if you're on my friends list, if you're a nerd, if you like art, if you like westerns, if you like something just a little bit different, you should check out the amazing musicians I'll be joining in Italy in a week, the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. See them here performing on the Jools Holland show earlier this month. Talented lot, them.

My mother is the most amazing, wonderful mother in the whole wide world. See how much she knows and loves me!

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I'm at work, so not a lot of time to go into this. Will post my opinions of the details at some point, hopefully soon. Needless to say, the VCA is at threat of losing much of what is integral to it. This has a ripple on effect in countless ways. If you're in Melbourne I ask for you to join me in protest tomorrow at 10am at the VCA, St Kilda Road.
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This post is most of a transcript from an email from GetUp. If you're not aware of the existence of this organisation please check it out at http://www.getup.org.au/

We thought long and hard about sending you this email, because we like to promote the idea that our individual actions make a ( Read more... )

recently the very wonderful neefsck came to my current place of work (more on that later) to help with getting us all vpn'd up. he was good and we liked him. unfortunately he now has a real job and can't come in whenever we so demand ( Read more... )

Directed by Xan Colman

Written by Dina Ross, Anna Schoo and Kylie Trounson

Produced by Grant Cooper

Performed by
Janine Watson and Aviva Endean (Clarinet)
Mary Helen Sassman and Sophie Dunn (Violin)
Julia Harari and David Howell (French Horn)

Visual Art Peter Fifer, Todd Sampson and Amber Stuart
Costume Design Melanie Liertz Lighting Design ( Read more... )

Today I attended the funeral service of one of my mother's best friends. Marg died last week in St Vincents after an almost twenty year battle with non-Hodgkins lympoma. We always knew it would happen but that didn't prepare us for it when it did ( Read more... )

all i can hear going around and around my head is skate singing 'ohhh-baaaaa-maaaa'...
it's a happy place, my head.

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