happy invasion day

the wave of political correctness continues to send common sense cowering into the corners. one of our largest annual rock concerts, the big day out made headlines when it was revealed that there were plans to ban people from bringing the australian flag onto the grounds. oh, and it's australia day here, our version of the states' independence day, etc.

so I did the proper aussie thing and took the kids shopping in chinatown. I'm now broke, but the girls are happy and that's all that matters. I'm sitting here in my office with a nice cold beer, the bar's open downstairs til late and I have a great view of the harbour (I'm only pointing this out to piss off my pals in the uk who are freezing - hello, pinny, ang & syd). I'd be happy to sit here all eve except I'm taking the girls to watch the fireworks.

no broadband yet, my wonderful new isp has run out of modems, in spite of informing me on several occasions that one had indeed been dispatched. never having been one to shy from a good shitfight with a telco, I'm going to war. anyone else have similar experiences? lemme know.

my daughter now has her own myspace page. I'm a little wary about kids on the net in general, and while I've grudgingly allowed this, I'm monitoring it closely. any friends or family who wanna see it, email me. I'm not going to post the addy here, as there's a few screwballs out of the 400-odd folks who read this journal, from what I gather.

happy b-day to the chookasaurus supreme, my long-time buddy theo. hope I can hi-tail it out of my sunday session to make it to your bash with the pornstar rockers at the untidy, er, unity. save me a guitar and a few tunes.

speaking of long-time buddies, gwyn ashton is back & touring here. I'm opening the show for him next thursday 1st at the bridge hotel in balmain. gwyn, theo and I played in a band together back in the 80's, we had a residency at this sleazy bar out in the sydney 'burbs where the over-40 desperate & divorced hovered like vultures on a roadkill. quentin tarantino woulda loved it, as would david lynch.

there's been a few last-minuteish gigs which have kept things hectic. last saturday I had a solo gig at the riverview, which was meant to be a duo, but.... anyway I missed out on the lime spiders' annandale gig which I hear was a killer. last night was an aussie day eve impromtu at the bald rock, tomorrow's out in the westies, then sunday as mentioned before. hopefully we'll get the blues pirates album finished shortly, then I can focus on getting my compilation album (my greatest non-hits) mastered and ready for release.

and big congrats to michael & robyn on their new film, the mind of henry lime winning the best comedy award at the smtv film festival in mumbai, starring my buddy and occasional duo partner, burton "de niro" jesperson. the u.s. premiere is in los angeles on march 3rd, go to the bbg site for details.

np - butterfly 9 / dorothy.