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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)
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5 min read
My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.
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Ann Leckie: Provenance
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1 min read
I absolutely loved Ann Leckie’s Raadch trilogy, and Provenance is a worthy addition to her universe. I just wish the publishers had gone with a less shouty blurb/cover/testimonial approach. “POWER. THEFT. PRIVILEGE. BIRTHRIGHT.” is ridiculously over-the-top for what is essentially an introverted and subtle political-space drama!
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Simple
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1 min read
As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.
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Margaret Atwood: Hag-seed
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1 min read
Hag-seed (2016) is such a fun novel, and so well written. I think I may be finally ready to deep dive into the big ones: Alias Grace, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin … So much to read, so little time.
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I remember Australian music in the 1980s
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8 min read
This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!
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Pollenation
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1 min read
Sitting at home with the windows closed on the one and only summer day we will get in Sverige this year, bawling my eyes out watching an imaginary movie on the backs of my eyelids called Björkpollen II: Det kliande ögat av Sauron.
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Hittegods
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2 min read
16 November Left my phone on the bus this morning and realized how much of my so-called life is/was trapped in that stupid thing. Partly hoping that an honest Swede will have picked it up and handed it in to SL but also secretly hoping it is gone for good. Seems I’m locked out of…
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Eurovision 2015: Ah, Vienna!
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5 min read
Having watched the 2015 Eurovision final in its entirety, I would agree with the general observation that the entrants this time around were mostly lacking in the somewhat indescribable pizazz that is compulsory if you want to win.
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Cordite Poetry Review publishes its 50th full issue!
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3 min read
It’s really pleasing to see how Cordite Poetry Review has flourished since Kent MacCarter took the reins back in 2012. Kent has truly injected a new sense of energy to the journal, and has just published the journal’s 50th full issue, NO THEME IV, featuring 50 new poems edited by John Tranter and a whole swag of goodies including…
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Three literary devices that really cheese me off
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5 min read
If I had to write a complete list of all the things creative types do that really give me the jitches, I’d be here all day. So, in my own therapeutical interests, here’s three literary devices that cheese me off no end. What cheeses you off?
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Thomas Mann on Lubeck, harems and marzipan
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2 min read
Now if anyone wishes to vent a little spite against me, or take a casual swipe at me, I can count on his bringing up my Lubeck origin and Lubeck marzipan. If some ill-wisher can think of nothing else, he invariably thinks of connecting me with comic marzipan and representing me as a marzipan baker.…
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You may recall that I’ve embarked on a massive project involving an analysis of the early Chris de Burgh albums—and specifically his lyrics. Given the scope of this project, my progress is slow, but steady. However, inevitably, choosing a new WordPress theme (in my case, the wonderful Lovecraft theme by Anders Norén) involves going through…
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The sorry (but still Happy) Farang
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1 min read
Whoops, sorry for the mass-broadcast/WP-tweeting of posts related to The Happy Farang. Truly inadvertent, accidental etc. But feel free to check out the poems in all their raw glory . . .
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Kim Gordon on singing, Kim Deal and cake
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1 min read
At the same time, I loved hanging out with Kim Deal, and when I rewatch the video [for ‘Little Trouble Girl’], my favorite part is seeing the two of us together singing and looking hot. Maybe everything always looks better twenty years later. When Kim showed up in Memphis to record the song, she had…
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What will babies be like 100 years from now?
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3 min read
Given that babies are generally only around for a year or two before they morph into young children, the question of what babies will be like in the future may well in fact be a moot one. But, to use Yoda’s phrasing, ask that question I have, and the answer reveal I now can.