Hello there, Bat here.

It's my first time writing in this blog. "All Apologies" is playing so I'm going to call this blog entry "About A Girl". Let's see if this saves.*

I went to LA a month ago and drove out to Austin for SXSW where it was surprisingly cold and every band was already signed. Serena-Maneesh and School of Seven Bells stood out for me.



Serena-Maneesh (my camera died during School of Seven Bells)

As always it good to see old friends and make new ones. Here is my love JPF of ZAZA, and a few others.






The best/worst band was Salem. It was outstandingly awful and I look forward to seeing it again. Think rap syrup dripping down the hand of an industrial kid in Minnesota. Next time they play I will definitely be there.



We took Jack Ladder for a ride when we packed him in the front seat of my sports car for a total of 5 days.



The miles passed with Denny's, Mc Donalds, Waffle House...

Note: Lela from Waffle House in Phoenix. You piece of work you. We hope you're feeling better health wise even if you did send us to the ganglands of P.Town where we 'flipped a bitch and drove' when a small man was chased across the front of our car by another significantly larger man and a car full of 'colorful' personalities. Your Lynch-ian suggestion to go to the top of "A Mountain" was later deciphered as we drove out of hell er... Phoenix and passed a mound of dirt with a large A in rocks.





Judge if you will, but I like taxidermy. Why, just the other day I was explaining my fog and animatronic idea to Cannon Ball Bob after running it across the desk of Miss K. Arnold (soon to be prefixed by Dr.). The concept is eye-opening and still looking for funding.




The BBQ n Beer flew by and before we knew it we were back in LA. I hugged friends, spent time with my mom and found the site of Jonathan and I's wedding set for July 2011.








I will always come back to LA and I miss my ladies madly.






~ Ozbervations ~


Fried Bats:
Those of you who have visited Australia (Sydney to be exact) must have seen the Fruit Bats in the Botanical Gardens and parks surrounding the city. These winged gems hang around the park till dusk, taking flight with the first sight of stars and darting across the city in a rush to feast the night away. There must be something wrong lately, weather wise or somewhere in their inner maps because I have never seen so many fried bats in this neighborhood. Neither has Jonathan in his 11 years living in Newtown. These poor fermented-fruit hounds have been seen roasted and toasted all over the place. Some with gripping feet, some hanging by a wing... we saw a triple whammy the other day with teeth and claws cooked on the wire.
I hope they didn't pop upon electrocution.





Pole and sometimes Tree sweaters:
Someone has a lot of time on their hands knitting small scarfs to be sewn together into a sweater around inanimate objects. Trees and poles are bracing for winter in these colorful frocks.



Coffee:
I never knew the bean murder some baristas were committing in the States until I visited a real coffee shop. I had a one on one coffee course with a barista from the top coffee company in Sydney, Single Origin.






There are so many things that go into making a good cup of coffee. From the tamp pressure to the length of extraction. It was a privilege to learn from the roasters about the variety of beans, where they are from and the difference in taste.





They sometimes find bones in the beans, rocks from Ethiopia, Brazil. India and Mexico, depending where the beans have been harvested.



I drank so much coffee that day, my head hurts thinking about it. At least I can pour a decent cup for the coffee snobs of Australia.





Cigarettes:
Boo fucking hoo your smokes are $15. Yes, they raised the tax because you can kill yourself and pay for it at the same time. Smoking sucks. It doesn't even get you high... man...
Check out that fresh new advertising campaign.




China Town:
Massive tree with gold on it marks the entrance to one of the biggest China Town districts in the world. Here is Kristi the tree hugger.




Book Suggestion:
I just finished Oryx and Crake and Year of The Flood, a 2 part semi-sci-fi book about the future. I enjoyed it.
An easy read similar to Huxley's Brave New World.



~ FACT of the BLOG UPDATE ~

Taken from the Daily Telegraph in Sydney;

Titled: JAIL FOR EATING GIRL

MOSCOW: A Russian court has convicted two men of murdering and eating a 16 year-old school girl. The St Petersburg Court said it sentenced a 21 year-old Goth-rock musician to 19 years in a maximum-security prison. His 20 year-old accomplice was sentenced to 18 years.
the court said in a statement released yesterday that the musician lured his victim to his apartment in January this year, where he and his friend drowned her in a bathtub and cooked parts of her body.
The men pleaded not guilty, and in earlier testimony they said they had killed the woman because they "were hungry"

-Kristi told me about a man that stuck his drinking buddy in his couch after the friend died unexpectedly at his apartment. The neighbors complained about a smell, which the landlords later assumed was a plumbing and sewage problem. 10 years later them bones were found in the mans couch.
People are strange.



Here's a picture of The Owl.



And how short her arms are compared to JW's.



BYE!

*If you are reading this, the Stickies program has saved on my desktop and I am mentally patting the robot on the back.