Pensive Prowler
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Pensive Prowler #10: Honing in on Audrey Horne
Pensive Prowler #10 by Dmetri Kakmi Honing in on Audrey Horne Twin Peaks was a revolution — a revolution that spawned an icon: Audrey Horne. Viewers who experienced Twin Peaks when it first appeared were touched for life. It was like a sickness or a revelation. They never saw the world through the same eyes Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #9: The Writer at Work
Pensive Prowler #9 by Dmetri Kakmi The Writer at Work W. H. Auden relied on amphetamines, alcohol, coffee and tobacco to keep him at his poetry from 7:00 AM until 11:30 AM every day. Patricia Highsmith, who viewed writing as a compulsion without which life is a misery, applied herself to the novel from three Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #8: Alienating the Alien
Pensive Prowler #8 by Dmetri Kakmi Alienating the Alien Let’s not mistake this for a review of Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant. It’s more of a free-wheeling jazz improvisation on what went through my benumbed brain as I watched the vaudevillian pantomime. It’s also full of spoilers. So I recommend you read it and save your Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #7: This House is Haunted
Pensive Prowler #7 by Dmetri Kakmi This House is Haunted I have lived in this house for twenty-three years. It’s the longest I’ve lived anywhere. After all this time, the very fibre of my being is imprinted in the walls. I can walk around in the dark and know exactly where I am, without bumping Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #6: At Flinders Street Station I Sat Down and Wept
Pensive Prowler #6 by Dmetri Kakmi At Flinders Street Station I Sat Down and Wept Since you asked nicely I will tell you what’s been happening in my life lately. It will interest you if you’re a writer. If you’re not a member of the very sozzled you might like to block your ears until Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #5: Clothes Make the Man
Pensive Prowler #5 by Dmetri Kakmi Clothes Make the Man Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons fame recently showed her fall/winter collection in Paris. As expected, breathless accolades and stunned summations followed. Even the Met is finally acknowledging the Japanese fashion doyen’s avant-garde creations by putting on a retrospective of her ground-breaking designs; and I, of Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #4: How Not to Write a Short Story
Pensive Prowler #4 by DMETRI KAKMI How Not to Write a Short Story The intention was to write a short story, inspired by a friend’s painting. Five thousand words, at most. By the time I finished, I had more than 14,000 words, which hardly constitutes a short story. It was a novella, one that dug Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #3: Shut Up and Write!
Pensive Prowler #3 by Dmetri Kakmi Shut Up and Write! I’m sick of the professional writing industry and, by extension, the role a writer is expected to play in society. On the one hand professional writing courses churn out automata without individual style, and on the other hand celebrated names are trotted out to utter Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #2: Death Takes a Holiday
Pensive Prowler #2 by Dmetri Kakmi Death Takes a Holiday Take death for instance. It’s pretty final. Six feet under or a crematorium. Food for worms or grey ash, scattered to the winds. There’s no coming back from that. Though some threaten to return and eat brains, none have actually kept their promise. We’re still Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #1: Departing from Arrival
Pensive Prowler #1 by Dmetri Kakmi Departing from Arrival After watching Arrival, Dennis Villeneuve’s new sci-fi outing, my friend Cam and I wandered to an upscale pizza joint in Melbourne to propitiate the mother of tears with melted cheese and red wine. We were deeply affected by the film. Yet something about the narrative niggled Continue reading
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