Many times while I was over­seas, I wanted a pic­ture of some­thing quint­es­sen­tially Aus­tralian to show the people I met that wasn’t kangaroos or the Har­bour Bridge. Yes­ter­day after­noon, I found that pic­ture, but didn’t have a camera. There we were, 50 or so people…

To Stephan, whose soundtrack for the Jur­as­sic park game just won best soundtrack on a game at the Aus­tralian Game Developers’ Con­fer­ence. Finally made it down there, didn’t see entrippy, had an okay time. Was feel­ing all des­pond­ent and stuff before I got a call back…

Today at ACMI I ran into Tony Ayres and Michael McMa­hon (Tony’s part­ner), who were attend­ing the Screen Pro­du­cers con­fer­ence (SPAA). Nat­ur­ally, given my thesis, I chat­ted to Tony, told him I was using Walk­ing on Water, got his card and thought ‘what a scoop’.…

Moment­ous Happy Birth­day and Wel­come to the LJ Club, miss daisynerd.

“Fear, Flocks and Free­dom” explores themes per­tin­ent to our times, a world inhab­ited by pop­u­la­tions living in fear. Large scale com­munity theatre, accom­pan­ied by a rich nar­rat­ive and live music. 3pm – 10pm, Sat 22 CERES eco arts park 8 Lee St East Brun­swick 3057…

Ooh, ooh, I got a pack­age in the mail. It’s my Wood­ford Folk Fest­ival presen­ter’s kit com­plete with pro­gramme star­ring *me* (well, okay, I’m giving three classes on Journ­al­ism). More import­antly, I can see who *else* will be there. I am par­tic­u­larly excited about the…

Taking a break from the extraordin­ar­ily tedi­ous entry of receipts from Europe into busi­ness soft­ware. Have to trans­late every receipt from ori­ginal cur­rency into Aust dol­lars using the exchange rate of the day the expense was incurred. Dull. So, I’ve had a good…

“Wanna change the world? There’s noth­ing to it…” Ahh, it’s *magical*. Oompa Loom­pas!!!! Oompa Loom­pas!!! Giant jelly­bears!!! Ver­mi­cious Knids! It’s so bizarre that I could go out now (if I was well) and actu­ally buy Wonka chocol­ate bars… but the bars on sale now…

Cold days fol­lowed by hot days are a sure­fire way to get me sick. And the nice people in TV land have put Willy Wonka & The Chocol­ate Fact­ory on for me. I’d for­got­ten how well done it is. Does justice to the book. Anyhow, snug­gling on couch.

I may have men­tioned to some of you that I thought I’d had a wind­fall: the Copy­right Agency Lim­ited had con­tac­ted me saying they were hold­ing $3000 on my behalf as they’d found someone who’d breached the copy­right act by copy­ing an art­icle of mine. Could I claim for…

Amanda Van­stone: “It’s not news or rel­ev­ant whether they did or did not make cer­tain remarks because they were never in the migra­tion zone.” [More here] THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE YOU SNOTLICKERS RETROSPECTIVELY EXCISED THE FUCKING ISLAND THEY FUCKING LANDED ON FROM THE…