Current Music:

Been digging through the 40 gig MP3 bucket again. It's like having all your CDs in a thousand-disc changer. Fiddling with the physical silver objects is so, so, clunky and Victorian.

Currently playing the Spikes' Colour In A Black Forest. A good example of why '80s Australian indie rock bands STRODE THE EARTH LIKE THE GODS THEY WERE. Bands who knew what a bass guitar is for. Will we hear their like again? (Outside the confines of B-Movie or Australian equivalent.)

Needless to say, it's almost all long out of print. And not even the dribs and drabs ever released on CD can easily be found on the peer-to-peer cultural preservation networks. I so have to get my vinyl over here and rip the lot of it. So much of it is music that only exists on a thousand pieces of vinyl, the master tapes having long since been lost or dissolved into dust.

(I'm sure a lyrics quiz on this stuff is on the way. You Engrish can SUFFER. "I'm not an elephant/Or a kangaroo ...")

Oh, here's the Sunnyboys best-of. This one came out on a major (Mushroom) and happens to still be available. (Those two, of course, not necessarily coinciding.) Second half is pointless, but it's a cheapie (AUD$20) and the first several songs are well worth having.

More Kim Salmon. Oh yesss ...

I also have to scan what remains of my fanzine collection and put it up somewhere. OCRing can follow in due course as researchers are interested. I actually gave boxes and boxes of zines to missmilky to pick over and donate the remainder to the West Australian state library before I left Perth. Wonder if she got them there ...

Must put more effort into Rocknerd too.

(I wanna start a band of record nerds. Hey, zotz, hirez, zoo_music_girl - I'll learn to play properly if you do! The band will, of course, be called the New Puritans.)

Off work again today. This is really crap. I desperately hope to be fit for Deathboy tomorrow, though it's possible I may not be.