Fuck It, Let’s Talk About AFL – Round 4 Pelican20 April 2018 I forgot to write this last week, but that’s ok, nothing really happened in the world of football. Geelong demonstrated they can only play one quarter of foot... Campus AffairsEntertainmentVoice0 Comments71 views
Yeah Fuck it Let’s Talk about AFL: Round 2 Pelican2 April 2018 As Pelican doesn’t have a sports editor (but we’re well on top of the weather) I’m taking it upon myself to bring you a heavily editorialised account of the AFL week that was. Campus AffairsEntertainment0 Comments164 views
Interview with Tonightly’s Titular Tom Ballard Pelican12 March 2018 As a young comic, it’s just the coolest thing that you could ask for, that the ABC actually dedicates an entire channel to repeats of main-channel comedy hits, and Spicks and Specks repeats, but also absolutely commissioning new stuff that’s really exciting. EntertainmentVoice0 Comments175 views
Wake up Sheeple: Pelican Tried to Stop Me Publishing the Full Text of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Ernest Hemmingway in Size One font Pelican9 March 2018 By Ernest Hemingway by Hugh Hutchison EntertainmentLiterature and Creative Writing0 Comments422 views
#SlowTV: If you loved The Ghan, You’ll LOVE this seven-year long broadcast of the Syrian Civil War Pelican6 March 2018 Thousands of Australians tuned in to watch SBS’s seventeen-hour broadcast of The Ghan - seemingly endless footage of Australia’s outback from the perspective of the titular northbound interstate railway. EntertainmentVoice0 Comments111 views
Australian Government Set to Double Down Against #Changethedate, Introduce Booze Filled Public Holidays to Clash with all Major Genocide Commemorations Pelican29 January 2018 If there’s one thing everyone knows about Australia, it’s that we love a day off; preferably while routinely ignoring the huge benefits we’ve accrued as a... EntertainmentVoice0 Comments130 views
Keep your Weighted Average > Your Average Weight: The Definitive Guide to Smashing your New Year’s Resolutions Pelican4 January 2018 Your New Year’s resolution might be anything - from learning Portuguese to breaking out of prison – but the core principle behind it is the same: you have many shortcomings that must be addressed, one at a time, in a superficial, annual format. EntertainmentVoice0 Comments174 views
4 Review: Down Under Pelican18 August 2016 A cut above 'Four Lions' with a Cronulla riot context, director Abe Forsythe "produces the most nuanced simultaneous critique of nationalism and idealistic multiculturalism that we’re likely to see for some time". Review by Hugh Hutchison. Film and Production0 Comments40 views
8 Review: Brian Eno – The Ship (Warp Records) Pelican21 May 2016 Brian Eno has managed to craft a sophisticated, but still extremely enjoyable album. It’s probably not great music to work out to, though. Hugh Hutchison reviews. Music0 Comments16 views
Preservation of the Soul through Pop, Personality and Punk Pelican19 January 2016 Where everything about Blackstar radiates a sense of maturity and mortality – from the disturbing bedridden music video for the album’s second single ‘Lazarus’ to the foreboding, anti-pop instrumentals – Lulu is almost a cheap imitation of what made Reed such an appealing figure musically, his trademark gristle still present, but without any of the poetry that made him such an inspiring figure to the musically minded. Music0 Comments168 views
