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In which I am a groupie
If you’re a follower of this blog, you would know that I went to Sydney last week to see NIN, QOTSA, Brody Dalle and Sweethead and it was amazing. Last night, on the spur of the moment my other plans having fallen through, I decided to go again. This time in Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena,…
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Epic Night of Epicness – A Review
Featuring: Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Brody Dalle and Sweethead. It’s Thursday 6 March, 2014. The day starts with me getting up at 6am. I stumble around in the dark (yeah it’s dark then, who knew?), get all my shit in order and head out the door of my house at about…
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Watching Movies: Bloody Shakespeare
Ok, so I should probably admit right off that this only barely counts as a movie; it was the National Theatre Live’s recording of ‘Coriolanus‘. This was staged as a play in the Donmar Warehouse in London, filmed, and shown at the Nova. ‘Coriolanus’ is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, and is a political…
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Below Babylon
On Friday night I went to see a friend perform in an amateur production of a new play called ‘Below Babylon‘ at the Revolt Art Space in Kensington. I’d met Chris (Grant, who plays Harry) at an acting evening class about this time last year, and while I wanted to show support for his work, I…
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The Nymphs and White Night
I meant to do this post earlier, and I’m going to try to keep this short and sweet. Saturday 22 February 2014 was epic. Not only was it White Night Festival in Melbourne but it was The Nymphs first album launch. White Night is a festival held over 12 hours, 7pm to 7am, in the…
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Watching Movies: The Matthew McConaughey got skinny story
So, everyone is talking about how thin Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto got for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’. Having won a double pass to see the film I took myself and a friend to the Palace Westgarth yesterday to see for myself whether there was more to this film than that everyone was really thin. We…
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Watching Movies: Flickerfest
I don’t know about you, but I enter competitions for things under the assumption that I’ll never win. That assumption has been severely challenged the last week as I’ve won movie passes twice! One is for Dallas Buyers Club (so I’ll be reviewing that in the next week or so, yay!) and the other was…
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St Kilda Festival 2014
Yesterday afternoon I braved the harsh summer sun to wander around St Kilda and soak up some of the festival good times. The St Kilda Festival is a free annual event which runs for a bit over a week and culminates in Festival Sunday (yesterday). There is free live music, and rides, and stuff, and…
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Just a sort of update post
Dear Readers, I know that lately you have only been hearing from me doing movie review. I’m really enjoying posting journalistic(ish) entries but I thought maybe it was time for a bit of an update on where I’m at with some other stuff I’m doing. Firstly, I’m almost finished my second edit of my NaNoWriMo…
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Watching Movies: The Great Con
Last night I saw American Hustle at the Jam Factory in South Yarra, Melbourne. The film is based, admittedly fairly loosely, on events surrounding an FBI operation called AbScam in the late seventies. The basic premise is that the FBI use two con artists in an attempt to bring down some of the less savoury types…
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