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Water of Life - Wild Turkey Longbranch

Blog — November 9, 2018

Aight, we are about to enter realm of Wild Turkey. Now, what we got here is the lovechild of poteen aficionado, Oscar Award decorated and public face of Wild Turkey Matthew Mc Conaughey teaming up with the grand olde dame of distilling Eddie Russell, who channelled his alchemy to …

Bill Murray and Jan Vogler @ Sydney Opera House

Blog — November 10, 2018

Bill Murray and Jan Vogler Opera House Sydney, Australia November 9, 2018 Bill Murray. Actor. Entertainer. Comedian. I have yet to meet somebody who dislikes the man and it is certainly a hard feat giving the decades of laughter and bemusement …

Haruki Murakami – Killing Commendatore

Blog — November 11, 2018

Haruki Murakami – Killing Commendatore Penguin Classic   Murakami has been a constant source of joy for me over the last decade. His Kafka-esque, surreal, multi-dimensional story telling scattered with allusions and references is like a tonic for your brain as he invites you into a world …

Water of Life – Starward’s Two-Fold

Blog — November 14, 2018

Starward Distillery out of Melbourne: If you remotely follow this series, our previous coverage of Starward, its excellent outlet and its liquid emissions would and should have left more than a mere blip on your whiskey radar. Now, never a distillery to rest on their laurels, Starward …

Henry David Thoreau: A Life book review

Blog — November 17, 2018

Henry David Thoreau: A Life Laura Dassow Walls University of Chicago Press   Henry David Thoreau. A luminary of American literature canon. A Life is more than a mere biography – Dr Laura Dassow Walls integrates Thoreau's life with his writings and thereby highlights …

Amenra @ Factory Theatre

Blog — November 18, 2018

Amenra Factory Theatre Sydney, Australia November 16, 2018 Slow and doomy build-ups that cascade and are eventually unleashed not unlike a ton of bricks: Amenra have taken the DNA of what made Neurosis the ground-breaking, envelope pushing mavericks they were at the height of their …

Reggie Watts @ Sydney Opera House

Blog — November 24, 2018

Reggie Watts Opera House Sydney, Australia November 23, 2018 Virtuous musician. Entertainer par excellence. Comedian…and, well everything in between. The does not even remotely come close to a depiction of what makes Reggie Watts the immensely enjoyable artist he is. You …

Polo in the City @ Centennial Parklands

Blog — November 25, 2018

Polo in the City Centennial Parklands Sydney, Australia November 17, 2018 What originated to ensure the fitness of mounted cavalry nearly three millennia ago in the region of Persia, slowly spread via the Middle East and Asia via a myriad of incarnations with a range …

Star Wars Identities: The Exhibition

Blog — November 26, 2018

Star Wars Identities: The Exhibition Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences Sydney, Australia Now, Star Wars – there are fan-related events and exhibitions aplenty in all shapes and forms. The opening night 2018 incarnation of Star Wars Identities was an exercise is stylishly curated events …

Water of Life - Bushmills Irish

Blog — November 27, 2018

Water of Life - Bushmills Irish Whisky degustation at nel. Restaurant, Sydney, Australia   Full disclosure: Bushmills Irish Whiskey had not been on my radar, neither had been Sydney’s restaurant nel. which hosted this six-course whiskey inspired degustation, the pairings of which were carefully orchestrated by Chef …

Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei book review

Blog — November 29, 2018

Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei Yale University Press This tome is an ode to The National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei exhibition. An exhibition that epitomized the confabulation between two greats that through osmosis, synergy and juxtaposition added not only additional levels …

Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion

Blog — December 2, 2018

Bloc Party Hordern Pavilion Sydney, Australia November 30, 2018 No matter how you cut it, if you like good music it proves to be hard to not acknowledge that Bloc Party has created an instant classic with their album Silent Alarm. Period. That …

Caldera Festival @ Eveleigh Works

Blog — December 3, 2018

Caldera Festival Eveleigh Works Sydney, Australia December 1, 2018 Going by its etymological roots, “caldera” is a volcanic crater. The lava that is produced by the boutique-y new festival that goes by the same name is an eclectic melange of emerging underground artists channelling …

Water of Life – Limeburners

Blog — December 7, 2018

Limeburners I came across Limeburners at a recent whisky tasting. Given that the other drops on offer were nothing to write home about, it not difficult for Limeburners’ expression stand out, however, it stood out in epic measures. Situated in Western Australia, Limeburners have continuously upped their …

Wu Tang Clan @ Sydney Opera House

Blog — December 8, 2018

Wu Tang Clan Opera House Sydney, Australia December 8, 2018 Good god, I don’t even recall how many times I was supposed to witness incarnations of Wu Tang Clan, parts thereof or individual constituents performing their songs. Needless to say that some shows never …

Mystical Symbolism by Vivien Greene

Blog — December 9, 2018

Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 Vivien Greene Guggenheim Museum Publications   Wow. Now this is one is a beauty amongst quite a few I hold in high esteem when it comes to well made publications on Symbolist art. It …

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland book review

Blog — December 10, 2018

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Prince University Press   Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a Victorian algebraist wrote a fairy tale the influence and standing of which would only enhance in the years to come, which is partly due to the underpinning, subtle …

MoMA at NGV book review

Blog — December 14, 2018

MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Contemporary and Modern Art National Gallery of Victoria   New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s incarnation at the National Gallery of Victoria was a tremendously successful exposition that allowed Australian to experience such greats as Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, …

Logic: The Laws of Truth by Nicholas J.J. Smith

Blog — December 15, 2018

Logic: The Laws of Truth Nicholas J.J. Smith Princeton University Press   It was Arthur Schopenhauer who claimed that logic, should be capable of being deduced from self-evident premises. The focus of Logic: The Laws of Truth is not such on the necessity of evidential substantiation …

Hitler’s Monsters book review

Blog — December 16, 2018

Hitler’s Monsters: A supernatural history Yale University Press   Now, this is an interesting one on a subject that has been explored in manifold approaches of both serious and amateurish manners. The occult nature of the national socialism movement. No matter is you think it is nonsense …