25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 7: I’ll be your papar-paparazzi
Wasn’t the weather today divine? I sat on the Oak Lawn and watched a group of lithe, bright eyed freshers frolic under dappled sunlight for hours. Apparently it’s going to…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 6: I can’t believe I have to do this today
Happy Sunday! I very much resent having to write this. Sunday is the day of rest, and as such, I should be curled up in bed binge watching my new…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 5: Literally nothing happened today, obviously
Sorry that this is so late – turns out that it is even harder to pretend to care about guild politics on a weekend. I hope that you, beloved reader,…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 4: Friend request, declined
guild politics is a life vicariously lived it is Tom Beyer and Liam Staltari pushing themselves to the cold glass screen of the 7:30 report and whispering as if to…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 3: What I dreamed about last night
I’ve never believed in the phenomenon of the cheese dream. I kind of thought that an adult claiming wild dreams after a bit too much jarlsberg was kind of the…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 2: Only one official complaint received so far
I’m dedicating today’s post to the kind man who offered me some Cheetos at 1am this morning in the Arts computer lab, and also to English lecturer Ned Curthoys, who…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 1: Yep, looks like we’re committing to this
Yesterday in the Pelican office, our ninth viewing of Taylor Swift’s new video was interrupted by loud clapping and chanting coming from the Sue Boyd Room. Because we prefer to…
Straight Outta Compton
Biopics aren’t really independent works of art. They’re inherently revisionist in nature, in that the constraints of scriptwriting and running time and the pressure to produce something with commercial appeal…
Southpaw
Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, 50 Cent, Forest Whittaker Admittedly, I was excited for Southpaw. Jake Gyllenhaal transformed himself drastically for the role, and the last time…
Royal Headache – High (Distant and Vague Recordings)
In 2009, I put out a call on social media asking what people’s favourite albums of that year were. A friend living on the East Coast, Matt Bellair, shot me…