Browsing All Posts By Engel Schmidl
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Football
Revenge of the Football Nerd: AVB the Movie
Loved and loathed in almost equal measure, script doctor Robert McKee’s book, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Storytelling, sets out guiding principles on how to ...
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Pop Culture
Dear Vampire Weekend, Will You Be My New Steely Dan?
A middle-aged man wistfully trying to recapture past glories, hoping to relive the electric charge of youthful adventure, manfully staring down the growing sense of his own obsolescence. ...
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Pop Culture 1
The Day I Had Pizza with Porn Star Kitten Natividad
I am no expert. I’m not a bra-fitter, plastic surgeon or professional photographer of glamour models. I don’t work in a strip club or make blue films. But ...
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Pop Culture
Meet the World’s Sleaziest Clarinet Player (and it’s not Woody Allen)
Sometimes the internet takes you to a place you should never go. A place filled with strippers, fast cars and clarinets. And African guerrilla soldiers taunting a chimpanzee ...
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Pop Culture 1
Send in the Clowns: Campbell Newman vs Insane Clown Posse
American hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse are touring Australia next month, but Queensland Premier Campbell Newman might have something to say about the self-proclaimed “wicked clowns” disgracing ...
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Football 1
What Holger Did Next
The former coach of the Australian men’s national football team, Holger Osieck, sits alone in the shabby study of his holiday chalet in the small Tyrolean town of ...
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Pop Culture
A Tale of Two Bands Lost: Nirvana and the Powder Monkeys
History, as we’re often told, is written by the winners. And if you were to count the number of words expended on the 20th anniversary release of Nirvana’s ...
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Pop Culture
From VU to Lulu: Five Lou Reed ‘Random Maniac’ Moments
The obituaries have been written and the tributes have poured in for Lou Reed following his death on October 27 at the age of 71. One of the ...
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Football
Uli Island Discs: Uli Hesse on Bundesliga, Baseball and Oz Underground Rock
Shoot Farken Q&A: German football writer Uli Hesse. I was writing a story about the transformation of German football and what Australia could learn from it when I ...
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Football
Interior Monologue: When Frank Lowy Appointed Ange Postecoglou as Socceroos Coach
A stream-of-consciousness mind dump from FFA chairman and shopping mall impresario Frank Lowy’s neurons in the moments leading up to, during, and just after he decided to appoint ...
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Pop Culture 3
In the Shadow of the Marquee Moon: The Song that Defined Television’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Legacy
Part of the mid-70s New York rock scene that spawned the likes of Blondie, The Ramones and Talking Heads, Television will be playing their critically acclaimed album Marquee ...
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Pop Culture
Six Musical Steps from Justin Bieber to a Late 19th Century Minstrel Troupe
Justin Bieber, a 21st century minstrel Here’s how, in six easy steps, you get from Justin Bieber to the Rabbit’s Foot Company, an African-American travelling minstrel troupe that ...
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Pop Culture
What Happens when Bulgaria’s King of the Clarinet Plays Space Jazz at a Gypsy Wedding
Jacques Tati eat your heart out. This is a wonderfully absurd and compelling 30-minute video shot, by a true master of the wedding video craft, to VHS/Hi8 of ...
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