I went to the cricket today, MCG, day 2 of the boxing day test, Australia VS India. Now I’m not really a cricket fan, let me rephrase that, I’m not a cricket fan. I can’t sit through more than 2 overs of 20/20 cricket without getting bored, provided it’s not the last 2 overs, other than that, not particularly excited about it. I ended up going after a drunken agreement with some cricket fan mates of mine. So I went. Fantastic day, 40k people, all chillin in the sun, watching a bunch of dudes hit a red ball around, it’s purely the atmosphere that makes it good, along with the beer. It was only the second time I’ve been to the MCG, the last time was about 11 years ago, I went to a day nighter (had a ball then too actually). The MCG, especially since it’s upgrade is one big ass impressive structure, and it’s cool just being in the place, definitely worth the $30 ticket price and the 5 buck mid strength beers. Even if you’re not a cricket fan, tag along with one of your cricket nut mates one day, you’ll have a ball.

Panoramic MCG, Click For Full Size

So Tomorrow I’ll be shaving off my current beard and starting from scratch to (try) and grow some sort of credible moustache, if there is such a thing. I’ll be putting a little widget on this site somewhere containing daily pics of my hairy endevours which will run as a small animation, hopefully it will look kinda cool after the month is over. The first week won’t feature too much since I’m not particularly hairy. Will be an interesting month.

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Just got back from a gig where two of my favourite bands were playing, Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger. Goldfinger started off the show and got everyone psyched up super quick, they we fantastic and way on fire. halfway through the gig the drummer (dangerous darren) stage dived into the crowd, got them to carry him to the bar right next to where me and my friends were chillin, and grabbed a drink. They played all their classic oldschool tunes, but nothing from their new album which I thought was quite weird. Was one of the coolest Goldfinger gigs I’ve been two (4th one). Reel Big Fish had to make do without their second vocalist/trumpet/guitar player Scott but still managed to have a great set. Didn’t quite seem the same without him though, usually he and the lead vocalist Aaron talk gibberish between songs and makes the gig a lot more fun. A mate of mine took some ok photos with his phone so I’ll get him to send it on to my moblog in the next day or so.

Awesome stuff………..and still Mad Caddies to come in just under 2 weeks, w00t!

The one day in the year where everyone in melbourne decides to drink beer and eat food al fresco style in St Kilda, because apparently you can’t do that any other day. I think if the bands weren’t there I’d make more of an effort to get away from St Kilda on that day, just an insane amount of people, all of them hungry and thirsty. A good excuse for bars to up their prices it seems.

But who’s being negative, ended up being a top day and managed to see Xavier Rudd and Cat Empire. The crowd seemed to really get into both bands which was cool, massive turnout for them, people everywhere you looked.

Was definitely a better option training/tramming there rather than driving (which I did the last 2 years), but the V/Line guy didn’t seem to like me and decided to study my ticket with his super special CSI blue light, which he was probably just using to look cool.

I think the one of the main highlights of the day was the dude who decided to climb the scaffolding of the main stage, which must have been around 10 metres high the crowd loved it, the organisers hated it, would have been rather nasty if he fell. This year I’m sure had way more people, haven’t heard the guesstimate that the news people have blurted out but it’s gotta be some kind of record. Last year we were quite easily able to sit on the grass and watch the bands, that just wasn’t possible this year, absolute corner to corner people. There’s a few photos taken on my phone and you can find them in the gallery. Try and sport the human pyramid and there’s a couple of photos of the guy on the scaffolding, hard to make out though.