Friday 13th, Cats and the Full Moon...

Listening to: Live on Earth – The Cat Empire

This is what I really want to blog about – not sucky computers that don’t work! I’ve been trying to blog this since Friday 13th. Could the new/full moon have something to do with this? Lately, I’ve been a bit down and this past week have been inflicted with violent headaches that eventually turned to a migraine grrr…

It’s easy to feel glum and pissed off at the world when things like this are happening – but seeing The Cat Empire play LIVE for the 5th time since 2003 (they’ve been around for years playing the Melbourne circuit) but of course living in Brisbane I hadn’t the good fortune of knowing this until their first self titled album in 2003. Anyway, a damn good dose of the Cats…LIVE fixed me. Well almost. Yes, the violent headache turned to a migraine and it’s still blipping away at my temples as I write this. Yes, I still feel pissed at the world (well not always - just sometimes) but NOT so glum.

I’m a writer with a PASSION to write, a PASSION to put bum on seat and churn out story after story even though of late I’ve been struggling to find that magick – until Friday 13th. Who would’ve thought Black Friday at the Tivoli would deliver positive magick and happy vibes. I watched these guyz. I drank them up, their music, their energy (Harry knows how to raise the energy) he’s a natural born chanter :)

Most of all I witnessed their PASSION as I’ve done so many times before. The Cat Empire literally glow on stage. They have oodles of PASSION in what they do and it shows one thousand fold. This is what I learned as I danced and sang in my tiny spot of the otherworldly charming venue: Write, dance, sing, whatever – but most of all LIVE WITH PASSION! for living with PASSION ignites the soul.
Put simply: Life without PASSION is no life at all!!

Rock on!

Click here to watch 'Two Shoes' - a fabulous black and white clip filmed in Cuba 2006.

IRRITATED

Listening to: Invaders must Die - The Prodigy

Pretty annoyed with cyberspace and computers right now. Facebook is totally in your face! Myspace is a pain in the arse to operate and friggin slow...what the...or is it my computer? Lost USB ports again! So no saving of files for back up's, no access to saved files, no downloading of pix from camera, no updating of music to MP3 and worst of all no access to printer! I've had it with computers...I'm fed up and going to bed!

Sunny Afternoon...

Hiya people...

Well it's March already and time for a new blog but that might have to wait until the weekend before you'll get any updates. In the meantime - it's that time again.

Time for a new song for the month. This month I've chosen a song by my favourite OZ band singing a fabulous number by a very classic band. One that I had the pleasure of listening to and rocking out to in real time back in the sixties :) Rocking out back then mean't either dancing the 'go go' or the 'twist'. Now that's a whole other post!

On the triple J website there are two areas to listen to. If you want to hear the version of this song and not the interview click on the play symbol in the bigger window. Yep, the one with gorgeous Felix at the microphone. Enjoy and tell me what you think of this version....