My brother Jonny and I sat on two wooden chairs opposite the bed hunched over our knees. Numb. The chairs had never got so much use as they did that morning nor would they get any kind of practical use…
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Imbecile (1979) Tarot Suite – Mike Batt and Friends
No other album was played as often in our house during my youth than Tarot Suite by Mike Batt (with the London Symphony Orchestra)
The Puss’ Bus is for Us
Some Navy members referred to their vocation as the ‘Puss’. Personally, I found it an ill-bred term because I was a stuck-up son a of a bitch. But I cackled when a drillie berated our whinging group, “Build a bridge…
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
Slavoj Žižek vs Jordan Peterson Debate 19-4-2019
Two great public intellectual heavyweights met last night for their much anticipated debate: Happiness: Capitalism v Marxism. In January this year just prior to the announcement of their debate, I wrote a post about Zizek and Peterson titled: Chomsky on…
Tagged with: Capitalism, Debate, Happiness: Capitalism v Marxism, Jordan Peterson, Marxism, Slavoj Žižek
Posted in politics
Posted in politics
‘Watching (Yourself) Like You Are a Snake’
‘Watching (yourself), like you are a Snake’
Murky Waters
Deeper thoughts lay withinA cove of great despairIt’s sad and it’s of murky watersOnce shone a lustrous blue Touching remains sunk deep withinOh, time heals everything, butYour stirring love, scarring detailTreasure chest full, rusted and torn I hear on the…
The Tattoo
When I was in my late teens I wanted a tattoo. The Navy seemed like the right place to make this happen. Tattooing, I learnt had been linked with the seafaring life of the Navy for centuries. I remember one…
The Master (2012) – Paul Thomas Anderson
Lancaster Dodd: I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s film catalogue may not be expansive his…
Breath – Tim Winton (A Classic Australian Novel)
“It’s funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it’s all you ever think about.”― Tim Winton, Breath Tim Winton is Australia’s most-lauded novelist. He has won Australia’s highest literary merit the Miles Franklin Award an unprecedented…
Tagged with: Australia, breath, cloudstreet, miles franklin award, tim winton
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Lost Horizon (1937) – Frank Capra
Along with Woody Allen’s Sleeper, Lost Horizon is another movie recommended to me by fellow blogger Badfinger20. It is a Frank Capra film based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. IMDB storyline: British diplomat Robert…
Tagged with: Frank Capra, James Hilton, Lost Horizon, Ronald Coleman, Shangri-La
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
