Find Stability with Electric Enemy

So few things are for certain these days. Job security, an abusive nuclear family unit and Russia annihilating the world in one fell swoop as opposed to an agonising decades-long clown show serenaded by Kid Rock are just a few of the many comforts which...

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Fiddle with Your Mind with Nicola Benedetti

It's becoming more and more immoral to produce one's own mental sedative. As children raised in the shadowy era before the emergence of Smash Mouth, we became adept at spontaneously producing that warming brain blanket that was triggered the first time the end credits of Daria...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 28/06/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Question everything. Except that corner of your room you haven't gone near in three months that makes a rustling noise whenever you turn off the lights. Never question that corner.   10) Rogue Opera Live Lounge 3rd July What: Please join Bronwen Stephens-Harding, Director of Rogue Opera, on her Livestream: Rogue...

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Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 28/06/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Your dead-end dreams don't make you smile. Because actually securing a dead-end job is a fantasy bordering on insanity in this economy.   10) Zac Brown Band (Live)  4th July What: Zac Brown Band kicks off the long weekend with a livestream concert benefiting Camp Southern Ground. "Not only do we...

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You’re Irrelevant with Electric Blockaloo

Age is just a number. Numbers define the fabric of reality. You are old, Father William, and the more you attempt to stand on your head, the closer you get to having a brain haemorrhage, the closer the rest of us get to being monetarily liable for...

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Just Relax, Take It Easy with Watch Party: Are You Proud?

The destruction of an illusion is always unpleasant. Illusions are almost always constructed by the one being fooled because it has been decided by their own brain that it's safer to process the illusion rather than the reality. Also the alcohol and tobacco industry have been allowed...

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Find Brief Solace with The Roots Picnic

It's perversely pleasing to be on the sidelines. Watching horror interspersed with retribution unfold in a kind of terrible chaos is a sickeningly perfect position to be in. For centuries now we've been collectively aware of the psychological desire to get morally exercised about something whilst...

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Recognise with Ramsey Lewis: Saturday Salon

Effort is an alien concept. For the portion of generally secure middle class society that was raised by 90s TV, the idea of appearing to exert yourself whilst engaging in anything other than a life and death scenario is sacrilege. But the sedative state of that...

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You Are Who You Are with Bedouine

It's always galling when the inherent pettiness of your passions is laid bare. A cataclysmic catastrophe that reminds us of the fact that whilst we've spent so much time and thought on the construction of our identities based upon intimate knowledge of the metafictional depth of...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 21/06/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

You can't teach an old dog new tricks. But dogs aren't responsible for the institutionalised oppression of millions. So maybe stop rubbing Rover's face in his own piss and engage in a little overdue introspection.   10) Uncertain Futures in the Time of Crises 25th June What: In this panel, Myseum...

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