Not fair

I just love this song from British gal Lily Allen. I can really relate to some of the lyrics. :)

If talk of wet patches and giving head is not your cup of tea then I suggest you continue no further.

Oh he treats me with respect
He says he loves me all the time
He calls me 15 times a day
He likes to make sure that I'm fine
You know I've never met a man
who's made me feel quite so secure
He's not like all them other boys
They're all so dumb and immature

There's just one thing
that's getting in the way
When we go up to bed
you're just no good
Its such a shame
I look into your eyes
I want to get to know you
And then you make this noise
and its apparent it's all over

It's not fair
And I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
Oh you're supposed to care
But you never make me scream
You never make me scream

Oh it's not fair
And it's really not ok
It's really not ok
It's really not ok
Oh you're supposed to care
But all you do is take
Yeah all you do is take

Oh I lie here
in the wet patch
In the middle of the bed
I'm feeling pretty
damn hard done by
I spent ages giving head
Then I remember
all the nice things
that you ever said to me
Maybe I'm just overreacting
maybe you're the one for me

There's just one thing
that's getting in the way
When we go up to bed
you're just no good
It's such a shame
I look into your eyes
I want to get to know you
And then you make this noise
and it's apparent it's all over

It's not fair
And I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
Oh you're supposed to care
But you never make me scream
You never make me scream

Oh it's not fair
And it's really not ok
It's really not ok
It's really not ok
Oh you're supposed to care
But all you do is take
Yeah all you do is take

There's just one thing
that's getting in the way
When we go up to bed
you're just no good
It's such a shame
I look into your eyes
I want to get to know you
And then you make this noise
and its apparent it's all over

It's not fair
And I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
Oh you're supposed to care
But you never make me scream
You never make me scream

Oh it's not fair
And it's really not ok
It's really not ok
It's really not ok
Oh you're supposed to care
But all you do is take
Yeah all you do is take

XLI

Today is my friend Mish's 41st birthday, so happy birthday gorgeous. Hugs to you.

I met Mish whilst living in Melbourne in the mid 90s and where we both worked for the same company. It is here that we became friends. I still remember the day I saw her smoking a cigarette outside our building and all these people were standing or sitting around her. Mish has a presence about her, and a great smile, that invites you to want to know more about her.

Not knowing many people in Melbourne I decided that I would talk to her and eventually I plucked up enough courage to say "hi". What I discovered about her then still holds true today and that is that Mish is a warm and caring and compassionate person with a generous spirit. She's also funny and a great singer.

Now only if I had enough courage to speak to the guys that intrigue me in the way Mish did.

Altered Images - 'Happy Birthday'

Dragon, QED and more

Forgive me father for I have sinned.. It has been 76 days since my last post... Sound familiar?

If I last posted back in summer and then this one is in autumn then I guess I could post once every season. So this is my autumn post!

With not much to say other than life has gotten busier for me work wise I will share with you some songs from my teenage years. Two of them I hadn't heard for years until I came across them last night on YouTube.

The first one called Rain (1983) by Dragon (because it is raining here in Sydney) were originally from Auckland in New Zealand before they settled in Sydney in 1975. (What do New Zealanders call Australia? A: The West Island)

The second song is by the very talented Jenny Morris who is also a Kiwi and like many of her countrymen she too now calls Sydney home.

In 1983, Jenny formed QED with former Air Supplyer, Rex Goh and they had a hit with their debut single Everywhere I Go. I believe Jenny moved on to a solo career shortly thereafter. (FYI: fellow blogger James O'Brien interviewed Jenny in August 2002 for ABC Radio. That's so cool James)

I had a schoolboy crush on Jenny but then I also thought the guy that appears in the clip was cute too. From memory he appeared on the Channel Nine soap The Young Doctors.



Finally, One Perfect Day (1982) by the Melbourne band Little Heroes. I just like this song because it's melodic and 'cos the lead singer Roger Hart is easy on the eye. It's also interesting to read what people get up to post their life in a band. Check out the wiki link above.

That's it folks. I'll be back when it gets colder. :)

True Aussies

Yothu Yindi - 'Treaty'

Soldier's Girl

Late the other night on TV was a film I'd never heard of called Soldier's Girl. I can't believe I'd never seen the film or heard of this incident - the real life murder of Barry Winchell, who was a Private First Class with the elite 101st Airborne strike force.

In 1999, whilst Winchell slept, fellow soldier Calvin Glover grabbed a baseball bat whereby he repeatedly struck the sleeping soldier. Winchell died from massive head injuries the next day, 6 July. He was 21 and at the beginning of his life.

Months earlier, Winchell had met Calpernia Addams a "transgendered showgirl" at a downtown bar in Nashville. A pre-operative male to female transsexual, Addams had once served in the US Navy. Soon after their first meeting they became lovers and it was not long after this that the harassment of Winchell (on base) began and would continue right up until the night of his death.

Instead of me retelling the story here, I recommend David France's article "An Inconvenient Woman" published in The New York Times (May, 2000). Another great article is by The Advocate's Michael Rowe who spoke to the actors who play Barry and Calpernia in the film, Troy Garity and Lee Pace. I thought this film was great and of course sad.

I also came across a podcast called Just Plain Sense with Christine Burns where she interviews Addams for half an hour. I thought it was insightful so I've embedded it below.

Image: Jared Lazarus /The Nashville Tennessean

Barry Winchell
1977 - 1999

Juxtaposition

"Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech." 16 April 2008, at a ceremony welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, fool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool me you can't get fooled again." 17 September 2002, Nashville, Tennessee.

"These are big achievements for this country, and the people of Bulgaria ought to be proud of the achievements that they have achieved." 11 June 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria.

"But oftentimes I'm asked: Why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?" 26 June 2008, Washington, D.C.

"Do you have blacks, too?" 8 November 2001, speaking to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C.


"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential."

"All the money in the world won't boost student achievement if parents make no effort to instil in their children the values of hard work and delayed gratification."

"I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."

"And it lives on in those Americans - young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American, gay and straight - who are tired of a politics that divides us and want to recapture the sense of common purpose that we had when John Kennedy was President of the United States of America."

The Dixie Chicks - 'Star Spangled Banner'

A 'pointless' video

This video was taken travelling down a mountain at 52 degrees and at high speed whilst riding the Scenic Railway in the Blue Mountains (see previous post). Some have described the video as "random" although I think a more fitting description is "pointless".

It starts off black until we emerge from the tunnel. At least I think it was tunnel.