Tsk Tsk French and Saunders

ok .. well as feared ... the Diana "got it all" sketch has not been included in the French and Saunders box set ... shame on you Jennifer and Dawn!!!

 

So thanks to the still wonderful youtube, here 'tis:

 

Another Day with Santogold

Ok ... so I can't get that Santogold song outta my head ... I keep walking round humming "I can say I hope it will be worth what I give up" ... its annoyingly catchy ... and now I know who she really reminds me of .. Joan Armatrading!!! ("Who???" says a chorus of teenagers).

 

I haven't quite made up my mind about the album still ... I think it could be a grower, but then by which time you're over it ... one of those!!!

 

 

Anyways I seem to have music on the brain recently ... finally managed to order a number of deluxe editions of albums I have been unable to find in the shops locally. And I'm trying an online site that I have always been curious about ... won't mention details at this stage ... I've suddenly got the paras!!!

 

And I was checking out a free download off PC Magazine (a return from work) for this programme called URL Snooper ... which purports to track down all video stream urls so that you can download them onto your PC ... ain't working too well ... but my test case was a video off youtube of Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel performing Another Day for a Xmas special on TV ... not sure why i decided to choose this one ... it was all a bit random ... maybe becoz I was talking to D about this recently.

 

As this duet was never released on record, most people are more familiar with the version by This Mortal Coil ... and I'm guessing no one really knows the original Roy Harper version (that pesky teenage chorus again!!!)

Its a sad song ... sadly beautiful ... here for your viewing pleasure (oh and Peter Gabriel was a bit of spunk hey).

 

ANOTHER DAY

 

The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day

She offers me Tibetan tea on a flower tray

She's at the door. She wants to score. She dearly needs to say

 

I loved you a long time ago, you know

Where the wind's own forget-me-nots blow

But I just couldn't let myself go

Not knowing what on earth there was to know

 

But I wish that I had, cause I'm feeling so sad

That I never had one of your children

 

And across the room, inside a tomb, a chance is waxed and waned

The night is young, why are we so hung up, in each other's pain

I must take her, I must make her, while the dove domains

 

And feel the juice run as she flies

Run my wings under her sighs

As the flames of eternity rise

To lick us with the first born lash of dawn

 

Oh really my dear, I can't see what we fear

Sat here with ourselves in between us

 

And at the dawn, we can't say more, than just another day

And without a sound, I turn around, and I walk away

 

PS ... identity theft was the subject of tonight's Insight programme ... hence the paras!!! For the record, I am a 14 year old, spotty teenage girl with blonde hair of indeterminate eastern european background ... no money here to be had ... too young to drink and drive ... and I don't have a credit card ...!! hehe

friday night saturday morning

Ok ... well we finally made it to Thai Angels on Friday night for a spot of tea.

Friday Night

well its not exactly the cheapest lazy-arse friday night dinner ... but its passeable for a nice little sit-down meal thats hassle free. The main drag of West footscray is turning into a nice little cosmopolitan enclave what with all the groovy young couples that can't really afford fitzroy or carlton ... its hard on the heels of seddon and yazzaville!!

 

As per ush we pigged out!! Had prawn tom yum and bravely asked for HOT (which meant extra slices of raw bird's eye chillies) ... was pretty damn impressive .. one of the better tom yums around

 

We then had a yellow fish curry (fairly mild and on the sweetish side ... but it gets the culinary tick), pad thai (the westernised version minus the dried prawns and pickled turnip - but a really nice flavour ... very more-ish) and a minced pork salad (a bit of a let down - needed a bit more lime and fish sauce)

 

All washed down by a couple of cold Carlsbergs ... sooo reminded me of childhood and the ad we used to have on telly - I can still sing you the theme song "Come up to Carlsberg ..." and the chick in a whit bikini and a belly chain coming out of the surf and morphing into the shape of the bottle ... they don't make them like that anymore!!!

 

Went across the street to the massive indian provision store and stocked up on cup-sized portions of Kulfi .. yes they sell frozen kulfi now ... how happy am I!!! We got Badam (almond meal), pistachio and mango.

 

If you're in the west ... thai angels is worth checking out

 

http://www.thaiangelsrestaurant.com/home.html

 

Saturday Morning

 

So we trundled off to Fitzroy ... M was in the mood to spend!!!

 

We started off at Books for Cooks ... well how could you resist ... its a dangerous place to be for M and me ... 

 

And a $100 later .... jeez!!! ... we left feeling inspired and hungry .. so it was a skip to the bakery across for these yummy herb sorta ciabattas crossed with turkish bread ... don't know what they're called ... I usually point and say that herb thing ... its only $2 each ... and they're pretty massive ... its the bakery near Ladro's .. can never remember the name.

 

Then it was round the corner to Tongue and Groove.

 

 

This is our favourite furniture store ... we've scored 2 great 60's vinyl chairs and a fantastic danish style coffee table from here ... we've gotten to know Ross as a result ... even got an invite to a Featherstone drinks night once ... he was a big promoter of Featherstone ... but he's changing tack very shortly and promoting home-grown modern furniture ... as a result there will be a re-launch soon and we have invites to the party!!! I think he thinks we're like one of those artsy-fartsy couples with cash to spend .... well we'll keep this delusion alive ... we stayed mum about the fact that we were looking at buying a replica Arco lamp ... he would have kicked us out of the shop otherwise ... he's outbid each time a crate of vintage danish furniture goes up for acution and too many cheap chinese replicas are flooding the market ... which is why the need to re-assess his business model ... most of his second hand stuff gets deposited at Lost and Found just up the road ...

 

Which is where we went next ... I scored a vintage winter coat and m bought a couple of retro ties for his gig on sunday (will try and post pics of these soon) ... I had to say No to a couple of skinny ties ... but could easily be persuaded as soon as I've found the right shirts to go with ... oh this never ends!!!

 

It was a really fun day ... and we made a scrummy Sup Kambing (well more of the mamak shop style mutton soup) for tea with the lamb bought from the halal shop ... they do the best cuts for curries and the like ... on the bone with a layer of fat ... perfect!!

 

Hope you all had a great weekend!!!

 

This Friday its dinner at Mamaganoush with the old gang

Saturday its another cook-up ... its P's b'day so he gets to choose what we do ... he's already talking terrines and soup ... I'm quelling at the thought!!

 

PS ... the new PORTISHEAD ... words fail me

PPS ... the naked cowboy was at the front of Myer's .... too funny!!!

Do I get a cut

Ok .. the old office was passed in at 2 and a half mill!!!


And I think I ended up in the promo shot.
 
I'm the blurry bit in the flyer ... crazy!!!
 

Vale Patti

Ok ... turns out that the bag lady with her zimmer frame and her entire spring wardrobe wrapped around her frail elderly frame was worth a mint.


We passed her on the little laneway and she always had a cheery smile and a little vignette of old melbourne to pass on.
 
We spoke to her briefly on occasion at george's. I remember the last time very well when she told us about the river along elizabeth street and the hitherto unknown relative knocking at her door when she sold that run down shack on bennets lane for a cool 2 and a bit million buckaroos ... my ears picked up about the grand piano in her storage facility with the concrete garden designed ala hobbo ... and now she's gone gone gone. We will miss you Patti!!!
 

ipod shuffle and the questions of life

Ok ... I believe this is what they call a tag??

 

Here's a little time waster for you.

 

Please see the set of questions below. Using the shuffle function on your iPod, write the name of the first song that loads as the answer to the first question. Press next for the answer to the second question and so on so forth.

 

This is my result ... with comments of course:

 

1) How would you describe yourself?My Love – Jill Scott

Ooh tad on the self indulgent side … not a great start to this exercise

2) What do you like in a guy/girl?Side Effects – Mariah Carey

Yes it’s the side effects that count!! After the initial euphoria … ooh this shuffle palaver might actually be fun!!

 

3) What is your motto?I stay in love – Mariah Carey

I do my very best … but somehow cynicism beats me to the punch

4) What do your friends think of you?Lion Dance – Setsubun Bean Unit

it’s the asian connection!! .. although I have been mistaken for a very bronzed aussie .. or maltese

5) What do you think about often?Two Steps Twice – Foals

A sun / a sign / a dancestep for two

am I this vacuous? 

6) What do your parents think of you?That Hump – Erykah Badu

HAHA I bet they do!!!

7) What do you think of your best friend?Hearts on Fire – Cut Copy

aha … first I have to find one … JOKING!! I have lots of them … and yes they all do set my heart on fire

8) What do you think of the person you like?Candy Shop – Madonna

sweet and addictive … yummy

9) What do you want to be when you grow up?Mama Tian Ma – Sa Dingding

Exotic and unfathomable … with a modicum of maternalism thrown in … hhmm … is my ipod alive???

10) What do you think when you see the person you like?Come See Me – Jill Scott

YES YES YES … friends please take note … I’m always up for a visit unplanned or otherwise!!

11) What song will they play at your wedding?No Time Soon – Gnarls Barkley

ok the first dud question .. marriage ain’t the trip for me .. but I guess the sentiment applies on such a momentous occasion

12) What will they play at your funeral?Touch Too Much – Hot Chip

Hhmm I think the iPod is feeling me a little too much ... freaky hey!!!

I am a little on the touchy feely side ... I sometimes have to stop myself from reaching out and touching a client ... not a good look I'm afraid!!

13) What is your hobby/interest?

The Handshake – MGMT

“we’ve got the handshake under our tongue” What does it all mean??

14) What is your biggest fear?March of the Wolfmasters – Janelle Monae

Well I’ve always been afraid of those demon dogs on Tales of the Unexpected

 

15) What is your biggest secret?Miles Away – Madonna

I would be miles away too with a question like this … similar to “what does my dream mean” or “can you guess what my age is?” or “Do I look like I’ve put on weight?” All questions that deserve the responses they get!!

16) What do you think of your friends?Nobody Lost, Nobody Found – Cut Copy

I try to hang onto friends that I consider real mates … and I always say “I’m not looking for new friends”

17) What is your theme song?River – Joni Letters Herbie Hancock

“I wish I had a river that I could skate away on” Oh iPod you know me too well

18) What do you think of your family?4^th Dimensional Transition – MGMT

“you speak the language of the breeze / all your leaves were meant for me / the love that every person wants to be”

shall we break this down … or just let the syntax wash over our emotional response to the word family .. I think there’s something meaningful here

19) What is your best friend's theme song?Solitide – Joni Letters Herbie Hancock

I’m thinking of a particular someone and its very apt

20) What is your mood right now?Let it Be – Jill Scott

yes whatever will be will be …* waves fatalistic society membership card*

21) If your heart could talk what would it say?Red Socks Pugie – Foals

something as inscrutable as this … what the fuck would your heart say … “stop eating all that fatty friend food and take some exercise biatch!! I’m dying over here!!!”

22) What do your co-workers think of you?Insomnia – Jill Scott

more like narcolepsy!!

23) What does your future look like?Lettin Go – Janelle Monae

can we get a little serious here … I do need to learn to let go … I’m carrying too much emotional baggage … its impeding my progress

 

I would love to know how you all went with this little exercise.

 

Hours of fun!! Don't cheat and skip songs because you don't like the answer .. I know you peops too well!!

have I got my friendly face on?

Ok this is wierd ... in the last few days I have had acquaintances actually bother to stop and talk to me ... and now four (count them) four peops saying hello on msn ... must be the friendly vibes I'm giving out ... how unusual of me!!

 

(i'm talking acquaintaces here ... not good friends ... thats whats so wierd about it all)

 

PS remember mash-ups??? Just having a trip down memory lane with some old websites ... Ray of Gob is still such a crowning achievement!!!

Would you like to see my Macbook

Ok .. this is too funny .. but I still think the Macbook Air is way sexy!!!

Would you like to see my Facebook?

Ok ... well most of my mates know my opinion of Facebook or Stalkerbook as JB calls it ... I can't tell you how many bloody email invites I have received, which given the nature of this online "social" site, is no indication of how popular I actually am!!! So here's to all you Facebook Lovers (oops ... typo .. hehe) out there:



PS ... Portishead boxset FINALLY arrived ... with a bit of tearing on the box ... I can't bear to open it ... and yes I have emailed Trinity care to complain!

sur la piste de dance baby

Ok ... so I was having a trip down memory lane with the Two fat Ladies Season 2 dvd.

Jennifer and Clarissa cook dinner for the Gurkha regiment (well for the officers ... not the hardworking gurkhas ... but nevermind) in a tent behind the Officer's mess. And both are reminscing about Officers Balls and dancing and Jennifer pipes up in disdain about the modern state of dance describing it as thus:

"people shaking their fists at each other to something dismal by something electric"

I know she meant this perjoratively, but its the best descipription of dance music evah!!!

Loves it!!!

In other news, M had band practice for the better part of today, so i trundled off to my old haunt in Fitzroy. It was one of those lovely autumn days, slightly cool but bathed in warm sunshine ... I hit brunswick street ... walked up to Getrude ... down Smith onto Johnston and back again ...

I love Fitzroy, even though Brunswick Street is completely yuppified ... its still the best place to people watch ... especially for those painfully hip youth tribes ... you know the ones .. in their skinnies crowned with layer upon layer of asymmetrical fabric .... a trio of them beat me to the front at Nom'd and descended on the men's rack ... so I missed out on this one ...

If only I had tee'd up someone to share it with me ... but hey ho ... it was a spur of the moment thing for me.

My wallet breathed a sigh of relief at the end of it anyways, coz I was on the lookout for a light winter coat .. but nothing really caught my eye ... but I did breeze through Kleins and came away with a bottle of Diptyque cologne ... i needed a replacement as I am on my last few squirts of my current scent ...

Although M thinks my nasal passages are completely shot due to my nicotine habit, I still do appreciate body scents ... admittedly I am partial to the human body's natural smell (note natural smell ... not unwashed smell) when speaking of arousal (ok ... out on a limb here at the moment) ... a nice cologne does sometimes ignite those sluggish pheremones ...

I like discovering unknown colognes .. particularly spicy ones with a hint of musk ... and I'm desperately trying not to be elitist ... but department store scents just have that factory undertone ... and at the end of the day ... there's only one note of scent left and that note is stale ...

So next time you have a little extra in the kitty ... find yourself a Kleins store and chat to the staff there ... you'll find something uniquely you ... and more than likely two single squirts will last you through the day ... cigarettes and alcohol notwithstanding

I'm still sold on patchouli, sandalwood, cedarwood ... and anything mildly citric ... I remember trying something on that had a hint of tobacco and literally being transported on a wave of nostalgia to a time when my dad smoked a pipe and I use to sniff his empty tobacco tins ... I would have bought it too except I wasn't exactly cashed up at that point in time ...

G wears the L'Artisan Patchouli ... but it smells better on him than it does on me ... ALWAYS ALWAYS try it on your own skin ... then leave the store and do other things and then smell it again ... if you still like it and it hasn't changed your initial perception ... go back and buy it ... never never never impulse buy a cologne ... or worse, buy something just because it has a full page ad in your local fash rag ... or a billboard at the bus stop ... these things have to warm to your skin ... much like a pair of new jeans eventually softens against your legs natural creases ... 

On a final note ... I hope you've all read Patrick Suskind's Perfume ... if you are at all interested in scents then you must read this book immediately!!! (don't cheat and hire the movie ... although a good effort ... the pleasure in Suskind's writing is the passages leap off the page and make a direct hit on those olfactory cells ... it might as well be a scratch and sniff book ... I kid you not ... its that good!)

PS ... bumped into my old boss C today ... he runs a clothing label now ... and just opened an outlet on Gertrude ... to this day he still thinks M is called Gordon??

PPS ... please note I didn't mention the clothes ... nuff said

My other scent picks:

not to everyone's taste ... and a little pricier than the other commonly available designer perfumes ... M hates it ... and chicks really dig it

I believe this is actually a woman's scent ... but its just the right amount of citrus for me ... and this lasts well over 24 hrs

still one of my all time favs ... smells like an old fashioned barber shop ... and occasionally goes on special ... well worth it.