When in Milawa over the weekend I stayed at Lindenwarrah on Saturday night and also ate at their restaurant. The room was large and comfortable but some diminishing factors became evident. The bathroom was nice but seemingly retro fitted, so that water flowed out under the shower door into the middle of the floor, where the lowest point of the floor was (despite the drain being in the shower.…
Monthly archives: October 2007
lunch at Brown Brothers in Milawa
I spent the weekend exploring the north-east of Victoria with my girlfriend. The highlight was our experience at Brown Brothers Winery in Milawa, where the wine, service, food and atmosphere were all exceptional.
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the beauty of hypocrisy
A Family First candidate likes to take photos of his dick and send them to his friends. He also likes to download porn from the internet. So he’s like thousands of other people. But he’s also a typical conservative morals crusader – a complete hypocrite.…
Une Vieille Maitresse
Tonight I went to ACMI to see the premier of Une Vieille Maitresse (An Old Mistress), the new film by French director Catherine Breillat, whose work I deeply admire.
The film stars Asia Argento as a deeply disturbed woman in the early nineteenth century who enjoys the attention of aristocratic men but whose life becomes meaningless after the death of her daughter and her estrangement from her lover (her daughter’s father).…
Fitzroyalty remixed
I’ve given up for the time being with the idea of upgrading WordPress to v2.3. My first attempt failed badly. So instead I’ve upgraded my theme to 3 columns, which actually achieves my overall goal – to seperate the content better.…
art history
A cute and clever observation.…
presence and absence
What happens when a business or organisation vacates its physical premises but its website continues? Well, apart from me wasting my time thinking about it? Existential displacement and confusion? I don’t know.
Recently the Fresh art space vacated 63 Brunswick St Fitzroy but its website has not changed.…
Mama Ganoush
Last night I ate at Mama Ganoush on Chapel St in Windsor. It got a mostly positive review in the Age recently and I like using these reviews to choose restaurants. I forgot to take my camera but fortunately Deep Dish Dreams has taken some excellent photos of the food.…
Homeland
After seeing Laurie Anderson in conversation on Tuesday night I went to her first performance of Homeland at Hamer Hall last night. It was a wonderful show and performance, and the enormous applause at the end drew Anderson back for a special encore performance of her early song Let X = X.…