Even the name of the band, ‘Sleep’, is redolent of one bong too many. Continue reading
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“Sometimes, the riff is so fucking good you want to hear it over and over again for fifty-two minutes.”
Posted in Music, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity with tags Al Cisneros, coffee shop, Corner Hotel, Dpoesmoker, High on Fire, Jerusalem, Kickboxing, London Records, marijuana, Matt Pike, Moby Dick, Nicky, Sleep, stoner rock, Such Hawks Such Hounds, THC, The Clarity, The Rolling Stones, valve amplification, weedians on October 11, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Moby Dick to be Broadcast On-Line
Posted in Reading with tags 'Jazz', Free Jazz, Ken Burns, Moby Dick, Ornette Coleman, The Guardian UK, Ulysses on September 25, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Moby Dick will be read in its entirety and broadcast over the internet. 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
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The Lost Art of Reading
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Charlie Parker, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, Jean Genet, Moby Dick, Rodney Hall, Shakespeare, The Brothers Karamazov, The Scarlet and the Black, Tolstoy, Tom Jones, War and Peace, Wynton Marsalis on September 4, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
The Lost Art of Reading
This entry takes its title from Rodney Hall’s keynote address at the 2010 Byron Bay Writer’s Festival. I had hoped to begin with a link to the lecture which I believe the ABC filmed and will eventually upload onto youtube. While googling, I found this interview, which is a really interesting introduction to the man.
http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2010/04/27/feature-rodney-hall-author-of-popeye-never-told-you-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/ Continue reading
