Funny: It is what you are going to eat at the dinner table
In the last couple of days I’ve been to both Tim Minchin and Daniel Kitson (again). Both were fantastic and rocked me out in their own special ways. Tim Minchin was a great surprise, after seeing him close the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala with his song Canvas Bags I decided that he’d be worth checking out, but it seems I just wasn’t prepared for the pure talent sluicing over my exposed nerves.
It’s not even raw talent. This is talent which has been obviously refined over many years of practice, stage work and possibly flagellation. His stage persona is one of the most refined I’ve seen. Augmented with excellent songs, amazing piano playing, a little crowd-participation (from an excellent crowd) and just the right amount of mood lighting and smoke, this was one of the best comedy shows I’ve seen for a long time. We walked out with massive smiles and I immediately bought his live album, which I’ve had in my head ever since.
Daniel was last night and I took along a proper posse of punters. As expected he rocked me out, but as I’d seen this show before it was tempered by a little knowing as I knew what shape the night would take. He seems to speak a little faster when he’s in a well-rehearsed bit – possibly so as not to let the stutter get a toe into his carefully constructed sentences – but they’re so good, and the digressions, reminiscences so much fun that even a second time I came out with cheeks hurting from too much smiling.
Icing on the cake was running into a gaggle of old workmates from DarkBlueSea, along with some of their new crew (Now including Rhi! Whoo!)
In amongst all of this we’ve had some problems with CDM‘s webhost 1and1. They decided that the site was getting popular enough that they could move the site without any prior notice and hold it hostage on an incredibly slow server, despite the fact that we were using 1/10 of allocated bandwidth and not a causing a particularly high server load. I think their plan was to make Peter pay for a dedicated box. We instead decided to move the site to Site5, my favourite host inna world. Setup the account last week, did all of the mirroring and database stuff and then redelegated last night.
That’s when the badness started, the WPG2 plugin (used for all blog images on the site) stopped working. It took me a large chunk of last night and this morning to fix, information on such can be found on this WPG2 forum thread.
Everything seems sorted now, so it’s back to business as usual. After eating too much coffee and date loaf on Monday night I decided to rearrange my studio at 11:30pm. So right now business as usual is cleaning up, tweaking my workspace and figuring out what’s next on my list of cool stuff to do. Possibly playing with and reviewing my new BCD2000, or setting up my midi sax to trigger visuals.
Or maybe I should finish installing programs on my new computer…
Or…
James Loveday: I was so close to saying “we’re not using wpg2 anymore” and doing some regex in the database.
Peter Kirn: heheh
Peter Kirn: yep
Peter Kirn: maybe wpg2 felt your rage
James Loveday: more likely that it realised that I was about to kill myself and it wouldn’t get anymore attention
~Jaymis fixes the WPG2 setup and all is happy again~
James Loveday: yeeeeeeeeah
James Loveday: I AM ALL THAT IS MAN
Peter Kirn: hellll yeah
James Loveday: RAAAAAAAAH
James Loveday: I AM GOING TO EAT A FUCKING BACON SANDWHICH AND THEN PICK A FIGHT WITH A STRANGER