mound

Perry and I went to the dog wash place earlier today and we thought we'd just drop in behind these flats on Macaulay Road to check out the mound. I am interested in the mound and I don't really know what it 'means'. I could probably go in harder on the research but I lazily just went to that invaluable resource the Melbourne 1945 site. God bless that site but it just raised more questions. 

So I guess to the degree I thought about it, I thought that the gasometer on the site was probably set back a bit from the road and the mound in some way remediated the ground underneath it which probably couldn't be built on because, you know, a century of gas-related residue in the earth. But I see that the gasometer was at the road on the far southeast of the site and this is part that definitely has residential space atop it now. 

I am sure there's an answer to the question of the mound but today is not the day. I will say this: my reearcher tells me it is tasty. 

stories from the golf

Cliff Ellen and Monica Maughan in Stories from the Golf. In the service of one of my forthcoming books I am forced, forced to watch a lot of Australian comedy DVDs and this is one of them, from 2003. It's the first Robyn Butler/Wayne Hope series - 5 minute stories all revolving around one hire car (the Golf). Butler and Hope are the usual stars but sometimes there's some real surprises and this was one of them. A really simple and dare I say touching story with some funny things thrown in. Good series! 

nuttelex milk

Well I hae nothing against almond milk exactly though usually I go for Oat Milk, I am not entirely sure why since I like them all. I was fond of that one, I now can't remember the brand, which claimed to be made from pea protein. It was probably the closest in flavour-consistency to real milk although tbh I haven't drunk a glass of cow's milk for over forty years so do I really remember. Anyway, I am a fan of the Nuttelex brand, when it comes to both margarine and now their milks, and I like the no-nonsense packaging too, which essentially says the lie of, 'we've been making this kind of stuff for almost a century, haven't you noticed? Well until recently it was only medical.' I noted that the Nuttelex brand was in 'clearance' mode at woolworths this week and I hope it's not going out of production (of the milks. I'm sure the margarine line is solid, there are so many options). 

coburg wander yesterday

 First, houshops:

Second, just things/buildings that are sort of interesting:

maybe dolls - propaganda

It's been CD city round here lately as I lazily pick up releases by Go Genre Everything, Hot Palms and as promised/threatened/muttered a few days ago, Maybe Dolls. 

It's funny how this album sounds so much more dated than The Numbers' records - I don't know if that's an objective reality or just a feeling, perhaps a suspicion that with Maybe Dolls the Morrows are trying harder to be a part of some current trend. Apparently at the time they were compared to Baby Animals. I don't remember BAs well enough to have an opinion on this but I do think the first track on Propaganda sounds like a very good approximation of a lost track from the first Pretenders album. I am utterly not against that. 

Whereas almost all the Numbers' songs were by Chris Morrow completely (the story goes that he was the singer and Annalisse was 'just' the bass player almost up until they recorded their first album) these songs are co-writes between the two of them, and she is putting a lot more into her performance, but you know, I kind of liked the restraint on the Numbers records. 

This is by Brett Thomas from the Sydney Sun-Herald 15 March 1992 p. 125.  

Remember safe love? Yeah. 

SMH 19 March 1992 p. 31

And below is I suppose where they got their name from.

Sydney Sun-Herald 31 Oct 1971 p. 151

arden st kensington this evening

 

for some reason...

everybody in Melbourne, and the tourists, were all at QVM today. They couldn't go yesterday I suppose so they were borek deprived. It was insane and I'm amazeballed that I was able to get to the nut shop.