Ice afternoon



We had a wild hail storm last week.

I was out attempting to get a picture of one of Council's grader operators who has clocked up 40 years. The hail prevented the shot but I got this one of a currajong that had fallen across Brobenah Road. The trunk was rotten and full of white ants.

The hail was something else. Ice nuggets the size of golf balls and they weren't round, they had sharp edges and would've been painful.

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Another sentimental tune I recorded for the RPM Challenge. Jo sang for me again and I attempted to play all the instruments and engineer also.

Facebook by ShowcaseJase

Lying down feeling low
Feel like I've got further to go
Shaking around in a sweat
Replay the scene of my regret

If I had known
If I had known

Find myself all alone
Inside the guilt a private show
Springtime day on tape delay
Replay the smile you gave me again

If I had known what now I know
How memories fade and regrets grow
Might have known to make the time
Might have known I could make you mine

Pull myself from the depth
Leave it behind and catch my breath
Shake the past and stand refreshed
Leave the memory I should repress

If I had known what now I know
How memories fade and regrets grow
Might have known to make the time
Might have known I could make you mine

Blue moon

This is a track that Jo and I recorded for the 2008 RPM Challenge. It sounds sloppy but I thought it was an okay tune. Been meaning to re-record it.

Apparently there's a blue moon this new year's eve.

Blue Moon by ShowcaseJase

Old flame never tamed
still alive in my chest
your name sounding plain
could still quicken my breath
It aches a whisper quakes
on my soon remembered lip
as the thought is finished quickly
my guard no longer slipped

Why should I even care?
about something that was never there

Do you remember the blue moon?
it was the night you made me swoon
you probably never knew
you were in another room

Ease back from that flash
brought from the depth of my past
to steal back into
a self-conscious laugh
For your memory will still exist
after this moment has passed
It's my lacklustre tale
of a romance at half-mast

Why should I even care?
about something that was never there

Do you remember the blue moon?
it was the night you made me swoon
you probably never knew
you were in another room
dancing to a different tune
with some other dude

[Repeat first verse and then chorus twice]

Blue Moon (Jase's single take) by ShowcaseJase
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Flame on

As much as I've been enthralled by the graffiti left around town by some misguided teen, I've been even more entertained to see her flamed by another misguided texta. Just as soon as Lori (formerly Lorrain Lee) had announced the latest in a string of romantic interests and she was set upon in her chosen medium.




Physical graffiti





This seemed out of place among my Art Deco pics.
Click here to see them.


Easy way to join the ranks of "the glorious dead". Must be a few RSL-types that would call it cheating.

Don't hire a tradie. Hire a lady.

Paris makes news



These articles at the SMH helped me to realise that, like bikinis, Paris Hilton can make news articles more interesting to look at.

Postmortemism



Here's one of my bassling film clips. Scroll down a bit and click on the left-hand link to get the album for FREE :)

Can women sell keyboards?



Previously I've observed the use of sexism to sell speakers so I was entertained to see it being employed to sell keyboards too. Maybe if they actually offered hot sex with every purchase?

Passion for music



Ever watched a guitarist pulling faces while playing a solo? I remember seeing some that stand on one foot, carried away by the notes flowing from their fingers.



Reckon someone could make a cool quiz where you have to pick the guitarists from male pornstars mid-money shot :)


Who are these men who lurk behind the panel?

More fun graffiti at the park



Main street hazard

Bark marks



These tree etchings make for interesting graffiti - the effect that is, rather than the content.