  I've been offline for ages, that's that 'no money' thing again. Life is a dreadful, tedious struggle, we can never go home, it's always cold.
It's been a very long harsh winter and it still is. Mind you, there was a copy of Badlands , the Terence Malick flick with ol' Sheen and a teen Sissy Spacek. Great movie, and a good find. It's violent but has that hypnotic quality. That's not the only viewing fun I managed to have - I found I had the entire first series of S P A C E D , an excellent British TV comedy.
I got through all seven episodes in one hit, and was entirely engrossed - it's really clever stuff. It seems to have dated a bit, with it's vision of playstations and pumping house, but there are some timeless moments. Been listening to Baseball , a travelling Melbourne trio with a unique sound: drum machine beats with bass, violin and samples that all reek of the Middle East somehow.
It's good stuff, I reckon. The new Striborg CD turned up as well (Thanks to evil Sin-Nanna ), and it's extremely seething and cold. It's quite remarkable - this dude is using a four track and he lives out in the bush, very isolated it seems, and makes this increasingly esoteric and highly original Black Metal. Like my fave BM bands, the strength is the evocation of landscape and space in the work. It's really classic stuff. KVLT VAN DEMON BLAKK METAL . If you dig BM at all you gotta hear this stuff. 
