YEAHS & NAHS
ft. Refused Classification, Lamestream, A.T. Pratt, Ricky Gervais, Walter Matthau naked, and more!
Drongoloids!
How goes it? Welcome back to YEAHS & NAHS, YNR’s (usually) weekly recap and recommendations column for paying subscribers and those who read the screencaps my insta stories.
I’ve been getting bollocked by deadlines and ‘other’ projects atm, as well as life events that are best described as Andrei-Rublev-esque (my new manager tried to pour molten gold into my eye holes). I’m hoping to get this column back on track as a Monday morning regular, but until certain goings-on in my life are wrapped up (fingers crossed for early June), that may not be possible. Such is The Curse of the Dolt, which weighs heavy on my hunched back.
Still! Lot going on in my world and yours, so let’s hop to it, yeah? Yeah, I reckon…
THE ROUND-UP!
what ya been up to, li’l fella? (you to me, in my wonderful mind)
Pre-Order NOCK LOOSE (pretty please)
Your regular reminder that my debut novel, NOCK LOOSE, will be available in good (and bad?) bookstores everywhere, July 1.
Now, I gotta sell at least 2000 copies of this bad boy or ‘they’ (hint: name rhymes with Bim Findom) are going to break my legs. All you need to do is pick up your rotary phone, find the number of your local bookstore (preferably an indie) in the Yellow Pages, and say: “Ahoy-hoy bookkeep! I’d like to pre-order a copy — nay, 100 copies! — of Patrick Marlborough’s dazzling debut novel…NOCK LOOSE! please and thank you, squire.”
If you don’t do it exactly like that — word for word — it will not work. It really is that easy. You can also wishlist the sucker by clicking the beautiful cover below:
The Liberal Party goes BOOM!
Haha, that pack of snivelling swines self-combusted: you absolutely love to see these losers losing, don’t you? Yes, the cretinous little ne’er-do-wells have fallen on their cheese knives, and it looks like they won’t be getting up any time soon.
I chart it up to intergenerational inbreeding, as argued in last week’s YNR, here:
RIP, bozos!
The Battler is lookin’ damn fine…
If ya don’t know by now,
and I host a weekly Oz politics and culture hatecast called . It’s damn good, and you should listen, like, subscribe, review, and send us fan mail — we are terribly needy. We finally set up an insta, so slide into our DMs, especially if your name is Christopher Pyne!Last week, we officially got our art — hewn by none other than genius Yank (we didn’t trust our fellow countrymen to do it right) Andy ‘A.T.' Pratt (more on him later). Fwoaaarrrrrrrr! Cast your peepers over this, but:
We also had a stellar chat with Osman Faruqi about his new podcast, Lamestream, and the woeful state of Australian media et al., as well as what’s going on with The Greens. Tim and I also picked over the carcass of Peter Dutton and co. and discussed the finer points of a rather brutal, typically cringe, election night. Give it a listen!
On Laboration Day in WA
Crikey had me write about the election in WA, a state I unfortunately live in. You can check it out here or by clickin’ da pic!
Junk Filter Pod wakes me up for Wake in Fright
Canadian film critic, and host of the brilliant film podcast, Junk Filter Pod, Jesse Hawken, had me on to discuss the restoration of one of my favourite films of all time: Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright.
Give it a listen here:
I was also on Junk Filter a few of years back, discussing what is probably my all time go-to Aussie nightmares, Blue Murder. If you’re a Roger The Dodger fan, listen to that appearance here:
Kill Your Darlings asks Aussie writers about newsletters…including me!
Kill Your Darlings published a neat piece where Aussie writers discuss why and how they got into newsletters. And yeah, they even interviewed this dolt! Click the pic to give it a squizz. You should really subscribe to KYD btw, they do vital work in a rapidly shrinking space.
YEAHS & NAHS…
ft. Refused Classification, Lamestream, A.T. Pratt, naked Walter Matthau and more!
Ok, that’s everything I’ve been up to, besides stimming etc.
Anyway! Before we dive into this weeks YEAHS & NAHS, here’s a guide for new subscribers/readers as to how they (currently) work:
Nah, Yeah = stuff I like 👍 and reckon you’ll like 👍
Yeah, Nah = stuff I don’t like 👎 that sucks big time 👎
Ya get me, cob?
Paying Drongoloids ONLY beyond this point. But boy is it so easy to become one for a measly 5 buckaroos a month. And boy oh boy do I need that money rn! The more paid subs we get, the more in depth I can get with YEAHS & NAHS, and the wilder YNR can get in general. I’d like to be covering more local (as in Aus) artists and doers of all stripes. I’d love enough money to walk to Gerald Murnane’s house and show him an episode of Cowboy Bebop. I reckon he’d love it, if he survives the opening.
NAH, YEAH…
Zach Ruane & Alexei Toliopoulos’s Refused Classification
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