Monday, June 26, 2006

My Name Is Earl

Just saw the pilot episode. The two people who read this blog must MUST watch this show!

It's funny.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

So Cold....

Out unit is cold. Last night I was wearing five layers of clothing on my skinny torso.

Left Of Dial

One thing I’ve been surprised about is the quality of the CD’s in the Randwick library. From past experience local library’s collections are hopelessly outdated and/or contain Abba compilations and generic ‘Hits of the 50’s’.

I was able to pick up a 4 CD box set called ‘Left Of The Dial’ that was released by Rhino records a few years back. This partial track list reads like one of James’ Rage video compilations

Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
Going Underground - The Jam
A Forest - The Cure
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
I Will Dare - The Replacements
Hollywood (Africa) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Temptation - New Order
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely - Husker Du
Cattle And Cane - The Go-Betweens
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
The Charming Man - The Smiths
Behind The Wall Of Sleep - The Smithereens
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
Senses Working Overtime - XTC
Birthday - The Sugarcubes
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Uncertain Smile (Original 7 Inch Version) - The The
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays
A Pair Of Brown Eyes - The Pogues
A New England - Billy Bragg


Anyway, this wasn’t supposed to be a record review. (I've been sworn off record reviews since grade 10 when I typed up the above mentiond James’s review of ‘Under A Blood Red Sky’ and changed all the references to Martin Luther King -MLK to ‘Milk’. Hey Bob Geldof had an argument with Maggie Thatcher about Butter, why couldn’t Bonno sing about Milk?)

While we are reminiscing, ‘The Queen Is Dead’ is 20 years old this month. The current airfreight copy of the NME* has a cover story and a fair chunk if the magazine devoted to it. Box set still on the cards for September.



*available Tuesday

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Football

The Pentecostal Singaporean engineers downstairs had the TV on so loud that I didn’t really need to have the sound up at all. Even so I had the headphones on with the doona and the beer. I started to stray around the 75th minute and switched channels (you know Nate died last week and I wanted to see how the family are coping, 1 more episode to go ) although I switched back just in time.

Off to the 2006 Biennale of Sydney today to see me some art.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Emo



How did the whole Emo thing pass me by? I like to think that I know whats 'going on' and that I'm hip to the kids. But, I had no idea that there was a thing , a style, called Emo. It must ne pre-middle age setting in.

Thats Emo, not Elmo. Use the wiki.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Update next week..

....holidays for a week next week.

Update soon.