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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 #34: Marz Leon, VÉRITÉ, Ibeyi, Zola Jesus, Moxie Raia

Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Let’s hear it for the thrill of new music! But not just any old “new” music, grabbed just because it happens to be close and within downloadable reach. Rather as we throw out the old, the tired and the has-been, purging our iPods of songs that have had their Continue Reading

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When Peter met Homer: Family Guy and Simpsons join together for an hilarious crossover episode

Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Crossovers are curious creatures. While it is always a pleasure to see two shows you might love come together – this is not always the case of course with many people usually being a fan of one or other of the two shows; Den of Geek does a superlative Continue Reading

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Can’t wait to see: The water-starved dystopian drama of Young Ones

Posted on July 30, 2014July 30, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Directed by Jake Paltrow, the dystopian Young Ones takes place in a future that’s almost totally devoid of water, which makes farming a difficult task for hardened frontiersman Michael Shannon and his two children, played Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Once Fanning’s boyfriend Nicholas Hoult sets his sights Continue Reading

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When trouble strikes friends stack together: The Boxtrolls enchantingly detailed new poster

Posted on July 30, 2014July 24, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT The Boxtrolls are monsters who live below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable Continue Reading

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(re)Visions: Alice – Interview: Hilary Thomas, author of the novelette “Knave”

Posted on July 29, 2014July 2, 2014 by aussiemoose

  This is the third in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. The publication of Hilary Thomas’s evocative novelette “Knave” Continue Reading

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Yes, Zach, there is Life After Beth …

Posted on July 29, 2014July 21, 2014 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Zach (Dane DeHaan) is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza). But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Continue Reading

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Dan Wagstaff has it covered: The art of books on books

Posted on July 27, 2014July 27, 2014 by aussiemoose

  I know the anonymous sages have told us time and again that we should never judge a book by its cover. And while there is a certain truth to this well-invoked adage, it is also true that that is how many people, myself included, buy their books. It’s not, Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art: What if your favourite Disney princesses ended up in Orange is the New Black?

Posted on July 27, 2014July 20, 2014 by aussiemoose

  Once again the highly imaginative TV gods have smiled upon us. This time, it comes courtesy of designer Maria Bayley from Barbados, who entered and won a DesignCrowd contest which asked contestants to replace the inmates of Litchfield with famous women, and who chose to replace Piper and co. Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Mind Wars” (S4, E5 review)

Posted on July 26, 2014July 25, 2014 by aussiemoose

  *Watch out! There are Mechs, Beamers, Skitters … and spoilers this way!* Never was an episode more aptly named. If it wasn’t Tom (Noah Wylie) trying to talk his way out of temporary captivity at the hands of collaborationist brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Coop (Aaron Douglas) or Anne Continue Reading

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Poster me this: Toy Story That Time Forgot, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Posted on July 26, 2014October 14, 2014 by aussiemoose

I, along with a great many people, never seem to be able to make it, for a whole host of reasons, to the greatest of all pop culture nirvanas, San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), which by the time this post goes live, will be in full, crowded, technicolour swing. But absence from Continue Reading

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  • Retro Christmas movie review: Haul Out the Holly
    (courtesy IMDb) There’s a strange disconnect that can emerge when you’re consuming festively themed pop culture – for instance, you might be perfectly fine with reading endlessly escapist, coincidence-full rom-com novels but find their Hallmark equivalents to be a Christmassy bridge too far. You know there’s a strange kind of Continue Reading
  • Halloween book review: Alice by Christina Henry
    It’s quite the thing these days to take a classic novel as inspiration, or even an ancient one in some cases, and take it to new and exciting places that honour the original work and author but explore new territory. In many cases, it’s done brilliantly and originally well, as Continue Reading
  • The spirit of Halloween future: Teaser trailer for 2026’s Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
    (courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns into mad scientist to help fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control… With Continue Reading
  • Halloween retro animated movie: Coraline
    (courtesy IMP Awards) There’s often admittance by people that they are “late to the party”, as if watching or reading or whatever something long after it’s come out – or sometimes, mere weeks, such is the frantic and unforgiving pace of the modern digital age which eats its newly-released young Continue Reading
  • Halloween book review: The Last Bookstore on Earth
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Any time any author decides to take a well-established genre, give it a good shake-up and reshape its form entirely is a good time. Especially when it comes one as well-trafficked as the end-of-the-world genre which has been pretty much full-to-bursting with zombies and aliens and Continue Reading
  • Halloween Family Guy special 2025: “A Little Fright Music” (review)
    (courtesy IMDb) Halloween is definitely the one festival of the year where you are fully and absolutely allowed to get your freak on, to let loose, defy assumptions and expectations … and lie to your wives about going trick or treating? Hmmmm, not sure the last one is really part Continue Reading
  • Book review: Our Life in a Day by Jamie Fewery
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Whenever we’re asked to pick the highlights for anything, whether it’s a relationship or an overseas trip or our childhood, we unerringly pick the glowingly positive high points, driven by some unspoken acknowledgement that for something to be a highlight it must have unquestionably upbeat qualities. But Continue Reading
  • The short and the short of it: It’s garden gnomes vs. golf club in FOREVER
    (courtesy YouTube (c) Omeleto) SNAPSHOTThe story begins in a cheerful and peaceful backyard garden, where brightly painted gnomes stand proudly among flowers and trimmed grass in quirky poses and scenarios. Bathed in sunlight and silence, their existence is static yet content. But their serene existence is disrupted when a golf Continue Reading
  • Book review: Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It is hard, if not next to impossible when you are caught down in the depths of grief and loss, and the suffocating smallness of life that often comes with it, not to feel as if there is any hope left in life. But as Continue Reading
  • Molly does her best to live up to her promise in Loot S3, E1-3 (review)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) The great joy of Loot, not just in the first three episodes of its third season but in the first two superlative seasons too, is that it is just so damn funny. Not just funny bog standard ordinary but cleverly inspired, oneliner-quoting funny, the kind of sitcom Continue Reading
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