She's back!

Hold your seat in anticipation - there are rumours that KT, aka Angel will be back posting here soon!

The NSW big things tour

I am off on a mission to see the big things in NSW. So far I have:

Big Prawn
Big Oyster
Big Wine Cask
big Mosquito
big Merino
Big Potato
Big Honeypot
Big Elephant
Big Banana

Krista "the giggling machine"walter will be joining me on this important quest!

Chalmers St @ Spectrum

The word must be spreading - Spectrum is heaving tonight. It's shoulder-to-shoulder, wall-to-wall madness in here as everyone is craning to get a better look at Sydney's Chalmers Street. They bring to the table a clean and wholesome brand of pop-rock and serve it up with dirty bass and flame-licked guitar riffs. This is the kind of show that nearly everyone should be able to appreciate (thrash-metal fans excluded); there's a distinct level of innocence and intimacy in the performance, a buzz of excitement radiating from a band who have found their feet… and an audience. The group is fronted by a slightly shy but totally cute songstress with a beautiful and powerful voice that lifts the room and shakes the cobwebs out of it. When combined with her guitarist's voice, the harmonies have a Killing Heidi quality to them and it's not surprising that the crowd cries for an encore at the end. What is surprising is that they get to play one… the mob speaks and Jager listens! Drew Clarke, Jager Uprising

Not a bad review - but then they are always nice!

Sydney Swans 2005 Premiers!

GO SWANS!

GO SWANS!

Yes I did manage to watch it in Paris. Cafe Oz - what a champion place! How Big Kev excited was I!. Download Wallpaper here - sydneyswans.com.au

Paris in September

Hi guys


here I am in Paris! I don't think I have eaten so much or walked so far in a long time!

The Apartment we are staying in is fantastic- even if the TV doesn't work.

I am trying to find out if and where they are showing the AFL grand final in Paris!

GO BARRY GO!

So far the weather here has been fantastic. Much better than when I was here in May. No celebrity sightings as yet but.....

Paris - cheese, wine and croissants. As Big Kev would say - I'm excited!
Tomorrow Anni and I are heading off to Euro Disney, the entire concept seems quite bizarre to me, but apparently it is the most popular fee paying attraction in Europe!

Till next time... au revoir!

Chalmer St Acoustic

Yes the fans asked for it so here is the first piece of Chalmers St media in the Media Vault --->

Download Chalmers St's acoustic version of the classic K's Choice song, "Not and Addict" featuring Nikki on vox, Jock on guitar and your truly on the other guitar!

Download at the Media Vault or here!

MBA Exams

Unfortunately I appeared to make one giant oversight in my planning to switch from Part time to Full Time MBA. Exams!!!

I hate them! And I have forgotten how stressful it is to do multiples! I have just finished Supply Chain Management and I have Corporate Finance tomorrow and Accounting on Friday.

It seems as the new kid - no one told me not to take all the electives with exams. What was I thinking - Luckily I am now enlightened for next term!

Caption Competition - August 2005

OK Team here is Sommers (Chalmers st guitartist) and ANT our sound guy. Can anyone guess what's going on here???

Bye Bye Clarisse

Clarisse, aka Evil, aka KP, aka Poidas has left Australia! The country will be in a sorry state now that you are not here! Have a great time in France, Canada and the UK. I'll see you next year somewhere!

Happy Birthday KT!

new videos in the vault

Check out the adventures of KT and The Krust in Central Park New York

See the media vault --->

stealing bowling shoes

Why is KT the only one with "stealing bowling shoes" in her profile - seems like there would be more people in the world doing it....

What is your WARNING label?

Username:

From Go-Quiz.com

This is ridiculous - Michael Jackson Toast

Could things get more ridiculous on eBay - Scary thing is I think this person is serious!

This morning I was eating some toast and I looked down and WOW, what was on my toast one piece had Michael Jackson face with Yeah and the other said Not Guilty! I was shocked, so I saved it and waited and then today at 4:30 my time it came on the news and there it was Michael Jackson is found NOT Guilty! What a find I could not belive that the morning of the Verdict it was on my toast FIRST! So I just knew I had to get this on ebay so up for auction is 2 piece of toast one has Michael Jackson face and the word Yeah and the other is the toast that say NOT Guilty!

Check it out here -
Michael Jackson Verdict found on my TOAST!!!!LOOK!!!!

Cheese Head - for L + J

Who could ever forget the cheese incident of 2003

The Krust is unemployed

Ok - so talking in the third person is pretty rank. Think Grievous in that ridiculous fire soap channel 7 used to run. No more of that....

I am now officially unemployed! I finished up with Optus after almost 4 years on the 17th of June. What a spin out! Found this old photo - taken from my sitting at favorite desk while I was at Optus.

I am off to study full time - looking forward to staying up and out late, getting up late, my concession card and drunken band rehearsals. Bring it on!!!!

Also looking forward to Uni holidays - hopefully Chalmers St can take it to the road in Dec 05. Brisbane and Melbourne look out!!!

So far today I have done absolutely nothing. I am thinking of going down to the bank, and maybe stopping off to have a coffee - may take Cassie with me.

I am going to have to learn to do this whole budget thing - Sarah, Ray - HELP!

Stafford St Sparklers

The 2005 annual Stafford St party brought out all the pyromaniacs. A good time was had by all - who'd have thought sparklers were so much fun!

The beginning, The Krust



Clarisse



Josie



KT


And check out footage of Kt's crazy fire dancing in the media vault --->

Pelican does Paris

And the winner is . . . . Greece

Congratulations Helena - you've done Greece proud!

Get the low down at the official Eurovision site. Here's a sample of what you can find on the site...

"Next, it was the bookies’ favourite Greece. Helena was wearing a beautiful short dress and looked confident as she sang her racy pop song, while throwing herself into some complicated choreography. At one point she was lifted high above the head of her dancers, mid-chorus, but her vocal performance showed no sign of disruption. A really good performance."

Eurovision Song Contest KYIV 2005 www.eurovision.tv


And check out the interview with Estonia's entrants Suntribe at the official Eurovision site ...
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/1670.htm

Caption Competition - May 2005

This is a ripsnorter of a photo of Olivier - taken in a bar in Paris last week.

Post your entries as comments - the winner will receive a yet to be determined prize from The Krust!

When in Paris

Do as the Parisians do... ???





Can someone please translate! Is shuffleboard popular in Paris???

Too funny.....

The Pelican at the Sarah Bettens show, Le Trabendo, Paris

Percy on Tour...
Percy managed to see Sarah Bettens (Paris) on his world tour. Percy and I joined my friend Olivier in Paris to see the show

Le Trabendo
The venue was someone out in the boonies to the Nth East of Paris (I think). I can't really remember - I just got on a bus. I have decided I like French buses - they are green .

The venue had a very weird setup - you came in at the side of the stage, but there were barriers and stairs in the way. We grabbed some beers (gotta love the plastic cups) and headed down the front. We got a good position on the right hand side in front of Eric.

The gig
The show was fantastic - I really love Sarah's new stuff - especially "One second" which is my favourite song on the new album. It's actually in my Top 10 of all-time songs-ever! I must have listened to it more than 100 times on the way over from Australia. I don't think I could ever live without my iPod!

Percy and the Band

Sarah & Percy


Tom, Eric & Percy

Curt & Percy



Brady, Kristi & Percy

Next show...
Not sure as I have run out of money so can't even travel outside of Sydney for awhile!!!

Europe

I made it over to Europe on a very crappy American Airlines flight from New York to London. Then off to Tallin via Helsinki.

How much do I love my European Union Passport - no silly forms or ridiculous questions like...

• Q - How long do you intend to stay in London, (Are you going to stay here illegally)
• A - 1 week (I can't stand the weather so you don't seriously think I am staying do you??)

Plus you can carry around as much alcohol as you like - I think the limit into the UK is personal use and into Estonia is 110L of beer, 100L of wine and 10L of spirits! This EU thing is tops.

Now I am in London, having had my first serious travel mishap. They left my bag in Helsinki. Apparently the connections was too short. This was slightly concerning as I have Jock's mega cool guitar pedal board in my suitcase....

However, this meant that I didn't have to lug it all over London on the tube and they brought it directly to where I was staying (with Jo and John in Angel).

Picture will follow soon - this stupid internet cafe has n0 photoshop or even paint to manipulate the photos.

Will talk soon....

Shoes - Boston

The Krust

Katie

Shoes & Flares - Toronto

The Krust

Where is KT???

She hasn't been heard from since announcing she was off to a secret location for spring break. I have flown to Boston to fin out - rumours circulating are:

• She has joined an all girls kazoo band and is travelling Nth America;
• She is filming the next season of The Apprentice;
• She has been detained by Indonesian authorities on drug trafficking charges; or
• She can't be bothered writing in the blog.

I'll see what I can find out!

SYD-LAX-JFK-IAD-YYZ

A few random thoughts about my journey to Toronto:

• Qantas business class rocks! (they have campari)
• United Sucks (no free alcohol)
• The high water in Nth America still scares me ... after all this time
• Hotel airports are always dissapointing
• American coffee sucks
• American infomercials are strangely persuasive
• Sam Adams good, Budweiser really really really bad...

Chalmers St Photos

The photos have arrived from our show in Feb at the Hopetoun. Preview below....

Flick, Jockster and Namuk



Sommers and Flick



Jockster rocking out




The Krust deep in concentration

..... Big Phallica - Excess All Areas ......

Yes girls - the wait is over - the Big Phallica boys have just launched their new website. Before you all run over there screaming and panting, a few ground rules:

• Phallus Bullpoon has announced a month of celibacy
  
  
• The Elderr is currently auditioning for a S&M biatch
  
  
• Under no circumstances should you mention the banana and grape incident of 2001.

Big Phallica - Excess All Areas....

Swans steal stunning win

Sydney has stormed home with a 7.3 to 1.1 final quarter, including an after-the-final-siren goal by full-forward Barry Hall, to snatch a six-point win - 13.9 (87) to 11.15 (81) - from the Brisbane Lions in a thriller at the Gabba...... Read the article at afl.com.au !

Go Team!!!!

Isn't he cute!

This is my Canadian friend Curtis's son Hayden. He turns two on Sunday the 10th of April!

What a cutey!!!!

KT & The Krust bring you . . . The Media Vault

What you have all been waiting for - audio and video of the adventures of KT and The Krust.

The Media Vault is now located on the right sidebar for your media pleasure. --->

First up, we have The Krust's (that's me) old band Tantrum, performing live a version of Faith No More's 'Gentle Art of Making Enemies'. We have had numerous request so I hope this pleases you guys!

And - for those who think KT takes herself to seriously - here's the proof:

Not Guilty!

Check out Crazy dancing to our favourite modern day poet - Anastacia.

Happy Birthday Clarisse!

Everyone wish Clarisse a Happy Birthday - it's her special day!

Spring Break is Here!

Hooray for me! Spring break is here (even though it still feels like winter here in Boston). I am going somewhere warm and fun and cultural for a week! Woo hoo! At this point, I cannot divulge the location of my holiday ... but when I make it back I will post photos and a quick report.

In the meantime, here are some fun photos of me and some of my friends from last weekend - first Andrea, Rita and I were at a progressive dinner (thanks for the hot water Ari!)




... then we celebrated Xave's 60th birthday ...

March Update by The Krust

Thought I would update you all with a KT style update:

March 17 2005

Feeling: sore and sorry for myself after knee surgery last week

Drinking: water (no alcohol until the swelling goes down)

Listening: new Hirst & Greene album 'In the Stealth of Summer', Bitchslap 'Eat me!" and Chalmers St Rehersal tapes. Also have managed to get out to see Hirst & Greene at the Basement. Top show plus I got personal mention, a poster and Rob gave me a sunflower!

Eating: Home food - trying to stay away from bad food

Taking: pain killers - Panadeine Forte are great but mess with my head. Can't even concentrate long enough to watch a whole movie!

Living: at home with Mum and my sister looking after me

Studying: Managerial Skills and desperately trying to finish my assignment on time

Looking: at all the new holes in my knee...

Playing: Half-Life 2, Sims 2 University, Bass guitar

Watching: Six Feeet Under (series 1 and 2)

Receiving: packages of stuff I bought on eBay!

Stressing: about Chalmers St gig next week - will I be able to play and do I need to sit down on a stool like a tosser

Looking: forward to being able to walk again properly

March Update by KT

As I have been away for a while, I have decided to give a Krusty-style update on my status:

Mar 12, 2005

Drinking: Gatorade (no powerade), Diet Coke, Naked, Wine, Vodka

Listening: To Mr Plough machine noise outside my window, Missy Higgins (I love her, especially the song Katie ... "Katie was a little girl ...")

Eating: Oreos, HBS Canteen food, Felipe's burritos (yum!)

Living: In nice warm apartment on campus with flatmate Emily

Studying: Various bits and pieces ... favourite subjects: Strategy & Entrepreneurial Management

Learning: How to scuba dive (pool dives complete - woo hoo!)

Playing: Electronic drumsticks, the fool

Painting: Potraits of classmates - eg Andrea & Jay:

Watching: Ab Fab DVDs, The Apprentice (street smarts v book smarts), Seinfeld re-runs, the snow falling outside my window

Receiving: drunken phone calls from Aussie mates (Evil & Yakka) at 6 in the morning

Hanging: with favourite people: Andrea & Jay, Rita & Natalie (keeping me sane!) ... and of course BH (xx)

Looking: forward to Spring break (sunshine here I come!), for a summer job!

Missing: family and friends back in Australia

Checking: favourite webpage: http://www.news.com.au/otherside/

Back From Snow

Krust! Good job on the blog ... sorry I have been away. I have been playing in the snow ...



Check out the snow angel I made!!

Chalmers St at the Coogee Bay

Woo Hoo - 3rd show for me with Chalmers St. V. Excitement. Here we all (well almost) are at the Coogee Bay for an after Party for the SLAM beach volley ball comp. Cool hey!


Somers, Namik, Flick and Jock (can anyone guess where I am?)

I get my own photo caus I spent most of the time behind the pole!

We are on a hiatus due to my gammy knee - surgery tomorrow! But don't stress caus we will be back soon - hopefully with a cool website and merchandise!

Big Kev spotted at Wave Aid

Yes it's true! I've finally tracked down Big Kev. He's now working in security as proven by this photo taken at Wave Aid.

Big Kev braved the nose bleed seats to keep an eye on things at the SCG. Well done Big Kev!


PS - Please send your Big Kev spottings through the the TMP blog....

Chalmers St - First gig for 2005 (and first gig with The Krust)

Hi peoples,

I'm playing my first gig with Chalmers St! If you want to come and hear some great rock/pop and some particularly patchy bass playing, come along:

Monday 21 February, 9pm

Hopetoun Hotel
Cnr Fouveaux and Bourke Streets
Surry Hills

Venue info can be found here! They have a good beer selection and cheap sparkling white - for those who are that way inclined!

It's part of a band comp to play Homebake so the more people we get there the better!

Coke vs Diet Coke

Today I began pondering the whole Coke vs Diet Coke thing. Coke apparently has 7 teaspoons of sugar in it, but diet coke has weird chemicals that can rot your insides. I feel I should be drinking diet coke, caus coke is just bad. but is diet coke just as bad? I am not really sure. Diet Coke tastes pretty grotty - and the stuff in it is making it taste grotty.

Maybe I shouldn't be drinking any kinda of coke I hear you say - good point, but completely impractical so we'll move on.

According to Joi Ito, see article , Aspartame/Nutrasweet also breaks down to diketopiperazine [DKP] which is proven to cause Brain Tumors! Brain Tumors used to be rare. Several of the rats in the original study formed brain tumors during their Aspartame/Nutrasweet exposure. The researchers surgically removed the tumors and returned the rats to the study and discounted the tumors.

I'm not sure how true it is but it sounds pretty bad! Interestingly my google serach brought up heaps more articles about Diet Coke than Coke. Hmmm interesting.

Well i haven't reached a decision yet - I think I will continue on my Diet Coke drinking, with the exception of Fridays when we have burgers, until I come up with the answer

Spot the famous bass player!

Hey guys - can you pick the most famous bass player! Kath & I saw Midnight Oil play at manly Leagues, a warm-up gig for their stellar Wave Aid performance on 29th January 2005. We had a bit of a chat with the guys backstage afterwards. They were all very excited about playing Wave Aid. Obviouslt Kath and I chatted with Bones about how hard it is to actually play bass - harder than it looks! ;)

Kath (Ex Taffeta Punk, Roomy and Tantrum)
Bones (Ex Swingers, Midnight Oil)
Kristi (Ex Melba, Ex Not Happy Jan, Chalmers St)

The highlights from the show were Lucky Country, Brave Faces and Blue Sky Mine. It was geat to catch up with old mates John, Ribman, Luke, Jo, Andrew, Nathan, Deslea, funny bald guy, crazy french Miron, Seweryn with beard, Justin, Terry and all you other guys.

Oh, I almost forgot, another highligh was getting to east some of the crew's Thai food (that way I could avoid scary RSL type food from downstairs)

Midnight Oil to play at Wave Aid - Jan 29th

I am so big Kev excited I don't know what to say!



Tickets on Sale next Monday. Details at http://www.waveaid.com.au/

What burger is this?

OK fast food gurus - time to test your burger recognition skills!

Yes -you were all correct - it's an Oporto Bondi burger. Well done team!

FYI - The poll crashed but here were the available options:

• Oporto Bondi
• Hungry Jacks Whopper
• MacDonalds Quarter Pounder
• KFC Chicken Fillet
  

Weekly update - Number 2

OK so I think this has already turned into a monthly update... was to be expected really!

Dec 27, 2004
Drinking: Riesling, Vodka & Tonic and New
Listening: Sam's meows, My Attrocious Bass playing, Howling Sydney winds
Eating: KFC, Maccas and Allens Snakes.
Studying: On break! Yah for me!
Playing: Guitar(I just bought a Cherry-red SG!!!!) and bass guitar
Living: In Waverton at my friend Alli's place.
Painting: Self potraits for our Krustyfries office (Kath and me)
Watching: Kath & Kim, The Apprentice, The Richard Branson one and Crossing Jordan
Shopping: Bondi Junction (Xmas presents), Chatswood (Blender), Coogee (Guitar), North Sydney (Clock Radio)

Tomorrow I am going to New Zealand

Auckland to be precise. If anyone can give me suggestions as to what to do that would be most helpful! I am only there for a day - back on Monday

The Krust

E.T. Nutra Grain on sale at ebay

Following the sucess of the Virgin mary Toast - here comes the E.T. Nutra Grain. Yes - Seriously. Thanks to B&T for telling me about this one!

Serious Bidders only kids...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=153&item=2288274647&rd=1

Send jumpinladyfresh to Valencia

Please vote for my mate in Brussels to get a free ticket to Valencia. All you gotta do is click a box. It's that easy! And you get a warm and fuzzy feeling that you are helping someone you don't know. Or, you can vote for yourself to go to Valencia (Doesn't work from Australia though!)

Click on the link below:

Reminder that me is not me, but someone else...

Cheers and Beers
The Krust

USB Gadgets

Today I ordered a USB christmas tree from thinkgeek.com. I haven't worked out whether it's extremely cool, or extermely sad... You be the judge...

Well the poll was a tie between:

It rocks, no doubt about it

&

WTF?

Weekly update - Number 1

Hi kids, I have decided to do a weekly update (don't actually expect one weekly) to keep you up-to-date with my exciting life.

Nov 20, 2004
Drinking: Campari, Corona and Red Bull (not at the same time)
Listening: Fyreflyes, Redstar, Hirst & Greene (live); K's Choice, Kidneythieves, Chalmers St (Recorded)
Eating: NuShape pre-prepared food left over from my sister's diet
Studying: Operations Management and Data Analysis (assignment due Wed!!!)
Playing: Guitar and Sims2
Hoping: My knee will get better and the operation will go well
Wishing: To join a new band and play music again
Not minding: Physio is not so bad and has become a bit of a social occasion where I can run pseudo focus groups on Dial-up Internet

Breakfast

Today I had Red Bull for breakfast. It was grayche!

The Krust with Eurovision Song Contest Winner

I've been looking through OPUS at my photos and I came across this one from last year! I was in a nightclub inTallinn, Estonia in June 2003 and ran into Tanel Padar the 2001 winner of the Euroision Song Contest. Being a huge fan of the contest I as naturally stoked!


Estonia won the 46th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Everybody" sung by Tanel Padar and Dave Benton.

And there winner is . . . Estonia!

K's Choice gig - Boston

This show was amazing. Definately worth the plan trip over from Australia!!! The last time I saw K's Choice was 97 when the came out to tour Australia. Unfortunately they haven't been back since so I had to get over to the US to see them on their final tour.

What can I say - it was absolutely fantastic!

I actually saw "Losing You" played on my flight over from Sydney to San Francisco!!! It was definately a sign.

KT and I came from a Halloween party before hand, so here we are about to get changed in the Paradise Rock Club, Boston.

I have a some happy snaps below:

...Sarah Bettens...

Numerous vodka and oranges, terrible singing from The krust. Even worse dancing due to knee restrictions. Not even the lawnmower move got a guernsey tonight....

... Gert Bettens...

After show set list signing, photos and banter...

...Pondering with Gert...

...Posing with Sarah...

Boston Town - Harvard Business School

Hi Team

will now write about my time in boston. Spent Friday day in KTs classes learning about Barilla pasta and Suave (apparently a low price shampoo - no i don't expect any of you to know it). Class was very interesting and I could pretty much follow. There are about 90 people in the class, yet it is extremely controlled. Very impressive.

Spent the evening hanging out at a few places drinking some local beer and non local vodka.

I can't remeber what this bar was called but it had a communist theme with cool stuff on the wall!

Here we are about to enter a cheesy bar fll of 80s tunes: Madonna, Kylie and Bon Jovi

Then off to "hong kong" to drink a bowl of indescribable....

Two great Austraaalians

Dick Smith & Big Kev

Coming to America

Yes kids it's true - I am on my way. Armed with blu tak and tim tams!

I can't wait

In the meantime I'll leave you with a quote from one of this century's most famous poets, Anastacia

(Cue Kate Bush)

"All my life I've been waiting
For you to bring a fairy tale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It's not okay
I don't feel safe...."

Cheers
The Krust

The Krust does a Jana Pittman

Hi Team,

had some knee surgery yesterday and all is good.

Big thanks to my sensational surgeon!!!

I have come out alive, complete with Panadeine Fortes
and the Jana Pittman crutches. Pictures to come soon!

yours under prescription drugs,
The Krust

Kath and Kim

Kath & Kim are back at 8:30pm Thursday, 7 October

From the ABC Website...

"Can you feel it in your waters? Do you have a hinkling that something big is on the way? The wait is finally over... get to your television tout suite, as Australia's favourite comedy, Kath & Kim, returns to ABC TV in a new eight-part series from Thursday October 7 at 8.30pm."

Read the entire article here

Postcard from Sharon

Dear KT,

Jennifer and I & having an absolute blast. Partying in NY is so much fun. It's nice, it's different, it's unusual. Only bummer is I am yet to find Dippity-Bix or Footy Franks.

Remember, you're a hornbag!
love Sharon

Thanks for having me ...

Actually Krust, I'm at the bar on the right (it's all opposite on this side) and I'm considering using the toilets on the left but I'm afraid of the high water levels ... I'll hold for now.

How's the coffee search going? Being a person who only drinks coffee in absolute emergencies, I don't share your dream. But I love a good Milo in the afternoon. Thanks to Jocko, I'm all stocked up. Gotta be made of Milo.

Saw the largest ever tub of marg in the supermarket today. Just thought you'd like to know. It was (no joke) the size of my head. And my head is not small. America is the land of the large. In fact, since I've been here, I have not once finished a meal. My dream is to completely consume one American meal in a single sitting. I'll keep you posted.

OK, just about to finish up a case on the VW Beetle, then out with my classmates to Redline (one of the usual places to go at Harvard Square). Promise to call at least one of them a flaming galah ;-)

But before I go ... I was thinking about writing a song (it's my goal for today). I have the first line: "Just a-walking down the road" ... but that's it. Can you help?

Welcome to Tickets Money Passport!

Join KT and The Krust on their hilarious adventures. Kt is teaching the Australian language at the Harvard Business School. The Krust is hobbling around Sydney searching for the perfect coffee.

Here you will find ramblings, photos, images and other general crap. Come inside, bar on the left, toilets on the right!

Until next time...
The Krust