3D:

I love this retro photo, it’s an old slide from a drive in theatre advertisment. It’s especially cool because it looks 3D on the computer screen.

FILTH:

First up, that vile, rancid excuse we have for a prime minister, a total hypocritical moron plonker John Howard (or ‘Banzai’ as i like to call him, IE a little bush) the tool has been bleating again about how disgusting Big Brother is ..

” During last year’s “turkey slap” furore, the Prime Minister called for the reality TV hit to be axed.

He said yesterday his views had not changed, and TV shows should “err on the side of good taste”.

And then this ..

But Mr Howard said he had no sway over the shows direction.

Riiiiiight, so lets not mention the ‘Glass house’ shall we.

“Big Brother is an atrocious program,” he said.”

And watching your amoral posturing during televised Parliment isnt?

All the while Howards defence forces are mass advertising during the show to lure the poor young suckers who watch Big Brother and fall for the glamorisation of the defence forces (not saying we don’t need them) but what a festered tool this man is, berating people for watching this, but happy to have them join up his forces to go and fight in his unjust warfare .. we have spray for annoying insects like flies, why cant we have one for Howard? .. also shit for brains, instead of putting so much thought and bluster into reality television people are watching, how about putting a little thought into the people .. the humans you have incarcerated in detention centres? .. OH COME THE REVOLUTION!!

Before i wrap this up, please allow me to take aim at the lumbering carcass that is the equally rancid and atrocious Amanda Vanstone, who was our Immigration minister and proudly presided over the inhumane Australian refugee detention centres, slurry guts Amanda was recently shafted from her cabinet position causing a few insane and certifiable liberals to shed a tear or two at the loss of their poster girl, of course most people with half a brain knew she would be looked after and was this announced as Australia’s ambassador to Italy, upon the storm of protests the vile buzzard had this to say ..

> A day after she was appointed to the role, Ms Vanstone yesterday defended her move, saying she had earned it through a long history of public service.

> “I would say to taxpayers of Australia, I’ve been in Parliament 22 years,” she told ABC radio.

No Amanda, a lowly paid nurse who has healed, bathed, comforted the ill and dying deserves something like this, an ambulance driver etc etc, but not a highly paid and benefit ridden ex pollie like you.

> Prime Minister John Howard defended the posting, saying Ms Vanstone would be a success in her new role.

> “Amanda’s very adaptable and she has a great sense of humour and she’s the sort of person who moves quickly on to the next phase of her life,” he said.

Great! Amanda has a great sense of humour, i mean why wouldn’t the buzzard be laughing!? and her visits to the detention centres must have really been shits and giggles for her.

The salacious Amanda.

Bon voyage Amanda.

UGLY BETTY WHITE:

BIG BROTHER:

There is no denying it, we are tramps for selective reality tv, usually the shows that involve nudity (Big Brother) or guessing which contestant is gay (Australian idol) or even better something that combines the two! so it was on Sunday that the masses gathered at ‘Tingle Manor’ for the 2007 launch of ‘Big Brother’ Adam sparked up the big screen which seemed to spark up our harsh judgements of all who crossed the screen, including the in between adverts. As is also tradition an aray of food stuffs were brought out to be consumed, this included everything from faux meat (PAL Meaty Bites) in stroganoff, under defrosted cheese cake, starburst jubes, Coke Zero, beak pecked eggs, and Tysons patented rancid, weavel ridden, toxic and expired desert in the form of powder and eggs in a cup to make an ‘Insto muffin’ which as you can see from the photo below looks for all the world like a flaccid turd in a cup. Thankfully Phillip escaped the house before he had to bare witness to our beloved microwave being violated with this gooey display of culinary terrorism.

Thanks to Tyson (a poor mans Annie Leibovitz) for the photo’s below.

NQR muffin: ahhh yes, here we see the results of the muffin in a cup experiment, perhaps he should have tested this muffin on an animal before Adam took it strait on for human consumption.

Big screen: Let me count the ways how i love thee big screen.

SILVERCHAIR:

I’m glad to say i was never one of those negative nellies who used to rag out the Aussie band Silverchair by dismissing them as merely ‘Nirvana in pyjamas’ from their first single i knew there was something special going on, their new cd ‘Young Modern’
is just amazing, i really cant remember the last time i put a cd on and had it on constant repeat, this cd proves that the band are world contenders and that they (in particular Daniel) have come into their own, to quote old Molly the mollusk ‘Do yourself a favour’ and race out and get this cd, it is so eclectic, and can i just be completely superficial and say drummer Ben Gillies is one of the most naturally hot guys i’ve ever laid eyes on, do yourself a favour indeed.

YELLOW CAKE:

SUMMER WRAP UP PT-2:

It’s now almost tradition for me to go to Melbourne and get addicted to one of the tv series that Phillip is watching, i almost extended one holiday just so i could watch more episodes of Sex in the city with the boys, alas tonight here in Wollongong we’ll be watching the last ever episode of ‘The West Wing’ .. what will become of my Saturday nights now with no distraction of weather or not Josh and Donna will hook up (He doesnt deserve her, you know that dont you?)

Possibley the most fantastic thing about my trip to Melbourne was the discovery that David Jones posh food court in the city sells old fashioned FAT Jelly Babies, not just that but these are the ones dusted in the special powder just like the ones i used to gobble as a kid! trouble is they are fifteen dollars a kilo!!, so i’ve had to make sad and pleading eyes to Phillip so he can be my jelly baby dealer and keep sending me a supply of the puffy wonders.

Some images from the St Kilda Pride parade.

The day i left Melbourne our old friend and sister Beryl was taking my place in the Melbourne Loft accomodation suite, i thought i’d leave a little ‘present’ for her on the mattress, i had to walk all over the city to find the perfect fake turd, i never knew there was such a variety!

2007 was my first year of attending any ‘Midsummer’ events, thats the Gay and Lesbian festival down there, i really enjoyed it and it wasnt as ‘in your face’ as Sydney Mardi Gras, i think behind Phillip and i IoTA is on stage, he was later to blow me out when Tyson and i went to see him in Sydney perform in ‘Hedwig’ .. one of the most amazing performances i’ve ever seen of anyone.

While in Melbourne with Phillip we went around looking at possible houses for him to move to, we sorta liked this place, but when we left i noticed the motorbike spare parts embeded into the lawn and a tree out the front that seemed to be growing beer bottles, we scratched that place off our list.

Summer proved to be a great time for catching up with old friends, and when i say old i mean old (he says laughing and prolapsing at the same time) i’ve been mates with Alex since the Towradgi surf club days and their is a lot to be said for having friends that long, there is an incredible comfort knowing there is never an awkwardness, you can pretty much say and do anything in front of them and it wont get a reaction. Alex and Leah collect kids, i think they are in competition with Angelina Jolie

Adam and i out to dinner with H and his fiance Manami, over the last few years i havent had the chance to hang out with and see H as much as i’ve wanted to, that seems to be correcting itself lately and we are blessed to have a friendship that even if we dont see or speak to each other for six months when we do catch up it only feels like we saw each other yesterday, i might have to dig into the photo albums and scan up some photo’s from our adventures over the years, i’ve known H since i was twelve!.

SUMMER WRAP UP PT-1:

Tyson Took this photo of us using some weirdo spaceship spy camera thingy he has on his spooky glowing Apple (we’ve shafted the Beatles) laptop, i REALLY want a laptop, but i just cant bring myself to handing over cash to the company that is trying to swallow the Beatles.

FEELING BLUE:

PRIX D’AMOR NO MORE:

What a sad day it was when the bulldozers moved in and tore down Rose Porteous’s house of love, it’s to my eternal sadness that i never got to visit and pay hommage to this most important of houses in Australia .. nay, the WORLD! so much Rose chaos was born behind and beyond these walls, the obsessive poodle scrubbing, the overdosing, the script pad mishaps and of couse the rampant drag and fashion shows that usual was followed the next day by a report of Roses collapse from ‘Exhaustion’
Vale Prix d’amor

WANG CHUNG:

You know, call me old fashioned, but if i want advice on my penis i dont think Ugly Dave Grey is the first person i’d be turning to.

PHOTOSHOP TERROR:

This is one of Adam’s latest photoshop efforts where he desecrates my image .. nice.

A REALLY BIG SHEW!:

The photo below was taken during rehearsals for the last show Adam co wrote ‘Atlantis’ and now four years later (Four!!??) we are just about to launch off with his and Amy’s new show ‘The last estiddfod’ it’s an exciting time, but very stressy, i’ll be drumming for the show and i really hope i can do the awesome music justice.

ONLY IN WOLLONGONG:

DOLL PARTS:

For a while there Courtney Love was really starting to look glam and really attractive, that was when she had her own face, alas now she has joined the ever growing list of people intent on turning there faces into macabre
masks.

WHERE IS THIS LASSY HEADED?:

THE BEALES OF GREY GARDENS:

I’m cock’o hoop with excitement after recieving the new dvd ‘The Beales of Grey gardens’ this is sort of a sequel, or part two of the original ‘Grey Gardens’ movie.

It’s filled with more of the Edies freeform bantering and Little Edies amazing fashions, i’ve only watched it once so far .. but i’m sure by the end of the week i’ll have clocked up at least another 15 viewings.

DECEMBER 06:

In October Adam and i moved into a new house, our first real place together .. it’s only taken seven years! but everything has it’s time in it’s time and after a couple of months we’ve well and truely settled in, i really feel it was time for this move .. 2006 has been a year of chaos and change and sickening stress for me, and i felt i was treading water where i was living the last five years, looking back i needed to start making clean breaks both physically and emotionally, so much of the past has anchored me down and it’s time to at least try and move forward. Thanks to Tyson who took this photo of Adam and i last week .. and now on to 2007.

SLY:

Just to prove i dont always pick on girls plastic surgery here is a recent ‘stunning’ photo of Sylvester Stallone who i fear is now well on the way to having a ‘melted face’

YOU’VE HAD IT COMING BARBIE:

Adam just showed me this website .. hours of fun for the whole family, first we start off with some blended Barbies

Now work your way through the carnage, and remember kiddies, dont try this at home .. unless you’ve called me over.

LAMBY:

Heres another early hero of mine, Paul Lynde. Paul was outrageously camp and had the best voice for his many charactors, including voicing a lot of cartoons. I have a very strong memory of being REALLY young and watching Paul on ‘Love American Style’ (when is THAT coming out on dvd?) might be time to start trawling through ebay to see what i can turn up.

This blog is dedicated to my zygot trash sister Marcia, who through the years keeps turning me on to and inspiring me to embrace true quality trash.

Meanwhile check out Paul on Donny and Marie.

THE WORD IS LOVE:

CALL ME BETTE:

Thanks to a kind friend i just got hold of the dvd reissue of ‘Whatever happend to baby Jane’ i love this movie, it makes me remember the first time i saw it at my friend Donna’s place, i was fresh out of the closet and her flatmate ‘Dee Dee’ decided i needed a little cinematic education, so we hunkered down for an afternoon of camp mayhem as i watched with eyes like saucers as Joan Crawford spun out of control in a wheelchair, and Bette Davis served Joan up rat on a silver platter .. many years later i was amazed to see Dee Dee arrive at a huge party in a wheelchair dressed up as Joan complete with silver platter and rat in her lap! the best thing about this dvd is the bonus feature of Bette Davis singing the theme song from the movie on the Andy Williams show in the early 1960’s

You can watch the clip by clicking the link below.

‘She could walk, she could dance’ ..

BEST PHOTO EVER?:

Just look at these wonderous photo’s of Jocelyn!!, she’s had MORE cranio construction and even her dog is recoiling in dismay!.

Click on the link below for the only footage i’ve ever been able to find of Jocelyn, and let me say .. it’s not pretty.

Jocelyn

TIME TO CATCH UP:

It’s been a few months, but i’m back to blogging .. if for no one else but myself, i’ve always kept a diary and this blog is my current form of that.

What a roller coaster year it’s been for me, every year has bumps but this year has been a little wilder than usual, i’m convinced as i get older and more ‘aware’ things going on around you are more powerful and intense as evolve, for me blind optomism is being replaced with an internal strugle dealing with how slow and regressive change is, for the first time i have a little maturity and where as about twelve years ago i/we were living in an era .. a time where we felt and appeared to be moving forward, in our work places we were being treated fairly, in relationships gay’s and lesbians had a sense of continuing change in our favour, there were moves towards becoming a republic, and racism appeared to be receding. Now in the short space of ten years that has all come spiraling undone and for me it’s been almost impossible to watch, thats what i’ve had to learn to deal with in the last ten years my incredible disappointment in mankind and how weak and greedy we truely are.

However, being surrounded by this force of rancid imorality i.e ‘Bush and Bonzai’ (you know, Bonzai .. a little Bush) it’s has forced me to concentrate on and seek out good.

Recently i came across a few articles on Coretta Scott King (Martin Luther King’s widow) i had no idea she was such an advocate for Gay righs and equated Gay rights with what was happening with civel rights for blacks in America during the sixties, this was incredibley brave of her and she got a lot of heat from some fellow civel rights leaders and even some of her own children.

If anyone has read this far please take another moment to read some of the articles on this amazingly brave and evolved lady ..

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force mourns the death of Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who died in her sleep overnight at the age of 78. Mrs. King worked tirelessly after her husband’s death in 1968 to carry on his legacy of social justice activism. She was a steadfast ally in the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, and was honored by the Task Force in 1997 for her support of the cause. In addition, Mrs. King was a featured speaker at the Task Force’s Creating Change 2000, where she rallied hundreds of activists gathered for the country’s largest LGBT rights organizing conference. In 2003, her son, Martin Luther King Jr. III, was personally responsible for inviting Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman to join Mrs. King to speak from the podium at the 40th anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.

“Our community has lost a dear and courageous friend, someone who was there for us when virtually no one else was,” Foreman said today.

‘From the beginning, Mrs. King understood that homophobia is hate, and hate has no place in the Beloved Community that she and Dr. King envisioned for our nation and our world.’
— Matt Foreman, executive director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

In 1997, upon receiving the Task Force’s Honoring Our Allies award, Mrs. King told the crowd, “I accept this award as a reaffirmation of my commitment to carry forward the unfinished work of my husband, Martin Luther King Jr. My husband understood that all forms of discrimination and persecution were unjust and unacceptable for a great democracy. He believed that none of us could be free until all of us were free, that a person of conscience had no alternative but to defend the human rights of all people. I want to reaffirm my determination to secure the fullest protection of the law for all working people, regardless of their sexual orientation … it is right, just and good for America.”

At the awards ceremony, Kerry Lobel, then-Task Force executive director, said, “Mrs. King has stood shoulder to shoulder with us as we work to envision and create a world based on social justice. She embraces the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as part of the continued legacy of Dr. King’s brave work. Her progressive vision of peace and justice echoes around the world.”

“Today we deeply mourn the loss of Coretta Scott King, who staunchly stood for the civil rights of all people, including the civil rights of our lesbigaytrans community of all colors, and who consistently challenged our own black community to understand that discrimination is wrong whether based on color or sexual identity. Civil rights is civil rights,” said longtime activist Mandy Carter, executive director and a co-founder of the North Carolina-based group Southerners on New Ground.

“I’ll forever cherish the day that I and Matt Foreman, representing our lesbigaytrans community, got to stand shoulder to shoulder with her on August 23, 2003, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington,” Carter continued. “The 1963 march was organized by Bayard Rustin, a black gay pacifist who was instrumental in introducing Dr. King to concepts of Ghandian nonviolence, the hallmark of the civil rights movement. Thank you so much Mrs. Coretta Scott King. You’ve left an amazing legacy.”

On April 1, 1998 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Mrs. King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia and anti-gay bias. “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood,” King stated. “This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.”

In November 2003 in a speech to at the opening session of the 13th annual Creating Change conference, organized by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Mrs King made her now famous appeal linking the Civil Rights Movement to the LGBT Human Rights Movement: “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people…. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

Mrs. King continued, “It is encouraging that we have seen more gay and lesbian candidates elected to political office. It is important for lesbian and gay officeholders and their constituencies to achieve greater visibility as supporters of laws that benefit the entire community. I think this will help educate the American public that lesbian and gay people seek the same goals of quality education for young people, cleaner air and water, safe streets and better health care that straight people want. We have to work harder for the broader vision of the compassionate and caring society that demands decent living standards for all citizens”.

Mrs. King’s support of Gay Human Rights angered some black pastors. She called her critics “misinformed” and said that Martin Luther King’s message to the world was one of equality and inclusion.

In March 2004, she told a university audience that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue and denounced a proposed amendment to the Constitution ban it.

In her speech King also criticized a group of black pastors in her home state of Georgia for backing a bill to amend that state’s constitution to block gay and lesbian couples from marrying.

On March 23. 2004 Mrs. King is quoted as saying at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, N.J., “gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriage.”

In 2003, she invited the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to take part in observances of the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

It was the first time that an LGBT rights group had been invited to a major event of the African American community.

King said her husband supported the quest for equality by gays and reminded her critics that the 1963 March on Washington was organized by Bayard Rustin, an openly gay man.

Coretta was a supporter of animal rights.

Thanks for reading this far, reading about Mrs King gave me such a lift and reawakend my hope for a better future for all of us, i just have to keep remembering that things go in cycles.

GAY PAREE: Paris Hilton up against a brick wall in handcuff’s .. you get that.

JOWLERS:

http://www.jowlers.com

CANBERRA: Adam recently won another holiday, this time to Canberra, or more acurately to a farm B&B about 25 minutes outside of the city, so on Friday afternoon we packed up Christine and headed down the highway, it’s not such a bad trip now and you can do it in about 2 1/2 hours from our place.

It was a weekend of pure gastronomical indulgence, oh my goodness did we EAT!! it was all layed on for us as part of the prize, all meals were arranged at luxury venues close to where we were staying, after we arrived at the B&B we we chaufured off to our first restaraunt which was an old converted pub from around 1889, the meal was fantastic and the evening ended on a fantastic note when the waiter who had fawned over us all night found out the meal was on the house and we were only freeloading prize winners, after ranting and huffing he turned to us and spat ‘Well i hope you were hungry!’ to me that finished off the evening better than a fine wine.

On Saturday after a yummy breakfast of eggs on toast (i was scared of the eggs, i couldnt figure out what they had done to turn them so yellow .. i later found out they were fresh from the farm .. Doh!) we drove into Canberra and visited the Australian museum which wasnt such a bad way to spend an afternoon tho i must say the city centre is looking a lot sadder and poxy than usual, civic mall was pretty deserted and those who were in there looked a little ‘gamey’ including the freeform talker who entered shops lambasting the ‘Fat arsed Amanda Vanstone’ on the top of his voice.

As we walked back to the car we heard a ‘squark’ and had time to look up and see this huge bird propel out an airborn stool in the direction of Adam, he had mere nano seconds in which to pivot out of the way, and i watched as if in slow motion the offending squirt brushed past Adam and slammed into the car bonnet next to us.

I still like Canberra, but i must admit she IS looking a little rough around the edges .. then again, John Howard DOES live there.

SUNSET ALONG THE HIGHWAY:

DESERT AU GO GO:

FREELOADERS:

ADAM FILMING OUTSIDE OUR ROOM:

BLOWN BALL:

CIVIC CHEMIST ADVERTISMENT:

NEAR MISS BIRD TURD:

OFFENDING BIRD GLOATING:

OUTSIDE OUR ROOM:

MEHL!!:

My friend Vesna once told me about this game she played ‘You should have known you were gay when .. ‘

I look back and shake my head at all my obvious sign posts, one of which was the little known 70’s sitcom ‘Alice’, there was this character called ‘Flo’ who was this tall, blonde, sassy, outrageous dresser with a loooooong southern drawl, i LOVED Flo, she lived in a trailer, she wore see through nighties, she snapped at her boss, she wore HUGE colourful PLASTIC earings and her hair was teased a mile high.

In other words the perfect gay icon, i could impersonate her, i knew all her lines and BEST of all she had a catch phrase ‘Mehhhl (Mel) kiss mah grits!!’

Why dont tv shows have catch phrases anymore? .. alas.

MORE COUNTDOWN:

MAN ‘KIND’?:

Word has just filtered down to Australia that four more of the Bali nine drug mules are to be executed, this sickens me to the pit of my stomach. Let me clarify this, by no means do I excuse the trafficking of heroin, i have seen the destruction this vile drug brings, but i do not believe in the death sentence and in this world of random and planned violence why cant people /governments start to act humanely, lead by example?

Two of the guys to be exacuted were 18 and 19 at the time of their arrest, i know an 18 year old ‘thinks’ they are worldly and know everything, but in truth they know very little.

How hard would it be for the Indonesian gpovernment to say to these people ‘Okay you screwed up BIG time, you were caught .. BUT we will release you under the care of your government, you must go home, lead fruitful and positive lives, if you so much as drop cigarette butt you’ll be brought back to this place to face the full weight of your sentance’

Really, turn something positive out of it .. i know there are all the arguments saying people wouldnt see any deterant, but i cannot accept that the snuffing of two lives that were under 20 years old at the time is in anyway fruitful ..

Of course then the bigger picture became clear when i read this from that rancid, waste of space Alexander Downer ..

* Mr Downer said he hoped the situation would not hurt relations between Canberra and Jakarta, still on the mend after Australia irritated Indonesia by granting protection visas to a group of Papuan asylum seekers.

Oh PLEASE, cant we just once think of ourselves and our values instead of having our nations tongue down the back of the trousers of every nation that throws us some trade crumbs!?

What an interesting Saturday night i had, i got to regree into my spotty and pre spotty youth as Steve and i attended the ‘Countdown extraveganza’ at the Acer areana at Olympic park, i’ve never been to a concert here before so it was interesting to see a new venue.

The concert was choc full of old artist that warbled their way across the Countdown stage all those years ago, inc Joe Dolce’ ‘Shutupa your face!’ by the end of the first half i couldnt help but think ‘This is SO daggy!’ then i realised that Countdown always WAS daggy!

There were quite a few highlights for me, a ‘Not quite together’ Keith Lamb from ‘Hush’, John English singing his first song in the key of ‘A’ while the band were playing in ‘F’, the girls from ‘Cheetah’ who i was sure would be appearing in Mu Mu’s attempting to cover 25 years or so accumulated ‘puffiness’ but i was floored when the girls waled out looking HOT with low slung jeans and not a ‘muffin top’ to be seen.

Of course the highlight was getting to see Sherbet again, a band i adored in my youth, as soon as they came out on stage i flew down the front to garner a champagne view, it was a real joy to watch these guys comand the stage again.

It was such a great night, it was the first warm day of spring so even at 11.30pm we were walking around in just short sleeves with a lovely warm breeze guiding us home.

I LUV YU GARF!!

International guest!! Leo Sayer

Molly spins a little Humdrum

Ross Wilson and Mondo Rock

James Reyne

The Fab Daryl Braithwaite

You have to hand it to Joan Crawford, she was a toiler like no other, if she wasnt scrubbing her own floors she was trying to flog Pepsi even in publicity stills for her final movie ‘Trog’

Here’s a pic of of Adam and i out having dinner with his family just before he left for Europe with his mum. I like family, family is good.

Is this photo from 1976 or 2006? hard to tell these days.

Better late than never, i thought i’d post my favorite Big Brother housemate for the year .. this wont be popular amongst many however i look at the big picture, for me hands down my favorite housemate was Darren, he came in late as an intruder and didnt last all that long but he showed a side than NONE of those other vacuous other dingbat house mates did. Darren wasnt popular in the house and pretty soon found himself on the outter, the only housemate to warm to him was David the ‘Gay cowboy’, it soon became obvious that David was attracted to Darren but to his credit Darren didnt flinch, he had the attitude of ‘I dont care, it’s no big deal’.

Later when he had left the house just about every interview he done questions were raised about Davids crush on him and Darren never wavered in his response ‘I dont care, i know we were just friends what does it matter?’ the corker for me came in his farewell message to the housemates, Darren told David that he loved him .. a VERY brave thing to do for a strait boy, if every strait boy had this attitude and level of acceptance and understanding there would be a lot less gay boys laying on stretchers in emergency rooms after being bashed for no other reason than they are gay.

Krystal the minx laughing as Darren fell and hurt himself in the shower, she was later to fall and cut open her chin requiring a heap of stitches.

This weekend presented another one of those ‘back to the future’ moments in my life, when i was eleven years old my sister Dianne took myself and my niece Michelle to see our first ever rock concert ‘Sherbet’ at Wollongong town hall, it was May 1976 and i do have some memories from the show, i remember our tickets were pink, we had to stand on our seats to see, the girls all screamed hysterically, Allan played a drum solo which i think may have sealed my love for the drums, they played the Beatles song ‘Nowhere man’ and sat down and played just as Paul had done on his Aussie tour the year before and lastly i remember someone up in the balcony must have had a broken leg as they waved a crutch over their head for most of the show.

Years later i’ve had the chance to perform at the Town hall several times myself and each time i stand in the dressing room i cant help but remember the Sherbet concert.

This weekend in preparation for the headlining reunion of the Countdown spectacular Sherbet has played a few secret gigs as a warm up and on Saturday night they played Shellharbour workers club, close by to where i live. This was a big deal and i even had friends from Melbourne fly up for the concert.

It was an interesting evening on a social level, most of the females in the audience the last time they saw Sherbet they had braces on their teeth, alas now many of them didnt HAVE any teeth.

I must admit they band absolutely tore the place apart and proved why besides the teste separating satin pants of years gone by, why they were so popular, they are a GREAT band, it was a treat to get to meet some of the band after the show and get an autograph or two.

Watch this space for my report on the Countdown concert.

GRANDPA: Just before flying down to Melbourne i thought it might be a fun idea to slap a little dye on the old greying locks, just recently the silver has started to really shine through, so much so that i realised i was starting to resemble Grandpa Munster!, so over the weekend a couple of mates and i got out the mortar and pessel and started to munch up various herbs, roots and chemicals to rub into my hair to see if we could ‘Demunster-ise’ it, quite amazingly the results werent too bad, over the next couple of days i’ll post an ‘after’ shot.