Where would you want to be at end of the world? With your loved ones or good friends? Favourite bar? The restaurant that serves your steaks just so? Most people, understandably would choose the first option if for no other reason than when everything is at its apocalyptically worst, you Continue Reading
aussiemoose
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!
Living big in a tiny house: One couple turns a WW2 rail car into a cosy magical home
In an age where houses seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and the blocks on which they sit, like an adult trying to squeeze onto a kindergartner’s seat, smaller and smaller, it’s refreshing to see a host of varied people bucking the trend. This can be for a variety Continue Reading
Comics review: Blackbird
What do you do if your life, both the one you’ve actually lived and the one you have always imagined yourself living turn out to be fabrications of the real thing? And how should you react when everything you have always thought was true, turns out to be exactly that Continue Reading
Classic book review: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The more things, the more they stay the same. This oft-repeated and frankly rather over-used phrase, which simultaneously sounds both very wise and extraordinarily obvious, is proof positive that humanity has a predilection for repeating its errant behaviour over and over again, no matter how disastrous or comically awful the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #21: ONUKA, Storm, Agnes Obel, Russ, REYKO + #Eurovision 2020 update
If you’re going to do life properly, there’s a lot to navigate. And which all that busyness can come a sense of being overwhelmed and subsumed, with things rushing at you far too fast to make any meaningful sense of them. Which is why having these five artists along for Continue Reading
Movie review: Underwater
Humanity is, in general, not a huge fan of things that go bump in the night or, for that matter, of anything that swims menacingly just out of sight in deep, dark water. And yet, when the siren song of immense profits call, as they do in the William Eubank-directed Continue Reading
Book review: The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
In the sometimes blighted age in which we now live, the concept of truth has taken rather a beating. A once inviolable idea that rested on the firm foundation of repeatedly verified facts, truth is now seen in certain quarters as a malleable quantity, something that can be dismissed as Continue Reading
What is real and what is not? Alison Brie struggles to tell the difference in Horse Girl
SNAPSHOTIn Horse Girl, Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions Continue Reading
Ain’t love … murderous? The Lovebirds mixes dating and murder to hilarious effect
SNAPSHOTOn the very brink of breaking up, a couple gets unintentionally embroiled in a bizarre (and hilarious) murder mystery. As they get closer to clearing their names and solving the case, they need to figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night. (synopsis via Coming Soon) Every Continue Reading
Book review: The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by Jane Riley
There is something utterly captivating about watching someone come alive after years, nay decades, spent making themselves into as small and non-descript a shape as possible. Or in the case of Oliver, the titular protagonist in The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by Sydney author Jane Riley who finds himself, Continue Reading