life: Goes on... Caught up with my friend Dave Chinnery from Perth at Popscene. I really like that club - I just have one suggestion: morrisey must die.
I'll be catching up with another friend from Perth this week - my friend Bec who has been living in Japan for the last few years.
Today is my birthday. I got a family phone call at some ungodly hour this morning. I'm not used to having birthdays somewhere where I only know a few dozen people well. I'm used to big birthday parties.
world: The talking heads on CNN are becoming a parody of themselves. Their refusal to consider negotiations with the Taliban who're making very reasonable offers, while cutting deals with the military dictatorship in Pakistan would make me sick it if wasn't so funny. Australia is heading towards and election. Politics in Australia are pretty broken. Before this S11 stuff the biggest issue in Australian politics was the fate of Afghani and Iraqi refugees which the government claims aren't really refugees. People don't seem to see how these issues are connected. To quote Can't Hardly Wait (I've been on a teen coming-of-age movie binge this weekend) "You're all sheep! Baa!".