New Year’s Revolutions

**That is revolution, as in the wheel of an abandoned bike blowing around and around in the wind, not revolution, as in the Arab Spring or “You say you want a revolution/well you know/we all want to change the world”**

The sun rises on 2012

It is 6:54am on New Year’s Day, 2012.  I saw in the new year alone, I don’t drink, I even went to bed early, but alas, sleep once again evaded me.  I watched the sun rise over Willans Hill for the first time in this new year through my study window, interrupting the stream of ‘shredding’ videos I’d been entertaining myself with (the drunk Taylor Swift one was quite funny too).

A Musical Journey – Part 5 – JR Wilbury

So Part 5 of my Insomniacs Guide to YouTube.

OK, I got an idea for YouTubing from trawling through the Wikipedia article of the Travelling Wilburys & seeing a reference to ‘Ayrton Wilbury’, apparently a pseudonym for George Harrison’s son Dhani to honour F1 driver Ayrton Senna, a friend of George.

Although I confess to not being part of the Wilburys, I will take this opportunity to mark my respects to another great race driver, Jason Richards who died last week of cancer.

On the move again

Looking around my cluttered office/study, I don’t know how we are going to do it.  After two years in Wagga Wagga we are back off to the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range.

I guess for me, the last two years have been a bit of a failure.  I came down here with the intention of taking six months off, do some writing, reconnect with people, get my head in a better place & then get a nice stress free job.

So this is Christmas…

Way back in 1996 I had my first experience of the ‘build up’, the intolerable heat and humidity Australia’s ‘top end’ experiences before the wet season.  My time in Darwin amounted to just two September weeks, but they were two weeks that convinced me that I was a cold climate man, and that was before I put on the pounds.

Maybe I’m just cynical (I was told I was unnecessarily cynical a few months back – I took it as a compliment), maybe I’m just getting old, but each year as we enter September, I get that ‘build up’ feeling back in my bones – and I hate it.

Not another Wilco post

Last Friday (it is Tuesday today, I think?) the new Wilco album, The Whole Love (I still think I like the working title more – Get Well Soon Everyone),  made it’s debut in Australia.  It was followed on Saturday in New Zealand then on Monday in much of Europe, and has in the last few hours gone on sale in the US 12:01am Tuesday I guess).