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About O Song!

O Song! is a blog that happens to be on tumblr.

I aim for O Song! to have a daily linkdump, which I give a surrealist kind of name based on words taken from the titles of the articles and blog posts I link to. There are plenty of other link aggregator blogs out there: Boing Boing, Kottke, 3quarksdaily, Bookforum, The Browser’s Best Of The Moment, Mind Hacks, Andrew Sullivan,  Popmatters’ Moving Citations, and Arts And Letters Daily, and you’ll note that plenty of my posts credit these places as where I found the article/blog post.

The links I post are things that make me see the world a little differently, or that I hope will make you see the world a little differently. But they do broadly reflect my interest in human psychology (in a very broad way, from mental health issues to pure cognitive research to Gladwellian social psychology kind of stuff - I am an academic psychologist by trade, and try to keep my focus broad rather than narrow), the natural world (mostly evolutionary biology, genetics, and climatology, it seems), and in the way society works (thus an interest in articles about sociology, history, and with well-considered portraits of people and situations). That reminds me: I seem to post a lot of links from the New York Times, and sometimes you have to sign in to read them; if you don’t want to sign up, consider a password from bugmenot.

I also often post links to freely available legal mp3s, gathered from places like largeheartedboy.com, which I analyse in detail. I feel that my perspective - that of a someone who is a musician and songwriter first, rather than a professional critic first - is underrepresented on the internet. I have played in bands such as The Aerial Maps, Lazy Susan, Michael Carpenter & The Cuban Heels, Sliced Bread, and Tom Stone and the Soldiers Of Fortune. O Song! is also the title of an old livejournal mp3blog of mine. The name comes from an Augie March song off their 2002 album Strange Bird.

I wrote about my favourite albums of 2009 here, here, and here, and wrote about what I think were the most influential albums on the music I listened to here. And since November 2009, I’ve had a miniproject of writing about each #1 Australian single as according to the ARIA Charts. When I was much younger, I was fascinated by the charts, and would religiously watch the chart clips shows like Video Hits and (the old-time Saturday morning) Rage.

If you want to get in contact, email me at hillsonghoods@gmail.com, or twitter.

Regards,

Tim.

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