Writing
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The view from here
As it creeps into winter here in the southern hemisphere I find myself fantasising about warm summer breezes. There is a little girl sitting on the bank of a fast flowing river. On her back are the marks of weeks worth of different tan lines across her shoulders and arms. She’s wearing a singlet…
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Swapping one challenge for another
April was the month of poems, May will be the month of photos. I started the National Poetry Writing Month challenge one day late, but managed to complete the month with 30 new poems under my belt. I’m the first to admit that their quality is not consistent in any way, there were days where…
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Watching Movies: Nymphomaniac
It’s been three days since I watched Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Vol I and II. It has taken me this long to work out what I want to say, and even so I’m just hoping I’ll be able to make some sort of coherent statement about it by the end of this post. These two films,…
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Dudley
This is my contribution for Day 12 NaPoWriMo – maybe it’s a found poem, maybe it’s blank verse, maybe it’s comedy or maybe it’s just an exploration of what happens when you replace words with Dudley. Dudley Dudley outbreak in local school! New Dudley flavoured Tim Tams. Would you allow a Dudley in your house?…
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NaPoWriMo – One to Sixteen
Last night I was thinking about William S. Burroughs and cut-ups, so today’s poem was created by writing sixteen lines, some of which had something to do with each other, others are more like observations of my surroundings. I numbered each line and then used a random number generator to re-arrange the lines into the…
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Watching Movies: Weekend Overkill
I haven’t done a Watching Movies post for a while, somehow life got in the way of taking myself to the cinema, but I thought I’d make up for it by seeing four films over two days. This post, therefore, will be short reviews of each of the four films, in the order that I saw…
Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock, Astor Theatre, Carlton, Cinema Nova, Constanze Knoche, Die Besucher, Festival of German Films, Grace Kelly, Hayao Miyazaki, James Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kim Novak, Lies Bagdach, Melbourne, Movie review, Palace Como, Rear Window, Relationships, South Yarra, St Kilda, The Wind Rises, Uwe Kockisch, Vertigo, Visitors -
Short Thoughts: Frank Woodley
My second show of this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival was ‘Fool’s Gold’ performed by Frank Woodley. It was held downstairs at the Melbourne Town Hall in a sort of art deco (quite big) dungeon . Now Frank is what you might call a veteran performer, and is well known to the Australian audience, first…
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NaPoWriMo – A Haiku
Just when I thought I couldn’t be busier in April, what with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival gigs I have booked and the awesome stuff on at the Wheeler Centre to go to, along with commitments to work and uni readings and assignments and maintaining a social life, I have, on a whim, decided to…
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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…
