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Reading & watching- Miles David: Birth of the Cool (Stanley Nelson 2019) 23 August 2019Terrific documentary about the jazz great. I don't know anything about music, and I'm still completely in awe of the music, especially Kind of Blue. A lot of weight is given to women's voices, especially his wives and partners speaking of domestic violence. I'm glad I saw it in the cinema rather than on TV, in spite of some kerfuffle to d […]
- Das Boot (Johannes W. Betz & Tony Saint 2018) 17 August 2019I haven't seen Das Boot, the film, and wasn't drawn to this series, which I imagined as a claustrophobic yet violent submarine story. It turns out that while there is that, there's a whole complex story on land as well, with actual women.
- Du côté de chez Swann (MArcel Proust 1913) 14 August 2019I plan to read À la recherche du temps perdu in French over the next year or so. This is the first volume.
- Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas 2019) 14 August 2019A reboot that works. The tag line, 'Still fighting crime like a girl', says it all. Kristen Bell has the same sassy charm as she did a decade ago, while around her everyone else has grown old.
- Belvoir: Life of Galileo (Bertolt Brecht 1938, adapted by Tom Wright 2019) 11 August 2019It doesn't seem so long since the last time Belvoir staged Galileo. That production, if I remember correctly, was strong and didn't muck around with Brecht's text unduly. This time it has been adapted, or condensed as he says in a program note, by Tom Wright who has made a career out of giving classic plays a makeover. Colin Friels was terrifi […]
- Miles David: Birth of the Cool (Stanley Nelson 2019) 23 August 2019
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Moreno Giovannoni’s Fireflies of Autumn and November verse 3
Moreno Giovannoni, The Fireflies of Autumn and other tales of San Ginese (Black Inc 2018) The Fireflies of Autumn begins with a bang. To be more precise, one of its first stories is a tall tale involving a vast explosion … Continue reading
SWF 2019: Friday
I was in England when last year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival broke away from its harbourside venue, so this is my first Festival at the Carriageworks. I miss stepping out of dim rooms full of bright words into the dazzle, or … Continue reading
Southerly 75/3
Elizabeth McMahon and David Brooks (editors), Southerly Vol 75 No 3 2015: War and Peace (The Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Brandl & Schlesinger 2016) In last May’s Quarterly Essay, Blood Year, David Kilkullen quoted Trotsky: ‘You may not be interested in … Continue reading
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Rhyme #4 and Southerly 75/1
Elizabeth McMahon and David Brooks (editors), Southerly Vol 75 No 1 2015: Elemental (The Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Brandl & Schlesinger) Rhyme #4: What’s in a title (with anagrams)? Blow the wind southerly, Southerly, southerly, rattle our windows and … Continue reading
Tagged Alice Bishop, Brett Dionysius, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Claire Corbett, Dael Allison, David Brooks, Dugald Williamson, Elizabeth McMahon, Felicity Plunkett, George Kouvaros, John Stephenson, journals, Kate Livett, Laurie Duggan, Moreno Giovannoni, Nicolette Stasko, Pam Brown, Roslyn Jolly, Stuart Cooke, Vivian Smith
