The first cut is the deepest…

2DO bounces back…

2DO to be translated into Czech – 7th translation in total…
more on this sensational news shortly.

G’day…G’dafternoon…G’dmorning…

5.30 am – Up for my interview on ABC radio Perth.
6.20 am – A shower, two coffees and a few loosening star-jumps later and now it’s all over. I feel a little beached by the experience – wide awake and raring to do it all again. Instead, I return to the disorientating darkness of the bedroom and the drowsy mewlings of my son.

Still, despite the bizarre timing of the experience, Geraldine the host (and her co-host Gillian) were good sports – breezy, energetic and up for a laugh. In the 15-minute spot I recount how the 2DO project got started (though my patter’s a bit rusty – Mike usually does these things…), and about some of the more engaging story titles that have been submitted – ‘Ski Toeless’, ‘Discover the meaning of life’ and ‘Eat pizza with JD Salinger’ to name a few. There was a brief shout out to my sister (who’s co-incidentally camper-vanning across the Australian east coast with her family) and a short discussion on the virtues of threesomes, fivesomes, etc… Asked about my own list I suddenly realize I haven’t given it a look in too long and on the spot I struggle to recall much apart from ‘Learn the sax’ and ‘Start a family’. I go on to proudly say both ‘my boy and my horn’ are safe upstairs which rather neatly frames me as a sinister kiddie-fiddler stalking the phonelines at the crack of dawn.

An entertaining phone-in followed by all accounts, but by then I was back on (not in) my bed, winding back my body clock and trying hard not to re-answer all the questions in a much more eloquent way…

- Chris

Up early for Down Under

6am on a Wednesday morning usually sees me comatose and lightly dreaming I have the gift of flight (either that or imploring my lark-like 3 year old son to stop playing with the radio and go back to sleep).
Tomorrow, however, I shall be broadcasting my rusty tones across the planet and into the afternoon teas of several thousand west coast Australians. Radio ABC Perth is playing host on the Geraldine Mellet afternoon show from 3pm West Coast Time, in a show set to cover the 2DO project, the internet and listmaking in general.

There’s a phone-in too, so if you’re on the west coast of australia and reading this, why not give ABC a call and air your deepest ambitions to a curious public…

For the rest of you Northern Hemispherians (?) I’ll post a follow-up to let you know how it went, maybe even some audio snippets if you’re very crafty.

Chris