TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

11:34 AM
Posted by jodi rose

crumbling girl from my obsession with lamp post street art in adelaide

...before it ever got started.
listening to martha wainwright moaning, I do like her twist on contemporary angst of the heart. and my gorgeous aunt had the cd signed for me, so it feels even more personal.
enjoying the benefits of having a laptop - primarily so I can work while lying on the couch - fabulously decadent. came home from the abc the other night and was totally wiped out but really had to transfer these radio excerpts to mp3 for the panel at electrofringe, so did it lying down with catnaps in between.
last night opening at the mca - third in a month, getting outta hand - on the terrace listening to some artist desperately talking up their career to someone they hoped was important - to which I responded by having to get very drunk - managed to check out some of the art, george gittoes doco on the soundtrack to war really stood out - interviews with US soldiers in iraq about the music they listen to in the tanks or while getting ready to go out to battle - lots of heavy metal, of course ;) - then ran into some friends and talked shite on the balcony looking out over the lights of sydney harbour, our new favourite slovakian friend refilling out champagne regularly. ben the boy in the golf hat even danced for a while - now that's what I like to see, a bit of dance activism at the buttoned up art crowd. managed to leave before doing too much damage to my reputation, I think.
checked out fabric and bought patterns for my bridge guard uniform yesterday - apparently the military look is or was in fashion -bizarre how that happens, yeah, let's glamourize war a little bit more....
but I'm eschewing the regulation muted colours and going for something a little more subversive - well, after seeing the hot pink velvet there really was no other choice!!
really must go write this script for the musique concrete program - which turned out suprisingly well, the material led me in a completely different direction to what I had originally intended - which is always a good sign, I find. meeting at 3 with my executive producer and abc classic fm australian music curator to discuss complementary programming for the piece. nice work if you can get it :)
and as lea readfern said, on getting into radio - well, somebody has to have the cool jobs. indeed and it might as well be us.