I had an argument with some friends of mine recently about Dexter. Personally, I think that is a show for which the script is a poorly-written pretext for the violence. Continue reading
Archive for the Observation Category
Drag-Racing in the Desert of the Real
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading with tags Baudrillard, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cambodia, concentration camp, Dawn of the Dead, Dexter, George A Romero, Germaine Greer, Irreversible, Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Wolf, Raders of the Lost Ark, Salo, Sam Peckinpah, Sergei Eisenstein, Straw Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The American Nightmare, The Exorcist, The Wild Bunch, Tobe Hooper, Tom Savini, Walking Dead, Wes Craven, Wliiam Freidkin on March 17, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Discrimination! Oppression!
Posted in Observation with tags discrimination, head of school, Ian Lang, Sexual harrassment, VCA, Victorian College of the Arts on February 24, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Portrait of Ian Lang, former head of school at Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and TV, relaxing at home.
Some months back, I posted an entry about a skirmish in the war of the sexes. Continue reading
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Existential Terror
Posted in Love letters, Observation, Statement of intention with tags Dead Poet's Society, Easter Bunny, Feminist Film Theory, God, Imogen Hall, Sartre, troubadours, University on January 12, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
One of the salient experiences of university life was exposure to academics. There was a kind of sadistic glee in some of those first-year lecturers and tutors, somewhat akin to people who enjoy corrupting children; they were going to apply ‘reason’ and ‘education’ to our conditioning and laugh their evil laughs as our bourgeois values fell away from us. As far as they were concerned, God and the Easter Bunny were much the same thing. Continue reading
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Why the Left is Being Left Behind
Posted in Film, Observation with tags A Tale of Two Cities, Argo, Ben Affleck, Canada, Charles Dickens, French Revolution, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Iran, Michael Collins, Mohammed Mossadegh, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Syriana, Trojan Horse on December 7, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Fighting Injury – On the Business of Becoming Hardened
Posted in Kickboxing, Observation with tags Alex Roberts, Amsterdam Arena, Buddha, Ernesto Hoost, Gokhan Saki, International Kickboxer Magazine, K1, Muay Thai, Nathan 'Carnage' Corbett, Paul Slowinski, Peter Lewis, Tafa Misipati on December 2, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleI once trained with Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett while writing an article about him for International Kickboxer Magazine. He had a big fight coming up against a European opponent, and Carnage was then, as he is now, in a unique position; he’s almost never been beaten. Continue reading
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Thought for the Day
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags Proverbs of Hell, William Blake on October 28, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Dark Satanic Mill – Recreation Gym, South Melbourne
Posted in Observation, Statement of intention with tags commercial gyms, consumer culture, Crossfit, Dylan Thomas, fitness, gothic architecture, Recreation South Melbourne, T.S. Eliot, William Blake on October 4, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
A gym is like a gothic cathedral; everything from the architecture to the fittings to the music should conspire to project your energy upward. Training is a ritual experience. It’s a celebration of values though action. Continue reading
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The Grail
Posted in Fitness, Observation with tags Crossfit, fitness on September 4, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
I loathe Crossfitters, but I love Crossfit.
Anyone interested in fitness, or being fit, must read this.
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-download/Foundations.pdf
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The Ricky Nixon Show
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Ridiculous curiosity with tags AFL, Anna Nicole Smith, Ben Cousins, Brendan Fevola, Jake La Motta, John 9:25, Kirstie Alley, Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, reality television, Ricky and Tegan Get Real, Ricky Nixon, Tegan Gould, The Osbournes, The Truth Hurts, Wayne Carey on August 5, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
'I Am The Joker'
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Batman, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, Ground Zero, Heath Ledger, James Holmes, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Joker on July 26, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Dark Knight Rises is an above average-action film, and certainly enjoyable. The first thing that came to my lips was, ‘It’s not as good as the last one’, but the truth is, The Dark Knight was something entirely different from the other films in the trilogy. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 