Went to A’s birthday. T and R were there and T said she’d mainly seen punk bands and alternative, indie music, but she went to see Britney and it was “totally fantastic!” “I’d been told all my life that the mainstream was CRAP, but it wasn’t! The escalators – going up to our seats – even had glittery lights!”
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Boogie by Moonlight
Until March 23, Kerrie Lowe Gallery exhibition, 49 King St Newtown.
Nine artists celebrate Mardi Gras in clay, paint, jewellery, assemblage, photography, feathers, buttons and beads.
Fave bits: Emily Valentine’s minor birds bra and Kay Allibrand’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Amazing.
Went to see In The Loop. Was a fund-raiser for ALP Federal Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek (Minister for Housing, Status of Women).
It’s hilarious and was made even better cos of being surrounded by policy wonks who got all the jokes. Very funny and dire. Good appearance by Steve Coogan, of Alan Partridge fame. Great scene in a car in London when the Minister debates why he went into politics — is it braver to do the right thing or the wrong thing?
Classic scene with a fax machine, OMG.
Funny scenarios sending up the machinations at the UN in New York and the Meditation room.
NOBODY’S TO BLAME
**Ring Ring**
hi Honey Honey!
–Mamma Mia!
You’re so hot, teasing me,
I Am Just A Girl.
I Have A Dream, you said,
I Saw It In The Mirror,
your Arrival, Cassandra.
I’ve Been Waiting For You
you’re my Dancing Queen,
My Love, My Life
Lay All Your Love On Me!
I’m Gonna Sing You My Lovesong
Take A Chance On Me
I can fill that Hole in Your Soul
–Oh Fernando, it was like When I Kissed the Teacher
Kisses Of Fire
I was Head Over Heels
We know that Lovers Live A Little Longer.
That’s Me,
a bit of a Tiger
You’re my Supertrouper, my Lovelight.
I Wonder, Voulez Vous?
–Oh, I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do
please Rock Me and Dance While the Music Still Goes On
together we’ll Pick A Bale Of Cotton On Top Of Old Smokey while ordering a Midnight Special
But then, Our Last Summer…
If It Wasn’t for the Night when The Visitors came.
You caught us Sitting In The Palmtree
in a Tropical Loveland — Me and Bobby and Bobby’s Brother
squabbling over Money Money Money.
SOS!
What’s The Name Of The Game? you asked. You’d better Watch Out, you’re Under Attack!
Well Dum Dum Diddle I said,
I’ve heard all about you On and On and On with Elaine, Chiquitita and Nina Pretty Ballerina in Summernight City!
and What About Livingstone?
He Is Your Brother!
People Need Love, you blurted, he’s just the Man In The Middle
we treat each other The Way Old Friends Do
Sure I said, and I’m A Marionette!
You just want Two For The Price Of One.
All you ever say is Gimme Gimme Gimme You Owe Me One
now you’re Slipping Through My Fingers
Should I Laugh Or Cry?
Disillusion, that’s all I have.
Love Isn’t Easy but it sure is hard enough.
When All Is Said And Done The Winner Takes It All
but Why Did It Have To Be Me?
It’s a Crazy World.
A thing to remember, when we’re all alone …
One of Us is lonely, staring at the ceiling …
but Knowing Me, Knowing You
there is nothing we can do.
This is no time for cryin’
Move On
Another Town, Another Train
Next stop, Waterloo
So Long.
By Cotton Ward, using ABBA: The Lyrical Collection as reference material.
Went to IQ Squared talk at Angel Place at Angel Place, debating the topic “Popular Culture: We’ve seen the future and it is junk”.
Elizabeth Farrelly (who was introduced as having a large menagerie of pets, including bearded dragons and many fish).
*“I’m usually lambasted as a pinko leftie lover … but now I’m arguing for the conservative side!”
“Popular culture has given us Twitter, Britney and LOLcats. Popularity is the bean counter’s revenge on our culture.”
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Cotton Ward 