Wolfmother

Just a quick note to say that I'm enjoying Triple J's Feature this week "Wolfmother". Mind's Eye really is a great song, but as far as titles go, you just cant beat "Tales from the Forest of the Gnomes" Goin off... Its good to see that the early 70s sound still lives! One song I heard today would have fitted quite well on Led Zep 2. While other tracks have elements of Yes, The Who, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. All the good stuff....

when like minds meet

Just throwing a big "hey" out to C. Nice meeting you today!

For everyone else. I'm applying for a job as a high school Chaplain and thought it might be an idea to catch up with one first to know what I might be getting myself into. So yeah mate, I was really encouraged by the way you view things, I tend to work from a negative basis (what I dont want to do) instead of the positive (in striving for that which i do want to do).

Thanx again mate. Hopefully I get the gig and we can hang some more and you can intro me to some of those other crazy charecters who are thinking and dreaming about all the church can be.

Rice Paper Rolls

So, as is becoming a habit of mine on Saturdays, I just finished making a nice lunch. Haven't eaten it yet cause the rest of my family are asleep. They need it, so its all good. Anyways, I made rice paper rolls for the first time today. Normally I cut up everything and Karz assembles them, but not today, i had a crack at it.

So I made 13 (bakers dozen) and by the time i got to number 8 or 9 they started to look half decent. So, the first 6 will be going on my plate and then maybe Karz will think i did a good job all the way thru (little home cooking tip there - give yourself the worst looking bits).

I was gonna post the recipe too, but i think thats a bit overboard, besides that, its easy as, just rolling them is thr tricky bit. So Muzz and Karz you guys did an awesome job for the engagement party the other month, i would have hacked it.

In finishing, all I can say is i have a new respect for those old vietnamese ladies who probably do about 2 a minute. Going off Mrs Nguyen!

The Attributes of God

Talking to a mate of mine the other day who considers himself an athiest, he mentioned these as 2 of the attributes of God. We had a good laugh about it... Now you too may. (note: please dont be suprised when you hear me use these in a skit or something).

God is omimpotent
God is omniverous

Can is citizenship required

What a sentence I just wrote in my comments back to Grande on my last post. Man... with literary brilliance like that I'm surprised people arent coming up to me in the street asking for my autograph... or something.

some thoughts on the arias

watched the arias tonight in its entirity. good stuff...
a few things

i love that missy looked terrible. it proved to me that it doesnt take image to sell records and write amazing music. on the other hand missy, what were you thinking with that dress?
i think she deserved everything she won. Also, so glad she mentioned the artists she has toured with... great to see (go the waifs!)

glad to see ben lee take home a couple, i really like that album, really really got into it earlier in the year. i'm somewhat torn between liking the things he had to say, and realising that he is a bit of a tool. maybe thats a tension i myself am projecting onto him. think about it.

sarah blasco? no show? surely she should have got a spot to play a song with an album of the year nomination??? did she chuck a gurge and not come, or was she not asked to sing? i am deeply conflicted by enjoying some of her music, and not liking her cause of some stories ive heard about her band (thanx grant)

architecture ripped off? when showing the nominations for best contemporary adult album, they didnt show in case we die by architecture in helsinki. they are amazing, and should have got to play tonight (how funny would that have been)

what was with eskimo joe, i thought there was a reason i didnt like them much anymore, tonight i found it. or at least know the ball park to look in.

Keith Urban? Go home! back to america. why do we celebrate artists who contrbute very little to our scene? there were much better nominees there who actually do something here, in this country - i thought sara storer or paul kelly should have won it.

Lior, no awards, but some exposure. thats ok. i love lior, he writes good songs and sings them well. im glad our music industry is about those sorts of things.

discontinuity? being the only band to be nominated for best album, i thought evermore would have taken out best group. to be honest the only one of the 5 nominees i liked was powderfinger (and it would have been an injustice for them to win it) so frankly i dont really care. why blog it then ian??? i dunno?

lastly but not leastly... how many times did the j's get mentioned (at least 4). They really are doing alot to promote aussie music. the industry is very healthy at the moment, and i think the j's plays a fair part (or maybe a huge part) in that.

random thoughts on music

sufjan stevens, whose name i pronounce as if the first sylable rhymes with poof (as in the thing you put your feet on) and second syllable yarn... so... sufjan, is great, really been getting into illinios, particularly like jacksonville, but its all good.

the beautiful girls, have been growing on me. heres a tip, dont just type beautiful girls into a search without specifying it’s the band.

counting crows, are still a band i enjoy listening to, was listening to august (and everything after) the other day, such a great album. i think every thing theve done this millennium leaves a fair bit to be desired however.

kaiser chiefs, are like my refreshing soft drink at the moment – gives me a burst of energy, but too much sends me silly. na na na na na na! i just dont take them too seriously.

wanting to check out in some more depth - holly throsby, new buffalo (heard her version of 4 seasons in one day today, really interesting), josh pyke, clare bowditch and the feeding set. not sure when that will happen, but its list i can quickly flick to for future reference. oh... and silver city (just for something totally different) really interest me. nicole foot has played a coupla their (i think its a them) songs and they are awesome.

thats all for now...

Comment on this!

it was pointed out to me by the beloved grande, sharer of nudity, that i had my settings set (?) so only registered people could comment.

i hereby announce that that is no longer the case.

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Doug, Xavier and Goldie

3 thoughts from my day, all revolving around celebrities (of sorts)

Doug Pagitt.
Today my mate Steve gave me Preaching Re-Imagined, Doug's latest book. Good news, i can read it for my communicating holiness class. Anyways, just started flicking thru, and its great. I just love his down to earth, real aproach to things. He really inspires me. Will probably add more to this when i get into the book.

Xavier Rudd.
Heard on triple J today about some scam that was going on... something to do with the alcohol licence not being approved for his gig at the piazza. So... this led me to check out the gig. When did Xavier Rudd become a $50 gig? Oh my goodness. So... sorry mate, would love to see you, but just dont have the bucks for that at the mo. Might try and see little birdy instead in a coupla weeks.

Goldie Hawn.
Yes, this is bizarre. Watched this cool thing on Asian elephants in indian tonight with the kids at work. Goldie Hawn is a little off the wall at times, but her passion for elephants was great. i think i enjoyed it more due to the relationship between humanity and elephantity, and well the relationships that were forming before my eyes, as the kids saw the plight of elephants and became somewhat emotionally involved...

So, theres some thoughts from my day.

a post for twitonetwit.

so, i recieved a comment on my last post from twitonetwit that after half the days thought i deleted. i think maybe she was onto something, but really the whole thing made me feel a smidge uneasy so i got rid of it. but... its worth commenting on so thats what im doing now.

i wonder if we are ever totally balanced or if we are ever really who we are?
sure, ofcourse we are always who we are, but is that really us.

as we have geneticists on one hand saying all we are is a make up of our genes, and various social commentators of sorts (sociologists, pyschologists, anthropologists, philosophists - hmmm?) saying that we are simply a make up of our environment, i wonder where the truth lies. and im sure that not all there is to the equation. where does, soul (?) come into it? what really makes us, us?

so... having sounded deep but not necessarily inteligent (thanx twit) i leave it there, not knowing much more than the fact that we are who we are, and its all rather complex... and really... i doubt this one is going to be answered, ever...

maybe wanting to be something more than what we are is a motivator that helps us be who we are becoming.

oh... and last word on twitonetwit. check her blog out, brand new, but worth a read... well i thought so anyway.

what is change?

So, i find myself in an interesting place. A place that is somewhat frustrating, somewhat boring, and well some what exciting all at once. I wonder... Did I get to this place by accident? Did i push myself there. Actually. I don't wonder that too much, i know the answer. Sometimes the pasive things in our lives are the most controlling. In a bizarre twist of lyrical tastes I have to lament the words of Eddie Vedder, "I change by not changing at all". Don't get me wrong, I have changed, we all constantly do, but maybe some of the most obvious change is the product of not changing.

Let me flick back to the top. This interesting, frustrating, boring, exciting, blah blah blah place.

Frustrating... I was going to graduate this year. Now I'm not, and again, strange twists, its by choice. If I hold off for a bit, I can get a degree with a little more oomf for the future (B.Th. as opposed to B.Min.). So its just weird to be honest. I think it will also naturally lead to me taking a chunk of the summer to get all my stuff into Rich, he's too soft on me, and I'm too lazy. The other key frsutration for me has to do with time. I wish I woke up tomorrow and it was Christmas Day, well to be honest, I'm really hanging for the first couple of weeks of January, but I wouldnt want to miss out on Christmas presents would i? What am I doing next year is a question that wont go away, and well, how much time i give to various projects wont be decided upon til the school year kicks off, so... in the words of Paul Kelly "roll on summer roll on".

Boring... Why do we (as humanity) struggle with the same things over and over. I've already aluded to my poor grasp on time management (oh how guild wars wastes time), and well, I've managed to be back at the weight I was at the beginning of the year (after dropping to 113, I'm back at 128). I think its a reality for most of us, the same things just keep coming back up, biting us in the bum. Sure, I have dealt with some stuff that is well and truly dealt with, but I'm definately a work in progress. A somewhat mundane, monotonous drone. But hey, I'm not down on myself... I think most of us are like that.

SWOOSH... just need to change tone for a sec.
A friend of mine studying social work was telling me how draining it can be, how they hit you with reality. And well... it messes with you at times, how the world sucks. I concurred, but then after a little thought wrote back saying that the world is funny. If we look hard enough, we can find great, beautiful (beret word) things in the most unlikely places, and... vice versa (or vi-see ver-see if you like). Anyways, thanx mate for getting me thinking about that...
SWOOSH...

Exciting... I wont go into this too much, dont want to lull myself into a false sense of whatever... But I truly belive that some exciting things are before me and us. Its just getting there. I heard some news about a friend today that was exciting (can't share sorry). But, the world can be as sad or happy, or whatever, as we want it to be...

Thats it from me for now.
Hopefully it wont be another 2 months...

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