so, i had an interesting lunch yesterday. we had a special lunch as we presented a distinguished service award to Ruth, one of the older ladies in our congregation who has been doing stuff like sunday school for years (and years).
Anyways, it was awesome to meet 2 of Ruth's grandkids - Sam and John. John plays guitar for the grates, and Patience (the singer) was there too.
It was just terrefic to meet them, I'm not a huge fan (some past thoughts here and here), but they have been growing on me, radio does that. Anyways, I think there music ranges from ok to good, but as people they are just tops! We mainly chatted about music (yes, i like music) and i tried to convince patience to buy clare bowditch and emilian torrini. And, John again added to my "where have i been and why havent i heard about them earlier" in relation to the polyphonic spree - i have to mentioned them later as they are rocking my world...
anyways, big shout out to john and patience... shame i didnt meet alana (who by the sounds of things has terrific music taste)... have a good holiday, sounds like you really deserve it!
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Dedicated Aria Post
I just wanted to dedicate a whole post to one partiulcar part of the ARIA awards, last night.
That is, the amazing Clare Bowditch winning the award for Best Female Artist! As far as the general public goes, there are lots of people out there who don't know who she is, little lone experienced the amazing brilliance that is "What was Left".
I was flicking thru my entires over the last 12 months, and was surprised that I only mentioned Clare a few times (see here, here and here) besides my big rant about the album here. I have to say though, rereading my thoughts from almost 12 months ago, that my opinion has changed somewhat.
I have to say, that it would be my number 1 album of the last 12 months (although released last year). It just kept growing on me. And then... at a point, I realised some things, some thing that makes me a bit too arty farty wankish, but im gonna say it anyways. I have to ask forgiveness from everyone (Clare included) if I've gone too far with this, but its the way the album makes sense to me, its the way it affected me...
The album essential has a beautiful flow to it... one unlike any I can recall. Essentially the centre of the album is significant. I feel like the whole album in one way or another is connected to grief. Directly the first 9 tracks...
Track 7 (the centre) - the thing about grief, pretty much tells us where we've been going. The idea of loss and grief is very relevant throughout the album, songs about contemplating divorce, being disilussioned in a relationship(s), and many other subtle tracks that point us in the direction of dealing with things in life that just dont go perfectly (lips like oranges, might not be as quirky as she cuts hair by darren hanlon, but definately gets the point accross - in a refreshing and uplifting way) and which way to go puts us is a place we've all been, uncertainty.
Having said this, it isnt depressing (unless you want it to be).
After the thing about grief, its like Clare pushes us, and almost wants to break us down to experience her grief. The climax here is track 9 - when i was five... which paints a picture of dealing with the death of a sister at the age of 5, with the amazing lyric "and all these memories... are they mine or other peoples?".
Not leaving us in a heap on the floor (which i doubt would be her intention) the final tracks on the album are much more hopeful and lifefull (a word that i think i just made up). Yet, they still manage to have undertones of the world being a place that doesnt quite work out all the time.
Finishing with "Yes I miss you like the rain" is a beautiful way of saying, hey - this is where we've just been... dont forget it...
This album has just been so real to me. I have to say that lyrics are sometimes something that just disapeer for me, they are almost irelevant. But here... Its a perfect marriage of music and lyric. For more on the music check out my review from Dec 4 last year - more musically based.
I've just got the first album (Autumn Bone) and I imagine I will write something about that at some point.
So... whats the point. Congratulations Clare Bowditch! I have to admit that I never thought that this album would reach this many people, hopefully it meant something to others in the way it meant something to me.
That is, the amazing Clare Bowditch winning the award for Best Female Artist! As far as the general public goes, there are lots of people out there who don't know who she is, little lone experienced the amazing brilliance that is "What was Left".
I was flicking thru my entires over the last 12 months, and was surprised that I only mentioned Clare a few times (see here, here and here) besides my big rant about the album here. I have to say though, rereading my thoughts from almost 12 months ago, that my opinion has changed somewhat.
I have to say, that it would be my number 1 album of the last 12 months (although released last year). It just kept growing on me. And then... at a point, I realised some things, some thing that makes me a bit too arty farty wankish, but im gonna say it anyways. I have to ask forgiveness from everyone (Clare included) if I've gone too far with this, but its the way the album makes sense to me, its the way it affected me...
The album essential has a beautiful flow to it... one unlike any I can recall. Essentially the centre of the album is significant. I feel like the whole album in one way or another is connected to grief. Directly the first 9 tracks...
Track 7 (the centre) - the thing about grief, pretty much tells us where we've been going. The idea of loss and grief is very relevant throughout the album, songs about contemplating divorce, being disilussioned in a relationship(s), and many other subtle tracks that point us in the direction of dealing with things in life that just dont go perfectly (lips like oranges, might not be as quirky as she cuts hair by darren hanlon, but definately gets the point accross - in a refreshing and uplifting way) and which way to go puts us is a place we've all been, uncertainty.
Having said this, it isnt depressing (unless you want it to be).
After the thing about grief, its like Clare pushes us, and almost wants to break us down to experience her grief. The climax here is track 9 - when i was five... which paints a picture of dealing with the death of a sister at the age of 5, with the amazing lyric "and all these memories... are they mine or other peoples?".
Not leaving us in a heap on the floor (which i doubt would be her intention) the final tracks on the album are much more hopeful and lifefull (a word that i think i just made up). Yet, they still manage to have undertones of the world being a place that doesnt quite work out all the time.
Finishing with "Yes I miss you like the rain" is a beautiful way of saying, hey - this is where we've just been... dont forget it...
This album has just been so real to me. I have to say that lyrics are sometimes something that just disapeer for me, they are almost irelevant. But here... Its a perfect marriage of music and lyric. For more on the music check out my review from Dec 4 last year - more musically based.
I've just got the first album (Autumn Bone) and I imagine I will write something about that at some point.
So... whats the point. Congratulations Clare Bowditch! I have to admit that I never thought that this album would reach this many people, hopefully it meant something to others in the way it meant something to me.
Monday, October 16, 2006
thankyou
found out today that a fellow chaplain is finishing up at the end of the year. I don't know if its common knowledge yet, particularly at their school so, I wont mention their name. But if your reading this, you know you wear armor, are a sabath breaker and will always be F-ing awesome.
Just wanted to give you a huge shout out and say thanx for everything. I have really felt supported and encouraged by the whole organisation (SU) and for me, you have been an integral part of that. I know im a bit nuts and strange at time, but i fully apreciate our friendship and have learnt stacks from you. so please... lets keep in touch even though you are moving to the dark side (oops i mean north side) of town.
I feel like God used us bumping into each other to help us move down our roads, closer to him. Glad you like Brian and Donald, if thats the only impact I've had, then its more than enuff, those 2 blokes changed my life.
Anyways, All the best mate!
Just wanted to throw it all out there.
Just wanted to give you a huge shout out and say thanx for everything. I have really felt supported and encouraged by the whole organisation (SU) and for me, you have been an integral part of that. I know im a bit nuts and strange at time, but i fully apreciate our friendship and have learnt stacks from you. so please... lets keep in touch even though you are moving to the dark side (oops i mean north side) of town.
I feel like God used us bumping into each other to help us move down our roads, closer to him. Glad you like Brian and Donald, if thats the only impact I've had, then its more than enuff, those 2 blokes changed my life.
Anyways, All the best mate!
Just wanted to throw it all out there.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
people round for dinner
it seems like forever since we had people round for dinner. Tonight we broke the drought and had 2 awesome peoples round (Christal and Mel). I cooked, from Jamie Oliver's "Jamie's Dinners". Really nice Egglant Pasta.
Basically
1 Eggplant 1cm cube - covered in oil, cooked on medium heat for about 8 min.
Throw in a diced onion, and 2 garlic cloves sliced.
Cook til brown
Throw in 2 tins of roma tomatoes and 1 Tbsp Balsamic
Season
Throw in a few basil stalks - chopped.
Cook the Pasta - Penne is fine
Throw in 4 tbsp of cream.
Then when its good to go add a handful of ripped basil leaves and about 200g ripped up mozarella.
mix it all together!
Voila!
Quite yummy indeed. I havent been a fan of eggplant in the past (or in the pasta) but this worked well. Very easy too.
Going off.
note to self: i need to start taking photos of what i cook
Basically
1 Eggplant 1cm cube - covered in oil, cooked on medium heat for about 8 min.
Throw in a diced onion, and 2 garlic cloves sliced.
Cook til brown
Throw in 2 tins of roma tomatoes and 1 Tbsp Balsamic
Season
Throw in a few basil stalks - chopped.
Cook the Pasta - Penne is fine
Throw in 4 tbsp of cream.
Then when its good to go add a handful of ripped basil leaves and about 200g ripped up mozarella.
mix it all together!
Voila!
Quite yummy indeed. I havent been a fan of eggplant in the past (or in the pasta) but this worked well. Very easy too.
Going off.
note to self: i need to start taking photos of what i cook
Sunday, July 16, 2006
a big night in... leads to a big weekend!
huge weekend!
Friday night...
We had our inaugural "Big Night In" which was our Superhero night.
The night went well. Bron, Shona and Sallyanne ran the games and did a good job (mind you the distribution of points was a little shakey at times... (I'm so competitive when it comes to games). I managed to get a knee in the face playing the games, yeah for the black eye - it was my own fault though.
We had pizza, hung out then watched some movies (which i fell asleep during). at some point i woke up with some boys charging around making wierd noises. I put on my authoritative voice, then promptly fell back to sleep.
Thanks heaps to eveyone for coming and cleaning up the next day - especially Simo for organising it all.
Saturday Morning.
woke up, took some photos of everyone asleep (hehehe), then showered quickly and had to get to a training session on grief.
it was terrific, but i was falling alseep a bit... oh well.
Saturday night
Mum, Dad and Jenny (were there amongst many, who came to see the passing out parade at pukapunyel! where was i...?) and the fam, went out to Taj Mahal! Terrific as always - MJ even got stuck in and ate these lamb Shami Kebabs. Jenny enjoyed it, i think it was a smidge too rich and spice filled for Dad...
Yumo anyways.
Sunday!
We had Zayden's baptism. it was good. Went back to our place and had lunch with about 20 ppl... just hanging out, havin a good time... good stuff anyways...
thanks heaps to:
Caine, Sally and Orlani for coming up from Adelaide. And for being Godparents (not Orlani obviously)
Mum, Dad and Jenny (were there amongst many) for coming up from Sydney. Mum for the cake, Mum and Jen for helping out with the food on the day and Dad with the BBQ. and for the Krispy Cremes.
Rachel, Julia and Conner for coming up from the Sensual Coast (or Central Coast i cant remember?)
Rich and Jude for the Godparent thing too. And Rich for coming even though he was sick as a dog.
Kenn and Andrea for everything! and Kenn for doing the Service and the TOILET!!!
Grandma Betty for hanging out with us!
Steve and Fi for sorting the church stuff out, and Steve for giving my Dad a supplier (its not as dodgy as it sounds)
and...
NJ, MJ and ZJ for being a terrific family. I cant overstate how much work Karz put into the weekend! The house looked awesome, the food was terrifc (those red kebabs, my goodness the were great!) the muffins, cleaning up, ironing stuff, just everything!
So yeah, maybe I rely on other ppl too much, but i have a great group of ppl to rely on, so that makes it ok.
Friday night...
We had our inaugural "Big Night In" which was our Superhero night.
The night went well. Bron, Shona and Sallyanne ran the games and did a good job (mind you the distribution of points was a little shakey at times... (I'm so competitive when it comes to games). I managed to get a knee in the face playing the games, yeah for the black eye - it was my own fault though.
We had pizza, hung out then watched some movies (which i fell asleep during). at some point i woke up with some boys charging around making wierd noises. I put on my authoritative voice, then promptly fell back to sleep.
Thanks heaps to eveyone for coming and cleaning up the next day - especially Simo for organising it all.
Saturday Morning.
woke up, took some photos of everyone asleep (hehehe), then showered quickly and had to get to a training session on grief.
it was terrific, but i was falling alseep a bit... oh well.
Saturday night
Mum, Dad and Jenny (were there amongst many, who came to see the passing out parade at pukapunyel! where was i...?) and the fam, went out to Taj Mahal! Terrific as always - MJ even got stuck in and ate these lamb Shami Kebabs. Jenny enjoyed it, i think it was a smidge too rich and spice filled for Dad...
Yumo anyways.
Sunday!
We had Zayden's baptism. it was good. Went back to our place and had lunch with about 20 ppl... just hanging out, havin a good time... good stuff anyways...
thanks heaps to:
Caine, Sally and Orlani for coming up from Adelaide. And for being Godparents (not Orlani obviously)
Mum, Dad and Jenny (were there amongst many) for coming up from Sydney. Mum for the cake, Mum and Jen for helping out with the food on the day and Dad with the BBQ. and for the Krispy Cremes.
Rachel, Julia and Conner for coming up from the Sensual Coast (or Central Coast i cant remember?)
Rich and Jude for the Godparent thing too. And Rich for coming even though he was sick as a dog.
Kenn and Andrea for everything! and Kenn for doing the Service and the TOILET!!!
Grandma Betty for hanging out with us!
Steve and Fi for sorting the church stuff out, and Steve for giving my Dad a supplier (its not as dodgy as it sounds)
and...
NJ, MJ and ZJ for being a terrific family. I cant overstate how much work Karz put into the weekend! The house looked awesome, the food was terrifc (those red kebabs, my goodness the were great!) the muffins, cleaning up, ironing stuff, just everything!
So yeah, maybe I rely on other ppl too much, but i have a great group of ppl to rely on, so that makes it ok.
Friday, June 09, 2006
musical friends
a big hey goes out to rebecca, who gave me a copy of michigan today. I've just started listening, but im tototally diggin it. sufjan is just an amazing songwriter.
also, thanx for the other cd. which i already have, but its fitting. on that note, antony and the johnsons are terrific, but definately not for everyone.
lastly... flicking back to sufjan. i read a review of illinois that said it was just prog rock, like genesis or yes. hello? how is that a bad thing. some of those artists albums from the early 70s were absolutely ground breaking (read here fragile in particular). i would love to think of sufjan as the equivalent of these guys, in this context.
if only there was as much creatvity now as there was in that golden period (67-73).
also, thanx for the other cd. which i already have, but its fitting. on that note, antony and the johnsons are terrific, but definately not for everyone.
lastly... flicking back to sufjan. i read a review of illinois that said it was just prog rock, like genesis or yes. hello? how is that a bad thing. some of those artists albums from the early 70s were absolutely ground breaking (read here fragile in particular). i would love to think of sufjan as the equivalent of these guys, in this context.
if only there was as much creatvity now as there was in that golden period (67-73).
Saturday, April 29, 2006
a call to emerge
as anyone who knows me somewhat well should know, ive been somewhat critical of church as we know it for a while. and well, it is a positive criticism as its about growth, grace and being the people, the church that God is leading us to be.
my general argument now could be summed up by saying that the church takes cultural baggage as gospel, and it needs to free itself from some of its older cultural expressions to be able to embrace new ones. having said this - the new ones will be hard for most of the people who have been involved in the old ones for some time to embrace... and therefore, the older ones will make much more sense to some, and the newer ones be more meaningful to others. in otherwords... not right or wrong - just different.
so, a few conversations have continued to push me, and well, to be honest i feel that God is reminding me that there can be more and he wants me to delve into the world of these unknown expressions of our faith.
a big shout out goes to Christal... thanx mate, you're helping me dream again
another shout out to Barb... aho is also helping me see the world in a slightly different way - a somewhat more positive way, and less cynical (me cynical?)
one more word on Barb - she is a part of a community called Solace (in the inner northern suburbs of sunny melbourne). Anyways, a bunch of people from solace put together a book called remaking (which i found out about here). im looking at using it as a platform to start our our community/conversation... whatever...
along with other things, that i have in mind... but i think the book is gold... so good job stu and all you guys, im apreciating the hard work you've all put in.
and well... where to from here???
who knows, but there has to be somewhere.
my general argument now could be summed up by saying that the church takes cultural baggage as gospel, and it needs to free itself from some of its older cultural expressions to be able to embrace new ones. having said this - the new ones will be hard for most of the people who have been involved in the old ones for some time to embrace... and therefore, the older ones will make much more sense to some, and the newer ones be more meaningful to others. in otherwords... not right or wrong - just different.
so, a few conversations have continued to push me, and well, to be honest i feel that God is reminding me that there can be more and he wants me to delve into the world of these unknown expressions of our faith.
a big shout out goes to Christal... thanx mate, you're helping me dream again
another shout out to Barb... aho is also helping me see the world in a slightly different way - a somewhat more positive way, and less cynical (me cynical?)
one more word on Barb - she is a part of a community called Solace (in the inner northern suburbs of sunny melbourne). Anyways, a bunch of people from solace put together a book called remaking (which i found out about here). im looking at using it as a platform to start our our community/conversation... whatever...
along with other things, that i have in mind... but i think the book is gold... so good job stu and all you guys, im apreciating the hard work you've all put in.
and well... where to from here???
who knows, but there has to be somewhere.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
means of grace?
tonight ive ping ponged a few emails back and forth to one who i guess i would sya is a new friend, someone i found threw a blog.
i can honestly say that in my life God uses the most unlikley things at time to draw me nearer to him. i have to say that ive really been blessed by some unlikly things lately. and well, this is definately one of them
all i can say is that God show's himself to all of us. sometimes you just need to look at a different angle, or maybe, just maybe, realise that "God" might not have been what or who you were expecting.
what is love? if God is love (which i firmly believe) then why are some of the things that we hold on to as so important, not really of "love"? and well... what God uses to show himself to us (or means of grace) may be things that we dont really see as being typically from God. am i talking in circles?
it makes sense to me anyway
i can honestly say that in my life God uses the most unlikley things at time to draw me nearer to him. i have to say that ive really been blessed by some unlikly things lately. and well, this is definately one of them
all i can say is that God show's himself to all of us. sometimes you just need to look at a different angle, or maybe, just maybe, realise that "God" might not have been what or who you were expecting.
what is love? if God is love (which i firmly believe) then why are some of the things that we hold on to as so important, not really of "love"? and well... what God uses to show himself to us (or means of grace) may be things that we dont really see as being typically from God. am i talking in circles?
it makes sense to me anyway
Monday, April 10, 2006
time to write now
unfortunately its true
a big shout out to Connor Michael Bradshaw! Who managed to get his father in an arm bar and other submission holds before his umbilical cord was cut! at 9'9 you can tell why! That happened on the 5th. Congradshulashuns!
hey we are Ostraylyuns after all!
other than that life has been flowing. heavily!
went to the world record smashing of the most bikes riden thru a pub - they got 1325!
been to some church visits with school stuff.
gearing up for a big weak. getting jumbles room ready!
thats all for now
keep it real
a big shout out to Connor Michael Bradshaw! Who managed to get his father in an arm bar and other submission holds before his umbilical cord was cut! at 9'9 you can tell why! That happened on the 5th. Congradshulashuns!
hey we are Ostraylyuns after all!
other than that life has been flowing. heavily!
went to the world record smashing of the most bikes riden thru a pub - they got 1325!
been to some church visits with school stuff.
gearing up for a big weak. getting jumbles room ready!
thats all for now
keep it real
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
a towering achievement
thanx to the help of Christy i have managed to add more photos to my blog, in an easier way.
i added a bunch to the holiday stuff.
i think its been a towering success
i added a bunch to the holiday stuff.
i think its been a towering success
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Excuse me... let me freak you out for a second
DAY 4.
After a slow start. We jumped on a tram back to the city to meet up with Kenn, Andrea and Makhyah, at Gloria Jeans at the end of the burke st mall. After catching up for a bit, we wandered over to the myer windows, where 4 guys are living in the window space for 2 weeks. Its so cool. The space was done up with 4 rooms (left to right) - kitchen, dinning/multi-purpose, bedroom, bathroom. And you could see everything (they had the toilet tucked away and some strategically placed vinyl over the shower screen. they were just getting going on the lazy sunday morning, but one of the guys had a bit of dialogue (?) with makhyah, which he thought was cool. just a really interesting concept...
After that we wandered for a bit. We stopped for a while at the corner of swanston and spencer where the marathon was running past. we cheered, and got a photo of Mr Lion there. M?J was requesting for the rest of the day "i wanna say go runners". after leaving kenn and andrea round lunch time, we went down to alexandra gardens, watched the big screen for a while, had an ice cream, said "go runners" a couple of times, and jumped back on a tram. we jumped off just up the road (other side of the city) to go to the vic markets again.
we had to go to furgeson plaire to get more custard tart (they were out) and also some more dip. I bought Spicy morocan lentil, sundried tomato and feta, and pine nut and spinach. yummo. At the market, i scared the living daylights out of 3 atheletes from namibia. i wanted to get a photo of them with Mr Lion. I realise now, how scary i am to 3 female gymnasts (the oldest may have been 17). Anyways, they were happy to be in the photo.
We jumped back on the tram, back to ascot vale.
once home we got ready to go out for dinner. right about now i found out that iu would be the only guy there. all the others had bailed, so it was basically an all girl high school catch up. i reluctantly continued as planned. we dropped mj off with my mum and dad on the way, and then went to the moskito bar at clipton hill.
it was a good night. the only let down was that one girl that everyone told me i would get along really well with... didnt show up (thanx bianca, whoever you are). i managed to have a chat with one of the girls about music, so i was happy. another one was a chef, so that was nice to talk food (we didnt talk for too long, i think she was a bit over the whole food thing). so it wasnt a late night. I had the rissotto again (lamb and rosemary this time), and we called it a night about 10pm. We went home via Alaysia (spelling) to get turkish bread. and crashed out after another big day.
After a slow start. We jumped on a tram back to the city to meet up with Kenn, Andrea and Makhyah, at Gloria Jeans at the end of the burke st mall. After catching up for a bit, we wandered over to the myer windows, where 4 guys are living in the window space for 2 weeks. Its so cool. The space was done up with 4 rooms (left to right) - kitchen, dinning/multi-purpose, bedroom, bathroom. And you could see everything (they had the toilet tucked away and some strategically placed vinyl over the shower screen. they were just getting going on the lazy sunday morning, but one of the guys had a bit of dialogue (?) with makhyah, which he thought was cool. just a really interesting concept...
After that we wandered for a bit. We stopped for a while at the corner of swanston and spencer where the marathon was running past. we cheered, and got a photo of Mr Lion there. M?J was requesting for the rest of the day "i wanna say go runners". after leaving kenn and andrea round lunch time, we went down to alexandra gardens, watched the big screen for a while, had an ice cream, said "go runners" a couple of times, and jumped back on a tram. we jumped off just up the road (other side of the city) to go to the vic markets again.we had to go to furgeson plaire to get more custard tart (they were out) and also some more dip. I bought Spicy morocan lentil, sundried tomato and feta, and pine nut and spinach. yummo. At the market, i scared the living daylights out of 3 atheletes from namibia. i wanted to get a photo of them with Mr Lion. I realise now, how scary i am to 3 female gymnasts (the oldest may have been 17). Anyways, they were happy to be in the photo.
We jumped back on the tram, back to ascot vale.once home we got ready to go out for dinner. right about now i found out that iu would be the only guy there. all the others had bailed, so it was basically an all girl high school catch up. i reluctantly continued as planned. we dropped mj off with my mum and dad on the way, and then went to the moskito bar at clipton hill.
it was a good night. the only let down was that one girl that everyone told me i would get along really well with... didnt show up (thanx bianca, whoever you are). i managed to have a chat with one of the girls about music, so i was happy. another one was a chef, so that was nice to talk food (we didnt talk for too long, i think she was a bit over the whole food thing). so it wasnt a late night. I had the rissotto again (lamb and rosemary this time), and we called it a night about 10pm. We went home via Alaysia (spelling) to get turkish bread. and crashed out after another big day.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
let me just take them to the car... nudge nudge, wink wink
DAY 3.
A cruisy saturday morning was short lived by the suggestion that we go to DFO (those factory outlets that are popping up everywhere).
So Tammie and Karz shopped while MJ and I ate some stuff and wandered. Karz showed me some bags she liked, so i said i'd buy her one of them and just take it to the car. ofcourse... i bought all 3 (its ok to go overboard on holidays yeah?) and karz also bought some shoes. we rapped up DFO in a little under 2 hours i think and then headed back to tammie's.
Around 1, we met up with Courtenay (who i think rocks) at a little cafe called lomah on union rd (ascot vale). the 3 of us (karz, mj and i) shared a pumpkin rissotto and some fat chips (which were just tops - with this lime mayo). Great catching up with Courts again - shes at uni now as well as working, pretty full on, but she'll get there.
Something interesting i noticed (well karz noticed it really) was on the menu - $25 to buy seeds and farming equipment for 3rd world countries (thru tear). it was worded in a great way - really reminded me of Steve Sjogren stuff. then we noticed that lomah was an acronym for land of milk and honey. pretty cool i think. it wasnt in your face, just subtle, but there... i liked it anyways.
So, after lunch tammie gave us a ride over to where kenn and andrea were staying. andrea took makhyah for the night and kenn, karz and i went into vodafone arena which for advertising reasons was only refererred to as the multi purpose venue (i insisted on calling it vodafone though, just to stick it to the man).
Our seats at the velodrome were a bit crazy. pretty scary to get to anyways. we were right up the back in a corner. but suprisingly they were good seats. we could see everything without hassles.
so we saw the mens (ryan bailey won) and womens sprints (the mears girls got silver and bronxz) - started at the semis and went all the way thru to gold medal - the drama of it was awesome. And also saw the mens team pursuit (the poms smashed us). It was much better value for money than the swimming (not that we paid for the swimming, but it was over twice the price for half the entertainment). they also had a victorian juniors race (the one with the sprints every 10 laps). good night in all!
So we caught up with Mum and Dad on the way out (they were at the gymastics at rod laver), and went and had coffee at Southgate. We rocked back over to spencer and elizabeth and caught the tram home. another big day...
A cruisy saturday morning was short lived by the suggestion that we go to DFO (those factory outlets that are popping up everywhere).
So Tammie and Karz shopped while MJ and I ate some stuff and wandered. Karz showed me some bags she liked, so i said i'd buy her one of them and just take it to the car. ofcourse... i bought all 3 (its ok to go overboard on holidays yeah?) and karz also bought some shoes. we rapped up DFO in a little under 2 hours i think and then headed back to tammie's.
Around 1, we met up with Courtenay (who i think rocks) at a little cafe called lomah on union rd (ascot vale). the 3 of us (karz, mj and i) shared a pumpkin rissotto and some fat chips (which were just tops - with this lime mayo). Great catching up with Courts again - shes at uni now as well as working, pretty full on, but she'll get there.
Something interesting i noticed (well karz noticed it really) was on the menu - $25 to buy seeds and farming equipment for 3rd world countries (thru tear). it was worded in a great way - really reminded me of Steve Sjogren stuff. then we noticed that lomah was an acronym for land of milk and honey. pretty cool i think. it wasnt in your face, just subtle, but there... i liked it anyways.
So, after lunch tammie gave us a ride over to where kenn and andrea were staying. andrea took makhyah for the night and kenn, karz and i went into vodafone arena which for advertising reasons was only refererred to as the multi purpose venue (i insisted on calling it vodafone though, just to stick it to the man).
Our seats at the velodrome were a bit crazy. pretty scary to get to anyways. we were right up the back in a corner. but suprisingly they were good seats. we could see everything without hassles.
so we saw the mens (ryan bailey won) and womens sprints (the mears girls got silver and bronxz) - started at the semis and went all the way thru to gold medal - the drama of it was awesome. And also saw the mens team pursuit (the poms smashed us). It was much better value for money than the swimming (not that we paid for the swimming, but it was over twice the price for half the entertainment). they also had a victorian juniors race (the one with the sprints every 10 laps). good night in all!
So we caught up with Mum and Dad on the way out (they were at the gymastics at rod laver), and went and had coffee at Southgate. We rocked back over to spencer and elizabeth and caught the tram home. another big day...
Friday, March 17, 2006
look at who you're sitting next to!!
DAY 2.
Running a bit late this morning, which would well prove to be a theme for our time away.
We managed to just miss the tram, but its no biggy in melbourne, i think the next one was about 8 minutes away. We caught the tram to swanston st, carlton to meet up with Mum and Dad (mine this time) for the first time in melbourne. Mum and Dad had offered us some tickets to go see the heats of the swimming that morning, and they would look after makhyah. sounds good to me...
so we had breakfast at this little place on swanston st. I had the obligatory smoothie (blueberries, yum) as well as some various things with cheese and ham on them. So... breakfast was short lived as we had to get to Albert Park for the swimming.
So, how many trams does it take to get from swanston st, to albert park. Thats a very interesting question. Look... can you blame me for picking on nakari about this, she pretty much gets things like this right all the time, i may as well have some fun with it... anyways... 6 trams later we got to melbourne park (my favourite was when we got off a tram, jumped on one that went back round the same corner we just went round - good stuff)...
We rocked into the swimming just on time. Mum and Dad said that they thought we would get good seats, as they bought them thru qantas. Well we had great seats, very front of the spectator section (the others we for teams and ppl like that). So we climb the grandstand, and nakari headed for our seats. I muttered something like "hey look who we're sitting next to". karz missed it, and sat down oblivious. "look who you're sitting next to" i whispered in her ear a little more clearly (diction aint my fortay sic). Karz had sat down next to Lisa Curry! Wow! We didnt talk to her, I thought she'd get annoyed. But we had a bit of a spy at times of her running sheet which has way more info than the normal program. So anyways... we watched a bunch of heats including the women's 100 free (go libby), and then headed off...
the line for trams was huge... but flowed extremely well... a real credit to the organisation of it all... a line that we were told would be about 45 minutes only took about 20 to get thru.
So it only took as 2 trams to get back to swanston st, where Dad and mj had just woken up from a nap. We went and got some lunch in Lygon st - i got chicken rissoto, yummo! (karz got gnochi - which she doesnt normally like, but it was dead set terrific). So after lunch we hit a supermarket for some awesome chilli red dip (its chilli, capsicum, cashews and parmesan - just terrific), then went home to chill for a bit.
Kenn and Andrea came round, and along with Greg and Tammie we had a bit of a barbie. definately needed by this time. Andrea bough some turkish bread from Alasia (spelling?) and with the dips we had it was just awesome. We crashed out not too late.
Running a bit late this morning, which would well prove to be a theme for our time away.
We managed to just miss the tram, but its no biggy in melbourne, i think the next one was about 8 minutes away. We caught the tram to swanston st, carlton to meet up with Mum and Dad (mine this time) for the first time in melbourne. Mum and Dad had offered us some tickets to go see the heats of the swimming that morning, and they would look after makhyah. sounds good to me...
so we had breakfast at this little place on swanston st. I had the obligatory smoothie (blueberries, yum) as well as some various things with cheese and ham on them. So... breakfast was short lived as we had to get to Albert Park for the swimming.
So, how many trams does it take to get from swanston st, to albert park. Thats a very interesting question. Look... can you blame me for picking on nakari about this, she pretty much gets things like this right all the time, i may as well have some fun with it... anyways... 6 trams later we got to melbourne park (my favourite was when we got off a tram, jumped on one that went back round the same corner we just went round - good stuff)...
We rocked into the swimming just on time. Mum and Dad said that they thought we would get good seats, as they bought them thru qantas. Well we had great seats, very front of the spectator section (the others we for teams and ppl like that). So we climb the grandstand, and nakari headed for our seats. I muttered something like "hey look who we're sitting next to". karz missed it, and sat down oblivious. "look who you're sitting next to" i whispered in her ear a little more clearly (diction aint my fortay sic). Karz had sat down next to Lisa Curry! Wow! We didnt talk to her, I thought she'd get annoyed. But we had a bit of a spy at times of her running sheet which has way more info than the normal program. So anyways... we watched a bunch of heats including the women's 100 free (go libby), and then headed off...
the line for trams was huge... but flowed extremely well... a real credit to the organisation of it all... a line that we were told would be about 45 minutes only took about 20 to get thru.
So it only took as 2 trams to get back to swanston st, where Dad and mj had just woken up from a nap. We went and got some lunch in Lygon st - i got chicken rissoto, yummo! (karz got gnochi - which she doesnt normally like, but it was dead set terrific). So after lunch we hit a supermarket for some awesome chilli red dip (its chilli, capsicum, cashews and parmesan - just terrific), then went home to chill for a bit.
Kenn and Andrea came round, and along with Greg and Tammie we had a bit of a barbie. definately needed by this time. Andrea bough some turkish bread from Alasia (spelling?) and with the dips we had it was just awesome. We crashed out not too late.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
and seriousness reigns supreme...
yeah right!
I was fumbling thru kaya's website this morning. and well, apart from starting to get a little frustrated that i havent got the EP yet (which I ordered 3 weeks ago - yes i know I'm a very impatient man), I was absolutely wrapped by what i stumbled across.
Kaya have a whole bunch of merchandise up for sale. And well, that wasnt what i was stoked about, because it wont fit me, and besides that i dont think its my style anyways, but thats cool, check it out for yourself (particularly if you're of the female variety of our species). Anyways... (I do go on, don't i?)
What I was impressed with was the photos they had - modelling the merchandise. You need to check this out, it's just great that people can still be rather silly and rather professional at the same time. The only photo that isn't silly has the caption "Emma poised somewhere near the stairway to somewhere", and then there is this bizarre editted photo of Sal doing a "My Lips" thing - Juls' expression in the background is priceless.
Anyways, I'm sure i will comment more on Kaya when I get the EP. C'mon guys!!!
I was fumbling thru kaya's website this morning. and well, apart from starting to get a little frustrated that i havent got the EP yet (which I ordered 3 weeks ago - yes i know I'm a very impatient man), I was absolutely wrapped by what i stumbled across.
Kaya have a whole bunch of merchandise up for sale. And well, that wasnt what i was stoked about, because it wont fit me, and besides that i dont think its my style anyways, but thats cool, check it out for yourself (particularly if you're of the female variety of our species). Anyways... (I do go on, don't i?)
What I was impressed with was the photos they had - modelling the merchandise. You need to check this out, it's just great that people can still be rather silly and rather professional at the same time. The only photo that isn't silly has the caption "Emma poised somewhere near the stairway to somewhere", and then there is this bizarre editted photo of Sal doing a "My Lips" thing - Juls' expression in the background is priceless.
Anyways, I'm sure i will comment more on Kaya when I get the EP. C'mon guys!!!
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
new mclaren stuff
so brian mclaren has a new book coming out called the secret message of jesus
and well, the book isnt out, all ive read is the publicists remarks... but...
i have to say that it really seems like he is just repackaging other people stuff, adding some coment and making it more accessible. i love the guy, his stuff has really cahnged my life, but really this book to me, looks like it will be N.T Wright repackaged. So maybe it would just be best to read the challenge of jesus, which might i add is an awesome book that will make you think an awful lot. now... in general mclaren seems to steer away from being too (too too) liberal, but i wouldnt be surprised if he hits on the themes of Marcus Borg in there too, which i can say meeting jesus again for the first time, is worth reading - but i dont subscribe to most of his thoughts, but see the worth in them, and some have actually helped my understanding of my faith (does that make me one of these guys? i dont think so). and lastly, for a great discussion of the cutting edge - the two guys Wright and Borg actually argue (in a spirit of friendship) in the meaning of jesus - which for anyone out there really wanting to explore who jesus was - from both sides of the argument (or the most scholarly arguments anyways) this book is for you.
anyways. back to mclaren...
on his site, he mentions another book he is working on another book called "the way of the ancient practices". and well i wonder if we look back a few years whether richard foster's celebration of discipline would be similar? and well... if we look a little more recently... Tony Jones's the sacred way pretty much covers the same content (by the looks of the new book anyway).
a fair amount of the content from the story we find ourselves in, (the whole theistic/deistic evolution position) a generous orthodoxy (again see richard foster) and the last word and the word after that (again i felt like i was reading a sumary of NT Wright or Walter Brueggemann in parts), is all repackaging. how long will this go on???
the books mclaren has his own authority on come down to experience in my opinion. a new kind of christian (an amazing work) is like the great sample bag of postmodern/emerging/whatever-theology and really seems to show his struggles in a fresh vulnerable light. i would also think that the church on the other side, finding faith and definately more ready than you realise (which i also highly recomend)are all much more packed with his own stuff...
having said all this. mclaren has a way with words, an amazing way with words that i can compare to few others personally (only eugene peterson comes to mind). i imagine his takes on these subject areas will change people, will certainly be more accessible than those he sources, and will probably spend a fair bit of time (in the apendixes) giving credit to those who deserve it.
all i can say is that mclaren is great, but maybe there are other great writers out there too. ones that arent really getting the credit they deserve due to a louder voice sharing their opinions. having said that, is it better for your ideas to get out there shared by someone else, or to not get out there at all? mclaren has a way of impacting people, and surely use other peoples stuff to do that cant be bad thing... can it?
and well, the book isnt out, all ive read is the publicists remarks... but...
i have to say that it really seems like he is just repackaging other people stuff, adding some coment and making it more accessible. i love the guy, his stuff has really cahnged my life, but really this book to me, looks like it will be N.T Wright repackaged. So maybe it would just be best to read the challenge of jesus, which might i add is an awesome book that will make you think an awful lot. now... in general mclaren seems to steer away from being too (too too) liberal, but i wouldnt be surprised if he hits on the themes of Marcus Borg in there too, which i can say meeting jesus again for the first time, is worth reading - but i dont subscribe to most of his thoughts, but see the worth in them, and some have actually helped my understanding of my faith (does that make me one of these guys? i dont think so). and lastly, for a great discussion of the cutting edge - the two guys Wright and Borg actually argue (in a spirit of friendship) in the meaning of jesus - which for anyone out there really wanting to explore who jesus was - from both sides of the argument (or the most scholarly arguments anyways) this book is for you.
anyways. back to mclaren...
on his site, he mentions another book he is working on another book called "the way of the ancient practices". and well i wonder if we look back a few years whether richard foster's celebration of discipline would be similar? and well... if we look a little more recently... Tony Jones's the sacred way pretty much covers the same content (by the looks of the new book anyway).
a fair amount of the content from the story we find ourselves in, (the whole theistic/deistic evolution position) a generous orthodoxy (again see richard foster) and the last word and the word after that (again i felt like i was reading a sumary of NT Wright or Walter Brueggemann in parts), is all repackaging. how long will this go on???
the books mclaren has his own authority on come down to experience in my opinion. a new kind of christian (an amazing work) is like the great sample bag of postmodern/emerging/whatever-theology and really seems to show his struggles in a fresh vulnerable light. i would also think that the church on the other side, finding faith and definately more ready than you realise (which i also highly recomend)are all much more packed with his own stuff...
having said all this. mclaren has a way with words, an amazing way with words that i can compare to few others personally (only eugene peterson comes to mind). i imagine his takes on these subject areas will change people, will certainly be more accessible than those he sources, and will probably spend a fair bit of time (in the apendixes) giving credit to those who deserve it.
all i can say is that mclaren is great, but maybe there are other great writers out there too. ones that arent really getting the credit they deserve due to a louder voice sharing their opinions. having said that, is it better for your ideas to get out there shared by someone else, or to not get out there at all? mclaren has a way of impacting people, and surely use other peoples stuff to do that cant be bad thing... can it?
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
i'll smash yous all
so...
where on earth would exist a place where
Mick kicked my butt
I just beat Grant by the narrowest of margins
and
we all destroyed copland
here it is
(i included first and last names just incase you are wondering)
thanx Doug Pagitt for this link
where on earth would exist a place where
Mick kicked my butt
I just beat Grant by the narrowest of margins
and
we all destroyed copland
here it is
(i included first and last names just incase you are wondering)
thanx Doug Pagitt for this link
Sunday, December 18, 2005
maybe i am becoming a groupie
sure, i will always have tendencies in the area of groupiedom. anyone who knew me during my phish phase will clearly testify to that.
anyways... i posted on Zan's blog (that i mentioned the other day, here) and well she got back to we which was nice.
heres the thing anyways
ian hey zan,love the beatles, and i love sufjan (among others) so im pretty pumped about the album. speaking of sufjan, i found some free christmas stuff of his kicking around, and its awesome, you should check it out some time.
**Hey Ian, I do indeed have those Christmas EP's - it's a much better soundtrack to the 'holiday season' than the usual dorky carols and middle of the road pop singers doing covers eh? You should check out his earlier albums if you haven't also... he's gone from indie to middle eastern, glitchy electronica to stripped back folk.. across five albums. The man's a genius. Illinois is by far my favourite record of the year. Thanks for the post!
anyways... i posted on Zan's blog (that i mentioned the other day, here) and well she got back to we which was nice.
heres the thing anyways
ian hey zan,love the beatles, and i love sufjan (among others) so im pretty pumped about the album. speaking of sufjan, i found some free christmas stuff of his kicking around, and its awesome, you should check it out some time.
**Hey Ian, I do indeed have those Christmas EP's - it's a much better soundtrack to the 'holiday season' than the usual dorky carols and middle of the road pop singers doing covers eh? You should check out his earlier albums if you haven't also... he's gone from indie to middle eastern, glitchy electronica to stripped back folk.. across five albums. The man's a genius. Illinois is by far my favourite record of the year. Thanks for the post!
Thursday, December 15, 2005
a very sufjan christmas
so, sufjan stevens has impressed me greatly this year.
found some christmas stuff by him, all available for free download
check these links out (dont know which one works best?)
download download 2
definately worth it - i especially like his version of "come thou fount of every blessing" disc 2, track 3.
anyways, worth checkin out some time. i enjoy it.
found some christmas stuff by him, all available for free download
check these links out (dont know which one works best?)
download download 2
definately worth it - i especially like his version of "come thou fount of every blessing" disc 2, track 3.
anyways, worth checkin out some time. i enjoy it.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
busy busy busy
pretty busy and tired in my house at the moment. we have both been working on my sister's birthday present. thats all i can say for now, just in case she reads this (i doubt it but you never know).
Got a few big days coming up. Will probably write a bit more after they happen... hopefully a job interview or 2 (or 3) is the key bit of all that. will find out in the next week i imagine. anyways...
went to the city tonight to see the myer windows. a few of them werent functioning properly, so that was a bit of a let down (a couple with no lights, one with moving parts no working, a broken thing). But... on the other hand we got to hang with Rich and Jude (and Josh and Noah) before they go away, so that was cool. short of stopping the inevitable, it was classic time with Rich. I find that i think best when hes around - i come up with some of my best stuff that is... who knows??
Oh, and i also had some juice from oasis, really good! 2 parts watermelon,1 part pineapple. yummo!
Got a few big days coming up. Will probably write a bit more after they happen... hopefully a job interview or 2 (or 3) is the key bit of all that. will find out in the next week i imagine. anyways...
went to the city tonight to see the myer windows. a few of them werent functioning properly, so that was a bit of a let down (a couple with no lights, one with moving parts no working, a broken thing). But... on the other hand we got to hang with Rich and Jude (and Josh and Noah) before they go away, so that was cool. short of stopping the inevitable, it was classic time with Rich. I find that i think best when hes around - i come up with some of my best stuff that is... who knows??
Oh, and i also had some juice from oasis, really good! 2 parts watermelon,1 part pineapple. yummo!
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