Thursday, October 26, 2006
Can I just say to New Zealand...
Crowded House an Aussie band, Finn claims
24 October 2006
New Zealanders may love to claim Crowded House as their own but, sorry, Neil Finn says it was a Melbourne band.
Finn was one of the founding members of Crowded House and big brother Tim later joined but Neil told The Age newspaper the band's roots were Australian.
"Melbourne was the birthplace of Crowded House and was always the town we chose to return to. It's forever deeply ingrained in our collective psyche and was the backdrop for many of our best musical moments."
Finn was speaking to the newspaper from London after Crowded House was given an Age EG Music Award after an online poll of 37,000 people.
He said the band's drummer Paul Hester, who committed suicide last year, was from Melbourne and it was sad he was not around "to be reminded once more that Melbourne loved him too".
The other founding member, bass player Nick Seymour, was also an Australian.
...I TOLD YOU SO!
24 October 2006
New Zealanders may love to claim Crowded House as their own but, sorry, Neil Finn says it was a Melbourne band.
Finn was one of the founding members of Crowded House and big brother Tim later joined but Neil told The Age newspaper the band's roots were Australian.
"Melbourne was the birthplace of Crowded House and was always the town we chose to return to. It's forever deeply ingrained in our collective psyche and was the backdrop for many of our best musical moments."
Finn was speaking to the newspaper from London after Crowded House was given an Age EG Music Award after an online poll of 37,000 people.
He said the band's drummer Paul Hester, who committed suicide last year, was from Melbourne and it was sad he was not around "to be reminded once more that Melbourne loved him too".
The other founding member, bass player Nick Seymour, was also an Australian.
...I TOLD YOU SO!
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Because I am a copycat...
I was over at smart bitches and saw they had this link to the gender genie, which can apparently tell if the gender of an author according to certain words they use...
I tested it on the entry below (my favourite dentist is dead) but it wasn't long enough (only 303 words, and it wants about 500): according to that though, I am a man. Only by about 10 points though.
I'm now on a hunt to find another, longer, blog entry. Ah-ha! 'Surreal, like a fish with shoes' comes in at 827 words, and tells me I am female (which I am glad to hear) by a margin of 1601 to 959.
So much for blog entries. You can also test this beastie on fiction and non-fiction, so I'm popping over to the *nsyncerator to pick up some marvellous fiction - and as we all know, I have plenty of non-fiction words (God bless numbers.)
As an aside, i'm finding it very hard to type - I just did a giant load of dishes, as the dishwasher has gone bung, and they're all a bit pruney.
So, fiction. Ah, fanfiction. It makes me cringe. Shattered (Chapter One) is of course the contender. And it knows I'm female. And my GOD that is a bad piece of writing.
So, non-fiction....the true test. I'll be putting through the first 1000 or so words of my thesis.....and apparently my non-fiction style is very masculine. I use lots of masculine words like 'the' and 'a' and 'are'.
Strange, strange beastie of a program. How does it know that men use these words but women don't?
I tested it on the entry below (my favourite dentist is dead) but it wasn't long enough (only 303 words, and it wants about 500): according to that though, I am a man. Only by about 10 points though.
I'm now on a hunt to find another, longer, blog entry. Ah-ha! 'Surreal, like a fish with shoes' comes in at 827 words, and tells me I am female (which I am glad to hear) by a margin of 1601 to 959.
So much for blog entries. You can also test this beastie on fiction and non-fiction, so I'm popping over to the *nsyncerator to pick up some marvellous fiction - and as we all know, I have plenty of non-fiction words (God bless numbers.)
As an aside, i'm finding it very hard to type - I just did a giant load of dishes, as the dishwasher has gone bung, and they're all a bit pruney.
So, fiction. Ah, fanfiction. It makes me cringe. Shattered (Chapter One) is of course the contender. And it knows I'm female. And my GOD that is a bad piece of writing.
So, non-fiction....the true test. I'll be putting through the first 1000 or so words of my thesis.....and apparently my non-fiction style is very masculine. I use lots of masculine words like 'the' and 'a' and 'are'.
Strange, strange beastie of a program. How does it know that men use these words but women don't?
