Two Weeks To Go...

.... until Longshots start raining down on the Valley in prep for the grand unveiling (officially anyway) of the Double Debut.

Super14 Round 2 and Super8 Sally

Goddamn I thought I had that one. Come Sunday morning when I realised that I'd picked seven out of seven with a miserly margin difference of two, I thought to myself - "Now that's tipping behartches". And yet I'm here to report that in one of the great tipping rounds OF ALL TIME, Fucken Don't Punch Me Kovaks has produced an almost unbeatable effort to take the round. 7/7 with a margin diff of only 1 little point. That's the sound of the bar being set very high lads.

Overall, Marvel (aka Spacecow) is holding the lead on margin from yours truly, and Hobbsie continues to bring his poker style to the tipping comp, with a combined total of two correct tips.

We have a new player in the comp, a rookie by the name of FynnDe who is holding her own amongst the wily veterans with a very respectable 9 point tally.

And now for this week's musical interlude. It's an attempt to ward off Mondayitis and worked pretty well on that front. Tiny Dancer's genius 'hidden camera' footage of Sunday night's Super 8 shennanigans asks the age old question: "How many winos does it take to thread a Super 8 projector?"



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BigWheels keep on turnin'

How good would a fleet of these be for the valley...

They're going for about $20 on eBay. 

Lucky door prize for the launch?

WC

And the Big Wet Continues....

Tropical stylin ain't all its cracked up to be. Sure, we got the reef on our doorstep, rainforest just up the road. But the downside to this is the wet season. So called because its, well... wet. Very wet. So much so that during a thunderstorm yesterday (as different to the usual incessant monsoonal downpours), Toontown recorded 44mm in hour. Doesn't seem like much hey, but lets put that in perspective... Historically Brownsville gets an average of 125.7mm rainfall in dec, 268.5mm in jan and 296.6 in feb. So far this year we've had: 178.8mm in dec, 664.0mm in jan, and so far in feb we've had 845.8mm and its only the 17th!! Makes u wonder whether its gettin all biblical on us... maybe we need an ark... or more in keeping with the times (and Longshots love of mass transport - see previous blogs on jets and chinooks), maybe we need to get our hands on one of these little puppies...




that way hobbesy and i can be guarrenteed of making it to the launch!!

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Eastern Shots

Well once again the Longshots blew into Byron last weekend, in the wake of Hobbsie's marvellous Leonard Cohen adventure avec Peace Frog. Marvel was fortuitously in the neighbourhood, and you can't keep Esmerelda out of the mix once you have that sort of momentum. Needless to say, a good time was had by all. Although it depends to some extent on your definition of fun. Lawn bowls and beer drinking, for instance, are fun.



Whether or not, however, you would call locating and removing a snake from your daughter's bedroom a good time is really a matter of personal preference. I attach a photo of Hobbsie and myself in reptile hunting mode.



In the end it was only about 3 feet of angry tree snake, but the relief was still tangible once he was removed from the equation. In amongst the frivolities we managed to bang out a demo for one of Hobbsie's tunes. It features the dancing digits of Marvel on the piano, begging the question - is there anything this cow can't play?

Anyhoo, without further ado, I give you the first draft of "Summer in the Mediterranean".



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S14 is Underway

Footy is back. And with no top line sport to enjoy since the SCG test, it couldn't come soon enough.

The first round saw the Longshots tipping comp spread out alarmingly (for some) with Trunksy taking the honours with a very toit 6 wins, taking the week's honours from Marvel on margin. Dishonourable mention to Hobbsie with a lowly 2 wins. Good to see Fucken Don't Punch Me Kovaks and Andy "Brain" Paine step up to the plate. Even better to have both players confirmed for the upcoming Launch of the double debut on March 14 in Bangalow, which is shaping up as a ripper. Brain played and sung beautifully on several tracks on Old Wine In New Bottles, while FDPM looks to be contributing some gold for the upcoming release Ice Cream for Freaks.

Go the Tahs.

LR

The So-Called Wonders of Modern Technology

Focus on the music. It's a demo of a track called "A Genuine Guaranteed Do Nothing Machine", inspired by an actual Do Nothing Machine given to Tiny Dancer by a large Hooter from WA. The track will appear on Ice Cream for Freaks, due to be recorded later this year. The video will likely never appear anywhere again.

'Allo Carl

A bona-fide portrait of the man himself... Carl Zeiss.

Bonjour Carl.

Bonjour Carl.

A Little Nostalgia....

... and a chance to test drive an embedded YouTube clip.

Deep in the Trough

Wow!! If you would've thought that a Longshot's gathering in the valley was hard, you should try being north of the trough!!

Hobbesy and PeaceFrog venture south.

G'day...'obbesy 'ere....summersaultin' like only an animated tiger can at the prospect of Leonard Cohen/Paul Kelly double header tomorrow night...PeaceFrog and I head south early in the A.M.>>>commercial airlines!! (still waiting on the Russians (and DEEF!!!) to come through with their promise of aforblogged longshots chopper)...It'll be good to see the grand old man on what must be his last lap round the block! Ani DiFranco/Waifs the following eve, then down to the valley for some some r&r&r&r...rocknrollnrestnrecreation...and some strong Martinis (or perhaps whatever Lenny's mixing in the photo below?)...the rumour mill suggests Marvel may make an appearence, although we suspect he's just being his enigmatic, cud-chewing self, by keeping us all guessing...needless to say...fucken pumped.