Is It Any Wonder That I Hang My Hat, And Does It Really Matter?

She Won't Have A Thing To Do With Me, A Thing To Do With Me

This is for my father.

Kentucky Fried Chicken here does not have biscuits. They do however, serve everything with fries. And they have all these crazy menu options, including these fillets that are battered up in original recipe and are amazing.

Just giving you the full report pops.

Ce Soir, Je Vais Boire

The days are just whipping by. It was Joan and I's 4 month anniversary the other day. How crazy is that? To all of you who graduated with us: WE HAVE BEEN ADULTS FOR LIKE 5 MONTHS.

Work paid me. Which is great. I presented my new ideas to them, and they ate it up. I think I might be able to be employed there for a full time type job. I'm hoping so at least. I figure I can live quite well on double what I'm making now, and anything over that I can save...which would be extra great. Plus they seem like a company that might front $ to keep me here, especially if they can deduct that money later :)

I am an independent contractor, again. I did it with Spectre, but now I'm back to having my own company registration number and submitting invoices. How adult. How terribly adult.

My new house is really good. It's got a big full on kitchen. It's got a giant back yard. It's got room mates that are mature, have jobs, and don't fuck with you. It's got room mates that are hilarious and just as inappropriate as me. The internet sucks more than the old house, but I think we are going to change that, which is needed. I just hope that when the girl who's stuff is all furnishing my room comes back she doesn't kick me right the fuck out! But c'est la vie.

I got one of the best presents since I've been here in the mail the other day.


Thank you so much Sierra. Artwork on my body and all over my room! No, I haven't put up everything yet...but soon!

Speaking of Sierra! She is coming to visit me. It's more than I can say about the rest of you slackers.
It's going to be a blast, and I'm getting super excited for it. I am probably equally excited about how awesome it will be when my MOM comes to visit in 2 weeks! She has been out of the united states about, twice. No joking. SHE IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA! It is going to do her head in. We might go to Tassie, Great Barrier Reef, Wilson's Prom, Black Spur Drive, Phillip Island, and New Zealand. Well obviously not all of them, but those are the ideas. Oh I'm so excited to have visitors!!! Dad, get down here for 100+ Christmas time.

I have been foiled by my local library. Out of the following books, they have NONE. So that means I might have to buy one (once I get paid again). The booklist: Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion, The World to Come - dana Horn, Arkansas - John Brandon, Here They Come - Yannick Murphey, Voyage Along the Horizon - Javier Marias, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz, Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth, and The Ministry of Special Cases. Tell me which to buy first!

Oh and I didn't finish Roberto Bolano. I might get back to it, but for the time being it's going to rest over there in the "Got boring real quick, this author should've gotten back to the story" pile with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Alright, I don't remember what else I wanted to post about, so this will have to do! Oh and there will be a video uploaded real soon, I just have to wait for my slow internet to get it up.
BE EXCITED.

Good times are coming, but they sure comin' slow

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for putting in an application for the publicist position at PBS.
We've had a lot of applications for the role and unfortunately your
application has been unsuccessful this time.

I appreciate you taking the time to put together a proposal and wish you
all the best.


Again, another position I thought I was perfect for, and don't even make it to the interviews.  WHO ARE THESE OTHER PUBLICISTS, and why don't they find jobs already, and why do they have more radio experience than I do...independent radio experience...and fundraising knowledge, and what the hell.

Anyways.  Three Thousand is going well, at least the whole writing thing.  The paying thing?  Not so well.  I guess it will work itself out, I'm just freaking out since I'm moving and that's going to put a cramp in my finances.  The other problem is that if I don't get a raise or something like they sorta wanted to give me, I'm not going to be making any money except to cover rent so I will need another job, or a wealthy sugar mama.  I'm open to many many situations, please contact.  Hell you don't even have to be wealthy, I'm cheap.

I am moving again.  New house pictures will be up soon.  It'll be good I think.  Trying to find a place with the girls, that they both want, that I am okay with, at the price we want, was getting tricky.  Luckily within a few days of looking, I found a house with people I liked, a location I liked, and a price that was unbeatable.  I'm going to be living close to Joan, and close to trams, and close to cool stuff...plus I'm going to have a cat, 2 chickens, and 3 guinea pigs.  It's like moving back in with people from Boulder, who have a little more room than anyone did in Boulder.  The Brunswick Bubble.

Oh and just for all you lovely people who want to send fan mail:
14 Pitt St.
Brunswick, Victoria
3056
Australia.

Please include a SASE and picture, or two.

I made Mexican the other night and had to use a cough syrup measurement thing as a measuring cup.  It was insane.  Just so you know, 8x30ml = 1cup.  You can't get that conversion anywhere easier than here.

Speaking of conversions, why doesn't everyone who reads this blog whip all their money out of the market right now to keep my exchange rate really good until I use up all of my USD?  Pretty please?  I'm getting 1.30 to 1 right now!

Oh and a quick synopsis of Phillip Island.  It was fun, it was beautiful, it had amazing fucking beaches, it had gigantic waves, I found wafer (!!!) thin skipping rocks EVERYWHERE.  WAFER ROCKS.  Skipped one like 10 times, so good.  Anyways, it's amazing.  I plan on taking everyone who comes down to it, so GET READY.

So with all of that, I'm going to set up for more packing.  I want to finish before I go out tonight.

Music rants:
Munly has a new CD?  Why didn't any of you assholes tell me?  Yo, I'm pissed.
Loving the new Mark Barrage (he's from Melbs!).  Like a little bit denser and better YACHT or Dan Deacon.  I cannot stop listening to Graham Smith/Kleenex Girl Wonder.  It's like a disease or something.  Ponyoak just keeps getting better and better, and I only liked it for that one Anne Marie song at first.  Same with Mojave 3.  I used to not dig them cause they were a wanky version of Slowdive...but they've grown on me so much.  My Life In Art is a daily must listen song.  I am looking forward to sitting down with Out of Tune, Neil's solo disc Sleeping on Roads, and that unreleased Slowdive album I Saw The Sun.
As far as new stuff?  Look what I started using again: http://www.last.fm/user/patcollins
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...get used to it.

Her Space Holiday's new one is good.  Might be different than the stuff I love him for (Young Machines/Manic Expressive) but it is fucking good still.  I didn't like that last one.

Psapp's new one is burning to be played, as well as the Micah P. Hinson 7in, the Viking Moses, Tahiti 80, Kitsune 6 compilation and the load of stuff I downloaded at work the other day.  Something new from Graham Smith's little pool that you can get free at www.hugebig.info (and his newest 2xCD for free too!), the new Congotronics (I'm SLOW), and the new Strut release...Calypsoul or whatever.

Lot's of new stuff!  Tell me more tell me more!  Oh and I don't give a shit about Yo! Majesty, so leave me alone.