http://www.biglittleg.com/blog Mon, 19 May 2008 21:35:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Crissakes. Been far too long. You know I have this thing as my home page, and it fills me with guilt knowing I've not done anything on it for a months and months. Well, more effort to be expended shortly. There are some stories to tell, ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2008/05/20/phew/ Ahem. Where was I? It's been a busy few months for me and I'm doing my dangedest to keep on top of things. The to-do list has aforementioned things slowly being ticked off: 3 articles sent out for peer review (two forthcoming) 1 biennial popular music conference in Mexico City (with ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2007/08/19/somewhere-my-love-the-disco-edit/ Phew.... I really need to stay on top of this. Perhaps the strategy is not to write long-winded posts, but pepper the blog with bursts of something shorter and sweeter. At the very least let you know I'm still here (and not elsewhere, of course). Friday night, a ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2007/06/11/getting-your-global-groove-on/ Okay, back. It's been a crazy couple of months. Where to begin really? Trimester started, and that's where it all went south (or is that north here?). I'm teaching, for the second time here at Vic, a large undergraduate course (well over 300 students, which is ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2007/03/15/here-comes-the-rain-again/ Yes, it's a bit late, but I've been elsewhere (as the title of the blog would indicate). A few weeks acrosss the Ditch, in Adelaide, Melbourne and then up to the Sunshine Coast to Mooloolaba for sun and surf (where I realized I'm not really a sun and ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2007/01/10/a-new-year/ We've come across the Ditch to the West Island for the holidays. It's been two weeks now, with one to go, yet I've still not wrapped my head around a summer Xmas. This is my fourth one and I'm still getting used to it. While on ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2006/12/31/summer-holiday/ As the trimester winds its way to its inevitable and bathetic conclusion, spring seems in the air. Wellington has, for today at least, shown itself to be an entirely tolerable city weather wise. It's been a dreary spring for the most part, with only hints of hope ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2006/11/12/i-am-a-dj-i-am-what-i-play/ For the past few weeks, I've been contending with what my doctor has now diagnosed as an ecotopic arrhythmia. Unlike tachycardia, which is the more serious version of an irregular heartbeat, mine is the benign sort. It's not necessarily life threatening, though it can be if it ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2006/10/11/i-can-feel-your-heartbeat/ So last weekend I spent my time at Scape, the biannual arts festival held down in Christchurch. It's been about fifteen years since I was last there, so it was pretty much like seeing the city for the first time. There were vague memories of it, but ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2006/10/08/tales-from-the-south-island/ I'm off to Christchurch later on today, to prepare for a little pingpong country action, as part of the Scape arts festival. I'm leading a symposium on art in the city, which should be good fun. As part of this I was asked to do an interview ... http://www.biglittleg.com/blog/2006/09/28/92/