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No Country for Old Men, according to my brother, is the one film that breaks the book-always-being-better rule. I remember one thing about seeing it. The precise wording of a text message I got while half-asleep…
I don’t have any photographs in my apartment. I don’t have any on my desk at work either. They weren’t all destroyed in some spectacular blaze and no, my employer hasn’t issued any decor mandates. I just…
My dad has a unique brand of amnesia centered exclusively on the film Outbreak. He’s seen it hundreds of times, he owns it on DVD, but if it’s ever mentioned he swears black and blue that he’s never seen…
Over the last couple of weeks, nearly every exchange I’ve had with anybody has involved me espousing the greatness of the mystery mini-series Top of the Lake. This piece is not about Top of the Lake per…
Sculpture being an exception, but generally I’m not all that interested in seeing “stuff” in museums. When I first visited London I went to the home of Charles Dickens. You could see his inkwell. Oh God…
Not that “date” was ever a word I was partial to anyway, but my lifelong avoidance of it was validated in a cafe last year. The seven-year-old that I’d been corrupting for the day spontaneously asked…
In an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, protagonist Larry David is asked by his new friend - rapper Krazee-Eyez Killa - whether he likes oral sex: “You know, it’s … I’m a little … I like it … I like it…
Given that they’ve just released a new album - and it’s a swoon-worthily terrific one - I’d quite like to claim that The National can do no wrong. This of course, is the blatantest of blatant lies. And…
I’d consider myself the babysitter of last resorts. While I quite like kids, I’m a tad anxious around them. I’m convinced that they - like cats - can see through me somehow. And let’s face it - and as…
While Home and Away isn’t on my regular rotation, I laughingly remember the TV ads in the lead up to the arrival of The River Boys. In place of chest hair these lads had tattoos. A clue, seemingly, to…