Adversity often strikes us when we are least expecting it. That’s largely because our natural tendency, the Eeyores among us not withstanding, is to hope for the very best, to let hope spring eternal until such time as it becomes abundantly clear that it has no intention of rewarding Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Weekend pop art: Concept artists reimagine Star Wars
There is seemingly no end to Star Wars ever-captivating universe. Not only is Disney announcing film after film for the franchise, with this year’s new entry in the cinematic canon, Rogue One, only a few short months from release, but artists continue to re-imagine their own distinctive visually-stunning takes on Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #3: “Rory’s Birthday Parties” (S1, E6)
One of the enduring strengths of the Gilmore Girls is that throughout its seven season run it deftly combined a winning sense of quirkiness with real emotional resonance. Sure much of Lorelai’s (Lauren Graham) dialogue was peppered with witticism, quips and an almost inexhaustible supply of pop culture touch points, but Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Les Spectateurs examines futuristic regret
No matter how glittering the dream or exciting the prospect, there comes a time when we must confront the loss of everything that we are leaving behind. This might not amount to much of an emotional wrench at all – we’re glad to be done with that period in Continue Reading
Movie review: Life, Animated
It was the poet John Donne who sagely and insightfully noted that “No man is an island entire of itself”, a nod to humanity’s shared, almost primal need for connection with others and the shared sense of meaning that results. There is no doubt he would see a thematic Continue Reading
Now this is music #77: LEISURE, Sleigh Bells, Magic City Hippies, merk, Opia
Fridays are the gateway to the weekends of the soul. OK they’re also literal weekends too but as they say, and they know things they do, all work and no play leaves makes Jack and Jill a dull couple of people, and you need those days to regroup and Continue Reading
From Toy Story you are – Rogue One: A Pixar Story
Mash-ups are all the rage in our digital postmodern age. So it makes perfect sense that someone would eventually merge together The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer with some tasty Pixar scenes to create the kind of movie that I would see in a heartbeat. I mean, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Wrath” / “North” (S2, E 14 & 15)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A ROUSING GAME OF WHACK-A-ZOMBIE …” Season finales of apocalyptically-inclined shows like Fear the Walking Dead are usually fairly grim, violence-packed affairs when the metaphorical apple carts of all the characters are upset, things go even more to hell in a handbasket than they have Continue Reading
Who are you really? Split examines life for one man with 23 personalities
SNAPSHOT While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to Continue Reading
Book review: The Finding of Martha Lost by Caroline Wallace
Compelling though many protagonists are, and they need to be if you’re going to make it to the end of the average novel, it’s a rare thing indeed to fall headlong in love with a lead character to the extent that you do with the whimsical, trusting but ultimately Continue Reading