adelaide low-down (for Cat Sparks)

[adelaidesean]

A friend sent me a link to a neat site where you can input your postcode and see what the people in your area are getting up to.

Plugging in "5000" reveals that those in my neighbourhood are spending 105.18 minutes drinking and 61.4 minutes having sex every day (both over the national average of 100.89 and 59.68).

We enjoy 501 food outlets (vs 23.14), visit 177 sports/health clubs (14.83), and are 3.66% Buddhist (1.26%).

45.18% of the population are single men (30.75%), 42.91% are single women (28.63%), and 10.31% of those who have paired off are living in sin (5.67%).

Not bad for a little old country town, eh?

And people think I come home to write. :-)

Comments

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah, you just keep on talking in up, buddy...

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Someone's got to.

As it happens, the Gong is also a town of boozers and shaggers (108.26 and 64.24 minutes per day respectively). And they somehow manage to watch more TV as well.

Isn't the world a better place for knowing that?

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

can't talk now... too drunk... too busy... er...

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

er...too much information.

:-)

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

Apparently they also spend a bit of time going to gigs (http://www.thegov.com.au/gig_guide/06_10_28.htm) — or so I rather hope (http://www.fourplay.com.au/archives/2006/10/28/governor-hindmarsh-adelaide/), this Saturday! ;)

I've always liked Adelaide, but y'know, it can be awfully... quiet. A couple of visits ago we were wandering around quite seriously convinced that most of the city had up and left, considering the barren streets... No wonder they have all that sex and drink so much.

My postcode (2008) has 50.28% with a tertiary edjamacashun (vs 23.4% national avg), 31.51% born overseas (twice the national avg, nobbad).
Now, I wonder how they get their statistics. This is News Ltd we're talking about, after all.

PS Sorry for blatant advertising, but I know you're a muso yourself!

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Gah! I'm busy Saturday, otherwise I'd definitely be there. I could've brought my copy of "Catgut" and got it signed. Alas.

Yes, Adelaide has its quiet moments. I kinda like that, especially living in the city centre. If it was in my face all the time, it would get a little tiresome. But there's usually a party going on somewhere, if you know where to look. Like Japan in some ways: the best restaurants don't look like restaurants from the outsides, so westerners have no chance of finding them without a local guide.

Not that I'm suggesting that Adelaide is as cool or refined as a top-end Japanese restaurant. Or a Berlin nightclub, tucked away in an underground bunker whose entrance is invisible from the street. That might be going too far, even for me. :-)

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

Awww, sad now :( I could've brought, I dunno, a Geodesica or something and we could've swapped sigs!

I do have various Adelaide friends (like Tim Koch, dunno if you know of him) who can usually show me somewhere where cool stuff's going on. Adelaide certainly does have a seemingly-disproportionate amount of bonzerness, certainly.

There used to be a bookshop called Known Space Books... does that still exist? Couldn't find it last time, so I assume she's closed up shop. Any others to recommend? (although I probably have no time for bookshopping, sad to say)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Known Space Books is still in the White Pages (28 James Place) so I guess she's still there. I hope so: she owes me money. :-)

Next time you're in town, let's definitely do the sig-swapping thing. I'm going to a Halloween party at Shane Dix's house on Saturday, as it happens. If only there was a way to combine both events...

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

*heh* OK well I may have had an old address or something then. I might just be jumping straight off the plane and running to soundcheck though.

Ah, so it's the ol' Halloween excuse! It's the old "co-writer having a party" thing, yeah heard that one before ;) [kidding] If you drag the whole party along I can get a double-author signature! Although it occurred to me that something older of yours would perhaps be more cool. Did love the Geodesicas though.

I'd love to do the sig-swapping meet-up next time for sure! I'm guessing next Adelaide won't be before Feb/March next year though :/
And I'd love you to hear our new material - new album launched @ the Gov back in July - 'coz it's way better than embarrassing (but fun) old Catgut... Completely biased Sydney review from Another Science Fiction writer here (http://jblum.livejournal.com/83795.html).

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the kind words, and for the heads-up on the new album. That one slipped under my radar. Consider it bought--possibly as soon as this afternoon, if I can get away from the desk. Jon's review is amazing!

Double signatures are rare because Shane never goes to cons. Some people think he's just a figment of my imagination, but I swear he's real. Honest. :-)

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

Aha, so your "excuse" turns out to be that you're going to your imaginary friend's Halloween party! Snubbed! ;)

Anyway, I do have New Adventures in Sci-Fi, which would get me more cool points... or the original version of The Resurrected Man (although that Picacio cover is rather lovel innit!) (but whee, that Martiniere cover I commented on recently is fab - although his Jay Lake cover (http://jaylake.livejournal.com/645183.html) may trump it!)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Invisible entities are traditional fixtures of Halloween, so I refuse to feel like I'm acting inappropriately. :-)

And yes, indeed: bonus points for New Adventures. Has Martiniere done a bad cover yet???

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of! Although, much though I like http://www.martiniere.com/imagepages/riverofgods.htm I did think the original UK trade paperback cover (the blue one, not so much the yellow version for the mass market ones) was stunning.
This is gorgeous:
http://www.martiniere.com/imagepages/peacewar.htm

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

PS Thanks re new album! I hope someone in Adelaide has it. Big Star should, if they know what's good for 'em. It's through MGM, so it should actually have decent store coverage.

I noticed the "with Shane Dix" on the Geodesicas btw, as opposed to a full-blown collab, and the distinction would be odd if he were but an invented personage. So for now, I'll believe you.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Ha, excellent! Another one fooled. :-)

I didn't get to Big Star yesterday, alas. I'll get there soon. I am excited!

[possbert.livejournal.com]

And here in Como, we have nearly 3 times the national average of gay couples.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

That can only be a good thing. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

You just have me wondering if the drinking and the sex are in any way linked.

Mind you 4030 can't talk. 60.18 minutes spent having sex each day and 106.42 minutes spent drinking each day . Obviosuly, my suburb drinks too much to keep up with Adelaide. :-)

Heather

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the drinking and shagging capitals of Australia are. Or, more interestingly, which post code is the most "virtuous". Both would be places to avoid, I suspect. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about the latter but the former is probably some teeny little town somewhere in the Western Australian or New south Wales backwaters. ;-)

I can say this because I lived in a NSW backwater for a while.

Heather

PS The disc is coming. I haven't forgotten and I'm about to hit full nag mode again. I had promises to have it to me by last week, so expect it a wee bit... after Christmas. ;-)