On Wednesday night we had a fantastic night out with Johannes and Jo and a few other friends which included seeing The Eastern play at the Wonder Bar in Lyttleton, Christchurch.

They were pure magic.

Anyway long story short The Eastern and some of their friends from Oregan played a John Prine song called "In Spite of Ourselves". I really do love this song. It' funny, it's a great piece of music but most importantly I love the underlying message.

"In-spite of ourselves, we'll end up sitting on a rainbow , against all odds honey, we're the big door prize"

Isn't that so true, that the best relationships thrive, often in-spite of ourselves. It's not perfection that makes us attractive, it's the odd little things that make us unique.

Please enjoy John Prine and Iris DeMent singing "In-Spite of ourselves".

Ok, Back to the Eastern. What a great band, they rock. I'll definitely be there with friends when they are up in Auckland at the end of February.

Here is a photographic piece Johannes did for them which we profiled Queensberry's blog last year.