Category: daveg@dorja

‘Tis the Season to Spend Money

I don’t usually do the post Christmas sales at all. That’s the highly skilled territory of my Mother and Sister but this year since I was up in Newcastle staying at my Sister’s house, I thought I’d join her at (agh!) 7am or so when David Jones opened in Kotara. Luckily Kotara DJ’s isn’t like Sydney DJ’s on the day of the post-Christmas sales. Infact there was barely anyone around so it was a perfect time to go shopping. No waiting to try clothes on or anything like that. Got myself some shirts and new pair of jeans. Saved about $200 or so. Can’t complain about that. The best part of the day was when we headed to Charlestown. I got bored waiting for my Sister and Rozie, so I wandered down to Big W and check out the games section for any bargains (like I had with DJ’s, Toys-R-Us, K-Mart and Myer previously). Much to my pleasure they had Nintendo Gameboy Advances in there for $50. That’s right! $50!!! Score!!! OK, its not that big a deal considering it isn’t the backlit SP version and I guess they’re just trying to move this older stock to make way for the impending Nintendo DS, but hey… $50!! Down from $108. Yeah…

Post-xmas Pondering

Over Christmas I kept hearing about supposed left-wing, commie, politically correct, no fun, non-demoninational peoples ruining “everyone elses'” fun by trying to make things less “Christian”. Err, who are these supposed people (besides perhaps Clover Moore)? Do they really exist? Then again, I don’t know anyone who actually likes Shannon Noel but the guy seems to sell lots of records… perhaps its time to expand my social network.

And now the fun is over

Architecture in Helsinki perform at the KirkDJing at BurlesqueKenny DJing at Bohem

Now I’m back at work. That ain’t so cool. But the fun stuff I got up to last week:

  • Going to Tamarama beach on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the scorching heat
  • Seeing hip Aussie twee-poppers Architecture in Helsinki at the Kirk in the Slurrry (oh how I wish that I got to see Man Jam there 😉 )
  • Djing at Tonic in the Cross (seeing some random dude happily gurning to Recloose’s “Up and Up” put a big smile on my face and made it all worth it)
  • Drinking way too much at my 10 year school reunion at the Coogee Bay Hotel
  • Finally after all these years getting to see Kenny Larkin DJ in Sydney

When I get the chance, I’ll put some pictures up of AIH and Kenny Larkin.

Update: As always Rozie beat me to it and put up the photos of Kenny Larkin up on her gallery.

Hot in the City

Hmmm. First day of summer. I’m loving it. This week I’ve been lucky enough to be off from work, so there’s no need to be whinging about the temperature. I’ve been to the beach Sunday, twice yesterday (Tuesday) and today. This morning the water was warm. The previous days required a moment or two to adjust to the water, but today, damnnnn it was perfect! Yesterday afternoon and this morning I took my bodyboard out. Yesterday was fun with some decent but small waves out the back of Tamarama. This morning due to the high tide, there was only a dumpy shorebreak on offer which gave me a couple of decentish waves. Still great to get out in to the water though. And not be at work. I think I’ll have to do it again tomorrow and Friday as well. Perhaps if I have time, Saturday and Sunday. Back to work next Monday though. Booo!

Tonight, Architecture in Helsinki are playing at Spectrum in Darlinghurst (the old Lizard Lounge I think…) Apparently they’re also playing at the Kirk in the Slurry as well on Thursday. If I’ve got nothing better to, and if I enjoy them today, I guess I’ll go hit up that gig as well… after I’ve been to the beach of course.

Update:
For those Architecture in Helsinki fans who are in other states, they’re playing Sunday night (Dec 5th) in Brisbane at the Zoo, Thursday 9th December in Ballarat at the Karova Lounge and then Friday 10th December in Adelaide at Jive. They’ve already played Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle so far.

Burlesque

This Friday I’m playing down at Tonic in the Cross with Sleepy, Georgee and Hoarse. It’ll be a night of deeper grooves. Its free and things kick off at 8pm and go on into the early morn’ (or until we get kicked out or something).

Details:

DJ’s: Georgee, Hoarse, RZ-1 & Sleepy

Burlesque @ Tonic – 62-64 Kellet St, Kings Cross
Friday 3rd December 2004
8pm till late

Blackout

Imagine this, the lights in the universe are all on and at the flick of god’s switch all the lights in the world are all out.. you can run, but you cant hide. Cuz if we dont change quick, it is coming, a world eclipse… BLACKOUT.

Lil’ Louis – Blackout Phase 1

Just about everything just blacked out here at work. Luckily I’ve got a laptop and the network seems to be OK. 🙂

The Weekend

Tony and Ed at the Glebe Record FairI enjoyed this weekend greatly. I think it was the first time in about two months where I really had the weekend to do what I really wanted to do. No being sick, no worrying about work, no family engagement. Just me, me, me.

On Friday night Rozie and I headed into the City and met up with Thommy and the crew to celebrate/mourn him finishing up his current job. Ate too much at Chinese Noodle Resturant, then off to drinks at the Soho bar. There were some truly munted guys in there at around 11pm. Too early for that kind of thing. One of the guys kept falling asleep on Justine and Rozie and occasionally muttering “Youse guys are bloody legends”. After that we headed to Candy’s Apartment for Boogiedown. It was OK to start with, but by the time we left at around 2am, the music was a tad meh.

Saturday morning was spent celebrating Benn’s birthday for brunch at Campari in the City. Happy birthday for Sunday Benn! After that Rozie, Matt and I headed down to the Glebe Record Fair to pickup some bargains. Tony, Ed, Simon and Quest were there getting rid of some of their unwanted records. I managed to pickup a couple of old Chicago tracks, a Paul Hannah EP on Ferox, an Imagination EP and something else. Rozie dug through the crates a lot harder than me and only made it to about two stalls before her money ran out. She managed to find plenty of bargains.

BJ, in tight tracksuit pants

After that we met up with BJ (in some very tight trackies), Cuts, Thommy and Teresa for our lunch (their breakfast) at Mint in Surry Hills. Its the first time I’ve eaten there, and it was great. I had a fantastic beef salad with pine nuts and eggplant. After that we went home and I watched Takedown, which is the movie of the story of Kevin Mitnick. It was super-corney with PC laptops making Macintosh noises, funky graphics popping up on screens that usually aren’t there, and nerdie hackers having sex while their boxes are getting 0wned. After that I watched Spike Lee’s 25th Hour which was fantastic. Not too sure of the last 10 minutes. BJ reasoned with me that with was a nice way to finish it since Edward Norton’s character looked like he had nothing to look forward to for the whole movie, and this was perhaps something to counterbalance that.

After I dropped Rozie at her relaxation seminar at Sydney Uni, I spent sometime shopping in Bondi Junction Westfield, which seems to have doubled in size since I went there earlier on in the year. And they still don’t seem to have finished the place. I ended up buying some goodies for Rozie and I bought myself a pair of black Adidas Superstar Dboss‘s with the Adidas logo embossed into the leather in a pattern like the Gucci print. Yay, what a weekend.

2 Years

Well yesterday Rozie and I celebrated the 2nd anniversary since we got married. I can’t believe its actually been two years. It seems like ages ago since we went and celebrated our first anniversary at harbourkitchen&bar. To celebrate, we had dinner at Luke Mangan’s Salt in Darlinghurst. Managed to pile in 4 courses which included oysters with soy, leek & wasabi dressing, quail tempura, goats cheese stuffed tempura of zucchini flowers, filled with goats cheese & green olives, beef with porcini curd, Rozie the mint crusted breast of guinea fowl dish for main and we shared a warm chocolate tart that just beautifully melted everywhere for dessert. It was nice, made even better by turning off the phone and ignoring my calls from the helpdesk until I got home 😀 (Thanks go out to my oncall backup though…)

Update: Mel informed me that perhaps I should be saying that time has gone quickly since Rozie and I have been married. Thanks Mel 😛 It seems like ages, because time has gone so quickly… 🙂

Dreams

I’ve been having quite a few dreams lately which feature people who I used know or were friends. The thing that bothers me is that I’d rather not dream about them. I really wish they’d stop bothering me and let me sleep in peace. Is that too much to ask?