It was a shock to discover that Rowland S. Howard died today. This is the man who shook the world with the song Shivers and it is what echoed in my head when I read about his lost battle with ...Read More
I lost an hour of my life because of this! Read More
Truth or Fail is the most awesome and addictive weekly entertainment to come out of YouTube. And you thought Fail Blog was epic. Find out how it's so clever. Go on, I dare you. Read More
When I think of Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go potently resonates like that rekindle of the smell of last night's dinner as you wash the dishes. It forms through senses that enraptures me back to the place that once ...Read More
The footage of nematode mating is strangely mesmerising and surprisingly elegant. The male presses the front side of his tail against the hermaphrodite, while he backs along and searches for the vulva. The tail, controlled by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, embraces the ...Read More
The enveloping and violently red installation of Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, immediately caught my eye to The Hayward Gallery's newly opened exhibition, Walking in My Mind: Adventure into the artist imagination. As the naming aptly conceived, this collection reflects the ...Read More
As time passes and careers fade into history, musos will capitalise by having a reunion tour and/or release a definitive collection to commemorate their glory years. My dear and ol' time favourite The Pixies have hopped onto that bandwagon to ...Read More
Sometime words cannot describe the experience, so you just have to listen—Let the percussion and the organ/synth speak. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater Low – Breaker This video is still close to my heart. It poetically captures the greedy in American politics ...Read More
Today I'm excited about SXSW 2010. Largely it is to do with the simple fact that I have remembered this annual event and have marked it in my diary to prevent missing it for the gazillion time. Hooray! SXSWeek 2010 12-21 ...Read More
Masters of Apprentice, a 70s Aussie band, on was the radio this morning. "A blast from the past", it's what we say to capture that sentimental Sunday morning feeling. There are songs which are from my childhood that are probably ...Read More