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All we leave are standing stones
"...all we leave are standing stones." - Standing Stones, Marian Call.
I have this line stuck in my head. I'm thinking about Kelly and Noddy and my sister Lis, and Sophie's cousin, Liz, and age and time and mortality.
"We drew nine lines from east to west.
We drew nine from north to south..."
Kelly made such wonderful worlds. I have a post here ( Read more... ) -
MIFF 2016: Mahana
Mahana ( Read more... ) -
MIFF 2016: A New Leaf
A New Leaf
Walter Matthau and the amazing Elaine May, with George Rose having a wonderful time as Mattheu's butler.
May plays a wonderfully naive, shy and amazing clumsy heiress who falls into the clutches of Matthau.
My favourite scenes were:
+ May rationalising her need to give Matthau half her fortune before the wedding so that people don't ( Read more... ) -
Thegn of Gnomes
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I Hate IT!
Tomorrow we start traveling around China. Sophie has finished her classes, my sister is here and we are off. We will use Nanjing as a base, on and off, for the next month. After that we will be homeless, footloose, feckless and fancy free until the end of August, when we come back to Australia ( Read more... ) -
What I'm listening to
"do you wanna dance?
do you wanna fight?
do you wanna get drunk and stay the night?"
[Crowd - Yes, I wanna dance! Yes, I wanna fight! Yes, I wanna get drunk and stay the night!]
It is amazing how much music can lift my spirits here. I was wandering down Guangzhou Lu the other day with an enormous smile on my face, listening to "Do it with a Rock ( Read more... ) -
A cold coming we had of it
It was probably 40 degrees on Monday in Melbourne. It certainly felt like that as we packed.
Tuesday was spent on planes and in the weird non-space that is the airports of the world.
On Wednesday at 1 am (local time) we touched down in Nanjing. ( And then it got cold... ) -
My Mum liked this salad
I mean she really liked it. So I thought that I would write it down here, so I wouldn't forget. You'll find it behind this
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Want to do game design in Germany?
RMIT is offering two PhD scholarships in game design, for Aussies or Kiwis to go to Germany. Aus$30,000 pa for three years plus relocation and optional German language course.
Deadline is still tight, but doable if you apply straight away: Tuesday, 10 April 2012.
Full details at:
http://www.geelab.rmit.edu.au/display/GeeWebEN/Positions
As always with ( Read more... )
