Very happy with my last few days of film viewing

Things might be bad, but I'm going to see my family in Poland for the first time since 2019 this year, so it could be worse

”Sir, Trent Dalton has pulled out of Adelaide Writers“

Everyone is back at work, so I feel a bit less bad asking - any postdocs in psychgen coming up? I have a PhD in genetics of psychosis from King’s and postdoc experience from Mount Sinai in postpartum psychosis, autism, and ADHD. Thankful for those who sent suggestions, just wide net casting!

I’ve cleared my current reading and have two weeks left before I go overseas with only my e-reader. Going to get lost in a big book for most of this time - which way do I go?

First time in like 3 weeks that I’m going to bed before 3am, please clap

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Starting a thread for books read this year Book 1 is Daniel Clowes’s beautiful and funny Bildungsroman, Ghost World

When did all the male lifestyle dorks switch from talking about morning routines to “protocols”?

My mum and I are watching the best Xmas movie - eyes wide shut - we concluded that the whole secret society was making too big a deal out of it. So they liked to dress up and have orgies and do drugs, big whoop

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Every day we stray further from God’s light

You love to see it

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Meanwhile, reading about the Ern Malley hoax. Is it a successful hoax because people were fooled, or unsuccessful because the hoaxers accidentally made something good and it was accepted as such?

Everything here is done on paper, the lady literally pulled a glue stick out to get my photo attached to the application, but she promised me my passport in two weeks flat so why argue with a winning system?

One day trip to Sydney to have a 30 min appointment at the Polish consulate lets goooooo

The new knives out movie is the worst daniel Craig has ever looked. Who thought of that hair? Why did they let him do Botox right before shooting? Even his suits looked bad. Did Johnson fire the costume person who did the previous two??

I’m at a bookstore and there are too few books by Thomas Bernhard here (none!!) and too many that aren’t by Thomas Bernhard

"Thank you for your submission but unfortunately..." Shockingly, this year has been both my most successful and least successful in writing and getting things published at the same time. Got shortlisted for the Neilma Sidney Prize at the start of the year, then struggled to get anything at all...

This is one of the biggest L’s in Australian political history that was entirely self inflicted, unnecessary, and unpopular. Just plain unadulterated “we don’t know how to solve any real problems so we’re gonna create one instead”

Just walked past a man eating a full size bar of chocolate like a candy bar. Whatever job he’s commuting home from, he had a rough day fr sure

Bring back the SLV gong!!!

I’ve made a plan to smash through my to be read shelves next year but it turns out I’d need to read 3 books a day for most of the year to keep up with it

Imagine getting someone you love two of the best horror books out there for Christmas, wouldn’t that be great?

Lampredotto from mercato centrale in Florence

🎶

People laugh that at business schools you’ll have a room full of people feverishly taking notes when the whiteboard just says “profit = revenue - expenses” but every day I encounter people who need to be told this when I’m at work

A weird and somewhat startling realisation I’ve had recently is that every girlfriend I’ve ever had was left handed.

Amazing music weekend - Opeth last night, today Opera Australia doing Carmen, my girl hooked us up with insane tickets

Saw Opeth perform live today - 17 year old me would be beyond excited. 35 year old me was also beyond excited.

Did the chaos god Nurgle from the Warhammer 40k franchise get elected in the US?

This was one of the most invigorating books I’ve read in a while - glad I got the whole series. Turns out if someone who knows a lot about a topic writes about it in an engaging way, then the book is real easy to get absorbed in.

Bentham never should have recovered from this From Hobsbawm’s Age of Revolution

Deleted Instagram for the rest of the year, and also no more tv shows - mostly because I’ve been getting too enthusiastic and binging on one show after another and not doing other stuff. I’ll get back to it when I finish my leave from work in January

Set aside the morning to do a bit of recording and post a new video on youtube. Put a new set of strings on my classical guitar, so I'd sound good. Looks like one of the strings is faulty. It makes a sound it shouldn't be making. My whole day is in the gutter now. 11.20am, I'm done. Over the edge.

I was gonna crack a joke but this is just such a bad plan that I can’t. Why are Australian politicians so obsessed with imprisoning children?

My grandma passed away a few nights ago and I can’t help but keep thinking that in the beginning of her life she witnessed the nazis murder her father and at the end of her life she had a vape

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

Had a bit of fun with my synthesisers and guitar and made a soundtrack for a fictional horror film - thinking of this as a bit of a tribute to John Carpenter on.soundcloud.com/3q6tUzJ9hb4O...

People need to understand that with global warming, we are not living through natural times. And therefore, you shouldn’t be using natural deodorant.

Tory MP is a fascist, who’d have thought

Was expecting this Grover Washington Jr record to be a bit more chill but it turns out it’s an incredible fusion funk thing that set the vibe for today at the correct pitch for me to not scream at anyone at work

This Don Cherry and Krzysztof Penderecki album is just unbelievable

This morning’s vibe courtesy of Oren Ambarchi, Johann Berthling and Andreas Werliin’s Ghosted album

Shit yeah a new cinema is opening around the corner from my place