“What I’ve always loved about heavy metal is that it’s rebel music.”
-Buzz Osborne,
The Melvins
http://www.avclub.com/article/melvins-buzz-osborne-picks-songs-by-bands-that-wer-200741
I first saw High on Fire at the Soundwave festival in 2010. Continue reading
Paul Johnston, proprietor of Olympia Gym, is visible sticking his head out the front door to find out why the hell I was standing in the middle of the street, staring at my iPhone.
It was 42 degrees today. I hit the weights at the great Olympia gym in South Melbourne and then went and splashed around at the beach near Middle Park pier. Perfect holidays are made of this.
This blog saw 18,000 views in 2013. To put that in perspective, a best-selling Australian novel sells 5,000. Thanks for your support – here’s to a spectacular 2014, folks!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
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“The best part of a writer is on paper. The other part is usually nonsense.”
–Hollywood.
“Young men love war and old men love it in them.”
-Cormac McCarthy,
The Crossing.
Phil Rothfield recently published an editorial in The Daily Telegraph that has gone viral across the Facebook pages of many of the people I know. It’s a pretty inflammatory screed, and I’m surprised any credible newspaper would publish it; the comment about ‘allowing’ women to fight on the card alongside men must have left feminists, along with fight-fans, scratching their heads. Continue reading
International Kickboxer Magazine, Nov/Dec 2013
Tarik Solak is back on Australian soil with a new show and new fighters. To put it simply, he’s excited. Continue reading
Gotta love a man with an eye-patch.
J: I guess that’s what War and Peace is about. It’s about what happens when people are forced to cope with the force of history as it’s bearing down on them, which I guess is the way Tolstoy would have looked at it.
R: I’m so glad you liked War and Peace. I knew you would. When you were reading Anna Karenina, you were telling me ‘There couldn’t possibly be a better novel’. And then, there was. Continue reading
Took this photo while idling at the lights.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=167739956
Goodbye, Lou.
Theme Park at its Darkest 