a weekend so packed with punch it took me a week to sufficiently recover to construct this new toy. friday: pearl jam at the sydney entertainment centre. it’s been five years since i last saw them, and leading up to the night doubt clouded my mind… was i too old to be this excited about a rock show? would my seats be crap? and other stuff.

all partly unfounded. in the belly of the entertainment center, pearl jam went off.

the staff don’t quite frisk you as you go in, but they did make me empty out my indie rock, strawberry print handbag made for me by one fiona cleverly at work, because y’know, i look like such a terrorist.

speaking of which, the rally at hyde park on sunday was somewhat bigger than i thought it would be. so crowded in fact, that when everyone moved off the park to march the streets, the volume of bodies immediately filled the entire route, causing a gridlock standstill for, like, hours it seemed. half a million people rallied across australia, all of whom have now been condemned as unaustralian supportors of saddam hussein by mr howard. onya!

this year… where will we go?