Saturday, July 26

Culture vulture

If you buy the weekend edition of the Australian newspaper this weekend you get a free CD of the Whitlams playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. I'm listening to it at the moment and it's pretty good. To complete my Saturday of high culture, I've just been to a doco being shown at the Melbourne Film Festival on Pete Seger. Everyone in the audience was in their 50s or 60s and we all cried all the way through it. I'm sure it will turn up on SBS one day but it's a good big-screen adventure. The little pic below is old Pete playing with Arlo Guthrie.


In other news, Annika's bike got stolen and I'm in the process of creating a new one from a wreck retrieved from a recent hard rubbish collection. The secret in the inner city to keeping your bike seems to be to have something that works but doesn't look too flash. Dom played his first soccer game last weekend after a two-week suspension for wrestling. We're going out for a Vietnamese feed tonight with the family of one of his team-mates who are just back from a holiday in Vietnam based on our adventures last year. Their son got red-carded last week so we'll have plenty to talk about. Dom's 16th birthday is on Monday. Nick, Annika and Amanda are all back at uni this week, as am I. It's cold here but the days are finally starting to get longer. Courtesy of the pope's visit, I've been to confession. The transcript is on the back page of the current issue of TwoWheels for your reading pleasure next time you visit a newsagency.

4 comments:

Newcastle Roffs said...

Happy Birthday,Dom! Cannot believe you are 16! Try to stay away from those suspensions now that you are wiser.

grant said...

When I say "Nick is back at uni", he found time to go to the All Blacks/Wallabies game which was a cracker, even at 11.40pm when it started on Melbourne television. The new rules seem to upped the pace of the game quite a bit. Maybe you retired at just the right time, Joe!

Newcastle Roffs said...

Happy B'day again, Dom!

I would like to hear how Nick actually got to the Test as he and his mates had to play a rugby game which was not due to finish until 4 minutes before the train they were to catch left Hamilton Station. Did they travel in their rugby gear? Did they all fake injury to get out early? Play so badly they were "yanked"....

Newcastle Roffs said...

Who are you kidding, Grant? Your confession wouldn't fit on just the back page of Two Wheels. When will parts 2,3,4,5....come out?