The Life & Adventures of One Little Aussie

Despite everything that may be happening around us, I think its good to remember that the sun will rise again and yes, indeed, it will be a new day.

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I almost walked past this on the street. Until I remembered the important things and my entire body felt alive.

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Good old Gandhi

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Other than that, the Chinese Christian opera singing lady who lives below is in fine form (how do I know its Christian opera? I remember some of the tunes from the old days and sometimes walk around my house singing along with her in English). And I am sitting here drinking my favourite caffe trieste coffee getting ready to write. I have almost finished two new tunes for the cd THIS week and am strangely inspired by my own scarey creative flow.

See......just got to get out of our own way sometimes and let everything come unstuck. Maybe that's what I should call my new cd....the year of unstuck.? Oh...if you have any cd name suggestions.....let me know!!!!

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With a new hair cut....

Its a grey day here in san francisco and this is the view from the room I write in. Trying to get songs finalized for the cd and am finding myself just staring at the view instead. I usually work pretty good under pressure (that's why sometimes songs you've never heard live end up on the cd, because I have written them in the lead up!).

Anyway, back to it! A shout out to all my Midwest friends! What a hoot the tour was and I can't wait to see you all again next year.....

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So....here she is.....not feeling left out.
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We just decided to braid Mayra's hair.....isn't it cute!!! She needs a date, anyone help her out? (sorry ladies!!!)

Laughing very hard at the moment.....

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But in other news, I am extremely happy to report that J Lo is pregnant......and all is right in the world.

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Ps - so if you ever see me sitting on the floor at the airport and I have a stressed look on my face, just tell me to breathe........

I think I am just a little delirious right now too....too much going on in my brain to sleep.
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Anyway, I was thrilled by the beauty I experienced on my drive up. It was 6 hours of flatness that bored the shit out of me but I had amazing moments of beauty, some that were very unexpected.

The day was capped off with this sunset as I drove into Chicago. It seemed to be the perfect happy ending.....

A shout out to the folks who came tonight (and to those that didn't...you know who you are!!!), my goal is to fill this space!! The legends lounge is a nice room to play in and I often closed my eyes and imagined it at capacity.

Anyway, this is me, Cathy & Joyce - the wonders of indy indie and trendous supporters of womens music down this way. Love them...

Now.....back to dropping back a blue moon and waiting for the show to start.

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And I was.....

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(who is fighting off a cold)

This is Kaia, her sweet mum Bea and their dog The Bitty (aka Zoe). We just finished the concert at their house in Madison and we are just sitting around talking about the cross section of ages here tonight. Literally from 9 months (Zoe the dog) to 80.....or thereabouts. Its a good thing to see that cross section of people enjoying the show and to know that somewhere, we connected.

Love this job

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Yet another reason why I don't live in the Midwest.
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This was sprayed all over the sidewalk on the way over to the field museum. I felt happy to read this and be reminded and to know that I am doing what I love.

Its a hot windy day here in Chicago. I just went to see the Darwin exhibition at the museum. It was really informative, I feel like I understand evolution and how and why he came up with it all a lot more. They also have a Darfur photographic exhibition that they are projecting onto the side of the Field museum tonight that we are going to watch. Should be quite sobering I think and I will be interested to see if any of it brings a song. I love love love the effort Chicago puts into art, its always a great city to have a day off in.

Now, its back to the house for lunch, airconditioning and theories.

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He's had a hard night drinking mojitos......or maybe that's me projecting!

Night off in chico land.....good mates, good laughs! What more is there?

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I mean the kind of late night, after a fun show, hanging with mates, eating icecream in a truck stop because culvers is closed and this wasn't kinda truck stop loving.

This is me and my Chicago 2nd home mates, Sharon & Patty. We found kitchy hats and took photos of ourselves while we ate icecream.

Now we have momentary sugar highs that will soon cause is to lapse into comas.

Great fun show in Milwaukee tonight....big shout out to the crew that were there complete with their souls open and ready to ROCK. Love that kinda stuff....love that I get to do this job!

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(who now has indeed collapsed into a hot fudge Sunday sugar coma)

Had a fun show in Chicago last night that was a little quiet due to the cubs playing in a penant game (whatever that means). Its a pretty big deal around here. Anyway, a few folks turned up and we sat around and read my interview in Time Out Chicago(thanks Jason!), drank martinis and heard about all the great restaurants in Chicago from Jason!

Good food, good drinks, good company and hopefully some good music!

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Bum sport? Who is this brand directed towards, I ask you?

Its a beautiful sunny day here in sf and tomorrow I get on a plane to Chicago to begin touring and you all can be rest assured that I will be doing it with clean clothes!

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Anyway, the tour was wayyy too much bloody fun and I had to come home for a little while between tours just to sleep and eat a salad before heading out to the Midwest for my final 2007 tour. Oh, that makes me feel sad for some reason. I wanted to share with you a couple of favorite photos from the trip though..