Creative Sydney: Generation Slashie

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UPDATE: And here’s how it went.

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“Creativity has rarely been bound to a singular medium, but trying to keep up with the ever-changing plethora of ways in which to participate in the creative process is a constant challenge in itself. There are those super human beings who walk amongst us, however, who not only manage to roll with the times, but also manage to capitalise on new media to spice up their (caffeine-fuelled) careers through multiple and simultaneous creative pursuits.

Nine of these fine personalities will be showcased in Creative Sydney’s ‘Generation Slashie’ event, inspiration for all those would be designer/writer/radio producers and director/musician/blogger extraordinaires out there.”

Well, that is rather a lovely lot of stuff to say. I am thrilled (and slightly nervous) to be participating in this panel discussion this Friday evening at the MCA. It’s free! It’s chaired by Cyclic Defrost editor and Canvas presenter Matt Levinson, and features a host of vastly talented mutil-disciplinarians from around town. It promises to be fun. I SAID, PROMISES.

I would also recommend checking out the Upsides of Downturns, featuring Nick Pickard and chaired by Andrew Ramadge, and Behind the Scenes featuring Andy Nehl. I’ll be at all of these and more, so if you’re coming along please say hi to me.

While on the Creative Sydney Loveboat, I should mention that the Top 100 Creative Cataylists list was unveiled, and pleasingly includes my faithful platonic life partner, Dan Boud, and a tonne of other great people enriching the city’s cultural fabric — some of whom I know and work/ed with, others, I am about to embark on an adventure of epic proportions with.

Which brings me in a roundabout way to saying that I realise it’s been quiet here of late on the writing front, and beyond a forth-coming piece in the September issue of Meanjin, it might stay that way for some time. I’ve been given an extremely exciting work opportunity of which I’ll share the details, hopefully, shortly. In the meantime I’ll do my best to dig up and post my audio interviews of the past two years, for anyone who’s into that.

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1 month ago

Doves Interview

I adore Doves, I think mostly because a certain record of theirs resonated specially with a certain point in my life. When I was in artschool, once, very briefly (for a year), I listened to Lost Souls on the bus nearly every morning of that year on my way there and then again on the way home. What I remember most about that time, is that it was so often raining.

[INTERVIEW]

2 months ago

Eagles of Death Metal, Part Deux (I Am Trying To Break Your Heart)

So, communism sucked.This is where I get off the ride.

After their show.

[Jesse Hughes interview on FasterLouder.}

2 months ago

Gianni Russo Interview [Stop, Drop and Roll]

Al Pacino and Gianni Russo in The Godfather

Well, here’s a thing.

I interviewed Gianni Russo in October last year for the Brag, and it’s taken me all this time to find a home for the long version. Issue One of Stop Drop and Roll is out shortly (and can be pre-ordered here) and there you will find it very prettily laid out, but in the meantime you can read the PDFs.

Coincidentally, in the March issue of Vanity Fair Mark Seal writes extensively about the Godfather’s fraught creation. In this version, it was producer Al Ruddy who brokered the peace with Mafia Don and Italian-American Anti-Defamation League head, Joe Colombo at the behest of Robert Evans (familiar from The Kid Stays In The Picture), and so allowing for filming on the set to resume.

Who knows, perhaps the one who set up the meeting was Gianni Russo, as he related to me. In our chat, he glossed over the reportedly ferocious wife-beating scene for which he auditioned and ultimately won the role of Carlo. Perhaps he didn’t want to offend me. Perhaps he thought everyone knew that already.

Either way, I’ve never met so thoroughly charming a murderer.

3 months ago

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