Upcoming stuff

Sydney folk! Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo are coming to a Gaelic Club near you, Friday March 12 (next week!). Thanks to the other sister get­ting mar­ried, I shall be there (whoo hoo!). Who wants to come? Also, Mel­bourne kids, who is going to Earth­core...

Random thoughts

Les Hur­le­ments were superb again last night. The sound system is much better at the Corner, but it was less intim­ate. The Age rejec­ted my review of them though, so you get to read it instead. It’s actu­ally not a bril­liantly writ­ten piece, so bear...

Einstein…

A won­der­ful quote appar­ently from Ein­stein, ganked from : “He who joy­fully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my con­tempt. He has been given a large brain by mis­take, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”  I was...

Reasons to go to Belgrave on a Wednesday night

1. Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo 2. Fuck­ing *nobody* on the streets on the way home so you can zoom along at 100ks on your Vespa 3. Prac­tic­ally nobody at the gig so you can sit with the band after the gig and get them to sign your new little red Les Hur­le­ments...

Bitter brilliance

Satire, but sadly it’s true: ”Under our legal system you aren’t allowed to lock people up for two years without charge unless they’re seek­ing asylum,” [Rud­dock] said.  (Thanks to The Chaser) And go read this from the Thor­fmeister, because he knows...

You! Young things!

MICROFICTION PROJECT for the 2004 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Look up and see the text in lights. Voice­works magazine¹s Microfiction pro­ject for the 2004 Next Wave Fest­ival takes fic­tion off the page and places it on public screens at ACMI and around the Mel­bourne...