Eltham — “Interesting things happen on the edges where one thing becomes another” — Kevin McCloud. I recently stumbled across a long forgotten Australian ‘alternative’ — a now redundant music genre but well used at a time when there was a clear delineation between the ‘mainstream’ and the aforementioned — band The Agents, from the late 1970s, and their seven inch single “Suburbs Of The Heart”. I used to ...
Eltham — Edgeland. The margins between the city and the country. Some just end up here; for others it is a destination filled with serious intent and ambition. Karl Hyde embraces these margins on his debut a...
Eltham — Let that one go. Wait for a less crowded one. Time. “I can so see them together… Then you wake up and it’s all a dream. Why did that guy have to be there? … seriously … So what if she gets s...
Eltham — Sharing a wine with Andreas Gursky.
In my head I'm in the Shinkansen.
Autumn
"Dreams Never End"
the humanness of repetition
45 minutes of music and reading. And it's raining. If only the train was empty.
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new HTRK
walking+listening (Melvyn Bragg & co. discuss Social Darwinism)
Cartography
heading for 43º C (110º F)
suburbs of the heart
The best day to commute.
Half-way. I don't know enough to say.
Not only for sheep; out walking & listening to Gruber & Merlin talk about writing...
Cueing up The Necks for a wet run in…
sometimes espresso sometimes pour-over
signs of summer
On the train. New music by The Necks in my sweaty hand. Nothing to play it on ... yet ...
Rhythm
Goats. This way...
Damp
Tell it to the judge.
A lot of distinctions. Minimal difference.
Monday morning.
The steel snake awaits.
Back in the hills at the other end…