Quite a few people out here have boats, mainly because there is this bigarse lake that acts as Mount Isa's water supply.

Lake Moondara

The lake is bloody huge, as I suppose it has to be considering the last time it rained here was April, and that was really only a shower.

So anyway, quite a few people have boats, and I've been out a few times in the last week to go skiing with a bunch of people. Or in my case, towed behind a boat on an inflatable... thing.

I tried kneeboarding this morning, but I couldn't get onto the damned thing. Siz or seven goes was enough.

My mate Dan organised to hire the Lion's Youth Camp at Lake Moodara last night. It's a pretty typical school camp, but we had the place to our selves. There were about 15 people there for dinner and about 10 stayed overnight. It was pretty good fun. A couple of photos follow.






Music-wise, I've been listening to a lot of "13+God". It's excellent. I didn't really know how The Notwist would go with Anticon, but it's very atmospheric. The mood is pretty dark and contemplative, and the music is, how would you say, experimental.

I suppose an update of my life would be appropriate too...

I've moved from Brisbane to Mount Isa, where I'm a graduate Electrical Engineer with Mount Isa Mines. I've just finished a rotation with the Copper Mine and I've had a lot of fun running around underground (everything's happy underground) and buying bits of equipment here and there for copper concentrators. I started over in the Lead/Zinc stream of the company yesterday, and the difference is big, and there is even more stuff to learn.

Huzzah!

I've bought a car. Huzzah. And here it is. Photo taken halfway between Mount Isa and Cloncurry.
















My music collection is growing at an alarming rate. It doesn't help that all this music I'm buying is all pretty damn good too. Case in point: Heligoland - "A Street Between Us". Unfortunately little known band, and they make gorgeous dream-pop. It's really beautiful stuff, and they are the first band I've bought because of their MySpace page. shocking.

Just to finish things off, here is the whole list. In the intervening 9 months, it hasn't really changed that much.

19. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
18. The Panics - Sleeps Like A Curse
17. Decoder Ring - Fractions
16. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

15. Giants Of Science - Here Is The Punishment
14. Sigur Ros - Takk...
13. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
12. Hood - Outside Closer
11. Spoon - Gimme Fiction

10. The Dirty Three - Cinder
09. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
08. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
07. Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
06. Sunn O))) - Black One

05. Low - The Great Destroyer
04. The Drones - Wait Long By The River and the Bodies Of your Enemies Will Float By
03. Bonny "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
02. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition OST
01. Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union - Ghost Songs/Dirty Ron

hahahahaha.

oh man, I should probably finish what I started.

but unfortunately the website I was posting this stuff to chose right now to crash.

woo.