A won­der­ful quote appar­ently from Ein­stein, ganked from : “He who joy­fully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my con­tempt. He has been given a large brain by mis­take, since for him the spinal cord would suf­fice.” I was sur­prised to learn in Venice…

1. Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo 2. Fuck­ing *nobody* on the streets on the way home so you can zoom along at 100ks on your Vespa 3. Prac­tic­ally nobody at the gig so you can sit with the band after the gig and get them to sign your new little red Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo singlet…

Satire, but sadly it’s true: ”Under our legal system you aren’t allowed to lock people up for two years without charge unless they’re seek­ing asylum,” [Rud­dock] said. (Thanks to The Chaser) And go read this from the Thor­fmeister, because he knows what’s good for you.…

MICROFICTION PROJECT for the 2004 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Look up and see the text in lights. Voice­works magazine¹s Microfic­tion pro­ject for the 2004 Next Wave Fest­ival takes fic­tion off the page and places it on public screens at ACMI and around the Mel­bourne CBD from 18…

Remem­ber how I almost stayed in Paris to watch a band? They’re play­ing the Corner Hotel this Thursday! Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo is a group of 8 sexy guys play­ing infec­tious French gypsy ska and singing odes to “la joie et l’an­archie’. When in France, they travel around…

I went. It was worth it. That was the extasis I was after; Chords lift­ing and sur­round­ing, that voice soar­ing. He played Five Years, and Hang on to Your­self and Ziggy Star­dust and Heroes and Ashes to Ashes. He played four tracks from Low (Sound and Vision, Always…

Can anyone tell me the dif­fer­ence between ‘autoch­thonic’ and ‘indi­gen­ous’ (in cul­tural stud­ies terms not botanic terms[1]) and explain why I’m start­ing to see autoch­thonic more? [1] Although, come to think of it, dai­syn­erd and maybe even jet­speaks, per­haps an…

It may be that Michel Maf­fesoli said everything I’m trying to say in 1996.

I might have made the wrong decision… Ani di Franco didn’t trans­port me last night. She was com­pet­ent and funny, and some of her poems were unbe­liev­ably good. I loved hear­ing a few of my favour­ite songs and she made me think a lot about rela­tion­ships and polit­ics. I…

Look at me! I’m work­ing on my thesis! Amaz­ing! Dia­sporic iden­tity is always already in the pro­cess of becom­ing-other, always engaged in a shift­ing cul­tural dis­cus­sion of the lim­inal. It is too easy to argue that the inev­it­able out­come of the post-structuralist…

In the last few days, I have been blessed with lots of new yummy soft­ware… Thanks to the Uni of Mel­bourne site licenses, I now have Microsoft Office X and the Mac­ro­media suite (Dream­weaver, Fire­works) and thanks to being a journ­al­ist, I now have Adobe Creative…

So at last I’ve man­aged a radio com­ment­ary that’s *not* based on me being the editor of some­thing. Whoo hoo! I’ve just listened to the down­load (Real­Player file) for those who missed it on Wed­nes­day’s Hack on JJJ. I think I come across as reas­on­ably coher­ent although…