A brief sojourn in Adelaide.

I’m back from spending the weekend in Adelaide. it was my Dad’s birthday and I wanted to go out with him and my brother. Unbeknowns to me, my niece and her partner were also in town and staying at Dad’s place. So it was a great family lunch at a nearby pub with a couple [...]

Flashback – A stunning video

I’ve had a major flashback sitting here at the PC tonight. To one of my favourite video clips of all time. And to a song that I am still gobsmacked was not #1 in every country in the world. I’m going back a decade to when this was released – “Stars” by Roxette. The first [...]

27 years later…..

I first saw this song performed by a drag queen in a (now long defunct) pub in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was 1982. It stuck with me for years and years and I’ve previously never been able to find it anywhere. Couldn’t find who the artist was or anything about the song. People thought I [...]

Adelaide, September 2009 – a bit of self indulgence

I recently went back home to Adelaide for Father’s Day. For some reason I walked around town randomly snapping off shots with my digital camera. Shots of places I remember from when I used to live there, places that meant something to me and places/things that have changed since I moved away. There’s also a [...]

How old are you?

I might have been a toddler and then a primary schooler back in the 1960s but there are still early memories I remember vividly. Songs that have stuck with me for around 40 years. And certainly a few that were special to my Mum and also resonated with me. Although we didn’t have the word [...]

A nothing kinda weekend

Sunday night and as I look back I see a pretty nothing kinda weekend. On the left you can see a giant Big W bag (comes up to my knees) that I bought for $2.49 because it was so big. I also got a couple of T-Shirts that were on sale at Big W. Yesterday [...]

See the problem is this: Your 90s wasn’t my 90s

You were off listening to mostly American crap either on the American or Australian charts while I was obsessing over the fabulous pop music flooding the UK charts. Each week I’d listen to ‘UK Chart Attack’ on Sydney radio and buy the latest air-freighted copy of ‘Smash Hits’ from HMV in Pitt Street Mall. Then [...]

It was the 80s…we all dressed like that.

Okay well maybe we didn’t ALL dress like that. Maybe it was only me who had inappropriately permed hair and clothes like a budget airline pilot. And there’s John as Frida from the A Group we don’t talk about anymore. He’d just done a show. I’d just been dancing. I have pimples.  I have only [...]

THEM in Carnival Knowledge

After working from home on Friday, I wasn’t about to put my glad-rags on and venture out into the night. I had another look at some of the video tapes I’d uncovered recently, particularly those that had the 80s drag shows on them that I was such a huge fan of back then. While I’ve [...]

Still a Balfours boy

It’s all a bit sad. Here I was copying this video to DVD so I could then transfer it to my computer and import it into Windows Movie Maker to edit it. And I started crying. Again. Goddamn it! more about "Balfours TV advert on Flickr – Photo …", posted with vodpod This bloody TV [...]

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