My December ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column for The Melbourne Review is now online – an open letter to Santa Claus. You can read it here.
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Dreadful news for all misguided AFL tragics yesterday with the news that Israel Folau is fleeing the Greater Western Sydney Giants and returning to rugby league. AFL experts are lining up to say ‘I told you so’. In The Australian, for example, Patrick Smith wrote that ‘The great coach Kevin Sheedy was reduced to admiring his ability to punch the ball’ … but there are statues and monuments all over Carlton to Stephen Silvagni’s ability to punch the ball.
Anyway, I still think the nay-sayers were too invested in wanting the interloper to fail … so that they could preserve the idea that true footy greatness comes from learning to handball before you can crawl. Back in May I wrote an open letter to Israel Folau in my ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column that appears in The Melbourne Review: you can read it here. I stand by everything I wrote, except of course the fact that GWS wouldn’t win a game in 2012 (and for the record, I came stone cold last in the University of Adelaide Press footy tips, despite – or probably because – being the only one of us to check the team sheets at 6pm every Thursday). I still think Folau would have made it had he been interested enough to bother to carry on. I might be the only one, but I’ll miss him and I’ll dream of what might have been.
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My latest ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column is online now at The Melbourne Review (with print edition pending).This month I’ve written an open letter to the men of Australia. You can read it here.
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My August ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column for The Melbourne Review is now published. This month a letter to my (now just born) unborn daughter. You can read it here.
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My July ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column – an open (fan) letter to Karise Eden, winner of ‘The Voice’ and unlikely megastar in waiting, is out now in The Melbourne Review. The online version is available here. Go Karise, the world beckons!
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My latest ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column is now out in the June issue of The Melbourne Review. This month it’s an open letter to Gina Rinehart, the world’s richest woman – according to BRW anyway. You can read the column here.
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My latest ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column is out in the May issue, print and online, of the Melbourne Review. It’s an open letter to my favourite footballer (no, really) Israel Folau. You can read it here.
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My latest ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column is in print and online in The Melbourne Review. This month I’ve written an open letter to Clive Palmer. You can read it here.
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Roky Erickson: Live at Barrio, Adelaide, Australia. It was pretty shambolic. The sound was a mess and, especially, the crashing waves of multiple guitars consistently drowned out Roky’s voice. They butchered ‘You’re gonna miss me’ and never got around to ‘I walked with a zombie’ (although that might have been the fault of the little bloke who appeared out of nowhere to demand they leave the stage so they could come back on for their encore all before 9.30pm when the venue went from paid-only to free, but why they couldn’t have just played for another half an hour regardless if they felt like it is anybody’s guess) (or maybe they just didn’t feel like playing ‘I walked with a zombie’ but I sure felt like hearing it).
But, anyway, ignore all of the above. I loved every second of it. It’s the best dodgy concert I’ve seen since The Pogues in … maybe 1990.
On the evidence of this show, it’s hard to know how Roky Erickson’s voice is holding up. But it’s only a couple of years since he released his wonderful album, True Love Cast Out All Evil. The older songs – whether 13th Floor Elevators or solo stuff – are seminal but True Love Cast Out All Evil is as good as anything he’s ever done.
My latest ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column in The Melbourne Review is an open letter to Roky Erickson. You can read it here.
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The February The Melbourne Review is now on the streets and online, including my latest ‘Sort of but not exactly’ column. This month, my open letter is to Geoffrey Rush, our brand new Australian of the Year. You can read it online here.
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