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Emotional software updates.
Every now and then a circumstance will enter the theatre of your life bearing an invitation to change. This shift in attitude, perspective, pattern, could seem tiny on the surface but ripple deeper into the fabric of your being. Over time I have come to observe these fluxes of inevitability more closely… They’re not all…
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A lullaby by Robert Louis Stevenson, circa 1875.
While deleting spam emails this afternoon, I fell upon an eDM from a hidden gem in NYC that sells magazines of revered photography and design from every era between here and the 17th century. I once spent an accidental fortune (USD to AUD math) on five, or so, magazines and books about 1960s,70s home designs;…
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Reading Hunter S. Thompson.
Discovering authors by chance is an indescribable thrill. Of the writers passed it brings them back to life again, and of the ones still drawing breath and enduring gravity, well they become notes, jotted down with headlines following rough bulleted interview questions. Such expectant wandering was how I got to know Hunter S. Thompson in…
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Kevin Rudd’s little book about big change.
Despite the long, arduous, and downright dramatic (a group of sixty 12-year-olds on a bus for 40 hours) journey to Parliament House in grade 7. Yes, despite that box tick by the school to ‘educate’ us on Australian politics in half of a day, I still had no idea who, what, and why to vote…
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January ‘22: a few sensory reflections
Listening to: ‘Camille 2000’ soundtrack by Piero Piccioni — the score to a promiscuous film produced and directed by Radley Metzger as a comment on the inertia and corrupt decadence of high society, stamped in the late 60s, based on a 17th-century novel, La Dame aux Camélias. Life Magazine described the work as “healthily erotic”.…
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What is The Celestine Prophecy?
My dear friend Liv tells me that in the mid 90s every second person in cafes through Little Collins had James Redfield’s novel, The Celestine Prophecy, in hand. Now, 28 years after its release, the nine key insights that line the plot still illuminate young and old. This copy was picked up at Elizabeths second…
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Potato and Leek Pie.
Homemade. A creative and enriching skill to be fostered in one’s simple life. Two months shy of 29 and I’m only just starting to relish in the wide ranging joy that flows from the river of all things homemade. Today it was pie. Good old shortcut pastry golden gooey pie. Potato, leeks, onion, thyme, Dijon…
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Attn: Wes Anderson enthusiasts.
With the unsettling combination of mixed reviews from my inner circle and waiting almost two years for The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun to land, I entered the Luna Leederville Cinema in Perth on the 1st of January with a preserved excitement; a trust pickled in the juices of all he has…
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The need for silence.
Noise is first and foremost a sound, by definition, yet here in the 21st century a case could be made that noise is also perpetuated in image, moving and still. In the 20s, noise could be redefined as a persistent and endless vie for ones attention through digital stimulus. It is an extension of our…
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