I ran a few erands, relaxed and then met up with Amrish and his Dad at the Prince for a drink. We sat outside, soaked up the sunshine and had a nice dinner.
I saw Toni Collette is in a band called “Toni Collette and the Finish“…I quite like her new single “Look Up”
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Today is my Mum’s 62nd Birthday. Lately (and I do feel pretty bad about this) I haven’t spoken to her all that much on the phone.There are a couple of reasons for this…
So Mum I want to tell you that it’s Dad’s fault really I love you very much and even though I seem to miss you on the phone a lot you are in my thoughts every single day.
Oh, and if your wondering who that beautiful lady is in the picture is…it’s her…and the fat baby is me…isn’t my pink fluffy dress pretty?
Send a Anti-Valentine’s Day card from HERE
In Doha all of the Venue Managers were referred to as VM’s (I think that is pretty standard in most games around the world). However, our VM refused to be called a Manager, as there were apparently other people with Manager titles inside the Village. If they were a Manager and he was a Manager…they were the same…weren’t they?
Well, NO…but he was a Qatari, so as ego’s go he wanted to be referred to as the VD and since he was the boss I did what I was told. Risk Management kept questioning why he was a Director when he wasn’t and I smuggly kept reminding them that if he wanted to be called the VD…I would happily plaster that acronym all over my documentation and training.
Now my direct boss was was a Greek and kept picking up on small mistakes in my documentation one day and I came out with “Why don’t I do a find all and just change all the VM’s to STD”…he totally didn’t get it! I had to explain to him that VD stood for Venereal Disease which is now more commonly known as STD. From then on everytime one of us said VD we would smirk.
I’m not sure what made me tell you this utterly boring story…send some anti-VD cards out and have a wonderful day x
New Scissor Sisters Video
For making my day…
I basically spent most of my day in Fitzroy. In the morning I went to Brunswick St with Lou so she could get a book she wanted and in the evening I had dinner with my friend Fee at Bimbo Deluxe.
mmmmmm…I forgot how ace it was there!
Still a bit worried about the red. If you think it’s too much leave me a comment.
From Futurama
I actually really loved this film…why couldn’t Al Gore have been voted in instead of Dubya
My back was killing me again today, so instead of going to the Midsumma Carnival I rented some DVD’s and chilled out at my place. I need to see a doctor I think.
I meant to tell you this story before…
A couple of weeks ago I was walking home on a Saturday and a Jewish boy (in full Orthadox bling) walked out a laundromat onto the street. Being the lovely person I am I said hello as I passed and he sort of looked at me in horror. I shrugged my shoulders and kept walking. He then shouted after me…
So, I went home and told my flatmate what had happened and she said, he is not allowed to ask someone else to do it…he might as well have just changed the channel himself.
Met up with my friend Naomi for a drink along Carlisle St, had fun…I never came along this side of Carlisle St when I was living with Marion, I really like the vibe down here.
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Scissor Sisters - She’s My Man
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Mika - Relax, Take It Easy (loving this track at the moment so much)
I went home, had a couple of drinks (it was desperately needed), got myself together, jumped back on the train and met Shay Shay, Lauren and her friend Lou outside the Vodaphone Arena to see the Scissor Sisters. The concert was good but nothing great…there were no large screens (which was dissapointing), we couldn’t take alcohol inside and Steph (the name of the slowest bar tender possibly in Melbourne) had me waiting in line for nearly an hour for four drinks…though I did see Tracy Smith from the Commonwealth Games, so that was cool.
What a day!
…proclaimed Lou to a couple who passed as she sat eating possibly the largest tuna salad in the world!
I spent the morning helping her with a few things odd jobs and by the afternoon I was frazzled. Luckily for me she had Season 4 of Scrubs to loan me, so I sat giggling away at rizzle, dizzle, shizzle, bizzle quotes. Oh and also dashboardface was funny too.
I had 6 tickets to see ‘Lola on Collins’ at Gasworks for this evening. Shay & Michael cancelled, so I spent hours trying to get rid of the tickets…I couldn’t even give them away!
I swung round to Brydie’s to collect her and Rae and headed down to Port Melbourne to meet up with Kimmy (who I thought was a good sport to still agree to come…wasn’t sure if she would). Anyway, we all had fun and loved the show.
My Life As A Dyke star Rachel Forgasz stars in this tragic tale of being the woman who everybody wants during Midsumma @ Gasworks.
Sassy, sexy, self-proclaimed diva Lola-On-Collins stars in her own show The Paris End with Lola-On-Collins, a one-woman cabaret/comedy show sung in the style of Bassey. With the tongue-in-cheek fashion you’ve come to expect from writer/performer Rachel Forgasz (My Life as a Dyke).
After a debut at the inaugural Melbourne Cabaret Festival in 2006, this return season of The Paris End with Lola-On-Collins will take you on a trip to discover the torturous tales of being the woman who everybody wants.
Rachel Forgasz works as a performer and producer of theatre and has a long association with Midsumma, making up half of the duo behind the immensely popular My Life as a Dyke trilogy. In Midsumma 2006, Rachel performed in a ‘best of’ season for My Life As A Dyke. Over the past seven years, the show has toured to festivals in Perth, Adelaide, and Sydney.
My Life As A Dyke was critically acclaimed. “It helps that the show’s two comediennes, Nik Willmott and Rachel Forgasz, are terrifyingly talented. They own all the tools that good comic acting requires: impeccable timing, the ability to improvise, a mastery of physical comedy and an irrepressible sense of fun… The saucy spoof-songs that pepper the show…are performed with a verve matched only by Gina Riley at the height of her powers.” (Cameron Woodhead, The Age)
Aside from her work in My Life As A Dyke, Rachel is also an experienced cabaret/musical theatre performer, with previous cabaret credits including the devised work Not Just a Pretty Face and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Her original cabaret characters and have been performed at a range of venues including Gasworks Arts Park, the Butterfly Club, and Abode.
Gasworks (winner, 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Best Venue) celebrates Midsumma by becoming a hub of activity exploding with performance, art, music, words and cocktails. New York cabaret duo LOUNGEZILLA!
The area that I live is mainly Orthodox Jews and for some reason the ladies wear a lot of old fashioned clothes and hair pieces. Don’t ask me why, I can’t explain, but the woman I saw today I just wanted to stop and ask for her photograph, even better a video of her. I am sure that if I asked her to say “Dust…anyone?” she would not have sounded the same.
Anyway, that was pretty much the highlight of my day!
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