Category Archive: LIFE
Modern Art Theory
(Bosslet Public Art, 1988)
Here’s a a link (see below) to a highly entertaining and rather persuasive rant from Paul Joseph Watson, about the essential bogus nature of much modern art. It’s a fight no-one can win, of course – you can debate aesthetics till the sun blows up. But it is true that expensive modern art carries a strong whiff of elitism about it. Style is loosed from substance. Then style is discarded, as a rhetorical flourish. What is left? Modern art. In a piece entitled “The Perils of Painting Now”*, Jed Perl reports, possibly ironically:”A few years ago, the Luxembourg & Dayan gallery…
Continue Reading →Julian, Man Up!
As Tim Minchin has impressed with his witty ditty, exhorting Cardinal Pell to fly back from the Vatican to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, perhaps he could now set this one to music? It concerns another prominent figure who refuses to break from cover..
Continue Reading →Torrie Gets Life
Torrie Osborn congratulated by Club President, Nick Chigwidden
Last evening at the Annual General Meeting of the Glenelg Football Club, the Board’s message rang out loud and clear: the Club has a debt and a revenue problem (like the country as a whole). It also has a problem with winning football games: the 1985 and 1986 glories are a long time ago and far, far away. But these challenges we welcome and the Board is being up-front, honest and appears determined to take them on. Furthermore, it is easy to forget how chaotic the start of the 2015 season was for the Tigers: a new coach not given…
Continue Reading →Our “Great Classics: Carter & Wagner” Review in ASO eNotes
It takes something special to get folks in Adelaide to stand
In their latest electronic newspaper, our friends at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra linked to our review of a recent function held by our friends the Richard Wagner Society of SA and a concert under the auspices of the ASO’s new Principal Conductor Nicholas Carter. Scroll down!
Continue Reading →10 Things We Hate Doing
Photo by Alex Proimos
Camping & Caravan a-going Hanging up the washing Voting, when you know you’re better than the candidates. Talking to folks who don’t want to talk. Talking to folks who don’t want to listen. Watching Glenelg lose. Pretending to not care when Glenelg loses. Living within a house under renovation. Public speaking. Getting on an overcrowded tram, particularly when drunk.
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