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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Les Fauves: “Self Abuser”
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2 min read
Third album, third song: this is where a rock band has to crush it, or hang up the Rickenbackers for good.
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Les Fauves: “Don’t Get Death Threats Anymore”
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2 min read
Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, bit where it stops for the riff, repeat song title, instrumental fade out.
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Les Fauves: “Big Brother Age”
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2 min read
My first reaction when I heard “Big Brother Age” in my Surry Hills sharehouse back in 1996 was relief.
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New poem published: “(OCCULUS) RIFTS”
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2 min read
“(OCCULUS) RIFTS” has been published online in Cordite Poetry Review.
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Lapkat (Lisa Greenaway): “Consciousness 1//Surface”
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1 min read
Love this, Lisa!
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(It’s a Long, Long Way) From Clare to Here
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2 min read
“From Clare to Here” is a typical emigrant’s song, writing back to a place that no longer exists.
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Kim Hyesoon: Woman-animal-Asia
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1 min read
Still probably the most extraordinary piece of writing I’ve ever read.
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Les Fauves: “Marijuana is God’s Currency”
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4 min read
“Marijuana Is God’s Currency” hints at an alternative history of the Fauves, in which the band broke up after the failure of The Young Need Discipline.
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Les Fauves: “Dogs Are the Best People” Hater
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3 min read
By 1996 the Fauves had finally become huge in the eyes and ears of the general listening public.
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New year, new theme: Anders Norén does it again
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2 min read
Well, my experiment in looking back to the future lasted just two months. The problem was simple: Anders Norén’s Hoffman WordPress theme is now too old to function properly in the WP ecosystem. A bit like me, perhaps.
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Les Fauves: “Everybody’s Getting a 3-piece Together”
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4 min read
“Everybody’s Getting a 3-piece Together” sums up a playful side of the Fauves’ music that was strangely absent from their recorded outputs at the time.
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Best of Australian Poems 2024
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3 min read
My poem “Terminal 1: Aer Lingus” has been selected to appear in the just-published Best of Australian Poems 2024 (Puncher and Wattmann/Australian Poetry), edited by Kate Lilley and Shastra Deo.
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Back to the Future: Anders Norén’s Hoffman Theme
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3 min read
Of course, it could never last. But the fact that I almost made it through a whole year before changing my WordPress theme gives me some comfort.
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Gerald Murnane on not succeeding at meditation
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2 min read
While I was still a young man, it became fashionable among some of my contemporaries to practice what they called meditation and to read books about a variety of subjects that might have been called collectively Eastern spirituality. I could never have brought myself to read any of that sort of book, but I was…
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My (northern) summer reads for 2024
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9 min read
One of the first things I do whenever I move to a new place (trust me, I’ve lived in enough cities, towns and villages to know what I’m talking about here) is to visit — and join — the local library. There’s something comforting and consistent about libraries the world over that grounds me. Growing…