Birthdays In The Balkans
Nov. 30th, 2004 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanOr, at least, a Balkan restaurant...
On Tuesdays & Wednesdays, $20.00 buys you a very generous 5 course set menu, beginning with asparagus in a white sauce & ending with pears in ice cream, as well as good espresso - not included in the set price, but worth the extra. Given that I had 2 of them, given that I had 2 for a late lunch today too & given that I have to be at work at some unseemly hour tomorrow morning, I can see an awful lot of trashy Foxtel being watched through the night... or maybe not. My metabolism defies prediction of late, so it's just as likely that I'll feel sleepy in 10 minutes time...
So, my father's 64th birthday today. He was subjected to a Beatles double whammy first thing this morning... 'Birthday' played at extreme volume from my basement townhouse (?) at 7.15am, closely followed by my sister replying with 'When I'm 64' from her room in the family manse above. Taken in the kind of spirit you'd expect from a guy who still listens to Triple J & has done since the early 70s, when the Js were born from an ABC radio program called 'Room To Move'. It ran for an hour or so on a weekday evening about 9pm & the announcer was known for starting the show with comments like "... this is the Allman Brothers 'Eat A Peach' album... Good night." & would play the entire thing over the allotted time. My father used to rave about this show when I was only about 7 or 8 & was overjoyed when the presenters convinced the ABC to allow them access to the emergency transmitter & they went out on the AM bandwidth on 1539 frequency keeping the same ideology... they would play what commercial radio (2SM, 2UE etc...) wouldn't touch, because they thought people wouldn't like it... well, a lot of people did... Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, the Police, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Itch-E & Scratch-E (personal interest), Eminem & god only knows how many others were first played by the Js (at first 2JJ, then 2JJJ after the move to FM - naturally), before becoming the standard fare at MMM & others months (& sometimes years) later. The first song they ever played was Skyhooks "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good In Bed" - which had been banned by the broadcast tribunal at the time... Talk about a mission statement...
But I digress...
Work felt like a Thursday today... I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays... especially when they occur on a Tuesday.
It's going to be another long week... Salva Me!!
On Tuesdays & Wednesdays, $20.00 buys you a very generous 5 course set menu, beginning with asparagus in a white sauce & ending with pears in ice cream, as well as good espresso - not included in the set price, but worth the extra. Given that I had 2 of them, given that I had 2 for a late lunch today too & given that I have to be at work at some unseemly hour tomorrow morning, I can see an awful lot of trashy Foxtel being watched through the night... or maybe not. My metabolism defies prediction of late, so it's just as likely that I'll feel sleepy in 10 minutes time...
So, my father's 64th birthday today. He was subjected to a Beatles double whammy first thing this morning... 'Birthday' played at extreme volume from my basement townhouse (?) at 7.15am, closely followed by my sister replying with 'When I'm 64' from her room in the family manse above. Taken in the kind of spirit you'd expect from a guy who still listens to Triple J & has done since the early 70s, when the Js were born from an ABC radio program called 'Room To Move'. It ran for an hour or so on a weekday evening about 9pm & the announcer was known for starting the show with comments like "... this is the Allman Brothers 'Eat A Peach' album... Good night." & would play the entire thing over the allotted time. My father used to rave about this show when I was only about 7 or 8 & was overjoyed when the presenters convinced the ABC to allow them access to the emergency transmitter & they went out on the AM bandwidth on 1539 frequency keeping the same ideology... they would play what commercial radio (2SM, 2UE etc...) wouldn't touch, because they thought people wouldn't like it... well, a lot of people did... Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, the Police, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Itch-E & Scratch-E (personal interest), Eminem & god only knows how many others were first played by the Js (at first 2JJ, then 2JJJ after the move to FM - naturally), before becoming the standard fare at MMM & others months (& sometimes years) later. The first song they ever played was Skyhooks "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good In Bed" - which had been banned by the broadcast tribunal at the time... Talk about a mission statement...
But I digress...
Work felt like a Thursday today... I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays... especially when they occur on a Tuesday.
It's going to be another long week... Salva Me!!
