Where did all that childlike wonderment and excitement about an idealised future go? Once upon, in our ’50s-inspired, retro fevered dreams about what might lie down the road, we pictured flying cars, clean cities full of gleaming skyscrapers and rooftop gardens and people in luminously white smocks walking through parks 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: Have Heart and the existential crisis of an animated looping GIF
SNAPSHOTWill Anderson’s latest Have Heart, a humorous and relatable tale of a looping animated GIF in the midst of an existential crisis, has already charmed live audiences worldwide and is now looking to blow a few minds online. With a healthy festival run throughout 2017 and early 2018, Have Heart Continue Reading
Book review: Billie by Anna Gavalda
Billie is one of those gleefully seditious and mischievous that subverts all your expectations by packing an emotional wallop the size of the Cévennes mountains in France. That geographic reference is quite apropos to proceedings because it is where lifelong friends Billie and Franck are trapped after falling off a Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #43: FLAVIA, KRANE, San Holo, Porter Robinson, Harry Nathan
Love, so its formidable PR machine goes, is all wonderful, all the time, right? Well, no, not really; for all the people caught up in the rapture and ecstasy of the start of love’s sweet romantic journey, there are plenty of others sliding off the cliff of despair (not a Continue Reading
Movie review: The Dig
Archaeological are by their very nature spectacularly impressive things. Whether it is the discovery of First Nations art in the Kimberleys that is tens of thousands of years old or, for the purpose of this review, an Anglo Saxon ship and gold artifacts in Suffolk, we can’t help but be Continue Reading
Book review: Low Expectations by Stuart Everly-Wilson
Watch a Disney film or traipse into a bookstore or even just watch an ad or two and you’ll work out pretty quickly that we are supposed to be able to do anything. All it takes is grit and gumption, a tenacious vision and some vibrant creativity and the world, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: King of Nowhere by W. Maxwell Prince / Tyler Jenkins / Hilary Jenkins
It may not be immediately obvious but at the heart of every fantastical tale, if its told well, of course, sits a vibrantly humanistic core. This is certainly the case in the King of Nowhere written by W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man) with artwork by Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings, Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “On a Very Special Episode …” and “All-New Halloween Spooktacular! ” (S1, E5 and E6)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A TV HOMAGE SOAKED IN GRIEF … Would you like to see how powerful grief can be? How it can completely alter the entirety of the landscape of your life, pluck you from good and reason into a maelstrom of senseless and atypical decision-making and the Continue Reading
Book review: We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra #ValentinesDay
One of the great tropes of any kind of love story is that of opposites attracting, the idea that two people can come from completely different backgrounds, sensibilities, and outlooks and still find common ground in the fertile surrounds of true love. It’s an intrinsically appealing idea but rarely has Continue Reading
Retro romantic movie review: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist #ValentinesDay
Depending on where you look in popular culture, love is either a many-splendoured thing, torturously complicated or an agony beyond all belief. It is not, despite all the romantic comedy storytelling out there that lauds the transcendent beauty and wonder of falling in love, seen to be a simple and Continue Reading