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| Writing my new book with small-big thoughts (out today!) | 29 Aug 2024 | 00:09:06 | |
"YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK... " is probably my favourite book. You can find it in the link below. It's sorta fitting this is me 100th episode. The book is made from bits and pieces from all my poems across all my books. Just the juiciest most combustible lines. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Stuff learned from my first spoken word performance | 22 Aug 2024 | 00:18:14 | |
Well, that was a leap off a cliff. It went better than I expected, Lots of learning from it. Parts when really well, some not so well. But overall I suprised myself. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| Courageous artists: be the first to say the thing | 20 Jun 2024 | 00:12:15 | |
I crap on about the courage to be the first to say what everyone's thinking. Good ideas. And a brief chat with Matt Hardy who's producing me first show. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them) | 13 Jun 2024 | 00:08:52 | |
I took the top ten downloaded episodes, went through the transcripts and found my fave bits from each and here I am reading them out. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world | 06 Jun 2024 | 00:15:24 | |
This is something I recorded a year back that started all my videos. I've added a few more ideas/minutes to it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Zero expecations allow creativity to happen | 30 May 2024 | 00:10:39 | |
I give my writing and painting a long leash, and often no leash at all. I have to trust it will do its thing. It's all (sometimes frustratingly) counterintuitive My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible | 23 May 2024 | 00:09:28 | |
A few thoughts on smuggling myself through the years of the cult of sensible. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one | 16 May 2024 | 00:10:15 | |
It's thrilling when I post what I think is a shit idea and it resonates with an audience. Especially when all my good ideas don't resonate, and a single bad one does. It reminds me I don't own my creativity My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| The sum of our artistic influences... and our life | 09 May 2024 | 00:10:06 | |
I'm the sum of my influences and nearly 50 years of just existing. I've been feeling recently I'm stepping into a void left my some of my favourite artists and writers. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy | 02 May 2024 | 00:10:02 | |
Only 1% of my stuff works and 99% of it is rubbish. It can effect me emotionally. I can get really grumpy when the creativity isn't going my way. But it's part of it. It's always been part of it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| We love to make meaning out of everything | 25 Apr 2024 | 00:07:24 | |
I posted something on social media recently about a little secret game I play with myself that seemed to resonate - that makes me believe we're constantly starving for meaning our lives. I might be wrong. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail | 18 Apr 2024 | 00:11:34 | |
I've writen and recorded a lot of cynical videos over the past 6 months. Perhaps it's time to mix it up (soonish).. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| In praise of reading not to learn | 15 Aug 2024 | 00:11:59 | |
I once read only to learn. Everything else felt like a waste of time. But learning also brings me anxiety. I love reading genre crime fiction, it lowers my anxiety, it takes me away from myself, the world. My two current crime fiction/psychological thriller writers: Michael Connelly Frieda Mcfadden And Thomas Harris - Red Dragon (part of the Hannibal Lecter anthology is absolutely exquisite) My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art) | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:08:19 | |
I struggled for years trying to find the balance going to work and pretending to be sensible then getting home to get insane to make interesting things. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Your old ideas that never found an audience are the most important | 04 Apr 2024 | 00:12:32 | |
It's something I've been rambling about recently, but it took 30 years to find an audience and none of the stuff I made over this time without an audience has gone to waste. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Unexplained happiness | 28 Mar 2024 | 00:08:15 | |
Sometimes I'll be out somewhere, and for no reason at all, unexplained and unexpected happiness moves through me. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that | 21 Mar 2024 | 00:10:56 | |
This title is after a quote from True Detective season one by Nic Pizzolatto. YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf4P1uXR6Q This ep I crap on about art being a weird way of connecting, turning strangeness into magic. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| The duty to make art in a shit culture | 14 Mar 2024 | 00:08:33 | |
Here I crap on about traditional gatekeepers and our inner gatekeeper. And Trojan horsing/subversive social commentary through different avenues. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Memes and culture | 07 Mar 2024 | 00:10:09 | |
Just a little thought on memes and how they shape thinking. I am no academic or sociological expert. Entertainment purposes only 😂 My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Thinking out loud has changed the way I write | 01 Mar 2024 | 00:10:18 | |
Thinking aloud helped massively this last year, mainly thanks to making this podcast! I never thought I'd enjoy it. I never know what I'm thinking untiil it tumbles outta my mouth, threads back through my ears and then written with the hand. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:11:51 | |
I have to constantly trick my brain back into beginner mode. As soon as I think I'm an 'expert' on a particular way of writing, my writing is dead on the page. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| A little about writing me new book, WORKING NINE LIVES | 15 Feb 2024 | 00:11:05 | |
This week I read a few poems from my book and talk about a quote from Cormac McCarthy that was in the back of my mind while I wrote it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Finishing a book project and starting the next | 08 Feb 2024 | 00:10:31 | |
This week feels like a bit of a diary entry (recently they sorta have been) but here I waffle-reflect on finishing a book and searching and planting the seeds for a new idea to begin. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Thoughts on putting together my live show | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:09:14 | |
Less than a week away to my live sho in Melbourne (August 15th) - tickets below. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Following your dreams | 01 Feb 2024 | 00:10:26 | |
Forks in the road towards a weird career in the arts. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Making art for no audience | 26 Jan 2024 | 00:12:28 | |
A little blah di da reflection on writing without an audience for 30 years. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Selling out to myself | 18 Jan 2024 | 00:09:56 | |
Sometimes I'll write stuff purely on 'cleverness' and it will lack something. It feels like I've sold out to myself. But sometimes I have to write these hollow pieces to break through to the real stuff. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Creative breakthroughs by not giving a shit | 11 Jan 2024 | 00:10:20 | |
Talking about David Chase from the Sopranos, David Lynch, and not giving a shit as aid to creative breakthroughs. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Documenting the writing process for one of me videos | 04 Jan 2024 | 00:13:55 | |
I thought I'd document the writing process of one of my videos I shared recently on TikTok and Instagram "Envy disguised as moral highground". Also there's a little bit I learned on writer's rooms (from the Sopranos showrunner, David Chase) at the end. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Walking to the supermarket in the no mans land between Christmas and New Years | 28 Dec 2023 | 00:08:37 | |
Walking to the supermarket (excuse the clicking of the leaves I'm walking on) and some thoughts on the time of the year between Christmas and New Years. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Physical frailty and creating beyond oneself | 21 Dec 2023 | 00:08:56 | |
I used to visit a cafe next to a nursing home. It was incredible. Anxiety reducing. And I've noticed how some of my favourite artists write beyond themselves when physically frail and elderly. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Every creative breakthrough I've had across 40 years | 14 Dec 2023 | 00:12:54 | |
All the creative breakthroughs I've had over 40 years and significant moments that have inspired me. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| One idea leads to the next | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:08:36 | |
Each book I've written seems to have had an abberant piece in it - like a doorway to the next book. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Sticking up poems around the streets and talking to myself | 30 Nov 2023 | 00:13:10 | |
I walked Melbourne Streets sticking up poems over two days while talking to myself: Gertrude St, Swan St, Greville St, Chapel St, Smith St Brunswick St, Bridge Road, VCA Southbank. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Making something out of nothing | 01 Aug 2024 | 00:09:33 | |
Gotta consciously wrongfoot myself to make interesting things. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Shit podcast episode where I was out of ideas | 23 Nov 2023 | 00:09:54 | |
Shit podcast episode. Huge creative block. And little on letting the unconscious do the heavy lifting in creativity. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Getting out of the way of yourself in creativity | 16 Nov 2023 | 00:08:07 | |
A sort of sequel episode to epsiode 57. Getting out of the way of myself by documenting my mum then work. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Finding momentum to keep creating | 09 Nov 2023 | 00:10:07 | |
Trying to find momentum to create when (naturally) 95% of creativity is rubbish. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Find out who you are and do it on purpose | 02 Nov 2023 | 00:11:15 | |
Daydreaming in my teens. Comedy in my 20s. Poetry in my 30s. Then combing it all in my 40s.New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Writing my way out of straightjackets and 2 other random ideas I had this week | 26 Oct 2023 | 00:08:34 | |
3 random ideas I had this week that didn't belong anywhere so here they have found themselves!
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| Finding your voice in creativity with your actual voice | 19 Oct 2023 | 00:09:02 | |
I talk about finding my voice by speaking it aloud. And maintaining enthusiasm for making ideas even though 95% of them are crap.New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| Catching the emotional truth of what I'm writing about | 12 Oct 2023 | 00:10:09 | |
I blab on about my new writing process to record one minute video poems. and the counter intuitive thing to catch the emotional truth of what I'm writing about.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| Starsigns and creativity - skip this if starsigns ain't your thing! | 05 Oct 2023 | 00:10:24 | |
I ramble on about star signs. Being a scorpio sun/aries moon/libra ascendent.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| Nows the time to create in a world distracted by politics | 28 Sep 2023 | 00:11:18 | |
I ramble on about creating in a time of crazy distraction and the difference between Instagram and TikTok audiences.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| Creative breakthroughs | 21 Sep 2023 | 00:09:06 | |
I've found a new way to write poems and it feels new and exciting again.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| Productivity and creativity hate each other | 25 Jul 2024 | 00:10:01 | |
Running a 'poetry business' is weird and business me and creative me are often at odds with each other. Batching has taken these two version of me out of the same room and given me a little more breathing space. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| Interview with Tommy Attwood, writer/illustrator | 14 Sep 2023 | 00:33:41 | |
I interview Tommy Attwood who is a writer and illustrator from the US with a delisciously bent mind. Tommy's Instagram: @spiritualcardboard New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| How I've been able to pay the rent writing poetry | 07 Sep 2023 | 00:15:00 | |
It's been a 30 year process. I'm not as outrageously talented as other social media poets out there. But just plodded along.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| Honouring my 8 year old self's decisions to make books | 31 Aug 2023 | 00:07:33 | |
Honouring my 8 year old self's decision to make booksNew poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| Have faith in shit ideas: from 200 views of a poem, to half a million (with the same poem) | 24 Aug 2023 | 00:09:10 | |
I mucked around with TikTok for 4 years before I had a breakthrough. One idea inititally only had 200 views. I reposted it a few years later with now over 500000 views. Here's what happened, what I did. New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||