Who would have picked Eli Roth for a feminist crusader? Continue reading
Eli Roth – Feminist Warrior?!
Posted in Film with tags Eli Roth, Feminism, The Last Exorcism on December 4, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
The Last Exorcism
Posted in Film with tags Daniel Stamm, Eli Roth, The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist on December 3, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleWhen I saw the preview for this one, I thought it was another instalment in the hopelessly retreaded Exorcist series. Everybody knows the first film with Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow as possibly the most scary horror film of all time. The sequels have progressively destroyed the credibility of the premise to the point that no one else has dared go near it for fear of being infected by the terminal crapness. Continue reading
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Jane Austen's Fight Club
Posted in Reading with tags Fight Club, Jane Austen on November 26, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleNow this, my friends, is more fucking like it.
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My Favorite Book
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, The Brothers Karamazov on November 22, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
I referred to the Time list of the best books ever written some weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about it since, and the list has probably destroyed my interest in ‘best of’ lists for ever after. Which may prove to be a good thing. But what it did raise to my attention was the ludicrous inclusion of The Great Gatsby – I mean, give me a break. I’m not saying Fitzgerald isn’t good, but Dosteyevsky has done turds that dwarf Gatsby. Continue reading
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Nase Soai
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Joe Demicoli, Nase Soai, Paul Demicoli on November 17, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleI was idly googling myself the other day (imagine what people would have thought reading that fifty years ago), and discovered someone had posted this fight on Youtube.
Nase Soai had two fights; one win, one loss. I have fought more experienced guys, but Nase was the toughest and hardest. He damn-near KOed me at the end of the first!
Thanks to Anthony Vella, Paul Demicoli and especially Joe Demicoli for supporting me. Hopefully, I’ll find my way onto Paul’s Eruption professional shows soon.
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Real Men #1: Chuck Liddell
Posted in Real Men with tags Chuck Liddell on November 14, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle“I think the reason people like me is because I’ll fight anybody, anywhere. I don’t talk bad about people who don’t deserve it, and I’m not a guy who’s out there trying to trash talk and make a name for myself. I earned the name that I have – I went out and fought for it.”
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Post-Consumerist Cosmopoles
Posted in Journalism with tags Bogans, Ed Hardy, Kickboxing, Melbourne, Slayer, Sydney, The Age Newspaper, Trainspotting, wankers on November 11, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
“In a thousand years, there will be no men and women, just wankers.”
-Mark Renton,
Trainspotting.
My internet home page is set to The Age Newspaper Online. I like to skim over it before reading my emails; it helps orient me for the day. Of late, however, reading The Age has begun to get me down. Apparently, I live in the quintessential Australian city, and the best, most polite word I can use to describe it is aspirational.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata on October 29, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
Holy shit – now this is a frightening book. Continue reading
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Kirsty Fraser-Kirk
Posted in Journalism with tags david Jones, Kirsty Fraser-Kirk, Mark McInnes, Sexual harrassment, The Insider on October 24, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
“…when you’re done, a judgment is going to go down in the court of public opinion, my friend. And that’s the power you have.”
– Al Pacino/Lowell Bergman,The Insider. Continue reading
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Bereft
Posted in Reading with tags Bereft, Blood Meridian, Child of God, Chris Wormesley, Cormac McCarthy, Lolita, Moby Dick, Nick Cave, Pride and Prejudice, The Age Newspaper, The Proposition, Vincent Van Gogh, William Blake on October 20, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
It’s remarkable how many ‘Classic’ art works, if not the majority, received a very shaky reception at their initial publication. It makes you ask the question; how could a self-respecting, intelligent professional reviewer have failed to see Moby Dick/Pride and Prejudice/Lolita for what they so ‘obviously’ are? How is it that William Blake never exhibited, and Van Gogh never sold a painting? Continue reading
