Limbo. Transition.

Waiting for change that we knew was coming

Both Me & Melbourne in that pivot year of '91 

~

You know it's true

Everything I do, I do it for you

[Operation Desert Storm starts]

@North Melbourne Station 3.11am

Graduation looms but officially that Cold War goes on

The same day I hear about Scuds over Tel Aviv and no more Pan American Airways

 ~

Hello you fool I love you

Come on, join the joyride

[that Rodney King video]

@Port Melbourne Station 6.44pm

Closed in 1987, a station still in limbo in 1991 waiting for the charge of the light rail

(it's barely 8 months since Pyramid Building Society suspended withdrawals…)

 ~

I'm movin' on up now

Gettin' out of the darkness

[Mount Pinatubo volcano erupts]

@Exhibition Building 6.31pm

Looking to Fitzroy across Nicholson street

The Grand Ballroom has been gone since ‘79, replaced with a 1980 mirror-glass space.

Like everything else, waiting for demolition next year onwards…

 ~

I love myself, I want you to love me

When I feel down I want you above me

[Croatia & Slovenia declare independence from Yugoslavia]

@Princes Pier Port Melbourne 6.03pm

Everyone just waiting, really

The pier timbers are declining and fourteen fires are coming here in the next few years

Such is life (sic, Ned)

 ~

Take your time, hurry up

Choice is yours, don't be late

[Tim Berners-Lee announces WWW project]

@Southbank 1.30pm

Mashup of the footbridge with Clement Meadmore's 5 ton 'Dervish'

Clem wanted his sculptures to feel weightless, but the underlying city weighed even less

Melbourne: squashed, truncated, waiting.

~ 

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spot-light

[Linus announces Linux & Schumacher debuts at Spa]

@Luna Park 5.47pm

2 years since the Big Dipper was demolished for something larger and bigger that never eventuated (suona familiare?)

Plea: please don't repeat that 1890s moment when Sydney pipped us

(It's only 98 years since the Federal Bank collapsed on 30 January 1893)

 ~

Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years

I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear

[Freddie Mercury dies]

@Queen Victoria Market 1.01pm

"Action untempered by wisdom" is how my old friend Dave describes ‘91

Not necessarily in relation to this demonstration against the sale of public housing, but c'est possible

Change is hard but frequently very necessary (sic)

 ~

But we're never gonna survive, unless

We get a little crazy

[Keating rolls Hawke]

@Flinders Street 9.49am

Demolition everywhere, but uncertainty as to what's actually replacing the rubble

Barely a year since the [beloved] State Bank of Victoria was sold to the Commonwealth

Will *that* be enough to stave off another 1890s-style depression?

~ 

I am sitting in the morning

At the diner on the corner

[Goodbye Soviet Union, I hardly knew ye]

@Luna Park 5.33pm

Almost closing time at Daimaru and the Geebung

Till the terrified spectator rides like blazes to the pub

He's been haunted by the spectres of the Geebung Polo Club

 ~

Justified Ancient Liberation Zulu

Got to teach and everything you learn

Will point to the fact that time is eternal

[Welcome to 1992]