December 2010
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2010 in reading material.
I was really sick for the first half of 2010. My tonsils were angry pustular sores, my liver shut down and my brain crashed and re-started more often than my 2005 MacBook Pro. On the bright side, I got a lot of reading done. I usually stick closely to non-fiction hard copy books, but my extended convalescence broadened my reading horizons.
I read my first zine in April (Gutterslug, as mentioned...
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RESCUED FROM WHOTHEHELL.NET: No Sleep Til...
I went to Destroy All Lines‘ new festival No Sleep Til on Sunday. I was there for business (seeing the Aussie component of the line-up for the blog) and pleasure (seeing the Descendents) and was wearing suitable wet-weather attire to brave the monsoon rain bucketing down over Brisbane.
I went with a mate who writes for Brisbane street press Rave Magazine, and we both got there early, with plenty...
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Graduation: thank goodness.
After four years; a change of degree and career; many relationships with varying degrees of seriousness; episodes of glandular fever, mania, depression and anxiety; five different places of residence; numerous jobs and work contracts; having interviewed hundreds of people for dozens of articles, radio packages, TV packages and assignments…
Thanks to the support and love of my parents,...
“I never had any problems as the result of being female that I couldn’t get...”
– PJ Harvey was my age when her first album Dry was released. What a tremendous musician.
Yo blog nerds
You might not have noticed if you follow this blog through your Tumblr dash, but I’ve rehomed the site and made it a self-hosted wordpress. Text posts will be pushed through to here, and picture, video and quote posts will appear in the sidebar over there.
IF you are a nerd and follow through feeds, a few things have changed.
The feed for the tumblr is:...
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Issue 3 of the zine is out now. Click here to... →
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