Boy Z and I need dates this weekend. For WOMADelaide. Dr. O’C is not a fan of ‘hippy shit’. (Nor, for that matter, am I. But I’m too old and Boy Z is too young for Big Day Out and I want to take some advantage of The Festival State’s offerings) And she reckons that [...]
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I was always told that you have to have the balls to break down, now I’m older I’m not too sure
29 Oct 2009 at 22:20
A Free Man
A Life In Music, Australia, British Artists, Dr. O'C, Music, parenting
This week has been a grueling battle over sleep. On one side, two exhausted parents. On the other, two young boys to whom going to bed is tantamount to defeat. More than once during the hostilities, both Dr. O’C and I have daydreamed about the halcyon days before we had kids. The quiet, the leisurely [...]
Gomez "78 Stone Wobble" [4:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Gomez "Little Pieces" [3:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSomewhere in middle America
I’ve never been to, nor have I ever had any great compulsion to visit, Omaha. Even during my self-imposed exile in the Midwest, I didn’t venture down the road from Columbia to the other Gateway to the West.
Maybe that was a mistake, because there’s obviously something going on in Omaha. There is a steady stream [...]
Thunder Power - "Postscript" [2:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Outlaw Con Bandana "Booze Hound" [2:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadBut he did give a damn about steel
Jud asks, appropriately, “what happened to the cheery Chris?”
Well, Jud, I’ve got a job that I hate but can’t quit. In my second job, I’m spending my weekends busting my ass to get lectures done that my undergraduates yawn through. I’ve got a sick kid and sick partner and have been cleaning up far too [...]
Give me back the Berlin wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
Well, this week kind of got away from me. Add moving house and a continued lack of internet at home; multiply by the normal amount of day-to-day crap and what you get is one blog post a week apparently. The lack of home internet thing is the biggest factor, I tend to read and write [...]
Don’t you know you’ll never ever want to turn back
I’ve asked some of my favorite bloggers to hold down the fort while I’m lazing the days away on Kangaroo Island. To kick things off, I’ve got one of the best music bloggers I’ve found – Agnes of It All Started With Carbon Monoxide – to talk to us about vacation music…
While A Free Man [...]
Hello Saferide - "2006": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Hello Saferide - "Anna" [3:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Hello Saferide - "San Francisco" [3:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadYearning for a rant. A richly raucous rant. (Oh, and the Number 5 album of 2008)
Those of you who have been around for a while know that A Free Man originated as a site that was cleverly named after myself – my full name. I started to get a little nervous about internet pirates and also wanted to prevent coworkers or old high school acquaintances from finding the site. I [...]
Jon and Roy - "To The Beach" [3:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Jon and Roy - "By The Sea" [2:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadYou’re a bum, you’re a punk. You’re an old slut on junk.
I’m sorry to report that their is no movement on the Christmas spirit front. Not even after having a Christmas tree thrust upon me, a spell of Christmas shopping and a Christmas party on the weekend. Though, sitting in the warm late Spring sun at a barbecue doesn’t really summon up the Noel for me. [...]
Florida-style politics
OK, three important Christmas contest things:
1. Dr. O’C spent the weekend wading through limericks and has come up with a winner. Now I want to point out that the limericks were given to her without names attached, so there was no favoritism involved. I say this because the results are slightly dodgy. The winning Anti-Christmas [...]
What’s that you say, sonny? Elmo? Who now?
Teaching kids that were born the year I graduated from high school is sometimes a slightly demoralizing experience. I like to consider myself a relatively “cool” guy – down with the kids, so to speak. But nearly every day my students come up with some bit of slang that just mystifies it entirely. Clearly they [...]
Joie De Vivre - "Sundays" [3:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Joie De Vivre - "That's The Hot Part" [4:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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