There’s a friend of mine, a very successful artist, who I admire very much. I met him twenty years ago when we were working together in a dirty nightclub in South Melbourne; he was collecting glasses and I was bouncing. We both aspired to art, and he hit critical pay-dirt much earlier than I (who am I fooling – I still haven’t got there).
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‘Art With Values’.
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, trauma with tags Ajax, Ancient Greece, Bryan Dorries, Drama, Navy SEAL, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Rolling Stones, Theater of War, trauma on December 22, 2020 by Jarrod Boyle“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 BoyleEven the name of the band, ‘Sleep’, is redolent of one bong too many. Continue reading
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 BoyleNME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Continue reading