NME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Continue reading
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Top Ten Songs
Posted in Music, Observation with tags ACDC, Appetite for Destruction, Bon Scott, Bruce Dickinson, Chris Robinson, Disciple, Exile on Main Street, Guns and Roses, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Henry Rollins, Iron Maiden, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Little Wing, Lou Reed Margot Timmins, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Motorhead, Nirvana, NME, Poison Idea, Queens of the Stone Age, Slayer, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Ace of Spades, The Black Crowes, The Cowboy Junkies, The End of Silence, The Gaslight Anthem, The New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Two Lane Blacktop, War Ensemble, Welcome to the Jungle on July 3, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Devil’s Music
Posted in Reading, Slayer with tags Born of Fire, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Seasons in the Abyss, Slayer, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake on April 11, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle 
One of my absolute favourite pieces of writing – ever – is William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Please check it out at the link – the text has been reproduced with some of Blake’s actual illustrations. Continue reading
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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.
Theme Park at its Darkest 