I think it’s time for a genre called ‘Scorsese’. Continue reading
'Goodfellas' Versus 'Love Ranch'
Posted in Film with tags Goodfellas, Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Lord of War, Love Ranch, Raging Bull, Scorsese, Taxi Driver on June 28, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Hell's Angels
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Gonzo, Hell's Angels, Hunter S Thompson, Ken Kesey on June 17, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well… maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
No doubt Fear and Loathing is a fabulous read, but I’m disappointed it’s the book Hunter S. Thompson has become best-known for. As a teenager, I bought Hell’s Angels and it has become a stand-out amongst all the books I own. Continue reading
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In Defence of Pornography
Posted in Pornography with tags Birth of Venus, Chloe, e.e. cummings, Feminism, First Time Videos, Gail Dines, Karen Pini, Martin Grimwood, Penthouse Magazine, Playboy Magazine, The Age Newspaper on June 8, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
“There is no place for pornography in a just society.”
– Gail Dines, ‘How the Hardcore Porn Industry is Ruining Young Men’s Lives’, as published in The Age, May 18, 2011.
“Those magazines, they aren’t about sex. They’re about beauty.”
– Martin Grimwood, in reference to my collection of Penthouse Magazines, published circa 1970. Continue reading
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Cardinal Sin
Posted in Film, Journalism with tags Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean, Russell Brand, Snowtown, Tango and Cash on June 4, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
When you go to see a mainstream film, you know you’re going to have to put up with certain things. Continue reading
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Trauma and Recovery
Posted in Journalism, Reading with tags Judith Herman, Snowtown on May 30, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Snowtown
Posted in Film with tags Gummo, Harmony Korine, John Bunting, Judith Herman, Ken Park, Larry Clark, Snowtown the film, Trauma and Recovery on May 29, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Posted in Journalism, Writing with tags Aaron McKinney, Matthew Shepherd, Red Stitch Theatre, Tectonic Theatre Group on May 25, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
I went to see Red Stitch Theatre’s production of The Tectonic Theatre Group’s play The Laramie Project – 10 Years’ Later on Saturday night. It is an interesting thing, going to a cultural event in Inner-City Melbourne. I’m going to put it to you like this, and in so doing, possibly reveal myself as paranoid, Continue reading
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Raphael Saadiq
Posted in Music with tags Raphael Saadiq on May 2, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle“You don’t call her fat; now that girl is stacked! A come ON!”
Mr Saadiq (formerly Mr Charles Ray Wiggins of Tony Tony Tone, no less) has emerged with what might be the song of the year. The sound, the voice, the lyrics, the girl; it’s all there.
A come ON!
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God's Own Country
Posted in Travel on April 27, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
I travelled around India for two months at the end of 2008. Today I found this article which does as much as any piece of writing about that country can fairly do; it barely scratches the surface, but explains how India, the magnificent place that it is, actually seeps into you, like a tincture.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/travel/archives/2009/03/the_one_country_you_have_to_vi.html
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Considering the Lobster
Posted in Reading with tags Andre Agassi, David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka, John McCain, Malcolm Knox, Sam De Brito, Tracy Austin on April 26, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle“David Foster Wallace is sui generis on a stick.”
– Robert McCrum, Observer
“He’s so modern he’s in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him.”
– Zadie Smith
David Foster Wallace’s essay on Franz Kafka entitled, ‘Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed’, from the book Consider the Lobster is probably the best thing I have read all year. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 