Music
25 September 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Cisco Savage and Snake Powder. I am yet to make sense of what happened last night. It was a late decision to go see Cong Josie play after Adrian spotted a gig poster while walking around Collingwood. Cong Josie, greaser heartthrob, whose album
Creativity
In the last week or two I have entered two photography competitions. My entry in one of them was this dead microwave. It's highly unlikely anything will come of either entry, but it's satisfying to have lodged them. I entered them for my own amusement and
Music
12 September 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Striborg, ESP Mayhem and Drealm. This was a cassette launch for Your Mothers Disgusting Window, a doomy sludge three-piece. But I will get to that. The first act was Drealm who may have been my favourite of the night. They played multiple drone
Personal
I've just started re-reading John Higgs' excellent book The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds (I am on a re-reading kick lately). I just finished the prologue which sets the book up as an attempt to understand what happened—why they burnt
Outdoors
Today I visited a vantage point that looks over the Loy Yang coal mine and associated power stations. Luckily, my camera visited too. The hole is big, like Super Pit big, except maybe not quite as deep as the Super Pit. Both make the trucks driving around inside look like
Theatre
6 September 2025 in Melbourne, preceded by other activities. It was a special outing for our 11th wedding anniversary and rare foray into the inner south. The day began with coffee and self-administered anniversary tarot readings at Nan's Bakehouse (the local home of good vibes) before the train
Music
29 August 2025 in Melbourne, supported by The World At A Glance, ESP Mayhem and R.U.B. Once again the seemingly bottomless Melbourne music scene delivers good times, this time at the Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar in North Melbourne. We began with punk band R.U.B
Personal
It's been longer than I would prefer between blog posts. The wheels are being reattached to the cart. Since the last post I've been to the cinema a few times, got a cold and missed a Chimers show (sniff! I love Chimers!), and the feet have
Movies
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), 7-24 August 2025. I kind of hate MIFF. It can be a shitfight to get half-decent seats because it's very popular and a lot of presale tickets get snapped up by people with memberships. The memberships are too expensive to contemplate and the
Nonsense
A few weeks ago we had to get a birthday present for a small human and the suggestion was to get a Labubu. Neither ourselves nor the suggester were aware that Labubus have become a worldwide, celebrity-driven collectible craze, so it wasn't easy to find one but an
Nerdery
The other week the kitchen powerpoint where we boil the kettle broke. The plastic cracked and the switch no longer switched. This left us with one working power outlet in the kitchen including the one the fridge is plugged into. A suboptimal situation. After frying two power boards trying to
Outdoors
Ducks'—and I cannot stress this enough—bums.