100th post birthday celebration

It seems to be the season for birthdays. Kicking things off was the gentle giant and all time skate bro Jordan. Anita cooked us a lovely meal of schnitzel, which I unknowingly included in last week's Mind Field clip. Delicious!



Possum man sighting:



It was Jason's bday recently, too. I know he loves this photo. Happy birthday Jason!



I have been paying visits to the bat colony on the yarra, it's amazing. Milan liked it too.



Check out a review I did of it here



When you're out with Bret, the photos just take themselves.



It's Ed's birthday today! What a guy. We are working together on a new website/publishing company called Heavy Mental, and our first project is an awesome zine for Dylan Martorell's show Stolon Tonals, opening at Black & Blue gallery in Sydney next week. Exciting stuff! The zines will be available from the show and other places, more info soon.



Ed organised a surprise birthday dinner for Olivia on Friday night. The table wasn't ready when they arrived, so at first she thought it was just a coincidence we were all there! Happy birthday Olivia!



Alana and Paul came, and it is both of their birthdays next week. Raph ordered us an amazing banquet of Thai food.



After the dinner, Tom and I went to check out the PAM dance party in Collingwood. On the way, we bumped into the other Misa.



The party was fun and silly and off centre, like anything these guys do, and it was great to see people I hadn't seen in ages. Liege was there and he just had his birthday, too. Happy bday Liggee!



It goes without saying that Tom was in his element.



There's a new perfect wide concrete mini at Coburg skatepark. Looking at this photo of Riley makes me want to go back there right now.



Last night was Maz's bday party at her house in Brunswick. We rode over.



Hunter S Thompson was there in a wig



So was the Bush Tucker Man



Random house reunion, Chris and Danza. Chris was in sparkling form.



Tim with the birthday girl. Happy birthday Maz!



The dancefloor was a lot of fun. Well, anywhere Chris was, was fun, unless he was wiping his smelly fingers on your face.



He's taken to wearing tights out so when he takes off his jeans (which is inevitable), he won't be naked.



Leah showed me some dance moves, which I couldn't replicate.



I must leave you with one more image of Chris, which doesn't quite do him justice, but goes some of the way. Happy birthday, everyone!

Mind Field Valentines

Here is my loving tribute to the new Alien Workshop video, filmed entirely on the 14th of February, 2009.

The news this week

Well, Conor came over for a couple of days and we were sitting around being sad, then both decided we felt like doing something, so we rode to an opening of a new gallery in Collingwood. We got waylaid (?) at an uninvited birthday party on the way, so missed out on the band playing inside a massive blow up television. By the time we got there, Rohan had begun his laid back DJ set. A song ended at one point while he was outside so he just called out to put it on again.



Tom was resplendent in his new Coogee/TV jumper. It's kind of a big deal.



Weird faces all round



Sam is in the latest issue of Slam, nice photo in NYC. Plus the article is all about blogging, which is sort of lame. But good.



The main reason Condor flew over was to buy a Harley! FTW 666.



Suiting up



And off he went, following the bushfires back to Sydney via Canberra. Always a pleasure.



Anna also visited for the hottest ever day ever in Victoria, ever. We went to the Abbotsford Convent and saw this horse.



We also went to the movies and the races, which was a lot of fun. She said she was giddy from seeing so many good horses.



I lost $6, but hey, that's racing.



I looked after Olivia & Ed's dog Tess for the day when they had a house inspection. She is a neurotic little delight!



And last night, went over to see Milan. he took me to Brighton beach, where he works in a restaurant. Yet another one of those best spots in Melbourne.



The weather is cooler now and it was a real champagne sunset.



Beach boxes

Meet me in the middle of the air

It's been so hot that all the trees on my street have dropped their leaves. I thought it was an early Autumn effect, but apparently a lot of trees are dying. Hopefully these ones will survive, it's my favourite street in Melbourne because of them.



I've been swimming at the pool most days, getting my fitness back up. Some people are telling me about Sundays when a guy plays records at the pool and there's a big scene there. That doesn't interest me at all! I'm all about the laps. Even bought a multi-pass.



Scottie came over to take me for lunch the other day. I spied him from my window. I asked him if I should come down and he said I should just climb out the window and down the side of the wall. I said he should climb up the wall and in the window, so that's what he did. That's what it's like with Scottie, every moment seized for maximum laughs/physical challenges.



We had a great lunch



Couldn't do that when you were holding onto the wall for grim death, could you?



I also had a haircut with Frank. It's quite a hilarious experience, like being thrown onto the set of a sit-com.



I attended the Cliche premiere on Tuesday. For a more detailed analysis, see my review here



Yesterday, dropped into St.Jerome's to see Liege and everyone before they headed off to the Alien premiere.



Disturbing news, Ryan who works there got attacked on the way home the night before and ended up in hospital, while two people who tried to help him got stabbed! A detailed report was in the MX.



So they were off to see Mind Field, but Chris and I weren't going with them. Not that interested, thanks. Well actually, I was kind of torn, but when you have two of these bad boys, you know where you're going.



A mature crowd attended this event.



It was amazing! Paul Kelly was the support act and nearly stole the show. Simple, beautiful songs with nail on the head evocative lyrics. The one about the father talking to the son killed me.



Then the man himself! Extremely sprightly and with his voice sounding great, LC played all your favourites and more.



Most of them were set to what Ra described as the elevator music type beat he has gone with for the past 20 years or so, which definitely gave songs like the Stranger Song a different feel. He did some amazing poetry too. He has such a presence and charisma, we felt quite fortunate to witness it.



One of several standing ovations. I think he came back for three encores! by the end, I was saying 'go to bed, Leonard!', but Chris was reminding me that we won't be seeing him again. Morbid! I took his point, though.