Sunday was a good day.
Started off by going to ACMI again to see the Christian Marclay feature, Up and Out. About what I expected – nothing transcendent, revelatory or even that novel, but I did realize that I listen more to dialogue than I pay attention to visuals, so I guess I learned that I would rather go blind than deaf. But it was free and somewhat interesting. At least a cheeky idea. Did I mention it was free?
After that Mira and I went to Northcote to check out Pizza Meine Liebe and see Dr. Dog at the Northcote Social Club (I convinced her to accompany me despite the fact that she is broke and the tickets were 40+ Aussie dollars). Earlier in the week I’d tried to tell somebody about the pizza place we were going to try, but I’d forgotten the name and the closest I could come up with was “Pizza Meine Fuhrer.” And I knew that wasn’t it.
The pizza was delicious (Mira had a salmon laden concoction while mine boasted anchovies and olives) and I had a bottle of cider. Then I sampled an apparently native Australian desert (despite the fact that it has a Russian name): Pavlova. We split the pavlova with passionfruit and banana, and the panacotta with roasted cherries. I’ve now had poutine in Canada, pavlova in Australia, fish and chips in England; now all I need is to have tiramisu when I go the Italy and onion soup in France (or escargot if I’m feeling more daring), haggis in Scotland and I’ll be all cultured and shit.
Dr. Dog was fantastic, this being the first time I’ve seen them live since I decided that I like them. I wasn’t that impressed with them at Café du Nord, but for whatever reason they grew on me and I proceeded to listen to all of the mp3s I’d downloaded on a repeated loop. Toby and Taxi did their rhythm stomp/almost hop into each other thing, they played all the songs I wanted to hear except for We All Belong, and Architecture in Helsinki was DJing and they came up to all play Heart it Races together. Yes.
Aside from all the housemates serendipitously working at ACMI, I reconnected with another Aussie that I met while she was on exchange in Berkeley and found that she is working at Moonlight Cinema and can get me in for free there as well.
I. Am. So. Lucky.
More on the attempt to see Die Hard 4.0 this past Wednesday when I've got pictures uploaded.
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