You know those stupid machines at the supermarket deli where you're given a number and have to wait your turn, even if there's only two or three other people waiting? Minutes go by (it seems like hours) while your eyes remained focussed on the display above as you wait for your number to be called. … Continue reading Sydney Queues
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As I've sat down to look at the most commonly played tracks for the year, I'm kinda surprised it's the song "Plåster" by Oskar Linnros. Not that I dislike the song, but I kind of imagined there were other songs I'd played more often the year. That said, I'm using last.fm as my guide, and … Continue reading Musical Favourites for 2013 – The Year of Oskar Linnros
Over the last few years I've written a couple of blog posts about the proliferation of of "Christmas Music" on the Swedish pop charts at this time of the year. The first post was in 2009 when I mentioned that... One of my colleagues, half-Australian/half-Swedish, asked me today if I had any Swedish Christmas music … Continue reading Christmas Music and Sweden
"I really like your shirt", a bloke told me as I stood outside Sydney's "Hero Of Waterloo". We had been sitting in a chilly area, and although shorts and t-shirts were fine for the earlier part of the day, I was beginning to feel the cold, and so I wandered out onto the street to … Continue reading Sunday Pub Crawl