Hungry Beast. Coming soon to ABC1.
Meanjin Essay: The Tattoo
An essay I wrote, which semi-interestingly started out its life on Flickr, is published in the September issue of Meanjin. Find out where to get it and what else is in the issue here.
Why I Write (About Music), Kluster Magazine
Um, because it’s only rock and roll, but I like it. Well that’s the short answer, anyway.
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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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.
