Adventure
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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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Short Thoughts: The Return of the King
Thursday night was my sixth Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show for the season. I went to La Mama Theatre in Carlton, my companion and I bought a ticket, we waited until the allotted time to shuffle in, sat down, and realised, this was not the show the thought it would be. La Mama, it turns out,…
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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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Shorts Thoughts – Two for the price of one!
Last night was my fourth Melbourne International Comedy festival show for 2014 – ‘Laughable’ by Jennifer Wong. I feel like I need to tell you how I made the decision to see Wong’s show, because it’s important to me. After having booked my tickets to Frank Woodley and The Boy with Tape on his Face,…
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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: Winter is Coming
Show three of my MICF for 2014 was ‘Winter is Coming‘ performed by Backwards Anorak. As you may be able to tell, the show was a Game of Thrones parody. The first thing I should probably mention is that I’m not a Game of Thrones fan – I’ve never attempted to read the books, and…
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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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Short Thoughts: The Boy with Tape on his Face
This is just going to be a short selection of thoughts about the show I saw tonight. As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival I saw ‘More Tape’ performed by The Boy with Tape on his Face at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. Performed by New Zealander Sam Wills, this one hour show had…
Fleur Blüm 