Friend to all, Kiala Kazebee has been kind enough to grant us a peek into her superior life, one where she dines with Dave Allen, Cut Copy, and talks about The Thornbirds while stuffing her face with tortilla chips. Face it, her life is just better than ours.

Gang of Four’s Dave Allen threw a dinner party for Cut Copy, Australia’s new New Order, on Monday night at his home in SW Portland and I was invited. Like any rock journalist worth her salt, I did a little Googling seconds before meeting the band. I am that good at what I do. What I found out, in the one half minute of signal service I could get in the West Hills, was that they are from Melbourne and Melbourne is in Australia. Sufficiently prepared, I headed inside.

I found the guys sitting at a table surrounded by beers and tortilla chips (in other words, heaven) and quickly ran over to Dave’s computer to look up who was who on the band’s MySpace page. Chanting “Dan, lead singer, gets the most chicks,” “Tim, guitar, slightly less chicks,” and “Mitchell, drums, might die unexpectantly and/or lose an arm but still—chicks” under my breath I sidled up to the boys and, in a desperate panic, asked them about the only Australian thing I knew anything about—The Thornbirds.

The Thornbirds is a book, but more importantly a 1983 miniseries, set in the Australian outback. Starring Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward, it set the bar for romantic Australian sexy priest movies and will forever be known as that one movie my mom made me watch a million times.

“How many of the songs on your new album In Ghost Colours are about The Thornbirds?”

Breathless with anticipation, I waited for an answer from the band. “More than half, I think?” said Mitchell (not dead yet, still attracting chicks). Delighted and encouraged I asked my next question, “And of that amount, how many would you say are about Bryan Brown?” Dan and Tim said in unison, “All of them.”

And there it was, confirmation of a theory long held for at least 15 minutes, and now a Mercury exclusive—Cut Copy‘s new album will go down in history as the world’s first (and probably only) Thornbirds concept album.

You’re welcome.