RIP, Johnny :(

Yes, it finally happened. Johnny, my poor little sick fish, finally died today (5th Sept). :( Baby and Johnny are no more. It's just Baby now. Johnny has been looking bad for a while now. He was floating belly up just for kicks a couple weeks ago. Then he got better, but it all went downhill again last week. He's been laying on the rocks on the bottom of the bowl for the last few days, so I knew it was coming. Poor fishy. I don't know if I just got dodgy fish or if I'm a crap care-taker. Baby is looking fine. Weird!

Today was crazy. I've been working on a new design for the Campus Bands affair, coming to a Yap near you soon. Lots of stuff to do in regards to other personal projects after work as well. Oh, and I caught the 4 new songs (live) by ESN during the Oz Music Show on Triple J, tonight. These boys ought to be proud of themselves. Their new album, Actual Size, is excellent and it's out now, in stores near you ;) ESN will be supporting Big Heavy Stuff this Friday at the Annandale, so check it out! Oh, and by the way, their new track "Naked" (the one I call their Destiny's Child number) is extra radio friendly, but Indian Giver, Chance Favours, Naked, and Magnetic Drift were good choices for Triple J live.

Speaking of other new good music, I had a fun interview with Nathan from Faker this evening, so that'll be up on Yap soon. Faker's got a new track out called "Quarter to Three" and it's catchy as hell. Very energetic, very contagious, very fun. I predict radio will really like this ditty. You can look for it on the forthcoming double A side single, "Kids on Overload/Quarter to Three." Look at me, I even Yap in my blog. Silly me.

I am extremely alarmed. Apparently my blog is really popular with paedophiles! :( I was checking out my webstats and saw how people were finding my blog and I'd say a good 60% of them use search strings like: "pics of 16-17 year old girls in their underwear" and somehow find their way to my blog! Seriously, have a go---type that into Google and my blog comes up No. 2 in the ranking!!! Dammit! I love Google, but this is pretty ridiculous. But boy will all those paedophiles be pissed when they see there are no nudie photos here, ya sick bastards! My referral stats show me that pics of hot 13 year old girls, pics of pretty 8 year old girls, and pics of girls of all ages in their undies are the most popular searches. Lovely! F-R-E-A-K-S!

Other popular search strings include butterfly pics, butterfly borders, and party ideas for girls with butterflies.

This weekend was fun, but tiring. On Friday night I went to see Even, The Anyones, and QuarterAcre at the Newtown RSL. Every time I go to the RSL, I get a new thing. I still don't entirely get the rules of the RSL (ignorant Yank!) but every time I go, I am told something different. Sometimes I get in okay, sometimes I say I live in Chippo, etc. Last time, they wouldn't let me in. Does the 12K radius rule apply or not? My friend had to join the RSL and then sign me in. This time the guy was like, "You're on holiday?" I said yes and he told me to write my U.S. address. ??? Oh well, I got in! The show was excellent! (No review here, I promise!)

Today I hauled my ass out of bed early (for me) to head down to the Annandale Hotel to be an extra in a music video clip for Sydney band, The Drugs. It was a fun yet painful experience. Me and this other tiny girl were down the front, up against the railing (stupidly!) The crowd "simulated" moshing. Simulated my ass! It was real, I tell you! Granted, much tamer than a real concert, but much rougher than my poor little body needed. They had people stage dive as well, so I got kicked in the head a few times (as you do) but the other chick and I were smart enough to ask the boys to remove their shoes before they dived. So we weren't totally dumb. It was funny because the railing went up to our upper arms so we thought we didn't have to move around too much, but we saw the playback and it turns out you can see everything. So if you're ever watching Rage or whatever and you see someone who looks like me jumping up and down in the front row, wearing a leopard print tank top and tossing her hair around looking like a stoned hippie headbanger, yes, that is me! Why I'm the only one who ever looks drunk/stoned in videos while also being the only one who is not actually drunk or stoned is beyond me! It was a lot of fun, even though I know I am going to be sore tomorrow from being slammed and battered about.

Last Friday I went to see Fantomas at City Live, Fox Studios. Unreal! Surreal! Kick-ass! (Again, no review here.) Great show. I still don't know who the hell opened for them. I don't know the name of the band, but they have to be the worst band I've ever seen at a gig where people paid money to get in. Supposedly they were American. Whoever had the bright idea to fly these bastards all the way to Australia needs to get a kick up the arse. Surely there's a crap Australian band that could have done just as good a job, and with no flight costs! It was shocking--the lead singer came out wearing his pajamas and acted as though that "cool move" would somehow allow the kids to relate to him. No go there. The other "singer", if you can call him that, was just bizarre. He looked about 60, had this homeless ZZ-Top thing going, and rambled on and on. I know I haven't been in the U.S. in a while, but I have no idea what form of English that was. I kept turning to my friend going, "Did you understand any of that? Neither of us caught a word! The guy spent the entire evening yelling "Uughhhh" during every song, while using dancing moves that made my dad look good, and he kept his hands over his ears the whole time. He was doing what we all wanted to do, I suppose. Anyhoo, Fantomas more than made up for it. Mike Patton and Dave Lombardo competed for the lead, as usual. I'll have to call it a draw.