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.
Continue reading “Mental Notes January 2023: All the Rest Are Strangers”
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
Continue reading “Mental Notes August 2022: Mugabe, Habibe, Pohiva, dad, and I”
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.
Continue reading “Mental Notes April 2022: The birthday invite”
My name’s on this gong for assisting with a few bits and pieces.
A nice surprise in at work today, landing an award for a digital production collaboration with WA reporters on a feature titled ‘A quiet place’.
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.
Continue reading “Mental Notes September 2020: Opening the suitcase”
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.
By former and current Grok staff
The history of Grok Magazine, the official student publication of Curtin University, begins exactly 50 years ago, in April 1969, only a couple of months after the creation of the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) Student Guild.
Continue reading “50 years of guild: History of Curtin Student Guild’s magazine Grok”
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.
Continue reading “In conversation with former Grok editor Adam Connors”
