I cooked something new!! So wait for the recipe which will be up this week. I'm slowly getting back into my groove, having all new furniture has really rejuevenated me. Last week was INSANELY busy so I am forcing myself to stay in as much as possible this week/long weekend. I have a few art projects I've been working on at home so I'm going to finish them this weekend. Also as you've no doubt gleaned I've been super depressed over the past couple of months so this week is the festival of Carla!! I'm going to get a body ...
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I had a bad week of not taking photos!! And the one meal I took photos of I didn’t get the details of the place ha! I'm pretty sure its At Home Thai, but that’s the beauty of Sydney, you can walk into almost any hole in the wall Thai place and eat the most delicious asian food you've eaten in a long ass time. Thanks Sydney.OutWilliamstown BeachStraya day at the beach, Clare and I rode the 20kms from Brunswick down to Williamstown, its quite a pretty ride. Although its desolate shipping crates, the colours are really beautiful and the ...
Gosh darn it I completely forgot! I've been in a foul mood for the past couple of days, I don’t know whats up with me. It will pass. I didn’t do much last week, I was tired and settling into my second week back in hell (I'm looking for a job so if you hear of anything let me know, I can do web analyst stuff, project coordination stuff). Blah. I have a major case of the blahs.OutBirthday Party - Penny BlackBirthdays hey. The Penny Black is really great, Erin Tasmania is djaying there a lot lately playing gorgeous ...
Monday Melbourne Roundup - Christmas addition…I took a well needed break from everything, including the interwebs for the past ten days. I did all wonderful things like write, sleep (a lot) read books, watch a TONNE of tv/movies, spent quality time with people who had come back from interstate/overseas for Christmas. Relaxed! I cant remember everything I did over the break but I will try my darnedest, I can say I rarely left Brunswick.out9The best action film I saw this year (only? Oh no right I saw District 9 which SUCKED BALLS). Tim Burton produced, the look and feel is ...
Busy, two 4am days this week. Woot woot.OutThe Boys Are BackAhh Australian film, so pitch perfect, so heart wrenching, so unflinchingly real. Australian film is fucking exhausting and Scott Hicks new missive (director of Shine) is all of those things and more. It’s a beautiful film of loss, how grief makes you crazy and how your assumptions on things you take for granted can have profound impacts on the people you love without your knowledge. Beautiful, haunting film, I cried buckets. Not sure Id recommend going especially to the cinema for it, but definitely one to see. Big thanks to ...
Jeez louise, can you believe I just plain forgot to do the round up this week? Its silly season, things are getting crazy busy. So much so, I cant actually really remember what I did last week.OutMy futures so bright I gotta wear shades - OK OK - Sparta Place, Brunswick My friend Mina has a shop. A shop with a gallery space (available for rent peoples, check it out). I bumbled along with the Beave to the latest opening, "My futures so bright I gotta wear shades" from local artist Hannah Crofts. The blurb goes: "An eccelectic art ...
I tried to slow down as much as possible this week, MIFF and subsequent illness really knocked me for 6.Eats/DrinksIdea Food and WineI recently purchase the Vegetarian Good Food Guide by Aduki Press, and let me tell you peoples, this thing is GOLD pure GOLD. First cab off the rank was Idea Food and Wine and my GOD was it AWESOME. I'm so sick of calling ahead/being apologetic and grateful that I can get fed places so I've decided to do nothing but really veg friendly (or all veg) establishments for a while, I need a break. Clare and I ...
Friday night was date night. I had money to burn and a lady to spoil, so I thought I'd take Clare on a tasting menu of my favourite spots in Melbourne that she hadn't been to yet (yes I actually go out with other people than Clare, to places she hasn’t been before, I know its amazing). So Friday was very very very busy and boozy. Couple that with my derby wife in town for the derby match and my parents arriving on Sunday for my Dads birthday, last week was busy with the socialising. Never fear though, I still ...
Douglas Coupland once said that every city has a particular smell, rattling off what the cities he has lived in/loved imprinted on his brain. It really got to me and my nose has been taking in an olfactory registry of the passing seasons of my 4 years in Melbourne….Northside in winter smells like, nag champa, wood burning fires and cuminNorthside in summer smells like, pot, orange juice and coffeeThe city continuely smells like chinese barbeque, garbage and coffeePort Melbourne has a heady mixture of the stinky STINKY Port (which can only be described as the smell of sludge) and the ...
OutFBI Fundraiser Roxanne ParlourLet me set the scene. Carla is quite drunk, Carla is hungry, Carla inhales some Japanese at a speed that frightens the sweet hostess. Carla is pouty that Daniel doesn’t want to go to the only thing that would have been good on Friday night (Swizzle a go go), Daniel being a much larger more insufferable snob than Carla and is harder to get to come around. Daniel scours a Beat, Carla is insistent that she knows exactly what is going on in town and its either the FBI fundraiser or Swizzle (my preference). Too drunk to ...
Well, I've been quite the hermit lately actually. I've been really loving being at home, that and I've been spending all my money on ebay and my art projects right now. So I spent most of the weekend at home, cooking and reading and watching the first 2 seasons of Extras (are there anymore after that?)OutVic MarketsI don’t know why I stopped going to be honest. I used to go every Saturday morning, it makes me so happy to be there. The fresh produce, all the nonnas, all the yelling. I love just seeing all the lovely fresh food too. ...
This week: POOR!ShinjukuFab. Cheap and cheerful Japanese on Sydney Rd. Iku (which is right across the road) is too expensive for what it is (which is decent Jap), Shinjuku isn't anything totally amazing but it’s a great space, the staff are just gorgeous and you can have a big feed and a beer for $20.SyracuseGorgeous wine bar, would be an absolute BROTHEL on the weekend, well any time outside of when I was there which was 4pm on Thursday. So would be lovely for an afternoon drink, but would be crawling with suits most other times. If you can get ...
