TV and film is real life, isn’t it? After living in the US for a few years, one of the most common questions I was asked by my Australian friends was ‘Is school there really like it is on TV?’ ...
Read More »What we can learn from the Beat Generation: Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
Like many people my age (the wrong side of twenty-five and still not a millionaire – how disappointed my six-year-old self would be!), I often feel lost. I’m not someone who has had my life planned out – I don’t ...
Read More »Bill Hicks: Life’s just a ride…
Stand-up comedy. It’s not something I was ever into – I don’t think staying up late to watch a segment of William Shatner appearing on the Melbourne comedy festival really counts. It’s Bill Shatner. I knew about stand-ups. I’ve seen ...
Read More »The Going Gets Weird, Part 1: The Latter Career of Hunter S. Thompson
To live outside the law, you must be honest. – American proverb People forget that Hunter Stockton Thompson was serious. He devised gonzo journalism, pitching that in a phoney culture full of obfuscation and disengenuity, embedded and exaggerated subjectivity often ...
Read More »Nostalgic Impulse: The legend of the teen movie
My teenage years are sadly long behind me, but that does not mean that I can’t appreciate a well-crafted teen movie. Teen movies have a bad reputation and it is true that many of them are soulless, crude, sappy, or ...
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