Sixteen :: Oliver Bryce Yates
Volta :: Switch
Bridge Stehli :: Animal Graff
Matt Huynh :: Asperatus
Sound Series :: Crab Smasher
Penguin Plays Rough Gatecrash :: Harry Wynter
Cabins Showcase @ Mitchell Rd Auction Centre :: 02.06.10
The Peel @ Name This Bar :: 27.05.10
Yelling At Stars DVD Launch @ The Clubhouse :: 27.05.10
Sound Series 2 @ Hardware Gallery :: 15.04.10
700 Photos @ The Darlo Bar :: 15.04.10
Arkestra Residency @ OAF :: 05.10
Tiger Lillies @ Cockatoo Island :: 20.05.10
Survey Show @ 231 Wilson St :: 21.05.10
When you fall in love, you want the world to know. It’s as uncontrollable for you as it is unbearable for everyone else and before you get all whatever-it-is-you’re-about-to-get, I’m not discounting myself from this phenomenon. I fell in love this year, and I was insufferable.
Her name was Ramona. She was Japanese and gorgeous, full of old-school sass and whimsy; she was beautiful and together we were King. I shook with pride each time someone would stop us on the street to comment on the match we made. I felt like a Prince, but was only a pauper; paralysed with poverty and unable to buy her the riches she demanded and deserved. Ours was a love that couldn’t bear the burden of my blunders, and she left me four weeks ago – ugly thugs cut through the cheap chain with which I shackled her (I know how it looks but she was into that kind of thing), and just like that she was kidnapped. I think about her every day, and will never be truly happy again. So there’s that.
There’s also this: people’s relationships with their bikes are getting weird. It’s a global phenomenon that, like many global phenomena, has taken a little while to hit us in Sydney. But we’re finally ready to deem this year Sydney’s Year of the Bike. There’s collectives, there’s blogs, there’s workshops, there’s freecycle, there’s group rides, there’s BUGs, there’s polo, there’s the Sydney Tweed Ride (!), there’s about to be the third Sydney Bicycle Film Festival, which we have reason to believe is going to be the biggest to date (more on that soon…) – and now, there’s a PICNIC!
The Bikes N Babes BBQ Block Party is meeting Saturday 24 October, Redfern Park from 2pm. If anyone sees a yellow vintage single-speed beach cruiser that looks like a broken heart, her name is Ramona and she wants to come home.
Posted by steph in Culture, Events
Tags: BFF, bicycles, bikes, bugs, freecycle, le pista resistance, Ramona, sydney bicycle film festival, three point turnz
catharsis is mine.
this is the greatest thing i’ve ever read.
there i said it.
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post a pick of the beloved Ramona…
she can’t have gone to far.