Look, a butterfly!

My boyfriend was watching Cool Hand Luke the other day and was a bit surprised to find the soundtrack suddenly break in to the theme music for Channel 9 News.

“…with Bruce Page and Heather Ford”.

Who needs a guitar teacher, when you’ve got a half naked man with a doobie hanging out of his mouth, giving tutorials on youtube?

I wish you all a wonderful Australia Day! In celebration, I hope you enjoy this classic offering from Men At Work.

I only recently found out that the flute part was based on the “Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree…” song. Now it’s so obvious!

Here is some nostalgia for those of you who were JJJ-listening teenagers in the 90s.

Happyland was a side project for Quan Yeoman of Regurgitator and Janet English of Spiderbait. Incidentally, both Spiderbait and Regurgitator are going to be playing in Brisbane next Sunday at the Hear and Now festival.

This is an incredible video!

Another example of quantum PhD students going creative (mad!)

Went to Big Day Out last month. It was unreal. Rage Against The Machine blew me away.

We went to see the Andy Warhol exhibition at GOMA last month. We had fun in the Silver Clouds room.

Comments have been playing up recently. It turns out that I turned commenting off a while ago in a desperate attempt to stop the spam piling up in my inbox. I didn’t realise that this only turned off comments on future posts and the spam kept coming in. With the problem persisting, I forgot that […]

I always found this an interesting coincidence - and now I just noticed that Robert Johnson also makes my “cool musicians who died at 27″ list.
Robert Johnson - May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938 (died aged 27)
Janis Joplin - January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970 (died aged 27)
Kurt Cobain - February 20, […]