Eurovision Song Contest 2025 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

Road to Eurovision 2025: Week 2 – Estonia, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway + Poland (semi-final 1, part 2)

Posted on April 5, 2025April 6, 2025 by aussiemoose

What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2025: Week 1 – Albania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia + Cyprus (semi-final 1, part 1)

Posted on March 29, 2025April 6, 2025 by aussiemoose

Songs, songs and more songs #121: Jamie xx, MØ, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Rae Morris + Eurovision 2025 update

Posted on February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 by aussiemoose

(via Shutterstock) So much good music, and it seems often, so little time to listen to it all. Thankfully thought in a world awash with artists and songs, some do make it through all the digital white noise and make themselves first known and then welcome, enriching commutes, workdays or Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #113: Hollow Coves, KAZIMI, flowerovlove, Tears For Fears, FAUN + Eurovision 2025 update!

Posted on September 20, 2024September 19, 2024 by aussiemoose

(via Shutterstock) Life is fast … and noisy … and unceasing in its demands and challenges. No news flashes there, of couse. So, in amongst all the tumult and chaos and cacophony of everything seemingly happening all at once, we need moment, many moments in fact, where we just slow Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #112: Lemonade Baby, SOFI TUKKER, Merry Lamb Lamb, St. Lucia and Jude York + Eurovision 2025 update

Posted on September 13, 2024September 22, 2024 by aussiemoose

(via Shutterstock) Had a big week?! Haven’t we all so what we all need now, and needs lots of, is music that feels something, says something and makes us sense that maybe, just maybe, things might get better. Or at least feel better for a few minutes … These five Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: The Social Chameleon learns to live on his own terms

(courtesy Premium Films) SNAPSHOTCosmo the Chameleon doesn’t fit in with the other animals and must learn to live by his own colors. (courtesy Premium Films YouTube) Not fitting in with the crowd is something with which I’ve long been familiar. Growing up, I was bullied furiously and relentlessly, and I Continue Reading

Book review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) At first glance, the premise for When the Moon Hits Your Eye, seems nonsensically silly and hardly the kind of plot to support a hard-hitting and substantially thoughtful exploration of humanity and the many it expresses itself under pressure. But then, then if anyone can weave Continue Reading

Worlds … will … collide … Tron: Ares delivers an impressively intense first trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading

Look out for it: Thoughts on Pixar’s Win or Lose

(courtesy IMP Awards) There are always stories behind the stories – if you care to look for them, of course. Which is precisely what Pixar’s first TV/streaming series, Win or Lose, with the studio’s customary blend of whimsy and hard-hitting, heartfelt humanity. Set in a small U.S. community on the Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2025: Week 2 – Estonia, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway + Poland (semi-final 1, part 2)

Book review: The Bookshop Detectives #2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Cosy crime has become quite the thing in recent years, and while those unacquainted with the genre might wonder how something so awful could be considered in the same vein as warm fires, knitting and supportive found families, there’s something about combining cosiness and crime that Continue Reading

Movie review: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

(courtesy IMP Awards) Nostalgia, handled carefully, can be a wonderful thing. You can relive and renew your love for something that gave you, and likely still gives you, great joy, and as long as it doesn’t ensnare and entrap you from adding to your living library of life experiences, you Continue Reading

Stranger and stranger indeed: The entertaining trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Season 3, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of Season 2’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn. But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

(courtesy Macmillan Publishers) It’s a sad fact of life that far too many people only seem comfortable in themselves when they’re adhering to a rigid set of social values in which there are two possibilities – you satisfy the often cruel requirements laid down by god-knows-who and are accepted, or Continue Reading

Book review: Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley

(courtesy Hachette Australia) If you were a cinemagoer in the ’80s and ’90s, when big budget action blockbusters were at their inarguable height, you would well acquainted with what it’s like for innocent people to get caught up in a situation far bigger than themselves. These are usually not the Continue Reading