max raabe is gemutlichkeit ... ya

having recently come across lots of marilyn manson music clips on youtube | and watching interviews by appallingly lame and tedious USA journalists ... marilyn intelligently rebuffing their journalist buffoonery | i discovered that a person called max raabe performed at marilyn manson and ditta von teese's wedding



wow!


check out max raabe on youtube | in particular his cover of tainted love | an absolutely brilliant weimar republic style rendition of this classic | makes me want to bring double brested suits and a swing band for our wedding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ6zkW1khfw


am officially obsessed

douglas turns 50

my beautiful, handsome, creative and sexy man ... douglas turned 50 and we had a fantastic party in melbourne with about 30 of his friends at the end of february

what a night!

people who had not seen each other for years experienced another of our legendary 'meet' fests that we put on about once every four years | some flying in from tasmania, south australia, new south wales | can you believe the alcohol didn't run out and not through lack of trying and the birthday cake completely eliminated any impure thoughts about food catering ... it was the chocolate equivalent of a bear orgy, a good one that is ...

douglas in his unique way had everyone hanging off his words of thanks and drew a great path through the decades and how so many of his friends entered various periods of his life and remain friends to this day

a few tears of joy were shed and even more when, although nauseaous with nerves ... I proposed marriage to douglas in front of all of his friends as part of a thank you speech ... wow! it took me about 3 months to work up the courage and to find the appropriate and relevant quotes from that popular culture whore, britney spears ... lol

after about 15 seconds ... he accepted | what the fuck would i do if he didn't? that contingency wasn't necessary as i knew it wouldn't be

the amusing and slightly scary thing is ... people love weddings and all crap that goes around them ... everyone wants to get involved and people go all goey over the idea, and ask lots of questions about an unplanned for event ... i never really thought about the aftermarth in any specific kinda way ...

elopement is definitely an option ... stay tuned

happy birthday to my mother

my mother is 62 | my mother is an institution | she is a cross between kath day-night, nana mouskouri & queen mary [the person, not the ship ...]

after a year of having not spoken to each other I finally relented, mobile in hand and dialled ... curious how we remember our mothers telephone number ... including area code! well, we picked up from the moment we last spoke to each other and both had lots of news to share about families, sibling [mine cover every possible 'demon'graphic in known to the australian bureau of statistics and more | you know the usual stuff ... who's rooting whom, when & where, nieces and nephews and associated good and bad behaviour, boyfriends, girlfriends, the weather, the bushfires [we lived through one once ... 'lived' being the key word here], marriage, birthdays, the price of vegetables and gin, and so on and so on ...

the sweetest thing about my mother, is that she never holds a grudge against me for my appalling lack of consistency in attention to her .. perhaps that is the only benefit of being the oldest child ... it must be the only one ...

we do love one another unconditionally even though we operate at opposite ends of the spectrum in our approach to life ... happy birthday to you

honi soi que maly pense

yes ... i'm a blogger truant and a number of friends have expressed that they are suffering from blogger deprivation disorder so after almost six month of absenteeism | i have returned