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August 6, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis: I’m Back Buying CDs
But it is only a very specific type and only at a set price. I won’t pay more than $5 for a CD. (Well, sometimes rules are made to be broken). And I am basically only buying soundtrack albums, instrumental scores. Well, I’ve busted outside of the lines a few times, but it’s the same […]Archive
August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Remembering When The Ultimate Warrior Wrote Me A Christmas Card
I loved the Ultimate Warrior. And yet I can’t ever feel completely satisfied with that one sentence. It’s the love of guilty pleasure and therefore needs justification. It is like saying, hypothetically, “I love Kylie Minogue’s Greatest Hits” – or “I really like The Spice Girls Movie”. But just as it could be suggested that […]Archive
August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
#NewFoundPoems
I found some old books on the shelf – very old books, 10c finds from Church fairs from years and years ago. I started scratching out certain words to make new poems. It was fun. Doing it on the fly. One take. If I scratched too far – or took out the wrong word – […]Archive
August 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Isn’t Music The Best? Oh, And How Good Are Rhetorical Questions By The Way?
Hey there, and guess what? I found – on vinyl! – (I always hear that in the voice from Half Baked when they say, “on weed!”) the score to Twin Peaks. I consider this a holy grail, basically. I am so thrilled to have this. I didn’t have time to sit and listen to it […]Archive
July 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #19: Hannah And Her Sisters by Various
These days it is both deeply uncool and hugely problematic to mention almost anything to do with Woody Allen. In my teens and through my early 20s I was such a fan of his work. I continue to be a fan of that work that I loved then – most of it, anyway. He’s made […]Archive
July 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Melbourne Record Stores
I went hog-wild in Melbourne record stores. My mate Ryan met me in Fitzroy at 10am, right when some of the record shops start opening. A few don’t open until 11, and we missed some of them as a result. I had eyes only for the soundtrack section – and I came away with 11 […]Archive
July 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Some Commentary on Some of The New Poetry
I started writing poems when I was about 12 or 13. And I only stopped when I was about 30. That break, it’s hard to remember the full timing now, lasted maybe four or five years – and there was probably a poem or two in there now and then. But for the last decade […]Archive
July 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
There’s Nothing Funny About Post-Rock And That’s Probably Why I Like It
I have no idea when I first heard about post-rock, or even heard it. But I feel like the band Tortoise was the obvious starting point for me. I’d always called them a jazz-rock band, but also knew that wasn’t quite right, so even if post-rock sounds a bit snooty, a bit academic, it was […]Archive
July 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What Was The First Film You Watched As A Family?
My parents didn’t force movies on me. But we were always allowed to watch them – I have no idea how it started. But I’m all about the memories of movies as much as I am the actual movies. You’ll know that from reading any of the blogs and newsletters from across the years. So […]Archive
July 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
In Cold Blood vs. The Bonfire of The Vanities: Non-Fiction Novels and The New Journalism
Truman Capote released In Cold Blood in 1966; Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of The Vanities was published in 1987. Twenty-one years between them, the two books continue to have lasting effect as influential treatises regarding, what Wolfe confirmed by title in his 1973 text of the same name, as ‘The New Journalism’. These two books […]Archive
July 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman