In my hectic trip to Perth to see Tori Amos I also managed to see family, catch up with friends and eat at two of the trendiest tapas restaurants: Duende in Leederville and The Pony Club in Mt Lawley. The differences between the two were significant.…
Monthly archives: September 2007
Teenage Hustling
Finally TEENAGE HUSTLING! Thank you Tori. I have been waiting the whole tour to hear it. I asked her to play it in Brisbane and it was so thrilling to finally hear it. Pip was impossibly hot in purple and was very bouncy on the piano stool.…
my phone is pink
The international comedian otherwise known as the president of Iran spoke at Columbia University in the USA recently, and denied that gays exist in Iran. Is he a member of the Australian Liberal Party? Perhaps once John Howard gets boned he can go to Iran and seek election there.…
I dream of Isabel
Today I’m flying to Perth to see Tori for the sixth and final time this tour. I’m dreaming of Isabel – the only persona I haven’t seen perform. I am hopeful because some of the others have appeared three times in Australia, whereas Isabel has performed only once.…
mare nero
Last night I went to the Westgarth cinema to see a film – Mare Nero – at the Italian Film Festival.
It started out well but gradually became so stylised and affected that it lost all meaning and became a random sequence of beautiful images.…
free n with every meal
It’s funny how your brain tricks you into seeing what you expect to see. I’ve walked past this place on Smith St for months without noticing the extra n in their banner. So why did I suddenly notice it last week?…
lifestyle
The concept of lifestyle is widely referred to in the media, often I think without much thought or effect. ‘Lifestyle furniture’ for example: what does that mean exactly? Do we use furniture outside of life? Several years ago I joked about marketing ‘diet water‘ and recently I have found out that such a product exists.…
beautiful melodies in BrisVegas
Saturday night’s concert in Brisbane was excellent. For me it wasn’t the most outstanding show of the tour but for the fans seeing only that show it would have been brilliant – another longish setlist with a variety of songs and a rare full version of Cooling.…
conversations
Coming from Melbourne, there is something different about Sydney and its people. Something glitzy, sometimes innane, and depending on which random conversations you happen to overhear, hilariously superficial. Not that Melbourne is necessarily different – it’s more than when travelling I am in different spaces and find myself near people with whom I probably would not ordinarily mix.…