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The bit of easter between Friday and Sunday
Today’s purchases
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Adrian Tritschler's stuff
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© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
The Spiegeltent spell
Mark Seymour in the Spiegeltent Third gig in less than a week; Mark Seymour tonight. Not sure what it is about the Spiegeltent as a venue but the artists always seem to be in a great mood and very light-hearted. Amazingly, there were no CDs for sale, an oversight that I’m sure had Mr Seymour kicking himself with the happy mood the punters were in as they left!
Mick Thomas @ the Spanish Club
Two CD launches in two nights, some kind of a record I guess…. Tonight Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing launch Paddock Buddy…. Its the first time I’ve been to the Spanish Club since it decided to become “a venue” and start booking bands, been meaning to get there for ages, but Fitzroy always seems so hard to get to.
A curious mix of a crowd, lots of old Weddoes fans with bald patches reliving their youth.
Spiegeltentage
The Famous Spiegeltent It felt odd driving back from Lorne to Melbourne in daylight — normally we don’t leave until after dinner — today was not normal. An early evening CD launch for Phil Moriarty and the Paris Brests in the Spiegeltent. Phil, ex. of the Gadflys, has a voice and a style that I’ve loved for years, the new band played well. Mikelangelo of Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen a guest appearance on guitar, clarinet and repartee.
Memories and coincidences
Last night as we drove home from the semi-ritual of “Thursday night dinner out somewhere in Richmond”, the Saints, an old favourite band, were playing on the radio. RRR’s “The Australian Mood” always seems to be music I like — two weeks ago it took me back to 1980-82 and my almost-underage ventures into the Civic hotel and bands like Tactics and others whose names I’ve forgotton. Enough rambling, the Saints’ Walk Away was playing, for once it wasn’t just the opening few bars being used as an introduction or station promo.
Spiegeltenting
It’s that time of year again — TARDIS-like, the Spiegeltent appears in the Arts Centre forecourt and brings joy and good things to Melbourne for a month or two. Tonight was the first of hopefully many gigs I’ll be seeing there, “My Friend the Chocolate Cake” were playing. Highly accomplished musicians and a packed crowd, the one drawback was having to sit at an odd angle and crane my neck around to see them!
Christmas Eve Eve
A forecast high of 34 °C and a long list of jobs to be done, the Christmas present wrapping seems to take forever! Across to Oakleigh shops for supplies and the heat hits me, cool again once I’m inside the little mall. Absolute mayhem inside, everyone going crazy with their last-minute shopping. An old lady walks off with another old lady’s trolley, a tug-of-war starts, shouting and arm waving… Suddenly they realise what happens and everyone bursts into laughter and apologises.
A Day on the Green
A quick detour this morning to the Oakleigh police to drop off the bicycle we’d picked up last night on the way home from dinner. At five thirty it was lying at the end of our street, it was still there at eight when we headed out for dinner, still there at eleven as we came home — a reasonable assumption then that it had been nicked and dumped. Police were their usual uninspiring selves when it came to reporting and recording stolen property “Brown Bicycle” was the limit of the documentation until I insisted that they put the serial number on the form!
1, 2, 3, 4... 4... 3..., 2... and now only 1
Johnny Ramone dies at 55, joining Joey and Dee Dee. Nearly the end of an era. [http://www.ramones.com/]
With serendipitous timing, The Spazzys launch Aloha! Go Bananas tomorrow, I’m sure there’ll be dedications galore.
Music vs Sleep
Silver Ray were launching a CD at the Rob Roy, Rob Snarski and Dan Luscombe supporting, in the back of my mind was a niggling thought that there was another support act but I couldn’t remember… the Rob Roy’s website is no use, just a big splash screen advertising the company who hasn’t created the website yet, maybe I was mistaken, maybe I’d been confused and counted Snarski and Luscombe as two acts…
Top Ten
Clearing the desk this evening and out came a list I thought I’d lost for every, the ubiquitous “Top Ten Favourite Songs of All Time.” I’m not sure how long ago I wrote it out, probably two or three years at least, a couple of weeks ago I was wishing I could find it to see how well it has weathered… In no real order:
Shivers, The Boys Next Door A Song from Under the floorboards, Magazine Wide Open Road, the Triffids Pretty in Pink, Psychadelic Furs Throw your Arms around me, Hunters and Collectors Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie The Wild, The Beautiful, and the damned, Ultravox Far side of Crazy, Wall of Voodoo Behind the wall of Sleep, the Smithereens Know your product, the Saints Hmm, no Ramones, no Damned.
Journal for [2003-02-01 Sat]
Tired, slow to start, hard to get out of bed. It’s the beer that does it — beer to unwind from the chaotic end to a crazy week, beer to farewell a friend of Jo’s, off overseas for a year.
A day of inconsequential domestic duties… and also the first day of the Year of the Sheep, apparently not a particularly auspicious year.
This evening was an evening of coincidences. We dropped by to visit Marko and Lesley, with a vague idea of going to dinner at a café nearby in Carnegie.
Journal for [2002-12-24 Tue]
Tuesday; Christmas Eve — woke to hear Biggsy playing The Clash on the radio this morning and thought that all was well with the world — then heard that Joe Strummer had died the previous night. This afternoon I sat on the couch and listened to a few hours of Clash compilations.
Tonight; off to the Corner Hotel to see Mick Thomas — a Christmas Eve institution — the music between the bands was a Clash tape.
Mick Thomas meets Dr Suess...
Its either a sure sign of senility, or of hanging around with a two-year-old nephew for too long. Tonight we went off to the HiFi bar to see Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing play, supported by Gorgeous and the Drowners. During the Drowners’ set, Stewart (Stuart?) from the Sure Thing was standing near Jo and I watching them. The conversation between Jo and I was something along the lines of:
Journal for [2002-06-07 Fri]
Dee Dee Ramone is dead. chuckle the Ramones are leading the Beatles two to one1. I heard Julie is a Punk being played in tribute this morning on RRR. Wow, that was a demo from 1975… what were we all doing in 1975? I seem to remember Sherbet and Skyhooks, and Mrs Andrews my fifth grade teacher.
Favourite junk mail for today:
. [ 30: customerservice5034l57@] Free Septic Tank Information 6618RdoT4-86-11 I’ve been looking at some of the photos that are online, especially some of the material on photo.
Noo moosic
A pair of CDs from the market at Monash.
Stephen Cummings — Lovetown Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers — L.A.M.F. Revisited. Amazing, it was still in the original shrink wrapper from HMV!
Grey December Day
Something happened to summer! Yesterday was looking great, woke up today and it was gray and rainy from start to finish. Felt more like December in England than December in Australia. What to do on a day like that? Sit inside and read and fiddle with the PC, try to find out why, ever since it was “upgraded” by my Employer, it won’t run for more than a day or two without shutting itself off.
Recommendations, food 'n music
After dinner last night I’ll add Cracklins, Swan street, Richmond to the list of places that I’ve had excellent meals at.
[http://www.gillmusic.com/]: Andy Gill Music. I came across this website while searching for a Gang of Four’s Love Like Anthrax. Its been in the back of my mind this last week, a joke in poor taste.
'ol music
Victim of a sudden old music attack: listening to the Undertones, and then found a couple of songs by the Thought Criminals, something I thought I’d never be able to do.
Nothing very much
Tuesday, wandering about at home performing essential domestic chores, listening to music and fiddling with my website.
I’d heard on the radio that Joey Ramone had died, so half the morning was spent nostalgically listening to old Ramones songs — 1-2-3-4 followed by 2 1/2 minutes of noise.
The journal idea has been rattling around for some time, so after checking up on a few websites I noticed that cos had rewritten ordinary world to use php.
MLP — Bookmarks for [1999-09-01 Wed]
e-text http://www.net-books.com/: Online Bookstore — E-Books Security http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/: The International PGP Home Page http://www.rootshell.com/: Rootshell.com Music http://www2.crosswinds.net/~linuxmusic/: Linux MusicStation ftp://ftp.mpx.com.au/m1/moremods/incoming/music/:
MLP — Bookmarks for [1999-04-22 Thu]
http://www.imbdev.com/: MP3 Electronics
MLP — Bookmarks for [1999-04-12 Mon]
http://www.thematrix.com/:
MLP — Bookmarks for [1999-01-14 Thu]
http://www.goodnoise.com/music/free.html: GoodNoise Free MP3s http://members.tripod.com/heroz/: MP3 Super Songs http://stardotmusic.gormanweb.net/mp3songs/: S T A R D O T M U S I C http://www.deadabase.com/: Deadabase Music http://www.free-music.com/: Free Music Archive http://www.davidbowie.com/: BowieNET
About
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…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
…The ISP
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