journal features
movie reviews
photo of the day

livin' in Sydney

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2000.02.10

We've been staying in a hotel, but have found a furnished apartment to stay in. Pricey, but room enough to really live in.

Sydney is an incredible city. The place is hopping due to the upcoming Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, the weather is great, there is an overwhelming amount of sites to see, and there's generally such a relaxed atmosphere here, even though the place is busy.

We headed into the old part of the city and saw something odd for a busy city center: two models standing around wearing tiny bikini bottoms and body paint and that's it. They were involved in some kind of promotion and the paint made them appear clothed.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot