Good Vibrations, old friends and new opportunities

by | Feb 1, 2004 | Uncategorized

Music is an intense gift to me, as the script from _Almost Famous_ would have it, “vast scenic rituals and angelic choirs in your brain”. There have been times in my life where I haven’t appre­ci­ated it as much as I ought or where I’ve used it to assuage...

No War! No jailtime for Will & Dave!

by | Jan 30, 2004 | Uncategorized

I spent today at the Down­ing Centre court help­ing a friend through the sen­ten­cing of her part­ner, Dave Bur­gess of No War painted on the Opera House fame. He and sci­ent­ist Will Saun­ders received 9 months’ peri­odic deten­tion and have to pay an...

Happiness is…

by | Jan 28, 2004 | Uncategorized

… watch­ing Attack Kitty stalk a piece of kangaroo meat around the loun­ge­room, com­plete with poun­cing, leap­ing from on high, toss­ing in the air, poking with paw and frantic side-to-side shak­ing. I’m sure it’s dead by now, sweetie. Not to men­tion fluffy...

Mel Gibson’s Passionate insanity

by | Jan 27, 2004 | Uncategorized

Hey, sleazemon­key! Remem­ber we were talk­ing about Mel Gib­son’s film, The Pas­sion of the Christ, entirely filmed in Ara­maic and Latin and claimed to be “the most bib­lic­ally accur­ate depic­tion of the cru­ci­fix­ion ever made”?  You might be...