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While running the risk of being somebody who ejaculates all over themselves at the merest mention of design, I think there is something exciting about people who produce one thing and produce it well. Phuong and Seb are two such people. These guys make belts and they clearly don't fuck around. Even the language of their belts gives me little frissons of pleasure: 'Leather Keeper', 'Curved Tongue End', 'English Nickel Buckle', 'Double Butt Cow Leather' (tee-hee).
Leading the nation from Canberra, Dream Damage have been consistently releasing local music that's forward thinking without trying too hard, pop without pandering, and contemporarily cool without pretentious posturing.
Take Jonny Telafone: making smart, heartfelt, deadpan folktronica. His debut Wherever The Wind Blows plays like an Aussie James Yorkston or Machine Translations (download it here).
Before discovering Eggless Dessert Café my sleep was plagued by nightmares involving Morrissey, myself, and one of us being publicly berated for suggesting we get desserts from a place that smells like ‘burning flesh'. In these dreams my idol would humiliate me in the middle of the street, onlookers would scornfully shake their heads at me and the occasional radical would tell the Moz to punch me in the face.
I rode my bike in the rain today. Yeh that rain - the torrential rain that is assaulting Adelaide right now. It was horrific. All my clothes got soaked, my shoes flooded and some corpulent bastard driving a 4WD honked his horn at me just for kicks. Somewhere along the ride though I had some kind of epiphany.
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