rainbow street

your glassy eyes betray you

Tried to watch a gig yesterday in the city. There was a bus service disruption, so i had to try another route and i got lost for three hours. its a strange liberation to feel lost in a new city, and to understand the inconsequentiality of you being lost in the city. Finally got to Darling Harbour but by then i was so exhausted i slept during the gig, and awoke during audience applause.

Today was a warm balmy blue day, a sharp contrast to the bleary dreary celtic rain clouds that seemed to take permanent residence in the skies over sydney earlier on in the week. i wanted to go to the beach , but it its getting dark now. started the day with one too many fortifying shots of whiskey before waltzing over to the IGA and buying butter. stumbled home and cooked eggs and cornbeef for lunch. ive been trying to get thru my philosophy readings fast enought to head out and catch some sun , but it doesnt seem likely.

my new landlord is a real character, and i sometimes feel like im living in the paper street soap company. he showed me some kalashnikov baring photos circa the early 1990s when he accidentally stayed in a taliban stronghold near the afghan/paki border. he takes his anti-globalisation, anti MNC ideals to their furthest practicality-shunning conclusions, refusing to buy or smoke big tobacco company ciggerettes or wear any clothes with a label. one comment is all it takes to get him to propel himself into a flaming sermon about third world hunger, american foreign policy, john howard, women's rights or frank zappa. yes zappa. he sings in a frank zappa cover band.

still i feel alot more at home here than in jim's cell. the neighbourhoodn im in now has been the location of 4 knifings since june. one on the street right outside my house. apparently robbers are targeting uni students cos there is a high concentration of them in the area. statistically speaking its probably still pretty safe, but i dont leave home after dark without a jackknife, pretending it would actually help.