Culture is always something that was
Something pedants can measure
Skull of bard, thigh of chief
Depth of dried up river
Shall we be thus forever?
Last night, after dinner at Nippon Club it was great to invade the NSW Art Gallery where floods of wine drowned Capon’s speech about the Australia's greatest living painter ...
While tonight smiley Malchken introduced me again to her very own Academy cinema and instead of Tapas we Ate Western Thai of Five Ways fame ;-) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada turned into a thing of musty beauty. Filmmakers continue to find usefulness and meaning in the mythology and iconography of that most American (and masculine) of self-critiques, the Western. Cold Rivers ...
Pink Floyd's the Wall is arguably one of the most intriguing and imaginative albums in the history of rock music. Every incident that causes Pink pain is yet another brick in his ever-growing wall: a fatherless childhood, a domineering mother, a country whose king signs his father's death certificate with a rubber stamp, the superficiality of stardom, an estranged marriage, even the very drugs he turns to in order to find release. Serendipity Introduction to The Wall
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Barista Says: SBS ruins your day?
SBS is going to run ads INSIDE the programs. They are going to cut the shows up just like the pests at Nine, Seven and Ten, vandalising the content of programs, and forcing their makers to shoot and cut for the breaks.
Here is a piece of news about which I am simply gasping with outrage. Compared to the suffering of people squashed beneath buildings, or millions facing starvation, it may seem to be a small thing, but it is important to us as a culture.
• There is no doubt that SBS is strapped for cash [Frank Sinatra, crooner, former teen idol, who started in the era of megaphones for vocal amplification and wax cylinder recordings, faught hard to remain relevant in the midst of the cultural shifts of the late 1960s Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches: Sinatra Jobim = transcendent ; Is love blind?]
• · It may even free you from credit card debt and the usurers at the local payday loan center. Disintermediation? A new Web site allows you to borrow money from strangers in cyberspace. It may even free you from credit card debt and the usurers at the local payday loan center. The virtual moneylender ; Average mortgage breaks through $300,000 • · · Landscapes of Crime: George G.J. Demko is a professor of geography at Dartmouth College and a devotee of the mystery genre. He is especially interested in the settings of mysteries-the geography, the locus operandi of crime fiction. Landscapes of Murder:The Locus Operandi of Crime Fiction ; Honey, can I go out tonight?
• · · · What would happen if we no longer used things like looks, age, sex and nationality to decide if we would try and become friends with a person? You meet strangers, without photos, and become friends ; Listen out for Sam on the Kyle and Jackie O Show Wednesday Morning!
• · · · · MJ FEATURE: To lose weight, drink from cold river ... Eat cheap tuna. More expensive canned albacore "white" tuna has been found to contain as much as three times the mercury of canned "light" tuna. Things You Didn't Know About Your Body ; FTC Father's Day Message
• · · · · · How long after you start dating someone new should you introduce them to your mates? They say timing is of the essence...but how soon is too soon? Too soon to meet their mates?; samantha.brett@gmail.com Singledom is back with a vengeance. Quirkyalones, un-marrieds and proud singletons are making a comeback with cocktails in their hands and stilettos on their feet. Yet in a society designed for two, do singles often find themselves being singled out? It's good to be... single