Chasing tails

Glen’s written a lovely and amazing theory-nerd post about Snow Patrol, which has me thinking about something I’ve been meaning to write about Grey’s Anatomy as Ur text for the workaholic Gen X anti-adult. It has something to do with proffering Floppy George as the pin-up boy for queer love because he refuses to subscribe [...]

Vale 80s ideologue rock

Video Hits is giving me what I want this morning: a countdown to tonight’s ARIAs. The ARIAs are probably my favourite award ceremony. You get a bit more spirit than the film or TV ones, where the script, if it’s Australian, is usually about demonstrating the need for more money (the refrain that doesn’t seem [...]

Shake down the thunder from the sky

This year I’m not going to miss it.

MySpace, boys in jackets

Social Networking with Demetri Martin (link changed due to copyright issues). Last week I used an older clip from The Daily Show to introduce students to the idea of blogging as a subculture. It was good timing on the back of the Emmy Awards, and the ongoing success of Stewart and Colbert’s respective empires. But [...]

RIP Movie Show

It’s all over – the game where I get to indulge my fascination with Megan Spencer’s stockings and compare current trends in New Farm, Newtown and St Kilda hairdressing. I feel a bit ripped off. I thought they would have at least provided a summary of the films that scored the highest all-time ratings. It [...]

A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inaugural

Film Screening Tuesday 16th May 2006 – 2.00-3.30pm CCCS Seminar Room, Lvl 4 Forgan Smith Tower, St Lucia Campus Presented by Associate Professor David Sholle On January 20, 2005, Americans gathered in the nation’s capital for the second inauguration of George W. Bush as the President of the United States. A Cold Day in DC: [...]

M/C Affect now live

Affect cover Self-imposed blog embargo lately, for lots of reasons, the most immediate being this… Congratulations Jane, Sandy, Glen – and everyone else involved. Enjoy!

PTA meeting

James Boag, Knopwoods Hotel, Hobart July 05 Glen mentioned the new flickr group I started for Public Toilet Ads. I’d like to use the group for a research project, though I’m not sure how much luck we’ll have getting this going in the current security climate. Here’s an example of what I’m looking for, anyway. [...]

Queer TV #1

I had been worried about Queer As Folk. Last week I was starting to think that The L Word had killed it for me, because it draws out in an even more profound way how much Mel and Lindsay’s relationship has to bear the burden of representation. (Then again, although I haven’t watched enough to [...]

Not consuming

Is anyone else having trouble logging in to All Consuming the last few days? I get to the log in page and enter my password and then it moves to the next page without recognising I’ve signed in. Grrr. I want to tell the world I’ve finally finished the first season of Carnivale and it [...]

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