Friday, July 15, 2005
The South Bank
Soundtrack: "Transmissions From The Satellite Heart" by The Flaming Lips
Good morning this morning.
Brisbane's South Bank complex is pretty bloody ace. It was the site of Expo '88, apparently, and when all that was over and done with, they did it up pretty nicely. The cultural centre is clustered around the start of the Victoria Bridge, and it consists of the museum, the art gallery, the state library, the playhouse and the concert hall. I only had a quick look inside the museum (because heaven knows I'm getting a bit fed up of them), but it seemed much nicer than the Museum of SA, which was, quite frankly, really rather scary and unnerving.
As you keep on walking east along the river, you come to the Arbour, which curves its way along the bank for around 2km, and there's all sorts of stuff along the way: lots of lots of different places to eat, a rainforest walk, ornamental gardens, and a beach. Yes, an artificial beach - I had to look twice. There's a lagoon, and a fairly deep (1.8m - deeper than I am tall) pool, complete with sand and palm trees and everything. Crazy, but lovely all the same.
The best bit is definitely the IMAX, though. They don't actually use it to show IMAX films any more - they just show regular mainstream films on the gigantic screens. For $6 during the day on weekdays. Unbelieveable, so I ended up going to see "Bewitched," because I figured that if I didn't like it, it wouldn't matter because I was paying, like, just under three quid for it. It turns out that all the indie kids work down the IMAX. As I was purchasing my ticket, the girl who was serving looked at my FF t-shirt and said: "Ooh, have you seen Franz Ferdinand live?"
"Yes, twice. And I got to the front at Wolverhampton."
"Wow!"
And the guy who checked my ticket said: "Screen Five, on your right." And then admiringly: "Cool shirt!"
They didn't even get my "Yeah, the Austro-Hungarian archduke" joke back in Adelaide.
The sun had set by the time I got on the bus back from town, and the river looks gorgeous at night. The bridges are all lit up, and as well as the neon lights of the city, are reflected in the rippling water. Pretty.
Good morning this morning.
Brisbane's South Bank complex is pretty bloody ace. It was the site of Expo '88, apparently, and when all that was over and done with, they did it up pretty nicely. The cultural centre is clustered around the start of the Victoria Bridge, and it consists of the museum, the art gallery, the state library, the playhouse and the concert hall. I only had a quick look inside the museum (because heaven knows I'm getting a bit fed up of them), but it seemed much nicer than the Museum of SA, which was, quite frankly, really rather scary and unnerving.
As you keep on walking east along the river, you come to the Arbour, which curves its way along the bank for around 2km, and there's all sorts of stuff along the way: lots of lots of different places to eat, a rainforest walk, ornamental gardens, and a beach. Yes, an artificial beach - I had to look twice. There's a lagoon, and a fairly deep (1.8m - deeper than I am tall) pool, complete with sand and palm trees and everything. Crazy, but lovely all the same.
The best bit is definitely the IMAX, though. They don't actually use it to show IMAX films any more - they just show regular mainstream films on the gigantic screens. For $6 during the day on weekdays. Unbelieveable, so I ended up going to see "Bewitched," because I figured that if I didn't like it, it wouldn't matter because I was paying, like, just under three quid for it. It turns out that all the indie kids work down the IMAX. As I was purchasing my ticket, the girl who was serving looked at my FF t-shirt and said: "Ooh, have you seen Franz Ferdinand live?"
"Yes, twice. And I got to the front at Wolverhampton."
"Wow!"
And the guy who checked my ticket said: "Screen Five, on your right." And then admiringly: "Cool shirt!"
They didn't even get my "Yeah, the Austro-Hungarian archduke" joke back in Adelaide.
The sun had set by the time I got on the bus back from town, and the river looks gorgeous at night. The bridges are all lit up, and as well as the neon lights of the city, are reflected in the rippling water. Pretty.
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Is it HP4 that's going to be released simultaneously in standard and IMAX theatres? Think I read that somewhere. HP3 was on at the IMAX at @Bristol last year but I never did get around to seeing it.
What does it say about me that I've never really listened to a FF song? They were on Jools' last Hootenanny but I didn't pay much attention and wasn't too impressed with what I did attend to. [Runs away from wrath of FF fans. possibly.]
Someone did comment on my Ben Folds t-shirt down at The Plough (two days after the concert to which it referred); someone commented that in jeans and it I looked like a random scruff; someone at Sainsbury's tonight read it but I couldn't tell whether they approved.
I was going to go to bed about two hours ago, wasn't I.
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What does it say about me that I've never really listened to a FF song? They were on Jools' last Hootenanny but I didn't pay much attention and wasn't too impressed with what I did attend to. [Runs away from wrath of FF fans. possibly.]
Someone did comment on my Ben Folds t-shirt down at The Plough (two days after the concert to which it referred); someone commented that in jeans and it I looked like a random scruff; someone at Sainsbury's tonight read it but I couldn't tell whether they approved.
I was going to go to bed about two hours ago, wasn't I.
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