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last night at the gaelic club, the radio birdman xmas special ROCKED. having only ever seen grainy black and white pictures of the band in their heyday, and only ever heard two of their songs (and even then one of those songs was actually a cover by silverchair), my initial response to the guy venting incoherently into the mic was, “gee that guy sure looks like doc brown from “back to the future” goin’ off.”

subsequently, “i wonder how old a person can get before it looks odd for him to be wearing those spray-on faded black jeans.”

and then, “that’s so cool someone could be so bald up top and still feel it’s appropriate to grow the rest of it out to that straggly length. rock!”

however these ruminations soon dissipated, because it’s all about the music, man. old people’s music? whatever.

if you like to go out at night for music or beers or whatever, and return with your throat not scratchy and sore, your eyes not stingy and red, your hair still fresh from that pre-going-out shampoo, and wearing clothes that you’ll be able to wear the next day without choking on stale cigarette odours, you could go smoke free.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 12 December 2003 at 11:24 am
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feeling somewhat inspired by last night’s spur-of-the-moment “school of rock” excursion, my afternoon stroll to buy tickets for the radio birdman show evolved into a modest, gingerbread latte-fueled shoping spree that yielded the following minifest of rock: a pearl jam “lost dogs” cd, a jet “get born” cd, a bumper billy bragg best-of cd, and, um, the cd single of “hey ya” by outkast… evidently young urban black people are writing music which doesn’t suck. could it be that i am even considering that black eyed peas cd? um. i’ll get back to you.

the shiny tinsel on my tree of rock is this amusing pair of earrings from sportsgirl. look, there is black gothic type spelling out “rock”. a skull and crossbones. two dangly chains at the end of which are a heart and a star. all on the one earring! there is a price tag which says $14.95 reduced to $4.95, which in turn was reduced at the register to $3.95. having threaded it through my long-unadorned earlobe not fifteen minutes ago, i’m now feeling the first allergic reactions of warmth and itchiness around the piercing. it couldn’t possibly be more punkrock, yeah!

today’s purchases were made possible by the divine miss m, lady captain of the good ship artfiles, who turned around my invoice quicksmart, and suddenly my bank account had grown by like, 40%.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 28 November 2003 at 6:43 pm
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off to the zoo!

posted by ragingyoghurt on 18 November 2003 at 10:43 am
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a bunch of birthday flowers that nellie sent showed up in the arms of the delivery guy, a couple of hours after i returned from birthday breakfast at cafe mint with ms wooster. the breakfast was tasty and good, in the way that a mound of very garlicky hummus at 9.30 in the morning is good.

the flowers were good and surprising, in the way that a four-and-a-half-foot high arrangement of flowers and foliage that surely must have decimated a great swathe of tropical rainforest and dehoused several species of wildlife… is surprising.

the day passed quickly — a blur of designing order forms (a tetris-like exercise which gives me a significant and strange feeling of quiet pleasure) and print deadlines — and ended in bbq king with a plate of soya chicken noodles, a plate of chili salt prawns, a hotpot of stuffed eggplant… and then home to an entire triple chocolate cake from david jones food hall, about which all i can say is that they call it triple chocolate, but i counted about five or six.

sometimes a boy can surprise you with a slap-up feed and a whole cake, and a comic book wrapped up in pink stripes and ladybugs, and above all, by miraculously being in the same country, and city, as you, on your birthday.

sometimes a floral arrangement can surprise you by yielding, when carefully taken apart, a vase of orchids for the bedroom, one of gerberas above the kitchen sink, another of birds of paradise for the bathroom, an exotic mix of waratahs, lotus stems and anthuriums for the dining table, and a sculptural mass of the original base of tropical greenery and bamboo (oh yes!) for the lounge.

thirty-one was much better than thirty.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 14 November 2003 at 11:05 pm
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crap. don’t you hate when your blog server goes down and takes with it a month’s worth of entries? sure, ok, in this case a month’s worth of entries was like, three maybe four, but now, all those memories gone.

my spongehead seems to recall recent developments that might have been catalogued here include: boy moves in, dvd player purchased, spirit crushed by mindless directory layout work. oh! and invaluable webresource discovered here.

i could tell you now that yesterday afternoon as i walked down cleveland street to see “kill bill vol.1” at broadway shoping centre, flies flew around my head, and a stretch of the road smelt of elephant dung, but that might make you wonder if it was actually my head that smelt of elephant dung, and where would that get either of us?

“kill bill vol.1” was surprisingly unannoying, and a fine-looking thing to behold. after, stuck in kmart for an hour, all i came out with were a tube of strawberry exploding candy and a couple of jelly pops. the one pictured above is boo, from monsters inc. her entire face is made from flesh-coloured icing sugar.

and now, i must try and find that bit of code i surfaced recently that gives me links with no underline.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 22 October 2003 at 9:14 am
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having not been swimming since my last day in singapore, back in june —

it was an extremely hot day. matt and nellie and i decided that going to the neighbourhood pool would be better than hanging around the city being taunted by lunatics at the donut shop in town. the bishan pool looked like when the simpsons get a pool in their yard, ergh, kids everywhere, swimming in all directions. we were swimming along the pool floor, testing lung capacity, when nellie surfaced and said, “i think someone poo’d in the pool”. matt obligingly swam off to investigate, returning to say, “i think it *is* poo — i fanned it and it moved and left a brown trail in the water.” speedily we swam, screaming, down to the other end of the pool. we were able to scream because we kept our heads out of the water, but why we were even still *in* the water is something else to ponder. we remained in the pool for another hour until we were wrinkly, scrunching up our faces and making jokes like, “we put the poo in pool!”

— and what with it being the first day of school holidays and all, i was somehat apprehensive about venturing into cook+philip for a swim. would there be pain? and screaming children? yes, but not too much.

i guess the afl grand final, which apparently is quite an important date in the football calendar, kept a lot of people home. and the food and wine fair across the road kept a lot of people standing in queues waiting to be fed. it was 32 laps of near-empty lane pleasure!

swimming makes me hungry.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 27 September 2003 at 4:43 pm
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after a day’s delay, breakfast the morning after a magnificent and obscene feast of sushi, sashimi, unadon, agedashi dofu and tempura last night, turned out to be a milky latte (yes, yes, but it really *was* extra milky) and a bowl of sultana-studded couscous, with fruit compote (part of which appeared to be a whole stewed peach), yoghurt and pistachios.

i felt my tastebuds coming alive again.

and then…

sitting in the cafeteria of the city blood bank late in the afternoon, it was a visceral thrill fishing a boiled hotdog out of the brown water in the bain marie, tucking it into a cottony roll and smothering it with ketchup and mustard out of colour coordinated squeezy bottles. the smiling lady behind the counter will make you a strawberry-chocolate milkshake, and you can sit until closing time reading about the worst frocks of 2003.

giving blood and shoping make up a fine post-deadline afternoon, especially when you are shoping with vouchers, and everything is reduced anyway, like two tubs of yoghurt cheese for the price of one, and a blouse the colour of creamed butter. yum.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 19 September 2003 at 9:02 pm
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i bought a black t shirt recently, which is only a momentous occasion when you take into account that the last black t shirt — black anything, really — i bought was like, eight years ago.

this one has a big white puffy-paint skull ‘n’ crossbones on the front, except the crossbones are actually hearts. it makes me feel like jimbo jones, and also reminds me of when i was fourteen and sometimes wore a big silver ring in the shape of a skull. i bought it along the way, during a highschool art trip through thailand.

the weird thing is that right after i paid for it, these two middle-aged chinese women sidled up to the counter and bought one too!

it goes really well with my red pleather studded belt. i’m so punk rock.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 4 September 2003 at 3:20 pm
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um. so the really weird thing was that while sitting in the sussex street food centre eating our bowls of happy chef noodles, which are of course the tastiest noodles in sydney, one of the happy chefs went on dinner break and showed up at the next table with a bag of mcdonalds.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 17 August 2003 at 7:42 pm
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do fried capers make everything better? sprinkled liberally over the tender and bloody veal and mash at dinner, they were crunchy little muthas bursting with flava.

sorry.

the mother’s last supper before winging it back to singapore tomorrow. i feel like i’ve been eating all day, since leftover rhubarb-strawberry-pear-apple crumble with 56% minimum fat cream at eight this morning.

the sister has a week before heading back to new york and there are still many many meals out there left to conquer. “if we live like hobbits for the next week, we’ll be able to fit it all in,” she says. this does not mean we will neglect our foot hygiene, only that we should have three meals before noon. of course.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 16 August 2003 at 10:42 pm
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