Hey everyone

I feel very content right now -- warm, dry and well fed. All good things to be thankful for, especially as there are so many who can't say the same, but even more exciting for me at the moment as for the past four days it was pretty rare that I fit into any of those categories!

I've just come back from Sonfest, a big Christian music festival held out in a little country town west of Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) which I s'pose is kind of like a Christian version of Sunbury or something. It poured with rain almost the entire time we were there, but that almost made it even more fun. There was ankle deep mud almost everywhere, including the mosh pits. On ordinary Sonfest years you get dirty (we even wrote a poem called Mud Snot last year to prove it) but this year was something else. Everyone's feet were permanently mud-encrusted and everything was sodden. Half our tents were flooded on the first night and we had our own personal creek running through our campsite which we even swam in (a bad idea, especially if you don't like grass in your undies -- er, only speaking from what I heard from others of course). But it was so fun.

The bands went off -- I was lazy and did a lot of not listening to music but the bands I did hear were great. Special mention must go to Gerald -- awesome skanking fest resulting in really weird blisters on my toes; Coma -- hardcore, growly stuff that I would ordinarily hate but they were great performers and their whole show was really sharp; and of course Maverick, which I'm totally biased towards because all my friends are in it, but they were too cool for school. Oh and Footstool Rhyme (awesome Christian Aussie hip hop trio). And how could I forget Scat. And of course there was Audiology and Soulframe...

There's tons I could say and reminisce about but the fact I'm severely sleep deprived is having its effect on both my brain and fingers so I won't say much more. Some random memories from the week though....

Crash-tackling my sister into knee-deep mud; meeting Sideshow Bob's non-animated twin; severely offending a guy by asking him if he was Matt from Australian Idol; watching one of the most...interesting... performances of American Pie I've ever been priveleged to witness; singing improv jazz at the Campus stage; spilling hot milo on Rocco's mattress.... thrice; not washing my hair for three days and realising I could take out my hair-tie and my hair stayed where it had been before; walking aimlessly around Boonah at 3am; and finally, my 'breakfast' this morning -- some random chick who threw handfuls of No Frills Cocoa Puffs at me to see how many I could catch in my mouth.

Take care of your feet: you never know when you're going to need them to kick someone face down into thick clay mud and jump up and down on their head.

Teegs
ps. Will post photos when I get them