leave the confusion and all disillusion behind
Mmm. Went out to dinner tonight with --- might want to brace yourself for this --- the Aunt's boss' daughter --- yeah, really --- and her boy. We've only been saying for years that we should do dinner and we barely see each other more than once a year, if that, at the dinner the Aunt's bosses always throw for her. They're massive foodies which is why we all get along so well and tonight we went along to Blue-Eyed Dragon which is only a restaurant they've been raving about for years and I never got to visit.
I have to say I wasn't too keen on venturing out into the cold and wind cos it's been pretty cosy holed up in my studio while the weather rages on the window. And yeah, I did have to hold onto my hat but luckily the hat came in handy (like I knew it would) when it started to spatter a couple of blocks from the restaurant.
Was a good night. I loved that the restaurant was in part of an old church even if that thoroughly confusd me into thinking the place wasn't open yet cos the doors looked quite firmly shut. And this was after I walked the entire fucking length of Pyrmont Street because I started at the wrong end, and in my heeled Victorian boots which burnt like fuck. *rolls eyes* I was so annoyed at myself but in the end I was only a few minutes late and they were even later so it all worked out in the end. I did wonder how awkward it might be seeing as how I'd only met the boy once before years ago at a very crowded dinner affair at Golden Century, and I'd never been out on my own with the daughter before. But they're such fun easy people --- she's Aquarian, day after me --- so it was pretty awesome and there was a lot of laughter and a lot of rather good food. Luckily the boy and I can handle the same degree of high spice and hotness so we were all good. And the bosses paid. Even though they weren't there, they are in fact in Croatia at the moment. *lol*
Day after tomorrow I'm going to the birthday dinner of Puppydog Keyboardist's partner. Cos I suddenly got a text from him a couple of days after the Spiritualized gig, asking how I liked it, and then she friended me on Facebook and turns out there was this rather hilarious mix up when she friended some other person whose name was eerily similar to mine and so a few other people from the Sydney psychedelia scene friended the imposter too. *lol* I had no idea I had such pulling power.
That dinner will be in Surry Hills. Nepalese which I've never had before so that should be interesting. At least I don't have to order. What I do have to do is make my way to Newtown tomorrow to get a Berkelouw's voucher cos the birthday girl is a fashion designer and I know that Berkelouw's has a pretty fucking brilliant design section. Or, ooh, I could get a voucher from Magnation. Hmm. Ideas.
Also, the dinner may prove to be a bit of a reunion for dri and people from the band scene. All rather intriguing. We'll see. I'm feeling a bit grudging about two social events so close together and I do fucking hate having to find my way to Surry Hills but suck it up, dri, it'll be good for you and there'll be food. Plus I kinda adore the birthday girl. And I remember we piked out the last time she invited us to her birthday party, always felt guilty about that. If I go straight from work, it'll be perfect cos the Surry Hills buses leave from just around the corner from the office. That is, if I'm in the office. Fingers crossed. I did think I'd be in court tomorrow but nope, office which is definitely of the yay.
Meanwhile, my newly shortened bouncy hair continues to be awesome even though it still tangles a bit. *scowls* And the steampunk scarf and fingerless gloves shaula82 made me are getting a good workout in this horrible weather. And Marissa Nadler released a new self-titled album today which I promptly ordered for the artwork and then bought the digital download too so I could have the songs rightnowplsthankyou. And I finally finally got a reply from mp3va.com which is the only site I could find with Android Lust's The Human Animal available to buy so now I have that album to explore.
I'm really getting into Gish at the moment, quite relieved to find I fucking adore Siva and Rhinoceros as songs on their own. I was a bit concerned that maybe I was confusing my lust for choirboyhair!B0lly with enjoyment of the song. But heh, no. Loving that wall of guitar sound about a decade or so later.
Speaking of guitars, I think Mess Hall might be playing the Anno soon. Thought I caught a glimpse of their name on the marquee as I passed this evening. Rather tempted to go. Ooh, birthday week. That's why. Hmm. Friday 1 July. Tempted, very. Especially since it's around the bloody corner and I haven't been to a proper sweaty gig for ages.
Didn't write today which is irking me a bit so I may have a bash in a moment. I just need to get one scene down so that next Monday I can get stuck into the big scene and hopefully get it all done by Tuesday night. I've been staying up ridiculously late the past few nights --- like going to bed at five in the morning sort of thing --- so I wasted pretty much all the writing time of today either in sleep or in my games. Grr. Knew I should have set the alarm.
All right, let's get to it. I think I know what to write.
I have to say I wasn't too keen on venturing out into the cold and wind cos it's been pretty cosy holed up in my studio while the weather rages on the window. And yeah, I did have to hold onto my hat but luckily the hat came in handy (like I knew it would) when it started to spatter a couple of blocks from the restaurant.
Was a good night. I loved that the restaurant was in part of an old church even if that thoroughly confusd me into thinking the place wasn't open yet cos the doors looked quite firmly shut. And this was after I walked the entire fucking length of Pyrmont Street because I started at the wrong end, and in my heeled Victorian boots which burnt like fuck. *rolls eyes* I was so annoyed at myself but in the end I was only a few minutes late and they were even later so it all worked out in the end. I did wonder how awkward it might be seeing as how I'd only met the boy once before years ago at a very crowded dinner affair at Golden Century, and I'd never been out on my own with the daughter before. But they're such fun easy people --- she's Aquarian, day after me --- so it was pretty awesome and there was a lot of laughter and a lot of rather good food. Luckily the boy and I can handle the same degree of high spice and hotness so we were all good. And the bosses paid. Even though they weren't there, they are in fact in Croatia at the moment. *lol*
Day after tomorrow I'm going to the birthday dinner of Puppydog Keyboardist's partner. Cos I suddenly got a text from him a couple of days after the Spiritualized gig, asking how I liked it, and then she friended me on Facebook and turns out there was this rather hilarious mix up when she friended some other person whose name was eerily similar to mine and so a few other people from the Sydney psychedelia scene friended the imposter too. *lol* I had no idea I had such pulling power.
That dinner will be in Surry Hills. Nepalese which I've never had before so that should be interesting. At least I don't have to order. What I do have to do is make my way to Newtown tomorrow to get a Berkelouw's voucher cos the birthday girl is a fashion designer and I know that Berkelouw's has a pretty fucking brilliant design section. Or, ooh, I could get a voucher from Magnation. Hmm. Ideas.
Also, the dinner may prove to be a bit of a reunion for dri and people from the band scene. All rather intriguing. We'll see. I'm feeling a bit grudging about two social events so close together and I do fucking hate having to find my way to Surry Hills but suck it up, dri, it'll be good for you and there'll be food. Plus I kinda adore the birthday girl. And I remember we piked out the last time she invited us to her birthday party, always felt guilty about that. If I go straight from work, it'll be perfect cos the Surry Hills buses leave from just around the corner from the office. That is, if I'm in the office. Fingers crossed. I did think I'd be in court tomorrow but nope, office which is definitely of the yay.
Meanwhile, my newly shortened bouncy hair continues to be awesome even though it still tangles a bit. *scowls* And the steampunk scarf and fingerless gloves shaula82 made me are getting a good workout in this horrible weather. And Marissa Nadler released a new self-titled album today which I promptly ordered for the artwork and then bought the digital download too so I could have the songs rightnowplsthankyou. And I finally finally got a reply from mp3va.com which is the only site I could find with Android Lust's The Human Animal available to buy so now I have that album to explore.
I'm really getting into Gish at the moment, quite relieved to find I fucking adore Siva and Rhinoceros as songs on their own. I was a bit concerned that maybe I was confusing my lust for choirboyhair!B0lly with enjoyment of the song. But heh, no. Loving that wall of guitar sound about a decade or so later.
Speaking of guitars, I think Mess Hall might be playing the Anno soon. Thought I caught a glimpse of their name on the marquee as I passed this evening. Rather tempted to go. Ooh, birthday week. That's why. Hmm. Friday 1 July. Tempted, very. Especially since it's around the bloody corner and I haven't been to a proper sweaty gig for ages.
Didn't write today which is irking me a bit so I may have a bash in a moment. I just need to get one scene down so that next Monday I can get stuck into the big scene and hopefully get it all done by Tuesday night. I've been staying up ridiculously late the past few nights --- like going to bed at five in the morning sort of thing --- so I wasted pretty much all the writing time of today either in sleep or in my games. Grr. Knew I should have set the alarm.
All right, let's get to it. I think I know what to write.