I’m currently totally obsessed with this site called the Black Cab Sessions, where they get a bunch of really cool musicians to do one song, one take, in the back of a cab while driving around (usually) London. It’s lots of fun. And, incidentally, had featured quite a number of songs from my Favourite Show [...]

Please indulge me in this moment of navel-gazing…
One of the things I’ve certainly noticed in my life so far is the way some points really feel like chapters- when multiple threads get wound up all at once, and new ones appear.  Yeah, it’s probably a coincidence, and I’m just seeing patterns because I am a [...]

The first gig I ever saw at Sydney’s Hopetoun Hotel- I’m ashamed to say it was in 2005, and that I squandered the first 3 years of my ID-possession without a single visit there- was Jens Lekman.
It was an amazing gig, back when my brother, a keen Jens fan, has to special-order “When I Said [...]

The government is currently doing a consultation into how to reform the Australian electoral process.  There are three things I think we should borrow from the US (and other places).
1. Scrap mandatory voting.
Mandatory voting is weird, and it is stupid.  It distorts the results of elections, because people who are uninformed about, and uninterested in, [...]

So the long cold winter is over. On Sunday, the temperature reached 31 degrees, and I spent the day at the beach.
Which means one thing: the television drought is over.
Oh, sure, the most wonderful show on television, Chuck, is not due to return til March (Have a Heart, NBC, and bring it back early.  And [...]