St Kilda

Was trawling through St Kilda real estate, not for any practical reasons, but just 'for the heck of it' and I came across an apartment on Fitzroy St that I used to live next door to. I moved in in 1987 when I was 20 and paid $325 a month. It was my first real place on my own, far away from my Presbyterian Parents and Melbourne's 60's brick veneer landscape. I felt at home, here was somewhere that I fitted in.
Jimmy lived in the flat that's now for sale. Jimmy was intellectually disabled. His flat was piled to the roof with junk he'd collected from the streets, he said once that he'd lived in St Kilda all his life. One day I got home and there'd been a fire in Jimmy's apartment and it wasn't 'til years later I saw him again, 'big fire' he said, he was still shaken by it.
'i got a new place' he motioned with his head 'Jackson St' he said.
I was glad he was o.k., still independant and to have seen him again. His old flat still sat empty and fire damaged.Not long after I left Melbourne, I moved to Cairns, London, Sydney and now I'm in New York. I don't know if anywhere's felt quite like that flat did, it was the first place I felt I could be me.
Jimmy's old flat is up for sale for $289 000,it looks pretty slick, I guess I could say that's a lot of money, but having spent 10 years in Sydney, it somehow doesn't seem so.


( Painting by alf)

live long enough to find the right one

sugar baby love

SHORTBUS Trailer

jiggles said to see shortbus on it's opening weekend to give the film 'critcal mass' to get it screened in more theatres. But i didn't :- ( BUT, have just seen it and it's an awsome pic. bad dog are screening it in Sydney on October 25. Get in and see it early cause surely the kill-joys that rule Australia will try to get it banned. It's really worth seeing

Madonna - Into The Groove

Desperately Seeking Susan was on at MoMA as part of a series of films that are set in New York. Suddenly 1985 was a lot further away than I thought it was. Was it a good depiction of New York?, it was certainly a good depiction of the 80s, VCR machines that take up half the bench, vinyl records, smoking indoors, no cell phones, but what did it portray about New York circa 1985? A certain seediness that doesn't exist anymore,(New York has undergone a mall-ification), and the clothes that people wore in nightclubs were certainly true to 1985( though the roots of those fashions are definitely in London).
Perhaps it was nothing more than light entertainment, a screwball comedy, when Madonna's career was just a few years old.

Tucked away amongst the brownstones on E48 st there is a 1933 townhouse, built by architect William Lescaze for his home and office

Winslow Homer