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The Amen break
To talk fascinatingly about 40-year-old drum break you don’t know that you know. Brilliantly oblique! This is the apparent subject of a fantastic youtube recording of what amounts to an art project, but which is also a dissertation or argument for open copyright as an essential ingredient in the health of culture. Nate [...]
In September’s ABR (Australian Book Review) there is a full page ad for the new issue of Griffith Review. The headline reads:
We’ve always been smart – now we’re sexy too.
It goes on: ‘Presenting Griffith REVIEW 25: After the Crisis, the first edition with our new partners at Text Publishing and featuring an elegant redesign. (etc [...]
Just to make one thing quite clear: This blog is irrelevant.
Hope that’s alright, then. But, what’s this all about?
Yesterday I posted on The September Issue, a film about US Vogue and its editor, Anna Wintour. A reader commented:
‘Ho hum. A blog about a film about a magazine about an unreal narcissistic pseudo-world. Could this any [...]
Bye, Pop! Pop waves g’bye. So does Now take its leave of us …
Crashingbore, we had to drive five forsaken hours through dust and dirt – and at the next stop, in the little coal mining boomtown of Blackwater, Qld, between Bluff and Comet, we stocked up on water, fruit, alcohol (not for onboard consumption), [...]
I’m off for a week’s break somewhere warm, sticky and off the grid. So I am leaving a holiday hamper. You’ll find a minimum of seven items here (conditions do not apply).
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1) A sunny message from the streets:
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2) See the finest show of Aboriginal art ever. Go to my next post.
Still writing it but, oh [...]
The Full Motley: chair Robert Manne, Ghassan Hage, Mark Baker, Gerry Simpson and Rai Gaita, at the last event of ‘Gaza: Morality, Law & Politics’, a lecture series pitched dead centre on the world’s most contested ground.
We were told by Chair Manne in his stentorian bass that the discussion was being taped for a future [...]
At a dinner party last night the elderly host said, ‘Oh, everyone around this table has a niche job.’
I hadn’t misheard, he hadn’t said ‘Nice’. What surprised me was how seemingly true that felt. And that would be a good thing. Here are the first two dictionary.com definitions of niche:
1. an ornamental recess in a [...]
Imagine the score of a late Beethoven piano sonata. Then, being in a concert hall as the pianist attacks the keyboard, the black blizzard of notes swelling over the audience. If, like me, you are less than naturally musical, you are … processing – listening to the flow of sounds with that strange, innate ability [...]
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