Chris Bradford meets one of the world’s best cruiserweight kickboxers on Saturday, May 12 of next year. He sits down to tell JARROD BOYLE all about it. Continue reading
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Chris Bradford Versus Steve McKinnon: Powerplay 36
Posted in fighting, Kickboxing with tags AK47, Chris Bradford, K1 rules, Powerplay, Prestige Fight Series, Shakespeare, Steve McKinnon, Top Tier Muay Thai on December 22, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Caliban
Posted in Real Men with tags Caliban, Henry Rollins, Hunter S Thompson, Shakespeare, The Tempest on March 1, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
– Hunter S. Thompson.
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Congratulations, Mick and Josina
Posted in Observation with tags A Midsummer Night's Dream, Josina Murray, marriage, Mick Valentine, Puck, Shakespeare, wedding on August 24, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Mick Valentine married Josina Murray on Saturday. He’s a lucky man; she’s a wonderful woman. I’m sure they deserve each other. I wish for them all the very best.
“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended –
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call.
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.”
-Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Home-Made Pornography OR, The Girl in the Red Photo and the Trouble She Caused
Posted in Love letters, Pornography, Writing with tags Dickens, facebook, Nietzche, Oscar Wilde, Paul Schrader, Pornography, Shakespeare, the void, Tolstoy on January 30, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
More than anything else, this piece has gotten me into a lot of trouble. And, I expect, will continue to do so. Even though it was inspired by one woman, it has come to involve a number of others, none of whom were happy about it. Continue reading
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Rollins Band – ‘Weight’.
Posted in Journalism, Music, Observation with tags Caliban, Cape Fear, Charlie Bird, Dorian Gray, Henry Rollins, iTunes, Max Cady, Raw Power, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rollins Band, Shakespeare, The End of Silence, The Stooges, The Tempest, Weight, Wynton Marsalis on August 16, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
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
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John Pilger vs the American Psycho
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Baudrillard, Bunuel, Chuck Liddell, Colombiana, colonel kurtz, Dali, Game of Thrones, George Miller, John Pilger, La Femme Nikita, Lethal Weapon, Luc Besson, Mel Gibson, Melbourne International Film Festival, psychopath, Rampage Jackson, Ransom, Sam Peckinpah, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Straw Dogs, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, The Hurt Locker, The New Statesman, The Patriot, The Wild Bunch, Tolstoy, UFC, violence on screen, Violent films, W.B. Yeats on July 15, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
John Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film [The Hurt Locker] in The New Statesman, writing that “it offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion.” He compared the praise given to The Hurt Locker to the accolades given to 1978’s The Deer Hunter.[42] Continue reading
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War and Peace
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags 'Little Gidding', Four Quartets, Hawaii marathon, Napoleon, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Tolstoy, War and Peace on April 27, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
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
Theme Park at its Darkest 