Aesecakes
Photo by Dimitris Legakis via The Guardian — Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art
It is summer here in Australia and it’s quite common to do this type of food at this time of year. What we refer to as a barbecue is what many would call a grill. And no, we don’t call them shrimp. Whatever you choose to call them, it was all delicious.
Description, clockwise from bottom:
- Pork and fennel sausages with Argentinian chimichurri
- Australian banana prawns
- Corn on the cob (boiled and finished on the grill)
- Halloumi, onion, red and green capsicum (pepper) and mushroom skewers
- Potato salad
90% of my week (at least it felt like it) was focussed on Alvvays. I count myself as very lucky to see them on consecutive nights, during the week, and both gigs were soooooooo good. I saw them 4 years ago and have really liked them for a while before that…but now I really love them. They probably top my personal chart right now and will do for a while, I think. Seeing this NPR set capped off a great week of fandom!
It’s almost the perfect site for a music festival and impeccably organised. The single thing I dislike about it is that there isn’t an area that has car-free camping. I always take the bus there and it would be so much better not to have all the motor vehicles mixed in with the tents.
This plant that is endemic to SE continental Australia, was named by Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, the first director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Melbourne. The genus Banksia is named after Joseph Banks, a naturalist who was on Cook’s first Pacific voyage in the 1770s. Its binomial name is b.ornata.
For anyone who plays Wingspan, the board game, this is one of the types of plant that the nectar food source comes from.
Well, any Norwegians here can probably comment more accurately/from their perspective. From my own perspective, the humour I derived was in:
- the antics that riffed on all of the guitar band motifs like, guitar solos behind the head while sat on the bass player's shoulders, fake blood, capes, double denim
- the irony they point out in the hard rock/metal community being so homo-erotic but also -phobic
- their light-hearted takes on the music industry
- their regular self-deprecation e.g the subject of this song, or having an opening song to an album that was all about the pizza shop the keyboard player owned
- poking fun at nationalist tropes. This was the main thing that I was concerned about, but then I realised that it was satire and was able to enjoy the other points listed above, which are all mostly some form of satire/parody/burlesque.
I can't tell you how much I love Alvvays. They are playing my city in December and I can't wait to see them.
Lucky you! Are you from Manila? Any good bands fun there you recommend?
You must have been reading my mind. I have almost posted this one a couple of times. Believe it or not, I once went to a Magick Heads gig. Every so often, I listen to this album as well as the follow up. Have you heard Bob Scott's Electric ~~Easter~~ Blood stuff?