Interview: Words With Mei Saraswati
Gabby Loo sat down with a local maker of dreamy, soulful and mysterious music, Mei Saraswati, just before her performance at Proximity Festival 2015. What does your general artist practice…
In An Unexpected Turn of Events, Pelican Writes About the Interests of Conservative Landowners
The Australian Nationals used to be a tour de force in Australian politics. They gave us multiple Prime Ministers and governed Queensland for 32 years straight, most notably under Joh…
So Much For My Happy Ending
Hemingway rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms forty times. He considered happy endings, sad endings, and finally published a tragically evocative, bloody, devastating finale which consolidates everything he…
Just Asking
Question: How much is our national identity worth? Or rather, how susceptible are ‘Australian values’ to serious examination? Sorry if these questions are vague or flimsy, but then again, Australians…
Pelican Remembers: Lesser known deaths of 2015
Grandpa Swift Rigby (b. 1879) Old Swifty was the oldest known Pelican Editor, serving from 1902 to 1925 in the only autocratic kingship in Pelican History. Widely regarded as a…
I’ve Been on Grindr for 18 Months and in That Time My Lungs Have Collapsed and the Light of Holiness Has Fled My Soul.
We’re all familiar with Grindr by now, the infamous hookup app that encompasses the vast panorama of Perth’s comically underwhelming queer scene. From the naïve 18-year-old who still believes in…
Review: The Revenant
It’s a relentless, exhausting story of revenge and survival, elevated beyond mere tropes by the expert cinematography and editing of Emmanuel Lubezki and Stephen Mirrione (both of whom worked on…
A Cat Named Yoda, Dark Side Flows, and Whether First Order Warriors Listen to My Chemical Romance: The Force Awakens Pelican Roundtable
Following the midnight screening of The Force Awakens on Thursday, Pelican approached a group of moderate to Sebulba shirt-wearing Star Wars fans to participate in a roundtable discussion on their…
Review: Cinderella – WA Ballet
Ballet is defined as an artistic dance performed to music, using precise and highly formalised set steps and gestures. I know this because I googled it in the über on…
2015: The Little Year that Fucking Couldn’t
2015 was without question, a shithouse year. I write this in its closing weeks and at this stage it looks like we’re going to reach the new year with neo-fascistic…