Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Footscray

Footscray is a suburb in Melbourne’s west that Pauline Hanson probably wouldn’t like. There are significant Vietnamese and African populations, and shops to match – no doubt a good place to find some phở or interesting African cafés.

You can go for an in-city holiday in Footscray. It’s a world away from where I live [...]

Rhys’ Hot Summer – Luke Warm?

Andy Warhol predicted in 1968 that the time would come that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. Seems to me Rhys‘ Hot Summer is what happens when people try to stretch that to half an hour:

Rhys (one name only, y’know, like Cher) has put out this execrable single, Hot Summer. Cringeworthy rhyme-schemes, a [...]

Verismo and Woody Allen

I saw Vicky Christina Barcelona last night. It’s the first Woody I’ve seen since Melinda and Melinda.
I like how Allen’s films are almost deliberately “rough”. The script isn’t primped to within an inch of its life, sometimes the lines sound incredibly real, but at other times, the characters seem much more to be actors, saying [...]