Sure, the seasonal shopping was trying and expensive, but on the whole the Brisbane break has been good. Highlights include: Days of cool wet weather providing respite from the humidity, lots of sitting around reading Hit Parade and pretty much a whole day flicking through the paper & watching Heidi Klum on the Project Runway [...]
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Dec 29
Wet Weather Killer
My summer holiday book this year was Hit Parade; Lawrence Block’s third Keller book. I was worried about not being able to get into the right mood for a New York hit man book in sunny Queensland, but mother nature fixed that up with several cool, wet days. Ducky’s shower parted the clouds at Woodford; [...]
Dec 29
Vietnamese Graffiti
Today I went over to the new Gallery of Modern Art at Southbank & wandered through the Fifth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. My favourite pieces were Proposal for an imaginary Vietnamese landscape #1–3 and Spray It, Don’t Say It by Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn: Proposal for an imaginary Vietnamese landscape #1–3 2006, along with the [...]
Dec 25
Mix It Up
Tape, CD or playlist, what mixing rules do you follow? Nick Hornby put his (/Rob Fleming’s) in High Fidelity: “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick [...]
