My family is too large...

This morning my mother sent me an email. I'm trying to get in touch with my cousin Tess. She said that Simone might have her address. For fully five minutes I drew a mental blank about who this Simone person might be...

Then I remembered. She's another of my cousins. *slaps head* She has a sister called Renee. They look so similar I still can't tell them apart and couldn't tell you which was the older and which the younger...

Last time I counted I had twenty six cousins on four continents, twelve second cousins (if this is the correct term for a child of my cousin) and a sister and a half brother. My ten original aunts and uncles have all been marrying and remarrying, and then squeezing out more kids, so for example at one stage one of my cousins was in the same year level in the same school as one of my second cousins! I also have a cousin called Heidi. Oh, and my dad is going out with my aunt. My family is, I promise, far more complicated than yours...!

The Bedroom Philosopher and Flacco

Was lucky enough to see Justin Heazlwood (the Bedroom Philosopher) and Flacco last night at the Cornish Arms in Brunswick.

Mostly I was there to see my good friend Justin (he knows me well enough to remember my name, so near enough :-)

Hazel and I bumped into, of all people, Paul "Flacco" Livingston's older brother at the back of the room. He's in IT in Adelaide and just happened to be here for a conference. How bizarrely random.

The last time I say Flacco live was back in 1989 with the Doug Anthony All Stars. I feel old...!

I gotta stop going out on weeknights, I'm buggered.

Dooooooogs in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

Tonight, evildoom_bunny, stillbeing and I went to visit the Dogs In Space house. It's on Berry Street in Richmond, and is being auctioned this weekend.

The poor real estate agent - there were maybe twenty people there, of whom maybe two were actually looking to buy the place. The rest of us were wandering around going "I hate parties. Where's the booze?" and "Chuck's Here!" and "Hate hate hate!" and "Hey, we were watching that" "You were asleep" "Doesn't mean we weren't watching it" and "Only one way! You know this! Only one way!" and "Ballarat! Ballarat" and "Baa baa" etc. etc. We saw a number of other pop culture tragics there as well.

The place is probably the biggest house I've seen in Richmond. If you really tried, it could have had seven bedrooms. Which could explain its use as a rental place back in the seventies when the Events were set. Although it's been done up just a tad since - has two bathrooms now, and a less bizarre kitchen, entirely lacking in chain saws. I was seriously thinking - could I scrape together the money, then rent all the rooms out to my friends? I actually asked the real estate man what he expected it to go for.

Anyone know where I can get $700,000 in the next two days? No? Bugger. And I suppose the $301 I have in the bank isn't really going to cover the deposit. Did I mention bugger?

The street itself is freaky - it's really tiny, almost no space to park on it. Heck knows where you'd put your car - could explain the collection of volkswagen beetles parked on the vacant lot. It really is just behind the Pelaco sign.

Looks like the place was a share house until quite recently. Half the folks have already moved out, but there was a drum kit and a lot of instruments in one of the rooms - looked terribly authentic. Not sure how keen the agents were to talk up the place's fame, but the instruments where a nice touch.

Great old view from the balcony. And a really weird brick building across the street. Looked like an old panel beaters, had five garage doors and a tiny flat thing on top. And a huge roof/balcony, larger even than the flat thing. Odd.

Ah well, I've seen it now, I can get on with my life. It's being auctioned on Saturday at 12 noon, I believe.

My New Music for August.

You may recall a few days back I was asking what I should spend my small CD budget on this month.

Well, at this very moment, Devo's greatest hits and Cage's first solo album are winging their way to me from kindly sellers on Ebay. Already in my hot little hand is the Single/EP "Kings of Hate" by Snog, which was only released yesterday! It was issued by the Psy-Harmonics label who are based in Thornbury, just up the road.

So, there goes my music budget for August. Er, in fact, the whole "only one CD a month thing" kinda went out the window. Ah well, I didn't buy any last month, gotta make up :-)

September, I think it's time I got some more Ani Difranco. Yes, I am a lesbian :-)