Make a list.
My darling friend Booky sent me this message through Facebook:
'ADVANTAGES OF STAYING IN MELBOURNE'
* Mitch
* Gen
* Me
* Barton
* Bob Log III
* Delilah Ivy
* The Spiegeltent
* BOC
* Gooshy
* PFDC
* GTD
* Angie Hart
* Gins and Tonic
* The hot waiter in the Smith St cafe with the yellow chairs
* The Curry Family Hotel
* The Tote
* Proximity to Wally De Backer
* No Facebook in Sydney
* Terrible bookstores in Sydney
* Hatred from the Daily Telegraph towards you will feel false
* Pauly P
* Glenny G
* No mosquitos
* Broadband unavailable in Sydney
'ADVANTAGES OF MOVING TO SYDNEY'
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God love him.
Will write more tomorrow. Currently recovering from a beautiful, blessed, sticky, rock 'n' roll Meredith. If you missed it, witness the glorious spectacle of my best friend currently rocking the front page of the Age website:
Sorry lads, she's married etc.
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What am I, chopped liver?
* Threatening gangs of spitting teenagers on the Epping line
* The disapproving old biddies that seem to accompany them, clucking and casting meaningful looks like they expect you to commit suicide by giving said teens 'a right proper talking to'
* $2 lattes at Workshop
* And the teensy biscuit they give you for nix (knowing that morsel will leave you neck deep in the Melting Moments jar...three cheers for death by butter)
* Absence of Miranda Devine
* Road system that makes minimal sense as opposed to one modeled on plate of spaghetti regurgitated outside of Redfern pub
* Occasional hairy scary but harmless Huntsman instead of strides-glazing Funnelwebs
It's not Adelaide
Why do radio announcers all need to be in the same room in the same city? Haven't the ABC heard of telecommunications?
But indeed, Sydney is not Adelaide, and for that you should be thankful.
Was it gabi who tackled the streaker?
She has a mean hit on her if it was.
Do you two wrestle often?
Should I defer these questions to Friday questions?
I want to see what all the fuss is about.
Live Music vs National Broadcaster
Trams vs Ferries
More sunlight hours vs More predictable weather
AFL vs NRL
Brumby vs Iemma
Dandenongs vs Blue Mountains
Torquay vs Narooma
Spire vs Opera House
St Kilda vs Kings Cross
Us vs Them
I'm going to miss you.
Melbourne doesn’t have streets and buildings as an afterthought.
All of the seasons in Melbourne are to be adored.
Melbourne is polished like bowling alley floor.
Sydney is like Clark Griswald circling endlessly the Lambeth Bridge roundabout.
There is no equivalent to Melbourne’s great streets, beautiful parks, cafes, culture, colour, history, mounted gargoyles and good feeling air.
Most importantly if you drink the water in Sydney the cryptosporidium will cause your breasts to shrink, and nobody likes a shrinking boob.
It's not Sydney AND it's closer to Melbourne :-)
Too young to remember The Zimmermen?
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P.S. This blog software really sucks arse the way it truncates longish urls, just to point out one problem. Why do designers think they know how to programme..?
Adelaide is rad. I'll have you know we dine with four and twenty families and so forth.
perhaps you could suggest moving triplej hq to melbourne .. that would make more sense;
The only problem is it now falls short on that one, too. There was a time when Melbourne was the better city for the arts, shopping and fine food. No more.
Within a year you'll be a convert to Sydney's many charms.
Unfortunately Melbourne is no longer a well kept secret internationally and is set to overtake Sydney as the number one Australian destination for visitors and immigrants alike.
I was recently in Thailand and the word on the street was that Melbourne was teh cool and Australia got increasingly redneck the further from Melbourne you ventured.
To any readers from Sydney: Err, you are happy up there? Great. Don't come to Melbourne it's really shit...
Namaste.
it's uninformed prejudice and rumour that makes me think melbourne's live music scene is much better than sydney's.
Truly i would wish for your live music scene, and your local community radio, to be as good as ours.
i'm just jealous of your sunshine, your beaches and your harbour that's all.
But deep down i'm glad we're neighbours.
michael
Self-importance- tick.
Attention seeking- tick.
Arrogance-tick.
Yep. You'll be fine. x
but i wonder if you end up hanging in newtown quite the bit as it's as close to melburne as syders gets, while you enjoy a knock off bevvie at 9am with the buckwitt and wonder what that constant chiming noise is, then accepting that nearly every pub can and does have pokies and that sound will eventually come to replace the ting ting of trams, but not the sweaty funk stylens of skinny jeaned rock boys and you will miss melbourne but then love how things are there in the warmth and you and your ginga of love will be happy.
I reckon.
x
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