mardi 17 Oct 2006, 22h35m

I hate my throat sometimes. I particularly hate its tendancy to get infections and cause me pain. So instead of trying to do anything productive with my down time, I'm going to lie here on the couch with my computer on my lap and write last.fm journals until I feel better, or until it's time to go to the doctor. My apologies to the world and the people who inhabit it, but I'm about to pour torrents of randomness into the internet. Am am, in short, going to behave like a normal 21 year old with nothing better to do.

First topic of ramblousness, Single Twin.

Given that I fell asleep, slept and woke up in steadily increasing amounts of pain, today hasn't been all bad news. After struggling home with a shopping trolly full of tissues, frozen vegetarian goods and pills and potions of all decriptions, I opend my letterbox to find a neat little cd mailer there from Marcus Teague aka Single Twin aka the lead singer/songwriter of Deloris. Via his myspace he's selling a cdr of songs that didn't get to be part of his new, released next year album. I'm listening to it now. It's lovely. Considering that the songs are "unmixed, unmastered and mostly unfinished" it's really fantastic. Beautiful, beautiful music. Stripped back acoustic stuff, just the way I like it. Wonderful lyrics. Seriously, if you're within a carrier pigeon's flight of North Carlton, you should go order yourself a copy. Definitely a good tide over til the album comes out. Hmm, that reminds me, new Deloris album coming out soon. 1st of November? That sounds about right. I know the album launch is on the 24th of November, which is great, 'cos that's the end of the exam period. Of course I may have to battle against the will of friends who finish exams then and want to celebrate in a manner that doesn't involve a band they've never heard of, but we'll see how we go.

Hmmm, I think that's all I have to say about that, so I'll move on to some Something For Kate related grumbles.

I watched SFK "Live at the Chapel" last night. From home. On my computer. Because I missed out on tikcets to actually go. The logical part of my brian points out that tickets were in high demand, and a lot of people missed out, but I choose to attribute it to some kind of curse. I seem to be good at missing free Something for Kate events. A while back Paul Dempsey did an instore in the city for the new (and brilliant) album Desert Lights, but I couldn't go, 'cos my parents were visiting and had just got in, so I had to spend quality time with them. A few weeks later they did a video hits thing at Federation Square, with Augie March, Augie March! But by then my parents were just about to leave, and it was more quality time. Admittedly that probably wasn't worth going to - standing around amongst screaming video hits fans waiting for the bands to come out and play "the single", but still, for Augie March and SFK, I would have gone. Not to be, never mind.

A few weeks ago they did a free concert at Fed Square. I was a couple of blocks away, at work.

And last night they played Live at the Chapel, and I couldn't get tickets.

Mind you, I should look at the chances that go my way. I was supposedly going to be away for work for the Melbourne leg of their Desert Lights Tour, but that didn't happen, and instead of getting to go to no shows I got to go to two. So glass half full, really, if not closer to three quaters.

And I think that's all I have to say for now, time to go and mope for a while. But I'll be back.

Oh, btw, Augie March has a shiny new website layout, with all sorts of exciting new things. At least I assume they're exciting and new, but I can't remember the old site - it was more than two days ago and not high priority information. But anyway, it is shiny and new.