Who are we without our memories? Are we better off? Diminished markedly or does our present state of being and our innate sense of self make up for any perceived deficiency caused by the loss of an lifetime’s worth of accrued experiences? It’s a weighty question indeed but it is 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!
A whole lot of sequel fun with the living and the undead: Zombieland – Double Tap
SNAPSHOTThe original followed four strangers who meet on the road in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and, while initially at each other’s throats, they soon come to bond with each other and form a close-bonded group. Harrelson played the violent cowboy Tallahassee, Eisenberg played geeky Columbus, with Stone and Continue Reading
Christmas in July ’70s festive songs: Paul McCartney, Slade, Wizzard
INTRO “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney No need to introduce Paul McCartney, an artist who has found success in every decade of his artistic working life, not least, of course, with The Beatles. But it’s his Christmas song as part of Wings, “Wonderful Christmastime”, that long captured my festively-inclined heart Continue Reading
Oh no, Goofy! Mickey and Donald race to save their friend in cartoon short “Gone to Pieces”
SNAPSHOTWhen a random accident inexplicably leaves Goofy broken apart like a mannequin, quite alive but scattered all over Mickey’s backyard, the mouse and Donald take it upon themselves to literally put him back together again… which isn’t as easy as it sounds. (synopsis via Scrooge McDuck wiki (c) Disney) There Continue Reading
Book review: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
A title like The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna might lead you to suspect that this remarkably-involving novel by Juliet Games is one whimsically quirky moment after another, a tale of one woman staring death in the face multiple times and somehow living to tell the tale. But Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Is Anybody Out There?” (S5, E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … RADIOACTIVE CLOUDS, LOVE SWEET LOVE AND BUSTED VENDING MACHINES RIPE FOR THE TAKING … It is a rare thing indeed to watch an hour of apocalyptic television – and by that I mean TV of an apocalyptic nature, not reality TV whose sheer banal awfulness signals the Continue Reading
The evolution of Toy Story: How its animation style has changed over the years (video essay)
SNAPSHOTFrom Toy Story through Toy Story 4, Pixar has revolutionized [sic] animation in its nearly three decades of existence. Each new movie requires new technical innovations. Monster’s Inc. helped them create fur, Ratatouille helped them create wet fur, and Finding Dory led them to create an octopus from scratch. In Continue Reading
Movie review: A White, White Day (Hvítur, hvítur dagur) #SCA19
Much as we like to corral messy things like grief into tidy boxes and easily-understood processes, the reality is that it’s a contrary beast that pays no heed to any one’s idea of what it should be or how it should play out. How grief transpires for one person is Continue Reading
5 big, fun #SDCC TV trailers: Picard, Snowpiercer, Family Guy, The Witcher, Carnival Row
San Diego Comic Con is big, REALLY BIG. The just-concluded massive pop culture-a-thon is the must-be place to see and hear all the latest news and trailers about your favourite TV shows and soon to be favourite TV shows, and movies coming down the pipe. Given its gignatuan size and Continue Reading
Book review: Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
Humanity, well most of us anyway, like to think of ourselves as a laudably progressive lot, constantly pushing up living standards, lengthening lifespans and generally behaving ever more like the inclusive, caring, beautiful people we like to think we are. But as Chen Qiufan’s magnetically-readable novel, Waste Tide (translated by Continue Reading