tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78035786025285982122024-03-06T12:06:54.614+10:00Mal's Writing DoodlesOnly doodlesMal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-20788867121297579892018-12-17T17:57:00.000+10:002018-12-17T17:57:58.437+10:00Martha's War<hr />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Martha's War</span></b><br />
<br />
Martha stood in the doorway, and wrung her hands in despair.<br />
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With Kiley dead, and now all three of her boys moved away, never had she felt so alone.<br />
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No-one was there when she died.<br />
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No-one lives there now. Not even memories.<br />
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<b>ON KILEY'S RUN</b><br />
A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
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<i>The Bulletin, 20 December 1890</i><br />
<br />
The roving breezes come and go<br />
On Kiley's Run,<br />
The sleepy river murmurs low,<br />
And far away one dimly sees<br />
Beyond the stretch of forest trees --<br />
Beyond the foothills dusk and dun --<br />
The ranges sleeping in the sun<br />
On Kiley's Run.<br />
<br />
'Tis many years since first I came<br />
To Kiley's Run,<br />
More years than I would care to name<br />
Since I, a stripling, used to ride<br />
For miles and miles at Kiley's side,<br />
The while in stirring tones he told<br />
The stories of the days of old<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
I see the old bush homestead now<br />
On Kiley's Run,<br />
Just nestled down beneath the brow<br />
Of one small ridge above the sweep<br />
Of river-flat, where willows weep<br />
And jasmine flowers and roses bloom,<br />
The air was laden with perfume<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
We lived the good old station life<br />
On Kiley's Run,<br />
With little thought of care or strife.<br />
Old Kiley seldom used to roam,<br />
He liked to make the Run his home,<br />
The swagman never turned away<br />
With empty hand at close of day<br />
From Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
We kept a racehorse now and then<br />
On Kiley's Run,<br />
And neighb'ring stations brought their men<br />
To meetings where the sport was free,<br />
And dainty ladies came to see<br />
Their champions ride; with laugh and song<br />
The old house rang the whole night long<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
The station hands were friends I wot<br />
On Kiley's Run,<br />
A reckless, merry-hearted lot --<br />
All splendid riders, and they knew<br />
The `boss' was kindness through and through.<br />
Old Kiley always stood their friend,<br />
And so they served him to the end<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
But droughts and losses came apace<br />
To Kiley's Run,<br />
Till ruin stared him in the face;<br />
He toiled and toiled while lived the light,<br />
He dreamed of overdrafts at night:<br />
At length, because he could not pay,<br />
His bankers took the stock away<br />
From Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
Old Kiley stood and saw them go<br />
From Kiley's Run.<br />
The well-bred cattle marching slow;<br />
His stockmen, mates for many a day,<br />
They wrung his hand and went away.<br />
Too old to make another start,<br />
Old Kiley died -- of broken heart,<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
<b>. . . . .
</b><br />
<br />
The owner lives in England now<br />
Of Kiley's Run.<br />
He knows a racehorse from a cow;<br />
But that is all he knows of stock:<br />
His chiefest care is how to dock<br />
Expenses, and he sends from town<br />
To cut the shearers' wages down<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
There are no neighbours anywhere<br />
Near Kiley's Run.<br />
The hospitable homes are bare,<br />
The gardens gone; for no pretence<br />
Must hinder cutting down expense:<br />
The homestead that we held so dear<br />
Contains a half-paid overseer<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
All life and sport and hope have died<br />
On Kiley's Run.<br />
No longer there the stockmen ride;<br />
For sour-faced boundary riders creep<br />
On mongrel horses after sheep,<br />
Through ranges where, at racing speed,<br />
Old Kiley used to `wheel the lead'<br />
On Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
There runs a lane for thirty miles<br />
Through Kiley's Run.<br />
On either side the herbage smiles,<br />
But wretched trav'lling sheep must pass<br />
Without a drink or blade of grass<br />
Thro' that long lane of death and shame:<br />
The weary drovers curse the name<br />
Of Kiley's Run.
<br />
<br />
The name itself is changed of late<br />
Of Kiley's Run.<br />
They call it `Chandos Park Estate'.<br />
The lonely swagman through the dark<br />
Must hump his swag past Chandos Park.<br />
The name is English, don't you see,<br />
The old name sweeter sounds to me<br />
Of `Kiley's Run'.
<br />
<br />
I cannot guess what fate will bring<br />
To Kiley's Run --<br />
For chances come and changes ring --<br />
I scarcely think 'twill always be<br />
Locked up to suit an absentee;<br />
And if he lets it out in farms<br />
His tenants soon will carry arms<br />
On Kiley's Run.<br />
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Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-34223604751102689532016-12-22T01:03:00.000+10:002016-12-22T01:03:18.042+10:00Creative Writing - draft only<hr />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mal Kiely - Friday 13 September 2013</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Creative Writing</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">I'll tell you why I'm
not writing.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">It's been done.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">What...?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">That's been done
before... in a book... a book you've read, you know?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">What...? Where...?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Numbnuts, that's
exactly how George Johnson started his 'Clean Straw For Nothing'
novel...”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">... umm... I wondered
why it felt so familiar. Dagnammit.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Well, considering you
have a copy of almost every-single-one of his bloody books, too...”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Oh... shut up...”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">I know I'm not crazy,
but the voice in my head may be.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">That's been done as
well. Remember?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Yeah, but...”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">You even wrote a bloody
s<i>ong</i> about it!”<br />“I know that! I just enjoy the thought...”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Getting a bit... </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>repetitive</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">, isn't it,
all of this? Is this the best way to start writing?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Shit, who </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>asked</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
you, anyway?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Ummm... </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>you</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
did, remember?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Oh shit, yes I did...”
[</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>slaps palm of hand against forehead</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">].</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">----------------------------</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"What does it sound like?"<br />"What? What... ?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The blackness, in your head. What does it sound like, when it strikes, when it swamps you?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yeah, it does swamp me, like a heavy moss-coated blanket that sucks the happiness out of your soul..."<br />"But, the sound...? The sound of...?"<br />"Sound? What does depression <i>sound</i> like? Hmmm... well... I guess it sounds something like the hiss of dead air, like a radio not tuned-in properly, like things are just not focused at all clearly... Jesus, I don't <i>know</i>, you know? How do you describe the indescribable? There's no words in our - or any - language, that..."<br />"OK, OK, I'm sorry... I know that part of your psyche is about how things sound to you, that's all..."<br />"Yeah, I know, it's just... it's not something you can capture, or record, like trying to catch the wind in your hands or something..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh yes, <i>very</i> poetic... and that's been done as well, too."<br />"Huh? What has?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You know, the whole Donovan thing?"<br />"Oh shit, will you just <i>stop</i> being so hyper-critical over every little fucking thing that pops into my head, you cynical bastard?"<br />"That's what I do, you know..."<br />"Oh, shut the fuck up! You make me so tired all the time, on and on, broken record..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You tired now?"<br />"[<i>sigh</i>] Yup, always tired. Never feeling as bright as I should be. Only she makes me feel like I'm supposed to feel."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"She's good for you, isn't she?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'd be nothing... nowhere, without her. How do I... explain what debt I owe her unconditional love and acceptance of me, and who I am, and..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And...?"<br />"And... I know I'm flawed, crusted, soiled... I'm no saint, and she still accepts me all the same. It's... it's soul-refreshing."<br />"That's it... breathe... breathe her in, then."<br />"I will. I do... what I owe her is... not calculatable... in any terms, except my love for her..."<br />"You love her just because she loves yo-"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No! I loved her from the first time we talked... it's the whole soul-bonding thing, like we are soul twins, just different parents... it's like she's the Ying to my Yang, the balance, those delicacies for my own unbalanced selfishness..."<br />"Christ, you're laying it on a bit thick now, aint ya?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And so? What I am and who I feel when I am with her is again, beyond description. A word may suffice - joy? How's that, you black bastard?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I like that word. A lot."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Joy?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yeah... you should use it more often."<br />"She is my joy, my delight, my summer breeze..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh man... bring on the Jasmine!"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Shut up!"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Just saying..."<br />"And I'm just saying... will you be quiet long enough to let me listen to the sounds of joy just thinking of being with her?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hmmm... that's better!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Gawd, I hate the way my black dog just barks and barks in my head, until I can't hear <i>anything</i>...!"<br />"This is turning into a real belly-button selfie again, huh?"<br />"Oh, for fuck's sake... I'm just trying to put things down... trying to say what I don't know how to say."<br /> </span></span><br />
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Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-50653458618968845422016-12-22T01:02:00.000+10:002016-12-22T01:02:55.422+10:00It's<hr />
Drought Vs Water/Flood = Ying/Yang<br />
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Training Keeps a'Rollin'<br />
Gotta Keep Moving<br />
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<u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_is_Real" target="_blank">Nothing. Is Real</a></u>.<br />
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I've Had Enough.<br />
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Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-48342236385511241772008-03-05T21:43:00.026+10:002009-01-28T10:14:18.149+10:00Mal's Songs and Demos<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATED:</span> 28 January 2009</span> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2032/1661378240_3679da18e3_o.gif" />
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">NB.</span> If you would like to download and save a copy of any of these songs (silly you! lol), simply click on the actual link, and click on "Download Original" on the right in the new window.</span>
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<br />There's <span style="font-weight: bold;">four new band demos</span> online now as well.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a target="_blank" href="http://nightbefore.fateback.com/media.html">Check them out here</a>. </span>
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<br />Eight short (less than one minute each) pieces of fun, silly, spontaneous music for my kids. 28 January 2009 <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2032/1661378240_3679da18e3_o.gif" /><meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.3 (Win32)"><style type="text/css"></style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/6417410-bf7">http://www.divshare.com/download/6417410-bf7</a></p>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"If You Gotta Go, Go Now"</span> (Dylan)
<br />Very ruff demo only for fun. Spot all the references! hahahahaa.
<br />16 July 2008
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 3.00 MB
<br />Length: 3' 11"</span>
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<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.divshare.com/download/4922158-99d">www.divshare.com/download/4922158-99d</a>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Sounds Of Now"</span> (Alex MacDonald)
<br />Home demo by Mal, for Box of Sox
<br />11 July 2008
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 2.01 MB</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Length: 2' 12"</span>
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<br />www.divshare.com/download/4907501-876</a>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Fantasy"</span> - (Alex MacDonald)
<br />Really ruff, quick, one-take home demo only, all live, fluffs-and-all, purely for spontaneous fun.
<br />9 July 2008
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 2.91 MB
<br />Length: 3' 11"</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Acid Visions"</span> (Alex MacDonald) - ruff home demo, purely for fun.
<br />4th July 2008
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 2.04 MB</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time: 2' 13"</span>
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<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.divshare.com/download/4863037-86c">www.divshare.com/download/4863037-86c</a>
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<br />"Maggie's Farm" </span>(Dylan) - ruff home demo for fun, late June 2008.
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 4.3 MB</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Length: 4' 42"</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Absolutely Sweet Marie"</span> (Dylan) - ruff home demo for fun. 3 July 2008.
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 3.41 MB</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time: 3' 43"
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<br />"Colours"</span> (Alexander MacDonald) - ruff home demo for fun, 4 July 2008
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">mp3 file: 2.25 MB</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time: 2' 27"</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Green River" - CCR, <a target="_blank" href="http://boxofsox5.blogspot.com/">Box of Sox</a>, live rehearsal, c. March 2008. (Edited version)
<br />Mal on Vocals & bass guitar.
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<br />Length: 3' 38"
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<br />"5th March 2008" is a <span style="font-style: italic;">ruff song idea/sketch without any lyrics</span> (as of yet)
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<br />"Song004" is just a <span style="font-style: italic;">ruff idea</span> I quickly recorded, while I had this concept floating about in my head. It's nothing exceptional for sure. Early Feb '08
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<br />"Helen" idea, remix, early February 2008 - still warts and all, and still trying to get the hang of using "the Thing".
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<br />VERY ruff first mix of an <span style="font-style: italic;">experiment</span>, "Helen", warts-n-all, early Feb '08.
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<br />Drum Loop/Break sample No. 2
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<br />Drum Loop/Break sample No. 1
<br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="divplaylist" width="335" height="85"><param name="movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=3920392-f88"><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=3920392-f88" name="divplaylist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="335" height="25"></embed></object>Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-32069480200537579532007-11-13T15:52:00.000+10:002007-11-13T15:57:58.758+10:00The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank<span style="font-weight: bold;">Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl</span> (The Definitive Edition); Penguin, London, 2007.<br /><img src="http://images.seekbooks.com.au/9780140264739.jpg" /><br />http://images.seekbooks.com.au/9780140264739.jpg<br /><br />The Anne Frank Tree - http://www.annefranktree.com/<br />Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam - http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-2461142897916477072007-06-30T16:53:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:45:10.990+10:00Online Book CatalogueLike I said, I'm still fiddling and tweaking this thing... now I've found an online Book Cataloger! D'oh!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a><br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam</span></a><br /></div><br />I don't know what I'll do this this blog at this point... but I'll obviously leave it for now until I figure out what...? heh heh<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-91219485208278855482007-06-29T22:45:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:46:12.347+10:00Mostly Harmless<span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless", Heinemann, London, 1992.</span><br /><br />Mostly Harmless is a novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the "Fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named 'Hitchhiker's Trilogy'".<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Mostly_Harmless_Harmony_front.jpg/235px-Mostly_Harmless_Harmony_front.jpg" /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Harmless">(Link)</a><br /><br /></div> The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the word "Harmless." His friend Ford Prefect, a contributor to the Guide, assures him that the next edition will contain the article on Earth that Ford has spent the last 15 years researching—somewhat cut due to space restrictions, but still an improvement. The revised article, he eventually admits, will simply read "Mostly harmless."<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-77447209798838013042007-06-29T22:41:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:47:49.600+10:00So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish<span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Adams, "So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish", Pan, London, 1985.</span><br /><br />The fourth book in the Hitch-Hiker Trilogy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/So_long%2C_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish.jpg/150px-So_long%2C_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish.jpg" /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long%2C_and_Thanks_For_All_the_Fish">(Link)</a></div><br />This fourth in the series has a darker tone than the previous three. <span style="font-style: italic;">Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspatial express route, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</span><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-8824310713916060832007-06-29T22:40:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:52:20.571+10:00Life, the Universe and Everything<span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Adams, "Life, The Universe and Everything", Pan, London, 1982.</span><br /><br />Third of the Five book trilogy of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Life%2C_The_Universe_and_Everything_cover.jpg/150px-Life%2C_The_Universe_and_Everything_cover.jpg" /> <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%2C_the_Universe_and_Everything">(Link)</a></div><br />I still love Douglas Adams stuff... this is the third of the orignal series, which keeps pace with the same feel/tone/humour. Love it, ya!<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-59542970354172986612007-06-29T22:31:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:52:39.078+10:00The Restaurant at the End of the Universe<span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Pan, London, 1982.</span><br /><br />The second of the five books of the Hitch-Hikers's Trilogy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/88/The_restaurant_at_the_end_of_the_universe_original_pan_cover.png/150px-The_restaurant_at_the_end_of_the_universe_original_pan_cover.png" /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe">(Link)</a><br /></div><br />Enjoy it, continue to enjoy it, will always enjoy it. Douglas Adams was a genius! Love the concept of "MIlliways"! Yay! \o/<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-25977438657895581492007-06-29T22:20:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:54:29.933+10:00The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy<span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy", Pan, London, 1982.</span><br /><br />Yes yes, I was one of the original hoopy froods who knew where his towel was! Gagh! Still one of my favourite series of comedic books around. Adore the absurd abstractions on philosopy, theology and spave/time in general! Thank you, Douglas Adams, for enabling us to take a 90-degree twist on reality with these books.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/H2G2_UK_front_cover.jpg/180px-H2G2_UK_front_cover.jpg" /> <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy">(Link)</a><br /></div> <blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"The books are described as "a trilogy in five parts", having been described as a trilogy on the release of the third book, and then a "trilogy in four parts" on the release of the fourth book. The US edition of the fifth book was originally released with the legend "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy" on the cover..."</blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-84176283740437917762007-06-29T13:44:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:55:06.884+10:00The "Beatles": Album File and Complete Discography<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeff Russell, "The Beatles: Album File and Complete Discography", Blandford, Poole Dorset, 1982</span> [paperback]<br /><br />Something I've had seemingly forever, helps me to keep track of a certain Beatles song if I've forgotten where I can find it. In a sense my 1982 version has been made obsolete by the release of all the "Anthology" and BBC' albums, but as a general guide it's fantastic. But apparently it's been updated.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beatles-Album-File-Complete-Discography/dp/1844034356/ref=pd_sxp_f_r/026-5262243-1664466"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FTP738BRL._SL160_.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beatles-Album-File-Complete-Discography/dp/1844034356/ref=pd_sxp_f_r/026-5262243-1664466">(link)</a></span><br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><blockquote>"Fully revised and updated edition of the directory of the Beatles' recorded work, from 1961 to the present. It was acclaimed upon first publication as the only book to list the complete recordings and to give full background details and complete musical credits. Featuring album sleeves, CD and tape inserts Illustrated in full. The Beatles were the biggest phenomenon the world of music has ever known. Their music brings joy and excitement to millions of people world wide, and never before or since has so much been said or written about any recording artists. So what's left? What's left is what the Beatles were all about - their music and in particular, their records. The Beatles: Album File and Complete Discography is packed with information relating to every song the Beatles officially released on record, the titles of both albums and individual tracks, release dates, composer credits, timings and comments on each track with details of who plays and sings what, together with odd bits and pieces of information to interest the fan.</blockquote></span><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-48326620411936873352007-06-29T13:33:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:56:11.257+10:00Teacher Man<span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank McCourt, "Teacher Man", Harper Perrenial, London, 2006</span><br /><br />This is the sequal to "Tis", the sequal to "Angela's Ashes". I simply love this guys homely down-to-eath chat style. More of his autobiography on his days as a teacher in various USA High Schools. Very funny, and at time deeply moving also. Lots of great quotes, when he's just playing it by ear standing on his feet in front of a roomfull of cynical teenagers! Yay! \o/<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0007173997"><img src="http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/images/australia/0007173997.jpg" /></a><br /></div> <p></p> <blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0007173997"> (Link)</a> <p>"Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy – but one who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didn't know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels.</p> <p> Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New York's public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in 'Teacher Man', the third in his series of memoirs.</p> <p> The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout 'Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were ...' Through sharing his own life with these kids he learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 people's attention came 'Angela's Ashes'..."</p> </blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-84083822715606673302007-06-28T16:45:00.000+10:002007-07-02T16:52:33.798+10:00Auschwitz - 1270 to the Present<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deborah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Dwork</span> & Robert Jan van Pelt, "Auschwitz - 1270 to the Present", WW Norton, London & New York, 1996</span><br /><br />I borrowed this book from the library sometime in the past six months, and it made such a lasting impression on me that I realised I needed to dig a lot deeper into this whole mystifying experience. Never for one instant for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ghoulish</span> or glorifying reasons, rather a confused curiosity at such a bleak period of human history. [Postscript: My second-hand copy of this book arrived Monday 2<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">nd</span> July - really great condition.] At least now I can underline and scribble pencil notes all through it as i do a bit more research into all of this... for some <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">strange</span> reason, they don't like you leaving big messy pencilled-in marks in their books!<br /><br />Comes with many very disturbing photos, as well as authentic Nazi <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">architect's</span> plans and drawings.<br /><br />A fantastic tribute to the millions who died needlessly.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-1270-Present-Deborah-Dwork/dp/039331684X"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/71QR982T8ML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.gif" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"Founded by Germans in 1270 and sold to Polish King <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Casimir</span> IV in 1457, the small provincial town of Auschwitz (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Oswiecim</span> in Polish) became a pawn in power struggles between Poland, Germany, Bohemia and Hungary. When Hitler annexed this border town to the Reich in 1939 as German troops smashed Poland, the Nazis celebrated their push to reclaim the "German East," a mythologized, racially pure domain once contested by medieval knights of the Teutonic Order, who ruled Prussia in the 13<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span> century after virtually exterminating the native population and repopulating the town with Germans. The concentration camp established in Auschwitz's suburbs in 1940-designed as a transit camp for Poles being shipped west as slave laborers-was soon transformed into an extermination camp for killing Jews. Using 224 photographs and architectural plans, as well as oral histories of survivors, this careful, detached study traces the camp's evolution into a site where more than one million people were killed and through January 1945, when the remaining 60,000 prisoners underwent a forced march into Germany."</blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-88986457954648125432007-06-28T16:27:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:57:26.048+10:00Holocaust Journey<span style="font-weight: bold;">Martin Glibert, "Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past", Pheonix/Orion, London, 1998.</span><br /><br />A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert">world-respected historian</a> takes some of his jewish students to many of the sites associated with the Jewish experience during WWII.<br /><br />Another great book that I bought myself second hand in one of our local second-hand bookstores. Great in detail but very very readable. Very personal storytelling, rather than just dry studious text.<br /><br />Some of the stories he shares on now non-existant communities is heart-wrenching.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Journey-Martin-Gilbert/dp/0231109644"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TKH852GEL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg" /></a><br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"The achievement of Gilbert's Holocaust Journey is to reduce to comprehensible, human terms, the scale of genocide that to many is still unimaginable."</blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr />Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803578602528598212.post-30274971131672472772007-06-28T01:03:00.000+10:002007-06-30T17:57:43.596+10:00Auschwitz<span style="font-weight: bold;">Laurence Rees, "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution", BBC Books, London, 2006.</span><br /><br />Yes, I own this... and a highly disturbing book it is too. Brilliantly written and researched. Well balanced study into one of the blackest peroids of humanity :(<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Auschwitz-Nazis-Solution-Laurence-Rees/dp/0563522968"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JXG2FK13L._AA240_.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"This book is the best book i have ever read. It really opens your eyes to what did happen to what we were told happened. It's unbelievable the way the jews were treated not just the german jews but the jews of the world. The world wars really interest me because I love the fact that there was so many people willing to fight for our country and our countries independence so this book was a must have for me. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. It's a gripping, informative and honest account of what torture and misery thse innocent people were put through. I would recommend this book to anyone in fact mine is being past around to those who want to read it. I would like to congratulate Laurence Rees for a fantastic eye opening book that really pyts a lump in your throat and at the same time makes you feel disgusted at the behavior that (hopefully) nobody would get away with in todays modern times."</blockquote><p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><img style="width: 650px; height: 5px;" alt="line" src="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img5/h-lines2/l033.gif" /></b><br /><b style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">~ Check my Online Book Catalogue here ~</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maljam"><img src="http://au.geocities.com/maljam2002/mybooks.gif" /></a></div><hr>Mal Kiely [Lancelots Pram]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09550832509641597913noreply@blogger.com0