Graf art
Posted: August 31, 2004 Filed under: BLOG | Tags: City life Comments OffHave you checked out the graf. on George and up Goulburn? It’s extraordinary. Just beautiful.
http://www.citylightsproject.com/extra_classic/index.html
http://www.silentarmy.com/
Sydney city forum
Posted: August 27, 2004 Filed under: BLOG | Tags: City life, clover moore Comments OffLast night I went to the resident’s forum held at Town Hall. There’s been a few all over Sydney-city, at Glebe, Surry Hills etc. I was possibly the only person under 35 in the room, which I’ll admit I got a kick out of. (Especially when the security guard quickly directed a bunch of old people in front of me, but when he came up to me wanted to know if I was lost or something.)
Lord Mayor Clover Moore is a pretty rocking chick. I was thinking the other day, everybody hates pollies etc. but face to face they must be pretty charming to have been elected to positions of power. And Ms Moore is cool headed, warm, smart, all that jazz, and her councilors and the other representatives were too.
Majority of the night was dedicated to old people whinging about all the noise that starts around 10pm on a Friday night by certain “young people”, driving around in their hotted up cars on Hickson St. One guy complained about all the beggars in the city who trip him up, and proposed that we make them get a permit, like buskers have to. To which Moore retorted “I hardly think we can aske impoverished people to pay for a permit.”
The only other young guy stood up and asked about the lack of youth activities. Eg. Martin Place, the area in front of Chifley Plaza and Customs House had all been renovated to be “unskateable” after they were discovered upon by young skaties. He said skating was a great, healthy activity for young people, to which the police representative agreed and that without stuff to do young people are more likely to turn to crime. Apparently the Moore party are trying to setup a skateboard park somewhere.
I’m thinking of joining ResNet, Sydney city residents network. I want to petition for a Sydney Zocalo or some kind of community centre or general central public space.
Australian comedy
Posted: August 26, 2004 Filed under: BLOG | Tags: australian comedy Comments Off‘Australian comedy’ always brings to mind bad stand up and even worse films with quirky suburban or bush characters.
But now that I think of it, my day is filled with Australian comedy. I laugh out loud through Today Today on Triple J in the afternoon, laugh some more watching The Panel, giggle at the previews for John Saffron’s new show, and then finish of my laughing with Roy and HG’s The Dream.
By the end of it I’m so laughed out I go straight to sleep with a big grin on my face, ready to laugh some more tomorrow.
Armidale music scene
Posted: August 24, 2004 Filed under: BLOG | Tags: dance music, music Comments OffSydney has nothing on Armidale.
On the weekend I went to my friend’s 21st at Armidale, and her house party featured some of her friends on the decks, playing dnb, breaks, house, techno and electro. And damn were they great. Not only was it much better to hear the music in this environment rather than the bullshit-tense nightclub habitat, unlike the club djs who have to play crap to keep the dancefloor packed and therefore the club happy, these guys play whatever they want, and their taste was immaculate.
thanks dudes.
A Girl Named Lucky
Posted: August 19, 2004 Filed under: BLOG | Tags: a girl named lucky, love Comments OffJust quoting from a post “A Girl Named Lucky” recently made:
Everyone says I love you.
Everyone says that everyone has a great love affair at one point or another – usually more than one. Or, if not a great love affair, then at least a serious and engaging relationship.But I can’t help but think that that just can’t be so. There must be people out there who never know what it’s like to love and be loved in return.The clergy make for an obvious, if not absolute, example. Then there are people who have the odds stacked against them. People who die young, people like the guy in that Sociology video we watched in first year, who said, “I would prefer to have sex with a girlfriend because it is very expensive to go to the Daily Planet every time you get horny”. People who are hideously ugly or deformed, like that guy in Dark Angel (which is not to say that such people never find love, but that the odds are stacked a little higher against them).Then, if you can accept those possibilities, you might open yourself to the possibility that perhaps perfectly normal people, who have nothing discernibly wrong with them, might also live a life free from romantic passion. Just because of circumstance, perhaps personality barriers built up over time and so on. Being hardened by the circumstance.So it’s not true that everyone falls in love at some point, is it?
My comment on this post:
The ideas in your post occurred to me a little over a year ago, and consequently I entered a period of abstinence in which I was determined to discover a self who was capable of being completely fulfilled, not only without love, but without the CONCEPT of love. I don’t know if I “succeeded” or not, I’m certainly glad I went through those long months grappling and struggling with how much love and sex means to me and means to life.
In the end, love cannot be controlled, so these thoughts are futile. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. Love can’t be captured, it flows in and out of your hands and you have to let it go.
Wow. Like deep man.
