A person who finds meaning in small things.
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I live and work in Perth, Western Australia. Born in England, raised in Australia, and have lived in the US and UK between 2005 and 2021. I have since returned to Perth. I have a dog named Buffy.
This page is less an AI assisted window to my life — things I care about, things that have shaped me, and things that are currently living rent-free in my brain.
The first band I ever loved. I have seen them a few times live, even going to Norway to see their last shows, that weren't their last.
Amazing songs. Captain Jack is my favourite.
The Dio era specifically, although I do like the Ozzy stuff. Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath in particular.
I got into Seger while I was living in America.
Born to Run is a complete worldview in eight songs. He treats ordinary lives like they matter, and somewhere along the way he convinced me they do.
Cold, glossy, perfect pop songs that should not sound this warm. Ric Ocasek made detachment feel intimate.
Neil Finn writes melodies like he found them under a rock. Don't Dream It's Over is still the best song to put on at the end of anything.
Low is the album I keep returning to. Permission to reinvent yourself, set to music. There's no one else like him and there never will be.
The Sun sessions sound like the room is on fire. Hard to overstate what he made possible for everyone who came after.
Bat Out of Hell. Total Eclipse of the Heart. He wrote like every song was the last song of a Broadway show that didn't exist yet. Maximalist in the best way.
Sharp, smart, restless. Night and Day is sophisticated without ever being smug.
Hot Fuss is one of the most assured debuts of the 2000s. Brandon Flowers writes huge, hopeful songs without flinching.
Sweet Caroline aside, Solitary Man and Shilo are the ones. A voice you trust on the first listen.
After the Gold Rush. Harvest. Ragged Glory. Half the records sound broken and that's the point.
Freddie. The harmonies. The fact that they wrote operas and stadium anthems in the same week. Everyone in the band could have led a different band.
Theatre. Pyrotechnics. Heavier than they have any right to be while also being weirdly funny. There's nothing else like a Rammstein show.
Avalon is a single mood, beautifully maintained. Bryan Ferry is the patron saint of being slightly elsewhere.
A voice that contains weather. Dreams, Edge of Seventeen, Wild Heart — could listen to her sing the phone book.
Breakfast in America is impossibly well-arranged. Wurlitzer piano, sax, harmonies — every part earning its keep.
Prog supergroup with no business being this melodic. 25-minute songs that genuinely earn the running time.
Townshend's songs and Moon's drumming should not work together and somehow they make most other rock bands look quiet.
Low is the album I keep returning to. Permission to reinvent yourself, set to music. There's no one else like him and there never will be.
Named after a slayer. Equally heroic.
Buffy is a Basset Hound of considerable gravity and even more considerable ears. She approaches life with the seriousness it deserves — which is to say, she approaches most things at a gentle trot and then lies down.
Named after the greatest vampire slayer in television history. The resemblance is mostly in the determination.
Unbreakable
The Shawshank Redemption
Rocky
The Royal Tenenbaums
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Buffy the Vampire Slayer