Mental Notes  Tuesday, December 22, 2009 MELBOURNE--Madame Foo has hopefully finished the nesting phase with a fab new wall print of our Queen in a gas mask, a new bonsai that I've dubbed 'cankle', and heaps of Ikea blah blah. Only choice now is names. Mmmm, if girl Brittany, if boy Murphy. Full story: Mental Notes by Adam at 18:04 GMT+1000. Twitter :: follow @aconnorshk :: facebook :: Surrealpolitik  Wednesday, December 30, 2009 As 2009 and the decade draws to a close, let's now take a look back on a year which has seen some momentous events take place in this, our Pacific home. Full story: Pacific Beat 2009 year in review Latest Comments On Friday, September 18, 2009 in Site Comments, willpuffin said "That Butthole Surfers conversation is rad!." Music Stuff: Revue etc. 1995-'98 A hundred-odd articles and international interviews for The Australian, The West Australian and others, including: Ash | The Stems | Herbie Hancock | Alice Cooper | AC/DC | Dead Can Dance | Elastica | Lush | Beasts of Bourbon | Jebediah | Humbug | Air Ensemble | Team Jedi | Wormfarm | Swervedriver | Dick Dale | Mr Bungle | Fugazi | Superchunk | Squadcar 9x | Spank | Freud's Pillow | Sugarchild | Marilyn Manson | Bluetile Lounge | Cinema Prague | Money Mark | Babes in Toyland | Magic Dirt | Polvo | 808 State and a lot more. Broadcast 1996-'98 and 2004 A collection of streaming music interviews from the days at RTR 92.1FM radio in Perth from 1996-'98 and FBI 94.5FM radio in Sydney in 2004. Includes interviews with: Weezer | Butch Vig from Garbage | Butthole Surfers | The Posies | Shonen Knife | Primus | Lush | Swervedriver | The Eels | Morphine | Carla Werner and more. Pics [full index] 2008, and it's time to seal the deal with Mrs Sue. Seems there was only one person dodging the hitchin' post in 2005. Then there was 'baby year' in 2004 with everyone breeding. 2003 begins with bangs and whimpers, the latter usually the next day. A rogues gallery of 2002 moments from scenes in Taiwan and Hong Kong. 2001 features ordinary and outstanding moments in Hong Kong, Australia, China and the US. Video Includes: flicks of friends popping through my hometowns of the time. Lots of lunches and dinners and handicam waving. Tiger Leaping Gorge in the mountains around Lijiang, Yunnan province, China. Your faithful videographer sings The Sound of Music in bad Chinese, accompanied by goats. Also, adventures in Taiwan, indie clubbing in Tokyo, night crawling in Hong Kong and more. MahoneyConnors and Associates Select projects and clients. This is a thingy that I use to find stuff when doing a project. Think of it as my desk drawer. With a lock.  :: Dynamic Desktop Tracker ::   job number  select 200319 200318 200317 200315 200314 200313 200310 200308 200216 200215 200213 200211 200210 200209 200208 200118 200117 200116 200115 200114 200113 200112 200111 200110 200109 200108 other