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Michael Brown

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Michael Brown writes about New Zealand music, digital culture, and vernacular culture. He lives in Lower Hutt.

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	The Heading Dog Who Split in Half : Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand by Michael Brown (Goodreads Author), Mat Tait (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eyeliner's Buy Now (33 1/3 Oceania) by Michael Brown (Goodreads Author), Jon Stratton (series_editor), Jon Dale (series_editor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Language: The Massey University Composer Addresses by Michael Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Norman Meehan (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Searches for Tradition: Essays on New Zealand Music, Past and Present by Michael Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samantha Owens (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Pussy, King of the Pirates

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The Stories of Ray Bradbury: Introduction by Christopher Buckley (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

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Signs for the Times: The Humanities, Government and Democracy to-come

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Michael’s Quotes

“Imaginatively speaking, all forms of life are equally valuable - even the fly, which seems to me as enigmatic and as admirable as the fairy”
― Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh

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“History is a collection of paper. A few fading recollections. After a while what is not written never happened.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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“People went to the office out of some perverse lack of interest in golf, or surfing, or betting on the World Cup.”
― Gary Indiana, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story

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“To win a war or a revolution does not validate the cause.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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