Allo Allo!
This
week has been much of the same – work, work, finally sleep and then
work a bit more. My weekend, however, was a tad more exciting as it
consisted of accompanying my mother to run errands in preparation to
moving back in. This included meeting with a 'colour consultant' for
the house – trying to keep an open mind, I was doing very well up until the woman rocked up and started by asking us to "sum up, in
one word, the feeling you'd like to provoke in your visitors". I
couldn't help myself and said necrophilia - hence I spent a fair bit
of time in the car...but as a gentleman caller once said: “I am
disappointed, but I am not discouraged” - I know deep down, she
thought it was funny...she was just very good at hiding it.
I'm
planning on going to another gig tomorrow night at the Gallery of
Modern Art. They're hosting music sessions called 'A night with
Warhol' – basically I'll be seeing the exhibition all over again
but with a couple of bands playing including some Velvet Underground
cover band from Europe...should be interesting...
Saturday
night I drove up to Mt Nebo with some old school chums 'the twins' for
a blazin' bbq accompanied by some good ol' mullet rock 'n' roll,
and ended the night heading back to their house for a night marathon of guitar
playing then guitar hero: a game which thoroughly hurt my ego – I
was a complete utter spastic on the plastic guitar, much to the
delight of the others but it highly
entertaining.
I've been prepping for the Academy Awards and seen
most of the nominated films – Juno is hilarious, Javier Bardem is stunning in No Country For Old Men, I'm Not There is
very good (sad watching Heath Ledger though) and There Will Be Blood
is fantastic too (Daniel Day's the shoe-in for Best Actor).
And apparently things can only get better from here...or so my newspaper tells me. My horoscopes have
gone from recommending that I avoid 'red-aura people' to informing me
that from now until 2020 I will be an admired figure in my career
field...has something to do with Pluto apparently...things are
looking up!
