I'm flying to the Gold Coast in the morning, can't wait to do the show on Saturday night. I've been running ads on Facebook/Insta and Google all week and I have no way of knowing whether they're working, but hey we'll find out on Saturday! I need to go to sleep.

Went down to Rose Chong in Fitzroy this morning to get fitted with a 19th century costume ahead of the photo shoot on Friday. I can't wait to get these photos and have a bunch of cool shit to post on social media to promote the tour! I have a show on the Gold Coast next weekend which is effectively the last chance to tune up before Perth Fringe in January. Cannot fucking wait to get out there and start this run.

I called it The Beatles because that's what I spent the last while talking about. I've been watching that Beatles documentary from a few years ago and god I love it. I also started watching a Harvard Lecture from Leonard Bernstein about the origins of music and language and that was really good too. I'm all over the place mentally - I've been in bed, sick, for the last few days. A literal nightmare.

I spent this weekend in Adelaide and as much as I felt the trip would be an unwelcome interruption to my life, it was actually fantastic. I think I have a tendency to see anything that isn't work as annoying because I feel like there are so many things I need to do and I need all the available time to do them. But that's exactly why I should be forcing myself to do something like going back to Adelaide to spend time with friends and family. Work can always wait.

This week I spent a couple afternoons working on four variations of a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki, better known as the music for the game 'Tetris'. I wrote variations in four styles, baroque, classical, romantic and latin dance, then recorded them. It was heaps of fun, but also very frustrating trying to record each one with no mistakes. Also the baby birds left. Life just keeps on going happening!

The three baby birds outside in the nest our kitchen window are growing so quickly! Last week they were barely big enough to cover the bottom of the nest, now they are almost spilling over the top. Yesterday I heard them tweeting for the first time. Google says they usually leave the nest 14 days after hatching, so we have one more week left with them before they leave us.

It's my friend's funeral tomorrow, I'm flying to Adelaide in the morning for it and I'm really looking forward to seeing a bunch of old friends again and remembering what a wonderful, funny person we all knew. Then I'm hoping we can see fit to get a shisha on Hindley St.

Still feeling a bit of grief this week, but also looking forward to the next few months of working on the show and keeping ye olde head down! I watched the movie 'Pretty Woman' and really loved it, and during the pod I found a very prescient parallel between the main character and a story from my life which I had a great chuckle about. Good stuff, I reckon.

I did a gig last night, then another one, then had a really nice chat with a friend who works behind the bar. Read a bit of poetry, some short stories when I got home, then today I went and got a sandwich.

This podcast is three days late, which is annoying to me and I'm somehow letting that ruin my mood right now hahahaha... I landed back in Melbourne yesterday afternoon and don't have much work for the next week so I'm going to use this time to quite literally get my house in order. I've got one year left in Melbourne and I want to enjoy it, and that starts with a good environment at home.