Dodgy Brothers

Dodgy Brothers
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen

This could be the gold medal winning crappy-quality-mobi-phone photo of the year! I love how my phone has an unflinching ability to create cool crappy quality photos. This is perhaps the seediest photo ever taken of Emmo - would you buy a car off this man? Stricko looks like an olde worlde bushranger about to pull out his pistol, put on his Ned Kelly iron helmet, and take off with the nights' earnings.

Taken a few weeks back at a poker night at Seano's pad. I would only say poker is cool if I ever won anything. So far that has eluded me, so i'll stick to my 'once every six months only' policy of allowing my friends to suck me in to all night poker n' boozin' games!

What colour should i paint?

What colour should i paint?
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

That's me getting ready to partake in the proper way to spend one's first night in their new home!
The first thing when I got the keys to the house was to remove those shocking grandma kitchen curtains, eeyurgh! A design with yellow corn cobs would have been cool though, I would have probably kept them.

Old maps

Tramway Routes Perth
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

I love old maps. Hehe, I seem to expose all my nerdy habits on this blog you must think, but this map is particularly cool to me because it shows my home city nearly 80 years before I was born, and when the streets I grew up on didn't even exist. I think I got this nerdy thing for maps started when i was by the Thames at some riverside market and I discovered this old book from the 1850s or so where the seller had ripped out pages to sell for people to frame individually. They had old maps of empires long gone, and little countries and places with names i'd never heard of before (I had better not get a ticket to Prussia). I thought it was a crime that this guy could just rip up such an old book! ..so I had to get a few of them. Hmmm moral pickle there.. ..does it only encourage him to do it more or am I saving it from being lost forever?

Next thing I knew I had a cool old map of Denmark and Scandinavia from the 1500s (just a print, sigh, not the real thing), and then I had was given a globe of the world circa 1947 for a Birthday one year.
So far I've only seen 30 countries of the world. I am yet to see the other 130 or so, so I had better get a move on! Having a globe staring at me inspires me to not get too complacent with my life and to remember to get out there and discover.

In other news, I got the keys to my new house last Tuesday! It's a great feeling to know that I have my own place now, and no dodgy landlord can turf me out or randomly put up the rent! I will put some pics up of my place soon.

must.. get ..some... sleep .. eyes closing.. zz

RTR FM Ambient Zone
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

I hope everyone tuned in to RTR (www.rtrfm.com.au) last night. I ended up doing an extended Ambient Zone set, as the guys from the next show never turned up to the studio, which allowed me to crank it up for another half hour. I could've played all night, but ye' olde work commitments meant that I had to be at work by 9am, and this little black duck was already pooped from a late Friday and Saturday night. Not sure how long i'll last at the office for, now that my lunch break is coming to an end..

I've found a way of converting the format of my radio recordings, so pretty soon I should be able to post podcasts. I've got so many IT geek friends, yet no one has ever been able to tell me of a (free) way to convert from mp2 to mp3!

I've discovered some flippin' great music lately, last night I played stacks of tracks from the following albums:

Fennesz - Endless Summer
Fenton - Pup
Oblong - Indicator
Clogs - Lantern
Pole - Steingarten
Kelpe - The people are trying to sleep
Jimi Tenor - Beyond the stars