Fuck, it’s been more than a fortnight, but I wasn’t anticipating my Jan being so busy. My work runs holiday programs and it’s been way busier than we expected and stand up gigs have been picking up. Below is the newsletter and if it’s your first time here, have a honk on the ‘subscribe now’ button. Love, Searlo xoxo
Gig Pig
I did 3 gigs week before last, 4 last week and 6 this week! Gigs are coming back! It’s exciting! I’m really enjoying being back in a kinda grind of comedy, the highs and lows of it. Had like a dream run of spots, did real well, but for good measure I bombed a couple spots as well, mostly just from being exhausted and not having enough time to work on things, and obviously being a fundamentally bad person to my very core.
Burnley Street
I used to live on Burnley Street right near the Rising Sun Hotel and Burnley is song written by Tom Lanyon with the band Ceres about that same street. Its weird calling it a street, it’s a hectic arterial connecting major businesses in Richmond to the Monash Freeway. Luke and I moved into this place with my at-the-time friend Amy. We had a falling-out due to my own pigheadedness a couple of months into renting the place. The house was a fucking dump in hindsight, but you put that aside to live in a cool spot with you friends. Summer was brutally hot, and winter was damp and cold. It was a long old skinny terrace place with minimal renovations.
I can’t really remember the timeline of living in this place. I have these flashes of memories that pop into my head and the older I get the more I wonder if things really happened like I remember. I think I’ve romanticised the time here. I remember a really hot summer, I remember getting really pissed a lot. I remember feeling like I was really living. One of my most significant relationships started in this house. One that makes you stand back after and realise you’re not the person you thought you were.
This song is a time machine back to standing outside in the middle of summer, it came on the other day and I had this flood of memories. It’s nice.
Content Corner
Some content I’ve enjoyed over the last little while.
Babyteeth
Finally got around to seeing this after hearing a lot about it. Harrowing in parts, but great to see an Australian film like this. Mendo is in top form and I’m looking forward to seeing more of Toby Wallace and Eliza Scanlen. There’s a line that stuck out for me “we're losing”, I’ve been thinking about it a lot since.
Akira
I hadn’t watched it since I was in early high school, but my girlfriend got us tickets to see it at Thornbury Picture House. The Remaster looks insane and the sound was incredible. We both liked it a lot. Most of it went over my head in early high school I now realise, it’s very relevant to our current times.
EXUM ~ Dark Kept Secret
This song is dope, listen.