it's overcast today and forecast rain. any weather is pretty exciting in alice, so i'm not sorry for writing about it. as a paid-up member of the cloud appreciation society, it is my responsibility to note and celebrate the overcast. it makes me want to sit under a blanket with tea and knitting. nanacore!
i am, however, concerned that the rain will interfere with the theatrical premiere of samson and delilah, which i'm looking forward to reviewing here when/if it screens in the park on friday. warwick thornton's shorts have already impressed me, and this is the film everyone's talking about lately, so consider me hyped.
and suddenly, i'm three weeks away from leaving town again. next week i'm off to ernabella with the ngapartji team to observe them at work for a few days, and then before i know it i'll be flying back to sydney. wait, didn't i just get home? alice is being extraordinarily great right now and i don't really want to leave, but i can hardly whinge about the opportunities ahead.
i'm going from varuna to the sydney writer's festival to the emerging writer's festival in melbourne, then back to sydney for my mother's exhibition. i'm exhausted already and i haven't gone anywhere yet.
but first it's eye of the storm here in alice, and the book launch, and the visitors, and the other festival that's happening the same weekend, and the mania that is bound to kick in... i wonder if i will end up pranking anyone, as i did at last year's Wordstorm, or ending an allnighter with performance poetess wrestling. we might look like a bunch of nerds talking about books, but it really is glamourous behind the scenes.
anyway, i'm too distracted by life, excitement and such to write the Difficult Second Novel right now, so i'm doing some fidgety jobs and making a new zine or two to haul around with me on my "east coast tour." i am hoping to do an instore in sydney at black rose anarchist bookshop, which is (of course) my recommended retailer for The Diamond Anchor... they love consumer activism, really... i will keep you posted about that.
in the meantime, i am stoked to have a job where i can work from under a blanket.
i am, however, concerned that the rain will interfere with the theatrical premiere of samson and delilah, which i'm looking forward to reviewing here when/if it screens in the park on friday. warwick thornton's shorts have already impressed me, and this is the film everyone's talking about lately, so consider me hyped.
and suddenly, i'm three weeks away from leaving town again. next week i'm off to ernabella with the ngapartji team to observe them at work for a few days, and then before i know it i'll be flying back to sydney. wait, didn't i just get home? alice is being extraordinarily great right now and i don't really want to leave, but i can hardly whinge about the opportunities ahead.
i'm going from varuna to the sydney writer's festival to the emerging writer's festival in melbourne, then back to sydney for my mother's exhibition. i'm exhausted already and i haven't gone anywhere yet.
but first it's eye of the storm here in alice, and the book launch, and the visitors, and the other festival that's happening the same weekend, and the mania that is bound to kick in... i wonder if i will end up pranking anyone, as i did at last year's Wordstorm, or ending an allnighter with performance poetess wrestling. we might look like a bunch of nerds talking about books, but it really is glamourous behind the scenes.
anyway, i'm too distracted by life, excitement and such to write the Difficult Second Novel right now, so i'm doing some fidgety jobs and making a new zine or two to haul around with me on my "east coast tour." i am hoping to do an instore in sydney at black rose anarchist bookshop, which is (of course) my recommended retailer for The Diamond Anchor... they love consumer activism, really... i will keep you posted about that.
in the meantime, i am stoked to have a job where i can work from under a blanket.
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I look forward to seeing you on your east coast tour! Usually the SWF is so boring, I am happy to see you there to save it.
I am reading the Danker, it is wonderful! I world I am happy to get caught up in.
i'm so glad you're enjoying it.
i think i've been to swf once as a punter but it will be mostly new to me and thus not boring. it's amazing how, with absence, sydney regains its razzle-dazzle. flimsy as it is.
will you be at the zine fair?
sounds like the "black rose" is setting up franchise's internationally...
damn anarchists
your not so manly,
Fiance
I will be at the zine fair, yes.
Every year I wish that the SWF was more appealing to me - I look through the program with my pen at the ready, prepared to circle, and end up circling very little. I am looking forward to your talk though, I will ask a question if I'm feeling brave.
Sorry for my poorly typed outpouring of love for your book, I think I meant to type "A world" rather than "I world". I must have been overcome.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
yo fiance, unless the portland one has been going since before 1983 i think you have your originators mixed up with your imitators. seppos seem to think you invented everything.
anyway, i'm excited about the SWF. there are a few good people to watch out for but the program is so enormous it's hard to know where to start. i just ordered tom cho's book too, speaking of zinesters making it into proper book land (should we be starting a self help group or somethin?), and can't wait to read it.
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