tales from an ordinary world

1999-03-28

Drove past the new Eureka Stockade Centre, which looks very Jeffish...much like Jeff's Shed (aka. the Melbourne Exhibition Centre). Or perhaps that's just the style of the times ?

Tramped around Old Cemetery. Wandered through trash and trivia market (I came here in 1993 with a friend who was working at Mars...major déja vu...nothing's changed - the homemade goods, the 2nd-3rd-10th-hand books and spare parts for things you haven't seen in 15 years. A guy selling various nuts, seeds, pulses and other foodstuffs, along with free brochures on the evils of caffeine, "nuclear alert" and more. Get me out of here ! I love it and hate it all at once...

Bought a Zippo windproof lighter in Balaclava. The lighter fluid reminds me of airports...of aircraft fuel...of the time Christian and I were idly driving around on his birthday and somehow ended up at Tullamarine Airport, went up on the observation deck and it was quiet ''cause the planes had stopped flying for the night. But you could still smell it...Like Dag's story in Generation X about petrol "smelling like the future"...All these memories in a pocket-sized container. I wonder how many more it'll fit ?