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- Single Review – Classic Face: Let’s Go to It (2026)
- Gig Review – Sidequest 5th Birthday with Ursula + Clancy + Symmetrical Dogs + Sam (Sly Withers)
- EP Review – The Off Set: Stars Shift Over Time (2026)
- Single Review – Freak Mod 5: Strange Melodies (2026)
- EP Review – Elena Dakota: Three Geese (2026)
- Single Review – Cassis: I Killed a Man (2026)
- Gig Review – Deep Beep + The Tigers + Adem K
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Foody Feed – Wok is Boss
Read more: Foody Feed – Wok is BossGiven I’ve been getting heavily into cooking these days it’s tricky picking a favourite, but right now stir fry has to be top of the list. Disclaimer – I just wrote about this in a separate post talking about breakfast stir fry!
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386 – Tiny Doom
Read more: 386 – Tiny DoomIt was a 386, can’t remember any other spec other than running early windows. Must have had 16 or 32MB ram, and I used DOS a lot
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Album Review – Beck: Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime (2026)
Read more: Album Review – Beck: Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime (2026)Beck has released a short album mostly comprised of covers, plus a few rarities thrown in for good measure. As always, he mostly hits the mark, and who can resist an album that has Elvis, Hank Williams and Daniel Johnston songs together in one package.
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Foody Feed – Breakfast and Stir Fry
Read more: Foody Feed – Breakfast and Stir FryI want to talk about breakfast. In particular the western culture of breakfast. We are deeply embedded in the milk + cereal or fatty foods first thing in the morning, and I feel we need to break free. Go to any cafe in Perth (which I’m sure applies to the rest of the western world),…
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Classic Movie Review – Near Dark (1987)
Read more: Classic Movie Review – Near Dark (1987)In her directorial debut, Katherine Bigelow (who has gone on to make many great movies, from Point Break to The Hurt Locker) takes on the ever-popular vampire movie genre. I read that she actually wanted to do a western but couldn’t get backing from studios so we end up here, with a part vampire, part…
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Foody Feed – Home Made Ice Cream
Read more: Foody Feed – Home Made Ice CreamI feel the need to start this with a mention of cost. To make tub of simple homemade ice cream we have ingredients to buy, so how does the cost compare to buying a tub from the supermarket? This is not a dissuasion from making it at home, quite the opposite in fact, but it…
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Movie Review – Frankenstein (2025)
Read more: Movie Review – Frankenstein (2025)Del Toro Brings the Gore and Sex Appeal Guillermo Del Toro seems to be in the doing-dream-projects phase of his filmography. After a varied career with some incredible fairytale-like stories alongside sci fi and fantasy films, he’s taking on the classics with Netflix. First came Pinocchio, now he’s had a go at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
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Domestic Dan #4 – The Vulture Club
Read more: Domestic Dan #4 – The Vulture ClubYo yo yo! Here we go again with another tip for keeping the modern dad-train on track. My last post described the benefits of keeping it separated, a dinner time hack to alleviate the heartache of uneaten food and unfed children. For today’s hack, we’re keeping it food-centric but taking it out of the kitchen…
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Single Review – Arctic Monkeys: Opening Night
Read more: Single Review – Arctic Monkeys: Opening NightWe haven’t seen much from these Sheffield lads lately, so I’m sure plenty of others are as interested in where they are taking their music as me. Opening Night offers more of the late era Monkeys sound we’ve had from the last two albums, with a hint of the heaviness from the AM and earlier…
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Classic Movie Review – Innocent Bystanders (1972)
Read more: Classic Movie Review – Innocent Bystanders (1972)I can’t remember what led me to watch this movie but it may have been a conversation between Leonard Cohen and Paul Nelson in the book I Like People That Can’t Sing. Anyway, something made me do it, and despite not quite finding a consistent tone, it’s not a bad spy movie.