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Indiana

Life's short... Eat Dessert first!!

About Me

About me... mmm... lets see...I am a Melbourne based muso... LAMPLIGHT is my band, my life, my air that I breath and my family and I love them and our music so much.. (see myspace/lamplightmusic... go on... you will most definatly not regret it...)I also play in The Austin Band with three extremely talented fellas, the lovely Coby Grant and The Go Set who will inevatbly leade me on the rock n roll road to ruin... I just finished studying Jazz and Popular music at Tafe with my fiddle and loved it!Yeah!!!I was working at Vodafone customer care on the phones, answering calls from people who are looking to pick a fight to save money for Europe. I left on April 2nd and now I'm here!! It feels unbelievable but definately the right place for me to be right now... I miss my darling Lamplighters though... Terribly.We (Lamplight) just Launch our new album on March 29th and they'll come meet me in Europe in mid June- mid July. It's been a crazy whirlwind but so worth it, the Album is spectacular and the Launch was a pearla!! We just got a distribution deal with FUSE, Nation wide and we were Triple J's unearthed artist of the week!! So check out our single 'Ship In A Bottle' at www.triplejunearthed.com/lamplightI also do a wee bit of acting, just finished a film called Belladonna was really fun, check out http://belladonnathemovie.blogspot.com/ to find out more info about it!In my spare time I try and get back to the folks in the country and my Brother, Sister-In-Law and the most beautiful Neice and Nephew one could as for!! Or hang out with my exceptionally splendid friends! Life is flippin wonderful! Gotta love it eh... So yeah... thats me.WOOT!!!

My Interests

Well, music obviously... Acting... Dance, My mums art work... Mijo's facial hair... accumulating things that I dont need then getting rid of them a few months later (dumb I know, I just cant break the habbit!!), walking, the ocean, gelati, chips with aoli and good company, my Niece and Nephew (it's so fascinating watching them grow!)

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Grapelli... Oh that would be brilliant!! Rufus Wainwright, Louis Armstrong!

Music:

Everyone I play with... Heaps of unsigned Australian music, Eva Popov, Rufus Wainright, Dirty Three, You Am I (well anything Tim Rogers really), Augie March, Kings of Convenience, Beck, Mr Bungle, Blue Drag, Ella Fitzgerald, Anything my Dad plays (see friend 'Pip'), Stephin Grapelli, Django Reinhardt, Bjork, Gillian Welch, Nina Simone, Mike McCarthy, Clann Zu, Any old school Jazz... love the traditionals and anything Dixiland or Swing... Oh oh oh and ANYTHING Gypsy swing, Judy Jacques, Lucy Thorne, Michael Henry Trio, Pablo Discobar, Tin Hat Trio, Kimya Dawson, Silverchair, Bonjah and a million more...

Movies:

My tacky feel good movie is 'That Thing You Do'... 'Napolian Dinamite' rocks my socks, Beetlejuice, Definately NOT 'Employee of the month'... DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!! Amelie,

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, The Office, Extras, Seignfeld, (All of which I'm more likely to enjoy on DVD than tellie... don't watch it much.) Doc Martin, Those amazing planet Doco's that were on ABC sunday nights... How incredible!!

Books:

Angel Voices, Chelsie Beach

Heroes:

Tank Girl for sure!...My Mum and my Dad... And most definatly Stephin Grapelli.

My Blog

Slack I am... Adventures in the South!!

Oh my, I have been lazy!!  Heres like 3 weeks worth.... Went from Westpost down to Greymouth, just stopover towns but I got to see the pancake rocks and Punakaiki.  After Greymouth we (Moran...
Posted by Indiana on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:25:00 PST

Shittiest weather in the

I am so unbelievably happy right now!!  Golden Bay (at the top of the South Island) is sooooooo beautiful and I stayed at this magical place called Shambala. A back packers like no other.. Solar power...
Posted by Indiana on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:08:00 PST

Peace

HAPPY NEW YEAR my dear friends!!  I don't know about you but I had such a great night!!  We left after Elizabeth finished work at 5.30 and headed off for the 5 hour trip to Okato in the Tera...
Posted by Indiana on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:50:00 PST

The view is quite nice from up here....

So I had crazy wild gypsy jams with my new french pal Ajarn and he taught me two new Django tunes... He lives in paris and said if it's gypsy jazz i'm interested in, to go to Paris because its EVERYWH...
Posted by Indiana on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:41:00 PST

Oh so stinky!!

Heya all... Arrived in Rotorua on Wednesday, a town made quite popular by it's geothermal activity... Hence the stinky... It smells like a cross between egg farts and buttered popcorn... Not so pleasa...
Posted by Indiana on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:25:00 PST

Waitomo caves...

Had a bloody terrible night sleep at the backpackers in Auckland... Stuffy, noisy and I started thinking about Joel and his horror stories about bed bugs and started getting itchy (despite the fact th...
Posted by Indiana on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:39:00 PST

Paihia, Northland...

Oh my God I just wrote the BIGGEST blog EVER and it got swiped !!!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!  That has to be the most annoying thing that has ever happened to me!!  Well mayb...
Posted by Indiana on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:54:00 PST

My Arrival...

After rushing around all day being anctious and nervous and anticipating flying to be a highly stressful ordeal, I arrived at tullamarine airport with a cool 3 hours to spare... Lucky!!!! All feelings...
Posted by Indiana on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:03:00 PST

Ouch!!!!!!!

So I got my wisdom teeth out on Friday... Ouch!!!!! Oral Surgery is not fun... Not the most pleasant experience but fortunately no real horror stories!! In saying that though, Panadine forte ...
Posted by Indiana on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:32:00 PST