Tag: music
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A Brief Encounter with Someone from the Analog Age
A 42-year-old Sydney resident has today admitted to growing up under what can only be described as Stone Age conditions. The shocking confession came during a casual lunchtime conversation at a suburban café, when Peter R., a self-described “analog native,” revealed to a table of younger colleagues that he memorised phone numbers. By choice. “I…
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What We Keep
I used to have collections. Years ago, I was deep in the world of second-hand record shops, trailing my fingers across shelves stacked with dusty vinyl and history. My treasure hunt had a clear target: old comedy albums. There was something about them—tiny theatrical worlds trapped in grooves. I found Bob Newhart, Shelley Berman, George…
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Brilliance Too Bright to Bear
The last live performance I attended was Nijinsky by The Australian Ballet. It was also, perhaps surprisingly, the first ballet I’ve ever seen. I’ve always appreciated the performing arts—music, theatre, poetry—but ballet had remained at a distance. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I certainly didn’t expect it to stay with me the way it…
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A Kind of Home
Sometimes the people we need most are the ones we’ve never met before. There’s something oddly tender about the first conversation you have with a stranger—especially when it happens in a room full of strangers, where no one yet knows how the story will go. That first confession, “I’ve never done this before,” offered by…
The Afterword 