It’s a weighty question but one that is always worth asking – what does it mean to love? There will be as many answers to that as there are people on the planet but suffice to say that one person worth listening to, and listening to with rapture and wonder 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!
The short and the short of it: “Away” by Florian Petiteau
SNAPSHOTTheCGBros Presents Away by Florian Petiteau. Away, [the] short story of a dreaming stone, is a 3D animated short directed by Florian Petiteau with music composed by Valentin Petiteau. Away is about a stone stuck on his mountain dreaming of going to see the sea. (synopsis via YouTube) There is Continue Reading
Movie review: Supernova
A lot of visual storytelling has conditioned us to the idea that big emotional moments happen in a music-soaring, climactic ways that dominate everything around them. But the truth is that in real life, life-shattering life events often happen quietly in the limbo period between dawn and the day or Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 1 – Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Book review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
When faced with the sheer enormity of evil and suffering, pain and despair, represented by slavery, it might be hard to see how love could make any real difference to people caught in its cruelly unyielding grip. But in the intimately expansive story of The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr., Continue Reading
Get ready for Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (review)
Have you ever wondered where Easter got its start? No, not the religious start which I think we can all agree has been rather fittingly and exhaustingly documented; rather, how did all the eggs and a particular bunny and all the other colourful parts of the holiday come to be Continue Reading
Up goes the Easter Beagle! Decorating my Easter tree with five pop culture ornaments – Tigger, Snoopy and Woodstock, Bugs Bunny, Taz Devil and Charlie Brown
I have an Easter tree! Yes, that is a little unusual to most people but dig down into the community of fervent Christmas tree decorators, of which I am a happy part, and you will discover that decorating for the festive season twice a year (yes, Christmas in July is Continue Reading
Come join David Attenborough and experience Life in Color
SNAPSHOTDavid Attenborough travels the world from the rainforests of Costa Rica to the snowy Scottish Highlands to reveal the extraordinary and never-before-seen ways animals use color. Using revolutionary camera technology created specifically for this series, viewers will experience how colors invisible to the human eye play a vital role in Continue Reading
Finding themselves before the truth finds them: Thoughts on Ginny & Georgia
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MUCH ANGST AND HEIGHTENED LIFE STUFF Ginny & Georgia is, in many salient ways, the anti-Gilmore Girls. This may sound like the obvious comparison to draw since the show is about a mother and daughter who are close in age – Georgia (Brianne Howey) had Continue Reading
Second life art: New York artist explains why he paints pop culture icons into discarded old paintings
SNAPSHOT“It came to me at a thrift store. I wanted to take something that had been forgotten and change it in a way that didn’t affect its aesthetic and to see if that, in and of itself, would make it wanted again.” (artist Dave Pollot via Laughing Squid) Op shops, Continue Reading