Narrelle M Harris: writer | editor | songwriter | crafter
Words are like oxygen
I’m a big fan of heist shows. The Sting, Catch Me If You Can, the sanctioned heists of Mission Impossible, the doing-it-for-the-little-guy heists of Leverage, the for-the-hell-of-it larceny of Hustle. Even the cons in the gods-battling-to-rule-the-world story of American Gods. I don’t imagine I’d be as enamoured of a real life attempt on my worldly goods, though I flatter myself […]
» Read moreGary: So. That’s… good television, is it? Lissa: Many consider it so. Gary: But it’s just all weird dresses and weirder hats, and everyone finding fancy ways of being obnoxious or stupid. Lissa: Truly, is that all you garnered from it? Gary: Why are you talking funny? Lissa: There is nothing peculiar in my… oh god. Bugger. Sorry. I reread […]
» Read moreTomorrow, In a Year is an opera based on the work and life of Charles Darwin. It is performed by Danish art collective, Hotel Pro Forma, with music by Swedish electronic band, The Knife. It contains opera, dance, avant garde music, projections, smoke effects, laser light effects, Darwin’s text ‘written’ in light on a screen, and very unconventional lyrics taken […]
» Read moreMany people met Robert Shearman at Aussiecon 4 in September, and we bandied about words like ‘funny’ and ‘adorable’ and ‘wicked’. Well, I bandied them at any rate. And Rob Shearman is all those things. He is also sharp, smart and extraordinarily gifted. I picked up Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical because I like Rob Shearman, I liked […]
» Read moreI remember discovering the stories of Sherlock Holmes. After years of being familiar with the character through films, pastiches and pop culture references, I sat down to watch the Jeremy Brett TV series in the 1990s. It was so unlike the character as portrayed elsewhere that I was intrigued. This Holmes was not kindly and avuncular, but sharp and difficult. […]
» Read moreLissa: Vladimir Tod reminds me of you! Gary: A friendless, nerdy kid who’s beaten up by bullies and is clueless with girls? Lissa: No! Dope. I mean a kid trying to find out the rules of vampirism who watches a lot of vampire films and doesn’t eat people. Gary: Oh. Lissa: And you’re not friendless. Gary: I have one friend. […]
» Read moreHaving experienced first-hand the tribulations of writing the second book in a series, I was a little nervous awaiting the sequel to Peter M Ball’s Horn. I sang Horn‘s praises in my old blog, for the way it smashed together two genres – faeries and hard boiled detective fiction – and made something new out of them. It’s a damned […]
» Read moreLissa: I hate cliffhanger endings. Gary: I have the next one if you want it. Lissa: God yes, please! Gary: So you liked it? Lissa: It was fun, and a nice change to the whole teen girl in love with a creepy older vampire guy thing. Gary: Isn’t it still creepy when it’s a teenage boy in love with an […]
» Read moreWhen Tim and I travel, we like to catch a little theatre if we can. This can be a little tricky when visiting a non-English-speaking country. Luckily, we both love Shakespeare and are very familiar with a lot of the Bard’s work. This means that if a local production of a play we’re familiar with is on, we’ll try to […]
» Read moreThis post is the result of seeing this very sign in front of a beautician’s in the city. I posted about it elsewhere, and Sally said I should GaryView the moment. So I did. Gary: I saw something on a sign the other day that I didn’t understand. Lissa: What was it? Gary: It said “Get vajazzled for $17”. Lissa: […]
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