The girl is addicted to sparkling water
There is no perfect twee…
recalcitrant berd
It’s the most, magical time, of the yearrr
She stops to wave and say hi to bush turkeys. We raised her well.
I see 2020 has a side hustle
On the off chance that there are people that can’t make it to your wedding, I stream your wedding with epic video and audio quality, so everyone feels like they’re right there … even though they’re at home.
Video streaming is included for free for everyone that books me!
Look at the flowers, look how they shine for you, and everything you do. They were all yellow.
Nothing says “you’re a weak little nancy boy" like an Instagram ad for some flippin cool gadget that is algorithmically designed to get me to purchase it. Tonight I might have won the battle, but cool-ass gadgets showed to me through social media ads, you may yet win the war.
The sun’s version of making a grand exit
It’s really good that one of our local Brisbane wedding venues can host your little footy final this afternoon, Melbourne.
We’re glad to help any time you need.
Lots of love,
Josh, Queensland.
There’s probably a horror movie at the end of this road
🌙
So energetic
The anthem of Melbourne, 2020. Melbourne by Slowly Slowly
Why have I listened to 400 episodes of ATP?
One of my earliest memories is listening to Play School on the ABC because I’d been given a TV that didn’t show a picture.
The medium of audio storytelling has been a passion of mine for so long, I found a career in it first in community radio, then in commercial radio as a techie and then as a breakfast announcer.
As podcasting became a thing, thanks Cameron, I have held a steady interest the entire time.
As the market for podcasts developed, the market split in half can be roughly described like this:
The first kind of podcasts are well-produced news, entertainment, and information podcasts. They’re sharp sounding, and well made.
The second kind is my favourite kind. They’re simple, people in conversation, drawing me into that conversation without ever knowing me. I’m unashamedly standing in an audience, yet I feel connected to those people. It’s a nice connection.
Accidental Tech Podcast is one of those second kind of podcasts, and in their 400th episode, at the end of the episode, in the post-show, they talk about this kind of podcasting and why people like me have been listening for 400 episodes.
It’s come to my attention that I need to clear something up and I’m so sorry if you have been following me here for the wrong reasons.
I’m a celebrant, not a celibate.
These are completely different things.
”Hyun, if you are living a life that is content my advice is to learn to live inside it, examine it, relish it, and most of all remember it — this extraordinary thing, a happy life:”
Nick Cave in reply to Hyun’s question on creativity only flourishing in a state of loss and longing.
Anyone else struggling getting their head in a good and peaceful place at the moment?
Luke Fletcher just sent me this pic of Luna from this time last year when we were in New York together for an elopement with The Elopement Collective.
My brain is in a constant state of change, one minute thinking about how nice it is to be at home and to pick Luna up from kindy, next minute I’m thinking about the 44 of our couples who have booked us but don’t have a new date yet and the 180 movements our couples have made to their wedding and elopement plans around the globe, then my mind wanders to the administrative nightmare that is my computer and my inbox and how I should probably accidentally drop the MacBook into a pond to save me cleaning up the files on the desktop, and before long my mind wanders to the reality of our 2020 and where we were supposed to be have been right now, and how a little virus has changed all that. From there it’s not long before I start thinking about the government policies around it all, and what that means for the state of our society and how our futures will all be dramatically different.
I feel such an emotional burden for our couples, for the people contacting me about new wedding plans, and so many of my friends that are battling the same burdens.
Like my own personal antenna in my mind is tuning into everything going on everywhere, so much noise, chaos, and pure humanity. It’s beautiful, and strange, and chaotic, and weird.
It’s a weird 2020, and I feel like it’s going to be a weird 2021, I’m not sure my head will ever be in a peaceful place again.
Shout out to Rob Bell for his podcast about our antennas. It was a weird embrace to acknowledge where my head is at today.
It’s a strange time to be a guy who stands in the middle of your marriage ceremony and breathes your marriage to life.
