I went searching on Spotify and Youtube Music yesterday for a comprehensive album or playlist of the works of Billie Holiday. Though it's been at least 35 years since I bought her recordings on vinyl, and a few years later on CD, I was keen to find a good digital collection. You wouldn't believe how … Continue reading Billie Holiday
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I remember reading somewhere - maybe in a history of the Bega Show - that one of my ancestors was a champion pig breeder. I have no idea what that means. The closest I've come to day to day agriculture is growing up on the outskirts of Lismore, where there were cattle in the paddock … Continue reading My Ancestors Raised Pigs
"Has Mikkelsen ever been so good?" was the headline in the Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet this week. Mads Mikkelsen (who is also featured in the film currently screening, "Chaos Walking) is the main actor in the film, "Another Round". In Danish, the film was called "Druk", which means binge-drinking. Partially funded by the Swedish Film Institute, … Continue reading Binge Drinking
"It's was really weird in some ways, as I've known Sally for about thirty years", I said to my friend as talked about the play "Stop Girl" at Belvoir Street Theatre. We had parallel careers for a while. I worked at 2WEB Bourke, and she replaced me. I moved to the ABC in Renmark, and … Continue reading Supernova + Stop Girl
"Hey dude, can you put your phone away?", my friend said to the bloke in the cinema in front of us yesterday. There weren't a lot of people in the cinema: only us, another woman, and the bloke who was there with his mum, so it's not as if he didn't know who she was … Continue reading The pub with no bears