Otis Redding ‘Satisfaction’Uni holidays are done and dusted and I'm in the same position I was before they began in terms of work completed. Things are as they ought to be.
Bright Eyes ‘I Must Belong Somewhere’
Burt Kaempfert ‘A Swinging Safari’
Gorillaz ‘Dare’
Beastie Boys ‘Triple Trouble’
The Basics ‘Just Hold On’
Custard ‘Girls Like That (Don’t Go For Guys Like Us)’
The Cure ‘Love Song’
Foo Fighters ‘Generator’
Under The Influence:
Arctic Monkeys ‘When The Sun Goes Down’
The Libertines ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’
The Fratellis ‘Henrietta’
Frenzal Rhomb ‘T.N.T’
Devo ‘Satisfaction’
Augie March ‘There Is No Such Place’
Kings of Leon ‘Charmer’
Frank Zappa ‘Joe’s Garage’
Eels ‘Souljacker’
Dr. Dog ‘The World May Never Know’
The Hives ‘Hate To Say I Told You So’
The Residents ‘Satisfaction’
Groove Armada ‘Purple Haze’
Weezer ‘Burndt Jamb’
Lionel Hampton Quintet ‘Je Ne Sais Pas’
Lyrics Born ‘Callin’ Out’
The Lucksmiths ‘The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco’
The Living End ‘Fly Away’
Ladysmith Black Mambazo ‘Inkanyezi Nezazi’
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Breathless’
Nina Simone ‘Lilac Wine’
The Rolling Stones ‘Satisfaction’
I got a freebie to go to the Malthouse this afternoon to hear Geoffrey Rush and Neil Armfield chat about their collaborations and their love of and approach to theatre. Michael Kantor facilitated the discussion and it was a rather worthwhile hour. I'm using Beige English in describing the event as a passive aggressive tactic to express my disappointment at missing out on seeing Exit The King.
Bum Chin The Musical, Wayne Dixon's show at this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival was a hoot. I saw it last Wednesday (11 April). Think The Wizard of Oz meets Monkey and you're pretty close. Dixon relies heavily on technology for the show with animations and music that he produced almost entirely by himself, learning by trial and error as he produced the stuff. It paid off, with particularly effective action sequences and fairly smooth banter between himself and an animated computer that only cocked up a few times. Check it out!
I also saw Dave Jory's show Polished on Wednesday, where I was one of six in the audience. You have to hand it to Dave. He connected to every one of the crowd and entertained for a solid hour. The backpackers (who were two-thirds of the crowd) even asked for an encore. They weren't even that drunk, so that's pretty high praise.
And on Thursday I saw Charlie Pickering's show. Impractical Jokes. This dude is kick-arse at comedy. Like totally, man. Like there was Boiling Point with Michael Chamberlin, and then he did Auto last year, which blew me little mind, but this is top-notch again. An awesome story about the practical jokes his Dad and his Dad's mate used to play on one another. Take your Dad, take your Mum, take Aunt Maude, this is great.
I finished the online song collaboration in case any of you were wondering. I don't like to keep my readers hanging! I may upload it somewhere soon. But that's for Soon to sort out, not me.
All you need to know is that I reckon it sounds kinda crap, but it has been described as 'awesome' and 'a shining example' of what the project can achieve by someone who is not my Mum.
