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Girl Power

My Girlfriend's sister's best friend (Hey Star Man!) drives a ute around and is very proud of it. I saw this sticker on the back of another kingswood ute today, and immediately thought of her

Cows

While in florence, there was some sort of wierd art installation whereby people had decorated life size fiberglass cows and had placed them throughout the city. These are some of the ones that I took photos of, not necessarily because I really liked them, but because they were everywhere.

 
 
 

Back From Europe

Europe

I'm off to France and the U.K.

I have been sent by work to France and the U.K. and will be away for 6 weeks.

The Mountain Goat's Triumphant Return

Last night, Melissa, Courtenay and myself went to see The Mountain Goats at the Rosemount Hotel in North Perth. We've seen John Darnielle live before, but not with his bass player, and not since he became quite popular.

Last time, John wasn't even the headline act, and as a result, there weren't as many fans there. It had a very intimate feel to it. He played material from most of his back catalog, including my favourite, "All Hail West Texas"

This time, the venue was much larger and there were a lot more people there. John got a lot more loving from the audience, and he reflected it with a high intensity, high energy (for John) performance. He mostly played songs from his latest album, The Sunset Tree, but still managed to finish off with "The best ever death metal band in denton" which was very good. John's bass player was very good too. His playing was very minimalistic, but placed just perfectly to fatten out the sound coming from this duo. In a departure from two piece convention, he didn't play purely rhythm either, quite often playing melody lines of his own. At one point, he launched into a brief bass solo, the only one I have ever heard that didn't come from the slap bass school of bass playing.

Is this the coolest ute ever?

I saw this ute parked out on the street near my house today.

I like it! I wonder what its fuel efficiency is?