Sitting Under A Tree with Aidan Jones
One December in Sydney, out of lonely desperation to tell my story, I sat in a park under a tree and recorded a podcast. I’ve released a new one each week since November 2017, and will continue to do so every Tuesday, forever.
Episodes
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Ep 158 - Camping
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
I went camping on the weekend, and that part was lovely, but before we went I made sure to stress myself out unnecessarily by trying to jam too many commitments into the day we were supposed to be leaving. Always good form before a holiday to make sure you're strung out to emotional breaking-point so you get good bang for your relaxation buck. That's what I reckon.
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Ep 157 - The T-Shirts!!!
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
The Backyard Bitch T-Shirts are HERE!!! Fucken come on!! Also comedy is starting back up again and I'm going home for Christmas!! Unless the borders shut, and comedy hasn't actually started YET. It all feels very up the air still, but hey! T-shirts! T-shirts!
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Ep 156 - My Favourite Drug Is Acid
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
I did acid on Saturday night and it was great, I feel clear-headed and free. I told some stories about other times I've done acid in the past, and realised how easy it could have been to fall into heroin or some other awful shit when I was younger. Half of everything is just dumb luck, eh?
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Ep 155 - The Beach
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
I went to the beach this morning! I've been thinking about politics and the state of the world a lot as friends in the UK and Europe go back in to lockdown, and the US gets ready to choose which old man they'd like to be their mascot for the next four years. It's tiring stuff, and the beach is the perfect cure, I'd recommend it to everyone.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Ep 154 - Opening Up
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
We did it!! It's happening!! MELBOURNE I LOVE YOU!! Dan Andrews drinking whiskey on a Monday night!! A long weekend for the footy that's being played in Queensland!! Matthew McConaughey on Joe Rogan!! 51 consecutive days of meditation!! Fuck you Covid, we're opening up!! MELBOURNE COMEDY WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!
By the way here's the link to those kids playing the Wheezer cover:
https://youtu.be/4PL-yYWISOM
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Ep 153 - Learning To Collaborate
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
I feel so god damn stressed right now because I've given myself a bunch of stuff to do this week, and each individual thing is important or fun or whatever, but I've just given myself TOO MUCH!! Argh. Maybe restrictions could just not ease and we could stay like this forever?
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Ep 152 - Fuck Technology
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Creating an image for Backyard Bitch T-Shirts. Torrenting a movie about meditation. Recording video of this podcast. Editing thumbnail images for this podcast. Playing music to relax myself after recording this podcast. These are all situations in which I have become unreasonably angry after attempting to interface with technology. When will it end?
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Ep 151 - We're In Lockdown Still
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Lockdown has been getting to me a little this week. I yelled at a guy in a van outside the cool new bagel joint that just opened in Brunswick. Also I spent all day yesterday thinking I was having a fight with a friend, when actually it was all in my head. Can't wait to shave my stupid facial hair when I finish uploading this episode, what a treat.
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Ep 150 - Waiting for Al Fresco Summer
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
The tapestry I ordered for my bedroom wall came yesterday while I was out in Maribyrnong reading The Hidden Life of Trees in the sun. That's what my life has become now, just making purchases and doing activities. Al Fresco Summer couldn't come soon enough.
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Ep 149 - Pizza Makes Me Cry
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
After two weeks of meditating every morning I've learned that eating junk food of an evening makes me vulnerable to emotional stress in the morning. Some secrets are best left alone, I fear that Headspace Andy may have forever ruined pizza for me. Unforgivable.