Season 7 is nigh. We know this because a glitzy, gee-whiz trailer has landed in cyberspace and it is enormously impressive and promises some great stories. If the writers can live up to the promise of this fast-moving trailer studded with shots of cyborgs in the Wild West, Nefertiti on Continue Reading
Review: “Django Django” – Django Django
All music should be this wonderful. The debut by this talented foursome of art school graduates from the UK is a feast of joyful exuberance. It surges and bounces, and jangles and jumps. It mixes in a heady dose of The Beach Boys, and yes even The Monkees, with tight Continue Reading
Review: “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
To paraphrase Dickens, old age can be the best of times, it can be the worst of times. And so it is for the members of an intrepid group of of British seniors, previously strangers saved for one married couple, who journey to India on the promise of Continue Reading
Review: “MDNA” – Madonna
There is an art to constructing an enduring pop persona. It has to be flamboyant and over the top enough to attract the necessary attention, with a dash of controversy here and hints of scandal there. You need to be able to titillate the voyeurs, and those looking to like Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #3: My favourite songs of the week
Can there be more songs worth listening to already? It’s only been seven days right since I waxed lyrical about my last lot of sonic treasures and the music artists of the world couldn’t possibly have served up five more delicious pieces of sonic bliss to feast on right? Wrong. Continue Reading
Review: (re)Visions: Alice
Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Alice in Wonderland, has been a mainstay of Western popular culture since it was released in 1865. The story has been interpreted so many times in so many ways (with even Disney getting in on the act back in 1951 with their film) that you might Continue Reading
Crowdfunding: Publish now, not later
A love of the written word is a precious currency for any author but sadly, and we’ve checked with the bank on this, you can’t use it to pay your bills. So if you’re longing to fulfil your creative destiny but haven’t landed that worldwide multi-million dollar advance from an Continue Reading
Review: “The Paris Letter” (Darlinghurst Theatre)
In a play redolent with evocative lines, the one that has stayed with me, and sums up the melancholy of the whole story is “the unappeasable misery of the joyless”. It’s a line used by the central protagonist, Anton (Damian Sommerlad – young Anton / Peter Cousens – older Anton), Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #2: My favourite songs of the week
Five more favourite songs already? Just a week after the first lot? Yes I say! Did you not pay attention to the last post? I am new music junkie, and with the vast eclectic range of artists I follow, it’s is frighteningly easy (in a very good way) to come Continue Reading
It’s a (monster) literary mash-up!
Jane Austen and zombies. Abraham Lincoln and vampires. Charlotte Bronte and vampires and zombies and werewolves. Even Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is now an android. What is going on in the rarefied climes of literature? Who brought these creatures of the genre underbelly of pop culture to sup at the same Continue Reading