And the winner is....

Listen here for Sarah Blasko who won best female artist award at the Arias last night. Her album 'As day follows night' and particularly the featured song here speaks to me in volumes and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Sarah is a brilliant artist and her album is fabulous!

I actually missed the ARia's last night as I caught up with a friend. An oldie but a goodie. We have a lot of great history and it was excellent to sit and talk about music, gigs, festivals and great musicians including how bad we play the guitar. Well I should say how badly I play the guitar. We always pick up where we left off which could be a week, months and up until recent times it was years. They are the best kind of friendships don't you think? We forgive each other for our slackness/busyness and pick up the thread like a dropped stitch. If you pick it up freely, easily and with love, these friendships never unravel.

So...back to the Aria's. I'm not sure I missed much - caught the last half hour and gorgeous Rove wore a shirt that seriously sucked and I couldn't take him seriously! Hang on! Can I ever take Rove seriously? Caught Kiwi chick 'Ladyhawke' who picked up an award for Breakthrough ARtist. She rox but needs to reconsider those panda eyes!



And what was with the presenters? Kate Ritche and Gyton Grantley, they just didn't seem to fit but then hey, I did miss practically the entire show and seeing things out of context can have detrimental results. Yes, I'm nitpicking - I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. We often criticise things especially when we see or hear snippets of conversation, whether it be TV programmes, overhearing the distressed mother or dissatisfied wife in a coffee shop and so on...

I'm sure the Aria's was fun and I'm just stoked other great bands like 'Empire of the Sun' picked up so many awards. There were so many great contenders, the lovely Lisa Mitchell, Eskimo Joe, (I was a tad disappointed they didn't pick something up) and too many others to mention here. Click the link above to visit the ARia site for more details...

Rock on to friendship, OZ music and Sarah Blasko!!


Time to stop rambling
Midnight rambler signing off...

Song of the month...

Finally the song of the month. I've been slack...the last song I posted was in June, that's been oooh, almost 5 months! I have a bit of catching up to do or at least keep on top of it from now on. This month I've chosen British India a great garage band from Melbourne which fits in nicely to 'Ausmusic month' currently being featured on Triple J.

Scribbling...

Listening to: Vanilla - British India

Here I am at long last. There's a lot of reasons why I haven't blogged. I'm sure you're familiar with them all: working the second job (you know the one, the one that pays the bills), moving house (yes again!) studying Arabic at IML - UQ and passing my first exam - YAY! business trips for the first job - cons, retreats, meetings :-) as you can see time has been an issue - or lack of for writing, communicating both physically and in cyberspace, updating blogs...

Finally, I get some pockets of time, mostly on the train while travelling to that second job. I make the most of that time by writing like a mad woman with pen in hand scribbling across page after page and if I find another pocket of time I can be found in my downsized office space, amongst the still to be unpacked boxes typing up my indecipherable yet precious words.

I've managed some how to write two short stories, one of which is my first ever vampire story! It was an exciting exploration of a genre I love to read but never been game to write.

If you are finding time to read this then it would be great if you can find time to drop me a line and tell me about your writing progress...blogging is such a great way to stay connected. Note to self: blog more often.

Now...I must go and find my plot outline for the new novel...it's here amongst the books and piles of useless paper with scribbled notes and ideas...I just have to find it!!

Until next time - Ma'Salaama...