Imogen Hall is a spectacular photographer. Continue reading
Archive for the Observation Category
Imogen Hall – ‘Archipelago’
Posted in Observation with tags Archipelago, Fukushima, Imogen Hall, Kickstart on January 12, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Charlie Bukowski’s Thought for the Day
Posted in Fiction, Observation, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Bukowski, writing on December 27, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“The best part of a writer is on paper. The other part is usually nonsense.”
–Hollywood.
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Slutfinder
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Pornography, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags barbie doll, slutfinder on October 21, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Tyson the Rapist – The Facts
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Boxing, Desiree Washington, Evander Holyfield, Jake La Motta, James Toback, Jill Meagher, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, Mike Tyson, Raging Bull, The Age Newspaper, The Hangover, Tony Awards, Yahoo Answers on September 28, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
I found a link on Facebook to Neil Patrick Harris doing a song-and-dance number to open the Tony Awards in New York. It was vaunted as the ‘best awards ceremony opener ever’. Conspicuously, it also featured a brief cameo from Iron Mike himself. Continue reading
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Rollins Band – ‘Weight’.
Posted in Journalism, Music, Observation with tags Caliban, Cape Fear, Charlie Bird, Dorian Gray, Henry Rollins, iTunes, Max Cady, Raw Power, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rollins Band, Shakespeare, The End of Silence, The Stooges, The Tempest, Weight, Wynton Marsalis on August 16, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Some years ago, I was hunting around on iTunes and discovered, to my considerable astonishment, there was no review for The Rollins Band’s magnum opus, The End of Silence. Continue reading
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‘…Like Clockwork’
Posted in Music, Observation with tags Alice Cooper, Black Flag, David Bowie, desert, Eagles of Death Metal, Freud, GBH, Josh Homme, Keith Richards, Kyuss, Mark Lanegan, Nick Oliveri, NME, Paris, Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stone Age, Rolling Stones, Songs for the Deaf, The Beatles, The Exploited, the uncanny, Them Crooked Vultures, V8 on June 13, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“My whole life, I’ve always wanted to be un-hecklable, you know? …I remember staring into GBH [record] covers, Exploited covers, Black Flag covers and just thinking, ‘Go for it, man…’ You know, getting that feeling in your stomach when you leave a first date… I’m just looking for that. I hope I can give that to somebody, somewhere.”
– Josh Homme, NME interview, Paris Continue reading
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Wuthering Heights
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags Aaron the Moor, Catherine, Duncan, Edgar, Emily Bronte, Gnasher, Goneril, Hindley, Iago, King Lear, Liverpool, MacBeth, Mr Earnshaw, necrophilia, Nelly Dean, nosferatu, Othello, Thrushcross Grange, Titus Andronicus on June 3, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Fan-art from some obscure Russian website – you get the idea.
I have a love/hate relationship with Shakespeare’s tragic heroes. Continue reading
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Thug Sport
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing, Observation with tags Alexei Ignashov, Badr hari, Blitz Martial Arts Magazine, Budo, Cor Hemmers, Elvis Presley, Full Contact World Tournament, Genesis, George Saint Pierre, Hosea, Israel, Jacob, John McCain, K1, Kyokushin karate, Lance Armstrong, Mas Oyama, MMA, Nick Diaz, Pride, Ramon Dekkers, Semmy Schilt, Sensei Kawabata, Tony Bowden, UFC, Ultimate Fighting, Wayne Carey on May 3, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
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
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
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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
Theme Park at its Darkest 