Solid info on the Anti-Bowel-Cancer Walken gig:

Date: Sat 22nd November 2003 (next Saturday)
Time: 12 pm - 6 pm (we're likely to be on anytime between 1 and 4)
Place: Yarra Bend Park (Deep Rock)
Fairfield
Melway reference 2D D6
Cost: $30 Adults
$12 Children (3 - 10 Y.O.)

I believe with the $30 you get a meal (lovely bowel cancer causing Spit Roast BBQ), an ultra rare acoustic no-drums Walken gig (probably two sets during the day), and go in the running for some prizes. It's for a good cause!

Mental note: Bring sunscreen and a hat. Sunburn would not be looked kindly on...

I'm a little disturbed I missed this. CNET buys MP3.com, and deletes the whole thing! Mp3.com is dead, or will be on 2nd December. It's been on the way out for a while since the Universal buy-out but this is huge news. I'm hoping everyone who was enjoying free hosting and advertising for their indie music rushes over to MP3.com.au.

Ask and ye... after asking for help from fans to transcribe all The Sharp lyrics for my little fan site... I get an email a week later with the whole lot transcribed for me. Excellent! Thanks Dr. Teeth.

Phil Tripp surveyed 200 attendees (mostly musicians) at the Australian Music Business Conference [rocknerd.org] in August and came up with some interesting results. 81 percent called for Australian copyright law to be changed to allow consumers to rip/burn CDs of music they own.

Imported the Tenacious D Collected Masterworks DVD last week. Excellent double-disc, I highly recommend it when it comes out here in Australia this/next? week. The live show is excellent (although those that don't realise their live shows are just Kyle and Jack on stage with acoustics might be disappointed) as are the three live-on-tv performances. Although there are better live shows on the etree archive, they don't have vision, and they do play pretty well at this show. The performance of Tribute with a bored looking Dave Grohl on drums is fantastic. And of course the 6 Tenacious D episodes are all great... A couple of documentaries on the band, making-of the videos and an "on the road" are all informative. Damn that's a nice tour bus... And you get videos for Tribute, Wonderboy and F**k Her Gently, a few decent easter-eggs (advert for the album and the Tenacious D Osbourne Show ads), the videos shown in the background of shows during breaks... All for $22!

Saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on the weekend. A very strange movie. Not your average teenage horror movie. It's halfway between crap and brilliant. It's almost documentary like in the filming. The music is excellent, very minimal (think Fantomas without the guitars). The deaths, when they happen, just happen. There is no build up, there is no lingering on corpses. That is where it's shock value comes from, the matter-of-factness of the whole thing (and almost half a solid hour of constant screaming). It doesn't really end, they just roll the credits at a relevant point. I'm sure the original will have all the usual horror movie elements; lots of explaining of plot of and motive of the killers, lots of "tense" music, probably some sex, LOTS of blood. There is almost no blood in the original. It's really not "gorey" at all.

I'm waiting for Star Wars Clone Wars to come out on DVD. I'm sick of downloading it to find out it's in Spanish...

I was tempted to get the new stripped back version of The Beatles' "Let It Be" album, but it's EMI CopyProtected and that just got up my nose so I put it back down again and bought Ace Sounds, the solo album from ex-Skunk Anansie's guitarist. I think Skunk Anansie was a case of a sum-of-the-parts...

Maybe LOTR:TTT will make more sense with the extra 14 scenes and 18 extended scenes. But I doubt it. I'm drooling anyway. But... no DVDs until after Xmas lest I be deballed. Except Futurama Season 4. Can't stop me buying that.

I might hint that others might wish to think before they buy from now until xmas... mwhahaha...

Vocals for I Like It (except my part) and Lovers' Lane (ditto) are done. Lego Woman is now done. Hitman is done. What's left? Fish Out Of Water (waiting for backing vocals), Open Wounds (all vocals needed) and Post Mixed Coke (only drums done, might not finish it). Right Again is at the moment on the cutting room floor. All the new stuff still needs serious mixing and polishing. Hopefully we'll have the "Backhouse 7" demo done by end of year.

Possible Cancer Council benefit acoustic/no-drums/no-amps/busker style gig "in a park somewhere" on Satuday between 1 and 4. That's all I know at the moment. Daniel will (hopefully) be hiring an acoustic bass.