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Alex

www.alexogg.com

About Me

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Myspace Layouts IMPORTANT NOTICE:This is NOT a fan site. I did have a posse of keyboard wallahs doing it for me for a while, but had to sack them en masse because of their escalating salary demands.

My Interests

Music, sport (especially cricket and football) and collecting CDs by the aforementioned dodgy old punk and hip hop bands. Also, anything a bit daft (odes about lovelorn lorry drivers, songs featuring whistling or dogs barking, the sound of mating hyaenas etc) I am also fond of alcohol, oaky Australian whites being a particular favourite at the moment.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Dead Kennedys - Tom Waits - Public Enemy - The Fall - PJ Harvey - Killing Joke - Echo & The Bunnymen - Bauhaus -Interpol - Stranglers - Monochrome Set - Undertones - OutKast - Eminem - X-Ray Spex - Tom Lehrer - Radiohead -Damned - Men They Couldn't Hang - Throwing Muses - Chameleons - Buzzcocks - Dylan - Smiths - New Model Army - Gang Starr - Magazine - are we nearly there yet Dad? Also, some of the great lost, obscure but beautiful bands -the Dancing Did, Youth In Asia, Rudimentary Peni, Normal, Dodgems, Private Dicks, Pink Industry, Instant Automatons etc. I particularly love the Messthetics series of comps, as this gets around playing silly money for the vinyl.

Movies:

Still adore Romper Stomper. East Is East, some Mike Leigh, etc. I'm quite partial to a bit of that Star Wars light sabre fandango. The Team - that hysterical film about Aussie Rules football. And some of the Roddy Doyle adaptations, especially the Snapper.

Television:

I admit it, I love Doctor Who. And it's fabulous watching the rejuvenated series in the company of two small boys who could not be more enthralled.

Books:

Just started Gary Imlach's Working Class Football Heroes.

Heroes:

I'd rather recite the lyrics to Stiff Little Fingers' Nobody's Heroes.

My Blog

Trakmarx

The new Trakmarx is out, and I recommend everyone to have a look-see. I've done a few bits and pieces this issue, including resurrecting my long-ish interview with the sainted Jack Rabid of Big Takeov...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:02:00 PST

Postcard TO Baghdad

I just had a quick look on that world-tracker thing. I don't know who is looking in from Baghdad (by the looks of it) or what you're doing there, but I hope you're safe. Just read Peter Beaumont's exc...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:30:00 PST

No More Heroes

The book is out. Got there in the end. Thanks to Gail for showing me how to do this myspace gig, thanks Gail! Thanks to all the people who have helped out over the last couple of years, very much appr...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:28:00 PST

Today I joined MySpace

Well, why not, I thought. Been thinking about setting up a website, but hadn't got round to it. This may be an agreeable half-arsed substitute. Took the kids to see Chicken Little. It's really not up ...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:18:00 PST