Email to TLJ

Well, was a bit busy yesterday, and really there are no excuses but I failed to write you a mail so here I am!

Watched a great movie on Wed night – 6 Days 6 Nights – you have to watch it with me – it was awesome! Has Beatrice Dalle in. I’ve seen it in the video stores before but never got it out – it was on SBS so I taped it. You will love it I reckon!

Went to the city after work yesterday to do some Christmas shopping – was looking for a present for Bronwyn but I still didn’t know what to get her. I went to Market City to get some dinner – got lemon bean curd with crispy noodles – you’re supposed to have it with rice and they gave me a funny look when I asked for it with crispy noodles – like, why would you want it with that! Also had a sago dessert as usual. Was packed out for dinnertime – mostly by white people. I looked around the shops but there isn’t really that much there I reckon – I thought it was bigger.

Anyway was walking back up Pitt St and popped into Red Eye’s secondhand shop just on the off chance. Found some goddamn bargains – including a 29-track CD by Rob Crow – the singer/songwriter from Heavy Vegetable – and for 5 bucks! I walked up to the mall but couldn’t find anything suitable as a present and was getting pretty pissed off with it all. So walked back down George Street to Sponge House where Oren was playing that night. Met Oren’s girlfriend (or should I say fiance) outside with one of her friends and went for a coffee (Christain hadn’t(and didn’t) turned up).

So I asked these two ladies what I should get and they came up with a good idea of a free beauty treatment thing of some sort – like a facial etc so I was pretty pleased with that – now i just have to find somewhere that will do vouchers – and today!

Anyway, this other girl (also called Bronwyn) was a video editor so I told her about the equipment I have and may get in touch with her to come and have a look at it sometime. Went into Sponge House – you have to see it babe – it’s mad – just a little room with equipment in one corner and a bench in the other!

This girl the others there (all 9 or 10 of us) knew came and sat down and babbled on about some records she’d bought and then said she’d been around all the sex shops and around Chinatown giving out flyers. I looked a little puzzled – she said “Yeah and I’ve already got one call from some guy who wants to be tied up and walked all over – fine with me!”. I was like, right-io! She was a bit barmy but quite funny and completely unpretentious – I did wonder if she was cracking on to me for some business though.

Anyways, if you’d have come you wouldn’t have been the only Asian there – one guy and one girl – not sure if they were together or not. Anyway, the music was great – Oren on guitar and Pheebee on other things – she played in Alternahunk and is quite well known (apparently!) – and it was cool to hear the traffic on George Street just outside. I was really inspired! I will try to go back there soon.

Tomorrow night is Not From There and Gerling and Sunday is Vicious Hairy Mary, a Jap band and Testicle Candy (another band Oren is involved in). I’m sure I’m gonna run out of money before Christmas!

All right babes – I keep looking forward to hearing from you – and really looking forward to seeing you again and having a big damn cuddle!