Yesterday morning just after the Taivaskallio visit walking back to the Park Hotel - passing these boarded up buildings - I wonder what they were - they look slightly more institutional than apartments but maybe that's all they were.
Back at Käpylä the kioski was doing great business (many I've seen around are apparently derelict, as per the Karhupuisto one) and once again I am struck by the ridiculous truth that, for some reason, in Australia we can't have this. I really don't know why but it's apparently the case.
I suppose we have analogs to it so I should not be so whingey but when Melbourne is so boastful all the time about its coffee chops, why not institute a straight up kiosk and park culture in Melbourne?
That said, as mentioned, the kiosks are often empty and unused. As per this one:
Anyway so... here's something else I saw (below). I imagine a seagull is on the head of this statue more often than not.
I suppose I will fight to the death for op shops to sell any trash they find, but it is slightly disgusting that this book - surely banned in Finland or it should be - is available on a secondhand shelf.
In the afternoon of the 28 a lot of the time was spent at Jätkäsaari, which is a new suburb right next to central Helsinki, built on former port land. I am interested in this place.
I'm sorry you had to see this (but you did).
Sometimes I take a picture of an industiral-ish landscape and I think 'that's so Jeffrey Smart', a credit to Smart, not me.
I woke up early this morning (29 June). 3:30 am. It was light.
Cafe I went to this morning, because it opens at 7:30 (earliest in the area) and had good reviews. I think it is called Kulma Kahvila.
I just found these images on an old USB. It's when New Estate went to Hobart to play some shows. I wrote about it then but the photos I put up then were different and not as good. This is me and Chris Gorman presumably at the airport, who knows why someone thought this photograph needed to be taken:
Just 'so Hobart':
No idea where this was or why:
Mia did a fantastic painting from this photo or one very much like it. It looks like an island but it's not.
The Battery Point-Sandy Bay border:
Chris and Marc at Natalie's parents' house in Sandy Bay or Battery Point or somewhere inbetween where notoriously Errol Flynn once spent the night probably fucking someone? You tell me
Marc
Anxious times on the mountain, I described it on the blog at the time.
If this isn't an album cover I don't know what is:
I was happy to come across this in aimless youtubing this morning. As it happens I don't remember the clip at all, and I have a good memory for unconvincing assemblages intended to suggest mass hysteria in visual media. Though I still love the song (and Peter Hogg's version from the same epoch, 'Yesterday's Breakfast') I was also interested to see the scenes from Melbourne in the mid-seventies, starting with Bourke Street before it became a mall. There is a continuity error in the 0:20s where JPY is walking south past the town hall then, suddenly, on the other side of the street northwards (where you see the town hall a second time, on the right). Then he's walking past the town hall (clock) again, going south once more. I don't know if the people responsible want to recall all copies and redo this. But perhaps it's supposed to represent his inner turmoil.
At 1:30ish, you see JPY hanging out at the very unconvincing public space above Princes Bridge Station, where Federation Square is now. It was a most unloved space, presumably because (if I recall rightly) it was not a thoroughfare to anything or anywhere, just a platform you had to ascend to and eat your sandwiches and watch those two women go past. Even seagulls weren't that into it (the one you see to the left at 1:37 is animatronic).
As mentioned previously, I am reading Les McKeown's not that exciting (but then, I was only ever a fan of 'Rock 'n' Roll Love Letter') autobiography, and I was reminded while checking out this JPY one that the Rollers did a 'Yesterday's Hero' too (though I haven't got to that bit in the book yet)* but on listening to it I discover it's a most unusual construction in which it's sung in the plural (except as far as the title is concerned). Odd song for the Rollers to be singing anyway, and the dance they do in the clip** is very peculiar too, considering the song's content. Quite a good version but basically a copy of the original.
*Later. I got to that bit. He says he liked singing the song but felt uncomfortable with the sentiment.
**Update 29 June 2024: Fifteen years ago I posted a clip of BCR here but it's now been taken off youtube and I can't find it. But cheer up, there are LOADS of clips of BCR doing 'Yesterday's Hero' on youtube, you have just got to find the one you love the most.
