I’m so tough, I ride escalators barefoot, and don’t hold the rail.

Grrrrrr… xx aa

How tough are you??

Flaming lips are your gods.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Soft Bulletin are AMAZING records.

New music that’s tickling my dancin’ feet this week..

Grinderman: Grinderman – Nick Cave and his mates make Emo kids look like the spoilt petulant ex-prefects that they are.

K-OS: Atlantis. Sunday Morning is the first classic of the year.

Emails and texts from my little bro in NYC.
Save your bucks gang, get a passport, get a ’round the world ticket and blow your mind out of suburbia.

xx aa (two for the price of one today with new header photo.. Taken Feb 24th 2007, at 8180 ft in Mammoth, California)

Now, click play and DANCE!!!

In this day and age where gentlemanly one-on-one fisticuffs are a thing of the past, perhaps we could learn something from this fella.
Five to one baby, one to five.
Love the kooky commentary too!

xx aa

I’m in Brisbane for the Idol Auditions, and was thinking about heading out tonight for a few with my Dad and a few of the crew.
However, there’s parts of the city we’d like to go to, though as the football’s on, it’s crawling with fuckwits.
As a result, we’re all quite timid about heading out, and we’re staying fairly low-key.
Why should we have to hide from the drunken, jingoistic idiots?
Can’t we just go out and enjoy?

Maybe I’m reading too much into it.

x aa

So at the moment, people all over the world are fighting over who’s got the best pretend friend.

None of that will matter for shit soon, as the bees are disappearing.

No Bees = No pollination of plants = no plants for you and me and animals to eat = no animals for you to eat = bad news for everyone.

Einstein once said that without bees, we as a race could probably last about four years.

Crikey.

xx aa

What are you doing?
GO and see Alice Russell.
She’s on tour at the moment and so fucking fantabulously great.
I will be in Darwin, hunched over a blackjack table at the casino awaiting Idol Auditions the next day.
You should go see this girl sing, it will be the gig of the year – thanks Jarrod and Nev for turning me on to her!!

xx aa

(my email is just ring 3 6 2 4 3 6 0 at yahoo dot com for those who claim it’s not btw)

So, I’m kind of bored with myspace.
All the spam about my penis size and ring-tones, iphones, bags and shopping vouchers.

People drop a note before they add me, which is nice, but then what?
Flashy comments blagged from some spam-bot website have about as much sincerity as a hallmark card on an anniversary.
Pages so bloated and heavy with a thousand slideshows and moving graphics that even my blisteringly fast mac bogs down with the slow loading junk and pop up malarkey.

Anyway.

Here’s something super-duper.

click this

Hooray!
See you soon.

xx aa

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I read this morning about the recent gang-rape by a bunch of guys, who filmed the brutal attack on a poor girl, then shared the video with their grubby mates.
I don’t quite know what kind of punishment needs to happen, or what possible kind of rehabilitation for both the vicitm and the perpetrators can happen. I just hope the girl gets out of this ok. The guys? Hrmmm.. I don’t quite know what to say..

I guess, having grown up in the pre-internet world, where access to porn was limited to very tame, soft focus beauty shots found in Dad’s Playboy collection, and then only the harder stuff was traded around in hushed whispers, small magazines from Europe with badly-translated English and classic hair/moe/pube combinations, I grew up with a different understanding and concept of my personal sexuality and sexual exploits versus those seen in those magazines.

To be fed a steady diet of demeaning, low budget, often abusive and degrading internet porn from the moment your one free hand can type “xxx” into google may not be the greatest thing for a young man trying to struggle with his developing sexuality.

For example, as a guy, if many years before you’ve even held your first boob with a sweaty hand as it busted from beneath a $10 Dotti top during a tongue pash at the school dance, you’ve been getting off by viewing “dogdirtsluts.com” on an hourly basis, you may not quite have a realistic grasp of the romantic aspect of sexuality.

Taking that distorted view in to the real world, you may be surprised to learn that porno in NOT real life.

That’s not to say that some things you see in porn don’t happen between two people when it’s mutually consenting, though certainly not on a first experience basis.

So, if you’re a guy reading this, let me get in my pulpit and scream:

NO means NO whenever it’s said. I don’t care how ready to explode you are, go finish the job yourself and retire from the pitch like a gentleman.

ALL GIRLS ARE PRINCESSES and should be treated like delicate flowers, cared for and nurtured daily, with gentle caresses and love, until they ask you otherwise, and only then, when you’re really sure that’s what they want and they’ve verbalised to the letter what it is they want you to do.

ALL GIRLS have parents. Even the ones you see on the internet doing things you wish they were doing to you. ALL GIRLS are someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s girlfriend, someone’s lover. Disrespect a woman, you disrespect yourself and your own family, even your own Mother.

If there’s any hint that the girl’s decision making process is compromised due to drinking/drugs or anything else – forget it. No way. No Means No.

As far as the grubby guys who did this?
All the guys that shared this around on their phones and laughed?
I pray for their families, I pray for their Karma.

For the victim?
I hope you will join with me in sending loving and supporting thoughts and her way..

xx aa