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First up on this blustery wintry Sunday morning, some MUSIC!

Gossip - Heavy Cross

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Dear Diary,

Today I discovered Joni Mitchell's Blue. It's gorgeous and beautiful and I can't believe it took me this long. I can't stop listening to it.

Sigh. Today was the best!

GJ


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Yesterday after a bit of a sleep in, I packed my bag with food and (illegal) water and was picked up by jbaby77 and looneymoth to head out to the rock mecca of Claremont Showgrounds. Parking was tough and as we waited in the car queue, we watched 4 boys take a leak on the side of the road. 12 pm and already they were drunk ( Read more... )

I've already heard more women's voices on the Hottest 100 in the 95-100 slots than we heard in the whole countdown in June for the Hottest 100 of all time. I am though worried that the women will be confined to the top half of the list ... let's see ( Read more... )

Finally sat down to lodge my vote for the Hottest 100 at Triple J. I thought it would be really hard to only find 10 songs but my top 10 were these, no deliberating, nothing else on the shortlist ( Read more... )

Thanks to crankynick for the link.

Censorship claim follows JJJ probe

THERE are no women, Bob Dylan appears once and there's no Elvis - and it triggered an investigation by two ABC journos into JJJ's Hottest 100 countdown ( Read more... )

So if I knew what was good for me, I would not tell you about this exciting new venue: the Artbar. Cause all 4 shows for Season 1 were sold out and that means next season will be even harder to get tickets to. But here goes ( Read more... )

So I have thoughts in my head today about good, great and lasting ( Read more... )

My eyes are feeling better than yesterday - functioning, which is a real plus. I was only taking antihistamines at night but now I'll just do it round the clock till it clears up. They only really keep frustration at bay and don't actually stop all the itching ( Read more... )

About halfway into FAM I realised that the experience was becoming an extremely positive one for me. And that actually I didn't want to get to the end of the month and that be the end of this. Rather, I felt like I wanted it to have meant something, to have inspired something, to have kicked off into something else. I wanted to take the momentum ( Read more... )