album review: niagara and the hitmen – st. valentine’s day massacre

Up now over at RHUM.

Currently reading: Cat’s Cradle

Just finished it actually. A dark, interesting little book. I liked it more than Slaughterhouse Five.

I am curious about Vonnegut’s view of religion having read it – some quick research (and much of his novels) suggests he was an…

flat(iron)

Any serious travel is looking like it’s some time away at the moment – I’m thinking of New York (and looking through old photos) and wishing I was over…

new family member

Max!

new smashing pumpkins

Fair to say I’m not hating it so far… 43 more free tracks to come, allegedly.

intermission

I have been pursuing some non-online interests of late including my health and taking photos

melbourne

Studying in Melbourne this week.

on finding one’s car has been broken into and one’s car stereo taken

A stream of consciousness meditation on crime from the perspective of a semi-libertarian bleeding heart cynic whose 1990 Mistubishi Galant was found violated and stripped of its CD player this morning:

1. Fuck.  I am not really angry so much

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exposure to absurdity may improve the mind

I found this article interesting – new research suggests that exposure to the absurd or irrational may provoke higher levels of thinking – for example, pattern recognition – in humans.  The theory appears to be that when confronted…

vegas underground

Having recently been to (and hated) Las Vegas, I found it fascinating to read this article about a hidden city of homeless living in a network of tunnels beneath the city, including right under the strip.  The scenes…

yellow

Near Kapunda, South Australia.

currently reading: the slap

Along with the wonderful V, I am reading The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.  So far, I am hard pressed to think of a novel I have enjoyed less.

The novel apparently examines “identities and personal…

currently reading: V

I am thoroughly enjoying V by Thomas Pynchon so far.

The novel is roughly divided between the listless drifting of post WWII New York City, the byzantine European intrigues of pre-WWI Florence and…

botanic gardens

politician tells truth

Shock, horror.

Kudos to Kelvin Thompson, federal Labor MP, for having the courage to stand up to the “eternal growth” fools who currently dictate economic and development policies in the western world and point out that excessive population…