An entire post about Australian music would be of interest to roughly 0% of the readers of this blog, so it’s probably a bit self-indulgent. But then the whole point of blogs is self-indulgence.

Salon’s feature CD this weekend is the newish Go-Betweens album Bright Yellow, Bright Orange. They like it a lot more than Rachel Worth, but then they didn’t like Rachel Worth that much. I thought it was a pretty good album actually, though I got the impression that not many people agreed with me. In any case, the more publicity the Go-Betweens get the better.

For a while last year I thought the Go-Betweens Botany Sessions were as good as the Basement Tapes. This may have been misplaced patriotism, though they are pretty good. (By the way, does anyone have the Tree with Roots version of the Basement Tapes yet?)

Two Australian bands are in the Cambridge are this week. On Wednesday the Dirty Three play the Middle East Club, and on Saturday the Waifs play the Somerville Theatre. Someone could get a very odd impression of what Australian music is like from seeing these two.

Just to get the pop culture references out of the system, I finally saw the newish BBC ‘comedy’ The Office. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything quite so disturbing. Office life in all its glory. Of course, it was absolutely riveting, in a car crash kind of way. I am so grateful that I get to work in academia some days.