The Unending Ode

BOOKS

  • Christmas movies: festivity-out-of-the-foreground favourites

    Christmas movies: festivity-out-of-the-foreground favourites

    It’s the 22nd of December – Christmas eve eve eve and gravy day’s boxing day. Yesterday – Gravy Day – was a day I cherish annually the relief of a Christmas carol that surrenders the bells and tinsel for just a second. It embraces mess and humanness to the poignant and wrenching backdrop of what… Read more

  • Dear Dolly: The Greatness of Good Material

    Dear Dolly: The Greatness of Good Material

    Dear Dolly, The other night I went to stand up comedy and I couldn’t stand it. This comedy club is two doors down from the house I’ve been living in for three years now, and I’ve done my due diligence as an loyal fan and hype girl – coaxing in apprehensive friends, feeling irrationally responsible… Read more

  • Shelf Help #2: Spooky Season, or a celebration of the feminine gothic

    Shelf Help #2: Spooky Season, or a celebration of the feminine gothic

    Right, it’s a loose link between the sorts of books that I love and the time of year that implores your local neighbourhood to deck their front hedging in fake spiderwebs and skeletons that will laugh as you go by, but bear with me. (**Posting this well into  ~Scorpio Season~ after having missed my Halloween… Read more

  • Shelf-help #1: Comedy, cornflour plots and craft

    Shelf-help #1: Comedy, cornflour plots and craft

    Introducing: shelf-help. How often do you find yourself staring at the ceiling of an evening or challenging your phone charger to aerobics while willing your inner monologue to shut up? Would it be nice to have a good hearty book in your hands with a dazzling narrator or thickening plot to drown it all out?… Read more

  • The singer-songwriter-pop-princess renaissance and why I am jealous of Gen Z: Some thoughts on Gretta Ray’s Positive Spin and The Big Pop Show.

    The singer-songwriter-pop-princess renaissance and why I am jealous of Gen Z: Some thoughts on Gretta Ray’s Positive Spin and The Big Pop Show.

    The Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba. Friday the 15th of September. The opening night of Gretta Ray’s The Big Pop Show, and the youths were out in full form. Brazenly decked out in pastels and primary colours, spinning in their high heels, the girls were euphoric: whole arms adorned in friendship bracelets, butterfly clips holstering fringes. Eyeshadow… Read more

  • Fellini’s fullest folly

    Fellini’s fullest folly

    September 5th, 2020 I entered a screening of Fellini’s 8 1/2 armed only with the knowledge that I liked what little I knew of him already. Through 138 minutes I found my consciousness clambering as it counted, desperate to find a quantity of SOMETHING that reflected the numerical value of the title, while my head… Read more