i haven't used this journal lately , i guess, for a couple of reasons ( Read more... )

 The other day i posted my top 20 album list on my facebook page, but have since edited it.  Here's the final version.

20. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
19. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
18. The Panics - Cruel Guards
17. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
16. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer?
15. The 1900s - Cold & Kind
14. Institut Polaire ( Read more... )

Last night was work's end of financial year dinner, held at Must Bar.  Got there early, via cab, cos we thought we'd have to wait for a cab but it came right away.  Cab driver didn't know where he was going but got us there in the end.  Once there, as no one from work was there yet, we bought a couple beers and luckily found a spot to sit ( Read more... )

A lazy night in.  Got pizza hut earlier, and had/am drinking wine ( Read more... )

Went out on Friday with friends to the Hogs Breath in northbridge, for an early birthday dinner (it was actually on Saturday).  Had an awesome time, food was much better this time than the last time Al & I went there and thought food was really bad.  Of course the enjoyment of the food could have been due to the cocktails and beers friends bought ( Read more... )

So I get to be a dj again, sort of.  Barr has been playing my "old fella" pick on RTR each day this week at 7am.   When I gave him the cd, at "in the pines", he told me he'd send me an email giving me the heads up he'd be playing them.  Since I didn't get that I was quite surprised to hear my first pick on Monday morning!  When he said my name, ( Read more... )

are playing in Melbourne and Sydney the 7th & 9th of August, respectively, and in Japan at the end of July, so one would hope that they'd make a Perth stop along the way??

One would hope, now, wouldn't they :-D

I love public holidays in the middle of the week.  Would be better if it was a Friday or Monday, but good still ( Read more... )

Recap of my madcap week:

Monday night was THE LEMONHEADS, who I'd waited since 1987 to see.  They didn't disappoint, although were quite shambolic in parts, with songs stopped and started again, guitar straps breaking causing guitars to be dropped (but still played, between Evan's knees!), etc.

After Ash Naylor (from Even) played a (mostly) solo ( Read more... )

Al already beat me to the punch, but yeah, Josh Fontaine last night at Rachibites was awesome.

Yester-day work finished at noon, as 5/7ths of the work crew were booked to race in a sailing regatta from Royal Perth YC. I was part of the 2/7ths that didn't race, but Kat & I were part of the "property education foundation's" spectator crew on a ( Read more... )