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.
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Mental Notes April 2022: The birthday invite
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.
Award for ‘The stolen star’
My name’s on this gong for assisting with a few bits and pieces.
Award for ‘A quiet place’
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’.
Mental Notes September 2020: Opening the suitcase
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.
Mental Notes March 2020: The music one
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.
Mental Notes March 2020
FREMANTLE–Ah Freo you fine old thing. Turning on the sandstone and sun for Stereolab this fine eve.
50 years of guild: History of Curtin Student Guild’s magazine Grok
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.
Peter Allan
Peter Allan Connors 1948-2019
In conversation with former Grok editor Adam Connors
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.
