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?

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STREET PIZZA!

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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!