Victor Billot » Uncategorized http://www.victorbillot.com Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Book club http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/08/book-club/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/08/book-club/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:25:03 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=308 What I have been reading in 2009

Alasdair Gray – Lanark (just setting off on my second circumnavigation after ordering a smart new paperback edition that took months to arrive)

China Mieville – The City and the City (Bamboozling and brilliant)

Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun (followed quickly by Underground. It took me far … Read more

]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/08/book-club/feed/ 0 Science and Capitalism http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/07/science-and-capitalism/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/07/science-and-capitalism/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:30:42 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/07/science-and-capitalism/ Terence Kealey falls out of love with market myths at New Scientist and is descended upon by hordes of screaming libertarians (AKA self justifying plutocrats)

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An appearance this Tuesday 23 April 7pm at Velvet Underground, Dunedin for the Drinking Liberally series.

Facebook version here.

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Fortunately American history has many examples of socialists who I feel proud to share my political philosophy with. … Read more

]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/technology-and-socialism-continued/feed/ 0 From the Crypt: Age of Dog http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/from-the-crypt-age-of-dog/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/from-the-crypt-age-of-dog/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:53:14 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=297 1992, Crown Hotel, Dunedin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzZn1Z7S06k

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/from-the-crypt-age-of-dog/feed/ 5 Music and Dancing http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/04/music-and-dancing/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/04/music-and-dancing/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:50:16 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=281 Finally got around to uploading some obscure mp3s from the dim past – including tracks from Das Phaedrus, Age of Dog, Swarm, Body Bomb, Alpha Plan and a few of my own, spanning the last 20 years (just about!)

Check out the selection here.

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/04/music-and-dancing/feed/ 0 That’s very generous of you . . . sir http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/03/thats-very-generous-of-you-sir/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/03/thats-very-generous-of-you-sir/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:15:19 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/victorbillot/?p=194 A small mention here at Tumeke for my comments today about our Prime Minister who craves to see the warm and friendly hand of charity extended to the dispossessed.

John Key is a confused man. He wants a British “honours” system, an American “generosity” system and presumably a Burmese employment system to pay for it all.… Read more

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Still brilliant. Contributing to my theory that post punk music groups can (not always) survive middle age better than pre punk music groups.

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/01/new-times/feed/ 0 Alpha Plan video from the archives . . . http://www.victorbillot.com/2008/09/alpha-plan-video-from-the-archives/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2008/09/alpha-plan-video-from-the-archives/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:31:36 +0000 admin http://billot.wordpress.com/?p=89 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUZ48uYUqI

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