The Bedroom Philosopher

High Noon Saloon, Alice Springs. 8pm. $10….

The Fox Hotel South Brisbane. 8pm….

w/ Josh Earl & Oliver Clark. $10. High St, Northcote….

Smith St, Collingwood. MC Josh Earl. $10. 8pm…

Festival Club, ACMI…

Currently working on new “Songs From The 86 Tram” album.
New LapTopping soon too. Bizzy!

NEWS

(Brought to you by the new collaboration between members of The Shins and The Bangles ‘The Shingles.’)

♥ The Brown & Orange National Tour is pressed and ironed and ready to roll up the east coast like a convoy of can do. For the first time I shall be touring with The Awkwardstra in two Brown and Orange Chrysler Valiants filled to the brim with mind blowing instruments with more dapper banter than a 1920′s tennis tournament. All the major cities are there, sort of. If you are under eighteen you may take issue with some of the licensed venues and absence of all …

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LapTopping – The Bit Long, Official E-zine of The Bedroom Philosopher
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ISSUE 72
Monday June 22, 2009.
BROWN & ORANGE NATIONAL TOUR WITH THE AWKWARDSTRA DURING JULY/AUGUST

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LT BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday Clyde Drexler (NBA) 47 today!
Happy Birthday Cyndi Lauper 56 today!
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THE ADVENTURES OF SPACE CAT!

Chapter One
Space Cat is launched into space, warp factor eight. He spends the journey in a deep hypersleep. This is nothing new.

Chapter Two
Space Cat lands on a foreign planet. The ships landing paws come down and knead the ground. The docking doors open. Space Cat can’t decide whether to stay in or go out.

Chapter Three
During the surveillance mission Space Cat is alarmed …

w/ The Awkwardstra & Josh Earl. The Lassogowrie. Free. 8pm….

w/ Guillaume Soloacoustic. $10. 8pm….

w/ Tomas Ford and The Whistling Dogs. $10. 5pm….

Director’s Choice Award at MICF. National tour planned.

NEWS

(Brought to you by the new collaboration between The Kinks and Skunkhour. ‘The Kunks.’)

♥ My Melbourne Comedy Festival Show “Songs From The 86 Tram” went extremely well. I almost sold out all fifteen shows, until I broke my humerus by riding my bike into a car door. I won the Director’s Choice award, including $1000 cash. The show received great reviews, including a personal thumbs up from one of my heroes, Tony Martin. It was sort of devastating having to cancel the show, but it did create a groundswell of support and good wishes, with which I was spiritually nourished. I plan to reprise the show for Melbourne Fringe Festival. …

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ISSUE 71
Friday May 15, 2009.

New album Brown & Orange available now on itunes, in shops, or by mail order with a lipstick kiss from me.

Recent reviews:
“Its a lavish production and a thrillingly entertaining and equally exhausting listening experience.” Inpress
“It is (like the man himself) entirely enjoyable, entirely likeable, and entirely odd.” Album of the week, BMA.
“…ample music invention flavours his dreams of alien abduction, caged bears and Jesus on Big Brother, and unlike the accidentally funny troubadours out there, he knows every joke should have a point.” The Age.

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LT BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells) 56 …

Who could forget the feeling of first discovering your favourite band or show. Like a seasoned explorer, you sail the air waves, telescope poised, waiting for a particular hook, lyric or joke to glimmer on the horizon like a cheeky lighthouse. Eyes grinning through sea spray you throttle your badge encrusted wheel, drop the striped sail on the Good Ship Indie and lay a course for life-changing island. Reaching shore you dash out, plunge your headphone jack into the coconut tree and immerse your mind in its luxurious bounty. That which lay undiscovered now feels like home, and your map of the world becomes a little more complete.

In 1999 my friends and I discovered George. They were fronted by …

As a kid I’d say ‘when I grow up I want to be a struggling artist.’ When I blew out my birthday candles I’d wish for a first round grant offer from the Australia Council. To further the fantasy, instead of playing shops at school I’d insist we played Centrelink. On dress up days I’d pull on a bummed out cardigan and tobacco flecked cords. I had a clear vision of myself as a grown up: In my late twenties, artistically hit and miss, still renting with a phobia of children and a string of failed relationships behind me. And now, I have reached that point. I am an actual grown up. This is it.

This is it?

My lifestyle …

(This piece first appeared in Frankie magazine in response to the question ‘What is your super power?’)

You don’t choose to be a social suicide bomber, you are born one. Just like a pre-pubescent Spiderman was caught with goo on his hands, those inflicted / blessed with this conversational gift discover it by accident. With great power comes great irresponsibility; if it’s the ability to unnerve the most robust of people with sheer presence alone.

I first discovered I carried ‘the mark’ (my face) entering teen hood. I was a Junior Nipper at the Burnie Surf Club, and often attended squad training with the older boys. Despite my best efforts to fit in, I started noticing a trend: as soon …