Meanwhile....

It's been a busy week, but not a particularly interesting one. Not that it's been boring, either. It's just been.

Tuesday night I went to see Franz Ferdinand play The Palace, and after initial doubts about the sound mix, it all came right, with the band playing a bloody good set. Those boys definitely know how to entertain. I was kneeling on a stool up the back for most of the night, which gave me a great view over the heads, fists and camera phones (so many camera phones!) of the band themselves.

I also managed to make a young woman very happy once my knees got sore by offering her my vantage point during the encore, as I'd seen her texting a friend earlier saying that it was a good gig but that she couldn't see shit. Consequently I stood, while she got to see the band properly for the last four or five songs. Her boyfriend seemed slightly suspicious of my motives, then he shook my hand, called me 'mate' very seriously, and bought me a beer (which I don't drink, so I gave it away).

The other good thing about the night was that myself and my DJ partners, Peter and Helen, got to have dinner together and see the band together; we've been working together for years but we hardly ever seem to find time to socialise with each other.

I'd planned to meet up with another friend, Glen, at the gig, but I couldn't find him in the crowd. Sorry mate! It's times like that I can see the value of mobiles...

The other highlights of the week were sleeping in (no more Breakfast! Yay!); returning to the mike for my own show, Smartarts on Thursday mornings on Triple R; and starting a new job - which is at the station. I'm now a casual worker at Triple R, employed two days a week to write funding applications, which is something I did for years at Express Media, so hopefully my well-honed skills in grant-writing can bring in some cash to the station.

Now it's the weekend, and I've slept in til almost midday. I'm debating what movie to see. I have a perverse desire to see Underworld: Evolution even though I know it's going to be crap; I'm a sucker for vampires.

To balance things out, I'm going to check out a new exhibition, Game On! at the Ian Potter Museum for Contemporary Art at Melbourne Uni, as I have to interview one of the artists next week. He's a visiting Scotsman, so I've got my Glaswegian spies digging up some dirt on him for me. It should make for an interesting interview!