December 2011
7 posts
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Two great things from a Canadian singer-songwriter that my friend James (who plays in a wonderful band called Blackmilk) suggested I listen to.
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Michael Ragnogna: Buffy, what advice would you have for new artists?
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Oh my gosh. Just play. Don’t wait for some kind of mythological businessman to come along and recognize you. You’re already great. If you’re...
MY #1 CHRISTMAS CAROL
My favourite Christmas carol is O Holy Night. Where Calling and Not Calling My Ex (which I wrote about a couple of days ago) is a triumph of lyricism, O Holy Night is as pure and sublime as melody-writing gets. Actually, I’m sort of prone to insisting to anyone who will listen, which is not many people, that it is greatest melody ever written; a melody that makes McCartney seem repetitive...
MY #1 (SECULAR) CHRISTMAS SONG
Calling and Not Calling My Ex by Okkervil River is my favourite secular Christmas song. There is not a word of it I don’t wish I had written. Every line fits together with such unexpected and satisfying perfection it’s like a jigsaw, and the picture in the jigsaw is a very tall girl with wide-set eyes and pronounced hipbones and a pissed-off, jealous dude hunched in a duffel coat...
Thanks.
“Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
I wrote this song on the top of a bunk bed in...
BOFO Flashback Photography
Ha! Just discovered these photographs from Beaufort Street Festival a few weeks ago.The delightful Perth Flashback Photography provided the frames and accessories. And the photography, evidently. I’m more a hat girl than a bunny ears girl but I already had a beehive, and we all know you can’t just go putting a hat on a hive.
BOFO was such a glorious day. The event’s...
Voiceworks 87 Launch
From writingWA:
“Witness the literary fitness at the launch of Voiceworks 87, a journal dedicated to publishing new work by young Australian writers. The theme for this issue is PLAY, and that is exactly what we intend to do. Some of Perth’s finest young voices will be showcasing their talent, from authors to spoken word artists. As well as readings by local writers, there will be...