The Owl & The Bat: 'No Words'

Clan of Xymox - No Words
Above is the theme song of this update which will be mostly pictures. It will take you directly to the youtude page, I don't know how to make the link open a second window, I'm a novice in the web world. So if you click on that link, goodbye!

Either way, it's a great song to lose you to and an inspiration for some of these photos. You can click on the pictures and make them bigger. I know that much.

This is what's left of the Coopers Brewery.

I serve a lot of that beer on a Friday night:

Saint Mary's:

Center Point Tower from Paddington:

Kristi and I live in Camperdown which is in the Inner West of Sydney. We are walking distance to a main street with shops and restaurants, a supermarket and amazing gelato as well as good pizza and interesting people. It's a pretty spectacular area. I would say it was the Junction meets Melrose Ave with some Fairfax & 3rd type action on the side. It's called King Street in Newtown.

This is what we see on our short walk from the apartment to 'Kingy'.

This is the dog park and on of the ways to walk to the Courthouse Hotel, a pub with an outside seated and heated area along with good music and the first time I'd ever hear the concept of a Meat Raffle, which takes place every Thursday evening. They also have an event called Crawdad Racing. A baritone gay man is the announcer and he shouts things like "Come on baaa-beey come little babies.." and "Lady Ga Ga no Bad Romance here" to snails with painted shells surrounded by drunk people. There's also a woman who looks like Boy George. All in all it's a good place.

King Street:

On a rainy walk one day I saw one of these:

All that's missing from the below photo is Jimmy Vincent.

Here was Jimmy in London, April 2006.

Back to the walk.

'whale penis':

Girl... you are forever in their hearts:

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I visited the Camperdown Cemetery. Kristi, JW and I are going to take the tour on the 5th of June.
It's very old.

Yes, that is a bag of shit on the stone marking the entrance to the cemetery.

Some people surprise me:

I was listening to the song 'Heaven or Las Vegas' by the Cocteau Twins when I took this next photo. I thought it appropriate. If you'd like to listen to that song right now, here it is ~+~

'Eternity' written on the ground at the front gate:

With a ribbon tied around my head I give my body to the ground:

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I went out the other night to meet some friends at a great bar called the Shady Pine Lodge. They have an 'Americana' theme which means it specializes in whiskey and they play Neil Young. It has a fire place and taxidermy so I'm in. You enter through the alley.

Ladies of the night on Oxford.

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Jessica Watson.

This 16 year old has sailed around the world. At one point the waters were so rough they toppled her boat 6 times. A 4 story wave bent the metal frame of her solar panel. She and her pink boat made it all the way around the planet.
She came home last week and Sydney was up in arms. A journey that started 7 months ago was at a close, 'Our Jessica' was coming home.

Here's a story about her: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7727819/Round-the-world-sailor-Jessica-Watson-arrives-back-in-Sydney.html

They wrote Jessica in the sky. I was working that day and we watched the whole thing on the bar tv.

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Jonathan and I got a new car. This means I'll be here for a while.

Still strange sitting on this side of the car.

Every Tuesday we drive the 45mins to Windsor aka Oakso to watch Survivor. We are obsessed with the show and it gives us a good reason to have dinner with Bobby and Caz, 5 dogs, 5 cats one duck and The Miles Brothers. Here is our old A frame of Love, now site of the Castratii studio.