you know you haven't had enough sleep when..

.. you splurt coffee over the kitchen bench by forgetting to close your mouth when swallowing.

Unggh.

Some gigs for this weekend..

According to Beat:

Friday night "burlesque-circus-jazz-tango-gypsy" combo Croque Monsieur are playing at Bar Open in Fitzroy. Quite an unusual band, a sort of cabaret blending all of those styles in ways that shouldn't work but somehow do. (My original impressions of this band are here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/strang_er/9209.html )

Saturday night, pirate punks Sforzando ("the Pogues meets the Pogues meets the Pogues meets a bunch of bogans from Mitcham") are playing at the Old Colonial in Fitzroy. Good for a jig and a drunken "oi oi oi, ahoy ahoy ahoy!".

Wonder what the chances of doing both are.

Oh, and for Simon:

http://www.dresdendolls.com/
and
http://www.silentghostcinema.com

Hmmm

(via Greylock)

'Australia no longer a 'classless society': researcher'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1239336.htm

"A meeting of local councils in Canberra has been told Australia is fast developing into a society focussed solely on income.."

Not much that wasn't already obvious, though i found this bit interesting:

Dr Mackay says Australians are feeling uncertain about their future and want a return to the old days.  "It's the same motivation that drives the rise of fundamentalism in religion and feminism and environmentalism and economic rationalism," he said.  "People are saying I want the comfort of simple certainty, I want black and white simplicity."

That would fit with a lot of what's going on in the world right now, not just Australia.