The Dust Revival Band Q: What do you get when you cross a top hat, a frockcoat, exposed underwear and bunch of leaves thrown in the air? A: The Dust Revival Band A few weeks ago, I invited my former bandmates from my old folk rock band Dust over to[…]
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The Mudskipper How does someone whose only real talent and justification for being alive is the generation of creative stuff – the puffing out of cotton seeds into the mysterious wind of life, the spinning of fairy floss onto sticks for the emotionally ravenous- wind up working on spreadsheets five,[…]
Read More »When I looked outside my studio doors today, as a late Sunday in the suburbs dripped into evening, this is what I saw. Sunday 19 Feb 2012
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B(if)tek: Big in Hungary? Happy Chinese New Year! On 23 January, the world ascends into the mystical Year of the Dragon. According to a Chinese astrology site I selected after throwing digital yarrow stalks into the air several times: “A dragon is a legendary creature. All legendary stories about Chinese[…]
Read More »I had this fantasy as I dozed off last night: Episode title: Gas bagging Scene: The Emergency Department of All Saints Hospital, New York (fictional setting of Nurse Jackie). The usual crew are hanging around the nurses station. Zoey (mustering courage): Umm. Jackie? How come we’re a major metropolitan hospital[…]
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The Wind in the Suburbs In Thornbury, an inner suburb of Melbourne which is more suburb than inner, there is a little two bedroom flat, and in that flat, there dwell two women and two dogs. Its winter in Australia, a place the rest of the world chuckles at because[…]
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I just finished a 14 minute mockumentary about a music road trip I took through the Appalachians in October last year with old musician buddy Lucy Foley. Its called Skeltys and Foley: The Journey of The Band of Discovery. Edited in Melbourne with the invaluable help of the wonderful, and[…]
Read More »I’ll be doing some readings, showing some videos and playing some tunes at the groovy CineMartSpace 17 in New York City next Friday 3 June. The venue is a multimedia performance space at 43 Murray Street (between West Broadway & Church Streets, Tribeca area). I’ll be kicking off at 8.30pm.[…]
Read More »On Sunday 22nd May at 6.00pm, I’ll be holding a video event at Longplay, Melbourne’s grooviest micro-cinema and bar (318 St George’s Rd, North Fitzroy, near corner of Holden St). I’ll be showing some videos and telling some stories about my USA adventures thus far, including the world premiere of[…]
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As we start to jet down the runway of a new year, I feel the need to press my nose against the economy class window and fix the past year in my stare as it starts to roll away. Although I know 2010 can’t see me anymore, I nevertheless find[…]
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