You not immediately think to link a viral sensation Disney + series with an Australian writer who calls Boonah, Queensland home, but as you soak yourself in the healing balm that is Tabitha Bird’s The Emporium of Imagination, which deals with grief in one of the creative and soul restorative 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!
Songs, songs and more songs #46: Love Level, Kartell & Tim Atlas, José González, Lauren Auder, Will Stratton
Are you frazzled? L Is life too intense and too full-on for you to collect your thoughts and think about what it all means, if it in fact means anything at all? Then sit down and listen to these five tracks which offer you not only lyrical introspection and thoughtfulness Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: We Broke Up, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Drop Everything and Run
Ah, movies how we love thee! You give us all kinds of escape from the mundanity of everyday life and we are all the richer for your presence in our lives, especially when pandemics seem to go out of their way to make reality even bleaker than it is normally. Continue Reading
Book review: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
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