This post was originally published on 6 May, 2020. There is a popular perception of ABBA out in the general public of a Swedish group who were perpetually upbeat and sunny and whose music, composed of rich melodies and luscious harmonies, courtesy of the combined superlative vocal talents of Agnetha Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
“I just wanna be drama free and happy” – Insecure S5 teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT“According to showrunner Prentice Penny, the final season hinges on one question: ‘If life doesn’t look like how you imagined it, does that mean it’s a success or a failure?’ He spoke to Entertainment Weekly about what that means and how it should carry into Season 5, and it builds Continue Reading
ABBA Voyage #3 – Our Last Summer: The emotionally-evocative geography of ABBA’s songs
This post was first published on 25 November, 2018. ABBA is the great musical love of my life. Every single last one of their songs summon up some kind of powerful memory, including as a man in his ’50s a joyous/melancholic recalling of past memories, a theme that is common Continue Reading
ABBA Voyage: After 39 years, everyone’s favourite musical Swedes make sweet new music again
It’s a strange but wonderful thing indeed to find yourself taken back to the emotions and sensibilities of your youth. It can happen through all kinds of things – smells, old movies or TV shows and classic books but the medium which most quickly and completely transports me back to Continue Reading
Book review: Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks
ARC courtesy Dan Hanks – release date 1 February 2022 in Australia and 9 November 2021 in UK. No one ever really talks about what happens after the movie ends. Especially when the movie is a bright, adventurous blockbuster in which a band of gallant children come together and defeat, Continue Reading
Countdown to ABBA Voyage #2 – Ring Ring to The Visitors: My top 50 ABBA songs
With ABBA set to release (hopefully) their first new music in 39 years, with the announcement scheduled via a worldwide event commencing at 5.45pm UK time today (2.45am Australia – and yes, I’ll be up!), and the excitement for this longtime fan at fever pitch, it seems like a good Continue Reading
Countdown to ABBA Voyage #1 – Yes, I am the City: My 5 big ABBA moments
With ABBA set to release (hopefully) their first new music in 39 years, with the announcement scheduled via a worldwide event commencing at 5.45pm UK time today (2.45am Australia – and yes, I’ll be up!), and the excitement for this longtime fan at fever pitch, it seems like a good Continue Reading
Heroes come in all sizes: Thoughts on the big things happening in Tiny World (season 1)
In a year where the pandemic has somehow managed to get worse, and climate change is making its presence in scarily unprecedented and well ahead of the modelling ways, it can be all too easy to lose hope and think there is nothing good left in the world. But, of Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie and streaming trailers: Solitary, The Guilty, Maya and the Three
Another week and more trailers to remind that us, all evidence to the contrary, there is still life and creativity and vigour out there in the world. Thankfully since Sydney remains in hard lockdown, two of the three in this triple pick of trailers are available via streaming which means Continue Reading
Book review: The 24-Hour Café by Libby Page
Walk through the streets of any big city and you will quickly come to understand that while you are surrounded by an untold number of people, all surging past with steely and impatient intent, you are, in many important ways, very much alone. None of those people know you or Continue Reading