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Archive for 2011
One Speed, Two Mistresses, Tons of Money, Adonis DNA and Tiger's Blood: 'I'm on a drug – it's called Charlie Sheen'.
Posted in Journalism with tags Charlie Sheen on March 4, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleI think the title says it all, really.
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Peter Costello vs the AFL II
Posted in Journalism with tags AFL football, Peter Costello, Ricky Nixon, St Kilda Schoolgirl on March 2, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleGo to work, Peter Costello.
Intelligent, incisive, gutsy, and a damned good writer.
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Real Men #4: Mirko ‘Cro-Cop’ Filipovic
Posted in Real Men with tags Cro-Cop, Croatia, K1, Mirko Filipovic, Pride, UFC on February 27, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
“Right leg hospital; left leg cemetery.”
Mirko Filipovic has been a member of the Croatian anti-terrorist police unit, a top-tier K1 heavyweight and then, a successful transitioner into Pride, the toughest of MMA fighting organisations. He was also a member of Croatian parliament from 2003 through to 2007.
What a man.
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"Talent is a Species of Vigour."
Posted in Writing with tags Andre Agassi, Eric Hoffer, Malcolm Gladwell, Melbourne Grammar School, Rage Against the Machine, talent on February 27, 2011 by Jarrod Boylehttp://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm
I did my final four years of high school at Melbourne Grammar. Whenever I hear the song ‘Know your Enemy’ by Rage Against the Machine, it takes me back to wearing the blue school uniform, milling around the Old Bluestone:
“Yes I know my enemies,
They’re the teachers who taught me to fight me
compromise
conformity
assimilation
submission
ignorance
hypocrisy
brutality
the elite
all of which are American dreams.”
I hated the place. Continue reading
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The US Should Invade Libya and Topple Gaddafi
Posted in Journalism, Observation on February 26, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Damon Young the Philosopher Gets It
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Fighting on February 25, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleIn Defence of Sam De Brito
Posted in Reading with tags Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace, Matthew Johns, Sam De Brito, The Lost Boys novel on February 25, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleIn my last post, it may have appeared as if I attacked Sam De Brito. I described his novel The Lost Boys as a “mediocre horror story for women”. I then went on to say he was part of a new wave of Australian authors working to establish themselves with a predominantly female readership through a peculiar combination of obsequiousness and provocation. While I think both comments are true, he writes some terrific posts for his blog, All Men Are Liars. Continue reading
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Cormac McCarthy's 'The Crossing'.
Posted in Reading with tags Cormac McCarthy on February 19, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle“He woke all night with the cold. He’d rise and mend back the fire and she was always watching him. When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world.
“A world burning on the shore of an unknowable void. A world construed out of blood and blood’s alkahest and blood in its core and in its integument because it was that nothing save blood had the power to resonate against the void which threatened hourly to devour it.
“He wrapped himself in the blanket and watched her. When those eyes and the nation to which they bore witness were gone at last with their dignity back into their origins, there would perhaps be other fires and other witnesses and other worlds otherwise beheld. But they would not be this one.”
Cormac McCarthy,
The Crossing
p.73
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Jarrod Boyle Versus Alistair Overeem
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags Alistair Overeem, Golden Glory on February 18, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleIn 2008, I was training at Golden Glory with last year’s K1 World GP champ. Following is the footage of he and I – albeit briefly – going at it.
Theme Park at its Darkest 