480 Crown St Surry Hills 2010 NSW Phone: (02) 9383 9388 Chef: Krongtong Akkichito I went out for dinner tonight with old school mate, Anthony and his friend, JT, at the newly opened, “Benzin” restaurant in Surry Hills. Although we hadn’t planned to go there, a two hour wait at Billy Kwong’s, meant we had little choice. However, I’m glad we did, because Benzin is great. Located in what was “Fuel” in “The Clock Hotel…
I mentioned the other day on this blog that I’d received an autographed copy of the new Edmund White biography. When I got around to putting this in my bookcase, I just sat down for a while and had a look through some of the other autographed books I’ve been lucky enough to obtain. As each of these books has an interesting story, so I thought I’d choose three at random for your reading pleasure……
I spent a fair bit of tonight re-visiting and reflecting on one of my all time favourite CDs, “Hounds of Love” released by Kate Bush in 1985. As much as I love Kate for her superlative pop songs, including “Wuthering Heights” and “Babooshka”, I guess what I like most about her is her more avante garde and challenging work. I loved, and remember vividly, seeing her video clip on “Countdown” for her song “The Dreaming”….
I haven’t been reading as many blogs in the last couple of weeks, mostly due to other commitments, but here’s a snapshot of some of the blogs I regularly read… Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit: My new expensive toy arrived around lunch time on Monday, so I’ve been spending time setting it up and getting it all nice and personalised. It’s a wonderful machine, feels very powerful and solid as a brick, not to mention…
I had a lovely surprise at work today, being presented with this autographed copy of the new book by Edmund White, an autobiography. White had been in to work a few days ago and I’d mentioned to a colleague how much I’d enjoyed A Boy’s Own Story (and after that “The Beautiful Room Is Empty”) as a teenager living in a small country town in Northern NSW. As the book deals with growing up gay,…
I went with Tony tonight to see “Candy”, the new film starring Heath Ledger (Dan), Abbie Cornish (Candy), Geoffrey Rush, Tony Martin and Noni Hazlehurst, enjoying it immensely. The movie begins and ends with Candy and Dan at an amusement park. The ride is like one of those instruments used in medicine which rely on centrifugal force to separate the different elements of blood. A good motif for the movie, because blood, not surprisingly is…