How great is it to be an Australian today, with an excellent sense of reason and a well known sense of ambassadorship when abroad.
Crikey.

I couldn’t agree with the travelling article more. Some interesting comments down the page, epecially the person making the point about accepting a different culture..xx aa

After many years of extolling the virtues of online scrabble, I have decided to put my money where my mouth is.
Wanna throw down?
Go to scrabulous dot com
sign up.
It’s free, it’s great and it’s genius.

My username on scrabulous is andrewg so you know it’s me..

Maybe even email me using the link to the left and we’ll try and organise a time, if I can make it.

Let the bingos begin!

xx aa

This sort of thing has just got to stop.
Gatecrashers, mobile phones, things totally out of hand.
I am so glad that things never got out of control this bad when I was hitting house parties, even with the full force of the Bellbowrie Bevans vs Kenmore Bevans situation of 1992.

Please, have a safe weekend, and don’t let this happen to you…

(warning fruity language and some nasty party violence, but I think I need to put it there to illustrate my point.)

xx aa

Rejoice! Shout from the rooftops! Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah!

One of the four cornerstones of my life is being released to DVD.

Eddie Murphy’s Delirious.
He’d been doing stand up since he was fifteen.
Before he was twenty he was a major player on Saturday Night Live.
At twenty two, he recorded Delirious, one of the greatest stand-up routines ever.

It’s coming out on DVD!

Here, in all of it’s sweary glory, is a little taste.
Be warned, by clicking this, there’s lots and lots and lots of swearing, adult concepts and other things you’ve probably already seen in a pop-up window five times today.

Enjoy!!

xx aa

So, often people look at me like I’m some kind of nut bar because of my diet.

It’s really not that hard, I just don’t eat animals or animal products.
Why? It’s better for me, better for the world, and better for other living things.
Also: Because I can.

Hey, at least I’m not Macro, that’s some hardcore eatin’.
At least I’m not on a Raw diet, that’s even more hardcore.
At least I’m not a Fruitarian and only eating things that fall from trees or vines.

And most of all, I’m not No Impact Man who is definitely putting the rest of us to shame. What commitment! A very interesting read indeed…. xx aa

Every day should be NWA day!!!

I know the song’s a little old by now,
though it still doesn’t take away from how truly awesome it is.

The video is awesome too.
Jay-Z rolling around with Rick Rubin.
Rick, all tough and cowboy then all buddhist.
So awesome.

Be warned, fruity lyrics and Diggah gets shot in the end.

xx aa

best.site.ever.

xx aa

I spent the morning dancing around in my trackies with the labradog to The Jackson Five. They were truly amazing.
If you just pretend that all of the alleged abuses to keep them in line and on the road never happened, you can really get in to it.
They took soul music, music that was at the time, generally sung by sexually powerful African American men and women, music that scared the pants off of white America, and made it safe. They owned the universe, and even had their own variety show for a few years.

They were brilliant pop at a supreme level, yet to be attained again.

Pity Michael went bonkers.

Something that popped up in to the brain this week..

My dear friend and mentor Miles once taught me a very valuable lesson.
A paradigm, if you will, of many things that we do in our day to day lives.

He showed me that, “We seek in others and in other things, that which we do not find in ourselves”.

When we are weak, we seek out those who are strong. When we feel unloved, we seek out those who will love us.
Sometimes, we will sacrifice a little too much to fill in the gaps we have allowed to occur in ourselves.
It’s great to have someone to lean on when you’re in need, though lean on them too much, and you may push them right away.

Sometimes when I feel like shit, I will go and buy CDs to try and fill the gap within me. Not that CDs will ever do the trick, but for a minute there’s a small sense of fulfillment, and then it’s back to feeling shit again.

This week, I had cause to feel small, defeated and somewhat helpless in the face of a fairly unbeatable circumstance.
I pondered why I felt so weak and powerless for a while and came upon this:

When I feel weak within myself, I feel ruled by circumstances beyond my control, and therefore, feel weaker still.

When I am powerful within myself, circumstances beyond my control bounce right off of me, and I am powerful in the face of such things.

For me, it was a case of being at peace with the circumstances that I could not control, and also to feel complete within the current circumstance.

Being at peace and being complete with things goes a long way to helping me get out of a rut.

When we are powerful and at peace with ourselves and our circumstances, we take away the need of relying on others and other things to feel ok again. Put that power within yourself. Feel the difference of independence. Why give someone else (mum/dad/lover/friend) the power and permission for having you feel good, or even give another thing (alcohol/drugs/Wii/internet) the power over your happiness. Like Zac De La Rocha, Take the Power Back. Feel the peace within yourself and feel the power surge.

When we are at peace, and we are powerful, our perception of the world changes.
We are in charge of our perception of the world, and with perception comes reality.

So there you have it, change your personal power balance, change your perception, change your reality.

I guess the other thing to remember is to balance what you derive from within with what you seek from without. No one is an island.

Of course, you don’t have to believe any of my self-righteous bullshit. I’m just writing down something that happened to me in the last few days, and you are probably not interested at all anyway.

xx aa