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Another place to play/purchase my songs!

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:20:56 +0100

I know, you've got them all already, but you might like to own them twice... This IAC player has all the tracks from my album 'The sentence that I serve' (that's a line from my song 'Fridge says', for the uninitiated). It, they, and several othe...

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Have you a minute to spare, please?

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:30:04 +0100

Hi I just remixed this. Big deal you say. Yeah, OK, in the grand scheme of things... tis nothing, a mere trifle...lasts 60 seconds so I'm not asking much. Thanks for calling in. Al

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All my bloody songs on one widget!

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:54:22 +0000

Soundclick have just offered me this - after all this time of uploading and pasting every song onto every site (I have the full set). Anyway, just click play and away you go... 55 of 'em I think. Something like that, anyway. Thanks again - Al

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Will's wondrous sword

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0000

I wrote a bedtime story for my boys, aged 7 and 9. They seem to like it and thought I ought to share it, so here it is... Will's wondrous sword I ‘I don’t want this one – that one.’ ‘But they’re all the same. What’s the difference? That’s ...

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'On my first sonne': A GCSE English Literature mock exam.

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:33:40 +0000

Hi again I started work last September as a 'Learning Support Assistant' in a local high school. Yesterday, as the title suggests, I sat in on an English Literature mock exam, to check that the cheeky buggers didn't cheat and to help with any pro...

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Bubbles

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:14:52 +0000

Is life a series of bubbles? Or one big bubble with lots of smaller ones bouncing around inside? Each phase of your life is perhaps enclosed in the taut transparent skin in which it grew. All the materials for that phase that were there from the s...

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Well, well, well...

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:29:24 +0000

I thought I was OK, but depression is lurking, ready to strike. I have a deep well of unhappiness that sinks right down to the core of me. Was it always, innately, there?. Or have experience and disappointment dug it for me? I put a lid on it most...

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It gets worse, year on year...

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:16:52 +0000

Hi Ho! Ho! Ho! It doesn't take a Shakespeare combined with a Mozart (imagine that on your band's CD case insert though: Written by Shakespeare/Mozart) to write a great song, but honestly, for one who: doesn't dance; go 'clubbing'; suffer from te...

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Away, be a stranger...

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:22:11 +0000

...meanwhile, on Earth, things aren't quite going as planned... God: "I know what to do! I'll send my amazing, meek, wise, brilliant, beloved son for them to berate, abuse and crucify. That'll show 'em who's boss!" I could never, not even as a ...

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So, he never really existed...

nobody@vox.com(Al Stravinsky) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:17:38 +0000

So he never existed... not really, as a real person. He made himself up one day in 1969 and lived a dual existence: half of him surviving on dead-end jobs, the other half believing that one day he would write at least one song that the world woul...

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