December 2008
DIGIRAL HARINEZUMI - デジタルハリネズミ - →
out early 2009. “the day digital becomes fun again”. i bet s2art’ll be shaking his vistaquest at these guys.
Complete works of Shakespeare now available in... →
y’know, in case you had a burning desire to read them inside emacs.
buffalo tom →
Stu Nimmo’s photos of Buffalo Tom when they came to Melbourne early in 2008.
2008 in music →
best new stuff: Moscow Olympics - Cut The World (and Still). No thought required here. It’s brilliant. I’m sure this’ll push people to start claiming the Philippines to be the new…
Heartache country club - Film - Entertainment -... →
Johnny Cash, Townes van Zandt and Jim White (the American one) docos on at ACMI between Dec 27 and Jan 4.
Don’t believe your eyes →
The holiday lingered
jetlag hit without warning
so we snoozed
late in the afternoon.
Sometime later
during daylight hours
(evening or morning?)
I awoke
to navigate
our familiar…
laneway magazine →
Somwhere in the middle of my overseas holiday, I was asked if I’d like to contribute to Laneway Magazine. My first piece is up, now.
the other side of the world →
I’m home, now. We flew into Vienna at the start of November and over the rest of the month caught various trains across Western Europe, under the Chunnel to London, and onward to Bristol. It was…
london, 1 →
i remembered very little
from previous visits
just the names of streets
and trafalgar square pigeons
you don’t often get the chance
to start with such a clean slate
somewhere like…
bristol, 2 →
the more i see
the more i want to see
i could spend weeks
exploring here on foot
reconnecting with tendrils
of family knowledge
learning the significance
of everyday things
i never…
bristol, 1 →
we hopped off the train
somehow it didn’t quite seem
as familiar as i’d hoped
my uncle
asked if we’d seen the footy fans
as we crossed the police line
fortunately
i hadn’t.
paris, 1 →
we steeled ourselves
for the much-warned
bad attitudes
and frosty behaviour
toward non-native speakers
but somehow
Parisians seemed to tolerate us
better than we expected.
thanks …
