Melbourne vol 5

.. St. Kilda festival weekend!

How can you not love Melbourne, when you live inside all that art and music!

Thursday evening “Live N Local” in ESPY. Lots of local bands playing. Blues-rock-indie-soul-funk-rnb. For me there were some definite standouts!

ALEX WATTS
 

SOUL SAFARI

BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS

ECHO DRAMA

Visited the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts and discovered our neighborhood happy hours in the evening: Attik bar at Chapel street. With whatever drink purchase a 1 dollar pizza. Not just margherita but any crispy-delicious oven-made pizza they have on the menu. For a bonus, it is a shisha bar!

Winter Olympics started on friday. By our time, the opening ceremony was from 3am-6am. Baked brownies and enjoyed the start. I was working on saturday, asked my boss to be able to come in an hour later to stay an hour later in the evening. Apparently he didn't get the message and was close to firing me already. The ceremony was lovely, apart from the snowflake-fail, pretty fluid. Russia played to its strenghts: figure-skating and ballet.

Cocktail-and-cake-night at Allys place on saturday, with tempting disco rhytms from Olsen hotel rooftop party, that we could look down to from Allys balcony on the 30^th floor.

And: festival-sunday – the last day of Kilda festivities. St. Kilda precinct was closed for vehicles. Heaps of tents and kiosks with goodies, stages with free live music and any kind of entertainment whole day long. Caught an awesome dance show from several Melbourne street-dance crews.

Got to ride a volmatrone again, play pool and see our favorite Australian bands in Espy. Dallas Crane and third time for British India!! We took a place in the first row and were determined to keep it. Knees and elbows are a bit bruised, but so worth it, they do have the craziest fans. Got to catch up with the boys after and hang out with other travelers. Ended that very lovable night with kangaroo-burgers!

DALLAS CRANE

BRITISH INDIA

Yesterday decided to use our day off wisely and finally caught the free tips-based walking-tour. It was held by a local, sweet, funny studying-to-be a primary-school teacher Hugo. Learned some history, saw some culture and many laneways, arcades, street art and awesome new bars and other hidden gems to visit.  

Two more Oscar movies down. "Gravity" - I'm not a fan of movies filmed in space but this one got my full attention pretty quickly. The music and the visuals together (even solo from a computer screen) make it stunning and powerful. The emotional ride through space held our interest until the end.

"Her" - the films with basically one main actor/actress in it seem to be popular this year. Slow and long, but as being so weird and different, not winding at all. Set in the future, but keeping in mind the rate at which technology grows, these times may be just around the corner - which is a bit scary, technology is anyways taking over our lives, gotta say I wouldn't be that happy to own a computer which thinks and acts on it's own. There are already people who have married their cars, motorcycles and other inanimate objects, so - a lovely, bubbly, flirty operating system would probably drive half of the population crazy. Kinda reminds you the value of human connections! Great score, great script, great movie!

I'm also super happy to have a chinese store near by us. Cheap veggies and fruits are a rare phenomena in OZ but fresh food (and ice-cream) is the main food you desire in summer!