Fuck It, Let’s Talk About AFL – Round 4
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 football and all…
Yeah Fuck it Let’s Talk about AFL: Round 2
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…
Interview with Tonightly’s Titular Tom Ballard
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…
#SlowTV: If you loved The Ghan, You’ll LOVE this seven-year long broadcast of the Syrian Civil War
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.
Australian Government Set to Double Down Against #Changethedate, Introduce Booze Filled Public Holidays to Clash with all Major Genocide Commemorations
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 society at the ultimate…
Keep your Weighted Average > Your Average Weight: The Definitive Guide to Smashing your New Year’s Resolutions
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…
Review: Down Under
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…
Review: Brian Eno – The Ship (Warp Records)
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.
Preservation of the Soul through Pop, Personality and Punk
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 –…