The world adores matt hayward

Overall the first episode (airing on SBS TW last night) was a really good start. Being Aussies, I think a lot of people are going to diss it. But before we cut down the tall poppies, take a step back and compare it to the very first episode of Top Gear Xtra, or what we [...]

If this album was a wine, it would definitely need decanting and be left to breathe for a good hour or two. So far I’ve had one candid listen and for one thing, this does not take up where Convicts left off. This is like Radiohead meets Iggy Pop’s Kill City album. And I HATE [...]

I’ve just seen the NGV art deco exhibition and it’s an absolute corker. Probably not the normal abjective you hear for art shows but who cares, it really is.
Before seeing this, I thought art deco was funky, old solid apartment buildings in South Yarra and St Kilda in Melbourne. But this exhibition shows that it [...]

Well somehow this message got around Hotmail’s spam filter. Perhaps because every message was sent from a different email address! The first one was from an address at Missisipi University from a guy called Jakel Marshall. The picture (left) and accompanying link claim he’s a model, but he’s also a model rip off merchant IF [...]

This vid of a follow up from Video 1 in my previous post: a mass arrest of the proestors and anyone else who happened to be in the park. Now one thing really grabs me about this video. Why was no one read their rights? Isn’t that unconstitutional? No police had visible badges, which begs [...]

Not very often does a producer get a mention beyond the liner notes of an album. But somehow Phil Spector became a music legend. From mentoring Brian Wilson, to producing John Lennon, right up to the Ramones, he’s had one of the most enviable, albeit patchy careers in the music biz. Don’t go thinking this [...]

Fascism by loose definition is the government serving in the interests of corporations, you know ‘to make the trains run on time’ and bugger the people they represent. The term comes from the lictor, a whip made of really tight bonded leather fasces, hence Fascism. Now it’s been a while since i’ve studied history but [...]