More, this genre con­siders the rela­tion­ship of the transna­tional film-makers to their sub­jects to be a rela­tion­ship that is filtered through nar­rat­ives and icon­o­graph­ies of memory, desire, loss, long­ing and nos­tal­gia. Memor­ies are fal­lible, play­ful, and evas­ive, and…

This whole living at the cut­ting edge thing is really frus­trat­ing. I’m trying to find aca­demic – or at least schol­arly – texts address­ing the cul­tural and tex­tual implic­a­tions of RSS, ebooks and hand­held deliv­ery; the Web as a visual medium and the impact of…

I had a very pleas­ant sur­prise today: razorgirl_au’s flat­mate insert_this, having heard about me appar­ently, sent 7 red roses, com­pletely out of the blue. I’ve never met him, spoken to him or had any sort of e‑contact with him. razorgirl_au had merely com­men­ted to me…

So, here I was plan­ning to spend the even­ing work­ing and then I made the mis­take of catch­ing up on LJ… there went a few hours. I had a job inter­view with Lonely Planet today which went quite well, I think. It does­n’t pay all that well, but it’d be good work. Back…

But this is cute. I miss my kitty.

Just the sort of week­end I’d hoped for. After a great day Friday at the X|Media|Lab con­fer­ence, went for a drink with Amanda Wise, an old acquaint­ance from the a early days of my career (those who were around at the time: she worked at Radi­ant with John of the banana…

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 anger but…

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 inflated clean-up bill.…

… 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 and kinda bad…

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 inter­ested in this art­icle at…

I’ll be in Sydney from Friday morn­ing because I’m going to Good Vibra­tions with agwat and sluis, mainly because agwat is a sweetie and bought me a ticket! So: a) Are any other Sydney LJ people going to Good Vibra­tions? and b) Drinks at Zan­zibar, Friday night from…

Went to Phil­lip Island on a whim after an unex­pec­ted but very wel­come invit­a­tion from friends to join them in a house of debauch­ery. There was wine, sexy people, pen­guins, polit­ical dis­cus­sion and insec­ur­ity (on my part) and debauch­ery, of course. Great week­end. Then…

For those of you wot knows jeam­land, I think I finally got the RSS feed thingy to work and have made an RSS feed of Ben­no’s non-LJ blog so we can read it in our LJ friends pages. Go to the LJ syn­dic­a­tions page and add jeamland_rss. My friends page filled up with all…