Archive for iTunes

Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)

Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags , , , , , , on December 1, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle

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10: The Reason She’s in the Tower

“You need to cut all the ‘knight in shining armour’ bullshit! Look, if she’s in a tower, it’s because someone has put her in there for a reason! She’s been put there because she’s fucking crazy!’

– Erin Gill. 

I have been labelled a stalker once before. Continue reading →

Rollins Band – ‘Weight’.

Posted in Journalism, Music, Observation with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle

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Some years ago, I was hunting around on iTunes and discovered, to my considerable astonishment, there was no review for The Rollins Band’s magnum opus, The End of Silence. Continue reading →

The End of Silence

Posted in Music, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , on September 26, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

“Caravaggio was like a right-angle in the history of art; things were one way before him, and completely different after.”

– Quotation taken from the NGV’s ‘Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and his World’ exhibition of 2004, where it was stencilled on a wall at the conclusion.

Your author paraphrases Robert Hughes from memory. Continue reading →