It's been an uncharacteristically long period of time since my last blog post, during which work careened towards the ultimate knocking-off for the year and I subsequently entered full holiday mode. I'd like to say summer mode, but it was 16 degrees today in Melbourne, with
5 December 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Charm of Finches and A.C. Saunders. Once again we find ourselves at the Corner Hotel in Richmond to see a Kristin Hersh project, this time with her band Throwing Muses. The Corner I like, but it's a funny mixture of
21 November 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Dogworld, Cold/Heat and Girl Version. Just on Friday we were loafing about, nursing/admiring our new Lottie tattoos, when we spotted this show and immediately bought tickets (prudent move, as it ultimately sold out). Dumbhead we discovered at the recent Nighthawks birthday
It's been a lovely day for a bike ride. I rode my pushy from Footscray to Williamstown and then around the bay as far as Cheetham Wetlands. This is a trip that involves crossing a lot of creeks. Stony Creek, Paisley Drain (does that count as a creek?
9 November 2025 in Castlemaine, supported by Lost Animal and The Electric Heads. Eating pizza at the Theatre Royal bar before the show, I noticed a series of grommies walking in carrying instruments and said, I bet one of the supports is local schoolkids. Right I was. The first support,
Several years ago we discovered The Midland Hotel in Castlemaine, a hotel built in the Victorian era and updated to the Art Deco style in the 1930s and which takes up what feels like a whole block right outside the train station. It's an excellent place. (It doesn&
We finally made it to see the Western Bulldogs just before the regular season ended. We played the Saints out at Moorabbin Oval (I'm like the ABC, I don't acknowledge naming rights sponsors). As a dual team household, this was not our first AFLW attendance of
With Tropical Fuck Storm, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Party Dozen, Grace Cummins, Exek, NPCede and Loose Lips, 1 November 2025 in Melbourne. Initially I was reluctant to go to this, an all-day outdoor music stage with $100 tickets. These things can tend to involve a lot of queueing
Before I waste a moment of your time let me just say: I can't help with the whole existential crisis part of desk work, the forever-creeping ennui, the black hole of anti-mojo. You're on your own with that. This is about the other aches, the physical
Libraries are good. That's about as controversial a statement as "ice cream is yummy" yet I must express it thusly because I've just been down to use the photocopier at my local library to make a very silly little zine. If you would like
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
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
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