Michael C
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Adult Literacy |
| Location | Tasmania, Australia |
| Introduction | I completed a PhD mid 2009 on Australian grunge fiction, its pre- and postcursors. The thesis reappraised Grunge fiction in terms of the transformations of Australian political culture in the 1980s-90s. It looked at the Neoliberalisation of Australian Labourism during the Hawke-Keating period, and how this project was narativised. I'm involved in local environmental projects and in a previous life played keyboards in various Sydney inner-western bands. |
| Interests | Listening to magpies, watching black cockatoos, kookaburras and green rosellas up-close, reading about the punk and post-punk periods. |
| Favorite Movies | The Hustler, Sex Lies and Videotape, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Godfather I & II, The Boys, Praise, Head On |
| Favorite Music | Kate Bush, Miles Davis, Lobsterman, Grace Jones, John Cale, Rufus Wainwright, Ron Sexsmith, Gillian Welch (& David Rawlings), VU, Joy Division, The Necks, Wayne Shorter, Peg, Crow, Elton John, Steveland Morris (S. Wonder), Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Polly Jean Harvey, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Gang of Four, The Fall, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, XTC, Go-Betweens, Triffids, Tricky |
| Favorite Books | The Big Sleep, A Sentimental Education, Crash, Revolution in the Head, Lipstick Traces, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, The World According to Garp, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fat Man in History, Forty-Seventeen, The Reading Group |