James d'Apice (Peach)

My fiancée
I’m engaged. Yeah, being engaged is great. You’re single? Ooooh, sucks for you. You’ve probably got lots of other fulfilling interests though, right? Really, deeply fulfilling ones? Interests that tuck you in at night and tell you everything’s going to be alright? Interests that bake you cookies just to say, “I’m thinking of you”? Being engaged is great.*

* = most engaged people are smug caricatures. I’m one of them. Sorry.

Tripe and spicy beef wonton soup noodles from Happy Chef in Sussex St, Chinatown
It’s true: tripe is land seafood. Seafood on land! It has a subtle (slightly poo-ey) flavour combined with a challenging, mouth-filling chew. Seriously, tripe is basically octopus; just cheaper. And what better way to enjoy it than in a soup this perfect? I once went to a Happy Chef that was not the one in the Sussex Street food court and the soup was not as good. Nor were the portions as generous.

I have mine with egg noodles. It’s called “number eighteen, with egg noodles (please)”.

Saggy Greens
I play cricket for the Saggy Greens. Last season – for the whole season – I scored no runs, took no wickets, bowled no overs, effected no run outs, and took no catches. I still got to go to the end of season dinner, though. In our team we have (awesome) photographers, (awesome) IT people (whose job I don’t fully understand), (awesome) artists, rappers (one awesome and one OK), people who work for Macquarie Bank (doing something), music teachers, and more. We’re like the United Colours of Bennetton, career-wise. Sometimes we win games. Then, we drink. Sometimes we lose. We don’t always drink then; we tend to just go home. When we draw, we also drink.

My longneck stubby holder
I’ve always wanted one. I now have one. I bought it from Liquorland in Erina Fair on the Central Coast of New South Wales for two dollars and ninety-five cents (Australian). Drinking longnecks at a party out of a stubby holder makes you feel pretty staunch. I would know, for I have a longneck stubby holder. People sometimes say, “hey that’s pretty cool.” I nod in reply. It is pretty cool.

Large, dark, skim hot chocolates from the Lindt Café
Although they recently changed their loyalty ‘stamp card’ reward, I still regularly get a hot chocolate from the Lindt Cafe. The old reward was two small chocolates (cost: one dollar each). The new reward is one ‘Delice’ macaroon (cost: one dollar and ninety-five cents each). Despite the comparable monetary value, I preferred getting two small chocolates.

I accumulate loyalty ‘stamp card’ points fairly quickly as I work nearby. My job is kind of like a ‘hyper junior’ solicitor (I’m not a real solicitor until I finish this totally pissweak course and am admitted) so – because there’s nothing on the line – I can just wander off sometimes. Also: I get ‘orders’ from my colleagues for coffees and hot chocolates. This helps me accumulate loyalty ‘stamp card’ points even faster.

I drink skim milk because I’m 19% body fat. I drink dark chocolate because it tastes better.

James/Peach is a battle-winning MC who also happens to have a law degree and a love of food and manly drinks like port. I love that he drops rhymes about his grill pan and the killer combination that is popcorn and cola. He used to co-host Arvos with Shag and now the airwaves feel less sharp, funny and memorable without him. He's collaborated with Mailer Daemon and Catcall and has a cloud-rumbling baritone that is kinda serious, kind and bad-ass at the same time.