Ducks' bums
When the vibes are off, it's more important than ever to remember: ducks' bums.
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Your Mothers Disgusting Window at Mamma Chen's
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
The Higgs, an archive, and the Ebbinghaus curve of forgetting
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
Big holes
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
American Psycho: The Musical at Chapel Off Chapel
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