Who hasn’t wondered, at some point or another, whether life wouldn’t be a whole lot simpler if it was simply us, an empty street and all the cheesecake we could eat? (Perhaps that last thing is just me but you get the overall point right?) Sandwiched like sardines in 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!
Weekend pop art: Real life merges with movie art courtesy of one artist’s iPhone
Who among us hasn’t ever wished that the characters on the big screen in front of us would leap into our comparatively less than magical lives and make them a little more exciting than the everyday reality we’re used to? We may have perfectly wonderful, functional, highly enjoyable but Continue Reading
Movie review: Insurgent
Sequels are not well loved creatures for the most part. Suffering from the law of diminishing returns, they are often Xerox copies of the much more memorable film that preceded them, riffing on the same ideas with the same characters and often same narrative devices, with nothing like the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Cattanooga Cats
I have always been a contrary pop culture consumer. That is to say, without any deliberate intent to swim against the tide, I have often ended up liking programs or characters or songs that never really captured the full attention of the zeitgeist with the result that my top Continue Reading
Now this is music #47: Melwonderland, Karl Kling, La+ch, Lyon and Lowe, Pink Feathers
Life hey? It comes with ups and downs, smiles and frowns (don’t worry I am not planning some sort of weird poetry thing here), peaks and valleys, thrillingly novel events and beige banal moments, and all manner of helter-skelter what-the-hell emotions in and around it all. Articulating how all of Continue Reading
Inconceivable! The Princess Bride gets mashed up with Games of Thrones in a video of unusual awesomeness
* WARNING: THERE IS NSFW VIOLENCE AND MILD SEXUAL CONTENT plus SPOILERS FROM FIRST FOUR SEASONS OF GAMES OF THRONES * Buckle up kids, this ain’t your grandmother’s The Princess Bride! Or is it? Perhaps The Princess Bride and Games of Thrones have far more in common that you might Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Spend (S5, E14 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS AND REVOLVING DOORS O’ DEATH AND SATAN DRESSED AS GABRIEL … I MEAN, AN ANGEL OF LIGHT … AH, SAME SAME * All my greatest fears were realised in this brutal-as-a-summer-day-is-long episode of The Walking Dead. No, not my fears of what might happen to Continue Reading
You spin me right round: One woman journeys through life via a magical vinyl single in Oscar-nominated animated short, A Single Life
SNAPSHOT A Single Life is an animated short film in which Pia finds a vinyl single. When playing the mysterious single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life. If she spins the record forward, she becomes older. If she skips backwards, she gets younger. (synopsis via Vimeo) Continue Reading
Book review: King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett
Humanity has a fraught relationship with justice. While we have gone to great lengths to give its often divine imperatives workable earthly form, setting up aspirationally-impartial policing and judicial systems beholding to no one person or hierarchy, in practice, they have often been found lacking, their ability to bring about the Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Self/less (trailer)
SNAPSHOT An extremely wealthy man (Ben Kingsley), dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the Continue Reading