Trundling across Terra Incognita ~ Gondwanaland
In 1994 I criss-crossed Australia, much of it across the expansive aridity of the so-called Red Centre, and all of that was sharing a ’79 Holden Gemini with my travel partner. A Gemini is a sub-compact sedan. This one had no air-con, and so we trundled across the expanse with the windows rolled down, and [...]
ANZAC Day: Lest we forget
ANZAC Day falls on the 25th of April every year. It’s a day in which Australians and New Zealanders commemorate and pay homage to those who served the nation in wars in our history. The day is marked by dawn services and marches in towns and cities throughout the land. It’s a day of sombre [...]
Ingrid Karklins: A Passion to Race the Sky
A trip across Australia with Midnight Oil and Yothu Yindi in a Holden Gemini leads to passionate encounters with love and the extraordinary passion and beauty of Ingrid Karklins’ music.
Quotes and notes regarding Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram
A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare. ~ Gregory David Roberts from Shantaram I love this passage from the spectacularly enthralling “Shantaram.” Nonetheless, I disagree with it. When the wish and the fear are [...]
Missy Higgins: You have opened up a new door; you can steer
This song featured in a beautiful and moving story told in the comments of Gary’s post Kate Miller-Heidke doesn’t like to be ‘poked’. I’ve been looking at the lyrics…I can see why it would have touched so deeply on that night. It’s fascinating to me how the lyrics to songs, or passages in a novel [...]
Gabriella Cilmi: Lessons to be learned and feel a little safer
Gary (my blog partner when we began this blog together) says he’s having some trouble finding Australian music worthy of positive reviews, especially anything produced in the present or recent past. Hmmm… what about this young, little gem? Gabriella Cilmi (pronounced “chill me” — and she does give me chills) was all of 17 years [...]
Tijuana Cartel: dancing to the key of coast
Well, I’ve loaded this blog up with Feist and other Canadians, waiting for Gary to respond with some great Australian bands, chanteuses and, perhaps, some writers and filmmakers. But, so far, nada. Guess it’s up to me! Tijuana Cartel epitomises for me what locals of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast refer to as the Coast lifestyle. An [...]
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