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Girlvert memoir by Oriana Small

Blog — March 27, 2020

Girlvert: A Porno Memoir Oriana Small Rare Bird Books   The title of this tome is a telling one as it details a span of ten years that evolve from modelling to full-on adult films on the, let’s call it more “extreme” end of the scale. …

Hot Stuff – Crowley’s Hot Sauce

Blog — March 28, 2020

Hot Stuff – Crowley’s Hot Sauce   The good ole, reliable “Great Beast” Aleister Crowley once quipped that the pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Harbouring a weak spot for anything hot and spicy, I doubt that the chief …

Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics

Blog — April 2, 2020

Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics Getty Research Institute    Käthe Kollwitz’s oeuvre found its defining phase the first half of the twentieth century with her graphic depictions that covered the span of two world wars and depicted the implications and changes that the turbulences of that time …

Sidney Nolan: The Artist's Materials book review

Blog — April 3, 2020

Sidney Nolan: The Artist's Materials Getty Conservation Institute   The Artist's Materials series is indispensable for anyone who want to scratch the surface and learn more about the technique and materials modern painters are using to channel their alchemy. One of Australian’s most widely known painters …

Punk and Hardcore related podcasts

Blog — April 7, 2020

Punk and Hardcore related podcasts Chances are you've got a favourite one. Maybe you are making one. A pod of your own. A medium that has democratized the talk-audio space by offering exposure for niche creators. Listeners and makers of immersive, intimate and, in some cases, life-changing qualities …

Re-assessing Your View on Life

Blog — April 8, 2020

Re-assessing your view on life during Covid-19   Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life (Penguin Books) Rome was neither built nor burned in a day. However, the embers of thought that emanated from the Roman and Greek empires lit beacons that still …

Ignite book review

Blog — April 24, 2020

Ignite Penguin Random House   Shannah Kennedy Lyndall Mitchell have reinvented themselves under the moniker “the Essentialists”, with the focus on the release of gift books, the Ignite instalment of which is meant to spark the reader into action to make positive changes and elevate their lives. …

Water of Life – Archie Rose

Blog — April 26, 2020

Water of Life – Archie Rose   With the distillery having started out with a focus on “white” spirits currently being dedicated to the large scale production of hand sanitiser to combat the spread of Covid-19 and their stunning bar being closed, it surely must have been exciting …

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Exit Brewing Saison

Blog — May 3, 2020

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Exit Brewing Saison   Having made many treks to Belgium, I harbour a spot not only for the delicious local chocolate but also Belgian beer and while it is difficult to make generalizations due to individuality of their thirteens beer variants, there …

Water of Life – Tomintoul

Blog — May 10, 2020

Water of Life – Tomintoul   Full disclosure: Tomintoul Distillery was not exactly at the forefront of my mind when it came to Speyside distilleries. This is mainly due to the fact that so far, I have not had the pleasure of sampling their emissions yet, despite …

Water of Life - Peat's Beast

Blog — May 17, 2020

Water of Life - Peat's Beast Now we are talking – having lusted for the longest time to find out what the emission with the punchy name of quality bottler has to offer, I finally got to experience it in the old world. When it comes to peated nectar, …

Everyday Carry Essentials pt.2

Blog — May 30, 2020

High Adventures in the Great Outdoors Outdoors - Everyday Carry Essentials   I like running whenever possible and when given the opportunity also to and from work. Now unless, you actually work in a gym and swag around in your active wear all day, chances are that you …

Water of Life – Single Barrel and Sinatra Select

Blog — June 6, 2020

Water of Life – Jack Daniels Single Barrel and Sinatra Select   After having covered a myriad of distilleries as part of this series, it is almost sacrilege that we have not touched on one of the most prominent American ones that produces whiskey yet ticks the boxes …

Me by Elton John book review

Blog — June 7, 2020

Me by Elton John Pan Macmillan   As far as I am concerned, the rocket man has always been around and once I overcame the self-imposed stoic juvenile orthodox phase of not being interested in anything else than what emerged from the confines of the punk rock …

Kaizen book review

Blog — June 8, 2020

Kaizen Sarah Harvey Pan Macmillan   For the ones looking for inspiration, there has never been a shortage of wisdom that could be extracted and adopted from the lifestyle and philosophy that forms the foundation and DNA and Japan. The principle of Kaizen, i.e. the idea …

Water of Life – Overeem Distillery

Blog — June 12, 2020

Water of Life – Overeem Distillery   As part of our whisk(e)y-centric series, we have covered a wide range of Tasmanian distilleries, most of which I have had the privilege to visit and meet the protagonists behind the still. The one that almost got away and that has …

Endurance by Louis Rudd

Blog — June 14, 2020

Endurance Louis Rudd Pan Macmillan   As we go by Lord Byron, prolonged endurance tames the bold but there are some individuals who have perfectioned the art of concentrating patience and conquering bad fortune by endurance, one of which is Louis Rudd, who among other accomplishments …

Von Max Ernst bis Eduardo Chillida

Blog — June 21, 2020

Nicole Hartje-Grave Von Max Ernst bis Eduardo Chillida - Die Sammlung Wilfried und Gisela Fitting Wienand Verlag   Ever since I was first exposed to Max Ernst as a teenager, his fascinating life and oeuvre has never not proved to be immensely influential on me and …

Motown: The Sound of Young America book review

Blog — June 22, 2020

Motown: The Sound of Young America Thames & Hudson   For the uninitiated – 2020 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Motown Records and everything surrounding it not only dominated the first half of the sixties, but left an imprint on popular culture, the reverberations of which can …

Monocle – Book of Japan book review

Blog — June 23, 2020

Monocle – Book of Japan Thames and Hudson   Tyler Brûlé and his brainchild Monocle have had an intensive relationship with Japan ever since the inception of the magazine – a relationship which could be claimed to have been borderline formative as the magazine was informed by …