It’s gone! So disappointing.
The site on the corner of Victoria Parade and Brunswick Street where the old art deco warehouse used to be.
They didn’t even keep the façade. Bastards!
>:/
F off Monday morning
•December 14, 2009 • Leave a CommentI walked home from St Kilda yesterday morning. I guessed my travelling time to be an hour-and-a-half, but the times on my photographs indicate it was a little longer than that.
I’d been at a house party in Fitzroy St. Had a pretty swell time.
Johnston Street, 6:30am:
Now it’s 5:38am, Monday morning. My body clock is totally screwed (again).
Also, my feet still hurt.
Edit (4:59pm): I have just realised how much quicker it would have been if I’d walked up Punt/Hoddle instead of walking up St Kilda Rd and through the CBD. Such a loser.
Roof envy
•December 11, 2009 • Leave a CommentOur roof is pretty cool, but check out our neighbours’ across the road…
There might be a little roof envy on my part. Theirs is up higher than ours, and as we all know, I love being up high. The higher the better. One day I shall pitch a tent on top of the Eureka building.
My housemate Mark suggested having a Roof-Off, mostly because our roof is superior to all others in our six-unit block. Our acorss-the-road neighbours, however, would probably take the competition out if they were allowed to partake.
Hello Mr(s) Pigeon.
I want to buy the Vine Hotel
•December 10, 2009 • 8 CommentsThe Vine is for sale. I am afraid it’s going to be turned into units or offices or something equally as shiteous. Sure I don’t have that much money, but if lots of us chipped in, surely we could afford it?
Who wants to chip in to buy the Vine with me??
It has four bedrooms so we can all live above the pub.
Just think – 24 HOUR ACCESS TO BOOZE DOWNSTAIRS.
The residential kitchen looks new and there is a outdoor hottub in the residential part too.
(Photos borrowed from real estate advertisement.)
Who’s in??
Gratuitious plug for my friends’ band – Mushroom Horse @ I.D.G.A.F.F. 04/12/09
•December 9, 2009 • Leave a CommentMy friend Chris (he’s a rad dude) and his friends are in a band called Mushroom Horse. They are pretty cool. They played at I.D.G.A.F.F.* in Abbotsford on Friday night, and there was good music, Hawaiian shirts and funky plastic bead necklaces. Gemma didn’t bring any kittens, which I was a little disappointed about; though I have a feeling it would have been too loud for them anyway.
Here is one of their songs, with Chris on vocals; I don’t know what it’s called, and also my memory card ran out just before the end – sorry!
* I.D.G.A.F.F., for those of you who do not know, is a little bar on Hoddle St, in Abbotsford. It’s an acronym: I Don’t Give A…
Why I walk everywhere
•December 8, 2009 • 1 CommentI walk to work and back Monday to Friday, irrespective of weather. Take this morning for example: it was raining mildly when I left the house (affectionately known as the “pad”; it’s actually a warehouse-conversion-townhouse-type thing, not a house, but more on that another time). By the time I was partway through the CBD it was almost bucketing down. I declined to board a tram – being on a tram is one of my least-favourite things, even if I am soaked through to the skin (with squelchy socks to boot). The only thing I was mildly pissed about was no longer being able to enjoy The Bravery on my ipod.
Walking to work is the best start to the day, sans not having to work at all and staying in bed or leisurely sauntering around Fitzroy or Collingwood in the sun taking photographs, or perhaps enjoying a lazy breakfast of banana pancakes drowned in butterscotch at Red Tongue – but I digress. I don’t walk everywhere because I’m poor, bored, or desperately need to lose weight (the gym solves two of those three). I walk because it clears my head, allows me time to think about random things without being distracted, and is a good dose of physical activity before I have to spend hours sitting on my arse in front of a computer screen, writing inane crap (such as this). I have to say, the Fitzroy/Collingwood/Carlton areas – and even the CBD at times and in places – are delightful to wander around, whether I’m in a rush to get somewhere or just wandering aimlessly. There’s always time to enjoy the sights, even if I’m late to work. There are always new things to see; for example – this, spotted in Carlton Gardens just off Nicholson St, some seven weeks ago:
In case you ever need something to do with a spare mattress.
Collingwood and beyond…
•November 16, 2009 • 7 Comments
Here I am, enjoying the silence. I am a little belated with this entry – I took this picture nine days ago – but it makes me happy, so I shall share it with the world whoever happens to accidentally stumble across this blog and have a peek.
Up here in this spot I can forget the mundanity of my daily life, the stress and anxiety, everyone who exists. Up here I have the peace and sunshine to myself, save for a couple of pigeons.
Kitten of Doom 
