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Blog Thread III : Look Who's Blogging Now
Gemmwah:
Oh Harry, please can I have your house? I'm in love with it!
McTaggart:
Harry that is such a great house. You're lucky it hasn't been turned into a little inner suburbs dentist's practice yet.
Recently I've been listening to a lot of Australian hiphop, specifically stuff by Elefant Traks folks and generally all the The Herd alumni. One thing that really struck me about them, and Ozi Batla's Wild Colonial album in particular, is this strong sense of Australian identity. There are lots of samples of distictly Australian films and references to historical and political events. More than that, there's just a feeling to it all that I'm having trouble expressing.
In trying to pin it down it got me to thinking about the things I know which are uniquely Australian. This hiphop, our political landscape, english literature classes teaching Lawson and Patterson, Strictly Ballroom. I don't really know that much of it or that much of it's history. I've decided that I should try to get a better handle on the Australian cultural canon because whatever that common strand is it just feels right.
I'm somewhat lost about where to start though. There isn't a huge range of things that immediately spring to mind but it's enough that it's a little daunting. I think my options are to choose a thing and go through it and then read about it and see where that leads or to try and find a book written by someone who had a similar thought strike them.
abadname:
My friends at work and I have been joking around about first world problems and posting the on our facebook. I really thought it was a great idea and that i came up with it. Nope it's been around, I'm pretty bummed about this because I really thought I came up with it, but of course nothing is original anymore.
Scandanavian War Machine:
nice place, Harry!
that stained glass window in the door is totally awesome.
Zingoleb:
Harry I am so envious of you right now.
In other news, I just applied at a pre-school for developmentally challenged children.
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