Here is a picture of me rehearsing with my band. I am turning into a monster, doing an impromptu cover of Coolio’s ‘Gangster’s Paradise’ to the tune of Johnny B. Goode while we teach our keyboard player how to do the 12 bar blues. I know it sounds like shit and I can never get to the last line of each verse because the other four bars are missing, but I’m happy because I can spit the words out in a nice angry way. I start to sound a bit like Leon from Beaverloop.
Speaking of, I saw Leon yesterday at the Swan - he did a bizarre comedy routine using a fish puppet projected onto a big screen via video camera. Piss funny. Says he’s planning a puppet show dealing with the theological problem of evil, though don’t tell any puppeteers because they’ll totally steal his idea. Or laugh at him. Oh and if you’re in Perth, go and see The Plastik Scene: they are even better than they used to be.
Oh, sigh. Not looking forward to work this week. I think it will involve editing the first 20,000 words of my thesis and fixing the enormous hole that I left there when I had a problem that I couldn’t solve. My sore arm will probably turn purple and fall off at some point. Everybody say YEAH.
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YEAH! Sucks about the arm, but really, do you need it? Arms are useless paraphernalia. When do you having a gig? I want to see this rendition of Gangsta’s Paradise.
Comment by Gussy — Monday September 18 2006 @ 9:19 pm
YEAH.
If you gig somewhere that’s not out in Freo, I will totally go and scream like a groupie! If you gig somewhere in Freo, I will probably go, but only nod along non chalantly.
There you go! Two very good reasons not to ever play in public.
Comment by boofuls — Tuesday September 19 2006 @ 11:28 am
What was the hole you left? Wait a minute, why were you in Brisbane? Because this whole suddenly-you’re-in-perth thing is very confusing for me.
Comment by audrey — Tuesday September 19 2006 @ 1:29 pm
Gussy - Yeah, it is a bit useless, innit? Er, I don’t know if we’ll ever get good enough that I would subject the public to our music (currently we’re not even bad enough that we’re so bad we’re good). And if we did, I don’t know if I could get my Johnny B. Goode/Gangsta’s Paradise/That’s All Right Mama mash-up on the set list… I might get lynched.
Liz - Ah, you’ll be the first to know - but I wouldn’t hold my breath, given the above. Am rocking out to TVOTR right now, btw - Blues From Down Here. The lyrics are online now :)
Audrey - a) the hole was something about politics b) I was never in Brisbane. Seriously. c) I am a jet-setter. Rock and Roll. Deal with it. Plus, I am from Perth and all my stuff is here. My uni is in Sydney tho.
Comment by Mark — Tuesday September 19 2006 @ 5:31 pm