Wwwwwwwwwwwelcome very dear friends to these sanctified pages of the
travenworld reporter, the neo-e-zino where fact and
fiction are simply interchangeable semantic
structures, where truth is just a four letter word, go
on, count the letters up, you'll see. Trust and faith, that's what we're
asking for! Oh, and money, not much, just a little bit from
everyone. We're just trying to keep up the standard set by politicians and media moguls and historians and newspaper columnists, honest!
Bounded as we are by dualistic constraints, as they say
in the great works, our hands are tied, our feet are made of clay, our lips are sealed
our eyes are on the road, the devil
has found work for these idle hands and our noses are to the grindstones. Ouch! We can can merely point to
the truth, yet like the rainbow and its pot of gold, when we get to where we thought it was, it's
moved on. Oh good gracious, this editorial is degenerating
into a tv soap. Read on, and the entrance price is your
mind, talk is cheap, it's the life that is dirty, like the mysterious elephant ride, it's free to
get on, but costs to get off, it's the
exit price that's the killer... which means the
travenworld reporter will probably go broke relying
on that kind of income...that's the plot so far...now read on... |
BOOK
Australian writer and filmmaker colin
talbot has written a set of new novels and we offer extracts to the first
of the series, titled accept nothing, as well as the second, which is titled a country jesus and we have thrown in the third, small town hamlet purely for good luck.
the whole series is titled story's crossing.
colin's earlier novel, the zen detective has a page devoted to it in the fabulously genteel
arts pages of the travenworld
reporter 'the zen detective' is a detective story kind of, with a detective
who is not a detective and a murder that is not a murder but in a book that is a book.
Colin's slim biography is listed in these pages, & his modest booklist also. |
SPORT
Everybody has an opinion which is why sport is a beautiful thing in a world
where beautiful things are highly prized. but traven collins, colloquially known as "The Ardent One" , has more opinions than most and we present some of them here. very sorry about
that.
His FOOTBALL column appears in 'the melbourne times' which is a little newspaper coming out weekly
in melbourne of all places, traven collins has a philosophical column called the ardent one, which is about the fate of the northern kangaroos, according to traven, the very best australian
rules football team in the world. so we have many back columns on the ardent one page in the travenworld reporter. |
FILM
The Travenworld Reporter is just like anyone else, in the sense that we
love to know what the superstars are up to. It's called gossip and we have bucketloads of it. Thinly disguised as news,
little mates. So we present the news from Hollywood, straight from the sources of Hollywood Snouts
and and all the rest. Get stuck into it!!!
YOUR STARS
The Travenworld Reporter has offices
in the farflung galaxies bringing you the latest on Your Destiny. For those who believe that light ( or the large gravitational
bodies that the light which is only now arriving on earth, emanated from billions of years ago) is central to the
events which shape their lives! |
BODY
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die, with due respect,
apart from the matyrs and some of the the very very old. and maybe the lovesick and perhaps the chronically ill
in some of the bad moments, they don't really want to die all that much, it's just things get hard sometimes. anyway,
for those who want to live, for want of a better description of the thing we all do, here's a health report. we favor the alternative edge of things so that's
the angle we'd be taking, be warned, the travenworld reporter is that kind of universe, so beam yourself
up if you've landed by in this travenworld by mistake thinking it's a five beers and steak and eggs kind of place,
good buddies...
traven collins also had a health issue
not too long ago. read all about it here! |
ROCK'N'ROLL
Yo little buddy, we're here to rock. These days, these postmodern days,
there's rock of every persuasion all happening at once. The old tarts are still trolling their goods every christmas
market, and good luck to them.
The Indie market is alive and well and struggling away. But we won't be getting too deeply into all that. In the
1970's when rock was young, as the man who had his head transplant once sang, one of our reporters was a pop columnist
for a daily newspaper. his memoir
of that moment is here. |
LIFESTYLE
Of the rich & famous? No not really. In the city of St Kilda not too
long ago, in a little gutter not too far away, little drama unfold. How did these people get there? Everybody put
them there by not caring very much. The other side of glamor is horror, like the other side of up is
down. Love and sex and death and hope, goes out the window, when in comes the dope. Or so the straight man tells
you, when he gives you a job for a dollar a day .
So perhaps you get what sort of perversion awaits the visitor to this page? |
KID STUFF
Okay, the kid won't go to sleep without a story? You've tried boxing
their ears but they've taken you to Family Court and put a terstraining order on you. You've tried bribery but
they own more than you.
So okay, just read them this story about Six Rabbits & A Teddy.
Be warned, the story is hypnotic and rivetting and you'll probably grab it off the kid for yourself.
Traven Collins had something to do with this kid stuff, be very very warned...... |
THEATRE
In May 1999, Colin Talbot's new play 'Faust Unplugged' was premiered at The Universal Theatre in
Fitzroy, Victoria.
After the season there, it was so well-received that the legendary La Mama Theatre in Carlton took up the challenge
for a short season.
Lindzee Smith was brilliant in this one-man depiction of a rock star who sells more than his copyright to the literal
Promoter from hell. The text of the
play 'Faust Unplugged' is here, first act only. |
NEWS
Actual news about actual things in actual places, and they said the travenworld reporter
couldn't do it! only time will tell were they write? get the news! reuters
and Time sources for this page.
editorial
om shanti, little mates, go-go let's have a ball, yo, bang the drum for good times, dig that rock
and roll. & do the zen beatnik trip, & listen to the wild thing call.
traven collins |
POPULAR
Popular music is pop music is the music of its time, or so it thinks. The Reporter
is not old fashioned, oh good heaven's no. Literature & The Arts
rocknews from Rolling Stone and Billboard honestly!.
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HOLLYWOOD
Take a right turn at Los Angeles, go into hyperdrive on the transcendental freeway, and hello! you're
in hollywood. the place where superstars are merely legends so click here for
Superstar News from tinseltown.
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LIVING
the travenworld reporter provides the latest breaking
news on health matters--supplements, diets, the works!health
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