lovegeek Blog

Melbourne artist Eveline Tarunadjaja is having a solo show. I love her illustrations, so I think you will too! Ev was featured in the first issue of our zine, you may remember.

Head on down to The No Vacancy Gallery in Melbourne from March 11.

Guess What?

I’m now on the radio! On Tuesday mornings I will be doing a segment with LIA over @ 2ser breakfast about the internets. Tune in tomoz from 6am to catch the show. Lia also has great taste in music and a lovely voice to wake up to.

xx

So, who’s getting one? Does anyone even want/need one?

I do read more and more stuff online, but why get this when I have a lappy AND an iPhone? EXPLAIN YOURSELF JOBS!

Comedy duo Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain perform under the banner Fear of a Brown Planet. A poke at modern Australia’s fears combined with a healthy dose of racial realism, their comedy is a unique, no hold back take on the issues. Taking the piss out of everyone, including themselves, can be seriously funny.

But what I really wanted to tell you was they are booked for Adelaide Fringe Festival (tix here) and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (tix here), and they have a brand new fancy/cool website which includes video of their shows.

It’s funny.

The End

I went home to the country for Christmas and it rained almost everyday. The day it stopped raining I took the opportunity to walk down to the river and see how much water there was amid rumours of flooding. Looked fuller, but not drastic. Unlike the Castlereagh River nearby, which totally flooded. Anyway, here are some snaps.

xx

This is me! I saw the Sea Shepherd in Circular Quay. It looks totes like a Pirate Ship and the dudes that man it were KOOL!

In Japan, people rarely talk about Whaling. Especially not with an Aussie like me. It’s kinda a touchy subject, but I had a few comments from co-workers about it being bad, or asking if I think it is bad (I had to work my way around the point in answering that one!). I did catch a vox-pop on TV asking people what they thought of it. As far as I could tell it was split 50/50 between young people and hippies on one side, and traditionalist on the other.

So with the latest confrontation on the high seas between Japanese whaling ships and some stealth protest vessels, where are we in The War on Whaling?

Although these Greenpeace activists do not in any way represent Australia’s foreign policy on whaling, our current government does support them (to a limit, I am sure) and has condemned whaling in our ‘backyard’. Yesterday a big Japanese boat collided with one of the activist’s stealth ships and tore it in half. The Japanese say it was coming towards them, the activist’s say it was sitting still. It probably was coming towards them, head on. These are the guys that jumped onto a ship and were captured for days. They’re mad as pants, and that’s why I like them.

But also revealed today is that Japan has been sending SPY PLANES from our airports to SPY on the Sea Shepherd! SPIES? Really? Is it a matter of pride, or do you guys really eat that much whale?

Regardless, I like the passion that these people have when it comes to stopping whaling. I like that our government semi-supports them, and I like that they do crazy stuff for what they believe in (cos it’s it’s something I believe in). I don’t usually do this on lovegeek, but if you feel strongly about it as well, you can donate to the cause here. After all, they did lose a 2 million dollar ship!

xx

Hi All,

I’ve just moved house, and I have no internet. FYI. I won’ be posting for around a week

If I don’t see you before then, Merry Christmas!

xx

I picked up an issue of this cute mag when I was in Christchurch. It’s full of crafty/sustainable goodness, and you can order it online from their website. Kawaii.

xx

Hi Everyone.

Sorry I have been AWOL as of late, but I have really needed some time off to focus on what I am doing with lovegeek, and where I want it to go. I have decided not to make any more issues of the web zine, and will be focusing solely on the blog from now on.

So, let’s catch up! Here is a rundown of my events for the past month or so:

• Got back from a week in NZ, now the proud owner of a Kiwi fridge poetry set (favourite words being chilly bin and jandals) and a huge bottle of Bombay Sapphire.
• Setting up Skype dates with my BFF’s in Berlin, trying to organise a trip to Europe for mid next year (YAYsies)
• Catching the end of the Duke Dance off at the OAF, after going to the 2ser fundraiser upstairs @ Spectrum…many many gins later I made it home.
• Finding out about the Media Watch pwned nudie run too late to participate.
• Hit Spectrum again for The Crayon Fields Album Launch. Apologised to a friend who had seen me the previous week @ Duke Dance Off…she kindly said I wasn’t that drunk…
• Watching Season One of Mad Men. Donald Draper is single-handedly revolutionising my criteria for potential boyfriends. Suit? Skinny Tie? Swagger? Womaniser? Brooding Silent Type? I’m in!
• Not having much luck finding a potential BF with the above criteria…
• And tomorrow I am going to see the Midnight Session of New Moon. Cos, well, it’ll be fun.

I hope you’ve all being having a great time of it as well. It’s good to be back.

xx

I went to New Zealand’s South Island last week, namely Christchurch, The Abel Tasman National Park and the fabulous Marlborough wine region. In one word - LUSH!

Here are some pics:

xoxo