The Incredibles. Not very deep, but it’s a kids’ movie I suppose. Enjoyable though. Amazing luck on Saturday, the crap Kensington video shop actually had a non-mainstream title that I wanted to see. (Wow, even their web site is crap, blasting you with a stupid corporate jingle, and no mute button.) Napolean Dynamite. I was ... [More]
Way up on high, the clock on the silo says… not a lot at the moment.
Seen adorning the front garden of a house in Droop Street, Footscray. Any ideas, anybody? (Thanks for use of the camera, Justine)
From the scrolling news sign above Young & Jackson’s… Seven eh? Oh dear. Oh well that’s not as bad as 60. Wow. Do they know which seven? Only seven? Maybe they should stay home. Actually it’s five. I think I might have mentioned this before, but I always thought it looked funny when I had ... [More]
I treat speeding fines as a purely optional tax. I know some people seem to see them us unavoidable (notably one guy I knew who worked in car insurance), but really, nobody has to speed. Nothing’s compelling you to press down harder on that accelerator. Those people zooming past me or tailgating might remember that ... [More]
I had a headache the other day. Paracetomol didn’t help. Lying down for a rest didn’t help. A cup of tea… that made it go away. Ahhh… tea.
I didn’t buy a house on Saturday. Despite assistance, I was outmanoevred. It does strike me that the auction process is not dissimilar to professional poker. Anyway in preparation for the auction, I needed to be ready to pay a 10% deposit of (argh) tens of thousands of dollars by cheque. So last week I ... [More]
Old media: It’s available when it’s convenient for us. The 7pm news. Sport at 7:20. Weather at 7:25. Morning newspaper at 6:30am. New media: I want it now. Click. It’s there. Old media: Huge audiences, available with low, well established, reliable technology: paper, radio, TV. New media: Minority but growing. Mainstream outlets driven by the ... [More]
I could tell you about how I got halfway to work yesterday and decided I didn’t feel well and I was going home to spend a lazy day resting. But I won’t. Instead I will present you with a hypothesis: That listening to the iPod makes doing the dishes go faster. I also spent a ... [More]
On Tuesday night Melbourne City Council approved a plan (by the narrowest of margins) to build four new tram superstops along Collins Street. Fine, very good, wheelchair accessible, more pleasant to wait in and use than safety zones. But they also plan to close three stops: at Queen, King and Russell Streets. We’ve had a ... [More]
As I’ve started ripping my CDs onto the iPod, I’ve been viewing and playing more of my CD collection than I have in quite some time. Here are some of my favourite obscure CDs: Doug Anthony Allstars – Icon — the DAAS at their irreverent and musical best, with a lot of tracks being studio ... [More]
(From next week’s Aliens of London)