Posts made in November, 2008

Beer Causes Colo-rectal Cancer

Okay. Now for the scary, paranoic stuff again. I slide in and out on this one daily – as is my mercurial want. But here’s a heads up on beer. Even one drink of beer per day more than doubles the risk of getting colo-rectal cancer. A drink of spirits triples it. So if you have a tot of spirits and a tot of beer on a daily basis, you are increasing the likelihood (and it’s getting...

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My Dad’s Back

the boat now belongs to us No. Unfortunately, I don’t mean that my father has returned. I’m not sure how I’d react to that. I mean his back. Literally. My bro-in-law sent me this pic of Dad this morning. Every time I see pics of Dad it makes me cry inside. I get a lump in my throat and a kind of anxiety in my guts – thinking, “No – it can’t be so. Dad is...

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“Yes!” is not a word – it’s a sentence.

working for yourself sounds like fun, but are you really your best boss? Ever had one of those days when everything comes crashing in on you? Where the early seeds of “Yeah, sure. I can do that for you,” grow to full maturity within the space of, what seems like, a few days? I’m in the middle of doing a soundtrack for a Curtin Uni 2nd year student film, “Shirtless”....

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Shivering Geoff – Episode #1

What’s important? It’s amazing. You spend years working on stuff and it goes unnoticed. You labour away and when it’s all finished and done – you wonder whether it was worth the bother. I’m talking about making films. These days, it’s called “producing content”. I’m but one of a million unknown filmmakers. When I made the “film”...

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