Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

It’s about ten to two in the morning, on Tuesday and I’m up listening to music (at the moment, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is playing – great artist), reading Frank Beddor’s Seeing Redd, the second in ‘The Looking Glass Wars’ trilogy, and testing various BPAL fragrances from the Poe collection (fragrances all based on a short story by Poe).

(NB. I did try to shorten this so you had to click on ‘read more’ because the entry is so long, but it’s not working for some reason – my apologies)

The weekend was really nice – my friend from Ballarat came down to visit and we did a spot of shopping before we came back to my place. We went to one of Melbourne’s favourite boutique tea shops – she bought Marrakech tea (Moroccan mint tea) and I bought Turkish cherry tisane, which I am now drinking, yum! We then bought sushi and doughnuts (I know, an unlikely combination!) for lunch and afters, then returned to my place to watch The Tudors, getting through two episodes before she had to leave. I don’t get to see C often, and it was nice to be able to enjoy her company properly. We giggled and made history nerd comments all throughout The Tudors (though I’m a lit nerd, and she’s a history nerd proper, having done her Honours in history).

Then on Sunday, I got to watch my housemate Rob brew two different types of beer. He put on a stellar demonstration for any member of the Engineering Music Society at Melbourne Uni (of which he is a member) to come and watch. It was big fun. Naturally we got to drink a lot of beer (there is a brown ale, and an amber ale on tap at present). The brews he made were a Monteith Black clone, and a Munich dunkel. For lunch we ate awesome gourmet burgers, and for dinner some pizza. Healthy, hee hee. It was a great day, it’s always fun to watch Rob brewing these concoctions in these big-arse pots, haha.

Then today, not so much. Spent the whole day sleeping pretty much, ran out of medication (whoops. That’s bad, the withdrawal on this stuff is supposed to be bad). But did wake up to a nice surprise – Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has two new acts for its Carnaval Diabolique! The Carnaval is a limited edition run, and will be disappearing at the end of Sept 2008. The only one that really jumped out at me was Tabula Smaragdina though Pickled Imp also sounds awesome. I may get The Grindhouse and Dionysia too. There were perhaps 2-3 ‘maybes’ but they had notes that sort of sounded like they would not work on me. I’ll be interested to hear what The Fragrant Elf thinks of this massive BPAL update – by the way, welcome home dear! Sorry about your car, though *growls at errant driver*.