to follow an ox to zenkō-ji (a famous buddhist temple in nagano japan) means to have something good unexpectedly happen to you, which seems to describe nearly all of the good things that have ever happened to me, like, for example, this.

in other news, i’m home again. cue a chorus of indifferent shrugs and a shuffling of feet. i’m back in melbourne this time for good, that is until the next improbably long overseas jaunt. i got back from tokyo yesterday. in the nine months since i released entropy begins at home, i’ve seen a bit of new york, a lot of london, many amazing parts of western and central europe, japan (i think i love you), and - somewhat bizarrely - six weeks in melbourne in spring. the chances are slim that any of these people traverse this particular corner of the internet, but i want to do the right thing and shout out to some of the people along the way that made the trip so damn fun: ej, nathan and daniel (self-appointed faux pas chief of staff in islington); sarah & tim; aaron elvis, lor-en from the planet krypton & carla; kylie & darren; the wazza-gazza wodka explosion; felicity & the rest of that gang; martine and the stripey-shirt man from cesky krumlov who sure could move his gargantuan ass; angela, valter, pinky and belle; amber the queen of gunma; the kobe axis of evil - paul & yuko & dj junko of the unstoppable obscurity saturday people; and of course, my travelling companion (ie drinking partner) mini-smash. let me also just say a thanks to all the people in australia and abroad who supported my album in the last 9 months even though i was, for most of the time, too busy having fun in exotic locales to actively promote it myself. TANKS A LOT

ok. thats out of my system i think. things should go back to ‘normal’ on this blog soon, give me a week or so while i do menial things like find a job (ha!), get my stuff out of storage, unpack my bag, re-adjust to the australian accent, et cetera.