3: Fifty-One Jokers and an Ace
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bali, Cat's Eye, Dandenong Ranges, Margaret Atwood, orgasm, Pornography, sanity, Thailand, Yarra Valley on November 23, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags dancer, Eurydice, marionette, shadow, TAFE on November 21, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
2: The Best Piece of Art I’ve Seen (By No-One Famous)
The best piece of art I’ve ever seen by no one famous was a dance piece at a TAFE one year, somewhere in the late nineties. I went with my then-girlfriend to watch a young ballet dancer friend of hers doing a solo piece. Continue reading
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bob Marley, Corinthians, Eurydice, Gregory David Roberts, India, love, obssession, Psychiatrist, psychopathy, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, sex crime, Shantaram, slum, stalking on November 20, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody’s gonna hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.”
– Bob Marley
“Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…”
– Corinthians, 13: 6-7
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Sometimes it’s best to begin a story at the end. Which, in this case, was in the office of my psychologist. Continue reading
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Moral Complexity
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Real Men with tags Martin Luther King Junior, Richard Cohen, Washington Post on November 19, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Martin Luther King Junior was a mad philanderer. Richard Cohen, in an article published in yesterday’s Washington Post, ponders the implications were it more widely known at the time.
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Why Game of Thrones Has Come to Fascinate Us
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags CCTV, Coppola, Denis Rader, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Irreversible, Jamie Lannister, Joffrey Lannister, John Hobbes, Leviathan, Lord of the Flies, Marquis of Queensbury, Mountain, Navy SEAL, Oberyn Martell, Piggy, Polanski, Ralph, Robert Towne, Salo, Target Focus Training, Tim Larkin, Tyrion Lannister, Verys, Viper, William Golding on November 4, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Lord of the Flies is one of the world’s best-loved allegories of civilization and the way it has played out through violence. Continue reading
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Ken Lay: Cage Fighting, Bloodshed and Resonating Against the Void
Posted in Kickboxing, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags All the Pretty Horses, Australian society, blood, Blood Meridian, bouncer, cage fighting, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Kelly, Herald-Sun Newspaper, Ken Lay, mixed martial arts, MMA, No Country for Old Men, Police chief, street violence, The Age Newspaper, The Crossing, The Guardian Online Newspaper, UFC, Ultimate Fighting, violence against women, William Luu on October 25, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
To my mind, Ken Lay is more than just a police chief; he’s an exceptional public figure, fighting to make a crucial difference to Australian society. Continue reading
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“Sometimes, the riff is so fucking good you want to hear it over and over again for fifty-two minutes.”
Posted in Music, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity with tags Al Cisneros, coffee shop, Corner Hotel, Dpoesmoker, High on Fire, Jerusalem, Kickboxing, London Records, marijuana, Matt Pike, Moby Dick, Nicky, Sleep, stoner rock, Such Hawks Such Hounds, THC, The Clarity, The Rolling Stones, valve amplification, weedians on October 11, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Reality-Based Self Defence: Scenario Training – 5
Posted in Journalism, Real Men with tags arm bar, Navy SEALs, self-defence, somatic arc reflex, Target Focus Training, Tim Larkin, UFC on October 8, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, September 2014 Vol. 28. No.9
“Competition sport has protected us from the ugly reality,” says Tim Larkin, founder of Target Focus Training. “Last I checked, the UFC has 31 rules, and 27 of them are pertaining to injury to the human body. Continue reading
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Billy Joel – ‘She’s Always A Woman To Me.’
Posted in Music, Observation, Real Men with tags Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, easy-listening, Piano Man, She's Always a Woman To Me, The Stranger on August 28, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
The singer/songwriter genre is the most esteemed category of ‘popular’ music. Continue reading
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Hard Hank: My Hero
Posted in Observation, Real Men with tags Henry Rollins, Robin Williams, suicide on August 24, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Henry Rollins has always been one of my heroes. I was disturbed to read the following piece, published in the LA Weekly in reaction to Robin Williams’ tragic suicide.
I was deeply impressed to read his public apology posted on his personal website shortly after.
The man has the courage of his convictions.
