Tag: music
member name: Carl Halling
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February 05, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the Merchant Navy College (in Greenhithe, Kent), the latter, no longer existent, having merged with the Thames Nautical Training . . .
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August 02, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
The Siege of La Rochelle
If my memory serves me faithfully, some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975, I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic . . .
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August 03, 2007 09:35 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Genesis of a Gentleman", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, is an account conceived as accurately as possible of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in . . .
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January 06, 2007 12:13 PM EST --
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July 26, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
Introduction:
These first two pieces set the scene for my entire writings. Both deal with my childhood in London in the 1960s. The first was adapted from a Christian testimony dating from 2002, and published . . .
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February 22, 2007 04:37 AM EST --
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November 14, 2007 10:07 AM EST --
Introduction
“A Final Distant Clarion Cry” consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly knitted together to make a suitably grand finale to my as yet untitled experiment . . .
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August 12, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
Introduction
The following short story, the last in a series of pieces based on my sixties boyhood in west London, is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled . . .
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August 16, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
Introduction
"West of the Fields Long Gone" has been composed of pieces from formerly published writings, including "Ice Spoke of the Spells of Calm", which was first published at . . .
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August 24, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
Introduction
"The Twilight of an Actor" existed initially as nothing more than "Such a Short Space of Time", published at the Blogster.com website on the 19th of February 2006. However, . . .
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January 05, 2008 06:35 AM EST --
Introduction
"Those Gambolling Baby Boomers", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, tells how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s after leaving Pangbourne . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction:
These two pieces set the scene for the entire work to follow, a kind of experiment in memoir writing with a spiritual core. Both deal with my childhood in London in the 1960s. The first . . .
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July 07, 2009 01:58 PM EDT --
Introduction
Tales from the Halling Valley 1 consists of the first six tales of the epic "Tales from the Halling Valley". They have virtually nothing to do with Norway's . . .
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May 13, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
My mother the Canadian singer Ann Watt was born Angela Jean Watt to British-born parents in the city of Brandon, Manitoba. Her father an Irish builder from Castlederg in County Tyrone had been born . . .
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March 13, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Those Landmark Years
For two years I'd slavishly followed those artists who'd either predated Modernism or been part of its banquet years and beyond but in '76 a new decade, that of Brando, . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:07 AM EDT --
Sad Loves of a Seafaring Man
In late summer 1973 the minesweeper HMS Thames set out for Bordeaux in Gironde in the south west of France. It was my first voyage as an Ordinary Deckhand with the RNR . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:06 PM EST --
The following is an account concocted as accurately as possible, given that I was looking back at some three and a half decades ago, of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s, . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:11 PM EST --
By any standards, Pangbourne College was a deeply Christian school, with regular Divinity classes, daily prayers, and compulsory chapel on Sunday morning. Moreover while at college I was baptised and confirmed . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:16 AM EST --
If my fifty year old memory serves me faithfully, it was some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975 that I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:33 AM EST --
77 was a darker year than its immediate predecessors as I see it, it having been marked by the ascendancy of Punk, a musical and cultural movement which perhaps somewhat hampered Rock's uneven progress . . .
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