Narrelle M. Harris's Blog, page 77

GaryView: John Brack exhibition at NGV

I haven't done one of these in ages - but I saw the John Brack exhibition at the Ian Potter Gallery last weekend, and can recommend it highly. There is a huge breadth of Brack's work on show and is very much worth the $15 entry fee.

Lissa: John was an amazing artist. It's all lines and angles, but still very human.
Gary:  I haven't really looked at art much before.
Lissa: Did you like it?
Gary:   It wasn't what I expected.
Lissa: What did you expect?
Gary: I don't know. Fruit and flowers on tables, a

Spending time with excellent people

This evening I met with sharpest_rose , who is one of my favouritest people, and we went to Joy 94.9 FM to be interviewed by John Richards, host of the new Joy radio show, The Outland Institute.  sharpest_rose  spoke about her zine, Boy and Girl Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context, and I filled in some of the spaces. Good times were had. The result should be on air this Friday, 10 July, between 12-2pm - but if you can't listen/stream the show at the time, it will be available as a podcast later.

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Outside the Law 3 - radiobuzz

"Outside the Law 3" is officially on its way to the stores, though it hasn't hit the shelves yet. When the time comes, go to Dymocks on Collins Street, or Readers Feast on Swanston, for your hot-off-the-presses copy!

I have an essay on The CSI Effect in the anthology of true crime stories. It's an investigation of whether or not the huge volume of forensic tv is having an impact on juries, and what the court system is doing to counter-act it.

There's a lot of publicity going on around it too. So

More absenteeism apologies

I thought that while I was in hiatus with the book - waiting for comments to come back before I went to work on a new draft - I would have lots of time. For LJ, for the new computer, for working on a little website project, for doing housekeeping on all my old files, for all sorts of things. Instead, I seem to have less time than ever!

This is partly because I don't have any access to anything much from my work computer. I would have liked to read my LJ at lunchtimes at least. Check Facebook. A f

I have a lovely new notebook computer and it is lovely

After a lot of online research, and tramping around the streets to see what was on offer, I am now the proud owner of an HP ProBook 4710s notebook computer, with 500GB HDD, a built in webcam, a 17" matte screen and a full sized keyboard. I'm very happy with it. Tim and I have spent several hours downloading programs to get it all up to speed, but I'm yet to transfer all my data from the old (25GBHDD) laptop and the backup drive. Hopefully all that will be done by the end of next week. Aaaaaah.

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Much to say, no time to say it

I started my new job today. So hurrah for monies, some of which I will be spending soon on  a new laptop. I'm sorry, Flist, I have been so bad with the comments of late. I always seem to be very busy, and I read everyone, and then run out of time. Sigh. But I read you, and notice what's going on. When I get back to my regular writing nights I'll be commenting and posting more often, promise.

In the meantime - cos it's all about ME - stay tuned for info about 'Outside the Law 3', a collection of t

Vermillion at the East Brunswick Club

The band were the first up at the East Brunswick Club's 'Kick the Vendor' show on Tuesday night. Their music clip to Tempus, which was filmed at my writing garret, debuted and hopefully will be added to their MySpace site in due course.

A hideous feedback whine threw them a bit in the first song, but they rallied very professionally. I liked it - it was in a minor key and had strange-in-a-good-way, haunting harmonies. Their music avoids pop predictability, and they're producing music I'd like to

Join me for Vermillion?

Vermillion - my niece's band - is playing at the East Brunswick Club tonight at the 'Kick the Vendor' show. The event is the JMC Academy's 2nd Year concert (and they'll be getting judged on their music and performance, including audience reaction).  It will showcase the videoclip that was made for their first song Tempus (as heard on MySpace!) as well as new material.

I'll be there from about six, meeting up with the family/support crew and partaking of vegan-friendly dinner. Vermilliion is on ea

Help me with my computer research pleeeeeez.

So. Since I have a job again, even if it only goes for 3 months at this point, I will probably use my savings to buy a new laptop which I desperately need. My iPod has 5 times the memory of my current one, for a start, so I will never fill it up at this rate.

Anyway, I don't want a mac (nothing personal, but everything else I've got - bar the iPod - is PC and I'm entrenched).

I don't play games, well, except Spider Solitaire, so I need it mainly for writing, photo management and my music/films. I

The Dark Knight... Gary Style

_audrey  drew this for me (to amuse herself while recovering from a twisted ankle - why is it she gets hurt, and *we* get all the goodies?)



and it was too good not to share.

I asked her to draw me a pic of Gary looking Heroic on darkened rooftops, with his Hawaiian shirt flapping in the atmospheric nighttime breeze.