Russ
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Substitute Teacher |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | My background is in media studies. I have taught it at High School. I've also been a 3RRR dj and Podcaster. Presently I'm studying for a Grad Cert in Writing with Swinburne University, and working on a science fiction novel. Mostly, I'm a pop culture obsessive. Hope you are too. |
| Interests | pop culture, lowbrow art, music, film, tv, songwriting, science fiction, media studies |
| Favorite movies | The Crime of Monsieur Lange, The Man From Earth, The Notorious Bettie Page, Ride With The Devil, Primer, It's A Wonderful Life, The Lives Of Others, Whip It, Apocalypto, Deathproof, Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, Austen Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Diary Of The Dead, Becoming Jane, Children Of Men, Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring, Star Trek, Avatar, Kill Bill, Serenity, The Year My Voice Broke, Casablanca, River's Edge, The Wizard of Oz, Stardust Memories, Cinema Paradiso, A Band A Part, Land And Freedom, The Core, Running On Empty (Sidney Lumet), The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Manhattan, The Time Machine, Barbarella, Forbidden Planet, His Girl Friday, The Terminator, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Days Of Heaven, The Duellists, Blade Runner, Dr Zhivago, This Is Spinal Tap, The Searchers, The Thing (John Carpenter), Dawn of the Dead, Life Force, Witness, Singin' In The Rain, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Double Life of Veronique, City Lights, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Citizen Kane, Aliens, I'm Alright Jack, Miller's Crossing, Bull Durham, Star Trek: First Contact, Dark City, Big Wednesday, Mountains of the Moon, Psycho, West Side Story, The Haunting (Robert Wise), Two-Lane Blacktop, A Hard Day's Night, My Father's Glory, Some Like It Hot, A Day At the Races, Scarface (DePalma), Like Water For Chocolate, Wings of Desire, Muriel's Wedding, Chinatown, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (39), Dazed and Confused, |
| Favorite music | Stereolab, Teenage Fanclub, The Kinks, Fleet Foxes, Broderick Smith, the Go Betweens, Lisa Miller, XTC, REM, Led Zeppelin,The Kinks Stereolab, The Moody Blues, Emmylou Harris, Dusty Springfield, The Beatles, The Triffids, The Clouds,Mazzy Star, Gram Parsons, The Band, Underground Lovers, The Byrds, The Shangri Las, Placebo, Black Sabbath, The B 52's, Van Morrison, Kate Bush, Big Star, The Bangles, Captain Beefheart, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Died Pretty, Justin Hayward, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Tori Amos, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Clash, The Jam, The Velvet Underground, Abba, Pixies, The Sundays, Spirit Caravan, Cathedral, The Dingoes, The Runaways, Thin Lizzy |
| Favorite books | The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin), Jane Austen, Dickens, Sci Fi |
If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?
Isn't the objectivity of all journalists fatally compromised by their association with corporate media?