Durn it

And once again I signed up for a blog and then completely forgot about it. Between email, facebook, myspace and various other pages that I hardly look at or update (MP3.com.au, JJJ Unearthed, ABC Contribute, etc, etc) it gets hard to keep up. And so often I find myself online looking at bullshit and not doing anything productive. 'Tis a familiar story to many I'm afraid, and unfortunate since the internet offers so many opportunities, not only for communication but for generating work, which I need to do.

Currently I'm organising a tour for May and June, starting in Perth, working up to Geraldton and Broome and then across to Darwin and down to Alice Springs. I have no idea how I'm going to afford it, but if I can pick up some workshops then I should be ok - and I'm moving out of my house so I don't have to worry about rent at least. Got a couple of gigs booked in Perth and leads on a few others, fingers crossed.

Also working on a show with my dear friend Carmen, 20 minutes of poetry on sex and personal politics, very raw some of it, it's coming up well and I have high hopes for the possibilities it could hold.

Now to work.

And sometimes everything gets so crazy. Sometimes I don't know where my head is and there's fourty things I think I should be doing but I can't focus. Too many projects that are more in my head than anywhere else.

So I'm going to try to use this as a tool to help me focus, rather than another distraction. This will keep me honest, because if I'm not doing the work that I'm supposed to be doing then it will be right here in the public domain. So much of life seems to be lived in public now. I have no wish to air my relationships, past or present, or to bitch about anyone in particular, I just have a need for communication. Strange to find that in a poet really.

And right now I'm supposed to be calling a friend to discuss a show we're writing, so that's what I'm gonna do, and I'll post more about it when we've got it together.

Steve