<![CDATA[Blah Di Da]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida Darby Hudson talks about the 'creative process' and muddling through life.

]]> RSS.com 2026.428.112250 Fri, 08 May 2026 03:49:26 GMT en d8f0971a-a112-5c1d-b99e-91d60b0588d0 https://media.rss.com/blahdida/20221007_111027_6b04b208530d882380d75511670acb23.jpg Blah Di Da https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida yes Darby Hudson Darby Hudson Darby Hudson false episodic podcast <![CDATA[Laughing at myself and sometimes others]]> I like when a writer or comedian points inwards and laughs at themselves. And I like it when they point outwards (sometimes). I'm more likely to believe them.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2804672 8862dfee-7806-4938-b2cf-602e0de03245 518 full 1 1 188 188 false Fri, 08 May 2026 03:49:18 GMT <![CDATA[Writing about the most boring person I know: me]]> Nearly finished a 3rd book and I'm triple questioning my voice and where I want to take it, how I want to land or crash it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2780613 1b690f2b-80e5-4469-8ba1-1c5f9509da39 881 full 1 1 187 187 false Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Resting is important to make quality art]]> It's something I have to force myself to do more often. I'm not a young artist anymore, so to make those leaps in quality, rest is a massive part of this.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2759676 e7b12c79-a511-4127-97fb-97a7010f4fb9 765 full 1 1 186 186 false Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Virality can be a trap for authors]]> Writing resonates completely differently in the quietness of a book as opposed to on screen.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2740126 4eb0bbc9-00e8-4f33-8052-911bf2be976b 698 full 1 1 185 185 false Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Finding your writing voice]]> It took me 50 years to find my writing voice. Here's what I learned along the way.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2682131 81df979e-e90e-435f-9eb0-b0df7175cb54 711 full 1 1 183 183 false Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[A writing trick & what my 3rd book's about]]> Beginning with a little trick I use to get unstuck while writing, then the rest of the episode on what the 3rd book I'm writing is about.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2668775 3272b42b-00d5-4c18-b2da-5b5bb9d71607 634 full 1 1 182 182 false Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:12:25 GMT <![CDATA[When your weirdness finally fits into society (in the form of a book)]]> It's weird to feel 'accepted' by a world that undervalued my strange thoughts for decades.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2640969 d1c43708-86b9-46c1-9476-996250d26629 580 full 1 1 181 181 false Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[A writer's pilgrimage to LA]]> I need to get to LA , even just for 2 weeks.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2619005 45dad8e0-fce5-48ed-b8f5-b3cb3327d728 549 full 1 1 180 180 false Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Forgetting my book is actually good]]> It feels like I'm promoting my book "You're Going To Be Ok" out of existence.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2602076 280fda9a-4928-4f3c-b5ab-2e0219d8811f 630 full 1 1 179 179 false Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Writing a whole book as fast as I can]]> Pumping out a 3rd book - writing as fast as I can. Some thoughts....

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2579704 edce86e7-dfd0-4b7a-9161-a1d14713f3a9 753 full 1 1 178 178 false Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[My new book for an artist's heart lost in the world]]> A little chat about my new book, "You're Going To Be Ok"

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2560011 e835cf57-e903-420d-aa2f-01df8ef570c7 6 full 1 1 177 177 false Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Borrowing the atmosphere of my favourite writers]]> My favourite writers brought me relief.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2543277 5b555045-d7a5-4d0f-bdb5-8394c159a006 1027 full 1 1 176 176 false Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:07:17 GMT <![CDATA[The thing you are good at is hiding in plain sight]]> I was great at writing when I was 17, then ditched it for decades.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2519267 e828881f-0cc7-4210-9b34-4110b6aa2142 647 full 1 1 175 175 false Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Planting stories in real-life locations]]> I love how stories bring magic to real life locations. Like a shared dream.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2502518 59914614-5023-44c4-b218-9678055c4588 685 full 1 1 174 174 false Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Getting my new book from publisher Andrews Mcmeel in the mail]]> Audiobook Spotify presave link for "You're Going To Be Ok"

I recieved my book as a physical book! Exciting to feel it in my hands as a little world.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2476612 254d97d9-f346-4e4b-9ed8-e4c91d2268c9 666 full 1 1 172 172 false Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Recording an audiobook - behind the scenes and some thoughts]]> A little behind the scenes of recording my audiobook of You're Going To Be Ok and some thoughts on recording it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2461594 0d2f2981-f80b-4a17-8ea9-78570696a11b 756 full 1 1 171 171 false Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:57:11 GMT <![CDATA[Atmosphere over story]]> I loved atmospheres as a kid. Then stories helped me as I got older. But I've read most of the stories and they all seem to repeat. So I've been returning to the beauty of atmosphere.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2438191 c7e28059-3608-4456-8305-3360ce66b021 903 full 1 1 170 170 false Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How I found energy after work to make art and break out of the jail of meaningless jobs]]> It wasn't easy. It was like being two Sisyphus's at once.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2423128 a9dd96ba-eca6-4f46-97c9-d0e2c08abc61 700 full 1 1 169 169 false Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Finding my writing voice took the length equivalent of 4.5 PhDs]]> I stuck with creativity for a long time (33 years) before anything happened.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2382835 6a564bb6-ff8b-491a-bcf6-3ffa40f767f2 640 full 1 1 167 167 false Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:00:16 GMT <![CDATA[Writing update....]]> Onto a third book this week

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2368429 ca116f59-e87e-4948-9b83-a9e7318cfa13 671 full 1 1 166 166 false Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:55:06 GMT <![CDATA[Writing is the hardest work I've ever done]]> I've worked a lot of jobs but writing full time is the heaviest lifting. I'm lifting the full weight of all my boringness and trying to make it the lightest thing to read.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2350944 2a8e0a58-587d-4733-a07e-a1403fa2f554 696 full 1 1 165 165 false Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:00:27 GMT <![CDATA[5 years on writing full time after quitting my job]]> Just trying to relax after pushing myself hard with writing for 5 years.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2338096 447ba7cb-fd0c-4b01-a429-64911b088641 636 full 1 1 164 164 false Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:00:26 GMT <![CDATA[Following the Art Spirit through darkness into light]]> I've been blinding following the Art Spirit for decades. It's let me through dark places and maybe finally into a small patch of light.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2325584 96c0f313-9a63-4690-8904-bebde1b007a8 572 full 1 1 163 163 false Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:00:13 GMT <![CDATA[Just make something good]]> Some thoughts on attention spans and the crappy stories we're being fed that messes with our attention spans.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2311877 014bd2b7-6ea4-4175-8f20-e7e53d7576d6 610 full 1 1 162 162 false Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:00:17 GMT <![CDATA[I've become more writer than human]]> I'm curious as to where these books lead... and not just to write yet another book. Althought I'm going to write a third book, I'm still very curious.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2286826 2ccc6824-246f-4958-a0b5-b4ad70fda6f2 603 full 1 1 161 161 false Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:00:20 GMT <![CDATA[Signing me book that's just out]]> Struggling with life at the moment, good stuff is happening and bad stuff at once. It's funny how that happens.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2277979 4409ab80-b43d-430f-8049-c408f9512424 596 full 1 1 160 160 false Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:42:21 GMT <![CDATA[The fear of sharing art to an audience]]> A few thoughts on audience size and fear of sharing art and writing to a big audience

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2262195 9e6fba01-b2e4-4e7c-8d54-09b547509820 648 full 1 1 159 159 false Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:00:12 GMT <![CDATA[Today is for people with art, tomorrow for people with plans]]> A few thoughts on a future opening up after existing in a single long endless day most of my life. And some thoughts on writing my two books.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2249085 c5b45da7-5460-4758-938c-d9103dd986db 604 full 1 1 158 158 false Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:00:14 GMT <![CDATA[The need to create under a new patch of sky (live overseas)]]> Some thoughts on making art in new places, planting the seed to leave Australia, and my new book a week or so away!

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2232708 84414ab2-8c4d-450c-81ff-2b7b1be83cc1 738 full 1 1 157 157 false Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:02:35 GMT <![CDATA[Nervy thoughts on releasing a book]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2220704 d87d1e98-bf3b-4017-b118-cc87767a0de8 759 full 1 1 156 156 false Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:00:19 GMT <![CDATA[Never ending search for home]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2210326 93677aaa-c25d-492e-bc68-3b201574b0d9 566 full 1 1 155 155 false Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:00:14 GMT <![CDATA[30 years of following the "art god"]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2200700 998203b8-016f-4b37-8a40-f6a5f243bffa 612 full 1 1 154 154 false Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:27:44 GMT <![CDATA[Masculine and feminine energy in books]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2184018 c7c5d8f2-00a7-4c01-b344-6b54c6cdd754 935 full 1 1 153 153 false Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:00:08 GMT <![CDATA[The BS of artists "making it" at a certain age]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2176635 c7d7b9d7-c42f-4e3b-bdaa-ac85c7854f75 727 full 1 1 152 152 false Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:00:17 GMT <![CDATA[Blending comedy and poetry]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2164297 44cf11ef-e18a-4aa8-9a2b-2c44dec5c359 750 full 1 1 151 151 false Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:00:15 GMT <![CDATA[Modern poetry all sounds the same for a reason]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2155341 a702db77-42b3-49db-bd36-58706ab920c8 784 full 1 1 150 150 false Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:00:14 GMT <![CDATA[Creative theft or just whinging?]]> PREORDER ME BOOKS: 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" & "You're Going To Be Ok" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2145073 546f3ae9-8e47-4554-90ad-4151a0a44f9b 621 full 1 1 149 149 false Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:00:18 GMT <![CDATA[Borrowing the essence of classic books]]> Some thoughts on RuPauls Drag Race and The Sopranos

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2118185 aed21bf4-ccca-4800-b894-59c9f31f1536 682 full 1 1 148 148 false Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:00:12 GMT <![CDATA[Good art makes everything else seem like it's pretending]]> Some thoughts on RuPauls Drag Race and The Sopranos

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2108634 4a109c5d-a101-4d9c-b125-b6ce95479e39 629 full 1 1 147 147 false Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:00:28 GMT <![CDATA[Sometimes books are home]]> Writing my way into the world.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2099592 308e0642-09e7-4949-b921-b58373714434 564 full 1 1 146 146 false Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:00:53 GMT <![CDATA[Writing my way out of mental straitjackets]]> 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available to preorder:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2089869 55b66b11-547d-406a-ae4b-55a91412a34f 647 full 1 1 145 145 false Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:00:39 GMT <![CDATA[Art is a passport to travel the world]]> 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available to preorder:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2080573 1c57d300-a4c3-41ef-bd28-834b9dbac4bb 615 full 1 1 144 144 false Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:00:10 GMT <![CDATA[The average age of best selling authors is 48-52]]> 2nd expanded edition of "DARBY, LOVE... (Alive things mum said before she died)" (published by Andrews McMeel) now available to preorder:

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2019508 053bd3e0-b179-4c2d-b8be-15d3028c6273 1089 full 1 1 138 138 false Thu, 08 May 2025 22:00:16 GMT <![CDATA[Writing from character (more on mum)]]> Nearly finished a deal with a traditional publisher.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2010092 722ee0dd-bd89-46ce-84f8-1e74d3d27acb 853 full 1 1 137 137 false Thu, 01 May 2025 22:00:22 GMT <![CDATA[More on Mum's book]]> Finishing off a second draft for a second edition of mum's book.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1976339 f0e5813e-6e38-479b-9379-a8e9b040c9f0 999 full 1 1 133 133 false Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:35:22 GMT <![CDATA[Creative burnout and managing social media]]> I've gotta keep posting stuff on social media, so I've been reposting old stuff. But I made this podcast

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1928147 56b9d537-63da-4fbe-ac1a-a991bffb9e24 566 full 1 1 128 128 false Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:00:12 GMT <![CDATA[Finding true things in a world of BS]]> This one is all over the shop. I'm losing my focus these last few weeks. Hopefully the brain brings more focus soon.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1881667 54ace623-f6d2-40ec-bf8c-fda840bc97da 697 full 1 1 124 124 false Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:00:21 GMT <![CDATA[40 is when writers arrive into themselves]]> 40 is a strange time for writers. It's kind of a cut of point to have a family or go full blast at creativity and 'make it'. Art is a naturally 'selfish' pursuit, it has to come first. But so does family.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1856958 35028334-7f7e-45fb-b6af-82fb6a82ce30 674 full 1 1 123 123 false Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:00:32 GMT <![CDATA[Thoughts on The Exorcist (book) and vibes in the air]]> Just some scattershot thoughts on vibes in the air and the artists work to pick them up. Apologies - I'm filming this as a video and I'm slowly adjusting to making stuff up while filming myself (in the car) which blocks me a little. I'll get there.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1839278 423ab645-433e-4f33-8489-fdb666a7b33c 637 full 1 1 121 121 false Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:00:21 GMT <![CDATA[Becoming an artist by becoming bad at everything else]]> I turned down promotions, relationships, sensible decisions over decades until I'd painted myself into a corner. For better or worse or better.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1819843 35a75f63-ab4f-4937-8292-383c566c1485 552 full 1 1 119 119 false Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:00:13 GMT <![CDATA[Australian art legend Michael Leunig's influence and advice to me]]> Michael Leunig's email he wrote me on finding one's voice is the last 5 minutes if you want to skip to it. Michael Leunig's died a week ago. He was a massive influence on me as a kid and taught me that humans could actually make magic. Michael's instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/leunigstudio/

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1818261 fbad77dd-1fd5-4d2e-ab63-1cdbf948a016 931 full 1 1 118 118 false Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:21:40 GMT <![CDATA[Fast witty thinkers VS slow deep thinkers]]> Fast thinking is rewarded in life. Slow thinking is rewarded much later in life.. Without writing my thoughts down, nothing would happen. I need to build on thoughts in front of me.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1816258 338391d7-42b6-445e-99d7-0f40247ee811 591 full 1 1 117 117 false Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:00:21 GMT <![CDATA[Turning the love of art into a job]]> Been writing a crime novel. Well a whole page over a year. I'm enjoying tinkering with with the few paragraphs I have. Don't know if I'll ever publish it. But it's fun.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1795842 72623828-4376-4bdc-87f3-fde53b22a8cd 549 full 1 1 116 116 false Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:00:13 GMT <![CDATA[Writing stuff that's just for me]]> I have a lot of stuff that I can't publish because I know the world's just not ready for it. But it keeps me sane to write it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1795821 62c06d59-2cef-4463-9f24-937c17a3db1f 577 full 1 1 115 115 false Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:00:14 GMT <![CDATA[Jay the street writer - interview]]> A little chat with Jay who posts "Dear Stranger" letters around the world!

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1767714 4de2584c-49b4-4b59-a115-5255a6c27c2a 2223 full 1 1 114 114 false Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:00:10 GMT <![CDATA[Stuck on the couch - boring episode]]> Stuck on the couch after a soccer injury. I'm weirdly enjoying it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1767679 052a4799-d853-48bc-a7af-720a25b2a8cc 566 full 1 1 113 113 false Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:00:11 GMT <![CDATA[Josh Turek, poet and comedian interview]]> I love Josh's work. Thank you Josh!

You can find Josh's work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joshuaturek/

And his podacast, Turek Books on Apple, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/turek-books-podcast/id1734284461

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1689022 0cdd437c-6965-4cb5-bab3-0a2a9d22bd3b 766 full 1 1 107 107 false Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:04:20 GMT <![CDATA[Writers block - things I do to kill it]]> A few things I've learned to jumpstart me old brain.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1688961 81ffafd5-0a23-4af0-a8f6-185fd7849104 750 full 1 1 106 106 false Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:00:33 GMT <![CDATA[Other peoples stories are medicine]]> I miss good stories.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1665942 d393c6b3-3638-4ae8-b6f8-f7e907488506 602 full 1 1 105 105 false Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:00:29 GMT <![CDATA[Do I regret dedicating a life to writing, thoughts and ideas?]]> Dedicating life to art can feel full of meaning and a complete waste of time.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1665934 ac5c8522-b97e-4680-a73d-07d4e3369375 565 full 1 1 104 104 false Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:10:38 GMT <![CDATA[Creativity is cart before the horse before the cliff]]> I've invested much of life placing the cart before the horse and things are starting to work.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1646468 e386c340-4d84-496c-a67e-116bcdcf753f 486 full 1 1 103 103 false Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:00:27 GMT <![CDATA[Life and death and writing]]> I've always loved the idea of radical acceptance, or whatever new-agey people call it. I struggle with it, so writing about it always helps me understand it, grasp it..

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1646464 ff682f9e-e384-49ae-a567-d23496ef770f 558 full 1 1 102 102 false Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:00:27 GMT <![CDATA[Taking a break from writing]]> Relaxing is hard work for me. Sometime I feel like who I am is too tied up in the stuff I make. So it's interesting to force myself to just be a person without the magic of creativity.

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My two current crime fiction/psychological thriller writers:

Michael Connelly

Frieda Mcfadden

And Thomas Harris - Red Dragon (part of the Hannibal Lecter anthology is absolutely exquisite)

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1530732 098be227-d514-4506-9cd1-592c047d1fd6 735 full 1 1 90 90 false Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:00:26 GMT <![CDATA[Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them)]]> I took the top ten downloaded episodes, went through the transcripts and found my fave bits from each and here I am reading them out.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1511143 75cc3201-581d-43a3-a2f5-86a6f42d1020 532 full 1 1 89 89 false Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:00:19 GMT <![CDATA[The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world]]> This is something I recorded a year back that started all my videos. I've added a few more ideas/minutes to it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1511099 47965e20-de5e-4f98-8aeb-5c5e8949676a 924 full 1 1 88 88 false Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:00:21 GMT <![CDATA[Zero expecations allow creativity to happen]]> I give my writing and painting a long leash, and often no leash at all. I have to trust it will do its thing. It's all (sometimes frustratingly) counterintuitive

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1498648 c7a1f82a-33cb-4490-a121-38e98eb00943 639 full 1 1 87 87 false Thu, 30 May 2024 22:00:36 GMT <![CDATA[Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible]]> A few thoughts on smuggling myself through the years of the cult of sensible.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1488874 61c4c058-0870-4641-88bf-556c279a7e9a 568 full 1 1 86 86 false Thu, 23 May 2024 22:10:23 GMT <![CDATA[A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one]]> It's thrilling when I post what I think is a shit idea and it resonates with an audience. Especially when all my good ideas don't resonate, and a single bad one does. It reminds me I don't own my creativity

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1479936 805e4d62-3683-46d4-9be7-681d630be5f9 615 full 1 1 85 85 false Thu, 16 May 2024 22:00:24 GMT <![CDATA[The sum of our artistic influences... and our life]]> I'm the sum of my influences and nearly 50 years of just existing. I've been feeling recently I'm stepping into a void left my some of my favourite artists and writers.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1472015 a964c594-6bf1-41ac-b336-9f830ccf4965 606 full 1 1 84 84 false Thu, 09 May 2024 22:00:25 GMT <![CDATA[The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy]]> Only 1% of my stuff works and 99% of it is rubbish. It can effect me emotionally. I can get really grumpy when the creativity isn't going my way. But it's part of it. It's always been part of it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1462247 22a013ee-0eb3-4241-a872-d0fba870d42a 602 full 1 1 83 83 false Thu, 02 May 2024 22:00:24 GMT <![CDATA[We love to make meaning out of everything]]> I posted something on social media recently about a little secret game I play with myself that seemed to resonate - that makes me believe we're constantly starving for meaning our lives. I might be wrong.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1450286 46fd8083-1896-4ccb-adc5-96d170ad85ae 444 full 1 1 82 82 false Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:00:20 GMT <![CDATA[I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail]]> I've writen and recorded a lot of cynical videos over the past 6 months. Perhaps it's time to mix it up (soonish)..

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1442005 2aadf7d2-e202-4f62-861b-8c5e80815483 694 full 1 1 81 81 true Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:00:28 GMT <![CDATA[Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art)]]> I struggled for years trying to find the balance going to work and pretending to be sensible then getting home to get insane to make interesting things.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1431024 1e309bbd-d1ce-48ee-8b8b-4fa7e41d97b8 499 full 1 1 80 80 false Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:00:23 GMT <![CDATA[Your old ideas that never found an audience are the most important]]> It's something I've been rambling about recently, but it took 30 years to find an audience and none of the stuff I made over this time without an audience has gone to waste.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1419607 c76a349d-1912-45e7-ac2d-8214e40fd9f6 752 full 1 1 79 79 false Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:10:22 GMT <![CDATA[Unexplained happiness]]> Sometimes I'll be out somewhere, and for no reason at all, unexplained and unexpected happiness moves through me.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1407743 fc707a99-44e3-4a33-a233-04cff75ebc35 495 full 1 1 78 78 false Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:00:24 GMT <![CDATA[I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that]]> This title is after a quote from True Detective season one by Nic Pizzolatto.

YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf4P1uXR6Q

This ep I crap on about art being a weird way of connecting, turning strangeness into magic.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1398514 9bb41569-f423-41f7-854b-8cd3febde9c8 656 full 1 1 77 77 false Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:00:48 GMT <![CDATA[The duty to make art in a shit culture]]> Here I crap on about traditional gatekeepers and our inner gatekeeper. And Trojan horsing/subversive social commentary through different avenues.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1389109 60ffaaa3-3178-4dc1-be98-cbc82d103b36 513 full 1 1 76 76 true Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:00:29 GMT <![CDATA[Memes and culture]]> Just a little thought on memes and how they shape thinking. I am no academic or sociological expert. Entertainment purposes only 😂

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1375901 d10aaec8-d6d4-4e36-b2bc-1636742b5323 609 full 1 1 75 75 false Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:00:34 GMT <![CDATA[Thinking out loud has changed the way I write]]> Thinking aloud helped massively this last year, mainly thanks to making this podcast! I never thought I'd enjoy it. I never know what I'm thinking untiil it tumbles outta my mouth, threads back through my ears and then written with the hand.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1365641 929beda4-14cf-47be-9dab-f734e79a4514 618 full 1 1 74 74 false Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:57:44 GMT <![CDATA[Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice]]> I have to constantly trick my brain back into beginner mode. As soon as I think I'm an 'expert' on a particular way of writing, my writing is dead on the page.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1356664 335a3d59-eb11-456e-8b7d-3dab039ae53d 711 full 1 1 73 73 true Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:10:22 GMT <![CDATA[A little about writing me new book, WORKING NINE LIVES]]> This week I read a few poems from my book and talk about a quote from Cormac McCarthy that was in the back of my mind while I wrote it.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1326944 dfbb7918-affc-45dc-a3f2-e5c9c7ecdfe4 626 full 1 1 70 70 true Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:00:23 GMT <![CDATA[Making art for no audience]]> A little blah di da reflection on writing without an audience for 30 years.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1313930 54461b8c-bd8d-49a0-8e45-f5afae4f52cc 748 full 1 1 69 69 false Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:50:43 GMT <![CDATA[Selling out to myself]]> Sometimes I'll write stuff purely on 'cleverness' and it will lack something. It feels like I've sold out to myself. But sometimes I have to write these hollow pieces to break through to the real stuff.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1295256 26cd168a-2469-412f-bd43-9ef339052208 620 full 1 1 67 67 true Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:00:18 GMT <![CDATA[Documenting the writing process for one of me videos]]> I thought I'd document the writing process of one of my videos I shared recently on TikTok and Instagram "Envy disguised as moral highground". Also there's a little bit I learned on writer's rooms (from the Sopranos showrunner, David Chase) at the end.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1286177 5533ea04-bce6-4f96-9c2a-ba4229128424 835 full 1 1 66 66 false Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:00:30 GMT <![CDATA[Walking to the supermarket in the no mans land between Christmas and New Years]]> Walking to the supermarket (excuse the clicking of the leaves I'm walking on) and some thoughts on the time of the year between Christmas and New Years.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1279804 b651a5d2-5ad0-44f6-ac98-604c1526418c 517 full 1 1 65 65 false Thu, 28 Dec 2023 21:00:29 GMT <![CDATA[Physical frailty and creating beyond oneself]]> I used to visit a cafe next to a nursing home. It was incredible. Anxiety reducing. And I've noticed how some of my favourite artists write beyond themselves when physically frail and elderly.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1263908 c4e776e8-429b-4cc2-a6b0-6b81ed217e99 774 full 1 1 63 63 true Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:00:20 GMT <![CDATA[One idea leads to the next]]> Each book I've written seems to have had an abberant piece in it - like a doorway to the next book.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1254341 24f51767-1872-4bae-9c4e-78e008b5c4dd 516 full 1 1 62 62 true Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:00:22 GMT <![CDATA[Sticking up poems around the streets and talking to myself]]> I walked Melbourne Streets sticking up poems over two days while talking to myself: Gertrude St, Swan St, Greville St, Chapel St, Smith St Brunswick St, Bridge Road, VCA Southbank.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1245774 97987cf7-a460-4ee8-9af1-cef87f7218db 790 full 1 1 61 61 true Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:25:30 GMT <![CDATA[Shit podcast episode where I was out of ideas]]> Shit podcast episode. Huge creative block. And little on letting the unconscious do the heavy lifting in creativity.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1235583 57f79c87-2cd3-478f-b374-eadbc63f8546 594 full 1 1 60 60 true Thu, 23 Nov 2023 21:00:28 GMT <![CDATA[Getting out of the way of yourself in creativity]]> A sort of sequel episode to epsiode 57. Getting out of the way of myself by documenting my mum then work.

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  • Symbolic moment in novels
  • Writing my way out of straightjackets
  • Searching for truth in high critics scores and low audiences scores on Rotten Tomatoes and artists making art with their reputation, not souls
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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1070832 8b866cec-7a52-48cf-90b0-eb5e612b27ba 517 full 1 1 45 45 true Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:00:16 GMT     <![CDATA[Making art while working a full time job: art before the horse]]> UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me:]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1062723 357956f5-0e63-4f72-8892-c03f4daf0f2e 619 full 1 1 44 44 true Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:00:25 GMT <![CDATA[Half baked ideas I've been playing with]]> UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me:]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/1055021 cb7f4c3e-3e1e-4695-b6df-efe5e2cd1675 557 full 1 1 43 43 true Fri, 28 Jul 2023 05:29:37 GMT <![CDATA[Creatives need breaks to be improve]]> I'm managine my time better. I've been writing without immediately posting it. Holding onto ideas for 5 days. While feedback can have a purpose for putting together some of my work, the constant feedback loop was starting to take me off course. So I'm learning to not post stuff right away and actually give myself whole days off writing. It's been super helpful.UM' self help book for creatives:

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/915818 1d8c4c79-e505-4061-9520-a45bd37386b9 528 full 1 1 29 29 false Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:00:33 GMT     <![CDATA[Searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places]]> I talk about searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places and separating the art from the artist. I went down a Charles Manson rabbit hole this week. This episode is obviously not an 'endorsement' of him or his actions, (clearly he was a psychopath) rather, some of his quotes, removed from the context of his life and legal convictions (and objectively looked at), are undoubtedly interesting.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/907348 eed51b57-1dc9-40e1-a5e6-858e91028de0 568 full 1 1 28 28 true Fri, 14 Apr 2023 01:04:21 GMT     <![CDATA[Adulting in a creative life]]> I've found it hard to balance being in fairly regular contact with the old inner-child, to help creativity, while adulting in a world that has no time for that stuff.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/897769 9dc46aff-ecc8-47b8-9bc0-4a1f0e718ca7 616 full 1 1 27 27 true Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:00:32 GMT     <![CDATA[Creativity in trying-not-trying]]> I took a few weeks break from writing (a few weeks back). I'm still completely distracting myself with football and de-prioritised writing, and voila, I've never felt more creative. Creativity is a difficult creature that sometimes only seems to arrive when it's not exclusively focused on.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/876426 098bcd75-530a-420f-8008-3a1c25c70353 664 full 1 1 25 25 true Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:50:55 GMT     <![CDATA[The past is a foreign country]]> The past is a foreign country, wrote L.P. Hartley. Here I wander around Richmond where I grew up in the 80s. Things have changed. A small reflection on what the world was and what the world has become.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/869457 35f4100c-42cd-4882-932b-4bef120bc4a8 438 full 1 1 24 24 true Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:15:08 GMT     <![CDATA[Self publishing isn't a dirty word]]> How I started publishing; getting published by a publisher who isn't you; and self publishing. Independent music and film is glamorised - self publishing books is seen as dirty and 'vanity publishing'. But the tides have well and truly changed.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/857876 fe8eda42-7059-4b3c-b96f-5d4d576d0de8 604 full 1 1 23 23 true Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:33:51 GMT     <![CDATA[Second week off writing thoughts]]> 2 weeks off writing and I'm waffling about complaint poetry, writing to untangle mess, and clues to find a new direction for writing.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/847031 dc64f6c7-ad0d-45e3-a50f-24945c9649b6 480 full 1 1 22 22 true Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:26:26 GMT     <![CDATA[Creative burnout - relaxing is hard work]]> I'm feeling creatively burnt out, I can't see the poetry in things anymore. Clouds look dead in the sky. So I have to engage in this paradox: the best creativity only comes when unforced and relaxed; so I'm forcing myself to take a break from creativity to relax.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/837801 517d17bf-4e9a-4f36-84d9-3693e4334e68 537 full 1 1 21 21 true Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:26:38 GMT     <![CDATA[Editing, writing and painting my new book CONFETTI TORNADO]]> My new book, CONFETTI TORNADO (new and selected works) is the first book of poetry I've illustrated/painted. It's also a collection of works that are some of my faves drawn from my 3 current books, and I'm still not sick of them.

    In this episode, thoughts on :

    •putting the book together

    •editing: leaving out cultural hot-takes, and more towards anachronistic/grasping at innocence

    •how colour and painting influenced the writing

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/786228 eed84fc6-ab57-4b9b-8c3c-fe8fa49aa241 612 full 1 1 16 16 true Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:25:14 GMT     <![CDATA[The Wizard Of Oz and The Never Ending Story are documentaries]]> Two childhood films feel more important than the news these days. The world feels upsidedown and often a hostile place to publish the heart's truths. Some thoughts about this. And a quick mention of my new 'best of' book, out in Feb or March!

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/776718 64c72cc5-53cf-4245-b931-e6ee22799284 560 full 1 1 15 15 true Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:46:47 GMT     <![CDATA[11 poems, artists & places that have greatly inspired me]]> My favourite artists and places who have massively inspired my work. Sometimes I feel like I'm just a poor rip off of all my influences. I think as an artist, we grow and move from being inspired by other artists, to the original source itself: places/nature.

    Links to poems artists mentioned in this episode:

    Michael Leunig – Come Sit Down Beside Me (poem)

    https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/430797520581952550/

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/leunigstudio/

    Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart (poem)

    https://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/11/the-laughing-he.html

    Mary Oliver – The Journey (poem)

    http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thejourney.html

    Alan Watts – Life And Music (lecture)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2pcIbyq-0

    Cormac Mcarthy – The Road (novel)

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road

    Adam Elliot – Harvey Krumpet (short film)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ClRsCpQfTQ

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/adam_elliot_clay/

    David Lynch – Twin Peaks (TV series)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks

    Andy Jackson –The Thin Bridge (book)

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23449414-the-thin-bridge

    Mark Tredinnick (author)

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/763805 8842d3f2-d849-4efd-b541-21dfeb2c2e50 997 full 1 1 14 14 true Tue, 03 Jan 2023 01:17:37 GMT     <![CDATA[Spirits (and other random weekly stuff while walking around talking shit into my phone)]]> This weeks brain dump on cat spirits, chanelling my mum's spirit (and a boring conversation from beyond life), and finding garlic in the supermarket.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/751332 596844fd-a36b-48ff-98a9-297d3af60d50 574 full 1 1 13 13 true Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:12:28 GMT     <![CDATA[I wrote this episode by walking]]> A good walk kickstarts ideas, thoughts, inspiration. I didn't have anything ready for this episode, so I just started walking and letting it happen. Movement always inspires something. And I love a good flaneuring. Subjects include the anaesthetic qualities of doomscrolling, car mirrors with cobwebs as fly nets for spiders, and just noticing stuff on the streets. Recorded in walking Collingwood streets, alleys and Preston Market, Melbourne.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/743237 8a953ab0-767b-43b6-86fc-7f1286973fe1 561 full 1 1 12 12 true Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:41:19 GMT     <![CDATA[Using booze as a tool to write]]> Drinking alone is demonised. But what if it's used as a tool for creative thought? I share my thoughts on booze and its ability to help get us out of the way of ourselves to let the truth write itself.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/733899 42501b14-83e8-4e92-bc64-783819447acb 518 full 1 1 11 11 true Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:51:52 GMT     <![CDATA[Sport tactics and psychology that have helped my art]]> I've learned a lot from sport tactics and psychology that has directly helped my art and making ideas. From entering flow states to taking set shots on goal (when facing a blank page or canvas); selecting captains to make my 'team' (ideas) better, to tactically using substitutes and time outs to help find an audience for my art. Comes with a bonus tip from what I learned from my cat.

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    Confessional poetry was popularised in the US in the late 50’s, early 60’s by poets like Sylvia Plath and Charles Bukowski. These days it’s how nearly everyone writes in the caption on social media – “I” this, “I” that – confessional poetry in prose form. And as a form of poetry, it’s more popular than ever.

    To post or not to post. How scary can it be? Is it oversharing or providing something of value?

    In this episode I talk about saying what everyone is thinking and no one is saying, And finding your creative voice by wrongfooting yourself.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/676553 09f85e3e-dac2-4507-8133-a23145ae7b9c 772 full 1 1 6 6 true Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:18:14 GMT     <![CDATA[Detectives and Poets do the same job]]> We crave mystery in a world where there are more answers than questions. Detectives solve mysteries. Poets deepen the mystery. But they both operate on a similar plane. A poem is really a dossier of clues that take you right up to the door of a starless black night, and at that point you have to give yourself over to something vast and unresolved. And that’s the magic.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/647686 2c764854-f46d-42c0-8f25-acdbe97dff34 828 full 1 1 2 2 true Fri, 07 Oct 2022 23:17:07 GMT     <![CDATA[When art or music saves your life, you're ready to be an artist.]]> A brief talk about the influences I've had and the journey towards writing.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/647681 d8b00139-bb0e-4859-bba5-17a856ecb207 284 full 1 1 1 1 true Fri, 07 Oct 2022 23:07:19 GMT     <![CDATA[Revisiting my 2009 tweets wasn't a good idea]]> Going through my old twitter account, seeing the hard=won evolution

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/blahdida/2397936 642f677a-c6d4-481c-b810-c2c47e0022be 738 full 168 168 false Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT     <![CDATA[Instagram poetry line breaks drag me through poems]]> Thoughts on line breaks in poetry and instagram poetry and Charles Bukowski - the godfather of "insta poetry"

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