The Red Tree – a children’s storybook – is one of those rare works of art so powerful, it completely transcends its genre. However, I would never allow my kids to look at it. Continue reading
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The World is a Deaf Machine: The Loser’s Manifesto
Posted in Observation, Reading with tags National Gallery of Victoria, Shaun Tan, Sideshow Bob, Sunset Boulevard, The Red Tree on January 24, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Biting the Hand That feeds
Posted in Film, Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, Andre Bazin, Dawn of the Dead, Dead Set, Dennis Hopper, Gaspar Noe, George A Romero, Irreversible, John Woo, Sam Peckinpah, The Astor Theatre, The Wild Bunch, UK Big Brother, Velvet Underground, Zak Snyder on January 14, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Icons: Part I
Posted in Film, Journalism, Observation with tags Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Dante, Inferno, Ivan's Childhood, Lumiere Cinema, Museo Del Prado, Pasolini, Primavera, Salo, Uffizi on December 24, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleMany years ago, my good friend Jonathan Devenish and I dragged ourselves off to see Andrei Rublev at the now-defunct Lumiere Cinema. Continue reading
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A Small Skirmish in the War of the Sexes
Posted in Observation with tags Blah Blah Ginger, Bootsy Collins, Devil's Playground, feather boa, Feminism, Gary Larson on December 7, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Some weeks ago, I attended a dance party known as ‘Devil’s Playground’. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 