tales from an ordinary world

2000-08-02

There's an occasional faint smell of petrol in my part of the office today causing random thoughts of airports and going places and stuff...

It's been one of my favourite album covers for ages (or at least, the memory of the picture if not the picture itself), and I finally managed to borrow it to have a listen to. I wonder if this is where that old dream came from ?

It's been ages since I had a good walk, so I ended up walking home from Elsternwick on a nice cool evening with nothing better to do. Signs telling me I can get an Ice Cream Fudge Sundae for just $3.50. A few restaurants with signs saying "reopening soon", like that odd "Mex-Asia" place I'd never made it to - now turning into just a Mexican restaurant. The funeral parlour has these deathly white wheelie bins parked out the front - not a nice bold white but that slightly opaque plasticky kind of white instead. I wasn't quite curious enough to open one up and see what was inside, though. Regardless, the image remains - White Lady Funerals with their white wheelie bins.

Current Listening :

• I'm your fan - songs of Leonard Cohen, by various artists.