Pink

Sep 07, 2025

Apparently Pink Floyd used to change their name regularly. For a time they called themselves Tea Set, until they found themselves on the same bill as another band with that name. Syd Barrett improvised combining the names of his current favourite blues artists: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Not a crazy origin story but I think it fits the psychedelic political and heavy nature of the music.

P!nk, the singer, took her stage name from the character “Mr. Pink” in the 1994 film Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino (never seen it). She claims she adopted the name partly becauseit “reflected her edgy, rebellious personality” and that she stylised it with an exclamation mark to “stand out.”

And that she didn’t pick it because of the colour itself, she just liked the attitude the name conveyed. I don’t hate that.

Nick Drake's Pink Moon was reportedly inspired by the rare natural event: a “pink moon,” which is the name given to the first full moon in April because of the pink moss flowers that bloom in spring. He was apparently captivated by the imagery and symbolism of a quiet, and slightly eerie reflecting moon. Good stuff.

The pink triangle, once used by the Nazis to mark gay men, has since been reclaimed as a symbol of queer resistance.

Flamingos, whose pink colour comes from their diet show how the shade is tied to survival... okay that one is a bit shoe-horned in but my point is that Pink is often seen as fluffy and frolicsome but the above examples show it can also carry a different weight. No grand reason, pink is great at being frolicsome, arguable the best at in. Just trying to dig a little deeper.

We’ve been frolicking around the Northern Territory, galavanting if you will. And it has been all-time incredible, really very lovely.

Firstly Alice Spring far exceeded admittedly slightly lower expectations. Hanging out with Harry was awesome I feel we got a genuine taste for his Alice life. And that taste was a sweet, laid back, and community driven one. With a bonus of quality health club facilities and an excellent blue cheese and broccoli pie.

In Darwin we set up in a caravan park mostly populated by grey nomads, who somehow manage to compress “how are you going?” into a single syllable. Extra special to spent time with Claudi and Ella. Someone had fluffy pink seat covers in their hectic 4WD, would have fitted in well with the opening paragraphs.

There’s a few spots to see rock art in Kakadu, it hit me a bit how mind blowing it really is. Some of it dates thousands of years. It’s generally accepted that Aboriginal Australians were on this land 65,000 years ago!! Imagine that. I can’t really. ((Although many communities/religions here believe they were created here though story telling- western technology gets a bit iffy that far back)). There was a painting of a Thylacine, but that could have been done last week.. ;) ;) ;) (still exists..)

Anyway 65,000 years man, crazy. It means they would have crossed over with some of the now extinct Australian Megafauna. Megafauna is Latin for 'fukn huge animals' and they thrived when the dinos carced it. Most of them died off 40-50K years ago. Some highlights of aussie megafauna are as follows:

"Demon duck of doom" - 2.5-metre-tall, 250kg flightless bird.

Diprotodon - Rhino sized wombats, largest marsupial ever, also described as a 'Hippo-bear'.

Land croc - 7m long, feet under body (as opposed to current day saltys that have legs and feet on the side).

Marsupial lion - About the size of a leopard, but with ridiculously powerful jaws and sharp, shearing teeth, tree climbers.

Megalania (epic name) - 7m giant goanna, venemous.

All of these overlapped with the earliest Aboriginal Australians, which means people here might’ve seen, or even hunted, every one of them. Luckily there wasn’t any mega mozzies

Apparently some of these giant australian animals evolved smaller brains to cope with the heat and conserve energy. Now, that definitely is categrorically not a comment on any Aussie mates I know..............

But yes, there is heaps to see in Kakadu, especially with $20 big W binoculars. No megafauna though.

Now I must mention that my favourite album has pink cover art.

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

i’m fairly certain I’ve recommended this to everyone I know at least three times, but.. Most effective with headphones or loud in a quiet room: early morning reading (with a steaming cuppa) or late night to unwind when everyone else has gone to bed.

I’ve played my copy of it so often the grooves have started to waear thin. Nala is a Jamaican-English harpist and composer, and her music drifts between jazz, ambient.