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Natalie pulled up to the corner of ACDC and Flinders Lane in a grey Mitsubishi hatch. Pat opened the passenger door. It weighed a fraction of what the long, heavy coupe doors of the Valiant did. When he pulled it to, it slammed. Hard. Continue reading
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Now, the future stretched on ahead interminably. He felt like an untethered astronaut drifting through a void toward nothing other than eventual expiry. The thought was so potent it became a sensation that burned in his stomach and lodged in his throat. He tried to swallow it down. Continue reading
Blitz Martial Arts Magazine, Vol.30, No. 5, June/July 2016
“I just don’t see the interest in wading through someone else’s dirt,” says Gawain Sue, principal of the Ging Mo Kung Fu School in Perth and heir to Malcolm Sue, one of the most infamous figures in Australian martial arts. Continue reading
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“You mean, you fucked a woman in a brothel who wasn’t a hooker, to start with, and you didn’t have to pay for it?”
There was a taint to Wally’s incredulity, as if somehow he should be able to go back and claim a refund, or possibly a voucher. Continue reading
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She shifted her hands from his chest to his back. Her nails gently depressed his skin the way a cat uses its claws to establish a precise hold. Continue reading
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
“Life after fighting is more scary to me than dying.”
-‘John’ Wayne Parr. Continue reading
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
Pavlos Kaponis is ready, hungry and looking for blood.
“John Wayne Parr is famous not only in Australia, but also all around the world and this is respectful,” says Pavlos, starting out with a congenial foot forward. “In Greece, we know him very good from the fight that has given with Mike Zambidis. Especially from the last one that Zambidis lost by KO. However, these fights were K1 [rules].” Continue reading
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
“Life is easier when I’m boxing,” says Omari Kimweri, once Tanzanian, now Australian flyweight boxer currently in-line for the WBC silver title. This is a remarkable statement, especially when you consider it in the light of what he’s had to do to stay in the game. Continue reading
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“I had moved past the casual carnage that was so prevalent in the books I’d conceived in my twenties, past the severed heads and the soup made of blood and the woman vaginally penetrated with her own rib.
“Exploring that kind of violence had been “interesting” and “exciting” and it was all “metaphorical” anyway – at least to me at that moment in my life, when I was young and pissed off and had not yet grasped my own mortality, a time when physical pain and real suffering held no meaning for me.”
– Bret Easton Ellis,
Lunar Park. Continue reading
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“…The scariest spectacle in rock is Slayer, the Rolling Stones of the new American metal.”
– Los Angeles Times, 1991
Every real band has done a classic album tour. While limited to North America, Slayer did a series of dates playing their seminal thrash album, Reign in Blood, in its entirety. The performance reached its climax when the stage and musicians were immersed in a torrential downpour of blood. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 