Mental Notes January 2023: All the Rest Are Strangers
BRISBANE—I haven’t done a music review for 23 years, literally, so I sipped a few Coopers on the balcony and did this for a friend. Or possibly enemy, as no-one likes a reviewer.
one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
BRISBANE—I haven’t done a music review for 23 years, literally, so I sipped a few Coopers on the balcony and did this for a friend. Or possibly enemy, as no-one likes a reviewer.
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
BRISBANE–I’ve finally cleaned all the silverware, dusted off the Dusty Springfield, and squared away the Squarepusher to organise my 50th. Beats and eats in my ample backyard and sprawling balcony on Saturday May 28 from 3pm.
BRISBANE–Inspired by a photo found by Adam Trainer featuring Glide with me in 1995 in the RTRFM studio, I wondered what goodies were in that battered suitcase — see bottom-left — I flat-packed with hundreds of CDs without jewel cases 22 years ago.
BRISBANE–Okay, I’ve finally been suckered into the FB data collection twaddle contribution of ‘post yr fave albums’. While there’s no call for ‘why’, I do feel a bit of a need to vent.
FREMANTLE–Ah Freo you fine old thing. Turning on the sandstone and sun for Stereolab this fine eve.
Adam Connors finds a quiet corner of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) offices in Perth to speak to Grok briefly about his formative years as a Curtin University student, back in the early-to-mid 1990s, when he wrote for Grok Magazine and worked on his Honours in English.
WAROONA–Wrangling two kids under ten years of age in this town is like caging animals.
BRISBANE–Well, we don’t ever talk about the weather here. Mid-winter, 25 degrees always.
MELBOURNE–After 11 years the truck is stacked and the flights booked to decamp to Brisbane in a couple days.