I read in the New Yorker someone saying that home is where you are known and remembered but also I think it's where you know and remember.


Going to see Smokey tomorrow at Wyndham Estate vineyard.Smokey Robinson's birthday is Feb 19th. He will be 70. That is an occasion for a celebration

Kind of a Review

Boston Phoenix
USA



Plunge into Death

There is a newspaper article that claims that Angus Young first performed wearing his school uniform there. Could it be true? The information I think comes from the strangely ubiquitous Dave Evans who I hardly knew existed a few weeks ago and is now everywhere.

He wants a plaque.

well I am living it up in Sydney- interviewing legal luminaries about the case of Dietrich, swimming up and down Vic Park Pool- basking in the Catholic peace of Sancta Sophia College where the students are noticeably absent. I am  reading all the back issues of New Yorker  and my room has  a view of greenery topped by the city skyline over St John's oval. I have noticed something I guess I always knew - that Churches and lawyers have the best views.

Cautious initial Word  from the executive producer of LAWN II that there are actually some good songs on it so that is encouraging.

Sydney is green and luscious and noisy and full of fabulous restaurants and people who agree with me on just about everything and don't I just love that! Next week in Coogee where probably less agreement than Newtown but sea and sand and fish n chips and of course the presence of my favourite person on earth. Or any other planet come to think of it.

The Lifted Brow

The Cannanes - America

This song sounds so oddly natural, all earthy and smouldering, like the morning after charcoal of last night's campfire. There are massive guitar lines here, big as oak trees, that descend and topple like messages from above, or clouds falling from the great blue sky, because they could and what could you say about that, nothing, except: lucky escape, and let's go home with your arm around your love, walking in the same direction, lucky you. Even if it were missing those massive guitars, that singular acoustic strum and those leaf-soft vocals would bring this song home to you, they're that right.

This song is quite special, because it is from the new annual by The Lifted Brow, which is certainly my favourite literary journal, and probably should be yours too if you like this blog, what with the gorgeous music by tUnE-YaRdS, Bodies of Water, and the E.L.F., and short stories by folks like David Foster Wallace, Douglas Coupland and me. Yep, me.



This issue is an atlas, with songs, stories and illustrations based on the countries of the world, and some other places too. Jana Hunter has a nice song about Morocco, and I have a nice story about both Ireland and Germany.
You can pre-order it now, and you obviously should, because, including shipping, it will only cost you €21.56 to get it, or 35 Australian dollars, or $32 US dollars. You can even get some sneak previews over at MBV, where they are showcasing songs, art, and excerpts from stories.


http://www.theliftedbrow.com/

NB guitars by Lance Hillier
vocals by FJ Gibson and B Robertson
guitar and tune S O'Neil

Stephen O'Neil has just finished putting together a song called Truth B2031A (Let's Go Wine Dancing) that is to be on an EP put out by 555 Records Arizona USA. With the Summer Cats and Soft Paws I think and Cheap Red?

Anyway- quite a good song I reckon. I enjoy it anyway......

No answers yet on Qantas plane plunge