Sun 3 Feb – Big Day Out

We came, we saw, we nearly died from heat exhaustion. I only came away with a tiny bit of sunburn so I'm pretty cheery.

Kele and I got there at about 1:00, just in time to see Kate Nash all the way from the U.K. She was certainly impassioned. I think she dealt with the overbearing heat pretty well. The audience was drenched in waterfalls of sweat, even those of us who just stood there not moving. We were in the Essential stage building and it was beyond a sauna. Also, Kate Nash…

Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Ball (Tucson AZ Sept. 16)
Sun 16 Sep – Fall Ball

For those who don't know yet, I saw the Smashing Pumpkins in Tucscon Arizona on Sunday Sept 16th, and in the process got utterly drenched in a freak thunderstorm. Well, it wasn't really a thunderstorm…but it was a freak! There was just no thunder. There was a lot of lightning and rain though. And by 'freak', I mean it was quite unexpected, in spite of the fact that I'd been admiring the clouds in the Arizona skies for most of the day. They just hadn't…

I have just seen The Smashing Pumpkins in the United States, TWICE no less!! I saw them first in Tucson, AZ for the KFMA Fall Ball (I think that's it, KMFA), and second in San Diego at the SDSU Open Air Theater. My life is now complete. I am going to amend this entry later with a setlist from the second show!!

SP still rocks my world and my doubts about Billy evaporated as I basked in his bright, bright light. ;)

Every now and then after copious amounts of reinstallations or whatever, I realise that once again I am missing quite a few songs from my mp3 collection. Sometimes I think they just evaporate into thin air! But anyway, I've just been on another epic ripfest and although it's not quite complete yet, I'm pretty satisfied with my efforts thus far.

I haven't registered all newly added mp3s here at Last.fm yet, but you can expect to see them cropping up around the place in future. Some of the latest additions include songs from the Godzilla and Romeo and Juliet soundtracks.…

Okay, so in the last 6 months or so I have been into RTR and I've had between minimal and maximal (I'm making that a word *g*) influence on the content played during the Burning Down the House hour on Thursday nights.

I just wanted to mention that every now and then I manage to pick up a CD from RTR, for free, and the latest acquisition is the self-titled CD by Pikelet. I have listened to 3 or 4 tracks so far and I am really impressed!

So in future I think we can expect some Pikelet action (or…

I have a ticket for the Fall Ball in Tucson, at which the Pumpkins are headlining.

Last night I bought a ticket for the San Diego show. I am now organising how to get to each location (Greyhound!) and where to stay when there (if I stay at all).

Yay!!!

So, I have the new The Smashing Pumpkins album Zeitgeist, and I think it sounds awesome. Only problem is I'm a bit of a devout atheist, and to see my hero's apparent downfall is not all that easy to take. ;) Songs like "For God and Country", "Superchrist" etc. are emerging from Billy Corgan's soul and his pen.

I can't help but love him and his craft still, but I have to wonder - when we get married will he try to convert me?! I can't live with that. ;)

You will see in my 'most recent tracks' some evidence that I have done the above. I must also give credit to the mother's boyfriend, who has also contributed to this newfound mixing-it-up frenzy. Phew!

I was starting to get sick of the same old mp3s being played repeatedly. ;)

Next comes the Michael Jackson CDs. Watch out world!!!

Let's see if this works! I downloaded the WMP plugin to mum's computer, and it appears to be working. But I will have to remember to turn the thing off before I leave, otherwise my brother's or mum's music will show up on my charts. :)

I've got the internet at home now but I haven't got my virus protection to work yet, so till that happens I am not gonna be doing anything online there.

I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that I have new (and mildly better quality) recordings up at MySpace now. I have 5 songs up. You can see them here!

I haven't put up the art for them yet since MySpace was being finicky, and also two of them have no art as yet. That will be tonight's project.