I went to see Red Stitch Theatre’s production of The Tectonic Theatre Group’s play The Laramie Project – 10 Years’ Later on Saturday night. It is an interesting thing, going to a cultural event in Inner-City Melbourne. I’m going to put it to you like this, and in so doing, possibly reveal myself as paranoid, Continue reading
“You don’t call her fat; now that girl is stacked! A come ON!”
Mr Saadiq (formerly Mr Charles Ray Wiggins of Tony Tony Tone, no less) has emerged with what might be the song of the year. The sound, the voice, the lyrics, the girl; it’s all there.
A come ON!
I travelled around India for two months at the end of 2008. Today I found this article which does as much as any piece of writing about that country can fairly do; it barely scratches the surface, but explains how India, the magnificent place that it is, actually seeps into you, like a tincture.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/travel/archives/2009/03/the_one_country_you_have_to_vi.html
“David Foster Wallace is sui generis on a stick.”
– Robert McCrum, Observer
“He’s so modern he’s in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him.”
– Zadie Smith
David Foster Wallace’s essay on Franz Kafka entitled, ‘Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed’, from the book Consider the Lobster is probably the best thing I have read all year. Continue reading
Les Lothringer, eminiently quotable member of the gym at which I work, recently suggested that it is better to focus on ‘Kissing pretty girls, rather than beating up ugly men.’ I liked this, and threatened to make note of it on my blog. Happily, he then emailed me some dietary advice which I think is well suited to general posterity. I hope you will enjoy the following fruits of Mr Lothringer’s wisdom. Continue reading
One of my absolute favourite pieces of writing – ever – is William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Please check it out at the link – the text has been reproduced with some of Blake’s actual illustrations. Continue reading
International Kickboxer Magazine, Vol.19, No.1
If there was one incident that made me wonder about people who make fighting their profession, it was the day I found myself in the shower with Alistair Overeem. Continue reading
International Kickboxer Magazine Vol.19 No.1
For a Thai boxer, Eugene’s Ekkelboom’s career started relatively late. It is, however, studded with impressive highlights. He can also lay claim to a remarkable piece of trivia; the only bone he has ever broken is his nose. Continue reading
I attended the ‘Lifestyle Trainers’ exhibition at Birrarung Marr on the banks of the Yarra yesterday. It was an exhibition to publicise the health and fitness website I have been writing for as an ‘expert commentator’. It tickles my ego to be billed as a commentator, probably because the implication is that I am currently paid to give my opinion. Thinking about this pricks a small space somewhere inside me, which I suspect if very close to whichever metaphysical organ can be described as my conscience; by way of justification or explanation of the commentator tag, I offer something chanced upon again the other day in one of my most prized possessions, The Collected Works of e.e. cummings. Continue reading
A small crew of self-appointed workers have chosen to stay behind at the stricken Fukushima #1 nuclear power-station in Japan. They are attempting to control the fires in reactors 1, 2 and 3, placing themsleves in the path of dire risk in order to try and prevent what some have called an imminent apocalypse.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/heroic-50-sent-in-to-save-millions-20110316-1bxgw.html
Theme Park at its Darkest 