2/24/06

it's raining, it's pouring

cyclone kate brings heavy monsoonal rain. it's nice to go to sleep to at night.

i just baked another sticky ginger cake.

yum. um.

i forget how to use words. this place does this to me. i get a little zoned out and happy. no need to think too much. beyond what record shall i play? what book shall i read? what shall i cook for dinner?

todays pick of my dads records... the animals, the easybeats, roy orbison, rollingstones, television, leonard cohen.
and reading? the education of little tree, by forest carter. i wholly recommend this book to everyone. i love it. maybe because i grew up in the hills with a dad who spoke & thought quite a bit like granpa, still does. the voice of little tree hits me smack bang in the heart. i bawled my eyes out reading it the three times i have.

here is my blue eyed boy. valentine. he is too quick for everyone. too damn cute for his own good and TROUBLE.
blue eyes
he is two and has already driven two cars into things. he can climb and get into everything. he sings hey hey the muffin man on demand.

i drove up to herberton with my mum. the range is windy and scary, shear hillslopes right at the edge. then you get into the rainforest. mt hypipamee national park. which always reminds me of primary school sports day. our house was hypipamee.

H! Y! P! - IPA - M! E! E! yeah hypipamee!

2/23/06

hello from upper barron

population, i don't know... 60?

god, who knows where the edges are.

renown for the barron river. hills. grass. fertile soils. volanic history. hmmmmm. rainforest. mt hypipamee national park. the crater. lots of farmers. some hippies.

the home of dell.

it's nice here. i have eaten lot's of home grown produce. bacon, beef, eggs, sweetcorn, macadamias, jaboticabas, pawpaws...

i have been swimming in the river.
i have been reading.
i have been talking to my mum and dad, who i have been missing a lot lately as i am truly CRAP at keeping in touch.

i have played with my nephews. age 11, 10, 6, and 2.

they are great and make me laugh.

they also make me tired.

i hope you are all well.

this is for kate from the bbq. and also because we have a cyclone named kate hovering in the sea somewhere near the torres strait. making it rainy and windy here today.

we gonna barbie like it's your birthday

2/17/06

hello bed!

HELLO BED!

hello bed

I love you!

sorry..

i mean

hi readers, i have to go to my bed.

BUT first i'd like to wish a BIG happy birthday to the ever-wonderful kate matthews...

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you made it through 27 without choking on your vomit or overdosing or falling off a bridge... not very rock n roll of you, but i, amongst many, am most pleased about that...

ONE MORE SLEEP TIL QUEENSLAND...

2/14/06

valentine's day

i have a nephew named valentine. he owns today.
but all you other charming reader's are getting well wishes too.
i think you're clever and have good taste. HA.
i've never had a secret admirer come forth...
or been given a rose. *sniff* POOR WALLFLOWEREY ME! i guess i don't inspire romantic notions. aaah well. i inspire other things at times. & you made my day just by dropping by.

fun for all the family

apart from an attack of the dreaded lergy, I’m fine. I’ve kind of got my voice back. life is sweet. and not sounding so much like I’ve been YELLING ALOT & drinking WAY too much whiskey and rum… which by the way, is pretty accurate. but what is a girl to do with a sore throat otherwise. suck throaties?

I saw a lot of music over the weekend. that’s good; even though all the music wasn’t. I like the crowd as much as the bands. sometimes. I loved Calvin Johnson singing about rabbits and turtles. I didn’t love it so much the night before when he talked for half an hour. BLAHBLAHBLAH. he has an amazing voice so I watched anyways... in between taking photos of all those indie kids cute shoes. I was pleased, more than before, about ALWAYS and pleased again by FABULOUS DIAMONDS.

ALWAYS ALEX

then sometimes you just have to leave half way through. which is what I did yesterday afternoon with deerhoof.

so you’re clever… I LIKE CLEVER, you’re having fun with it? GREAT. I’m pleased for you, especially YOU mongy drummerman… but sometimes simpler is better, like a bit of soul, a bit of SATISFACTION... a bit of heart. maybe...

maybe it’s just a little over my head.

dear readers, that wouldn’t be hard. par exemple.

on the way home I was introduced to another driving game. and cause I’m a sharer, here’s some LOWLY ways for YOU* to pass the time.

* YES YOU! LUCKY!

simply place the word ‘anal’ in front of any cars name. then marvel at the wonder of this crazy sci-fi fantasy porn world.

anal explorer, anal impala, anal laser, anal transporter, anal grandeur, anal star, anal starrion…

I came up with the cock variation, inspired by COCK *TM.

the original "fun for all the family!" game.
simply substitute cock into any movie/book title, and be pleased with yourself, YOU JUVENILE...

hours** of fun.

the return of the cock… buffalo cock, cock in the garden of good and evil, cock on a hot tin roof, OW, cock in the afternoon, cock mountain, ferris beullers cock off.
it gets truly annoying after awhile though, you find yourself with a headache trying to think of newer better titles. A real waste of brains... but your reading drivel on the internet, so you can talk...

** after about half an hour you’ll want to kill anyone who says cock, and you’ll want your money back, but you didn’t pay DID YOU??? and you'll be asking to have your brain cleaned somewhere? but NOPE. sorry.

you may also develop eye strain from trying to read the badges of passing cars.

so you don’t have to go through that, here’s some good cars for cock… that I found earlier.

cock lancer, cock ranger, cock forrester and my personal favourite... COCKCOROLLA. a bit like lola rock n roller crossed with engrish for coke.

hey look! ooo ooo monkeys! it's COCK BANANA! in syrup!

cockbanana

want more driving games? kate and I are won’t to practice insults whilst driving, limited by the letters on the number plates of passing cars… simon bore witness to this one day, when without warning we both started muttering random abusive terms whilst driving. he thought we were overcome by tourettes in tandem.

once initiated he was pretty good at it… being all wordy and stuff. though even for him some letters are more challenging… X anyone? but Rachael had quite a bit of flair with making them up schoolyard style & bringing out some long forgotten classics.

which get's me misty-eyed... thinking back to one summer day, driving a ute around the suburbs leaving stuff with numerous unsuspecting friends before I left town, entertaining ourselves with a very rewarding game of 'HUNGRY BUM' & 'GUNT' spotting. in some suburbs we had a field day. there are some real hot spots out there. next time you find yourself LOST at northcote plaza don’t blame me if you’re bored.

2/9/06

stormy

i like this rain

i might go out in it, see some art.

and jon michell at the old bar tonight...

definitely going to said old bar tomorow for the tranquilisers.

because i love them.

shall i go to that dirty dirty bar two nights running.

ar why not.

this was requested... waiting for the train to that animal party. photo by kate.
waitin fo the train

Update...

i ran into kate on the way to the train and she looked like the cutest little vagabond walking up the street that i yelled "OI ragamuffin! "and went home with her instead... of all of the above.

i booked a ticket back to melbourne which will be a first for me. i usually have open ended departures but brookie threatened to buy my ticket back if i didn't... so now you know, please don't invite me to anything fun between the dates of feb 18 - march 11...

i'm busy with eating the carrot cake i made in an attempt to quell these unusual sweet cravings i'm having, and drinking pot after pot of green tea. oh and most importantly i am listening happily to the cd jon michelle gave me on monday night, mum smokes, 'railroads chasms and fantasies'. i went to the launch a few weeks ago, wished i could buy it and the only un-ironic band t-shirt i might wear... designed by the clever and handsome nathan gray. anyway the cd. i love it, and i love him for giving it to my broke self. thanks jon.

i'm so very broke after buying tickets to qld. BUT it is my beloved grandma's 80th birthday and i wouldn't miss it for the world, i just wish i got to stay longer, but will plan to visit again in the depths of melbbournes winter...

I WILL though, go to see the tranquilisers tonight... at the old bar.

2/6/06

WARNING!

WARNING!

SUCK *self-absorbed in new and worse ways* POST

SKIP IT!

*cue new-age-y bullshit music

you are an island. you don’t need anyone else to make you happy.
and though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you.
deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights.
you also tend to be psychic – so listen to that inner voice…
your strength is your self sufficiency
your weakness, you despise authority

funny how something SO very unscientific, and illogical as an internet born on your birthday ‘personality prediction’ can be SO very right.

BUT simply, that’s me. tell me what to do, I’ll fight you. talk deeply with me I’ll impress you, but if I look surly & give you those angry eyes I’d be needing some time alone. to make myself happy. on an island. cuba? japan? Iceland?

oh

I’m supposed to BE the island. not just live in a nice house on the hill on it.

okay FINE

this island is a little adrift.

noticed?

not in an OH NO! dellie’s gone CRAZY or MISSING kind of way, more a “didn’t I used to be in calm clear waters near some comforting big landmass that served as a helpful reminder of who and what I aspire to be… why now? so very STORMY here… oh yeah it has been that way for awhile. true. and there is still lots of water around and sometimes it’s clear and calm BUT not usually, & now I have no idea which direction to look or go. my psychic* instincts tell me things need to change and they are SLOWLY, but where on earth to start? wasn’t there an anchor of some description, like love or work or art or something? where the fuck am I? “

yeah. Melbourne.

I booked my ticket to qld. I wish I left today. now I feel like I’m just waiting & waiting to go. and I am. distract me someone. PLEASE. I, who used to be so good at it am totally crap at it lately. and I don’t mean by taking me to nasty bars at 5 in the morning…

* OOOOOOGA BOOOOOOOGA I see into your eyes and in the near future you will be overcome by a desire to pay me to do what I like to do anyway, or cook me dinner, or charm the pants off me and or ask me to come on an all expenses paid ‘research’ mission to any of the aforementioned islands with you…

2/5/06

I am NOT an animal

say it again

i am NOT AN ANIMAL

ok

so what

iam

SOWHATIFIAM?

FINE

where shall i go to lick these wounds?

back to the den
the cave
the crib, A BURROW? A CAGE? THE DANCEFLOOR?

happy birthday birdie
that animal party was heaps of fun, even the pigs came. some personal highlights...

pat grinning in the rosella costume i made him.
seeing him talking to the POLICE drunk in said parrot suit at four am while someone lets their tyres down in the alley. HA.
rachael hooper. (say no more)
seeing pat fall drunken in a parrot suit from the pony stage...
and later hearing that he walked from bus to pony to find us, on his own, wings flapping, yelling FUCK THE POLICE to anyone who cared to listen... thats the highlight in my head... oh and the thought of all those other animals washing up all over town... yea for costume parties...
YEAH, also dancing with and meeting with and blatantly touching some VERY handsome animals. they looked SO pretty.
er...
what to say about this?
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yella birds
fox aminal giraffe
that other mantra is futile... here we have the revised edition

I AM AN ANIMAL AND I NEED YOUR LOVE

I AM AN AMINAL AND I NEED YOUR LOVE

IMANANIMALAWILDONESOIWILLEATYOUFORBREAKKIEIFICANCATCHYOU
ANDIMNOTTALKINGTOTHEGRASSORTHEVEGETABLES

2/1/06

IT"S COOL

I for one plan to embrace these days and sleep and write and draw my pictures. my head works again. and I’m thinking. and I’ll listen to records on my lovely new record player. it’s very handsome and I bought it at a garage sale on Saturday for five bucks! BARGAIN. pity I only have three records to play at the moment. with the others floundering in a box in someone’s garage. (someone I can’t speak to anymore)

happy birthday pat. we played lawn bowls on sunday. hot. then had a pool party in the backyard to cool off. watching a handsome young tennis player lose and then say it was amazing AHHH. anyway.

CAKECLUB news.
pats moustasche

annie & I made a moustache cake for patty. old bastard. it really was quite handsome. A cinnamon & chocolate mud cake.

I guess I better get my cheater outfit ready for his animal party*
CHEETAH. so very fast. I used to be a sprinter when I was a cub.

*not in any way related or inspired by MY monkey party. YEAH RIGHT.

looking forward to panel of judges at the tote on friday night with love of diagrams and kes... also HOOP club is starting...