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.
China’s request for Apple’s new ‘supercomputer’ is in the mail. If any group on earth deserves to get their hands on the new Apple Power Mac G4, it should certainly be Chinese-language newspaper designers. Thumbing through Hong Kong’s Apple (no relation) Daily and The Sun newspapers, one is constantly astounded by the computer-graphics muscle applied … Continue reading “iMac, G3, But No G4? Gee… | Asiaweek”
Note that the RTRFM web address is now rtrfm.com.au and that this is about how precise my user documentation ever gets.
(insert at end: Trademark (©) symbols have been added to references that are probably covered by copyright, dead peoples’ estates or simply for a further belch that any culture’s language is not free from commercial plunder)
Warm, generous in mirth, ensconced in simple riffery … Rebecca Gates, the once fanzine editor, record store clerk and college radio gun from Portland, Oregon, is certainly ‘chuffed’ about the peculiar rise of her now-jetsetting outfit, The Spinanes. “Chuffed? Yeah, chuffed is a great word for what has happened!”
Interview with Lisa Gerrard I was dressed in pyjamas when I first confronted Dead Can Dance – the imagescape of 1993’s Baraka was flowing over me with The Host of Seraphim, from Dead Can Dance’s 1988 tome, The Serpent’s Egg, invading my soul. The theatre was full, but I think I had been standing throughout … Continue reading “Dead Can Dance, Capturing the Spiritchaser”
It was no surprise that Euro-busker Joe Algeri was standing at the door with his trusty guitar as I walked into The Loft on this night. Heck, some would say that Superscope are fundamentally the remnants of his old backing band The Stonemasons, but I forthrightly disagree with this stylistic pop-snobbery after seeing this, the … Continue reading “Superscope (CD Launch), The Loft, October 7, 1995”
