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Spoon, Baby (A Space for Erratic Sundries)
Male
24 years old
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Last Login: 12/4/2009
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| | Music | YOU AND I with legs entwined listening to Otis Redding at home during Christmas.
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http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=978/ [a collaboration of published feature journalistic article (micro-creative non fiction / Review of band Buskamove) with Paul Goward] | | Movies | THE SHAWSHANK Redemption; The Usual Suspects; The Man Who Wasn't There; American Beauty; Shichinin no samurai; Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Breakfast At Tiffany's; Mystic River; Fight Club; Lost In Translation; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Adaptation; American History X; To Kill A Mockingbird; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Reservoir Dogs; Kill Bill (Vol. 1 + Vol. 2); Fahrenheit 9/11; City of God; Pulp Fiction; Memento; This Is Spinal Tap; Monty Python's The Life of Brian; Princess Mononoke; Fargo; Magnolia; Lantana; Sideways; Bandwagon (1997); The Station Agent; The Motorcycle Diaries; Before Sunrise + Before Sunset; Garden State; Nine Queens; Donnie Darko (: The Director's Cut); Rushmore; A Clockwork Orange; Brokeback Mountain; Ed Wood; Angels In America (mini-series); Pan's Labyrinth (2006); Juno; There Will Be Blood; WALL-E; No Country for Old Men; Milk; Crimson Gold; American Splendor; Goodfellas; Slumdog Millionaire; Dead Poets Society; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior; Jarhead; High Fidelity; The Life Aquatic, With Steve Zissou; Ghost World; Elephant; Boogie Nights; Amelie; Million Dollar Baby; The Aviator; Closer; The Squid and The Whale; 10 Canoes (2006); Children of Men (2006); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; I Heart Huckabee's; Sin City; The Royal Tenenbaums; Monty Python's The Holy Grail; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Lars and the Real Girl; The Wrestler; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007); In Bruges; Moon; Once (2006); Chopper; About Schmidt; Junebug; The Darjeeling Limited; The Notebook; Good Bye, Lenin!; Pieces of April; Yojimbo; Snatch; La Haine; Hana-Bi; The Departed (2006); Happy-Go-Lucky; Requiem For A Dream; Shopgirl; Hot Fuzz (2007); Gods and Monsters; The Savages; Chicago; Up; Mimi wo Sumaseba; Chocolat; A Serious Man; Where The Wild Things Are; Barton Fink; La Science des rêves (2006); O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Coraline; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Shakespeare In Love; Good Night, and Good Luck.; No Man's Land; The Big Lebowski; Crash; Confessions of A Dangerous Mind; The New World (2005); Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001); Tulpan; Tarnation (2004); Inglourious Basterds; Everything Is Illuminated (2005); Amores Perros; Ray; Walk The Line; Big Fish; The Green Mile; Almost Famous; The Fisher King; Lucky Miles (2007); Okuribito (2008); Tonari no Totoro; Les triplettes de Belleville; Un long dimanche de fiançailles; Hors de prix (2006); Great Expectations (1998); Paris je t'aime (2006); Changing Lanes; Punch-Drunk Love; A River Runs Through It; Billy Elliott; Half Nelson; Baadasssss!: Or, How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass; Brick; Iron Man (2008); Romulus, My Father (2007); La Vie En Rose; The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; Frida; Waking Life; Monsoon Wedding; Rachel Getting Married; Bottle Rocket; Me and You and Everyone We Know; The Secretary; Dead Man; Napoleon Dynamite; Batman Begins; The Rage In Placid Lake; Thank You For Smoking (2005); Millions; Little Fish; Little Miss Sunshine (2006); Into the Wild; My Own Private Idaho; Lola Rennt (1998); The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); Broken Flowers; Bulworth; Pride & Prejudice (2005); Thumbsucker; Factotum; Elizabethtown; Bad Santa; Shaun of the Dead; Reign Over Me (2007); Tropic Thunder; 3:10 to Yuma (2007); Stardust (2007); Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Choke (2008); Charlie Wilson's War; Ponyo; Son of Rambow; Burn After Reading; Howl's Moving Castle (2005); V for Vendetta (2005); (500) Days of Summer; Raising Victor Vargas; Whale Rider; JCVD; Le Fils de l'épicier (2007); A Night With Sabrina Love; Waitress (2007); Riding In Cars With Boys; The Prestige (2006); Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story; A Scanner Darkly (2006); Art School Confidential (2006); The Illusionist (2006); Ryan (2004); Lost In La Mancha (2002); Terry Pratchett's Hogwatch (2006) (mini-series); Cunnamulla (2000); Lawrence of Arabia; The Untouchables; Rear Window; Trois Couleurs: Bleu; Trzy kolory: Bialy; Trois Couleurs: Rouge; Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope; Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi; Chariots of Fire; E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; Good Will Hunting; Miller's Crossing; Gosford Park; Field of Dreams; Seven Years in Tibet; Tokyo Story; Raise the Red Lantern; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; The Adventures of Milo and Otis; The Princess Bride; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Scent of a Woman; Jerry McGuire; Groundhog Day; Rain Man; Forrest Gump; In the Heart; Hook; The Purple Rose of Cairo; Labyrinth; Braveheart; Edward Scissorhands; Platoon; The Thin Red Line; Donnie Brasko; Quiz Show; A Few Good Men; Ghostbusters; Big; The Lion King; The Prince of Egypt; Ratatouille (2007); The Incredibles; Cars (2006); Finding Nemo; James and the Giant Peach; Aladdin; Over the Hedge (2006); Ghostbusters II; For Y'ur Height Only (1979); The Impossible Kid of Kung-Fu (1981); Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness; Koala Kacho (2005); Snakes on a Plane (2006)... shit, I could go on. | | Television | I DON'T watch television. Of the television that I don't watch, sitting in the stuttering pornographic-strobe debauch at 2 am with prawn chips congealing to my mouth like misery to a baleen whale in mourning, these are the programs I wouldn't even scant consider taping compulsively to casette & displaying with questionable and demented pride of place all 'round the interior of my lavatory. 'Hem. Ah!:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Sopranos
Good News Week
The Office (original)
Fawlty Towers
Ed
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Spaced
30 Rock
Red Dwarf
Arrested Development
The Secret Life of Us
The Wonder Years
Malcom in the Middle
Scrubs
We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
Summer Hights High
| | Books | ¶ As of August 2007, my own 2007 Aurealis Award-nominated book, the full-colour illustrated graphic novelette, A Solution to Economic Depression in Little Tokyo, 1953 (c), is currently available within Brisbane and Melbourne from The Outpost Store; Kill The Music Store; Daily Planet Comics & Games; GoMA Gallery Gift-Store & The State Library of Queensland Bookshop; Pulp Fiction Books; The Book Nook & Little Bookshop Around the Corner; Rocking Horse Records; Polyester Books; Sticky Institute; Minotaur Entertainment; and Collected Works Bookshop, who have all cumulatively engaged as our friendly local stockists.
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HARK!: As is only gregariously adequate & contextually fitting, then, like my most cherished vermouth-felt velvet gloves, subtextually encrypted within the following list is a buried linguistic cipher. It almost certainly involves transliteration via a lexicon of dated scatalogical Polish colloquialisms, circa 1604. If such pithy, sleeward knowledge or the requisite effort evades you, or you are of unfortunate geneology, you will be most empowered to learn that the etymological missive within the said list, reads, with modernist English versatility: "He is interesting, but not very hygienic." How vital! And now, the books:
A nifty fifty:
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Ginger Man – J.P. Donleavy
Vernon God Little – D.B.C. Pierre
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
You Shall Know Our Velocity! – Dave Eggers
The People of Paper - Salvador Plascencia
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit: Or There, And Back Again - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Complete Maus – Art Spiegelman
1984 - George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Last Chance To See... - Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine
Look To Windward - Iain M. Banks
Happiness (TM) - Will Ferguson
The Bear Went Over the Mountain - William Kotzwinkle
Hell’s Angels – Hunter S. Thompson
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitch-Hiking the Galaxy One Last Time - Douglas Adams, et al.
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
The War With the Newts - Karel Capek
Dream Brother: The Lives of Tim and Jeff Buckley - David Browne
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Flatland – Edwin A. Abbott
Timeline - Michael Crichton
Roman Blood - Steven Saylor
Something Happened – Joseph Heller
V. – Thomas Pynchon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Gould's Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan
| | Heroes | A TIME-TRAVELLING triceratops named Desdemona. |
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Australia, The Onion, Classic Literature, God. Cult. Palahniuk., unconventional writers society, Just For Fun Writing, Brisvegas, AVANT-GARDIST
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Fear and Loathing In Brisvegas, QLD | | Body type: | 5' 11" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Writer. | Customer Service Officer. | Bookseller. | | Income: | Less than $30,000 |
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Diamond's Schools
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Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia
Graduated: 2008
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Bachelor of Arts (Professional and Creative Writing), with first-class Honours
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2008 to 2008 |
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Creative Industries (Creative Writing), with Distinction
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2003 to 2005 |
St Laurence's College
SOUTH BRISBANE, QLD
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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FREE STUFF: Listen now to a free-to-share mp3 spoken-word recording of my micro-fiction, "Hangin' With Barack Obama", as published in The Diamond & the Thief (Black Rider Press)!
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I'm: Kirk Marshall, a Brisbane-born(e) writer, freelance illustrator, independent film-maker, and mobilized environmentalist now relocated to Melbourne via Kanagawa-ken. I hold a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Creative Writing), with Distinction from the Queensland University of Technology, and a first-class Honours degree in Professional Writing from Deakin University. The style of my writing has been characterised by Melbourne's The Age as "creating its own (arch and fruity) humour." As of 2009, I'm working towards completing Reinventing Coffee, my novel manuscript. Carnivalesque: And, Other Stories, my debut short story collection will be published by Black Rider Press in 2010.
I'm also the editor of the forthcoming, international, annual English-language / Japanese bi-lingual literary journal,
Red Leaves / 紅葉; a panelist for the 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival; a panelist for the 2009 National Young Writers' Festival; a participating mentor through the 2009 Young Younger Writers Mentorship Program (YYWMP); and a non-fiction columnist for ISM: online, an international think-tank for creative youth.
I've also been a journalist intern for Right Angle Communications (2008), a proofreader for Voiceworks literary magazine, have sat on the editorial judging committee for The Lifted Brow's Fake Bookshelf Competition, and am responsible for renaming the Scrabble event at the Emerging Writers' Festival to "Wordstock". I've written for Laudes Deo magazine; QUT's underground Riff-Raff 'zine; Amazon.co.uk's reviews; JJJ Radio Station's online music reviews; The Zoetrope Virtual Studio; 2002 St. Laurences College Annual publication; The University of Melbourne's Politics and Power 2002 Essay-Writing Forum; Deakin University's DeScribe Writing Group open mic. performances; Sketch: Literary & Design Journal's open mic. performances; The Death Mook's reading salon; Going Down Swinging #28 launch performances; Brisbane band Denvar's Work.Sleep.Die. EP promotion feature article; Brisbane band The Clubs' prospective Out With the Truth EP album-leaf content; Utopia; Urban Verve; Frankie; Semper Floreat; Roustabout; Edit Red; Undergrowth; Word Riot (February, 2008);
Word Riot (July, 2008); The Flasher; The Slow Review; Other Terrain: an electronic journal of the textual; Cottonmouth (May, 2008); Cottonmouth (July, 2008); Cottonmouth (September, 2008); Cottonmouth (May, 2009); Verandah #23; ThreeThousand; Sketch: Literary & Design Journal (November, 2008); Sketch: Literary & Design Journal (November, 2009); Remix My Lit; Going Down Swinging #27; Going Down Swinging #28; BLOCK #7 (ANU Writers Literary Journal); Voiceworks; The Universe of Logical Unsanity quarterly; Otoliths; LiteraryMinded; Regal 8 // Shelf 8; The Diamond & the Thief; WritingQueensland Magazine; Seven Letter Words; 3:AM Magazine; dotdotdash magazine; Mascara Literary Review; ISM: online; the short-story anthologies before the young get eaten, The Death Mook (published by Vignette Press), One Trick Pony, Through the Clock's Workings (published by Sydney University Press), The Reader for the 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival, and the Cottonmouth Anthology; and The Wilderness Society's 2006 SEQ Wild Rivers legislation protest spoken-word performances. I'm also coauthor of my indie film's illustrated, self-published 2003 chapbook One Foot in Rock History, One Foot in the Dinghy; artist behind the 2007 biweekly-serialised, online noir-cum-Dada comic, A Time for Cigarettes and Vigilance: A Furphy Benjamin Dozer Mystery; and author of the 2007 Aurealis Award-nominated full-colour illustrated graphic novelette, A Solution to Economic Depression in Little Tokyo, 1953 (A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing).
I'm also the writer-director of a 2005 independent feature film (cf.: About 8; 2 hour mockumentary), promoted by Prodany Entertainment.
Presently, I'm employed as both a part-time customer service officer for Oxfam (Australia), and as a part-time bookstore retail assistant for MONSU The Campus Bookstore, and I maintain the up-to-date online weblog, fun-with-kites.
Now, if we were to go in-depth...
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Who I'd like to meet:
Archived Writings:
http://kirkacmarshall.tripod.com/
http://student.ci.qut.edu.au/~n4710975/identity/portal.htm
http://about_8.tripod.com [a collaboration with Gerard Lawrence & Scott Petrie; official website subtitled And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Bleeding Ear-Drums...]
http://about8pics.tripod.com [a collaboration with Gerard Lawrence]
http://fun-with-kites.livejournal.com
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691738572
http://www.noise.net/kirkmarshall
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Leo_Poor_Poor_Leo
http://pointless-stories.tripod.com/ [a collaboration with Cursed To Eat Adorable Kittens]
http://pyroasis.livejournal.com/
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