A few days ago, I had my first experience with outwardly not being told something because Bob Dylan was concerned I might write about it. He eventually told me because he tells me everything (even though he likes to pretend this isn’t the case) but it did raise an issue that has become rather pressing…
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New relationships bring with them a veritable swag of words, all of them with the potential to catalyse as much strife and unease as the next. Terms like ‘exclusive’, ‘girlfriend’ and ‘Facebook official’ can cause many a reaction, both diverse and averse, in those embarking on the throes of new romance. But no word seems…
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Dunja Nedic reviews ‘Going The Distance’ – a hilarious film about “compromising in relationships, without compromising yourself.”
‘Oh my god Dunja, just once would you go for someone clean?’ Such was the reaction of my good friend, Lily, upon seeing a photo of Dracula, a recent partner-in-dalliance. When I pointed out that I do tend to favour men who shower and use cologne, she responded that what she meant by clean was…
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One of the first things you are likely to notice about Sarah Jane Wentzki is that she is quite short. I would rarely start an article about someone’s low centre of gravity (at least, not one that wasn’t about height generally), except that the ‘One Point Five’ in her band name pertains to just this:…
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1. Let shit go. No matter whether you break up on good or bad terms, there is almost always some residue from a relationship that is never going to be fully resolved. Let it go. It’s over. 2. Be on the same page. In all technicality, if one of you sees the friendship as a…
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This past weekend, I attended Adelaide’s Vinyl Palooza, the state’s biggest music fair where, as the name might suggest, records are the purchase of choice. The decision to go on Sunday, mere hours before the sellers closed up shop, was mostly one of time constraints, but the trade-off for less choice was a lot of…
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After I moved out of my parents’ home and in with a friend, I had no money for an Internet connection. We also oddly didn’t have a TV aerial, even though we did have a television, and without the usual tools for procrastination, Alice Planetoid and I had to find new ways to waste time….
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Long time Washington fans are going to feel like they’ve accidentally slept with the same person twice when they hear the debut album of the sexiest glasses-donning songstress in the entertainment industry. However, that’s not to say that having heard half of the tracks before is going to detract from the enjoyment of this album,…
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Clare Bowditch is certainly not the first musician to offer a social commentary to her audience, but she is possibly the first to do it with the use of a Casiotone. Adding to the array of unconventional instruments that Bowditch has become known for (I vaguely recall seeing a set of gongs at a show…
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Now that I am into my twenty third year of life, I’ve been lucky enough to have wisdom and knowledge imparted upon me that I did not have access to a couple of weeks ago. Of course, this is a lie. My first day of being 22 was much the same as my last day…
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Having celebrated (read: lamented) my birthday over the past week, I have likewise found myself considering (read: lamenting) the birthdays of years gone past. One thing that has been consistent about the anniversary of my birth, almost without exception, is that it’s a bad day. Whether it was Bob Dylan forgetting to pick me up…
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Like many front men of successful bands before him, Brandon Boyd has released a solo album after almost two decades with Incubus. Although ‘The Wild Trapeze’ is not his first lone venture altogether, with Boyd having released two books since 2003, this is probably his least successful one. Comparisons to the music created by his…
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The line-up for this year’s Splendour in the Grass Arts & Music Festival rendered me, at times, unable to breathe out of excitement. The thought of seeing the Strokes live kept me in a state of perpetual bliss both in the lead-up to the festival as well as in its aftermath and the actual experience…
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