About Brisbane AU

I live in Brisbane but it might not quite be the Brisbane that you live in or that you've come to visit. Over the next year I want to show you what my Brisbane's like.

A little about me

I'm a cultural studies student currently at QUT. I want to be something between an academic and a writer, or both.

I live in a housing co-operative (an overgrown share house) in Norman Park with five other adults and an ever growing assortment of computers and technological gadgets. We have a cat, Maxx, two possums, five chooks and a whole pile of fish in our ponds. I really like where I live. I can get to the centre of the city in 15 minutes by bus or train and I'm real close to the Hawthorne and Balmoral cinemas. We're in a valley next to a cemetery and when you walk up the hills there are some of the best views of the city and the river.

I'm pagan, goth and geek or at least those are my strongest social allegiances. My sister and I run Prime Nightclub and previously put out the Shades of Black newsletter. I DJ and listen to lots of eclectic music, currently J-Rock/Visual Kei and Nu-New Wave/Synth Pop. I read comics and slash, go to any genre movie I can find and spend a lot of time in the city. I'm a closet photographer, costumer and writer.

Brisbane is my home. I grew up here, between Kelvin Grove and Norman Park and the city. I've travelled a bit and, like a lot of us, always come back.

All of these things colour my picture of Brisbane and the way I live in it. I have strong opinions about some things because I really love this place.

I hope that you'll find this project interesting and something that you'll keep coming back to look at and join in.

If you want to contact me about anything I've included, or let me know of something that I might want to write about, comment here