My experience with Roisin Murphy (with!!!) - coming tomorrow.

Apologies for the lack of updates; and it’s going to stay just as quiet around here until after the weekend. Am gearing up for what is going to be a mega-sad remains-of-the-week and will more than likely be away from the computer until Monday.

In 24 hours time, two of my dearest friends will have boarded a plane as they head into the sunset of their new lives overseas for, at least, 2 years. Which, for me, who sees them nearly every weekend, is practically like forever. =(

Matt & Stef; in the spirit of our friendship, I’ll miss you cunts.

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Come home already this isn’t funny anymore. =(

x

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Just like Monica, I too have had a hard-pressed day.

My internet connection was down for almost 24 hours today.  With all the work I have to do that revolves around net-use, this has inconvenienced me to no end.  Everything I was going to do today (on what is practically my only day off this week) now has to be pushed back to tomorrow before going to work.  That’s fine and all, but tomorrow was when I had hoped to plan the radio show and blog.  Fat chance of that happening now before Friday.

On top of all this, the air-conditioner broke (on a pretty disgusting hot day,) and the bloody water service died.  It’s hot and sticky and I can’t even shower. =(  On the plus side, it’ll all be fixed tomorrow before going to work and (obviously) the internet is now back online.

Another positive; I did speak to Muscles today in my second interview with him in as many months.  The next single from Guns Babes Lemonade is to be “The Lake” and contains a remix by Azzido Da Bass.  Bonza!  Also, the new album should be recorded by December this year, which will be followed with an early 2009 release.

There’s more, I’ll post the full interview (along with Axle and Matt Van She) in MP3 format next week.

It’s been pretty quiet around here of late, mainly thanks to my insane Summer-uni work load. I’ve pretty much got either an assignment due or exam on at the end of every single week all the way through till the end of February, so you can sort of imagine where my headspace is at right now. All of these wanky and pretentious 3000+ word assignments I have due are killing my creativity and my will to post on here. So - even though I’ll still be updating at least twice a week - posts may decrease more than usual until the beginning of March. I go back to studying half of what I’ve taken on over summer so life will be a little easier to manage. I’m just finding things incredibly difficult and depressingly awkward to cope with at the moment, but come February 29th it shall all go back to normal.

Anyways, no doubt there will be updates this and/or next week about Van She, Madonna, my experience with the movie Juno and listening to Uffie afterwards, and maybe even those long-overdue Sneaky Sound System and Patrick Wolf reviews. Oops.

In the meantime, here’s an awful, highly offensive video for you to watch.

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Oy vey. 

I’ve been so busy this week with exams and trying to hunt down new employment, that I’ve forgotten about some important things, like getting my shit together for a phone interview with Stefy tomorrow afternoon.  Thanks to my lack of preparation, I barely have anything sorted in the form of questions, and while I’m sure I’ll manage something by 2pm today (Aussie time,) if you have anything you’d like me to ask them, feel free to drop me an email, so long as I get it before 1:30 PM, Melbourne EST.

Just finished watching Kylie’s White Diamond documentary, will attempt to have something written on it either before the weekend or early next week.

So you’ve possibly come over here from my old home, I’m Always Right. Welcome friends, this is my new pad. For over a year now I’ve had the idea of launching Adem With An E.com. What I once thought was hilarious and cheeky in having a website named I’m Always Right turned into something I hated immensely. Over the last few months I’ve found the name somewhat arrogant and It was really getting to me. I know, it’s silly, but something needed to be done for my own sanity! I noticed also that I’d stopped writing as much as I could have - even more so because I’ve been working on the new site over the last few months.

So I’m pleased to welcome you here (scratch that - honoured,) and am hoping you will continue to read my nonsensical ramblings about pop music and glorified culture, download my hideously shit/unreal radio podcasts and comment feverishly at the end of my scribblings.

I have new things to launch on the site; first thing’s first - the eProfile. Once every 2 months I’ll be putting together a large (ish) post dedicated purely to a specific artist. The very first eProfile is of Van She, a Sydney band who I love and adore with all of my heart and who make my ears prick up with glee. I hope they get a similar reaction from you too.

Also, Vinyl Vednesday is on the way. Undecided as to whether it will be weekly or fortnightly, but it basically involves me plucking a lost classic from my vinyl collection, converting - from vinyl to mp3 - one track from said wax-work and uploading it here with a little story for you all to enjoy. Fun hey? Well I think so!

Also, during the next week my reviews from the Sneaky Sound System, Patrick Wolf and Robyn gigs I went to over the last seven days will find themselves online with pictures… and in one case, a couple of (exclusive!) video clips…

Remember that whole My Favourite Pop Record thing I got a bunch of ace bloggers to contribute to in DECEMBER LAST BLOODY YEAR? I just couldn’t bring myself to post it on IAR and really wanted it for the new site. So now that the new site is here, expect a big, fat chunky early Christmas present with a panel of our favourite pop bloggers. I need to publicaly apologise to all the amazing writers that put their hard work into that poll - I feel terrible that it’s taken so long!

I’m pretty excited about the new surrounds and have so much I want to write about, it’s given the remains of my brain a (much needed) new lease of life. Let me know what you think about the place - leave comments or if you’d prefer, just hit me an email. I do plan on leaving the old IAR site up online - probably forever - but I will be transferring over what I think are my best moments over the next few weeks from there to here.

x Adem. With an E.