They shoot horses don’t they……..?

Hey blagger’s

I haven’t posted in ages, not cause I’ve been to busy or anything……well, O.K. I have, but mainly because I just couldn’t be assed. Why does anyone (besides my mum) want to hear about what I’ve been up to, or what I’m thinking….I wouldn’t. Do you really want me to bang on about how my life has become ultra boring?. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and hanging out with them. But I do miss some of the carefree ways of life with no kids. I cant just go out and get blitzed at a gig or at the footy anymore, I’m lucky if I just get to a gig or the footy now. I think all this “responsibility” is getting too me…..a bit of a crisis of confidence maybe?. I don’t know, I just miss my youth I guess. The other thing about having kids is all the worrying about them that you do. Milo had a really bad case of gastro a few weeks ago, and it was really scary. He was throwing up, not eating…he lost quite a bit of weight. I didn’t really understand what it was like to worry about your kids till then. But…he’s come good now and back to his happy little best. He’s crawling now too.

Anyway LWT haven’t been doing much at all lately. Craig seems to think he’s over the whole thing, so I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I think we’ve gotta few gigs coming up, but after that I don’t know. Rob and I might do something else, maybe Paul as well when he gets back from the old dart. Paul’s gonna think it’s all my fault!

Schottky Noise have got some shows coming up though. Friday 15th Sept at the Commercial in Yarraville. That’s probably gonna be just me and Fitzy, I’m not sure though. Then were playing the 19th Oct at the Rob Roy with Taste the Venom. Sean Barley’s gonna be stepping in for Atom that night, not sure what he’s gonna play yet, but it should be pretty cool.

New paths to Helicon Part II

O.k…….It’s been a while since I did a half decent post, so I’ll try and get you caught up on things.

Let’s talk Mogwai first off. Fucking amazing!. Last time I saw them it was at the Hifi bar, or what ever the fuck they call it, and it was great. But I was a bit preoccupied that night, plus Rachael fell asleep(no shit), so it didn’t blow me away like i thought it would. Six years later I was floored. Mogwai play with such an intense force of sound, you can’t help but be moved by it. Uneasily quiet one minute, to ear bleeding sonic intensity the next. The 3 guitar attack on the crescendo to New paths to helicon part I was absolutely glorious. This would truly be the song that a modern day William Wallace would lead his Scottish brethren in to battle by. High-points of the show would be: Christmas steps, Helicon Pt I, Hunted by a freak,…….well hell, the whole night was a highpoint. My only lament was that they didn’t play Helicon Pt II, and Stop coming to my house, my two ultimate favourites. I’ve gotta mention My Disco too, this was the first time I’ve seen them. Atom, Fitzy and others has been telling me to checking them out for ages. But due to my old man-edness, I haven’t got about to seeing them. I thought they were very good, they look very “Girlfriends jeans“, but they sounded more like Shellac than a typical “Girlfriend’s jeans” band. The drumming is awesome.

On the home front: Milo’s been sick the last few weeks with a bad cold. Poor little guy’s been phlegmier than a smoker with the flu. I took time of work yesterday to stay home with him and Rachael’s doing the same today. I hope he comes good soon. He’s got about 8 teeth now, and he’s sitting up. Not crawling yet….but he’s close, he can go backwards pretty good though. He’s new thing is trying to bite everything and everyone. He’s talking all the time, saying mum-mum, bub-bub and making lots of sounds….But he’s absolute favourite is Dad-dad.

Look Who’s Toxic have played some good shows of late. One at Ding Dong a couple of weeks ago, not many people there, but we had a good show anyway. Also played a nice little set at the Commercial in Yarraville, Craig scored too, which is awesome. “Our little boy’s all growed up”.

I hadn’t been to see a film since Milo was born, so I was champing at the bit to see a film, when I went to see “The Benchwarmers” at the RAAF base a couple of weeks ago. It was a pisser! I haven’t laughed at a movie like that in ages. I highly recommend fans of dumb comedy to get out there and hire it. Also, I took Rachael to see “The Pirates of the Caribbean” at gold class for her birthday. I love a good pirate movie, and enjoyed it immensely. Though I’ll never go back to a gold class cinema again. I love the seats, the small crowd, and the atmosphere…but every time i go, the service sucks ass. They boast how it’s great that you can order stuff to come when YOU want it, and blah, blah, blah ….but every-time we’ve been, they have screwed up by not bringing our stuff at all. So….fuck em’.

ONLY 54 MORE DAYS TILL THE SHOW……..WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

What are you looking at……….?

Sorry to everyone who turned up at Pony last week expecting to see Look Who’s Toxic. I was real fucking sick and there was no way I was gonna drag myself out of bed at 1 in the AM, hurl all my gear into the car in the freezing cold, get to Pony, load out 2 Km’s down the street and then up the narrowest stair case in the world, and then……..choke on the smoke of a thousand PJ extra mild’s. Seriously……If I could have been able to I would have, but I was hella sick. Rob’s other band Applecross played instead, and seeing as they made it out alive, it went pretty well.

Things have been pretty busy on the home-front…….Milo’s cutting more teeth (7 in total), and Rachael’s back at work full time. So Milo’s in childcare three days a week and  Rachael’s mum is looking after him for the other two days a week. He’s starting to yak away like madman, even though he’s not really saying a hell of a lot, he’s got “ba-bah”, and “mah,mah” down pretty good. He’s even working combo’s of the two like… “ba-bah-mah-ba”, and so on. He’s always got a smile going too, which is really cute, even if he hasn’t slept well, or his teeth hurt, he’s always smiling.

Music wise I haven’t really been listening to a lot. I’ve been pretty much wrapped up in the footy season, and this stupid world cup. I did pick up the new Pissed Jeans 7 inch on Sub Pop though, which is very awesome.  Also picked up a nice Rocket from the Crypt print by Coop for $10. Cool huh?

seeya

Uh……..yeaaaah.

Hey gang

We had a really shit gig the other night at the Towny, and apologise to anyone who attended. The only shining lite was the introduction of our new tune "Fuck off". I thought that the K'road Queens were really cool too. I took some snaps of them, which I'll post on Flickr tomorrow. Went to see MYC, A Death in the Family (also more snaps), and Angry Kid on Friday night for the Arthouse's 15th Birthday (Happy birthday guy's). The Arthouse has been the backbone of the underground music scene in Melbourne for a long time, and Marie, Peter and Mel should be really proud of what the Arthouse has done in those 15 years, and for what the place means to so many people. It is, a very special place. So to Marie and Pete and their family I say, Thank you. Schottky Noise played there last night, for what will most probably be our last show with Lee, before he makes the idiotic move to Perth. I'm really, really really gonna miss Lee, he's one of coolest, funny, most genuine people I've ever met through playing music. I hope he comes to his senses, and comes home soon. Also had a fucking car accident last night on the way home. Some ass clown turned right in front of me on the Errol/Queensbury St intersection. So the front end of the wagon is a little fucked up at the moment. Hopefully the guy wont try and wriggle out of his responsibility for the accident, and his insurance company and my insurance company, will sort it out quickly and with little fuss. I can really recommend

Later

Rock, Beer and Bangers.

The CD launch at the Tote last night was awesome, props to everyone who came down. The eating contest was a pisser. Xavier took it out easily, with Liam in second and Willy third. Micky V would have got third, put he went to hard on his last three snags and puked. I'll post some pics on my flickr page tomorrow. Thanks to PussyXXX, Dr Invisiablo, and Bakerlight Age for supporting……..ooooh and Culki too, she was awesome!
I'm not mentioning football this week.

Why I might give up drinking……..

Hey gang

I've learned a lot about myself this week. I learned that when I'm drunk, some people can take my sense of humor the wrong way. So much so that people can decide that they HATE me. So o.k……point taken, maybe I can be come a little too overbearing with me attitude and humor. But still…if you can't take a joke….build a bridge people!. Also I made a poor choice later on that evening, that made me think I might not be as responsible and sensible as I thought I was. I decided that after 8 hours of sinking frothies with the lads, that i might just drive home….instead of catching the last train as planned. Now let me just say that I have always been one of the biggest critics of drink drivers, and have never ever even contemplated driving under the influence of frothies before. So it was quite a disappointing effort on my part. Anyway……..LWT are playing at the Green room this Friday night (Good Friday) at about 9:00. There's about 8 bands playing including Beanflipper (go Sean!), firewitch and Motor Vehicle Sundown. Also we will be donating our share of the taking to the Royal Children's Hospital – Good Friday Appeal. Don't forget to "……give that they may grow".

Later gators.

Why people hate me……

Hey gang

The last week or so, Milo's been having trouble sleeping during the day. He has a few naps, but nothing you could call a good sleep. He still sleeps well at night…just not during the day, although the last couple of days he's been getting the hang of it.

The LWT Ep looks like it might actually see the light of day. The boys are mastering it on Wednesday night, and then it's off to the factory to get pressed. Hopefully it will be done for the launch on the 30th of April. We had a photo shoot on Saturday morning around the 3051 for the promo shots, and I can tell you we definitely don't take a good photo.

Another good win by the Bulldogs this week too. Melbourne looked good in the first half, but we gave them a good seeing to in the second. If we can win next week against Essendon, to make it three in a row, we'll be travelling pretty well for a September appearance….maybe. I've upgraded to a social club membership to guarantee me a GF ticket….Just in case. I'm not getting too confident too early, I'm just covering myself.

Listening to: Treepeople – Actual re-enactment. (Better than "with Doug" albums).

Prepare to die, you lame fuckers.

Look Who's Toxic are starting the process of writing our new album, starting TONIGHTA!. We really gonna fuck some shit up!

I'm picking up my copy of Encino Man Thursday night, awesome movie watching will be done. "Weez'n the joo-ooce". I was thinking about going to see the great man himself (Pauly Shore) next month, although it is $49.50, and it is at the bowles of hell (Crown). If I can talk Craig into going, I think I'll do it.

STREET PIZZA!

Hey!

Got back from Sydney last night at about 11:00, I'm still really fucked, but It was a pretty good trip. We left at about 8:30 on Saturday morning, even though I didnt get to sleep till about 2:30-3:00 after the Phony gig. Man… I nearly died in that fucking joint, it was that smokey I couldn't breath. Anyway…….Rob got food poisening on the way up at Hole(brook), which was pretty funny. Hole(brook) is also home to Australia's only centre for Photo copies AND Christian outreach. We stopped at the stupid dog on the tuckerbox as well, what a crap fucking souvenier shop they have there…..Craig bought a sticker to put on his van though. We got to Sydney at about 6:00 and checked in to our cheap, cockroach infested Hotel. I took the boys to Dahkni in Glebe Pt road in…..Glebe for dinner, It was just as nice as I remembered, and the guy's loved it. Except Rob, cause it was soon after that he came down with "the sickness". He thought it might have been Dahkni that made him sick, but a punched him in the face and he soon changed his tune. We had a couple of Scooners at the Lansdown and then Matty and I went back to the Hotel, while Rob and Craig hooked up with Jo and Kat. Next morning I got the boys up early and hearded them out to see the sights of Sydney(the harbour). We walked from Central Station down Pitt St to Circular Quay, to get the ferry to Balmain. The boys hadn't been on a ferry, before and i wanted to show them Sydney on the harbour. We got off at Pyrmont Bay and walked up King St to Red Eye Records, I bought a stack of good shit and then it was off to Krispy Kreme on York St. We could smell them being cooked half a block away, and jeez did I get excited. We had a coffee and a couple of round ones, and then headed down to Allans to get some strings for Rob, and go to Red Eye's second hand store as well. From Red Eye, I got: Dinasour Jnr – "the wagon" Sub Pop 7" for about $15, a Tad "live" bootleg 7" for about $5, Mudhoney – "Your gone" 7" on Au-Go-Go $10, Mudhoney- "Let it slide" Sub Pop 7" $10, and Guided by Voices – "back to the lake" 7" $10. I also got the jazz Pavement tribute CD "Gold Sounds". Then we went down to the gig at the Abercrombie. I was a bit scepticle at first, but it turned out to be an awesome show, and we met some really cool people. Also it was the first time I'd played with Kids from Russia, they were really good, and they are good eggs too. I drank alot of scooners on the Sunday night, have I told you how much I love scooners?. Fuck I love scooners, it's the perfect size glass for drinking beer, and I wish we drank scooners in Melbourne. Monday we got up not so early, and went to get some breakfast on King St(Newtown). I had the best bowl of mueslie, yoghurt and fruit I've ever had. Then we had a little bit of time to check another couple of record shops in Newtown before we left. Theres a cool little second hand record store on Wilson St, just off King St Newtown, called Egg Records. They are a little pricey, but they have some good shit. I got Soundgarden's -"room a thousend miles wide" and "H.I.V. Baby" 7" on Sub Pop, and another S/P 7' by the Scud Mountain Boys. I also got the "Glue" 12" on Purple vinyl for about $25. Over all a good weekend for record shopping. After all of that Craig blew a tyre on the M5 on the way out of town, and then couldn't get his mag wheel off. So he had to join the RACV, and then get them to get the NRMA to come out and help him. Rob and I kept ourselves amused the whole trip by shouting out "street pizza", every time we saw a flat dead animal on the road. It was kinda fun, and kinda gross. dropped Rob off at home about 10:00, I got home about 10:45.

End of story….I'm going to sleep know.

Fully sick!

My “deluxe edition” version of the new Mogwai album, Mr Beast just arrived!.

Awesome!