Lee Bemrose

LATEST ARTICLES ( 359 )

• On Being Immortal

  

  Click image twice to make it readable.A friend sent this to me recently. Something I wrote about 10 years ago. Sometimes, amongst the silliness, it was fun to... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Am A Miracle, Malthouse Theatre, Review

  

  Photo by Pia JohnsonI Am A MiracleReviewed by Lee BemroseI Am A Miracle is the latest work from young Melbourne writer Declan Greene. My short review? Wow. Epic... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Am A Miracle, Malthouse Theatre, Short Review

  

  Image by Pia Johnson.Just got back from seeing a play called I Am A Miracle at The Malthouse Theatre. Wow. Epic. Dreamlike. Nightmarish. Disturbing. Thrilling.... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Helpless

  Some moments in life stay with you.There's a local street guy I see around, in various states of psychosis or inebriation. Sometimes he's well behaved, just... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2015: Whoa!

  The cafeis part of the quite wonderful Gertrude Street Projection Festival. We checked it out last night. Much wonder and fun. And a bit of unexpected... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Cuckoo By Jane Miller, Review

  

  Cuckoo45 Downstairs45 Flinders Lane,MelbourneReviewed by Lee BemroseStrange one, this one. It suffers from what I'm going to think of in the future as The Cucko... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Sweating Rainbows

  

  Some days, things just don't feel right, like you've swallowed fistfuls of butterflies and peacock feathers, and now you've got this fever going. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Faffing Song

  My turn to cook tonight. The Dreaded One makes a slightly... no totally and completely snarky and unjustified comment about we'd better hurry up because no we... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers - Mr Guatemala

  A guy walks into the cafe oozing absurd amount of confidence. Says, "I'm after a pie. Yeah, I want a pie. You have?"The daily pie special is a roasted vegetable... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• He's Got What Helfgott

  We have a new semi-regular customer in the cafe. He doesn't play the piano (or maybe he does - what do I know?), but he reminds me very much of David Helfgott.... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Love And Information At The Malthouse, Review

  Love And InformationReviewed by Lee BemroseIt's often fun to go into a play with the bare minimum knowledge about it. Don't read every review ever written of... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Twisted Tale Of Demented Mind Games

  Some customers walked in to the cafe today and said they had come here because they were told we made the best coffee in the area. This is a big call, given tha... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Moment Of Clarity In The Shitstorm Of My Mind

  Here's a thing. Here's a random memory from my most drug fucked days - not the worst days of my life. The worst days probably happened then, but some of the bes... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Currently Reading Medium Raw By Anthony Bourdain

  "As I looked around the beach, I saw in the jaundiced light of my unhappiness, the full extent of the horror of this Island of Dr. Moreau I'd willingly... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Day In The Office

  

  It's a good thing you can't see me from the front here - my tongue would be poking out as I try carefully to spoon just the right amount of Nescafe instant... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Spoonwaoman V Squinchwoman

  Dear Diary, Spoonwoman has been mercifully not present lately. Sometimes I think I see the spectre of here there in the middle distance, only to realise that... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• 13 Years Of Big Like

  

  I'm kind of a solitary soul, but the friends who get in there usually turn out to be pretty special, even if they did crash into my life in unexpected... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• In The White Room

  In the white room He opens the curtains Outside, there is a garden. It's a garden of stories Stories of growth and dying. The stories are secret stories Secret... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Loop. The Boy And The Man. A Short Story.

  

  A boy sits in a park away from the other children who are playing a game with a ball. He watches blankly as they run madly about, laughing at their own antics. ... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Late Night Poem For Devorah

  Cosmic dustCosmic flotsamWriggly lumps of human,We bumped into each other,Once strangers,Now, maybe, friends.(Maybe).We bumped into each otherIn the vast expans... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION