Guide to pants off living
July 2005
Melbourne International Film Festival!
Friday, 22 July 2005
It's that time of the year again. Dumplings and Classic Hong Kong Cinema for the Kung Foo fans or coffee and fresh international film of all flavours.
My beloved girlfriend introduced me to the goodness that is the Melbourne International Film Festival a couple of years ago when she invited me out to go and see some Hong Kong Cinema with her. I was so hooked.
It's a great time of the year to be indoors, in the dark, with other mad film fans (and some are quite mad) checkin' out classic Chinese sword films from the 60's or more recent dark crime films from Hong Kong. Better still it's a great chance to see some music documentaries on the big screen. Last year we caught the film documentary of the concert which supported Martin Scorsese's Blues Film series - fantastic.
Last night was our first film of the season. Rash. A great film about street art, stenciling, paste up and grafitti in Melbourne. It was really quite a great way to see the city and this exciting and active sub-culture which is internationally recognised as some of the finest of its kind in the world.
Go and see it. In fact, go and see anything. I'm looking forward to this film.
Posted by travo at 10:03:29 AM | Comments (1)
Temper Temper
Wednesday, 20 July 2005
I've now been working for nearly eight weeks at my new job, and I'll tell you what, I must be some kind of whole new man. No it can't be - I'm still pretty much the same guy, doing the same kinda work...the only thing that has changed is the people whom I work for.
See, it was suggested that there were problems with my temperament at my last gig. Apparently, it didn't suit the environment; you know - that environment wouldn't suit too many people.
Well, unless of course, you're personality type fits any of the following;
- Egomaniacal megalomaniac
- Vacant minded, shallow, back-stabbing dimwit
- Dribbling moron
- Hate mongering sycophantic gossip
- Rush-about 'hummingbird' who really does nothing
God bless 'em - one and all - the people I worked with who were intelligent and thick skinned enough to make it through week after week of complete and utter madness.
I am grateful now to work in an environment in which respect and good manners are common place. Sure, it's a corporate environment and it may not be 'tribal'. Sure, blind Freddy can see that there will always be under-currents of mean-spiritedness and bitching. But hey, at least I know that when I go to work, I can do just that - work. All day, without interruption.
I haven't had to spend a single minute trying to pull knives out of my back. What a relief.
Yeah, maybe in six months things might be different. It's still early days yet and I'm still in a kind of 'honeymoon period'. Fortunately though, the boundaries of my responsibilities are very clear and I'm more that capable of fulfilling those responsibilities and more.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Posted by travo at 10:17:45 PM