sleaze rock, it may be? ... but i ain't ashamed to admit it: i've been listening to velvet revolver's debut album 'contraband' over the last few days.

u know, the band formed a few years ago by the lead guitarist (slash), bassist & drummer formerly from guns 'n roses as well as the singer from stone temple pilots & a guitarist from wasted youth. (incidentally the drummer previously played with the cult too.)

i like the debut albums of both the gunners and s.t.p., and i'd got a copy of 'contraband' last year from a friend along with a lot of other stuff. i'd only listened to it once or twice before this week. not that i didn't like it then, but i didn't feel compelled to listen again before now.

then on monday night i watched a show about alice cooper. that was interesting enough in itself, but that's another story ... anyhow slash was interviewed (evidently he is quite a cooper fan) and seeing him prompted me to listen to 'contraband' again this week. i'm enjoying it

it's a big machine

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for reasons not fully clear to me, my son is also getting quite adept - for a 4.5 year old - at drawing crabs. here are a few he drew last week:

he also made a pretty good little crab out of play-dough ;-D

fascinating ...

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as u know it was mothers' day a couple of sundays ago. my son had paitned his mum a picture at kindy and was very, very excited to give it to her. in the days prior to mothers' day he described it to me several times, always in a secretive whisper and always suffixed by "but don't tell mum, ok?!"

when the day came, he couldn't wait to give it to her, when she opened it he proudly described the scene he had painted:

it's superman fighting a robot. and the robot is holding a sword with blood on it!

precisely what every mum needs

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"well life on the farm's kinda laidback ...."

and my son loved the ride in the back of the 4wd ute/pick-up! ;-D

sorry i haven't been posting here very frequently in recent times ... there's a lot going on, but i am gonna try to post a little more often in the near future ...

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"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does." - Shane MacGowan

having cited this quote (which i found on wikipedia), i'll add that i didn't consume one alcoholic beverage on the saturday just past; and that is quite a novel saturday experience for me! it was fine however ;-D

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it was a big morning at the botanic gardens ... ;-D



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