Wow. So I disappeared. For 2 months. Apologies. A short breakdown of what has happened in aforementioned 2 months:

-Got a soul sucking, sales oriented job. Hurrah for money.
-New Years. Woodford. Soaking wet for 24 straight hours.
-Moved house. Now in creative, quiet place. The main road nearby garners more beeps and mindless hollering from passing cars than I ever thought possible.
-Sufjan Stevens. Odd. Great, but odd. Imagining quiet, introverted music dork. Got buff, hula hooping cheeky man.
-BDO. Far surpassed expectations. Bjork and her instruments I'd never seen before were great. Felt all 90's and rebellious at RatM. Mini Brisbane reunion at YKB. Wore gumboots unnecessarily. Ate a lot of Hari food.

Will write about something much more interesting later. When I decide what it is.

The waiting game...

Annoyance of the week:

Having to stand in the ridiculously long line at the West End post office to pick up registered mail containing tickets to Laneway. Then having to do it AGAIN two days later, when my BDO ticket arrived.

on the plus side this is a pretty great Tumble Log.

A goodly portion...

Holidays have begun, and I'm doing my usual start of holidays thing. Placing a heap of holds at the library, and making a list of things to do in the holidays. So far I have:

1. Make a business card
So I'm all professional and stuff
2. Read Dante's Divine Comedy
This is something I've been attempting to do since highschool
3. Make longterm travel plans
Where my Lonely Planet 'Europe on a shoestring' will be useful
4. Learn some more French
By 'some more', I mean extending beyond 'Hello, how are you?'
5. Make overview plan of next years production
Being production manager, I'm kind of in charge
6. Get haircut

My aim when I began the list was to have 100 things. I failed, but hopefully I will have more than 6 things very soon.

So my room is littered with a collection of fairly random books, magazines and half filled art journals. I always aim to read a lot in holidays.
Currently trying my hand at The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Had the conversation about the pronunciation of 'Chaucer' yesterday. I had chosen to pronounce it 'Show' (as in shower) 'sir'. Show-sir, as it sounds very nice and soft and happy, much like his writing. But according to my source, it is actually 'chore-sir'. Or something along those lines. It was inevitable. Feeling kind of fraud-like. Reading it without being able to pronounce his name. I'm also beginning to think in rhyming couplets. I'm not cut out for this literary wank.

Channel 9 trickery, improper use of the worm...

So, for all those living in caves or under rocks, the federal election has been called for the 24th of November. I for one am excited. It may be optimistic, but I feel Howard's time to roll over and die has finally come. This is the one folks. Hopefully.

The debate Sunday night was, in all truth, riveting. I wish Howard would agree to the 2 more that Rudd wants. Maybe talk a little less about money next time. Chris Uhlmann made no friends, very ballsy pursuit of answers to his very direct questions. David Speers moderated it well, the only thing that irked me was how quickly he seemed to chime in a the end of the speeches. Kind of took away the impact Rudd and Howard were looking for. Howard was very aggressive, speaking way past when Speers asked him to stop, but Rudd had panache. I like the way he speaks.

Enough about politics. The Basics played Rosies on Saturday night. Needless to say they were phenomenal. There was not adequate air conditioning, but that did not stop my dancing. Tim had some very colourful solos, complete with parading around the stage and shit talking was at an all time high. Kind of got the impression the crowd wanted to cling to them while sobbing 'never ever leave us again!', and after the mainstage closed and everyone went upstairs, some people no doubt did. Great comeback gig. More in 3 weeks. Praise be.

Also I was lucky enough to get myself a GC BDO ticket, which excites me no end.

Being pedantic

I'm a bit of a usability nerd. I'm all about intuitive interfaces, logical organisation of data, self explanatory navigation. So here is my gripe.

I've been trawling through the archives of a few blogs and things lately (remembering that one feature of using a blog format for a major site is the ability to place your content in a timeline). And, almost without fail, down the bottom of the page, there is the pair of links 'previous page', 'next page' or some other ambiguously labeled link.

The problem I encounter, when I'm further back then the front page, is the horrible inconsistency among sites to decide which way in time they are moving. Often I will click 'previous page', expecting to be taken back in time (blogs being timelines and all) to previous posts. But instead it takes me back to the page I was previously at. The newer one. So the next site I visit, I click 'next page', and I am again taken forward. Some people who give over a certain amount of eloquence to resort to 'older posts/entries' and 'newer posts/entries' achieve a better user experience. People just need to make up their mind.



In other news, I bought a 50mm f1.8 lens for my camera. I've been wanting it for ages, and I don't think its going to be coming off the camera for awhile. Great sharpness, depth of field etc. Brilliant 'normal' lens.

And now brace yourself for a shameless plug:

Vena Cava Productions Presents:

Fresh Blood 2007

Featuring two original plays:

No Bare Feet

Written by Bronte Coates

&

It Would Be Rude Not To

Written by James Grant & Sam Davies

Preview 2pm on Sunday 7 ^th October 2007
Opening at 7pm on Sunday 7^th October 2007 at 7pm
2pm and 7pm on Saturday the 13^th October
7pm Sunday the 14 ^th October

In the Woodward Theatre – Kelvin Grove QUT

Tickets cost - $7 Vena Cava members, $10 Students, and $12 Adults

To book your tickets call: 0421 253 795 or email: venacavaprod@gmail.com

Fresh Blood is a production showcasing 2 student written/directed/produced shows, and will prove to be an interesting combination, one being a surrealist piece, the other an 'Aussie comedy'. I'm stage managing the comedy and would like us to show to a full theatre. A full theatre of young people would be even better. So get along if you have time :)

Sparkle Motion

- Lick It is go! Will probably be very exhausted by the time it kicks off on Sunday (am leaving rehearsal early, and am going to attempt to compose reviews in real time for at least 3 bands from YKB onwards. I'm sure I'll have something to say about that here, so stay tuned) , but will have a dance regardless

- The launch of issue #2 of The Lifted Brow magazine is later tonight at Jugglers. Shall be grand.

- These two events being listed together feels strange and has brought me to thinking about the current split in the general 'indie' (I shudder to use the term) community of Brisbane. Am I imagining things, or have we split 50/50, electro vs. folk? I swear it hasn't always been like that.