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		<title>2012 Vogel Winner Eleven Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession: I know nothing about football. So it’s a good thing this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award winner for an unpublished manuscript is about more than just that. Paul D. Carter’s Eleven Seasons is a grunge-era bildungsroman, an homage to working-class Melbourne and one young man’s undying love for the Hawks. We meet [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1197&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motorists used as human shields fined for stopping on freeway*</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2012/05/15/motorists-used-as-human-shields-fined-for-stopping-on-freeway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big news in Melbourne today: cops used civilian drivers as road blocks on the Hume Freeway to stop a renegade teenager in a stolen car. There were some (younger) kids in one of the stopped vehicles. The cops copped a lot of flack** for their, er, innovative enlistment of the public in pursuit of their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1171&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Labor Heart</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2012/02/23/a-labor-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cultured Animal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder what it means to have a good Labor heart; does she beat with steady rhythm, or does she stop and start? Would she race, when faced, with a good, Labor agenda? Or is she close to breaking, and there&#8217;s nothing that can mend her? Treasurer Wayne Swan released a statement last night slandering Kevin [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1155&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Care Much for Money? This American Life explains all &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2012/01/26/dont-care-much-for-money-this-american-life-explains-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cultured Animal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For someone who used to sit up the back of my high-school Economics class listening to 90s indie-pop on a Discman &#8211; one headphone in my teacher&#8217;s ear &#8211; this is probably the clearest, most moving piece of journalism I have yet encountered about the Global Financial Crisis. It starts with background material on the invention [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1130&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beirut (band). For other uses, see Beirut (disambiguation).</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2012/01/11/beirut-band-for-other-uses-see-beirut-disambiguation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cultured Animal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I didn&#8217;t take any poor snapshots of the band on my smart phone. I was too far away &#8211; just far enough that they looked kind of like every other band at a gig of this size: glowing sunset-coloured people in front of booming blue lights. (Except when the sousaphone came out, then one [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1103&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Didn&#8217;t get the Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2012/01/07/didnt-get-the-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cultured Animal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If any of you have been trying to get a hold of Steve Jobs&#8217; bio in Australian bookstores since around Christmas time, you&#8217;ll have noticed you can&#8217;t get it. Anywhere. What nature of fool doesn&#8217;t order enough stock of 2011&#8242;s most anticipated biography, officially Amazon&#8217;s best-selling title of the year? Well, here&#8217;s the reason: according [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1080&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melancholy Horses</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2011/12/30/melancholy-horses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s far too much going in Lars Von Trier&#8217;s Melancholia for me to attempt a proper critique just now. All I really want to say are two things. Well, maybe three &#8230; or four &#8230; (For those who haven&#8217;t seen the film or are unfamiliar with its plot, all you need to know is: Justine [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1055&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Side of the Iron Lady</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2011/12/29/the-human-side-of-the-iron-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meryl is spectacular as Maggie in the new biopic of Britain&#8217;s first female Prime Minister &#8211; albeit with nicer cheekbones. The Iron Lady has a good stab at humanising one of the most important women in history. This is mainly executed through the foregrounding of present-day Thatcher: an elderly, lonely woman suffering through grief for her [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1033&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Brous EP Launch</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2011/12/15/review-brous-ep-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cultured Animal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who haven&#8217;t yet heard of Brous (pronounced like Bruce – yes, I know, kind of takes the Frenchy chic out of it), this Melbourne singer is a formidable and rising talent. Having directed the Melbourne International Jazz Festival for the last three years, Sophia Brous exudes a presence and charisma on stage well [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1016&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music Round-Up 2011</title>
		<link>http://culturedanimal.com/2011/11/07/music-round-up-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cultured Animal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bill callahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonnie prince billy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gillian welch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joan as policewoman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitty daisy & lewis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ryan adams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know we&#8217;ve still got several weeks to go, but soon everyone else is going to start putting out their best-of lists so, in the interest of being a competitive bitch and trying to get ahead of trends (as in, Easter eggs the week after Christmas, July sales in June, and so on), here&#8217;s my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturedanimal.com&#038;blog=21609817&#038;post=1001&#038;subd=theculturedanimal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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