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About Me

I am an art writer & historian, publisher, and curator. This involves the writing of books and sometimes for magazines, publishing books, even other people's, and curating exhibitions. I grew up in Fitzroy before it was cool to do so. This did not make me cool; rather, it made me good at the art of humiliating flashers. I always get asked if I am also an artist, thankfully I have absolutely no desire to be one, unlike many, many people.However, I do have some photographs in the Te Papa National Gallery & Museum in Wellington, NZ, which was wholly their idea, not mine.Biologically I am the product of parents who met through an anti-war pirate radio station and newspaper, respectively. Police were involved.Jobs I have had include: 'Bookshop Bitch' (what is the correct term for someone who works in a bookshop? There is no adequate term, sales aren't really involved much) in an English as a Second Language bookshop. This was interesting because none of the customers spoke English, so you wouldn't know what book they wanted. I thus became excellent at mime, but decided never to inflict that skill upon innocent people. (I have a phobia of street performers).Sometimes I play records or 'DJ', as that sausage fest is commonly known. I am a big fan of pasta, and would very much like pesto to be reclaimed as a non-Yuppie food.I hope my life is never reduced to the extent where I make an appearance on a television quiz show. Or anything involving a desperate search for money involving making a fool of oneself on national television. I cringe at 'reality' television, unless it's on the ABC. This is all making me sound slightly insane. Is that enough yet?


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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Cartoon characters. That'd be great, if you could meet a cartoon character and they were still in animation form. And you were real. Or if you transformed into a cartoon to go into their world. Wait, would they step into your world or you into theirs? I can't handle this much existential thought.

My Blog

The Jimmy James’s

So I was telling this to my friend Chook last night and she thought it was pretty funny/I was a retard.I know these four guys and I realised on Saturday night that I've started calling all of them Jim...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:49:00 GMT

Today

Some people ask how I, a non-Aboriginal*, can write about Aboriginal art.I answer that question with the truth. Apart from believing that it is my job, as an art writer, to write about the art of my c...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:01:00 GMT

Sometimes, in an off moment,

I used to wish I was Chelsea Peretti. I loved the way she could make white kids tryna be black funny. I would try to re-create TGIFs with my girlfriends, to no avail. No one really knew what the fuck ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:40:00 GMT

I am in mourning

My favourite MySpaz blogger Jess has decided to say good bye to us (don't worry just in a blog sense).I am currently devestated.She took the form to new heights. Humour, wit, debauchery, living in a c...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:20:00 GMT

Take That, Kiwis

And you thought I was 'all Aussie'.Te Papa Museum wants my photos as part of an exhibition which aims to "express the real deal on who we are as New Zealanders."Sweet bro! Does this mean I can get a g...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:28:00 GMT

I went to Darwin and only saw one stupid t-shirt.

OK three.One worn by the judge of the big prize, the NATSIAA.I wrote on it for The Scene.They had to cut my over-long article, removing the bit about the dealers who can't stand each other having to s...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:20:00 GMT

CrackBook has taken over my life

Still blogging though.I can't maintain all these internerdz obsessions.Crackbook.Blogger.Flickr.Tagged.MySpazz.Ringo.Mes s n fuckin Noise.Someone send help.
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:09:00 GMT

I really like this brochure

I found it amongst my 'work' stuff, art centre brochures and stuff from the trip.I don't know how it got there, what are you trying to tell me?*gets paranoid*My favourite bits are:'Hearing voices insi...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:06:00 GMT

I am not obsessed

Jess.wait. what?I can't tell which of my obsessions she means.
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:13:00 GMT

Back in Friggin' Fregon

Aaaaaannnd... we're back.So far, so alive. I did not break down in the desert, after waking my mother in the middle of the night anxiously asking 'but will five spare litres of water really be enough?...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:16:00 GMT