Where words are written for no particular reason or benefit
I’m not really sure what compelled me to celebrate the 40th entry on Blogostino, but it just seemed right. Now that I’ve hit 50 entries (a lot faster than I’d expected to) I’m at a loss as to what I should write to commemorate this minor milestone. Here’s something I wrote during the week, though,…
While I may have slammed 3D movies in one of my rant posts last week, I was curious to see whether Lion King would be a given a decent 3D treatment. Unfortunately, it only managed to showcase some minor depth of field and that was usually reserved for objects that were the top layer of…
I forgot to mention the one night we stayed in Hakodate was actually spent in what is known as a rider’s house. A motorcyclist hostel of sorts. Greg and I met some of the funniest guys there that night, a bunch of students none of whom were older than 22. Ryosuke, Go, Mamoru and Kenji….
Yesterday marked a year since returning from my trip to Japan. I can’t believe that a year has passed already, but to really exclaim any disproportionate level of shock or surprise would mean that I am questioning the flow of time itself, jeopardising the very fabric of our collective reality and potentially throwing us all…
After managing to pump out four rant-based entries last week I was feeling quite chuffed with my creative side as the week was winding down. I’m not entirely convinced that ranting works for me as a writing style, though. The creative method I employed was very different to how I approach these ‘standard-issue’ entries. Much more…
Yesterday, a man who very well could be a racist arsehole (notice how I’m not stating that he is, merely alluding to the possibility that he is) was found to be in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. I rolled my eyes and wondered why it took this long to hold Australia’s petulant child of…
The rise of informal chat shows on commercial networks in Australia is alarming to say the least. Where do I even start with this topic? How about I break it down into how many hours a day are wasted on these self-indulgent, cheap to produce, odes to claptrap all perpetrating the age-old mythos – “we’re here…
Now that just about every film is being released in 3D, you would think that the inclusion of 3D would add something to movie-going experience. Sadly, this is not the case. The only film I’ve seen in 3D that actually did it right was Avatar because, you know, it was built from the ground up…
So it seems like just about everyone driving these days doesn’t actually want to keep their cars where they’re supposed to be. Just this morning, in two separate incidents, people drove into houses. Two 15-year-old girls in Sydney stole a 4WD and crashed it into a house. Another woman crashed into her own house, tragically…
No, the title of this blog isn’t the new cologne I’ve produced that has been created by tearing up carpets of seedy pubs and blending them with a sprig of lavender. If I was to name said cologne, though, I’d probably go with Memory Lapse, Purple Haze or because monosyllabic words are so flipping popular with…