Tag: "Adolescence"

One Direction @ Hisense Arena
12 Comments. 89,663 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 12:37pm.
  For those unaware, One Direction are a teenage British boy band who are just the right combination of good looks and shitty pop music to seduce the hearts of young girls worldwide, and just young enough for Kony to kidnap. They released an album called Up All Night (which has dominated charts worldwide) and got away with it because of their young, clean image. It was considered “cute” and... Read More
Tom Milek
0 Comments. 1,030 Views. Posted 27 Oct 2011 @ 1:06pm.
A session in this year’s Face the Music program encourages musicians to consider the ‘angle’ to promote in any interview.  In these days of orchestrated media image, having a clear message is, apparently, very important.  Towards the end of my interview with local musician and songwriter Tom Milek, I put the offer to him: is there a cheap and memorable phrase that succinctly captures... Read More
Silent Disco
2 Comments. 3,472 Views. Posted 4 Aug 2011 @ 9:56am.
Bodies sway in time with an inaudible rhythm. Mouths move in synch with lyrics we must lip-read to decipher. Sounds normally obscured by blaring club speakers now echo across the packed room - the scuffle of feet, the dull thud of hips bumping or the occasional click of over-enthusiastic fingers. This scene is not an after-party for the Annual Mime Convention. This is a silent disco, that... Read More
I Killed My Mother
0 Comments. 2,745 Views. Posted 18 Mar 2011 @ 10:25am.
Adolescence is a time that I, like many, would prefer to forget. Convinced that the universe centred upon my greasy, gangly ego, each second was magnified by a Molotov cocktail of overactive hormones and overblown emotions that lay far too close to the surface. Luckily, I didn't have a video camera with which to narrate my cultivated torture. Xavier Dolan, the then 19 year-old writer,... Read More
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