TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

3:06 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Indooroopilly Bridge, Brisbane. People live inside the towers, it's very very cool.

darlington cocktail research laboratory

enjoyed our new summer drink, the vodka spider last night. mango and blood orange sorbet, vodka and soda (or lemonade if you like it really sweet).
refreshing and delicious - all the fun of an icecream spider for grown-ups.

John Jacobs and I have just refined the recipe, with the addition of pomegranate juice, which he tells me is the best food product in the world. Ingredients: Pomegranate. Can be purchased cheaply from your local lebanese grocer, or more expensively at a fancy deli. Use on ice cream, in cocktails, as a cordial. This new concoction we have named the Lisa Granita, in honour of the fabulous Lisa's birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday! Lots of sorbet, and some crushed ice, pomegranate juice and vodka.

We decided that everyone should have a cocktail named after them, and decided to set up the DCRL research laboratory.

In other news, having a garage sale is a great way to meet your neighbours! and we even found a flatmate or two. It's fun, just chilling out on the front balcony, chatting to people, sold a fair amount of stuff, Colin and Archie (kids from the block who have befriended lisa) came and hung out with us for a while, realised there are so many artists in the hood.
The old carriageworks studios are just across the road, and it's still relatively cheap rent because most people are scared to live there. Every third house is being renovated, and it sounds like the usual sydney property dodgy dealings are going on to try and get a new westfield shopping centre built over the railway station.

just finished a rough edit of a piece about the inventor of radio astronomy, to go with Adam Hyde's work in ISEA for Archipelago program I'm making for The Night Air, which airs December 19th.
Listen to sounds from space, totally gorgeous.
www.radio-astronomy.net