Down at heel
Posted on March 25, 2011
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These thinkers photographed in the Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Café by Brian Bird between 1948-1951. Before most of Rowe Street became the MLC Centre, the Lincoln was the unkempt, unofficial quarters of the Sydney Push and smokers alike. “I was a Lincolnite…it was scruffy down-at-heel bohemia. Edie, the red haired woman who ran the Lincoln Musicians there, said you went down 20 steps physically and socially when you went [there]” (Kenn Barta – Remembering Rowe St)
Photos from the State Library of NSW This one’s for Kelly.
Some girls
Posted on February 21, 2011
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Buck-toothed girls from Luxembourg c/o Smiths & Morrissey clips
Talked today to Lucy from The Brag about The Smiths night presented by Unloveable with Rainoff for Imperial Panda. Please come dance.
Southerly Buster
Posted on February 17, 2011
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A blizzard on one side of the world and a heatwave on the other. Here’s a tropical mixer for you while I sort out my NYC posts and my jetlag too. There’s also an archived radio show of mine here, Lady Loose Joints if you’re so inclined.
* Only one thing I ask of you: listen to Southerly Buster in order the first time at least, please. It makes ♫ ♫ ♫ sense that way.
“Magic in Manhattan or Witchcraft Around Us”
Posted on February 7, 2011
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Abracadabra Department comes from a film from ’58, set in the Village about beatnik witchcraft, so it feels odd not to be updating about the magic I’ve been dealing with while I’m back in New York awhile. All that will come. Words, photos, smiles, you betcha I won’t fuhgeddaboudit.
But for now: SHOUTS OUTS to those who have been A+++ and have heard the high pitched squeal I emit and when crossing particularly treacherous ice patches & are endlessly welcoming/straight up rad.
Movies with Mary … Libraries with Kelly … Everything with Carl … Pudding with Matt W … More movies with Mary … Total bro time with Pressman … Saltie with Matt C … Walking with Ginger … Some more movies with Mary … Pingpong with Darcel … walking, walking, walking & buying lots of books & taking lots of notes & making BIG plans …
PLUS: SO looking forward to seeing Tara & Jessica & Khaela & more movies with Mary. Bummed to have missed Tracy.
SPECIAL THANK YOU to CARL & MATT for the day bed dreaming & sharing their almond milk with me the last two weeks. I O U. <3 <3 <3.
N-Y-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E
Posted on January 24, 2011
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Not going, gone! And WOW is it good to be back.
Home away from home.
The World Backwards
Posted on January 17, 2011
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Stealing a minute at home before heading out again yesterday afternoon, I was listening to Tender Buttons. As Corporeal came on, I glanced to my left and saw the above on my wall. Light reflecting through a palm tree and old glass, hovering above my bed like a curious crystal. The news of Trish Keenan’s passing has left a big impact on me, like many others. Stirred up weird fan feelings. Of how you can have a kind of communication via art, a(n imagined?) kinship just through sound and film, shared interests in a broad world and how the creative output of a person can be so inspiring. How crying over the death of someone you have never meet seems so unlikely, but there you have it. Weird fan feelings.
I was so lucky to see her just last month, on stage, brilliant and alive. How heartbreaking.
* UPDATE: There’s a nice post here about Trish and in it a link to a mixtape she made for a friend late last year called Mind-Bending Motorway Mix
And here is the recording of Broadcast appearing on Jonny Trunk’s show, December 2007.
Two Lane Blacktop
Posted on January 5, 2011
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In 2011, I’m planning on a lot of road tripping and sea faring.
In January & February: Dia for sure. Perhaps DC? (HMMPH)
In March: Ballets Russes & some gold soundz! (HAWKWIND)
Ralph Lauren’s garage Photos by Todd Eberle
An aside: Have you seen Two For the Road with Albert Finney & Audrey Hepburn, directed by Stanley Donen lately? If not, why not?
2000-and-then
Posted on December 31, 2010
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I’ve been watching other people’s New Year’s parties, home videos from the 60′s and 70′s. A lot of wood paneling and semi-shy teens.
Some favourites:
Unknown family home, ’71 NB Quiet girls on the lounge
Altoona, 60′s NB Make-out king & queen
Unknown location, 60′s NB Decorated pool room!
East 28th St Brooklyn, ’60 NB Cute kid crashing out early
Warning: Most are set to not-so-great soundtracks. Volume down.
Lo-oking forward to 2011. Every December 31st I think about The Zombies song This Will Be Our Year (set to a home movie here, no less) but this time I really mean it. Took a long time to come.
“The Quaint Little Australian”
Posted on December 30, 2010
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(L-R: Kerry Koala, Blinky Bill, Angelina Wallaby, Walter Wombat)
Cute flashbacks down in the ABC foyer at the moment. Normally I’m rushing in and out of work for coffee/lunch/retrieving things I’ve left behind in cinemas/sneaking peeks at my favourite news anchor, but today my stroll out for a seaweed salad was almost leisurely and for the first time I noticed the Blinky Bill cabinets underneath all the big screens. Excuse the iPhone photos (you’d never know I own a whole bunch of other cameras, huh), but who knows when they’ll be rolled back into the aunty archives.
These are puppets from the 1984-1987 television series of The New Adventures of Blinky Bill, based on Dorothy Wall’s 1933 classic. The show was filmed in French’s Forest though I always thought it was in my own backyard. Here’s an episode where Blinky makes the ranger spill his beer (beer! on children’s television! increds). Note that the puppets are KNITTED! Not hard felt like I’d have imagined. The details are really quite beautiful, the mottled colours of the fur. I dig Kerry’s batik look too.