If The Muppets, in all their glorious sweet hearted hilarious lunacy have taught us anything, apart from the fact that a good aggro drum soul is de rigeur for any song (thank you Animal), it’s that there is nothing they cannot do. NOTHING. They have performed in an old 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!
Now this is music #35: GEoRGiA, Vaults, Kwamie Liv, RDGLDGRN, HANAH
I hear ya – it’s been a grindingly long week with little to enjoy but a burrito for lunch and a wine at the bar on Wednesday night before heading home on a crowded train. It’s precisely why these five songs are what you need right now. They’re by Continue Reading
Zombies are made of plastic bricks: The Walking Dead’s S5 trailer gets LEGO-ised
It feels like an undead eternity since we last saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his fellow zombie apocalypse survivors locked away in a rail car by suspected cannibals at the not-so-safe sanctuary of Terminus at the end of season 4 (which apparently had an altogether more badass ending in Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! The 10 new shows I am looking forward to watching
Rejoice those of you with too little TV to watch, there is an avalanche of fresh programming on its way! For the rest of us, who are happily close to drowning in the rich seas of the new golden age of TV, and are watching more programs that we Continue Reading
Guardians of the Galaxy: Here’s a whole lot more to love about this brilliant movie
Guardians of the Galaxy is a phenomenon. Released just under two weeks ago in the USA, it has already taken in approximately $175 million domestically, with similar success overseas, it has taken everything we thought we knew about Marvel’s unarguably successful superhero films, all of which march to a reasonably similar Continue Reading
RIP Robin Williams: From Mork and Mindy to Dead Poets Society and beyond, you will be remembered
Robin Williams was an amazing man. Bursting into my childhood in the late 1970s via the colourful sitcom, Mork and Mindy (1978-1982), in which he starred as a manic, over the top alien with a penchant for eggs, learning about his new home Earth, and the eventual love of Continue Reading
Happy 40th birthday ABBA: Live at Wembley Arena to release this September
If you thought that ABBA are done celebrating their milestone 40th year, think again. Along with the Waterloo Deluxe album release, and books ABBA the Official Photo Book and ABBA The Backstage Stories / The Treasures, and The Story of ABBA by one of the band members Björn Ulvaeus, the Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Horns, The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, Maze Runner, Interstellar, Predestination
We’re off to explore the fantastical, the unusual, the intergalactic, the oddly non-linear in this edition of Marvellous Massing of Movie Trailers with movies that refuse to be bound by the bland, the everyday, the here and now. And the results are quite promising with all five movies featured Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The books of our childhood tattooed on our heart … and elsewhere
I have always been a prodigious reader. I can’t remember a single moment from my childhood when I wasn’t reading any book I could get my hands from Dr. Seuss through to Tove Jannsson’s Moomins and Nils-Olof Franzén’s Agaton Sax series through to The Hardy Boys, the William series, Alfred Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Saturday Night Massacre (S4, E7 review)
* Here there be beamers, mechs, skitters and … SPOILERS* You may not have realised it, what with all the death, destruction and alien invasion going on, but all throughout the harder, darker, grittier, passive/aggressive Lexi-filled season 5, Falling Skies has been apocalypse flirting with us. With a monstrous Continue Reading