To be sure
Posted: March 17, 2013 Filed under: ART | Tags: Irish heritage, Irish humour, Irish jews, leprechauns, Sinead O'connor - Queen of Denmark live, St patrick's Day 1 CommentToday is a celebration of all things Irish. I adore Irish accents, rainy weather, Irish writers, their melancholy, their songs, their fiery spirit and most of all their wit. Irish artists have given me joy and solace in dark times; I love Oscar Wilde, Sinead O’Connor, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Yeats, Sheridan, George Bernard Shaw and The Pogues to name a few. I am descended from Irish Jews (my great grandmother) so I like to think I got a double helping of humour in my DNA.
Happy St Paddy’s Day
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Comedy On Tap
Posted: March 1, 2013 Filed under: ART, COMEDY, FEMINISM | Tags: Australian stand up comedy, Brenda Trolloppe, Ciel Comedian, Comedy On Tap, Comedy On Tap Stand up comedy night, Fabulous female artists, female comedians, female painters, Lou Pollard comedian, Tap Gallery 2 CommentsI started doing stand up comedy 15 years ago, back when I only had one children. I supported Arj Barker, went to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, had loads of fun and got away with perving at a lot of good looking men from the stage. Then I embarked on a more extensive breeding program so I gave up stand up for a few years because I was so sleep deprived nothing was funny. Back when I was performing comedy regularly, a fabulous, strong, feminist lady artist called Pam constantly baby sat for me and ensured that my daughter had a magical time at Pam’s house drawing and painting and visiting art galleries. My teenaged daughter is now an artist because of the love and care and help Pam gave her when she was very small. I’m back doing stand up and I’m putting on a comedy night once a month with good friends at a gallery in Sydney. Pam died this week in a terrible accident and our first comedy night is the night before her funeral. I don’t know how I’m going to be funny in the face of losing my friend. I’ll be looking out into the audience and hoping she’ll be there because she really helped me to follow my dream. Thank you Pammy.
Comedy On Tap – fabulous live comedy
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Just for one day
Posted: January 8, 2013 Filed under: ART, Birthdays, SONGS | Tags: David Bowie, Heroes, January 8 birthdays, Just For One Day 1 CommentHappy Birthday David Jones
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Happy Birthday Sinead
Posted: December 8, 2012 Filed under: ART, Birthdays, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Chinese astrology, December 8 birthdays, female singers, Fire Horse, Irish female singers, Sinead O'Connor, Troy 1 CommentShe is one of my favourite singers, a fiery, feisty Irish wonder. In Chinese astrology Sinead O’Connor is a Fire Horse, some people apparently find female fire horses scary. I’m one too. This is Sinead at her powerful best.
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April Fool’s Day
Posted: November 23, 2012 Filed under: ART, AUSTRALIA, WRITERS | Tags: April Fools' Day, Australian memoirs, Bryce Courtenay, Damon Courtenay, deaths from AIDS virus, heartbreaking books, ode to a son, RIP Bryce Courtenay Leave a commentThis is how I will remember Bryce Courtenay. His book about his son Damon is heartbreaking.
Bryce Courtenay – ABC Radio interview
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I can resist everything except temptation
Posted: October 16, 2012 Filed under: ART, WRITERS | Tags: 1854, a lord of language, De Profundis, great Irish writers, Irish dramatists, Irish Writers, October 16, Oscar Wilde birthday, Rupert Everett, sorrow and beauty Leave a commentOne of my favourite writers, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born today. 20 years ago I visited his grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. I wanted to somehow be close to the man who had given me so much joy. Dear Oscar, we love you so, you are gone but never forgotten.
“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything”
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Finding it hard to get off the couch?
Posted: June 1, 2012 Filed under: ART, Self improvement, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: Annabelle Drumm, creative thinkers, Get off the couch, getting organised, kick up the bum, life coaching, procrastination, self help Leave a commentCan’t find your trackie dacks? Lost the remote? You’ve spent all day sitting in a milk bar and no famous Hollywood agents have discovered you?
I usually have a million things going on in my head, and creatively I’m the sort of person who has 47 projects on the go at any given moment. If I’d lived 100 years ago I would have needed a butler and a maid just to get me to the breakfast table.
I’m a single mother of three kids (driver, maid, washerwoman, servant) professional fool, speaker, writer and stilt walker and I wanted to finish writing my book, go overseas and get back to performing stand up comedy this year. I do not have a sherpa or a chauffeur (yet), so I went to see a life coach. A good one. One who helped me get my shit together (yes, it’s very technical this stuff). We set goals and worked out how I could possibly achieve them in the spare five minutes I have each day. And I now have a mentor for my book, I’m booked to speak at engagements this year and I’ve just been overseas.
So as Molly Meldrum would say, do yourself a favour. If you live in Sydney you can give her a call. If you don’t live in Sydney she’s on Skype. It makes sense to get someone who is very organised help you arrange the mad thoughts in your head (just me?). Especially if you’re a creative type. This is not an ad, it’s a recommendation.
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The night Max wore his wolf suit
Posted: May 9, 2012 Filed under: ART, LOVE, Parenting, Self improvement, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: 1928 births, A life well lived, Art Garfunkel, best selling authors, Bright Eyes, brilliant artists, Maurice Sendak, RIP Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonez films, Vale Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are Leave a comment‘And made mischief of one kind and another. His mother called him WILD THING!” And Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything.’
The brilliant artist and author Maurice Sendak died today. His books were a part of my childhood and I read them to my children.
Growing up in New York, the son of Polish Jews, he said,
“My childhood was about thinking about the kids over there (in Europe). My burden is living for those who didn’t.”
When director Spike Jonez made the movie version of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Sendak urged the director to remember his view that childhood isn’t all sweetness and light. And he was happy with the result.
“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy” Sendak said in 2009. “There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger. And I did not want to reduce Max to the trite image of the good little boy that you find in too many books.”
“Kids don’t know about best sellers,” he said. “They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them.”
Vale Maurice Sendak, thank you for sharing your gift.
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