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Cat Power, Lived In Bars: yes, yes, yes. The huskiness, the piano, the sin, the ache. Oh. It's all too true.

There is a brass band on my street gustily rendering Christmas Classics™. I feel warm and sentimental imagining a bevvy of warm turkey, Christmas decorations and fresh pudding swimming in a sea of custard. But I try to nip it in the bud, realising that my mum never went in for turkey, in fact, the most elaborate her Yuletide food prep got was ( Read more... )

Which one of you festive cats want to accompany me to Barry Humprhies & Friends: Back With A Vengence on Wednesday 19th December! C'mon, I'm well aware you're all scrimping your pay-cheques for Xmas costs but it's Barry Humprhies feat Edna & Les Patterson: & I'll give it to you for special mates rates!

Anyone?

OMG, Meredith was intense. Forty-two degree temperatures, a countryside shrouded in thick bushfire smoke, dirt dirt dusty dirt, double strenght Pink Flamingo cocktails (herein lay my downfall), a ferris wheel and, uh, some of that music stuff. Here's a photo someone took of me, LOL, that's me on the keg!

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"Different people want different things in this world, and you have to be careful about taking risks. Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts. A thing that seemed strange and wrong yesterday can seem perfectly reasonable tomorrow, or vice versa." Hunter S.

I've be terribly emo lately. It's awful & it's useless. Symptoms include: moping, ( Read more... )

I love it when strangers feel compelled to insult you. Like when I walked down to the tram stop outside Safeway yesterday morning and a rather, let's face it readers, bedraggled looking fellow, sidled on up to me & couldn't help but open his stinkin' gob to pass comment on my really special turquoise, mirror-tinted sunglasses ( Read more... )

OMG. I just answered the door & a real estate agent dood gave me a BOX OF CHOCOLATES cuz I said he could nail up a placard on our fence. Stoked, now I don't even have to go out for breakfast/lunch (or lunchfast, as I like to call it).

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I spoke to Allison Wolfe this morning, who fronted '90s riot grrrl outfit Bratmobile, and has been in loads of bands since. Including the evangelically inspirational Hawnay Troof, co-fronted by Vice Cooler who is to die for in a pair of undies. Now she's in Partyline, a three-girl punk band, who write fast, 2-minute ditties. I feel I should offer a ( Read more... )