A Very Big Day Out

I’ve realized that over the entire time I’ve had this blog, I’ve never really done the typical blog thing and just written about a day or experience in my life. Even my entry on The Prodigy, the night I went to see World’s On Fire, was kind of essay-ish in detailing my man-crush on the [...]

Steve Jobs, Adolf Hitler – Kindred Souls?

Let me start off by saying this isn’t supposed to be controversial. It’s not one of those troll-esque articles making Steve Jobs out to be the Antichrist, using ‘Hitler’ as an embodiment of evil. I’m actually writing this having just finished Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, and as someone who used be deeply fascinated by [...]

Move The Body, Still The Mind

Many years ago I read a book my mum had bought or otherwise acquired, called Clearing Sacred Space with Feng Shui. It was very pink and from memory, had some flower petals and a brass bell on the front cover – not exactly what you’d think a teenager obsessed with military history would find interesting. [...]

Rising ’44, And How Lucky We Are

It’s been a long time since I’ve sunk my teeth into a good history book, and as it turns out, Rising ’44 – which I’m just over halfway through reading – is one of the saddest, most fascinating, most inspiring and most disturbing that I’ve ever read. I’ve already covered the story of the Warsaw [...]

A Trip Down (Random Access) Memory Lane

A few weeks ago I watched this presentation unveiling Windows 8, and it got me thinking how far computers, their operating systems and their various accessories have come since my childhood. My generation – those born in the first half of the 1980s – was really the generation that grew up with Personal Computers. PCs [...]

Warsaw – The City You’ll Never See

In my blog post 1940-45 I covered the tragic story of Warsaw’s wartime occupation, its conversion into an urban battleground and, finally, its complete and systematic annihilation. No city in the world suffered as much damage during the Second World War, and with the Soviets in control of Poland at war’s end, the city was [...]

The Enigma of Dreams

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by dreams. I’m a vivid dreamer and always have been: for me, falling asleep doesn’t mean just blacking out in bed, but entering another dimension – one that’s often strange and grim, even downright disturbing at times – and there have been mornings when I’ve [...]

Breathing The Pressure Since 1996

It was 14 years ago now that I heard a song that changed my life. I was 13, and had recently started listening to Ugly Phil’s Top 40 while doing my Year 7 homework. I’d never been big on pop music but pop was still half-decent then, and besides, I hadn’t really developed a taste [...]

Gothic architecture is intrinsically Pagan

One of my most vivid childhood memories is going to church – specifically St Ignatius in Richmond, one of the main Polish Catholic churches in Melbourne. Even though it’s not particularly massive, as a kid I was always in awe of the building – the sombre bluestone facade that looms over you as you walk [...]

Charlie Sheen – New President of Bat Country

I have close to zero interest or knowledge of pop culture, to a point some of my TV-saturated co-workers find difficult to believe, but after the months of media circus he’s generated I finally watched this interview with Charlie Sheen – and tell you what, in all seriousness, I actually find a lot of what [...]