All Men Are Liars on Music
All Men Are Liars
The overview effect
Sam de Brito Random acts of kindness are under-rated in a narcissistic society.
All Men Are Liars
A moment
Sam de Brito Australians are abusing prescription drugs and alcohol at "alarming rates". Well, derr ...
All Men Are Liars
Friction
Sam de Brito Your daily struggle is not unique, and neither is the substance abuse you use to cope.
All men are liars
The bastardisation of the cafe
Sam de Brito Sure, we brew a mean cup of java, but the most vital component of a vibrant cafe culture is sorely lacking.
All men are liars
The built-in reaction
Sam de Brito Jack White, the former singer and guitarist with The White Stripes, last week had a dig at Lady Gaga, describing her persona as "all artifice. It's all image with no meaning behind it".
Untranslatable
Sam de Brito There's a term in Vietnamese "di nhau" which basically translates as "meeting friends to have a cheap beer at a streetside stall, eat small plates of food and shoot the breeze" but, aside from that...
Bores
Sam de Brito It's troubling to admit, but I'm a bore. A "new-father bore" to be precise - one of those blokes who whips out his mobile to show you the video of him looking for "monsters" with his two-year-old...
Angry young men
Sam de Brito Jeez, isn't it unfashionable to be angry? I don't mean phoning-up-the-radio-to-complain-about-them-boat-people-angry.
Manorexia
Sam de Brito I met a guy the other day who didn't eat. Well, I guess he ate sometimes or else he'd never do poop and as the saying goes - "you don't shit, you die" ...
The i-generation
Sam de Brito There's a famous scene in the 1949 Orson Welles movie The Third Man where his character Harry Lime talks about the gifts of adversity ...
The spectrum
Sam de Brito The more brawny professional footballers and bird-bodied hipster dudes I meet, the more impressed I am by the spectrum of masculinity that exists in this country ...
Shock of the old
Sam de Brito "You mean we actually used to stop foreigners coming to Australia?" my grandkids will ask me in forty years time ...
What life can I save next?
Sam de Brito Saw a great advertisement for a certain brand of gin on the weekend, thanks to a blog by James Altucher, in which he explores why the main character of the ad, a bartender, is so likeable and...
Human nature
Sam de Brito Some years ago, a country publican took ownership of a neglected rural hotel and on his first day in charge, the front bar was once again overrun by a local drug dealer and his crew of hoons ...
Poor and male
Sam de Brito In my relentless quest to be at least 10 months behind popular music trends, I'm only now digging into Kanye West and Jay-Z's 2010 album Watch the Throne ...
Enough money to do something
Sam de Brito There's a nice line in the recent George Clooney film The Descendants where his character Matt King says in voice over: "I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled.
The life and death importance of banal platitudes
Sam de Brito One of the more pernicious aspects of 'culture' is its endless willingness to take life's most profound truths and turn them into dumb songs, TV shows, t-shirts, or slogans to sell soft drinks ...
Outdoor Type?
Sam de Brito One of our great Australian songs, generally not considered an Australian song, is the Lemonheads 'Outdoor Type', sung by the once omnipresent Evan Dando ...
