Dear Beau, It’s not often that I purchase a copy of Women’s Day, actually I can’t recall ever paying for it in my life, but I was captivated by the story of how Bec Cartwright, your wife-to-be ditched you for a Ferrari driving, cashed up sports star. In Australian society it’s rare for a buff Aussie...
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 SO now this film/documentary about a bit of time in the whacky world Joaquin Phoenix is out and its all been a hoax, the beard and weirdness. All this time here I was thinking he’d just become cool. Shows how far off the social etiquette spectrum I’ve drifted (and for the record, I’ve had...
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  Isolation and travel. Coming from work Friday night and not seeing anyone until Monday morning. Just music, literature and film. Silence. Long hours of no voices except those of the artist.  What is it that so validates the work of artists? What value does it add to our life? Some very successful music books films...
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Bunny Munro “knows what everybody knows who is into this sort of thing – that with its flaccid bun, its spongy meat, the cheese, the slimy little pickle and, of course, the briny special sauce, biting into a Big Mac was as close to eating pussy as, well, eating pussy”. If that makes you want...
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Sunday nights Australian Idol sent shockwaves through the Australian music business as one of our potential great musical exports was relegated to obscurity by only a handful of votes. The elegant voice that is Ashleigh Toole was banished, like a musical Adam and Eve, from the Garden by the dirty pointing finger of the God that...
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At their peak INXS were arguably the greatest band in the world, filling Wembley stadium and having multi platinum album sales in the US. There is no doubting the musicianship and song writing of the Farriss brothers and Kirk Pengilly was a major contributor to the success of INXS, but it was the charisma,...
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