Internal conference today. A whole lot of discourse analysts talking about their own prejudices, lovely. My talk was well received, and also the only one based on an experiment. I'm not scared of discourse analysis: I'm going to write a paper called Deconstructing Prejudice, about how prejudice isn't something always to be scared of, yet it is used ( Read more... )

"Apology Accepted" by The Go-Betweens is one of the perfect songs. What an emotional epic, I've heard it heaps of times and it still nearly makes me cry. Such a winner ( Read more... )

On Saturday we recorded with Glenn Santry. Tim and I set up on Friday. The piano and drums sound really good, but Tim forgot to bring a drum key, so we had to tune the drums on Saturday morning ( Read more... )

(If you don't wish to read about my love-life, just skip this entry ( Read more... )

Bob Goodfellow is indeed a good fellow. He used to be involved in a lot of Christian music in Sydney, but now runs funeral services.
He's helping me track down some of the old Christian musos around town.

Today I looked online for any info on David Ingles, and he has a website www.diministries.org . Listen to the MP3s samples for some great ( Read more... )

Daniel Moulton came over to dinner last night. It was good to see him, and we talked about art/creativity as we always do. I mentioned I had a new song, and he asked how long I'd been working on it. About two years was the answer. Typical ( Read more... )

Last night we were talking to a neighbour. Alison gave him an old demo CD, and described our music as "scary but joyful". He said,
"That's what I would've described you two as if I was asked: scary but joyful"

By the way, ordinal factor analysis doesn't exist. I spoke too soon.

On Monday night we didn't have our regular band practice, so I worked on my music at home. I finished the structure and lyrics of "I Fall Asleep On The Train". It a very strong song in a songwriting sense, and I'll polish it up soon. I'm trying to keep this one fairly sad, but not angsty ( Read more... )

Ordinal factor analysis exists! This is very exciting news for my academic career. I thought I'd search for such a technique via Google, and it came up ( Read more... )