Archive for June, 2009

Why I want to see this movie: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, he was fucking fantastic in Brick Zooey Deschanel, I only know her from HHGG but she’s cute too They used Regina Spektor’s Us in the trailer I love romantic movies that make no promises about a happy ending

This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers! Too Much of a Good Thing First posted October 15, 2003 I’ve been crying, she says. She admits it so easily. How is it that I can figure out you’re…

“…just as long as you’re not too noisy. The quiet times here starts at 10pm. People here are usually nice about it and they will leave a note and if it continues, they will complain to management.” My soon-to-be landlady gingerly closed to door behind me. As she led me through another door and out…

Dum de dum, nothing to write today so you get some music instead.

A lot of goddamn false starts writing blog posts these days. I spent an hour yesterday afternoon positioning my camera so maybe I could do a video blog. I searched around for various household objects that could give me the height I needed so the camera was at least eye level. Then I got vain…

My grandmother passed away sometime during my first night back in Melbourne. When I landed in Australia, my parents said we’d visit her at the nursing home next weekend. No rush, she wasn’t at risk or under any immediate threat. Dad was to take her out for lunch with her friends. That night, there was…

Taken on May 27th, 2009; good timing and an unusually sunny day during the tourism off-season brought us the following shots from Bondi Beach. While I’d love to say this sums up our entire vacation, time on the sun and beach accounted for roughly 5% of our time in Australia. The rest of the time…

Air travel is already pretty emasculating. You shell out hundreds of dollars to sit in cramped seats being told exactly what to do and when to do it. Meal times are the only highlight and you can’t go to the bathroom when the carts are out. You watch the tiny seat-mounted TV screen like a…