Chris Boyd
- Age: 253
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Zodiac Year: Rat
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Occupation: Writer, critic, editor
- Location: Melbourne : Victoria : Australia
About Me
"Critics are born, not made... ask my mother."
I'm an ex-programmer, ex-lecturer and ex-diarist. (I missed one day in 25 years, seriously!) I review theatre and ballet for the Herald Sun in Melbourne and I write arts and culture features for the Financial Review, a national daily. I'm a member of the Green Room Awards Association's dance panel, which I have also chaired. In 2009, I am a judge of the Telstra Ballet Dancer of the Year award.
About You
A majority of visitors to this blog are outside of Australia. They hail from Afghanistan and Zimbabwe... and 150 countries between. They're mostly English-speaking, mostly European -- from Ebene Mauritius to El Dorado Kansas and from Reykjavic Iceland to Hicksville in New York -- but not all. There are regular readers in Gaza City (reading a Google translation into Arabic) and São Paulo (in Portuguese), not to mention Paris, Pisa, Pontevedra, Pretoria and Pahokee! (Oh, hell, I just mentioned them!)
You're not reading for kicks, obviously, but I'm hoping you're finding what you're looking for.
Interests
- music
- photography
- politics
- dance
- writing
- food
- sleep
- passion
- window seats
- green tea ice-cream
- instant gratification
- brand new books
- opera
- my seven year-old nephew Alex
Favorite Movies
- The Tempest (Derek Jarman)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
- Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)
- House of Sleeping Beauties 2 (just kidding)
Favorite Music
- Deilaphelia (Mia Dyson)
- Mercy (Nick Cave)
- Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin)
- The Cell (Butterfly Effect)
- Godspeed (Patti Smith)
- Obstacle 1 (Interpol)
- Liquid Diamonds & Taxi Ride (Tori Amos)
- Ghost World (Aimee Mann)
- Judith (A Perfect Circle)
- Cripple & the Starfish (Antony & the Johnsons)
- Unfinished Sympathy (Massive Attack)
- Stand Inside Your Love (Smashing Pumpkins)
- PJ Harvey
- CocoRosie
- Portishead
- Ani di Franco
- The Other Two
- Little Birdy
- Mazzy Star
- Trinity Roots
- Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner)
Favorite Books
- Eclipse (Banville)
- Drylands (Astley)
- The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
- To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
- The Solid Mandala (White)
- Atomised (Houellebecq)
- Intercourse (Dworkin)
- Hegemony or Survival (Chomsky)
- Man Made Language (Spender)
