Freezing.
I have abandoned OS X for the meantime. Happytown Remix Engine is finally working properly, although I had to go down a completely different route. Its good fun, and I’ll be developing it a lot this week.
We’re going to a friend’s house for dinner so I’ve got to go…
2:46am Post roast dinner and lots of good fun. Came back and did some work on the HaRE, but its really time for bed, so I’ll write tomorrow. Still haven’t quite got into the swing of things with D.’s jet-lag keeping us awake until silly times of the night and in bed until lunchtime! I’m going to try and get a Monday feeling, but never having done a 5 day week in my life, might find that hard.
EDDIE IZZARD tomorrow night with Hartleyface!! Brilliant. Over in the Enmore theatre – last time I was there I saw Elvis Costello who was stunning, last July, on tour here with RK. It really was a gig, and left me so inspired.
Australian Pop Idol kicked off tonight. The nightmare begins. The slow but inevitable grind of the music industry machine into absolute creative nothingness and increased employment intake of accountants has begun again in another corner of the world. And, what’s worse, the public are just as delighted with it here as everywhere else…
I must admit I found the first series of auditions for PopStars in the UK (the very first one that yielded Hear’Say) very funny, but since then, they have been faked, I’m sure of it. “I KNOW – the public like people making fools of themselves, so lets get some people in to make fools of themselves. Call the advertising placement agency and let them know. God, this is going to be huge!” I hate it. Gareth Gates, Will Young – talent? I’m not even going to answer, but the word zero springs to mind very quickly. Where are the Freddie Mercuries and Bonos of the new scene? Where is the new Sting, the new Led Zeppelin? Naaah. Maybe those days are gone. Tom Waits making multi-million records as a new talent in 2003? I think not. Still, its not all doom and gloom – there are some funky people out there making great music, and long may that spirit live. I suppose its been this way in a different guise for a lot longer than we all give it credit for.