It is very late on Sunday as I am uploading this so bear with me.

This track is a mostly finished demo that I was planning to re-record today, but ran out of time. I instead spent time with Jamatar making some ambient post-rock guitar improv stuff in a rehearsal room. I was thinking about uploading a recording from that session instead of this, but one of my goals for this year's weeklybeats was to try and write a song every week, and that means singing! So, uploading this, and I think I will return to the post-rock recording session next week and add some vocals hopefully.

This week was big and busy.
I noticed a lot of good fortune this week. A car park freeing up right as I needed to find one. At a takeaway place, a friend and I got a free schnitzel sandwich because they had mistakenly prepared the wrong one for the person before us.

We had some beautiful foggy mornings here. It was mesmerising driving through the city as the lights set the sky ablaze in the early morning. It was such an odd but fun experience running around the track and seeing silhouettes fade in and out of view too.

I also went and saw Eskimo Joe perform on their 20th anniversary tour of the album Black Fingernails, Red Wine. I have returned to that album so many times as I've grown up, but it has such strong ties to my childhood. I'd never seen the band perform live, so I didn't even know what they looked like, but as soon as they started performing I had that fantastic realisation - that thing that existed as a form of media for so long, the soundtrack to my memories, was right in front of me as a real tangible thing. They sounded incredible, and just like the album.
Also, opening for them was Alex Lloyd and oh my, what a voice. He did a beautiful rendition of Hallelujah.

Yesterday, the weather turned it on yet again (I fear the delayed winter will hit even harder). I made the most of it by going on a long run around the city, enjoying the sights: skyscrapers touching clouds, warped reflections of the city in the river, dogs walking around the tan track. A particular highlight was a man running up the Anderson St hill pushing two (reasonably well-grown) toddlers in a pram - I was thoroughly impressed, a very strong effort. The afternoon was spent riding around to Melbourne design week events with a group of friends. I struggle to explain here why I enjoyed it so much. The design exhibitions were great, and being able to experience them with friends was lovely.

I have not managed to make time to listen to submissions this week (please forgive me) but I am looking forward to getting to them tomorrow! I am very excited to hear what everyone has been up to!

Anyway, now I must sleep.

(The planned complete lyrics):

I get such a crush
from watching her brush her hair
the feeling is better
when she doesn't know I'm there

she floats down the street
she moves in her own way
and if I could meet her gaze
I'd give myself away

there's something she said
it goes to my head again
she's in my way
she takes all my oxygen

breathe me in and
see me out and
breathe me in and
bleed me out

I park and walk
we don't have to talk about it
the night is a raft
and my head would drown without it

Tags: acoustic, guitar, vocals, week 20 2026, View by:Tom Foolery