, 2005

South Australian Icons: A Rich, Noble Heritage
Wednesday, February 16, 2005

What the hell is wrong with me?
Thursday, February 17, 2005

Firing off neurons that have lain dormant in your brain since October
Thursday, February 24, 2005

In lieu of a real post, another fleeting glimpse into my psyche through something I said in a dream (and there were at least five whole rolls of it.)
Sunday, February 27, 2005

Small Man Syndrome
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Filler by Proxy avalanche! Gratuitous exclamations!
Tuesday, March 08, 2005

"Phelps Watch" can be found elsewhere
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Filler by Proxy XIV: Trenchant, Incisive
Monday, March 21, 2005

Things overheard from a portable radio tuned to 3AW's 'Nightline'
Monday, March 21, 2005

Bobby Fischer update: Icelanders, lock up your mattresses
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Good! Bad!
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Atheist to Dead Pope: Get Out of My Dreams
Monday, April 04, 2005

Greetings to readers with spiffy new computer equipment!
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Unpopular for a reason
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

As the North Coburg tram crossed Brunswick Road
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Killing him made him stronger than we could have possibly imagined
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Not quite narcissistic enough yet
Thursday, May 19, 2005

I do not understand what you wants to, formulates you gladly on something else ways.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005

My dreams are getting better all the time
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Present, but Not Voting
Monday, June 20, 2005

"I never made the first team, I just made the first team laugh"
Thursday, June 30, 2005

Meanwhile, back in the Ukraine
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Russell Crowe, please get your band back together
Friday, July 22, 2005

Yes, my parents are very disappointed in me. Thanks for asking.
Friday, July 22, 2005

Not