I had an idea or two to generate (and encourage further generation of) some content for the Melbourne Silver Mine... [more]

Somwhere in the middle of my overseas holiday, I was asked if I'd like to contribute to Laneway Magazine. My... [more]

I only bought a handful of copies of No Depression, but discovered the current one is the last issue,... [more]

happy eight years, Scott. I didn't always keep up, but I'm trying. I guess that's the story of my life.... [more]

I'm busily enjoying last year's Bluebottle Kiss album Doubt Seeds (they're playing tomorrow night at the NSC, too) and... [more]

Surprisingly (it didn't feel like it), I read more books this year than any other year since I started... [more]

Wow. Thanks for the book, acb. In our current round of CD swapping (Laura, Gersey and 3 other CDs... [more]

If you've read any of J.G. Ballard's recent work (Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes et al - I haven't tackled Millennium... [more]

An interview over at ballardian.com with Iain Sinclair who's written some interesting psychogeography-type books in his time (eg. Lights Out... [more]

I've started station'ry, another group blog aimed at encouraging friends to share their words and images with the world.... [more]

It's my last day in Chiang Mai where I found, of all things, another Iain Sinclair book in a second-hand... [more]

Via Gadling, there's an InterZone Beat Festival to celebrate William S. Burroughs' birthday on February 4th. Grant Hart, who famously(?)... [more]

I got to hang around a hospital for most of the day while my girlfriend had some wisdom teeth... [more]

As reported everywhere else already, Simon Reynolds has a new book out called Rip It Up and Start Again about... [more]

In-tray. I picked up a few things last night on the way to the gig (photos up later tonight, once... [more]

I haven't finished it yet - it's so hard sitting on a deckchair at the beach paying $3 for a... [more]

Did you ever read Geoff Ryman's 253 ? I did. So did Marcello, who elaborates on it in ways I... [more]

I finished devouring David Bowman's fa fa fa fa fa fa - the adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th... [more]

BoingBoing mentions that there's going to be a film adaptation of On The Road. If they film it the way... [more]

I don't have much to contribute to the discussion of sleeplessness. It happens to me occasionally, but not with a... [more]

It's good to see a bit more content than usual from my original web heroine Miss Z, at the moment.... [more]

via acb the other day, I finally got around to poking through ziboy's very nice photos, mostly of people. Personally,... [more]

A friend was in Hobart around the end of last week, and found himself at a fish and chip shop... [more]

I've been keeping this blog and my (much older) journal separate because there's usually not much crossover, though I found... [more]

I never realised the Burroughs reference in "wumpus" (as in, Hunt The). How silly of me.... [more]

Even /. is talking about Haruki Murakami now. I remember reading how he left Japan when he couldn't cope with... [more]

It's true, I'm a sucker for a good quotation.... [more]

If you're in the mood for some dead tree perusal, this month's edition of The Wire has a primer on... [more]

The New Yorker has a short story from Haruki Murakami called Airplane (via Alex). This reminds me that just this... [more]

Via memepool of all places, a nice little story. I spent my lunchtime reading Raymond Carver stories, so it was... [more]

speaking of maps, here's a fairly nifty one.... [more]

I'm after recommendations for a nice, detailed US (or, even better, North America) map/atlas thing. Having poked about, it seems... [more]

Steve Albini talks about and to Mission of Burma (via grossoutart). I haven't even begun to penetrate the VU boxed... [more]

Tom Robbins - Fierce invalids home from hot climates. Even the most complicated of things can be boiled down to... [more]

Wolfgang Flür - I was a robot. It's hard to avoid sympathizing with Mr Flür, who (along with Karl Bartos)... [more]

I'm enjoying nearly every moment of reading The Raymond Chandler Papers - selected letters and non-fiction 1909-1959, which I must... [more]

Helpful advice for all of us in this depraved and orderless world. As the dust jacket explains : It is... [more]

Mum, who's been steadily refining her book choices for me over successive recent Christmases, gave me P.J. O'Rourke's The CEO... [more]

I forget what triggered it off, but I finally gave in to Amazon and setup a wishlist. But it's not... [more]