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…
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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
A Little Known Australian Movie called ‘Candy’ and Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’
Heath Ledger was at the peak of his acting prowess when he sadly departed from this great play we all take part called ‘Life’. He was posthumously awarded the Oscar for best supporting actor in his role as the Joker…
Tagged with: Brokeback Mountain, Candy, Daniel Day Lewis, easydiet.blog, Heath Ledger, Lincoln, The Dark Knight, Tim Buckley
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, Reflections
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Come Healing’ and 5 Other Contemporary Spiritual Masterpieces
As far as musical sub-genres go, contemporary-spiritual music doesn’t get its just-deserts! Heck, we might have got into the weeds professing our love for folk-rock and alternative seattle music, but when did you ever hear people spout on about ‘contemporary-spiritual…
Tagged with: archie roach, Blowing in the wind, Bob Dylan, come healing, Djarimirri, Geoffrey Gurrumul, hallelujah, leonard cohen, nick cave, Rufus Wainright, the ship song, there is a garden
Posted in Music, Reflections
Posted in Music, Reflections
The Liam Neeson Farce. Why is Psychological Insight of this Nature Being Scorned?
I thought it was good for men ‘to talk about their feelings’? What surprised me was how the interviewer stated his remarks have offended people of colour. How on earth could his remarks be interpreted as a racial slur or…
Tagged with: identity politics, Liam Neeson, modern left, psychology, racism, violence
Posted in News, politics, Reflections
Posted in News, politics, Reflections
My Family Cartoon
I remember my school-friend Gary spending countless school hours drawing cartoons of his school friends’ families. He had a peculiar flair for exploiting their features, and did it in such a way that you had to admire his artistry and…
Chomsky on Žižek and Peterson’s ‘Logos’ and ‘I Act as if God Exists’
You can read the full Reddit response to my post below here. Edited (13/01/2019): Jordan Peterson on his Q&A for January has just stated that he and Žižek have a debate tentatively lined up for April in Toronto and he…
Tagged with: Bristish GQ, Carl Jung, Jordan Peterson, Noam Chomsky, religion, Slavov Zizek, The Logos
Posted in politics, Reflections
Posted in politics, Reflections
Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics – Is it Too Early to Rule out the Copenhagen Classic Interpretation?
Dr Sean Carroll in his ‘Many-World’ theory interpretation dismissed the supremacy of the ‘Conscious’ observer argument related to the the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In this video, he didn’t explain his objections exactly, but it is probably derived from…
Tagged with: Carlo Rovelli, consciousness, copenhagen, Entropy, everett, many-worlds, particle, quantum mechanics, Sean Carroll
Posted in Reflections, Science
Posted in Reflections, Science
The Political Compass Test. Where do You Sit on the Political Spectrum?
Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today’s Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics,…
Tagged with: economy, educaction, government, health, hitler, political compass, political spectrum, politics, stalin
Posted in politics, Reflections
Posted in politics, Reflections
Roma – A Latino Cinematic Masterpiece (2018)
I watched Roma two days ago and I felt that as an ‘art-house’ feature it was a masterpiece. I think unless you have lived in Latin America for an extended period it may be difficult to become emotionally attached to…
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
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