Almanac Life: Things I Like
That first glimpse of Lake Bonney in early January
Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter
Barbeque ignition
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala
Clare Valley Riesling
The beach and jetty ruins at Port Willunga
9.55am ACDT on Boxing Day
Pushing open the door of The North Fitzroy Arms
Cool McCool
Tim Winton’s ear for dialogue and eye for nature
Vampire Weekend
Langhorne Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
Bruce Dawe’s Suburban Lovers
The shotgun crack of an Adam Gilchrist six
The Glenelg North esplanade
Coopers sparkling ale
EH Holdens
The Big Lebowski
Annie Proulx
The guitar and keyboard solo on Father John Misty’s So I’m Growing Old On Magic Mountain
Bill Bryson’s self-deprecation
Glenelg Football Club
Shaun Micallef’s eyebrow
The menace of Keef’s guitar
Lake Wazzapamani
The Magpie and Stump pub
Kapunda High School’s croquet lawn
Allen de Botton’s The Art of Travel
Lana Del Rey
Group 1 racehorse and super stallion Snitzel
Clare Golf Club’s seventh hole
The Broadway’s beer garden
Frank Zappa
Greg Chappell cricket hats
Garfish
Wichita Lineman
Triple J’s vitality
The humour in Courtney Barnett’s music
The architecture of Santiago Calatrava
Gideon Haigh’s cricket writing
The pause at the top of Shane Warne’s run up
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Belle and Sebastian’s delicate nostalgia
1998 Group Three Canterbury Cup winner Waikikamukau
Unexpected snow
The quiet intimacy in Josh Pyke’s lyrics
Paul McCartney’s boyish optimism
Three Little Bops
Blundstone boots
The Trip
Possessive apostrophes
Sonic Youth’s beautiful guitar noise
The DK Lillee statue outside the MCG’s Gate 1
Three D radio
The beauty and dread in Radiohead’s OK Computer
Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Sea monkeys
Kapunda’s Prince of Wales pub
Dunlop Volleys
The 1976 SANFL grand final
Paul Kelly’s evocations of summer
The Hammersmith & City Line
Frogger
Rose of Cimmaron by Poco when the banjo and harmonica emerge ever so quietly and briefly, right at the finish
Sizzletown
Wes Anderson’s shot composition
The Group 1 LKS MacKinnon Stakes
Don DeLillo
Championship Vinyl
Tim Lane’s commentary
Ljungbyhed, Sweden
The sound of a bag of ice being dropped near an esky
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About Mickey Randall
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I’d reckon your FB home page would be fairly ‘busy’ Mickey. Are all on the list current likes or have a few previous likes that haven’t been recently experienced been added? There are a couple there that I dislike and a couple I’ll need to look up. This should be a interesting comment read. Cheers.
The emus at Coffin Bay.
Cracker Mickey!
The last one – prefer the silence shattering sound of the bag of ice being spread across the esky contents!
Well that’s done it. “Rose of Cimarron” is my earworm for the weekend.
Thankfully.
No chicken salt, sausage rolls or Skyhooks?
Thanks to all for stopping by.
DBalassone- yes, and much better than coffins at Emu Bay.
Dips- all of these sounds form a concerto.
Swish- these are for the dark web version.
Magpies warbling
Ditto butcher birds
Coopers sparkling ale
Like you Mickey I love garfish, both catching and eating. However I remember getting one of their little side bones stuck in my throat. For days no matter what I tried, it wouldn’t budge, One night, about 5 days later, after visiting a friend, I stopped into a deli for a bottle of Coke. Whilst there I also bought a Kit Kat bar. The very first wafer I ate did the trick and moved that irritating bone, much to my delight. Like Rulebook, I love the Mighty Redlegs. I’m also a big fan of the Goodwood Indians baseball team. I also really love apple turnovers from my local Vietnamese bakery.
Andre Rieu concerts and reading novels by Michael Connelly, Jeffrey Deaver, David Baldacci and Lee Child.
Thanks Snowy.
Fisho- cheers for alerting me to the restorative powers of Kit Kats! I’m getting a medical bracelet made as such.
Pedal steel guitar
Great list MR!
Earlier today I was listening to the most excellent Miniskirt by The Sleepy Jackson and contemplating its great pedal steel guitar! An unheralded gem. Timely as always Rick.
‘Who’s on first’ routine
Pork crackling
Horatio Hornblower novels
View of Paris from Montmartre hill
Cuddles from grandkids
Beethoven’s seventh
Midnight daylight at North Cape, Norway
‘Chalice from the palace’ routine (& magnetic armour)
Sinatra’s ‘I’ve got you under my skin’
View of London from top of St Paul’s dome
Cheers, Burkie
Burkie, “Who’s on First”, is a fabulous Abbott and Costello routine, a must for all baseball lovers.
Laurel and Hardy clips are also fantastic viewing
Carry On movies featuring Sid James, Kenneth “Nostrills: Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey and Barbara Windsor. are a treat.
Thanks Burkie. So if you were in Montmarte eating pork crackling and listening to Sinatra, you’d be pretty pleased? It’s the best part of Paris.
Fisho- the American Abbott and Costello much funnier than our local version.
Mickey, I’ve never seen the Australian version, only seen the American version – it’s hilarious. I don’t know of any of my baseballing friends that don’t love it.
Mickey, Love your suggestion re Montmartre. Might even stroll down to Moulin Rouge to catch the late show. Ah, Paris when it sizzles!
Cheers, Burkie
Ten years ago we did a cooking class in Montmartre. The most butter we’ve ever used cooking and the results were magnifique! Then we walked the ten thousand steps up to Sacre-Coeur and were tranfixed by its beauty and the jaw-dropping panorama of Paris. I wanna go back there!
Coopers Sparkling Ale – from a long-neck
#bucketlist
I now quite like lists of the things you like.
thanks Mickey. Super idea.
thanks Mickey
Thanks to everyone for commenting. Saddens me but Montmarte more chance of getting a side in the AFL than Tassie.
Pleased to see Frank Zappa made the cut!
Billy the Mountain and Joe’s Garage make him a certainty. Thanks Adam.
This is a superb list. I’m on board anything that includes Shaun Micallef or his eyebrow.
But nothing beats the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala. What a good looking venue. I so want to go there.
I wonder how often The Dalai Lama attends a match? Did he see Steve Smith make his ton in the venue’s only Test to date? Did aforementioned auteur Wes Anderson undertake the set design, given the ground’s colour scheme and stylised appearance?
Thanks Luke.