She trawls through old emails from back when people wrote to her. The days before the ex boyfriends, spam monsters and “respected” friends frightened the few online penpals she had away.

She wants to light up a cigar but it’s a school night and she knows that if she did this, she’d buzz off to the bottle-o for an eff off bottle of gin.

She’s had enough of looking at old photos that she took of stencil art that’s long been painted over. Hosier Lane ain’t what it used to be five years ago.

Life on other planets must be awesome compared to this.

The Palace Theatre (formerly known as the Metro Nightclub) was transformed into a cozy den for trance aficionados and shufflers alike. Trent McDermott (a Bass Station regular) and Steve Strangis represented Melbourne in fine DJ form. McDermott played some deliciously wicked tribal trance that drew many of the early bird shufflers away from the bars and onto the floor.

Italy’s Giuseppe Ottaviani was the support act for the night. I hadn’t heard of Giuseppe prior to seeing him on stage and I was thoroughly blown away by his mix of progressive trance sounds which incorporated a hefty dose of analogue synth to spice things up. Ottaviani is signed to Paul Van Dyk’s Vandit Records label and someone worth checking out if you love atmospheric progressive trance.

Ottaviani did a great job warming up the crowd with some rather banging bass infused numbers. Trent McDermott jumped back behind the controls for a little while to keep the vibe going before Mr Corsten quietly stepped behind the DVDJs to weave his dose of musical magic.

The usual floor pleasers such as “Brainbox”,  “Beautiful”, “Rock Your Body Rock”, “Rose of Jericho”, “1998″ and “Punk” were dished out, along with a few other classics. The night itself wasn’t without a technical glitch or two, courtesy of some faulty DVDJs but kudos to Ferry for soldiering on and flawlessly mixing his way out of a tram-tracking tune or three.

Melbourne put on some fine evening weather and I had the pleasure of meeting two very lovely blokes who made the night even better. It’s great meeting likeminded people who are passionate about music.

Thank you, Mr Corsten for yet again proving to Melbourne that you are one of the best trance DJs in the world and I was shuffling my little feet off to “Brainbox” and “Radio Crash”.

I am me. That’s all I can be in all my awkwardness. My blog seems to be my only sanctuary where random people point and laugh.

There are nine C-90 cassettes sitting on my bookshelf. There’s a book of “words” from 1994 next to them.

I’ll let them gather dust like everything else there. A time capsule. Bravery an creativity overpowered by fear and rejection.

I’m not feeling like the cat’s pyjamas tonight. Sorry ’bout that.

You know what I love about February? Autumn leaves. It’s not technically Autumn yet but as I was walking past the Banana Alley Vaults in town, I couldn’t help but kick the piles of leaves that I encoutered. I felt like a kid again for a few brief minutes before a snooty looking businessman told me off for disturbing the pile of leaves. Bah!

It’s going to be a busy month of social shenanigans ahead!  You’ll more than likely be seeing me do my ditsy quiet inconspicuous type thang at:

• Melbourne Twestival – Thursday February 12 at Horse Bazaar*
• Black Friday work do - Friday February 13 at some place where the booze is free and the scenery is cheerful
• Propagandhi - Saturday February 21 at the Corner Hotel

It’s a new month and obviously time to retire the old theme that was used. Time for something new and shiny with thanks to varometro. Very cool Wordpress theme indeed.

Catch you all on Twitter, flickr and Plurk! Rawrr!