We've been "disoriented" long enough, so we're trying out a new blog name, for a while. It's a fairly common Australian phrase that can be defined thusly. We rejected a few others for various reasons, including "Two In The Bush", "Settle Down (Under)", and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". We're not 100% sold on the new one, so it may change again soon. We were just tired of the old one.

According to the word on the street, we live on THE street to live on in Melbourne. Guy Pierce and Hugh Jackman are alleged to live on our street. We knew we lived somewhere very nice, but we didn't know we lived where the cool kids live. I think a lot of other musician types live nearby in St. Kilda too.

We discovered this bit of trivia at Trivia tonight at the Albert Park Hotel, where we won first place playing with a friend we met at grape grazing (and her friends). See, alcohol brings people together.

If we haven't indicated it before, Melbourne is a very nice place to be. The city is beautiful and the people are truly lovely. I've never come across a more consistently friendly and unpretentious city of people. In six months here, we feel pretty at home.

Caught Mudhoney last night at the Corner Hotel. A solid set, with a good mix of old and new. But overly smoky. Mudhoney is a band that I'm happy to have just grind out albums and tour, forever. Most bands have one essential member; they have three, in Mark Arm, the singer/songwriter, Dan Peters, the drummer, and especially (I decided last night) Steve Turner, the guitarist.