Michael James

Sincerely honoured and proud to have a short story, 'Once a jolly swagman came through these parts', included in ISLAND issue 177. My local literary journal! Thankful to attentive editorial input from Kate Kruimink and Jane Rawson.

Another good episode from Across the Pond... Although Sam and Lori both criticising The Bear season 3 kinda hurt me feelings a lil bit. I gave my heart over to it... But it's ok to not like things. pca.st/episode/96b8a4…

So... I've started, every so often, to use our home espert machine to make myself a mocha. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Did you know in 2008 ScarJo recorded an album with multiple Tom Waits covers? open.spotify.com/album/2bBRv5VJ…

My long-held conviction is that U2's Songs of Innocence is (apart from 'California') a really good and interesting album. My recent Wild Idea is that Songs is Experience might be, too. What if they knew what they were doing, but I wasn't on their wavelength?

Many good descriptions here Patrick Freyne: Is U2’s new EP Easter Lily almost ... cool? – The Irish Times share.google/N1c59tNFYPBwPn…

"the sea itself had become a gaseous, voluminous, screamingly hot malformation of its proper self, out of which was ejected a writhing column of angels." WATERBLACK by @alexpheby @GalleyBeggars

Characteristic chilling irony from Jarvis Cocker on Pulp's glorious new album "And life's too short to drink bad wine and that's frightening."

Second half of WATERBLACK has returned to Nathan Treeves... and I'm struggling. I preferred the origin story of Sharli much more to the methodical activities of demigods and the (meta)physics of the Weft universe.

@SeanFennessey Great finish to a great series. Thanks to you both.

"The internet isn't written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink." I've talked a lot about THE SOCIAL NETWORK over the years. This is the clearest expression of why I think it's important. open.spotify.com/episode/167sn3…

STRANGER THINGS finale: they did it! So thrilled and relieved that they pulled off the ending.

Now pig farm.

Finally getting around to WATERBLACK by Alex Pheby. A nice change of pace from Malarkoi: the first sections featuring long detailed first-person scenes of camp, factory, brothel and kitchen.

Finished À la recherche 2: À L'OMBRE DES JEUNES FILLES EN FLEURS. Seaside hotel closing up for winter. Time to go home. Third last page he says he's going to have to adjust to sleeping in his old room in Paris. Poor guy. THIS is the real poetic tragedy of the passing of time.

David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing 'Little drummer boy/peace on earth' is one of the most AI things ever (that isn't). youtu.be/lCpXMy5GalI?si…

Great year to be a Tasmanian buying books as Christmas gifts.

Bill & Ted and Wayne's World.

Sex, Lies and Videotape. Short Cuts? What about Thelma and Louise... and even Natural Born Killers?

Key Gen X movies about Gen X also include Rivers Edge, Heathers (mentioned later on podcast), Singles, Reality Bites, Buffalo 66, Heavy... @TheRewatchables nhttps://pca.st/episode/d07acb40-71fd-455d-8d89-3b37bc6bf753