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misty midnights

by | Jun 10, 2006 |

Riding home down cold, fog-filled Mel­bourne roads, I am awed by a strange sense of calm. Some­how, the mist blocks sound so my engine, the asphalt, the crunch of cars on gravel is swal­lowed by the night. Hammy’s farewell party was ace as expec­ted, filled with hip-hop…

Reviews

by | Jun 7, 2006 |

Reviews of Defi­ant Birth, Cars and Bohemian Nights can now be found at {ariel flux}. I still seem to be the only con­trib­utor… des­pite my plead­ing to people like morgan303. Well, that’s not quite true. bourdieu_boy did write some­thing in there. I want you academic…

by | Jun 7, 2006 |

Things I would like to go do/see in the near future: The Unquiet World exhib­i­tion @ ACCA (free), on now. Some of the Gypsy films at ACMI (films $13/$10, season passes $60/$48), starts Thursday. The open­ing of James Geurts’s exhib­i­tion Tidemark at the SPAN gal­lery on…

Controversial concept: let the flaming begin

by | Jun 7, 2006 |

Dad sent me a rab­binic art­icle on The Da Vinci Code. It con­tains a fas­cin­at­ing pas­sage that makes a cer­tain amount of sense to me and is cer­tain to ruffle feath­ers. I’m inter­ested to hear what you lot think: So Jesus was mar­ried! Well why should­n’t he have been?…

Between a man and a woman

by | Jun 7, 2006 |

Fol­low­ing a brief con­ver­sa­tion with Daniel last night and after this morn­ing’s news about our own dear gov­ern­ment over­turn­ing ACT laws leg­al­ising civil unions, here’s a very well done art­icle on why Bush is push­ing for the change to the US con­sti­tu­tion on this issue…

Outback justice

by | Jun 4, 2006 | ,

[after an increase in sexual dis­fig­ure­ment of indi­gen­ous women was repor­ted in The Age news­pa­per] I say no, don’t want that now, and he say, fine, Then no one gonna have you. Pours his stuff on me He been huffin’, they all do, Drops his durrie and I flame up Like it’s…

This must be the week for it

by | May 31, 2006 |

I’m watch­ing Thank God You’re Here on Chan­nel 10 and I’ve real­ised I recog­nise one of the ensemble cast. It’s my old mate, Daniel Cordeaux, also from the old Theatres­ports and ATYP days, who I always thought was an abso­lute stun­ner. In some ways, I was better friends…

Fame part II

by | May 31, 2006 |

I now have con­firm­a­tion that I am emin­ently for­get­table. *grin* Walked past Dorothy Porter in the street today, smiled and stopped her. She taught me poetry for two semesters at UTS (admit­tedly in 1991 or some­thing, but still) and I’ve seen her mul­tiple times since at…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.