Issue 64

..Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. I think it’s my first ‘motion capture’ movie on the big screen, (although I’ve seen bits of Beowulf on Foxtel) and, while it’s impressively realistic in capturing movement accurately, it falls a bit flat in nearly every other respect. Having said that, the backgrounds are stupendously rich and detailed and…

..having no foreign-speaking nations literally on our borders takes the heat out of having to learn another lingo, but New Zealand has given respect to the indigenous Maori population by making the learning the Maori language compulsory, and while I can see there are problems emulating that gesture in Australia, it does bring up the…

..delighted by him doubling his bets to cover his losses, as they profited by the eight billion dollars that he had lost. This increased the bonuses, the eventual sale of Porsches, floating gin palaces, excessive dinner, divorce settlements etc. of the very few people who tended to sit in front of trading screens for far…

..the family when I was a little boy. I think camping’s the present-day manifestation of men’s need to talk to Nature – and perhaps for Nature to talk back. It’s safer in this case to have Nature represent God and I think that most blokes would be comfortable with the communing with Nature metaphor. ‘Going…

You want new product..? 13.10.03 Who says we don’t do our best for our insatiable listening public? The bloody beaut ABC, in the shape of the ever-patient Paul Petran and company, have recorded some of the very best acts that have graced the stages fetchingly dotted about the Queenscliff foreshore during the best darn little…