mong summer dream (now featuring added winter, also spring)

http://www.goodfood.com.au/good-food/jafflechutes-crazy-stupid-or-inspired-melbournes-first-floatdown-eatery-20130817-2s31e.html

"On the street on Friday night, a gawking passer-by asked one of the inventors if anyone had thought of the "genius" concept before.

"No one," Mr McDonald said, laughing. "That's because it's a stupid idea.""

u guys on drugs >?

they mentioned/made fun of dis on the coodabeens on satdee morning

N told me off for being humnourless about it, and L (as in of L and G fame) called me "a harpie" for laughing about it. But she willingly owns onesies, so I dont know.

can you imagine twentysomethings in onesies dancing around an alleyway in anticipation of jafflechutes

imagine

when are they starting jaffledrones -- I'll pay $20 for my enemy to be hit in the face with molten cheese + tomato yessir

Speaking of hipster fast food items folx should check out G. Colonbaris' new souvlakeri 'Jimmy Grants' facebook page and some A1 trolling by B3c J0n3s.

you got five minutes to plate up your ice burn

can you imagine twentysomethings in onesies dancing around an effigy of G. Colonbaris whilst instagramming exciting looking deconstructed souvlakis

I'm getting on a plane to Melbourne today. I guess I live there now.Boris Johnson appears to have soiled it before I got there.

Also a friend of E's was physically assaulted on a number 86 tram yesterday afternoon. i think I should take the free transfer to Port Moreseby.

That seems all rather negative but i am pretty excited. I shall be sipping a dry cappuccino in Lowlands on the High st on Friday afternoon and loving it.

Eh the 86 is one of the more unpleasant routes to traipse round on, its best to exercise care on it at best of times (she says, having come home on it tipshy last night at 10pm)

Lowlands is 5 mins down the road from my mate A's house! Nice cafe.

No offense to anyone from Qld or Western Sydney, but if I never hear about either of those places ever again I'll be a happy man

A top tip for the 86 is to get on at the front and announce 'Tickets Please' as loud as you can. Watch the entire back half of the tram empty.

Haahahah

Nice of you to roll out spring for my arrival. You can all stop with the bellyaching about how hard the winter was.

This weather is redonkulous! Of course, next monday when I've 3 days off it'll turn to rainy crud, I bet :)

handsome steve's is back! back!! back!!!

Ooh that looks good. Has anyone tried the japanese in Abbotsford Convent?

fucking tony abbott's sticking himself into place names now?

Haha :)

Ididnt know there was a japanese place at the convent! Have you been to the "pay what you like' vegetarian place? Its also good. They do outdoor movies in the courtyard in summer too.

I know it's now 2013, not 2012, but I still read that as "PSY what you like". I really need to clean my monitor, hey.

sorry for being shit at following this thread but are/were/did you mov(e)/(ing) to melbourne?

...are you confusing britisher poster Ed with child of Queensland edwardo?

i don't think so tbh

hmm, must have been

In honour of being though to be in another place, my username is a haitch-penned classic.

Yes but Ed *did* post a bit further up about the convent!

I'm confused, but definitely myself.

Whats the best WhatsOn/Gig Guide here? anything good coming up?

the local free street press is a good start (Beat and InPress, or is oneof them gone now?)

Also when are we all havin' a FAP with you?

I am pretty open, so suggest a day and a place. Any day except thursdays.

inpress seems to have been absorbed into 'the music', which is magazine-sized.

lol @ return of Special guest from Canberra!

Harvest fest cancelled, Maddah rumoured to be buying out Ken West's BDO share. LOL.

it's interesting, isn't it, how all promoters seem to be cunce

well it ain't surprising

any of you oz ilxors live in sydney? i'm going for a wedding in february. all i hear about it is that melbourne is better... (even from the ilx archives)

im probably not going to the wedding in toowoomba now, otherwise we could have made it into a live 8 double stage hiberno-invasion

not that youise are lacking in the hiberno invasion stakes tbf

deportation/invasion, who's asking.

Sydney ilx0rs: me (travelling around the world at the mo but should be back sometime in January), KBP, QGP (not currently posting), edwardo, moley/ratty/Colin S Barrow/etc. gaz/mullygrubbr is retired from posting but also lives outside of Sydney. There are a few sydlx0rs who've never hung out on this thread or in the pub, too (eg ch, pt, nns). jabba h ditched us for his native Englands a few years ago :(

Melbourne's not better, that's just something people from Melbourne say. Both cities are great. Sydney has beaches though, and February is the last month of summer, so a great time for them if that's something yr interested in while it's cold & miserable at home. (If not per se, lots of drinking can be done in sunshine next to or close to water, both at the beach and in the city.)

Basically fappening can be what's happening, possibly in a nice restaurant. And I'll see what's on that week and give you a tip sheet or guided tour of Sydney clubs &/or warehouse parties. (The latter tend to be small and boutique, btw, not cavernous metal sheds.)

Melbourne was better until everyone there grew beards and started attaching toasted cheese-and-tomato sandwiches to parachutes.

Basically, as advised above, Sydney in February will mean a) going to the beach, b) enjoying a FAP near the water and c) marvelling at the ridiculously sunkissed postcard views.

karaoke in sydney deffo better.

Melbourne was better until everyone there grew beards and started attaching toasted cheese-and-tomato sandwiches to parachutes.

I want this on a tshirt.

Famous Hipster Australian Toastie Launcher

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Ned_Kelly_in_1880.png/220px-Ned_Kelly_in_1880.png

fap sounds awesome. i'm basically going with my parents, negatives of being single lol. not a huge amount of family will make the trip due to the expense/inconvenience. i'm v close to my cousin who's getting married so i really want to be there.

so any excuse to have a few nights out would be great, awesome and all as my folks are. quite pleased about the idea of getting some hot weather in february - a great time to get out of the uk.

haitch pls to advise when you are next coming to sydney so we can karaoke

haitch & r0nan could make a moderately amusing 'separated at birth' photo

negatives of being single lol

ah but being single w/ an Irish accent at a wedding now

small wedding i think, heh. i will have further news of this trip in feb...

haitch pls to advise when you are next coming to sydney so we can karaoke

hmmmmm, been a while hasn't it

I'm doin' a gig tonight tbqh if anyone wants to come and laugh at my pointless backing vox. (I think S-dawg is comin?)