last thoughts on ashfield : you’ve got ashfield, belfield, enfield, and strathfield – so what happened to canterfield?
future ashfield artists in residence looking for peace and quiet please note : when it’s not raining pratten park is a hive of activities morning noon and night : tennis, soccer training and matches and during the holidays [...]
aargh i wake up and find that all my styles and other carefully wrought plaintext theme mods are stuffed since i upgraded wordpress to fix a problem blogging from within macjournal that had developed. and this is at a time when i am in the last days of my gig as artist and writer in [...]
i like to go to events which are free, especially when its gratis status has not come about through sponsorship by a large multinational company. although often as not it is as much of a waste of time as an event where you do have to pay, at least i have only wasted time and [...]
posts are going to be a bit thin on the ground around here as i am currently in sydney doing an artist/writer in residence gig at ashfield municipal council in the inner west. apart from the fact that the only way to connect to the internet is via dial up (or by wifi in the [...]
a mouthwatering line up at the sydney film festival next month – unfortunately (or fortunately!) i am (only) going to be there for the last weekend. is the glass half empty or half full? well, i am going to miss a swag of goodies including david lynch’s inland empire which i also missed in new [...]
Monday, December 25, 2006
daniel kalder is a travel writer with a difference : he eschews interesting places in favour of
a more rarefied experience: the primal ennui of contemporary life, a reality shared by all if only we could, or dared to, pay attention.
the new york times
this takes him to some of the most boring places in the world, [...]
me pretending to be andy warhol
new york city 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
da silva hates me.
he waits until my light goes out and then he starts moving around in his room.
and then he starts playing his weird experimental music, which sounds like a badly tuned radio put through a series of compressors.
and then he goes to the communal kitchen, which is on my right, and he cooks [...]
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
i was thinking when i am in the usa and europe i will only go and see musicians i have never heard of before … so there is a thing in the netherlands where you go and watch people play in someone’s house : you book online and then you show up there and pay [...]