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REVIEW: Unbelievably Bad #13
Unbelievably Bad#13: I’m glad I read this comprehensive Hard-Ons tribute after seeing the Aussie legends' two most recent gigs, as they gave me a much greater appreciation of the band and where they’re...
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REVIEW: "You, Baby" by Ike Reiko (Bamboo Records)
OR IS it You, Baby by Reiko Ike? Either way, this is one of the strangest, most embarrassing, yet compelling CDs I’ve ever heard. And I can ONLY ever listen to it at work or on my iPod while wearing...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Up! (1976)
Raven de la CroixI’VE seen a few Russ Meyer films and while I liked the maverick director’s 60s style - the over-the-top macho-sexist bullshit of MOTOR PSYCHO and the tough-gal violence in Faster,...
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An open love letter to ROCTOBER magazine
An open love letter to Roctober editor Jake Austen: Hi Jake.Y’know, it’s too easy for me to say what I’ve been saying for more than 20 years – that Roctober is possibly the best zine ever published –...
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In the Pink! Some zine reviews...
Unbelievably Bad#14: There’s a lot going on in this big issue of steaming goodness behind a very Chthulu-like cover by Rev. Kris Hades of Sadistik Execution infamy. There’s also a dopy interview with...
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I Wanna Be Dr Who by Kira Daly & friends
SOMEWHERE...probably in suburban Adelaide...the members of early 80s punk band Jackson Zumdish are smiling at this cover version. :)Listen to it HERE.
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Some late-night zine reviews
Biblio-Curiosa #5: This time round, Chris tackles children’s books – but being Biblio-Curiosa you just know they’re gonna be oddball. I’m familiar with the iconic Cole’s Funny Picture Book (it scared...
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SYDNEY FESTIVAL MINI-REVIEW: Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It (Jan. 14)
NICE vagina, shame about the show.SLIGHTLY LONGER REVIEW:I suspect people who've raved about this show overseas (male critics, I presume) are doing so only because they don't want to offend their...
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ZINE REVIEW: Rojonekku Word Fighting Arts 1
Nature Boy Ric Flairis neither natural northat much of a boyI’M USUALLY a linear, singled-minded guy when it comes to reading matter. Start a book (or a comic or a zine), finish it, then start reading...
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NEW PODCAST! Helen & Dann's Tales From The Road No. 1
ON THE road to South Australia last Christmas, Helen and I got thinking about the worst motels we've ever stayed in. Here's the resulting podcast. Twenty minutes of 110km/h goodness can be found HERE.
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MOVIE MONDAY REVIEW #1: The Baron And The Kid (1984)
NOW that both my kids are going to primary school, I've set a goal in 2015 of watching a movie a week on my day off work. I have quite a backlog of films I've put on hold for the past seven years, so...
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MOVIE MONDAY REVIEW #2: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
I'VE heard much about this TV special that the Beatles put together themselves soon after manager Brian Epstein's death. I'd read that it wasn't very good, self-indulgent and lacking Epstein's critical...
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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
AFTER three years......the new issue of BP is out now. Email me (or comment below) if you're interested in buying a copy. It's 24 A4 pages of adults only ziney goodness. :)
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Tales From The Road #2: Wombats!
A SHORT podcast by me and Helen while on the road in central Victoria. We discuss the perils of night-time driving, particularly the risk of colliding with kangaroos, emus, goats and - as we discovered...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Permission 4 Pleasure...(definitely NSFW)
FEMINIST PORN – these two words conjure up some mixed emotions in me.As a guy (and a pornographer by trade), I’m mentally and culturally hot-wired into the male-centric mainstream, whether I’m watching...
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ZINE/COMIX REVIEW: Stratu’s Diary Comix
Stratu’s Diary Comix #1, #2: I’ve known Stratu for nearly 20 years, but I didn’t KNOW him till I read the first two issues of this fascinating comic/zine. Through words and pictures, Stratu gives...
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Four-book review #1
LAST Christmas, me and the family made our semi-annual pilgrimage to the dry, dusty mid-north of South Australia to visit Peterborough – a once-majestic railway town, now slowly dying in this...
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Farewell to a briefcase
THE briefcase is battered and beaten. It has been smashed over large men's heads at wrestling events, splashed with beer and spirits during drunken benders in seedy pubs, and been carted over much of...
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Book reviews: Four-play revisited
THE last time we went to Peterborough was this past April to visit my dad in a nursing home in a nearby town and visit my mum as she prepared to leave the house they’d lived in for 25 years and move...
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The greatest issue of the greatest porn magazine ever!
BACK when I was a teenager - in the mid-80s - Knave was the bee's knees when it came to grumble mags. The English publication had hot pictorials, a sharp sense of humour, literate reviews of...
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