Recent content by Norwegian Blue

A little postscript anecdote for you. I was driving out of the Perth CBD early this morning, pulled up for a red light and there's this derro looking guy holding up a cardboard sign. The usual stuff: homeless, need help, meds, etc. I was going to ignore him when he yells out GO THE DOCKERS! I...

I reckon Mick Taylor's best solo is on the live version of Sympathy for the Devil on Get Yer YaYa's out. It's made all the better because of the solo that Keith does first, which is pretty impressive in its own right. Mick then takes over and blows Keef off the stage. Richards' solo starts at...

I've an older (about 6 years) Saumsung phone and it keeps telling me I'm running out of space for apps. And no, I can't be arsed putting more memory in it. So recently I purged it of all but the apps I really need/use. Except for the apps relating to phone calls/contacts/SMS/photos etc, I was...

This highlights everything I hate about Gather Round. It's nominally a Freo home game and they should be mild favourites, off the back of the home crowd. Instead, the crowd will probably be 2 or 3 to 1 in favour of Carlton. So they lose a home game, we (sort of) gain one. We should win but I...

Itchy and the Nits. I saw these gals at a street festival in Marrickville last year and I've been listening to them ever since. They've just released their first album, 15 minutes of stripped down garage pop/punk that I can't stop listening to.

Two episodes into Population 11. It has its moments and we'll keep going, but it's a bit formulaic: fish-out-of-water American travels to remote outback town seeking his past. The town is, naturally, populated entirely by quirky oddball characters.

I'm 55. I had a cousin slightly older than me, absolute mad keen Richmond fan, die from breast cancer back in 2016. She'd had it on and off for about 20 years when it came back with a vengeance, and she was given two weeks to live. I phoned her up to say goodbye and part of our last...

Oh yes it was!

I gave up on The Whisky Club. There were too many ordinary whiskies, not to mention the "exclusive" offerings that proved to be not as exclusive as claimed. I joined The Single Malt Whisky Club instead. It's the same deal: the chance to opt out every month. I get maybe two thirds of them...

That's more or less what my daughter said!

Late last year I was at a Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers concert at the Metro. For those unfamiliar with them, their fan demographic is mostly teenage or early 20s girls. I wasn't the oldest person there but there weren't too many over 50s. There weren't too many over 30s either! So I'm...

Maisie Peters was great on Thursday night. She's playing tonight in Melbourne, wish I could go to that too. Next up: The Hu on Monday, some Mongolian throat metal to start the week.

Finished Boy Swallows Universe. The first five episodes were brilliant TV, the sixth suffered because Eli grew up and the actor portraying him was nowhere near as good as young Eli. And the last episode was...

...and finished Apples Never Fall. Very well acted and produced but the storyline was merely ok. The big reveal was pretty lame and the ending fairly predictable. Not as good as Big Little Lies but better than Eight Perfect Strangers, the previous Liane Moriarty adaptions I'd seen.

We watched the first three episodes of Apples Never Fall last night. It's the latest series based on a Liane Moriarty book, and stars Annette Bening and Sam Neill. It's great so far, not quite sure where it's going. But looking forward to finding out.