The Victorian parliament building has been lit up purple tonite. I thought it was to acknowledge the 10 yr anniversary of Prince dying, but it turns out it's for what would've been the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Outspoken icon or over entitled whinger who gets way too much media coverage?
With the retirement announcement of the Apple CEO it seems as good a time as any to reflect on the thoughts of the much missed Steve Jobs.
Me too. Also my fave time to travel. Although no travel this year sadly.
“Children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness. They’re not mere duplicates of them.” ~ Anne Tyler
Sunny Tuesday autumn morning. I’m listening to Michael Stipe doing the Velvet’s Sunday Morning with the sound of autumn leaves tumbling in the background.
The inspirational Patti Smith with a little help from The Boss and friends including Steve Earle, Dr goddamn Dre on tambourine and hugs a plenty from the Irrepressible Flavour Flav.
Pantsmaxxing sounds like another name for Pocket Snooker to me.
Cute copy in unexpected places.
No Dambusters?!?
The Alpine in Warburton is a lovely pub with top notch food. Good to see it get a positive review in The Age.
I am eternally fascinated by online platforms that need advertising to survive yet shit on advertising in their attempts to get people to subscribe.
Imagine being at a concert and Sabrina Carpenter brings Madonna out on stage as a surprise guest and instead of marvelling at this once in a lifetime musical performance you stand there and watch it thru the screen of your phone.
My dad was once a London bus driver. He always said that a bad driver blames their knitwear.
Our Japanese maple lost half its leaves this week. Winter is coming….
Pretty accurate description if you ask me.
Bedtime stories in the time of AI.
You’re building quite a nice AIR collection. Well done on find the TD.
I can’t imagine anyone falling in love with these disturbing dolls I saw in a vintage store today.
Now this is funny.
“Today I looked in the mirror and I caught me by surprise” ~ Willie Nelson
Have you read his book on Fassbinder? A most excellent read.
Listened to a great interview with the author of one of my favourite music books on the Word In Your Ear podcast. How apt it's Pete Shelley's birthday today, given he co-organised the seminal gig that the book is about.
Neither. But now you mention it the angle on that photo is all sorts of weird.
"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day." ~ Leonard Cohen
This top 20 of Kirsten Dunst films has Civil War at a lowly no.16 and no mention whatsoever of Cameron Crowe's seriously underrated Elizabethtown. Oh and Virgin Suicides should be at no.1 but isn't. WTF?!?
Just finished reading the book Colony by Swedish author Annika Norlin. Bit confusing at first but it packed a powerful punch as it all came together.
