Slack Bugger
Jun. 13th, 2006 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatDear Diary,
It occurs to me that I've been doing a lot of posts to this journal of late which are just "check this out" type entries. In other words, content from elsewhere, and not much by way of a journal.
I shall now attempt to remedy this, at least for the next few minutes while I procrastinate about cleaning the bathroom. Hey, I have to finish my decaf turkish coffee before it gets cold.
I spent some of today (a public holiday here in Victoria) driving around the old Kodak site in Coburg. I had half an idea to buy a house there when they knock down all the factory buildings and turn it into another sub-suburb. But... It's actually in quite a miserable area, industrial on one side (no surprise there) and a whole lot of sad sad brick houses on all the other sides. Then we popped into the old Pentridge prison site, which is being rapidly transformed into a housing estate. Damn, it was so samey, so many dead ends and so many shitty new town houses. At least six of which are already for sale. I suspect that's a fore-taste of what Kodak is going to become. Might have to come up with another plan... *sigh* Although it's not like I can afford to buy a house anywhere, let alone the places I like like Northcote.
Saturday night we headed out to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evildoom_bunny's place out in North Ringwood. Well, technically her place, given she spends 90% of her time here at my place :-) We watched no less than FOUR DVD's - more than I've watched in six months. And, more of a miracle, only one of them had I seen before. It was "Lilo and Stitch" (yes, the kids animation. Rent it - it's really good), followed by "Henry Rollins: Shock and Awe", "Lost in La Mancha" and "Bubba Ho-Tep". Go look 'em up on imdb if you're interested, I can't be bothered making links for them all. Rollins is amazing, I've seen and heard a lot of his material lately - including live in late Jan - and he never repeats himself! The dude is one amazing talker. Lost in La Mancha is a doco about Terry Gilliam's attempts to make a film of Don Quixote. And Bubba Ho-Tep is a low-budget film about Elvis, alive and well in a nursing home fighting an Egyptian mummy who is going around eating souls...
Saturday we had brunch with Hazel. We did some nerdy, nerdy shit. I have a little hand-held PC from work. Hazel beamed some photos from her far too sophisticated phone to it via infrared, then later I beamed 'em to my laptop. Nerdy!!! Wait till I post the pix... :-)
Friday night we went to what I believe is a new venue, the East Brunswick on Lygon street, to see Love of Diagrams. Nice to see a new music venue starting up - but damn it's too clean and damn the crowds in these places make me feel old these days. The average age is closer toevildoom_bunny's than my 34 year old arse....
Well, finished drinking my Turkish coffee, I'd better go clean the bathroom...
It occurs to me that I've been doing a lot of posts to this journal of late which are just "check this out" type entries. In other words, content from elsewhere, and not much by way of a journal.
I shall now attempt to remedy this, at least for the next few minutes while I procrastinate about cleaning the bathroom. Hey, I have to finish my decaf turkish coffee before it gets cold.
I spent some of today (a public holiday here in Victoria) driving around the old Kodak site in Coburg. I had half an idea to buy a house there when they knock down all the factory buildings and turn it into another sub-suburb. But... It's actually in quite a miserable area, industrial on one side (no surprise there) and a whole lot of sad sad brick houses on all the other sides. Then we popped into the old Pentridge prison site, which is being rapidly transformed into a housing estate. Damn, it was so samey, so many dead ends and so many shitty new town houses. At least six of which are already for sale. I suspect that's a fore-taste of what Kodak is going to become. Might have to come up with another plan... *sigh* Although it's not like I can afford to buy a house anywhere, let alone the places I like like Northcote.
Saturday night we headed out to
evildoom_bunny's place out in North Ringwood. Well, technically her place, given she spends 90% of her time here at my place :-) We watched no less than FOUR DVD's - more than I've watched in six months. And, more of a miracle, only one of them had I seen before. It was "Lilo and Stitch" (yes, the kids animation. Rent it - it's really good), followed by "Henry Rollins: Shock and Awe", "Lost in La Mancha" and "Bubba Ho-Tep". Go look 'em up on imdb if you're interested, I can't be bothered making links for them all. Rollins is amazing, I've seen and heard a lot of his material lately - including live in late Jan - and he never repeats himself! The dude is one amazing talker. Lost in La Mancha is a doco about Terry Gilliam's attempts to make a film of Don Quixote. And Bubba Ho-Tep is a low-budget film about Elvis, alive and well in a nursing home fighting an Egyptian mummy who is going around eating souls...Saturday we had brunch with Hazel. We did some nerdy, nerdy shit. I have a little hand-held PC from work. Hazel beamed some photos from her far too sophisticated phone to it via infrared, then later I beamed 'em to my laptop. Nerdy!!! Wait till I post the pix... :-)
Friday night we went to what I believe is a new venue, the East Brunswick on Lygon street, to see Love of Diagrams. Nice to see a new music venue starting up - but damn it's too clean and damn the crowds in these places make me feel old these days. The average age is closer to
evildoom_bunny's than my 34 year old arse....Well, finished drinking my Turkish coffee, I'd better go clean the bathroom...
