Life can be pretty tough when you’re in that place between the formation of your dreams and their hoped-for fulfillment; tougher still when that place is wholly held afloat by a minimum wage job that doesn’t pay nearly enough for all the stress involved and buttressed by parents who don’t 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!
Movie review: Uncle Frank
There is an undeniable power, an emboldening if you like, to finally completely and irrevocably owning and celebrating who you are. Nothing can match discarding the petty, snide snark of the peanut gallery, of the bullies and the taunters and the disapprovers and embracing who are you in all your Continue Reading
#Christmas book review: Christmas Cakes & Mistletoe Nights by Carole Matthews
In the deepest, prettiest, warmest and cosiest, tinsel-decked parts of our collective festive soul, there is a part of us that is certain beyond a shadow of a Santa believing doubt that the perfect Christmas is possible and waiting out for us somewhere. In this most remarkable and perfect of Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: World Beyond – “The Deepest Cut” / “In This Life” (S1, E9 & E 10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … SECRETS REVEALED AND SACRIFICES MADE … Do you believe in happy endings? You know, the kind — the prince or princess get their opposite half, what looked lost is found and everyone rides off into the sunset to live happily and uncomplicatedly ever after … swoon and Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #40: RAYE, Kita Alexander, Louis the Child & COIN, Biig Piig, Alison Wonderland + Christmas Sia!
2020 has been a YEAR. And as befitting a year of intense, amazing, alarming and deeply affecting emotions, the final Songs, songs and more songs for the year talks about five artists who seemingly go to the very ends of themselves and back to craft songs that not only sound Continue Reading
Book review: Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
When you come to know someone later in their life, it is all too easy to assume, and we often do, that they have always been exactly like the person you see before you. We do it with parents and grandparents, teachers and authority figures of all kinds, even new Continue Reading
The madcap peril of Bob’s Broken Sleigh (review)
Christmas is, next to Earth and its unending attraction to alien invasion (I swear there’s a queue out by Saturn with armadas lined up one after the other to have a rack at subjugating us), the target of more villains than you can poke a gigantic red-and-white striped candy cane Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery – “Unification III” (S3, E7 review) / The Mandalorian – “Chapter 13: The Jedi” (S2, E5 review)
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A SURPRISE PROMOTION AND RETURN OF THE VULCANS … SORT OF … Oh. how the future surprises us! Not only do they have matter that moulds and adapts itself to your unique physiology and transporters that beam you where you, and you alone, Continue Reading
Gravity defying stop-motion festiveness: Alien Xmas (review)
One of the most comforting parts of Christmas, a season dedicated to making us feel like everything is gloriously and perfectly right with the world, is settling down to watch the slew of new and old Christmas specials, TV shows and movies at our disposal. Most people will have favourites Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #39: Akurei, Gus Dapperton, PLS&TY, Faithless, Hotel Garuda + Eurovision 2021 update
INTRO “HAIRDYE” by Akurei There is an ethereal beauty to “HAIRDYE” by Australian artist Akurei. In amongst all the sweetly charming music, however, are some fairly intensely reflective lyrics that the singer says makes “HAIRDYE” are a very personal statement for him. “‘HAIRDYE’, the focus track, came together on a Continue Reading