From the DJ Booth: Going Down Swinging 37 Launch Party
September 23, 2016
DJ and poet Sean M. Whelan looks back at the launch party that was.
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DJ and poet Sean M. Whelan looks back at the launch party that was.
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Alex Tighe attempts to prophesise the exact date when Australia will become a republic.
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Marta Skrabacz examines Roald Dahl’s ideas of beauty and morality on his 100th birthday.
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Mob mentality and team culture in Pokémon Go is growing, writes Rafael S. W.
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Harry Baker looks at the film behind our fascination with the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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Kavita Bedford on Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras night in Sydney.
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Something understandable but regrettable happens when someone close to us tries to die – we try to save them.
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Julian R. Murphy tries to ground himself in Paris through a Marina Abramović participatory artwork.
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Orienteering, bush bashing and beer: Nick Fogarty discovers the social running club.
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I have this friend. He’s a little bit chubby and he sweats a lot and the other thing about him is that he’s right into porn.
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British India guitarist Nic Wilson recalls his first time onstage.
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I reckon that people who write are really the crucible, or the cradle of all culture, because most things come out of writing.
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When we arrived at the Cavy Council of Victoria, everyone was already set up and grooming their guinea pigs.
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Roz Bellamy on the relationship between her hair, sexuality and sense of self.
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My wife is into the forty-first week of her pregnancy. We’ve tried everything to bring on labour: acupuncture, raspberry leaf tea, sex, a ridiculously hot vindaloo. Nothing yet.
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Tinder isn’t about love. That’s the first rule of Tinder. But it’s the first rule of love as well.
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We found this explosion of an interview – A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O – in the sixth issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Spring 1984.
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Nova Weetman returns to scenes from her childhood – and instantly regrets it.
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Anastasia Kanjere on growing up with AFL legend Daisy Pearce.
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Paul Mitchell spends a night in the emergency waiting room, waiting.
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The dramatic finale to poet Omar J. Sakr’s ambitious drive across Australia.
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Poet Omar J. Sakr attempts to drive across Australia – and back again – in just nine days.
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As the first season of ABC’s Glitch wraps up, Matilda Dixon-Smith hopes there is room for more in Australian television.
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You do not want to remember these words and say them at work. They are the words of bad robot business.
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Poet Omar J. Sakr attempts to drive across Australia – and back again – in just nine days.
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The Depressionist movement emerged at the turn of the century with a group of Melbourne-based artists whose mild disappointment with almost everything could no longer go unexpressed.
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Fiona Broom reads Gibran’s masterpiece for the first time, at the right time, and considers its effect.
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Lara S. Williams on the psychological traits shared by psychopaths and writers.
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Fiona Broom on growing up – and why your teenage self didn’t have it as wrong as you think.
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