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    Shameless (10pm Mondays, SBS)

    Best show on telly at the moment methinks. Quirky, different and bold, and bloody good entertainment too! Forget Desperate Houswives and Prison Break (lost is good tho.....) Check out Shameless!
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    International Studies Dilemma

    I got in for USYD (hooray) but now im thinking UNSW... does anyone have an idea of which is better for this degree? any help would be greatly appreciated!
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    Chord Work

    Anyone got any tips for identifying chords? eg identify the chord at bar 222
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    i need a favour

    anyone who lives in the sydney cbd or goes to the rocks regularly: PLEASE can you borrow me a copy of matthew hindsons "5 Movements for Saxophone Quartet" and scan in the second movement....i need it for my aural and forgot to photocopy it when i borrowed it out....PLEASE! desperation is setting...
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    Bird Flu and Quarantine

    Ok, so, for the quarantine dot points, has anyone used the recent bird flu pandemic as a worked example? If so, care to share :)??????
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    "Unkind Cut" media watch

    http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1442946.htm Discuss
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    Bulgarian Time Signatures

    Hey guys, Was just interested, have any of you had experience with composing in bulgarian time signatures with bulgarian dance metres? Coz i wanna totally transform my composition and spark it up a bit with some interesting time.... Not just Bulgarian, any gypsy music? Thanks a big ole'...
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    Anyone good at transcribing?

    There is this tricky 1 minute jazz cadenza I am trying to figure out and cant....its killing me. Is there anyone out there who might be able to do a favour (i can pay of course) and help me with transcribing this tricky bugger?
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    Charlie Mingus Info

    Hey is there anyone who can give me a site or resource where there is info about JAZZ composers? there are a bunch on classical composers, but hardly any on jazz...i dont know why. Most jazz composers and their compositions are like 100x more complex [rant] Anyhoo, any help would be muchly...
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    antony and the johnsons

    I saw antony first at the lou reed concert....an amazing voice and awesome performer. They are playing him on JJJ a bit at the moment ("One day i'll grow up, and be a beautiful woman. One day I'll grow up and be a beautiful girl" :D). Anyone else dig?
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    what exactly does 'representative of the elective topic' mean?

    because my elective is 1900-1945, and i played a piece today, arranged for saxophone in 1942, with a helluvalot of alterations, originally by vivaldi. and my teacher is threatening to fail me. was i in the wrong? I mean, baroque was being composed in my elective period, and i play saxophone, not...
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    Barry Lyndon

    Kubrick's epic. On now. SBS Watch it!
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    Favourite Childhood Flicks

    I loved: The Labrynth (with a very convincing David Bowie :P) AND Drop Dead Fred AND E.T What bout y'all?
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    crossing over

    No, not the show with John Edwards.... it is urgent. Can someone please explain (in simpleton terms) thr process of crossing overduring meiosis in homologous chromosomes? cheers! PS VERY STRESSSED have 1/2 yearly bio tomorrow
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    Favourite Scene in a movie

    What is your favourite scene in a movie? I have two. One is from one of my favourite movies, "The Royal Tennenbaums". The scene is the one where Richie tries to kill himself. The music (Elliot Smith [one of my fave. artists, RIP] "Needle in the Hay"), the lighting, the camera work, the...
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    Forum Lingo

    Can someone give me a run down of all the lingo on this forum? From "flaming" to "spamming", sometimes it feels like another language
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    Extension Music: Musicology.

    YAY! FINALLY! SUBFORUMS! This thread is for all you people doing Extension Musicology! What is your essay on? Have you started? Research folios, journals? I am doing an essay drawing parallels between jazz bassist Charles Mingus' manic depressive disorder and his musical synthesis. Am...
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    Fundraising

    Didnt know where to put this so move if necessary :D:D:D I am going to japan this April on tour with a band....and I need serious funds for spending money!!! I have 2 questions---> 1) Anyone know of any jobs in wollongong? I AM DESPERATE 2) Anyone had some successful fundraising...
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    Too Much Damn Work

    I know i shouldnt be on the BOS site now...but i am. so i thought i would post. I hate the fact that we have to do this bloody analysis of 5 pieces with the 6 concepts....it is HUGE! i wrote 8000 bloody words! And at the same time, we have to hand in a bloody essay! 3908 words and not yet...
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    UAI over 98?

    Can i get a uai of over 98? Have done English as an accelerant- 2U--> 92 3U--> 47 4U--> 47 and this year i will do: Bio Geog Ext. Music and Philosophy Distinction course. Is over 98 possible or am i dreaming?
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