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		<title>St Jerome&#8217;s Sydney 2010 Review</title>
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St Jerome&#8217;s is the BEST. FESTIVAL. EVAR.. No ifs. No buts. The BEST.
Every year, the acts are well chosen, the venue is superb, and the vibe is shockingly pleasant and, dare I say it, grown up. Perhaps the greatest indication of how great the atmosphere is can be summed up by two things:

The number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1095</link>
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		<title>Sigur Ros - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hordern Pavilion
August 2nd, 2008
I don’t believe in God, but after seeing Sigur Ros at the Hordern Pavilion I’m left with a burning conundrum: who am I supposed to thank for the fact that they exist? It seems a wonderful and unlikely miracle that music so uniquely and sublimely beautiful can be created so consistently. Listening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=512</link>
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		<title>Illinois by Sufjan Stevens (aka Sufjan Stevens Invites you to Come On, Feel The Illinoise).</title>
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If ever there was an album that has all the hallmarks of a wanky, aweful, overwrought, terribly pretentious piece of crap, this be that album.
Sufjan Stevens set himself the task of writing one album for each of the 50 states of the United States of America. In this installment, Sufjan pays homage to Illinois, home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Motoring Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow these motoring tips and you&#8217;ll help reduce your risk of being involved in an accident as well as improve your personal safety as a motorist.
Travelling
When it is raining, a foggy night, or any combination of these, the gap should be doubled to four seconds.
safety gap between vehicles
When you stop behind another vehicle in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1089</link>
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		<title>Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Enmore Theatre
January 29, 2009
Last time Ryan Adams came to town with his incredible band, The Cardinals, he really had his cranky hat on. Appearing on a sumptuously designed stage set, under subdued purple lighting, he refused to engage in any kind of discourse with the audience. Eventually the repeated yells of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1075</link>
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		<title>Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova with The Frames
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
January 28, 2009
The great appeal of John Carney’s 2006 low-budget film, Once, was the power and beauty of the music created from such humble and unassuming beginnings. I wonder if Glen Hansard or Marketa Irglova would ever have expected that little film’s subsequent success, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1072</link>
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		<title>Paprika - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Japanese Manga-style anime become the last bastion of traditional, non-computer generated animation? Has it become a sacrosanct Japanese tradition to remain hermetically preserved from the ravages of time and international opinion a la geisha, natto and visits to the Yasukuni Shrine? Films like Satoshi Kon’s hallucinogenic gem, Paprika, make me hope that the answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1062</link>
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		<title>The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The meditative and subtle beauty of barren desert landscapes was a key motif of cinema’s Westerns from the late 60’s to the early 70’s. In juxtaposition with the harsh brutality of life in the old west, these landscapes were exploited to devastating effect by film-makers like Sam Peckinpah, Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone. In his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1038</link>
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		<title>Big Day Out 2009 - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Day Out 2009
Gold Coast Parklands
Sunday, January 18
It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve taken the plunge into the mass of desperate youth indulgence that is the Big Day Out. As this most iconic of Aussie music festivals has evolved, I&#8217;ve increasingly found myself alienated by its tendency to present a bill so broadly appealing as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1025</link>
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		<title>The Wackness - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why can&#8217;t the Academy remember back more than two months whenever it comes to selecting nominations for the Oscars? It may be academic anyway, given the overwhelming odds supporting a Best Supporting Actor gong for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, but it would have been nice to see Ben Kingsley at least up there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=1021</link>
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		<title>Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson - Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theories and concepts Neal Stephenson expounds in his extraordinary novel, Snow Crash, are so intricate, broad-ranging and profound, that reading the book is something like riding an intellectual rollercoaster. Encompassing technology, sociology, economics, religion, linguistics, archaeology, physiology, history, politics and ethics, somehow Snow Crash still manages to work spectacularly well as an action adventure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=990</link>
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		<title>Gone With The Wind - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gone With The Wind is such a universally adulated film - let&#8217;s face it, it&#8217;s THE classic film - it feels like an act of immense hubris to have the presumption to review it. But I&#8217;m going to anyway, and no, it&#8217;s not the perfect film.
That&#8217;s not to say it&#8217;s not a great film. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=985</link>
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		<title>Quantum of Solace - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting the feeling that folks are starting to get a bit uncomfortable with the new James Bond. He&#8217;s too cold, he doesn&#8217;t say enough one liners, he&#8217;s less glamorous, he&#8217;s not supposed to be an action hero, we miss Roger and Pierce! Well, I&#8217;d like to make my position clear: I much prefer the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=983</link>
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		<title>I Am Legend - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love those last-man-on-earth-type stories. I also love zombie movies. So I was really looking forward to I Am Legend, although I couldn&#8217;t imagine that it could be any better than Danny Boyle&#8217;s brilliant shocker, 28 Days Later. I was right about that.
It falls down in a few different areas. The plotline is weak. OK, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=957</link>
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		<title>Gone Baby Gone - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Affleck&#8217;s directorial debut was promoted as something of a turgid drama, or so it seemed to me at the time of its release. Well, it was promoted as a very highly lauded drama, I had applied the &#8220;turgid&#8221; label myself in the mistaken inference that it would be the kind of film critics love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=956</link>
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		<title>Seaward, by Susan Cooper - Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan Cooper&#8217;s strangely beautiful fantasy, Seaward, is a masterpiece of vivid storytelling. The essence of all good storytelling, but especially vital in fantasy, is the ability to do three things: to create an inherently dramatic and exciting situation; to guide the reader or listener to a satisfying resolution of that situation; and to describe the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=952</link>
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		<title>Last Call, by Tim Powers - Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder how Tim Powers concocts the base premise for each of his books. Does it strike him in a blinding flash of insight, or does he slowly tease it together from a sustained mental effort of conceptualisation? Because it seems to me that, for him, devising the central concept to underpin the story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=951</link>
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		<title>Nevereverland 2008 - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nevereverland 2008
Hordern Pavilion
Saturday, December 13
How exactly does one review the nine hours of sonic bliss that was Nevereverland 2008? The experience was almost stream-of-consciousness, a strange mutation between rock festival and rave, with such a diverse yet universally excellent assortment of artists that brief evaluation seems a difficult task. In the spirit of the day, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=948</link>
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		<title>The Temper Trap - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Temper Trap / Papa vs Pretty
December 5, 2008
Oxford Art Factory
It’s been a while since Melbourne prodigies The Temper Trap have made their way north to Sydney, and quite a buzz has been developing about them in the meantime. Not surprisingly then, even in these difficult economic times that everyone’s always talking about, the Oxford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=944</link>
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		<title>La Zona - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, Mexico has really emerged as one of the most exciting industries in world cinema. Having brought us some of the most talented film-makers currently working, auteurs like Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, the world has really started to sit up and take notice. According to Mexican film fans, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=936</link>
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		<title>Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond - Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why has the world turned out the way it has? Most of the money and power lies with modern cultures of European origin. We all know the history or European powers in centuries past invading and colonising the continents of Africa, the Americas, Australia and parts of Asia, and we usually understand that in terms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=931</link>
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		<title>Pivot - Gig Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pivot / My Disco / Qua
The Gaelic
Saturday, November 29
It&#8217;s probably fitting for a band as unique as Pivot to headline a show which ultimately left me with such mixed emotions. I didn&#8217;t expect anything too straightforward - and this gig was anything but that.
We showed up in time to see only a couple of songs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=921</link>
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		<title>Choke - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Directing a film version of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel was always going to be something of a thankless task for Clark Gregg. Given the nature of the beast, a ruthless black comedy about sexual disorders and mental illness, it was only ever going to be the kind of movie that alienated a whole raft of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=898</link>
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		<title>Moll Flanders - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The literary classics have become sort of a bread-and-butter staple for the British and US film industries over the last fifteen years or so. Especially for American actresses, it seems to have become something of a rite of passage to portray an Englishwoman in a period piece as a pathway to respect in the profession. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=895</link>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Own - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a common thread running through many Hollywood films made prior to 9/11 that tried to deal with complex issues in foreign countries. Usually it was an urge to simplify any intractable conflict with the American ideals of fairness and freedom. &#8220;Aw shucks, I know you saw your family gunned down in front of you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=894</link>
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		<title>Once - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know musicals are a treasured genre by many movie lovers but, I must admit, the whole concept leaves me cold. Whenever I start getting drawn into the story, I&#8217;m inevitably jarred back into the real world by the obvious artifice of otherwise normal people suddenly breaking into song. It just seems so anachronistic in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=893</link>
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		<title>The Line of Polity, by Neal Asher - Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes all you want to do is kick back and read something a little less intellectually challenging than Joyce or Trollope. If it involves high-tech cyborg soldiers and enormous alien monsters, all the better. It was in that frame of mind that I rather wisely picked up Neal Asher’s The Line of Polity.
Asher doesn’t bother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=892</link>
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		<title>Rendition - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As subjects for screenplays go, there&#8217;s not much more interesting or worthy matter than that of existing and little-known social injustices. And of those injustices, the US policy of extraordinary rendition, where any US citizen can be invisibly transferred to the soil of a foreign country where torture is not forbidden by law, is one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=891</link>
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		<title>Vantage Point - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the possibilities of the cinematic art form, it really is a bit of an indictment that the film industry still relies so heavily on the plodding old plot formula – one to three main story arcs winding steadily onwards chronologically to some sort of dramatic climax. It’s based on the traditional story form entrenched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=890</link>
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		<title>Man On Wire - Film Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tightrope walking. Art form? Really? If I was to ask you to list the five most important artistic moments of your life, you&#8217;d probably immediately think of art galleries, novels, poetry, or theatre. Not tightrope walking. And yet, having seen Man On Wire and been enlightened as to the incredible feat of wonderful madman Philippe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theyowie.com.au/?p=889</link>
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