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Reading & watching- On Earth we're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong 2019) 27 October 2020From the Book Club.
- Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa 2019) 25 October 2020A brilliant Polish movie starring Bartosz Belienia as a young man released from juvenile detention who through a combination of desire and accident finds himself acting as parish priest in a village, and winning the respect of the parishioners. It turns out he's a Christ figure, though no resurrection in sight.
- SBS On Demand: Spooks Season 9 (David Wolstoncroft 2010) 23 October 2020We thought we'd seen all of Spooks years ago, and that these were new episodes. They are a decade old, it turns out, and maybe a little tired, but still fun. Take home message: trust no one.
- The Coal Curse (Judith Brett 2020) 20 October 2020Quarterly Essay Nº 78, subtitled 'Resources, climate and Australia's future,' and written before Covid–19 took most of the oxygen out of conversation about the climate.
- Netflix: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin 2020) 18 October 2020Apart from a couple of overblown moments, in particular the final moments in the courtroom, this is terrific. It doesn't have that Aaron Sorkin look-at-how-many-big-words-I-can-say-in-ten-seconds performance. Sacha Baron Cohen's clowning is well in check. It made me want to reread Norman Mailer's Miami and the Siege of Chicago and rewatch Hask […]
- On Earth we're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong 2019) 27 October 2020
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The Marrickville Mattress Minimalist Poet strikes again
I’ve occasionally blogged about poetic gems that turn up on discarded mattresses around Marrickville (here’s a link). I’m not the only one – here’s a link to a post by someone called Therese Trouserzoff. I can report a new sighting … Continue reading
Marrickville’s phantom mattress poet(s), Part 2
It’s 20 months since I posted about Marrickville’s mattress poetry. This morning wandering through the back lanes on my way home from the library, I saw not one but two more examples, these ones initialled by the poet, and I … Continue reading
Marrickville’s phantom mattress poet(s)
Old mattresses are notoriously hard to recycle – the charities won’t take them because it’s illegal to resell them, and who wants to inherit someone else’s lumpy, stained discarded bedding? Recently a number of these items have been turning up … Continue reading
MOST mattress
The Marrickville Mattress Poet put in an appearance as part of the Marrickville Open Studio Trail on the weekend. This homage to Magritte was part of the Fairy Alley exhibition.
