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Lorde, Festival Hall
Great songs. An incredible voice. And So. Much. Hair.
Lorde was amazing. That was the first concert I've been to where a sea of mobile phone held aloft felt not annoying but celebratory.
On stage, Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor is calm, confident, and charismatic. And contradictory: she sings about coming from a torn-up town, but she has a MAC ( Read more... ) -
Pub Lunch
It's lunch. At the pub. Come if you can make it, no worries if you can't.
Where: The Northcote Social Club
When: Sunday 29th June, from 1:00pm
Why: Because we like you.
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MOFO 2014
The image that stays with me:
An industrial welding robot, retro-fitted with a 1,000 watt lamp, traces splines of light inside a darkened tent, while a singer raises her arms and sings to it about Ada Lovelace.
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We've just spent a week down in Hobart for the MONA FOMA music festival. Seven days of bands, art, another visit to MONA, and then some ( Read more... ) -
2013 in review
A mixed year for me.
It started off well - We went to MONA FOMA, I finished writing my novel, Continuum was a blast. But around the mid-year everything seemed to get bogged down. I had problems sleeping. Projects stalled at work. And I stopped writing. The second half of the year felt like wading against mud.
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Arcadia Falls
I don't usually post fanfic.
But I spent yesterday home sick with a head cold, thinking about The Day of the Doctor.
You can't sleep properly with a head cold. The snot keeps you awake. And, if you're me, you distract yourself thinking about what you wanted to see with John Hurt's War Doctor.
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The Day of the Doctor
(I meant to blog my thoughts about this episode. Then I wrote all this as a comment in a friend's journal, so I might as well post this.)
I enjoyed it, but I had very mixed feelings.
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The Quarry, Iain Banks
Finished reading Iain Banks's final novel The Quarry today.
18 year old Kit lives with his father Guy in a crumbling old country house. Kit is on the autism spectrum. Guy is dying of cancer. Guy invites his old university friends to stay for a weekend. In between drinking and taking drugs, the friends search the old house for an embarrassing video ( Read more... ) -
ATP: Release the Bats
Release the Bats was All Tomorrow's Parties Halloween special, a follow-up to their successful festival in February this year.
We bought our tickets the day before they announced they were changing venues because ticket sales were too low. So instead of the bizarre Westgate Entertainment Complex, it would be held at the Palais in St Kilda, with the ( Read more... ) -
Busy week last week
Reading back over this journal, I realsied that I have almost no functioning memory of the past. If I don't write it down, I forget it ever happened.
So: a quick wrap up of last week.
TUESDAY: Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegleman gavea talk at the Melbourne Town Hall about the history of comics, and his involvement with them. It was a fantastic talk, ( Read more... ) -
Melbourne by Dusk
Walked home from work ( Read more... )