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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
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Hi all,
I hope this entry finds you well!
After teaming up to release one of the albums of the year (‘Animal Bells’ by everyone’s favourite minor key pop maestros the Crayon Fields), Chapter Music’s Guy Blackman and myself unite once again to deck the halls with bows of holly for our first annual combined Christmas party – this Saturday 16th December at Revolver Upstairs.
Featuring bands from both our rosters, namely the Crayon Fields, Mountains In The Sky, Minimum Chips, Lakes and Always, as well as tag-team DJ sets from me (aka Trifekta Direktor) and Guy, and a CD lucky dip giveaway for the first 150 payers, the night promises to be one of the biggest on your festive season social calendar.
It would be great to see you there!
Best wishes,
Tom
Here are the details:
Trifekta & Chapter Christmas party:
12.15am Mountains In The Sky
11.30pm Always
10.45pm The Crayon Fields
10.00pm Lakes
9.15pm Minimum Chips
Saturday December 16
Revolver Upstairs, Prahran
Doors 9pm
Door Charge: $10
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
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i'm enjoying the sound of rain with my bedroom window open.
reading helen garner's 'the feel of steel' has been oddly comforting, even the religious parts.
sharing each other's beds has been fun. though i think i'm spending too much time in his and him not enough in mine. trying not to let it all occupy my mind too much.
loving a regular pay cheque and regular communication with actual human beings.
i have a new fridge that makes excellent ice.
i lost something last week. i've buried so deep that it doesn't pop into my mind. well, only every now and again until i bury it a little deeper.
i want a summer of skinless sausages, air conditioned cinemas on hot nights, riding bikes tipsy, fast down hills towards home and no pang of sadness when i wake up.
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
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i went and saw the arctic monkeys play at the palace tonight. i had sweaty, awful people rub against me. afterwards, there was a dude outside with his hair done like jamie from big brother complete with headband. people are stupid. arctic monkeys were fun.
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
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did you see that dawn from buffy had a tick in her moot on last night's episode of house*? best tv illness ever: tick in the moot! amazing.
*i don't normally watch this show, i swear!
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
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well i'm back home again. i'm still unpacking my stuff post flood and can't really be bothered. the house still has a bit of moldy smell. hopefully it will soon pass. cooked my first meal in over a week tonight - it's good to have my kitchen back. i have so much work to do but decided to sleep all day today and watched the aria awards tonight instead. those things always depress me a little and make me wanna quit the music industry. i must admit to being a little missy higgins obsessed. i love 'the special two' and want to marry it. desparately awaiting the new lisa carver book to arrive in the mail from amazon. just watched 'my sonic room 2' on the sonic youth website which has made me want to keep on keeping on...
see you on public transport some where!
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Sunday, October 16th, 2005
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I accidently flooded my house on Friday. The whole apartment was 5cm deep in water when i got home from work Friday. Ooops.
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
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Mountains In The Sky are playing a secret warm up show before their launch at the Northcote Social Club on July 1st. The show is on Friday 17th June at The Tote supporting the Darling Downs and the Sand Pebbles. They are playing under the name Celestial Son.
This will be Mountains In The Sky's debut live performance so come down and watch history in the making! John Lee will be joined on stage by Stuart McFarlane.
The playing times are:
The Darling Downs 12 - 1am
The Sand Pebbles 10.45 - 11.30
Celestial Son: 9.30 - 10.15
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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i am quite embarrassed and very excited by new obsession, the return of the cleo centrefold! exploring my grandmothers cleos was a highlight of any trip to sydney as a child. greg norman covering his bits with a golf ball fueled my fire for years! within 24 hours of hearing of it's return i sheepishly went to the petrol station last night and bought the may issue with brodie holland in it. hot - even though he's quite hairless, air-brushed and has a nipple ring! i discovered a cafe near work has the two previous centrefolds (daniel mcpherson and j. 'spray the joint' wess no less!) still intact in their reading copies of cleo. i am planning sneaky removal of them tomorrow. wish me luck!
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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richard buckner keeps on popping up in my dreams. what can this mean? i don't think i even own any of his cds... bright eyes ruined me last night. i guess i had high hopes. he was so average. i had the worst night. luke's train dance was the highlight.
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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| Time: | 7:33 pm. |
| Mood: |  productive. |
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it's almost the weekend again which is exciting. looking forward to art of fighting tomorrow night. about to go spend a polyester books voucher with alex. what to get?
i forgot to mention that on the weekend my father and i snuck into a house inspection for a house that's up for auction that we used to live in years ago. it was very strange.
my room was exactly how i remember it. we lived there from like 82 - 87. my dad said not mention anything about us previously living there while we walking through but of course he kept on saying things like 'look what they've done here!' or 'remember this was ned's room!'. he's deaf (and very blind) so it was all very loud.
everyone should check out where they grew up. it's weird but good.
i spoke to a drunk matthew connors on the phone this afternoon. hotness!
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
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It's the quarterly hard rubbish night in north fitzroy tonight. i've been walking the streets hoping to find something great. unfortunately there were mainly piles of twigs and old computers, not the comfortable recliner I was looking for.
I was amazing at how quickly the rubbish i left out was scavenged. A picture frame was first to go followed shortly by my coffee table shaped like a surf board (glad to be rid of that eyesore). my lounge chair is still sitting out the front. I guess you can tell how uncomfortable it is just by looking at it.
so my home is now a lot more spacious. there's nowhere for visitors to sit except on the couch and no where to rest your coffee but i rarely have guests these days anyway. also it's all part of my new plan to move overseas at the end of the year - so it's good to get rid of some crap.
so i am totally thinking it's about time that I made some plans to leave this town - even if it ends up being for a short time. I've got a bit to achieve between now and then - and have to earn & save lots of cash too. where to go?
the weekend was birthday central with three parties to attend as well as a gay function on friday. melbourne homos are lame; another reason to leave this city. the highlight of the weekend was probably the ghaie sisters. they are wild and infectious and can make even the shittest nightspot a hip-thrusting fest.
still feeling very uninspired. in the past three days i have been completely sour and horrible to both my parents and younger siblings. very unlike me. i really good at being nice when i'm happy and not so good at pretending to be nice when i'm blue.
i just watched the grudge. sarah michelle has aged, hasn't she? the new $2 video store up the road is a good idea but they really work on their range and atmosphere.
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I have a 'no-fucking-people-on-livejournal' policy obviously...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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ahhh... livejournal how i have missed you so. i haven't written in this for like ever. since last time i've worked my ass off at the big day out for three months full time. turned 30 and had two parties for it. drunk lots of beer. rooted a couple of guys and been extremely depressed!
last friday i went to a friends wedding in st kilda. i fretted about the present - i was worried that a book on punk rock wasn't an appropriate present. ended up being the most extremely drunk i have been in a long time (think laird, followed by the peel, control hq and then the peel again) and had to hide out from the world for the rest of the weekend.
now that my bdo job has come to an end i extremely poor again which is depressing me - can't afford to smoke or drink or eat out (besides bimbos) during the week. i'm working from home again by myself which is upsetting. i need more contact from humans during the day. come visit me folks.
i have been reading like mad of late. i used to want to sleep all the time. now i just want to cuddle up with a nice book and drift away into someone else's story. i've just finished 'dry' by augusten burroughs (which i read back-to-back with 'running with scissors'). the book has made me totally worried that i am an alcoholic. i am frightened to drink again after my performance at the wedding...
ran away to the beach yesterday with john and marcus. we went to phillip island where i had never been before. i swam in the ocean three times and sang decemberists songs to myself whilst being dumped by waves. it was the most fun i've had in ages.
i am bit sick of everything at the moment. it's extremely boring - i know. i hope to liven up soon. i think i need to get out of melbourne. i have to find a job first. my dad is coming down to melbourne this weekend. i feel bad but i am secretly hoping he is bringing inheritance from our recently deceased grandmother but i'm not getting my hopes up. it's a pretty awful way of thinking.
i am having a stand off / fight with shane at the moment. it's kind of trivial and stupid but i'm standing my ground anyway. it would probably be easier to patch things up but i'm sick of being that guy. it's his turn! his birthday present arrived in the mail today - maybe if we don't make up before then i can keep it! it's good!
i'm going to try and post in this thing more often. i'm going to trough tomorrow night and maybe st jeromes on sunday. maybe i'll see you out and about? xoxoxo
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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| Time: | 10:01 pm. |
| Mood: |  lonely. |
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phone calls from friends and dancing in the kitchen by youself to the rocky dennis ep make things a little better...
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
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i am voice of the beehive obsessed today. did anyone else lurve these gals and guys? i am listening to 'let it bee' and 'honey lingers' back-to-back.
i still have barnaby's blood on my shoe from the wild dog attack at the park yesterday. shocking!
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
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my neighbours are fucking right now. do you love it?
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| Time: | 5:30 pm. |
| Mood: |  mellow. | | Music: | jens lekman. |
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| electronic_arm's LJ stalker is brettanderson! | | brettanderson is stalking you because they saw your picture and fell in love.. They are also prank calling you regularly! |
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
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hello. long time, no see. ummm... i guess an update is in order. on monday i had sex in a bed for the time since august. i should try to have sex in beds more often and in public places less. could this mean i am dating again? i have two special men who just arrived back from japan staying in my home at the moment. we have renamed 'the bunker' (ie. my flat), 'the dude ranch'. it's a hazy smoke den and the ruination of me. i have actually been enjoying new music again and even checked out a new local band live all by myself. very '93. looking forward to the weekend. friday is my last day at fmr ever so i'll probably get horribly drunk at the pub during lunch and spew up a chicken parma or something. saturday is shannon's birthday, lakes' 7' launch (i recently got a new machine that plays vinyl) and witness protection so watch me pass out in a corner that night.
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last night at the laird (melbourne's men only leather club), our new found friend mikey described us as...
alex = one of the beatles
ben = someone from woodstock
and me = an a list hollywood celebrity
i think i also got myself a new stalker. do you love it?
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Dear Melbourne people,
Join me tonight at Witness Protection Program at Yelza from about 9pm. I know it's for homos but straighties are always welcome too! All my 'gay' friends are boring the shit out of me so it would be great to have a possee in force tonight. So come! Call me if you want.
Thomas Barnaby
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