Comments on: Median Living http://www.ballardian.com/median-living Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1208 Simon Sellars Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:09:26 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1208 Genevieve: Shopping malls are more alive than me. You're in Victoria, aren't you? Have you ever been to Chadstone? As a shopper I feel like a neuron in a brain there, switching energy back and forth like a remote relay, completely oblivious to the machinic whole. Genevieve: Shopping malls are more alive than me. You’re in Victoria, aren’t you? Have you ever been to Chadstone? As a shopper I feel like a neuron in a brain there, switching energy back and forth like a remote relay, completely oblivious to the machinic whole.

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1207 Simon Sellars Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:07:14 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1207 I heard about that, actually. Makes his exile significant, perhaps. I heard about that, actually. Makes his exile significant, perhaps.

]]> By: saddo http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1202 saddo Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:31:05 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1202 Re: Wolverhampton ring-road tramp - The Guardian article you linked to didn't mention that after he died it came out that apparently he'd been an enthusiastic Polish recruit to the SS, and after the war was initially quite unapologetic about his involvement, but later exiled himself to the ring road. Not sure how much of this is true and how much is speculation, but it was the main story on local news shows (I know, I know ... hardly reliable). I'm sure you'd be able to find out more via t'internet. I have the misfortune to have lived in and around Wolverhampton for the last 15 years. The ring-road as one of Dante's circles of hell ... Re: Wolverhampton ring-road tramp – The Guardian article you linked to didn’t mention that after he died it came out that apparently he’d been an enthusiastic Polish recruit to the SS, and after the war was initially quite unapologetic about his involvement, but later exiled himself to the ring road. Not sure how much of this is true and how much is speculation, but it was the main story on local news shows (I know, I know … hardly reliable). I’m sure you’d be able to find out more via t’internet. I have the misfortune to have lived in and around Wolverhampton for the last 15 years.

The ring-road as one of Dante’s circles of hell …

]]> By: genevieve http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1204 genevieve Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:52:15 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1204 Sorry. Catherine Deveney has really got to me today. That and the freaking election. Sorry. Catherine Deveney has really got to me today. That and the freaking election.

]]> By: genevieve http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1203 genevieve Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:50:51 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1203 Went to the one I've mentioned above a few weeks back on a Friday night, usually a no-go zone for me. The food court was spooky, something Blade Runnerish about it despite the BRIGHTNESS and laminated surfaces. All the cheap, monotonous clothes created by the enslaved that we are wearing, I think, the lack of free time made clear by all the families shopping together and eating on the run - and the delusion so easily created that you will find something you need here. Then you will take it home and try to find somewhere to put the damn thing, while the homeless man walks up and down the hill three blocks from your house, all day and probably half the night as well. Only alive because we've stopped making stuff for ourselves, I think...we are complicit. Went to the one I’ve mentioned above a few weeks back on a Friday night, usually a no-go zone for me. The food court was spooky, something Blade Runnerish about it despite the BRIGHTNESS and laminated surfaces.
All the cheap, monotonous clothes created by the enslaved that we are wearing, I think, the lack of free time made clear by all the families shopping together and eating on the run – and the delusion so easily created that you will find something you need here. Then you will take it home and try to find somewhere to put the damn thing, while the homeless man walks up and down the hill three blocks from your house, all day and probably half the night as well.
Only alive because we’ve stopped making stuff for ourselves, I think…we are complicit.

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1205 Simon Sellars Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:02:31 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1205 thank you, genevieve. shopping centres (malls) have a lot to answer for. and yet, they draw one in... their power is undeniable, almost as if they are alive... thank you, genevieve. shopping centres (malls) have a lot to answer for. and yet, they draw one in…

their power is undeniable, almost as if they are alive…

]]> By: genevieve http://www.ballardian.com/median-living/comment-page-1#comment-1206 genevieve Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:59:58 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/median-living#comment-1206 A fine appraisal of the interstitial, Simon. Makes me think of the last old weatherboard home, complete with date palm, to be cleared before our local shopping centre became the Gargantuan thing it is now. The owners of this house would not sell - one could look down from the food court into their garden, in the middle of the car park. Precious. A fine appraisal of the interstitial, Simon.
Makes me think of the last old weatherboard home, complete with date palm, to be cleared before our local shopping centre became the Gargantuan thing it is now.
The owners of this house would not sell – one could look down from the food court into their garden, in the middle of the car park. Precious.

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