It's about time I threw in a couple of photos from my house & while these were taken a month or two ago, not much has changed.







Head on over to flickr for plenty of notes & all the details of everthing in them! Isn't this all nice & interactive now!

 

I'm just thankful I wasn't driving on the Expressway at the time when the spider dropped on a web from my sun visor. I didn't do anything crazy, like swerving all over the road, but anything which appears in your line of sight & is all blurry because it's so close to your face is disconcerting at best.

I tried in vain to grab & crush as it was on it's way down, but I missed & it disappeared just behind the steering wheel. It wasn't some man-eating spider, but I just don't like spiders & it could well have been one of the white-tail spiders I've had recently. (Check the post on January 28 for details!)

Continuing on my way, with the threat of this rogue spider running across my knuckles, it eventually appeared, running along the lower part of the steering wheel. I grabbed a CD from the passenger seat & smeared the creepy crawly over the leather wheel.

Crisis averted!

 

So it's the 2009 Fringe Festival in Adelaide at the moment, which means stacks of very random performances by some even more random international artists.

Normally, it's just one big party, but I witnessed the ugly side of it all yesterday.

Walking up Rundle Mall, a woman was doing one of those human statue acts, standing perfectly still, on a box & covered completely with copper paint. Even with kids running up & making faces & the occasional adult attempting to throw her off her game, she was steadfast & actually quite impressive. The result of her act meant a crowd of around fifty surrounded the area, waiting & watching for as long as it took for her to interact with the audience.

I was on a mission, so I kept walking past & twenty metres further along was another busker dressed like a magician. He was taking out a sword from a suitcase for the next part of his act when I heard him announce to his massive crowd of five;

"I can't believe so many stupid people would actually stand around & watch someone do nothing, rather than watch someone do something that is actually entertaining!"

Hmmm, well, maybe because he was going to stick the sword down his throat like countless other buskers is the reason no one could be bothered watching. Basically, his act was shit. People get bored with the same old stuff, whereas with the statue, you just don't know what you're going to get next.

I'm also not sure if it's appropriate to heckle your own audience!?! He said it loud enough for some of the patrons of the other act to hear as well, so it wouldn't have improved his chances of getting more viewers.

I don't know how the sword swallowing went but maybe if he used a real serrated edge sword & had it poke out his stomach.... that would be entertainment!!