Creativity
When did Ballarat get so good? We spent this past weekend checking out Ballarat's International Foto Biennale. The Biennale exhibits photography in galleries, in local businesses, in public buildings and on the street, such that checking out the photos means checking out Ballarat too. What we found was
Music
16 October 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Cat Hope. The Old Bar has got to be the best venue in Melbourne at the moment. There are so many great shows on, the sound is always good, and the tickets are always so cheap. This was $17 to see two absolutely
Music
11 October 2025 in Melbourne, with Rain Dogs, NPCede and Dumbhead. (G.U.N were a late scratching from the line-up.) Adrian was on his final warning after picking the last show we went to which had left us at the mercy of confusing and (probably) occult forces. But to
Creativity
The other day I was feeling a bit unsatisfied with my pursuit of hobbies. I realised I had fallen into a trap: focusing my hobby-related efforts on levelling up. There are things I can do in each facet of my life. Some of them well, and some of those that
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