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Blur | The Guardian – 2009
It was all a bit of a Blur…
They have been one of the most innovative and influential bands of the past 20 years. As Blur re-form for a series of concerts next month, Ally Carnwath, Miranda Sawyer and Imogen Carter speak to those who know them best about the hedonism of 90s Britpop, Damon Albarn's panic attacks – and that battle with Oasis.
Early Years
Nigel Hildreth
Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon's music teacher at Stanway school, Colchester
I started teaching Damon in 1980 when he was 11 or 12 and Graham the year after.
Damon could be absolutely infuriating because he had lots of talent and he didn't always focus it. He took A-level music but failed it. His compositions and performance were good, but most of the exam concentrated on musical analysis and it didn't help that he didn't even bring his scores into the exam.
Graham was a very different character, much more diffident. Damon had moved from London, so he was an outsider, and Graham wasn't part of the Essex scene. But music was a really good place where people who were not part of the normal scene could find a refuge.
They'd formed their own group and they did a show at the school which I remember going to as a member of staff to make sure there was nothing riotous going on. Damon had real charisma. That was when he started being screamed at by the girls. Damon became more popular and Graham had his own cachet from being in school productions. We put on Orpheus in the Underworld. Damon was Zeus, which just about says it all. He was in a toga and chucking thunderbolts. Graham was a minor king or god in the underworld.
Mike Smith
A&R man who first signed a publishing deal with Blur
I saw a show by Seymour [Blur's previous name] at the Lady Owen Arms in Islington and a bunch of shows by Blur at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town [in early 1990]. Watching Damon back then was like watching Iggy Pop; he would climb along the pipes on the ceiling and then slap down on to the crowd below him. The combination of the front three was incredible. It was immediately obvious that Graham was a great musician, Alex James just looked amazing, like he'd walked off the set of Brideshead Revisited and Damon, with this big shock of blond hair, looked like one of the children from The Village of the Damned; there was something intense and spooky and unreal about him. At that point, I'd been doing my job for three years, there were a couple of bands I'd been excited about but nothing that had hit me between the eyes like that.
Karen Johnson
Blur's press officer from 1990 to 1999
The band did a tour in 1992 [following the release of Leisure] called Rollercoaster with Dinosaur Jr, Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. I remember going down to the Brighton Centre and looking for their dressing room after the show: in Dinosaur Jr's, there was nobody; in the Mary Chain's, there were three or four people sitting around with big hair; in My Bloody Valentine's, there were a few whispers in the corner and then I opened the door to Blur's and the noise was just incredible. There was loads of smoke, beers, millions of people milling around like a big party – that was the contrast, that summed them up, they were very accessible, full of energy.
Mike Smith
Damon met Justine [Frischmann] when Suede, who she was playing with, supported Blur in Brighton. He rang me the following day and said: "Do you know this girl, Justine?" I managed to get her number. We would regularly go and see Suede. There was a burgeoning romance but it was tricky because Justine was still in Suede and she had been seeing Brett Anderson (Suede's singer).
Stuart Maconie
Music journalist and Blur's biographer
They did an American tour [in mid-1992] and they were fighting and drinking. Every time I saw them, they had black eyes that they had given each other. They were always a volatile bunch, but they were having trouble with the new record and with David Balfe and Andy Ross [co-owners of the Food record label] who believed in them but felt they should be more poppy. Everyone else had given up on them but I remember getting an advance cassette of Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993). It was like a primer for British music distilled through this very individual sensibility. I remember thinking the tide had turned.
Beginnings of Britpop
Mike Smith
Even when Modern Life Is Rubbish came out and wasn't hugely successful, you got the sense of a band who were revitalised. They went straight back into the studio to record Parklife (1994) and it was like something special was happening. I was around Alex's house when the 12-inch of "Girls and Boys" [Parklife's first single] had just arrived. He put the speakers up at the windows and turned it up to the maximum volume so that everyone in Covent Garden could hear it. We were all dancing round his flat going: "This is it. This is blast-off time."
Stephen Street
Blur's record producer
In the studio for Parklife everyone was focused, very driven, there wasn't tons of drinking going on there. "Parklife", the track, nearly didn't make the album because everyone was a bit tired of it and we weren't happy with the way Damon's vocal was sounding. We'd had this idea to get Phil Daniels in to read a poem that Damon would write for The Debt Collector but after Damon couldn't come up with anything, we thought we'd see if Phil could do the "Parklife" vocal. He was fantastic – after four or five takes, we had exactly what we needed and the track was salvaged.
Phil Daniels
Actor who provided the vocals on the single "Parklife"
I played football with Steve Sutherland, the editor of NME, and he mentioned to me that some young band wanted to do something with me. I said: "That sounds like a bit of fun" and I went off to some studio in Chelsea and met the boys. They were fans, Graham was mad about Meantime and Quadrophenia and kept on quoting bits. I think I did the track in about half an hour. I was directed a bit by Steve Street and Damon Albarn – bit slower, bit faster, those are the only things I respond to – and it was over in a jiffy. My dustman came up to me one day after it had been released and said: "We hope we didn't wake you up this morning" [referring to the "I get rudely awakened by the dustman" lyric].
Louise Werner
Lead singer of Sleeper who supported Blur on the Parklife tour
There were a lot of groupies. The tour manager would come to the front of the stage towards the end of the gig and select the prettiest girls and give them passes to come backstage. And there was a lot of drink and drugs. But as a counterpoint to all the rock'n'roll excess, they had a decidedly middle-class rider and the centrepoint was a giant platter of exotic fruits and foreign cheeses. One night, we sneaked into Blur's dressing room and destroyed their cheese plate. The band were furious, ignoring us for days afterwards, and it was the closest we came to being kicked off the ticket. It seemed you could get away with almost any level of drunken and boorish behaviour on tour, but heaven help you if you messed with their cheese plate.
Blur v Oasis
Stephen Street
I went out with Damon and Alex to the Mars Bar in Soho while we were making The Great Escape (1995). Oasis were there celebrating the success of one of their singles getting to number one. Liam Gallagher came right up to Damon's face, being very arrogant and lairy, with his finger up saying "fucking number one". I remember Damon looking at him saying: "Yeah Liam, whatever" but I could see him thinking: "Right, we'll see."
Steve Sutherland
Editor of NME 1992-2000
Our news editor discovered that Blur and Oasis were going to put a single out on the same day in August 1995 ("Country House" and "Roll With It"). There was already antagonism. At the end of one of the NME Brat Awards, Liam had walked up to Damon and started poking him and pushing him and saying: "I think you're a bunch of cunts, I hate your band." Then Noel started on about how he wished they'd die. These singles went head to head so we put "British Heavyweight Championship – Blur vs Oasis" on the cover and suddenly we were on News at Ten. Damon is a very competitive man and at the time I felt they were very confident they were going to win.
David Balfe
Co-owner of Food and inspiration for the track "Country House"
I sold Food just after Girls and Boys came out, even though [Food co-owner Andy Ross] told me that Parklife was going to be massive. We'd had grunge for a few years and it was really depressing and I thought: "Fuck this, I want to go and do something else." Later on, I popped into the office and on Andy's desk there was a cassette labelled "'Country House', Blur". So I said: "Is this about me?" I could tell from Andy's face that it was. Though the song is obviously not full of praise, it's still incredibly flattering. It's like getting my portrait in the National Portrait Gallery; you're not there because of your own fame, but because of the painter's. I've never discussed it with Damon, it would be too uncool. But the lines "Professional cynic but my heart's not in it, I'm paying the price of living life to the limit", they ring very true.
The Britpop hangover
Stephen Street
There was a party at Soho House to celebrate "Country House" going to number one but Graham wasn't very happy that night. The pressure and the media thing didn't sit happily on his shoulders. By this stage, they had made that video for "Country House". I knew Graham was unhappy with the direction that took and I agreed when I saw it, it cheapened the whole thing. Graham was being quite awkward at that time; he was quite difficult to get close to unless you were prepared to go out drinking with him in Camden.
Stuart Maconie
Damon started to have panic attacks; there was something about the whole pop star thing that was getting to him at a level he didn't understand. They were a hugely successful pop band but internally there were stresses about what kind of band they wanted to be. And Damon and Justine being thought of the Posh and Becks of Britpop didn't sit very easily with him. It's well documented that there was serious drug use in Elastica (Justine's band) at the time and it added up to the end of Britpop not being a very healthy place to be. The fag-end of hippy was Altamont, the fag-end of Britpop was too much drink, too many drugs, too much of a narcissistic lifestyle.
Karen Johnson
As well as doing their press, I was a confidante for the band, certainly through the Tony Blair Cool Britannia period. Blair was schmoozing artists to come and hang out with him which culminated in an event at Downing Street when he got into government. I discussed it with the band and Damon said: "Yeah right, I'm not going." My point was: "It all sounds exciting but they're in government now, they're establishment and you're not really a very establishment sort of band." Damon's pleased now he didn't go, otherwise he'd be ad nauseam on TV walking through that door.
Stephen Street
When we were recording Blur [in 1996], I think Damon began to realise that Graham wasn't happy and perhaps it was time to let him have a bit more say. Graham at that time was saying he didn't want to be in the studio with the band. He hated Alex's mates [Keith Allen, Damien Hirst and others at the Groucho Club] and the West End scene. I had the impression from Damon that the band wanted a bit of a change.
I think he'd grown a bit and was prepared to start writing about his own experiences rather than transposing them on to a character like Tracy Jacks or Dan Abnormal. In the studio, once we got past those first few days, where I felt everyone was treading on eggshells, there was a great atmosphere. I think it was because they didn't want to be competing with anyone on this record, they wanted to make a record that would help keep the band together.
Steve Sutherland
What Blur did was retreat to an art-rock place and as they fractured over Graham's discomfort with being famous, they allowed Graham to have his way on 13 (1999) which doesn't really sound like Blur, but it allowed them an escape route. I was annoyed that they were turning their back on what I thought was their destiny to be Britain's biggest band. It felt like cowardice to me that they were taking a swerve back into the gutter and not facing full-on the opportunity to do what the Beatles did, which was to take the population with them.
Mike Smith
When it came to the recording of Think Tank [starting in 2001], the band weren't estranged, but they weren't living in and out of each other's pockets as they had been. It felt like they had scattered to the four corners of London. There were a lot of internal issues. Graham [who contributes to only one track on the album] wasn't particularly healthy; he absolutely needed to spend some time with himself to get himself back into shape and the band were impatient to start recording. None of them was living a particularly healthy lifestyle and Graham was eating the least amount of vegetables of the lot.
After Think Tank, it was widely assumed that Blur had split up. Damon Albarn, who had launched the animated band Gorillaz with Jamie Hewlett, released a second Gorillaz album in 2005 and wrote the Monkey: Journey To the West opera which had its premiere in 2007. Graham Coxon continued with his solo career, releasing a further three albums. Alex James moved to a farm in the Cotswolds and found work as a newspaper columnist and broadcaster. Dave Rowntree started studying to be a barrister in 2006. A longstanding Labour party member, he was selected in 2008 to fight the seat of Cities of London and Westminster at the next general election.
Karen Johnson
I was just reading a piece that they did in about 1992-93 and it said Damon and Graham would be friends forever. I thought at some point once they'd achieved what they wanted to achieve they'd go back to being best of friends.
Stephen Street
I've been quietly chipping away at Damon and Graham for the past two to three years to get off their high horses and talk to each other. Every now and then, I'd be with Damon and say: "Have you spoken to Graham recently?" and the same with Graham. I would put a little thought in their mind: "Wouldn't it be nice if you spoke?" Initially, neither of them was interested, but I knew that once they got the chance to be in a room together and talk they would find it impossible not to work together again.
The Blur I knew
Miranda Sawyer
When I first started writing about music, in late 1988, for Smash Hits, we were based in Carnaby Street and Food Records was around the corner. When the team first met Blur at the pub, we loved them. They looked like a proper pop group, with proper pop group fringes; they were funny, clever and really good at drinking. Alex and Dave were the easiest to get on with. Graham could be touchy when drunk and Damon was complicated. He got nicer as he got more famous; it was as if he relaxed.
The most important and the trickiest relationship in the group is between Damon and Graham. Damon is bossy and communicative; Graham is sensitive and can find it hard to find the right words. He once told me that he expressed his sorrow at Damon's upset over Justine through his guitar playing, rather than by talking to him.
When I first met them, Graham was mates with Jamie Hewlett (who would go on to form Gorillaz with Damon) and Alan Martin, who created Tank Girl. But later, when Jamie hooked up with Graham's ex, Jane Olliver (Justine Frischmann's best mate), that friendship fell apart. Damon hated Jamie because of it, so it was strange when they became friends. The flat that Damon and Jamie shared, in west London, in the mid 1990s must have had every eligible young Brit-poppette and model going through it. Damon and Justine had split up, as had Jamie and Jane, so neither of them was happy, though they were having a lot of fun. It was hedonism as therapy.
I've always liked every member of Blur. They know how to get on with women – they've all got a sister apiece – and they're all good company. They have outside interests; they'll talk about art or science or politics, as well as music. Also I admire their work ethic; even when Blur seemed to fall apart, none of them stopped creating.
Back catalogue
Blur revisited
- 1988 Form as Seymour at Goldsmiths College where three band members are studying.
- 1990 Sign to Food Records having changed their name to Blur. Their debut, Leisure, comes out in 1991.
- 1994 Their third album, Parklife, is brought out to widespread acclaim.
- 1995 Achieve their first number one single with "Country House" – which beats Oasis' "Roll With It" to the top spot in the Battle of Britpop – and release The Great Escape in September.
- 1997 Blur, a much less commercial record, is released.
- 2001 Recording for Blur's seventh album, Think Tank, begins but, amid talk of serious musical differences, Coxon contributes to only one track.
- 2008 Albarn and Coxon announce that the band will reunite for a series of shows.


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I thought you would like to see this photo of Lance (formerly Grayson) who Tom and I adopted in November of 2012 from the foster home in Hemet. He is a wonderful dog and is doing very well with us (in this photo he has just had his summer trim, since it is getting hot in the desert where we are spending the winter — usually he has a bit more hair than this). We live in an Over 55 residential area here, where there are many rescue dogs who all play together at the dog park. When we first started taking Lance there he was very shy, nervous around new people (especially men) and didn't know how to play. But now he is one of the friendliest dogs there, always goes up to greet new arrivals (both people and dogs) and is much admired by the other owners. He even runs around with the dogs some of the time, but he always comes back to check in with Tom and me (we were both shy kids when we were young, and we figure he takes after us and needs some reassurance). One of the women who goes to the dog park is writing a book of stories about rescue dogs and she interviewed us about Lance the other day. When the book is published, I will send you a copy.
Also, I am going to put a contribution into the mail for the Second Chance program… Tom and I greatly admire and appreciate what you do for so many dogs. I will make this contribution in memory of my previous dog from you, Molly, and we will do another one at the end of this year to honor Lance.
All the best to you,
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Many people have been wondering what business is coming to the vacant storefront in the Montrose apartment building at the northeast corner of 47th Street and Baltimore Avenue. It was revealed last week (Michael Klein of Philly.com's The Insider broke the news) that a Fishtown-based L.A.-style taco bar, Loco Pez, is branching out to West Philly and chose this location. No further details were revealed, including the timeline for the opening, and we couldn't get more info from the restaurant folks either at this time.
One of our readers asked about vegetarian options at the restaurant, and there are quite a few at their Fishtown location, which offers brunch, lunch, dinner and happy hour. What's interesting is that they only accept cash. Check out their website for more info and the menu. And we'll keep you posted on this new location.
And here's a little bit of history of the old Montrose building, which has housed many businesses in its four ground-floor retail spaces over the years. The beloved Carrot Cake Man, Vernon Wilkins, used to have a store in the building for 17 years until 1996.


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It was a wild week in the NFL. A few nail bitters and upsets throughout the league sure too keep you on your toes. Sunday didn't start off well for ESPN fantasy owners as the app crashed and left fantasy players in the dark of how there teams were doing. But it did not stop the majority from watching the first full football Sunday of the 2016 season.
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Carolina Panthers @ Denver Broncos
Tipping off the NFL season was a rematch Thursday Night between the Carolina Panthers and the SuperBowl Champion Denver Broncos. Carolina was coming into the game with the loss of Josh Norman in their secondary, but the addition of Kelvin Benjamin off of an knee injury last year. Benjamin came back to form catching 6 passes for 91 yards and a TD. His counterpart Cam Newton however, struggled throughout the game getting hit often and only completing 54% of his passes while throwing an INT.
On the other sideline was second year QB Trevor Siemian, who managed the game well completing 18 of 26 passes for 178 a TD and 2 INT's. Although Carolina forced the young QB to turn over the ball a few times, Siemian looked calm and collected in the pocket for the majority of the game.
The game ended in less than spectacular fashion for the Panthers as Graham Gano lined up for a 50 yard field goal for the win and pulled it left. Broncos sneak away with the victory.
Broncos 21- Panthers 20
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Green Bay Packers @ Jacksonville Jaguars
What to some was a closer game than expected, the Jaguars held up with perennial NFC North powerhouse Packers well into the fourth quarter. However, Aaron Rodgers dazzled us with his arm strength and mobility inside the pocket completing an incredible 29 yard TD strike to Devante Adams to give the Pack the 2nd half lead.
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Buffalo Bills @ Baltimore Ravens
Rex Ryan returned to Baltimore once more with former Ravens backup, Tyrod Taylor. The Ravens are looking to put their injury laden season last year to rest with starters Joe Flacco, Steve Smith Sr., and Terrell Suggs all returning to action. It was a good start for them as free agent acquisition Mike Wallace hauled in 3 passes for 91 yards and score. The Bills offense was stifled only putting up a single rushing TD up in the second.
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Chicago Bears @ Houston Texans
The new look Houston offense turned out a great performance for a few of their newcomers. QB Brock Osweiler threw for 231 yards and 2 TD's, Lamar Miller racked up 106 yards on the ground and rookie wide receiver Will Fuller caught a fourth quarter TD pass to put the game out of reach for the Bears.
Texans 23- Bears 14
Cleveland Browns @ Philadelphia Eagles
The Browns demise continued Sunday in Philly as RGIII got hurt diving instead of sliding. Eagles QB Carson Wentz added to their trouble having an impressive game throwing for almost 300 yards and hooking up with Jordan Matthews on a number of different throws. One being an impressive 19 yard corner route.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Atlanta Falcons
It was a shootout down in Atlanta where both QB's were trying to break their team into the win column. For Tampa, the sophomore slump is not applicable to Jameis Winston after week one where he threw for 281 yards and 4 TD's. Matt Ryan also had a great game connecting with newcomer Mohamed Sanu and long time number 1 WR Julio Jones for a pair of TD's.
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Minnesota Vikings @ Tennessee Titans
It was the Vikings defense that came through on Sunday recording to defensive scores in the second half to propel them to the victory. The rest of the players on the Vikes were pretty average as all pro RB Adrian Peterson averaged under two yards per carry. Demarco Murray might have been the only bright spot for the Titans scoring twice.
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Cincinnati Bengals @ New York Jets
Todd Bowles was looking for the Jets defense to slightly improve after last season and they did for the most part recording 8 sacks of Andy Dalton through the course of the game. But miscommunication would be the downfall of the secondary who surrendered 180 in the air to AJ Green. A late Mike Nugent field goal broke the Jets back, who would drop game one of the season in heartbreaking style.
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Oakland Raiders @ New Orleans Saints
It was a high scoring affair in the SuperDome where Derek Carr and Drew Brees traded punches for a majority of the game. The final blow however would come from Derek Carr as Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio decided to go for two and take the lead rather than settle for the extra point. His decision paid off as Michael Crabtree made a sensational catch in the corner giving the Raiders win number 1 on the season.
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San Diego Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs
Another game that came down to the wire as the Chiefs scored 17 points in the fourth quarter to send the game to overtime. This is where Alex Smith took over and ran the ball in from 2 yards out for the score and KC comes out on top in this AFC West Clash.
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Miami Dolphins @ Seattle Seahawks
What may have come to a surprise to some the Seahawks-Dolphins battled for a large part of four quarters until a Doug Baldwin TD put the Seahawks out in front late. The game might have come at a major cost to the Hawks as Russell Wilson appear to suffer from an ankle injury and his status has not yet been updated for next weeks game.
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Detroit Lions @ Indianapolis Colts
Andrew Luck played his heart out throwing for 385 yards and 4 TD's but it was not enough to keep Matt Stafford and the Detroit Lions from pulling the early season upset. Matt Prater sealed Detroit's victory when he nailed a 43 yard field goal with 33 seconds left in regulation.
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New York Giants @ Dallas Cowboys
What is now becoming a familiar sight at Jerry's world a QB other than Tony Romo was starting for the Cowboys. Dak Prescott who had a solid game for America's team could not seal the deal. Eli Manning found his old dancing partner, Victor Cruz, in the end zone as the salsa returned to its rightful place. Poor clock management by the Cowboys at the end of the game cost the Cowboys a chance to win it with an FG.
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New England Patriots @ Arizona Cardinals
An unfamiliar sight at QB for the Pats as Jimmy Garoppolo was the starter. Jimmy G went 24 of 33 for 264 and a TD, while the Pats also had some help on the ground from Legarette Blount who had 77 yards and a score. On Arizona's side, it was Larry Fitzgerald who led the way catching 8 passes for 81 yards and 2 TD's. This effort was not enough however as Cards K Chandler Catanzaro missed a 47 yard field goal for the win. Patriots sneak out of AZ with a huge W without Brady.
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R8: Brisbane stretch lead after Wellington hold Wests
Hyundai A-League – Season 2013/2014 – Round 8 Review
by Jeremy Ruane
with the compliments of www.sportswebsoccer.com
Brisbane Roar extended their lead atop the Hyundai A-League to three points as December fixtures made their first appearance on the calendar, after closest rivals Western Sydney Wanderers were held to a scoreless draw at Wellington Phoenix.
The Queenslanders scored their sixth successive win at Suncorp Stadium when downing Perth Glory 1-0 on Saturday evening, thanks to yet another goal from Besart Berisha, his third of the campaign.
12,308 fans were celebrating after his 57th minute strike settled a contest dominated by the home team, although they could have fallen behind in first half stoppage time when Luke Brattan cleared off the line to deny Michael Thwaite a headed goal.
That was one goal more than that witnessed by the 7,147 fans who witnessed Wellington Phoenix's return to their spiritual home, Westpac Stadium, aka "The Caketin", on Sunday, where they held Western Sydney to a 0-0 draw.
Defences generally dominated proceedings, as the scoreline would suggest, with Andrew Durante and Nicolai Topor-Stanley, in particular, standing out in this regard. But Mark Bridge spurned a glorious chance to win the match for the visitors thirteen minutes from time, while Paul Ifill's header hit the post in stoppage time as the home team looked to clinch all three points at the death.
The round kicked off on Friday evening with Australia's AFC Champions League representatives clashing at Bluetongue Stadium. 5,787 fans saw Central Coast Mariners and Melbourne Victory battle out a scoreless draw in which the visitors squandered more than their fair share of chances.
Mitch Nichols had a goal disallowed in the fourteenth minute, while Mike Milligan rattled the crossbar just after half-time in a match in which neither goalkeeper was greatly tested.
Twenty-four hours later, Sydney FC proved themselves the big movers among the teams trailing the leading duo by downing Newcastle Jets 2-0 in front of 14,803 fans at Allianz Stadium.
Seconds after Alessandro Del Piero had hobbled off unannounced with a hamstring twinge, Joel Chianese opened the scoring for Sydney on the stroke of half-time, and the Italian's replacement, Ranko Despotovic, doubled his team's tally on the hour in an F3 derby in which Newcastle also had chances to score, most notably through Nathan Burns and Adam Taggart, the league's leading marksman.
But the home team proved too strong for their inter-state rivals, and a club record fourth successive win left them occupying second spot on the ladder heading into Sunday's matches.
While Western Sydney regained that in the first of those games, the second saw Melbourne Heart fight back from two goals down to draw 3-3 with Adelaide United at AAMI Park, where the visitors got off to a flying start through Steven Lustica's third minute opener.
Worse was to follow for the home team, as Sergio Cirio doubled Adelaide's lead just sixteen minutes into the contest. Heart coach John Aloisi needed something bordering on divine intervention at this point, particularly given his seemingly precarious position following the club's sluggish start.
Adelaide was unable to build on that lead before the interval, after which Melbourne were a team transformed. Andrea Migliorini's long-range drive nine minutes into the second spell dragged them back into the contest, and when the Italian levelled matters twelve minutes later, the 6,002 fans present went nuts!
Five minutes later, their reaction, not to mention that of Aloisi, was off the scale, David Williams firing Heart in front from the penalty spot after referee Strebre Delovksi controversially ruled Tarek Elrich had handled the ball on receipt of a call from one of his assistants.
Now it was Adelaide's turn to feel mounting pressure, but they responded superbly, Marcelo Carrusca's deflected free-kick thirteen minutes from time setting up a finale in which both teams sought a dramatic winner, only to run out of time.
Next weekend's action kicks off on Friday evening with a double-header. Adelaide welcome Brisbane to Coopers Stadium before Perth and Wellington renew their rivalry at NIB Stadium.
Two more games grace Saturday evening, with the clash of Central Coast and Sydney at Bluetongue Stadium followed by the Pirtek Stadium showdown between Western Sydney and Melbourne Heart. The latter's cross-town rivals wrap up the ninth round of action on Sunday evening, with AAMI Park the venue for Melbourne Victory's clash with Newcastle.
Match Details:
Brisbane Roar FC 1 (B. Berisha (57)) – Perth Glory FC 0; HT 0-0
Central Coast Mariners 0 – Melbourne Victory 0
Melbourne Heart FC 3 (A. Migliorini (54, 66), D. Williams (71 pen)) – Adelaide United 3 (S. Lustica (3), S. Cirio (16), M. Carrusca (77)); HT 0-2
Sydney FC 2 (J. Chianese (45), R. Despotovic (60)) – Newcastle Jets FC 0; HT 1-0
Wellington Phoenix FC 0 – Western Sydney Wanderers FC 0
League table:
P W D L F A GD Pts
Brisbane Roar 8 6 0 2 15 5 +10 18
Western Sydney Wanderers 8 4 3 1 9 6 +3 15
Sydney FC 8 5 0 3 11 10 +1 15
Melbourne Victory 8 3 3 2 11 8 +3 12
Newcastle Jets 8 3 3 2 9 9 0 12
Central Coast Mariners 7 2 4 1 8 7 +1 10
Perth Glory 8 2 3 3 6 8 -2 9
Adelaide United 8 1 3 4 11 15 -4 6
Wellington Phoenix 7 0 4 3 6 9 -3 4
Melbourne Heart 8 0 3 5 6 15 -9 3
By Jeremy Ruane
National Youth League
Round 6 results:
Sydney FC 3 (Mitchell Mallia (2', 45'), Alec Urosevski (5')) – Melbourne Victory FC (2 Christopher Cristaldo (31'), Anthony Proia (68'))
AIS 0 – Western Sydney Wanderers FC 3 (Appiah 50 (pen), 56 (pen), Jake McGing 65)
Melbourne Heart FC 1 (Cartanos 90) – Adelaide United FC 4 (Melling 4, Milesunic 22 53, O'Doherty 86)
Brisbane Roar FC 2 (Theodore 50', Borrello 64') – Perth Glory FC 7 (Makeche 15', 88', O'Brien 33', Cernak 41', Zahra 65', 86', O'Neill 94')
Womens National League
Round 3 results:
Adelaide United FC 3 (Tiarn Powell 26', 33', Alexandra Gummer 30') – Newcastle Jets FC 1 (Jasmin Courteney 93')
Perth Glory FC 1 (Christina Julien 84') – Melbourne Victory FC 3 (Jessica Fishlock 24', Caitlin Friend 32', Lisa De Vanna 84')
Western Sydney Wanderers FC 1 (Catherine Cannuli 43') – Brisbane Roar FC 4 (Katrina Gorry 49', 81, 90,' Hayley Raso 51')
Canberra United v Sydney FC – postponed until 29 January 2014 – due to Sydney FC's participation in the Women's World Club Championship.


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Many participates begin their traditional wagon trip to Houston in mid-February, the way their ancesters travels to Texas from other parts of America. To honor the tradition, a large part of the parade features wagons and horses.
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The Big Ten Tournament runs from Thursday through Sunday at Conseco Field House in downtown Indianapolis. If you've never gone, I recommend it. The area is nice and safe, and has interesting hotels and restaurants. You can park without paying a million dollars.
That the Big Ten Conference (headquartered in Park Ridge, Ill.) favors Indy over Chicago demonstrates the racket of doing business in the Windy City.
The best way to get tickets is to hang around outside Conseco Fieldhouse at the end of each game. Half the fans from each contest will be looking to dump their useless tickets. It's a buyers' market.
The Thursday teams won't draw many people, apart from Indiana fans who'll likely have single-session tickets. But the Friday and Saturday games will feature unexpected losers, or fans with unrealistic expectations. Offer them a pittance for their all-session passes.
If you go, you can watch Seth Fein pretend to know how to take pictures from the baseline.
Michigan State starter Chris Allen is suspended indefinitely. Maybe that means he'll be playing Friday. Only Tom Izzo knows. Allen is the one that looks like Lisa Bonet.
The rebounding, the tenacity and the bench will be the difference if MSU prevails. I don't like to predict sports outcomes. I don't gamble, and I'd rather analyze what actually happens than try to figure out what might happen.
I think MSU has the best shot of winning the tournament because they don't rely on any particular person or any particular statistical advantage. They rebound well. They have some defensive punishers. Tom Izzo is not as brilliant as a lot of people say he is, and that's what makes him effective. He reacts to very obvious imbalances in real time. This is not about theory, but observation.
Thad Matta plays a short rotation. Maybe that means tired legs. Maybe it means well-oiled machine. I'm not sure anyone could convincingly demonstrate that an OSU tourney championship/fizzle were due to either.
If Jon Diebler can't miss and Evan Turner hits all his spots as well as half of his shots, OSU wins the BTT.
With four full-time coaches in West Lafayette and two in Champaign, Purdue has the broadest intra-conference reach when it comes to controlling that which can be controlled.
But no amount of guidance could persuade Robbie Hummel's tendons from staying intact.
Purdue could win the BTT, and it would be the greatest Indianan overachievement since AJ Moye.
A few weeks back, I said Illinois needed three more wins to get an NCAA bid. They've won one game since then.
If Illinois beats Wisconsin and Ohio State this weekend, I think they'll probably get in.
Small-conference tournaments haven't produced any unexpected, bubble busting automatic bids. Beating the Buckeyes is as easy as installing a missile defense shield to lase Jon Diebler's bombs from the sky before they do any damage. Or guard him.
The rest is a piece of cake. Shoot flawlessly and hope Mark Titus gets all the Bucks massively stoned Friday night.
But playing the Ohio State presumes beating Wisconsin first. Unfortunately,
Bo Ryan continues to get the best out of his players while Illinois has devolved into public infighting.
It's still possible that Illinois beats the Badgers. But they'll have to hit a high percentage of their shots. DJ Richardson did a great job defending Jason Bohannon last week. Someone else will have to make a remarkable contribution.
Four of the Big Ten's bottom 6 could launch improbable tourney runs.
Iowa and Indiana have no chance.
Indiana has some horses, but the team's in turmoil. Tom Crean fired an assistant coach this week. Southern Indiana continues to praise Bob Knight, Nathan Bedford Forrest, etc. Steve Alford's success at New Mexico has them all a-titter. (They don't have the internet.)
Penn State could do damage if Jeff Brooks and Bill Edwards play the way they did in Champaign. If Chris Babb shoots light out. If Talor Battle retains any will to fight.
Michigan can beat anybody, they just haven't. It's inexplicable. I blame the Zacks.
Minnesota is the most dangerous of the six. They had a lot of off-court problems this year. Lately they seem to have overcome the distraction. Their roster includes a lot of Big Ten bodies and various skill sets. Tubby Smith wins everywhere he goes.
Northwestern was pegged to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in its history. For a while it seemed like they'd do it even without Kevin Coble. The BTT is their last chance. Drew Crawford received much "Freshman of the Year" consideration. Juice Thompson remains dangerous to any team. John Shurna is the best nerd in the Big Ten.
Iowa just sucks.


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They run the gamut, from epic film franchises, such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy or the seemingly interminable Star Wars series, to one time mind-bending hallucinations like Adaptation and Metropolis. Of all movie genres, none presents as blank a slate to the filmmaker as the fantasy genre. The best of the lot go further than dressing up a standard good guys vs. bad guys plot with otherworldly characters and settings. They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.
Filmed fantasies slyly teach us about ourselves which is likely the reason so many are adapted into philosophical parables we tell our children. They imagine world's where both affection and fear are immediate and overpowering, and where humor effortlessly shines in some of the most absurd – even the darkest – situations.
It is also the genre that arguably displays true gender parity – we are mesmerized by the the power and influence of female characters like Morgana in the Arthurian legends or Wonder Woman just as much as we are entranced by the antics of Han Solo or Pinocchio.
Fantasy represents the dreams and nightmares that we share to make sense of a difficult and dangerous world. Here are five that imagine the unimaginable:
El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) – Guillermo del Toro (2007)
That del Toro is the contemporary master of the fantasy genre is unquestionable –he has become the 21st Century version of the brothers Grimm. He also produced and wrote this post Spanish Civil War tale, which is as dark, brutal and, ultimately, as magical as any classic fairy tale that has been retold for centuries. It has all the elements – the young girl and her fantasy world, the evil stepfather, mythical creatures and a set of three tasks. What makes this special is the fullness of the backstory of a world so harsh that it can only be dealt with through phantasmagorical eyes. And what eyes del Toro provides – his vision mixes the horrors of war with the imagination of a child dealing with them. The works of Goya and Picasso's Guernica trod the same ground with their unflinching imagery of the effects of war, and this modern classic stands shoulder-to-shoulder with them.
Being John Malkovich – Spike Jonze (1999)
I wish Jonze made more features, especially when he's paired with writer Charlie Kaufman. Together they drill into the maze of our psyches, wreaking havoc such as they do with "poor" John Malkovich here. It's an inner mind adventure that examines, twists, pokes in ways we never see – hell, most of us can't imagine – where a failed puppeteer discovers a portal into a movie star's mind. That does not even begin to describe the frolics that ensue in this shock-and-awe script that is one of the most original screenplays ever written. John Cusack is the meddler, ably supported by Catherine Keener and a totally un-glam Cameron Diaz, while a good-natured and self-deprecating Malkovich plays himself as he tries to regain control of his mind. Imaginative fun that surprises at every turn.
Excalibur – John Boorman (1981)
Over 70 films based on the same Arthurian Legend that has been examined and interpreted in every medium from literature and art to musical theatre and television. Boorman gives us a very mystical (and very adult-oriented) version, full of magic, philosophy and seduction that is based primarily on Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (written in 1485). With considerable visual assistance from cinematographer Alex Thomson, we are presented with the well-known story of idealism mixed with sorcery in stunningly bravura fashion. Helen Mirren, Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson and Nicholas Clay play the leads, but the film was also the career launchpad for a generation of Irish actors including Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart, Ciaran Hinds and Gabriel Byrne. Who ever said mythology can't be lush, sexy, and inspiring?
Cloud Atlas – The Wachowskis & Tom Tywker (2012)
David Mitchell's tale of six interwoven stories proposing that individuals' actions are interconnected across the centuries and continents was deemed as "unfilmable," but, thankfully, that is not a condition that either Tywker or the Wachowskis seem to recognize. Using a troop of actors playing four to six characters each across time, race and gender lines, the film has pretty much everything – romance, comedy, adventure, discovery, politics, science fiction, artistic struggles…even a hint of cannibalism, all set to a glorious score anchored in the Cloud Atlas Sextet. We leap from story to story and back again, landing into situations already in progress from 1849 to 2321. This is a Chicago-style pizza of a movie – thick, messy and totally satisfying – that polarized audiences and critics, but I believe it will stand the test of time and become regarded as one of the most ambitious and uplifting films ever made.
La belle et la bête (Beauty & the Beast) – Jean Cocteau (1946)
As good as they are, the Disney versions can't hold a candelabra to Cocteau's dreamily brilliant version of this 18th Century fairy tale. Cocteau was primarily a poet, and his film is visual poetry that inventively captures both dread and magic by way of imagery that surpasses any animated or CGI-assisted contemporary retelling of the familiar story. In addition to the sumptuous production values, there is a subtle, adult layer of desire working its way through the fairytale elements that make the tale appealing to all age groups without pandering to any. Cocteau's companion of 25 years, actor Jean Marais, does triple duty as the Beast, the Prince, and a suitor to Josette Day's Belle. Cocteau was nearly 60 when he made his version of this "tale as old as time", his first feature length film, and his maturity and vast experience as avant-garde poet, playwright, artist, set designer, and director imbue a simple fairytale with depth and incomparable beauty.
Things that go bump – be they monsters, phantoms or unreal worlds where we find ourselves in times of trouble – help us cope, explain and, in the final analysis, survive. They all are truly the stuff that dreams are made of.
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Last night I dreamed I was standing in my kitchen in bare feet surrounded by broken glass, calling rather pathetically for my husband to come help me. The dream also featured a swiftly rising river and an old man who lived in a hobbit house. It was a dream, okay? This morning, standing in my mercifully glass-free kitchen waiting for my coffee to brew I decided the dream wasn't about my marriage or old men in hobbit houses, but about work. That broken glass represents all the ways I can mess up some pretty fantastic processes and relationships in my attempt to fix some rather glaring challenges. The hobbit house was just for atmosphere.
This is the challenge of managing teams and programs well: they are complex, and we risk stepping on broken glass when we make changes, doing damage we didn't intend while simply trying to move forward through a challenging environment. The complexity comes primarily from the fact that teams and programs are made up of people, and people are dynamic things. You cannot always predict how a change here will impact a relationship there, or how a process introduced today will impact an output next month. You try to predict these things, but the reality of complexity is that you can't fully understand the system well enough to play-out all the results – desired and undesired – of your actions.
It is tempting to think of our projects and the teams that run them as machines. Projects have tasks and processes and outputs, things machines handle pretty well. But I'm not sure in the history of people we have ever benefitted from thinking of people as machines, so I am going to resist that temptation. I think we should instead envision teams and projects as ecosystems, and ourselves as ecologists who try to manage them. NPR was reporting this morning on Zika prevention in Florida, and the proposed release of two different kinds of mosquitos: one, genetically modified Aedes aegypti males whose offspring die; and two, normal male mosquitos infected with a naturally occurring (harmful to insects) bacteria whose offspring also die. The people of Florida seem more comfortable with the second option, and I can understand why: there is less mucking about with things we don't understand, and thus the potential for deep and unanticipated blowback is lessened. They hope.
My particular environmental challenge is less dire than the introduction of genetically modified mosquitos, but it does involve two continents, over a dozen people, and at least twice that number of interacting, valid priorities. And opinions. There is no shortage of opinions. Like the ecologists, entomologists, and epidemiologists looking at Zika in Florida, I have to consider how my actions will impact not just the one thing I touch, but the things that thing touches, and the things those things touch, today and next week. And I should act fast, because our work matters. But I should be patient, because one shouldn't act until one understands the environment and the problem. Sometimes that waiting, that observation of the problem (the local flora and fauna, I suppose) is the hardest and most important part: doing nothing but watch while your people struggle with complexity. Thankfully this is just management, not the fragile ecosystem of the Florida Keys. And if I do it wrong, and make decisions that have unanticipated impacts, I can probably call for my team and they'll help me sweep up the broken glass.


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Marketing & Publicity that Works: Notes from an Editor
It was around 2009, I was an editor at Quercus, and a young adult author Cat Clarke was publishing her debut novel with us. We were still 6 months from publication, and my inbox was getting what I thought was a series of spam email.
Entangled by Cat Clarke
Turns out I was getting emails from bloggers who wanted a copy of the proofs (review copies).These bloggers were from all over the world: Japan, China, Brazil, Greece, France, Spain. Places we might sell in, but certainly hadn't publicised in yet. It was still another 6 MONTHS till the book was going to be published!
With this pre-launch buzz, Entangled, Cat's first book, went on to sell a healthy number of copies. I think it sold around 20k in those first months but my memory is hazy. I just remember that the sales director was happy, (and it was a rare day that she was happy with the editorial team). For a small publisher and a debut author, in the UK, we were thrilled.
Cat Clarke, who has since written many books, essentially taught me my first lesson in marketing: build a tribe.
#Social Media, #Content Marketing
Credit: William White, Unsplash
The moment Cat decided to write, she started a blog called Cat Writes YA, and engaged with reviewers, fans and bloggers in that niche.
Those requests I was getting? It was a result of her efforts to build a community.
Her approach, simple as it was, is roughly the advice that gurus like Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin, give out today.
Find and engage with your community.
But what does this mean for the 2017 social media crazy world?
Well, whether it's Sci-Fi or Chick lit, or Children's, find the reviewers and fans of these genres and talk to them. There are lots of platforms, and you don't have to conquer them all, not just yet. Find 1-2 that you're comfortable with and where your audience might be (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Tumblr).
Now you've probably heard this sort of advice before and I'm anticipating objections here, and here are my answers:
Objection 1: I know I 'should be' online but I hate the idea/ am doing it already & bored by the process or I'm frustrated by the small results.
My answer to you is to just keep at it steadily, consistently. Use the Tomato Timer and just spend 25 min a day to post, or chat to someone in your world. Slowly but surely you will gather a community. Your fanbase won't be built overnight, but it won't be built by inaction. I've watched aspiring authors like Candy Gourley and Nikesh Shukla start with small platforms, and build momentum as they published books, and later won awards.
Objection 2: I have nothing to say! What can I contribute online?
There is no prescription for success online, but there are many options.
You could
- Review your favourite books in a blog
- Document the frustrations and joys of being a writer
- Interview your favourite writers
- Create inspiration photo posts for other writers
- Critique your favourite and least favourite covers on pinterest
- Post the music tracks you listen to every week when you write
Here are some real-life examples of what authors have done to stay relevant online.
Choose what suits your personality and try it consistently for at least 6 months. Whatever tricks you need to help you enjoy the process (music, chocolate, coffee) bring 'em out. Get your 25 min a day in.
Objection 3: I don't have enough time
I hear you. Social media is a black hole for time.
So let's get more efficient it. And also, don't worry about your twitter numbers, focus on your engagement. As I said earlier, allocate time every day to respond. I'm a huge fan of the Pomodoro Technique (click for a link to an online timer) to keep you using time well. In the end, it's the quality of engagement rather than aimlessly scrolling through newsfeeds that matter. Don't fall into the trap of using social media vacantly because you don't want to write! Limit your time every day, but consistently engage. That's what I tell my authors, and it's what I'm starting to do myself, finally.
Credit: Pablo Garcia Saldana
Over the years, working with authors and startups I've learned the importance of starting now.
Starting before anyone else shows up, starting before you have approval.
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb
Authors and entrepreneurs have also taught me that the best time saver is to focus on what matters.
Joanna Penn and Brian Cormack talk about the Long Term Launch, which is about creating a series of 'windows' of promotion, a better, smarter way to think of promoting your book. So, for example, you might set aside two-three weeks around your book launch and within this period you would concentrate all your interviews and posts.
You could then repeat this over a summer promotion and a Christmas promotion period etc. SO it's not all year round, and it's not a one hit attempt either.
When should you start thinking about strategy? I don't think it's ever too early to start - but if you haven't finished writing your book yet, you shouldn't focus on marketing and publicity. Sure, start formulating a rough plan, and start to tap into a community (a blog, social media platforms) you guard your writing time at the same time.
4-6 months before publication, get in contact with people in your community and involve them - perhaps on the book covers, ask them if they'll be an early reviewer. Plan a series of guest posts, podcasts, interviews and articles around your subject area (I know this is a big ask) so that in your 2 weeks window of publicity, you are unavoidable.
Credit: Mike Enerio, Unsplash
Your aim during your publicity windows is to use the momentum of all the goodwill you've built so far (you started early remember!) to let your audience know your message, your personal story.
For non-fiction, it could be: How to get the body you want in 4 hours
For fiction, it might be: A Thriller better than Girl on a Train
The goal? To have people talking about you, recommending your book.
Which means you need lots of great, honest reviews, and a series of interviews, articles with you, the author.
Now, I don't have a perfect one-size-fits-all plan for you, everyone's plan is different, but I spoke to my friend, who used to be the Marketing Director at Random House, and here is a rough guideline to how you might structure your launch plan (during the windows of promotion) although you have to tweak based on what you're trying to achieve.
60% reaching out to bloggers & press
30% offline meeting potential readers (e.g.bloggers at conferences, writers at festivals, children in schools, bookshop signings)
10% Advertising spend
What I've seen work? Tim Ferriss' approach to being 'unavoidable' in his publicity windows. Philip Ardagh the UK children's writer, relentlessly doing events at schools, literary festivals. Gary Vaynerchuk's documenting of his journey led to phenomenal sales of his book.
We're in an era of change when old media is being overtaken by new channels Medium, Instagram, Snapchat...
So cast your net wide during this period, be unavoidable.
To do this you might be reaching out 4-6 months in advance. Even as far as a year in advance you might attend conferences and spread the word.
If you can stretch to it, set a budget for Facebook Ads to help boost your profile during your publicity window, but again, you have to experiment with this and see if it delivers you the right results.
So to recap…
- Build a Tribe - tap into the community who will be your early supporters
- Start this process earlier than you think but be strict with your time. Don't use it as an excuse to procrastinate
- Plan your long-term launch in good time so that when you do need to promote, you can be unavoidable in short burst
For inspiration on building Tribes & social media, I suggest you watch wider Seth's Talk on Tribes (at 10min 35 he mentions authors but I recommend you watch the whole video) and Gary Vee's advice on promoting a book on social media.
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3 Essential Steps to becoming a bestseller. Lessons from Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin
'Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.' Groucho Marx
Tim Ferriss, Ramit Sethi, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Altucher and Seth Godin are Titans of Publishing. In my research about bestselling authors, their names kept coming up.
Who are they? And they're all entrepreneurs-turned-authors. They write compelling non-fiction, how-to guides or insightful commentary.
They are talked about all over the internet. They use blogs, emails, podcasts and books. They are sought after at conferences, they are celebrities, their customers will buy books and courses and sign up for conferences on their name alone.
What strategies do they use that you could also use?
So this is what this post is all about. I'm going to give you an overview of what these mavericks did and how you can apply this to your book writing and marketing strategy today.
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Seth Godin nails this. He says that books are vehicles for ideas. Being a non-fiction author is about spreading ideas and starting a movement around your belief.
You have to accept that putting your writing out there is no longer difficult. What's difficult is getting someone who encounters your writing to share it with someone else. — Seth Godin
It's obvious but I have to say it. A shareable idea won't have a chance of liftoff if you're not 110% passionate about it. The super successful books by entrepreneurs are about subjects that they live and breathe: e.g. Tim Ferris writes about lifestyle design, Seth Godin writes about creating remarkable work, James Altucher writes about being happy and being free.
All these authors are platform agnostic. They publish on lots of platforms, including books. Which makes sense, don't you think? Today we consume media over multiple platforms and devices.
The 'book' itself is less important than the message. So, don't get hung up on tactics about which format might go first, simply repeat it across multiple platforms including blogs, ebook, paper, audio, video.
Your book must help solve problems that people have. Your number one focus at this stage should be influence. Worry about money and sales later — this will come as you are seen as an authority in your field (from agriculture to property, writing, baking etc)
Don't get hung up on the format, experiment with one format: physical and ebook book, audio, other products as well. Don't go in expecting to make millions from your book immediately (this will come with time, but go with the determination that you will give massive value. Publishing a book is great for building a brand for yourself and help grow your business but it's unlikely to happen overnight.
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"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow." — Seth Godin
Bestselling non-fiction writers have tribes behind them. Readers who are impacted and influenced by their message.
So you need a following. But it doesn't have to be tens of thousands or even millions.
Both Ramit and Tim talk about Kevin Kelly's marketing advice: the true fan rule.
The True Fan Rule: You only need, a ballpark figure of 1000 true fans to make a living from your work.
What is a true fan? Someone who will buy whatever you make, travel the world to meet you or hear you speak, someone who is your superfan. Kevin's logic is that if you can make $100 per true fan, you will make a ballpark 100k which is enough for most people to sustain themselves.
Kevin argues that having 1000 true fans is enough momentum to push your fanbase to 2000, 5000, 10000. It's the start of your journey to building your community. Depending on your profession and expertise this figure will vary. If you specialise in something super esoteric like creating Japanese Gardens, you might need less. If it's helping executives break free from the 9–5 grind, then it might be higher, as it's a larger niche.
Whether this is your first, second or tenth book it'll be your true fans that will pre-order your book and give you reviews and recommend your books to their friends. They are the foundation of the tribe that you need to build.
If you're a business you will have or want to have a tribe already. A tribe consists of the people that your message is for, who is yours? Perhaps, entrepreneurs or frustrated writers or college graduates or stay-at-home mothers?
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"The longcut is truly the quickest route to get to where you want to. The longcut is the Beatles playing in hamburg, the longcut is 'what does this community need and how do I do a piece of work that matters, that's difficult." — Seth Godin
Nothing good comes quickly. If you wanted to you could churn out a 20–40 page book and publish it on Amazon. Maybe you'd make a few thousand dollars, maybe a few more with some clever marketing and persistent hard work. If you game the system you could even hit a niche category bestseller status for an hour or a day.
But here's a better scenario: what if your book sells itself, not just for a year or two years but for decades? Rather than sending your poorly-selling book to conference organiser to get speaking gigs, you get so many invites that you have to start turning the invites down? To get this sort of result you need to play the long game.
To really make an impact, you have to create material is miles better than the everyone else. It's better to spend an extra few months or even a year creating truly evergreen content than mediocre work.
You do this by researching what in the market, and improving on it, consolidating what's already out there on your topic, in your niche and adding your own flavour. And you need to speak to your audience specifically, not to everyone, but the people that you know need and want to hear what you have to say.
Ramit Sethi, Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss are masters of doing this:
- Tim Ferriss talks about how his first draft of the 4HWW being "stilted and pompous and using $10-words where 10 cent-words would suffice." His solution? He "drank wine, sat down, and literally opened up an email client and started typing The 4-Hour Workweek as if I were writing it to two of my closest friends."
- Seth Godin talks about how he keeps his chapters to 2–3 pages to reflect how our attention spans today.
- Ramit Sethi says he spent over 6 months on just plotting the book to get it right. He says it wasn't easy and he felt like giving up.
- There are the exceptions who can write for 10 days and churn out a wonderful book (Seth's Ideavirus was an exception, even for him) but it's dependent on the person and the idea.
We're part of a culture that gives us meaningless likes and hearts for short pithy statements. And our senses love the rush of being validated this way. But to create meaningful work, dig deeper, put your toys away and do the hard work to create something remarkable. You should be pushing yourself to write the best content you can.
While writing your book, consider ways that you can share your message now. Start giving away material and advice NOW to help build your tribe. Most businesses blog, but it's common for this to be delegated to an intern, or whipped up in a few hours. It's better to create posts that are definitive guides on a topic.
"There are three steps: write, ship, share. The more you write and ship and share, the more people will come to depend on what you're doing and the easier it's going to be to spread your ideas. At some point, people will come to you and say, 'I'm not getting enough of what you're doing. Here's some money', or 'I'm not getting enough of what you're doing. Please come speak to my group', or 'I'm not getting enough of what you're doing. Please coach me so I can do it too.' But none of that happens until you write and ship and share." — Seth Godin
If you liked this piece, say hello and let me know what challenges you're having publishing your book.
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By Kerri Cooke
As I write this story, I am surrounded by pictures and memorabilia depicting various aspects of the Sportsman's Paradise. There are scenes on the walls featuring ducks flying over a determined fisherman, along with a small alligator skin attached with pins to the sheetrock.
I'm not naturally inclined to take part in fishing or hunting, so I often forget that I live in an area with a plethora of opportunities for sporting. This, I am sure, is also the case for many other residents of Southwest Louisiana.
As a child growing up in Cameron Parish, I did my share of fishing, because there was not much else to do in Cameron, Creole or Grand Chenier besides visit relatives and friends. Since I lived in a marshy environment about a mile from the Gulf of Mexico, I was well acquainted with fishing.
Tarpons would wash up on Rutherford Beach. My dad and I would fish for flounder, a fish I always thought of as a monster due to its having two eyes on one side of its body, at the jetties. We would also catch perch and catfish, more often snapping turtles, in Barnes Creek at my grandparent's camp in Ragley.
Today, I enjoy hobbies that have very little to do with the outdoors. Even so, as residents of Louisiana, we live in an ideal wetlands landscape for outdoor sport. Louisiana's unique ecosystem provides a habitat for many different types of birds and fish, and the Gulf Coast as a whole is a sanctuary for many aquatic species.
The location of Southwest Louisiana makes it an ideal place to catch many large fish that are desirable to anglers looking for a trophy. Prime fish are located not only in the Gulf of Mexico, but also in local waterways that feed into the Gulf, as some of the Gulf fish migrate and meander into other waterways such as Big Lake, also known as Calcasieu Lake.
All of my catches as a child were relatively small, and I was more of a to-pass-the-time fisher than one who was in it for a prize fish. However, for people who take their fishing more seriously, there are local fishing guides who have all the know-how when it comes to catching the biggest and highest number of fish in the area.
Fishing guides operate locally on Big Lake, Toledo Bend and, occasionally, the Gulf of Mexico. These trained guides specialize in chartering boats to bring paying customers to the best locations to catch speckled trout, redfish, flounder and bass. Guides also instruct customers in the best methods of catching certain fish. Many of these fishing guides are also hunting guides when duck season opens.
Local fishing guide companies sell packages, with pricing available on their websites. Pricing varies due to the number of participants on a fishing trip, and whether lodging is requested. Checklists on what to bring on an all-day fishing trip and other useful information are also available on the sites.
The question I posed to several local fishing guides is not whether they have the ability to catch fish, since the answer to that should be obvious, but whether, since they love and are so dedicated to fishing, they do it not only as a job but in their spare time, as well.
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Kirk Stansel of Hackberry Rod and Gun co-owns the business with his brothers Guy and Bobby Stansel. He's been a saltwater fishing guide since 1979. He specializes in catching speckled trout, redfish and flounder, and is also a duck hunting guide. He fishes out of Big Lake, but sometimes charters some expeditions into the Gulf of Mexico. The company, which has seven employees, can charter as many as 15 boats a day.
Stansel says that he has made a job out of his hobby, and he fishes not only on the job, but on his days off, as well. He would rather be out on the water than doing office work any day. He says he enjoys trying new techniques and strategies, such as fishing a lot of different baits.
Stansel loves his job because he gets to do what he enjoys. There is nothing more fulfilling than a job that is also a passion.
Stansel has the opportunity to interact with a lot of different people, which is another aspect of the job that is fulfilling to him. He says that you have to be a people person to be a good fishing guide, since a big part of the job is being able to effectively communicate with various types of people.
Fishing on his days off allows him to have a break from the presence of people who have hired him as a guide and releases him from the responsibility that comes with chartering a fishing expedition. He says fishing on his day off is a more laid-back activity. But regardless of the circumstance, Stansel loves to fish — with a crowd and without.
To find out more about Hackberry Rod and Gun or to book your own fishing expedition, visit hackberryrodandgun.com.
Big Lake Guide Service
Captain Jeff Poe is co-owner of Big Lake Guide Service. He shares ownership with his wife, Mary.
He began fishing in Big Lake in the early 1980s. While his wife does not do as much guide fishing as she used to, Poe continues to do his job with the same stamina. His specialty fishes are, like Stansel's, speckled trout, redfish and flounder.
Poe says being a fishing guide is a very rewarding profession, because it allows him to have a good time with good people. He describes his job as "fishing with friends rather than a paying customer."
Poe, like Stansel, has made his hobby into a successful business venture. On the days he is not fishing as a guide, he is fishing for enjoyment. He finds pleasure in traveling to different and new areas in his free time. The change in location and pace allows him to have new experiences, and to gain knowledge of good fishing spots that he may not have known of before.
Poe says that with the introduction of modern technology, he has more business calls and appointments conducted by email and the web than by phone.
To find out more about Big Lake Guide Service, visit biglakeguideservice.com.
Louisiana Outfitters
Captain Scott Richey graduated from McNeese State University with a business degree in 1997. He put his degree and business knowledge to use in the fishing guide industry, and has been fishing for over 20 years.
Richey opened Louisiana Outfitters in 2007, after years of managing other hunting and fishing lodges. His specialty is catching speckled trout and redfish, but he also hunts ducks and geese during hunting season.
When he's not working as a guide, Richey travels and fishes in other parts of Louisiana, and even crosses state lines in search of new fishing experiences. He especially likes to go bass fishing in other locations, since Big Lake is not a prime bass fishing location.
To book a charter or find out more about Louisiana Outfitters, visit louisianaoutfitters.net.
Cajun Paradise Lodge And Charters
Capt. Kevin Broussard and his father, Cajun Phil, run Cajun Paradise Lodge and Charters in Hackberry. Broussard has been fishing in Big Lake since 1985.
Broussard says he uses a variety of advertising strategies, including going to wildlife shows, handing out business cards and brochures, and staying up to date on the web and social media.
In fact, one of the things that sets the Cajun Paradise Lodge and Charters website apart from all the others in the area is the Cajun music that plays when you're on the home page. This clever trick puts you immediately into an adventurous mood.
Broussard says he's lucky to have repeat customers and great referrals to keep business going strong.
Broussard, unsurprisingly, also enjoys fishing during his downtime. He loves to go fishing at Toledo Bend during the spring. Another favorite pastime is duck and goose hunting. Broussard adds that he also likes to play golf a few times a year, but doesn't get as many opportunities to play as he would like.
Broussard stresses that he likes "being outdoors, being in nature, and watching the sun come up in the morning." He notes that being on the water is very therapeutic, because you can get away from the everyday, hectic pace of modern life. When he is on the water, he says, it is just him and nature. There is no noisy hubbub out on the open water. Instead, there are sounds of insects buzzing, fish jumping and ducks flying overhead.
Broussard goes on to say that in the past he could completely escape from the pressures of everyday life, but the introduction of the cell phone has infringed upon that freedom somewhat. Sometimes you have to be disconnected from the world to get into connection with yourself.
Regardless of the challenges modern life brings, Broussard is sure to find peace on the water whether he's working or not.
To find out more about Cajun Paradise Lodge and Charter or to enlist the services of Captain Kevin or Cajun Phil Broussard, visit cajunparadiselodge.com.
Joe Joslin Outdoors
Joe Joslin has been a fishing guide since 1998, and is a bass-only fishing guide on Toledo Bend and the Sam Rayburn Reservoir. He is usually booked a few weeks in advance, and fishes every day except Tuesday and Sunday.
Contrary to many of the other fishing guides I spoke with, Joslin views his profession as just a job, and not necessarily a hobby. He notes that he sometimes takes his grandchildren fishing in the summer, but likes to do things other than fishing on his time off.
For example, on Sundays he likes to rest up, attend church and spend time with his family, while on Tuesdays he spends a few hours writing columns on fishing.
Joslin rations his time between being a fishing guide, a family man and a writer. He finds contentment in his job, but also likes to find contentment in his down time by prioritizing activities other than fishing.
To find out more about Joslin's guiding services and his fishing columns, visit joejoslinoutdoors.com.
One thing all these fishing guides have in common is that they are dedicated to their jobs, and take their responsibility seriously. They also share the same home state, with its nationwide reputation for outdoor sports.
Big Lake is known across the country as one of the best locations to land a trophy-sized trout, while Toledo Bend is famous for its large bass population.
Many of you have jobs that have nothing to do with fishing. But maybe you love fishing in your downtime, just as these passionate fishing guides do. Cajun food, first-class accommodations and a day out on the water are all things you can enjoy when you take advantage of the services these local guides provide.


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