Loop and Red Adair
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evildoom_bunny and I went to Loop, a bar on Meyers Place, a lane off of Bourke Street. Which is almost too cool for it's own good. Luna and Clive, who I think of Sara and my doppelgangers, er, or at least a bit like us. Same sort of age difference, same sort of mutual wackiness (Luna is a half-Chinese goth from... Rowville, evildoom_bunny is a half-Hungarian Bassoonist from North Ringwood, for example.)
A friend of theirs was playing slide guitar at Loop. Turns out I'd met him and his blue-haired wife at Luna et Clive's wedding last year.
They played over a documentary about the burning Kuwaiti oil fields, after the first gulf war. That was fascinating, as was me and Luna ticklingevildoom_bunny :-)
I looked up the doco. It was by Wener Herzog, called Lessons of Darkness. Will try and lay my hands on a copy next time I have cash (so, sometime in 2008!)
evildoom_bunny and Luna said it looked hellish, but I was mildy impressed by the shear blokiness of the whole process - Guys in hard hats and overalls, covered in oil, using huge machines and explosives to extinguish then repair burning oil wells. I think lots of men see themselves there with the huge spanners and stuff fighting a raging fire. Every man wants to be like Red Adair at some level :-)
It also reminded me of what a hellish scene there was out there in the desert - over 700 wells were on fire, took them nearly nine months to put them all out!
evildoom_bunny and I went to Loop, a bar on Meyers Place, a lane off of Bourke Street. Which is almost too cool for it's own good. Luna and Clive, who I think of Sara and my doppelgangers, er, or at least a bit like us. Same sort of age difference, same sort of mutual wackiness (Luna is a half-Chinese goth from... Rowville, evildoom_bunny is a half-Hungarian Bassoonist from North Ringwood, for example.)A friend of theirs was playing slide guitar at Loop. Turns out I'd met him and his blue-haired wife at Luna et Clive's wedding last year.
They played over a documentary about the burning Kuwaiti oil fields, after the first gulf war. That was fascinating, as was me and Luna tickling
evildoom_bunny :-)I looked up the doco. It was by Wener Herzog, called Lessons of Darkness. Will try and lay my hands on a copy next time I have cash (so, sometime in 2008!)
evildoom_bunny and Luna said it looked hellish, but I was mildy impressed by the shear blokiness of the whole process - Guys in hard hats and overalls, covered in oil, using huge machines and explosives to extinguish then repair burning oil wells. I think lots of men see themselves there with the huge spanners and stuff fighting a raging fire. Every man wants to be like Red Adair at some level :-)It also reminded me of what a hellish scene there was out there in the desert - over 700 wells were on fire, took them nearly nine months to put them all out!
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Date: 2006-10-27 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 01:06 am (UTC)And we all know what they're an extension of!!!!! :P
Er....
Date: 2006-10-28 04:01 am (UTC)Didn't I make several suggestive gestures along those lines?
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Date: 2006-10-27 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 04:00 am (UTC)Nice painting.
It really did look like hell on earth...