Feeling Puerile
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
It's only a short street.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Short Break In Transmission
My home phone is still not fixed as the fault seems to be inside the house, so it looks like I have to stay home tomorrow and wait for the telephone company guys to come, and hopefully fix the problem. All I can say is, pray they are cute. Okay, that sounded DESPERATE, but if I'm going to be stuck at home with no work internet access and no home internet access (on account of the phone issues) then the least I could hope for is a mild diversion right?
If it's fixed I might see you tomorrow, otherwise make the best of it with the Aussie Bum guys and don't break anything.
*smooches*
If it's fixed I might see you tomorrow, otherwise make the best of it with the Aussie Bum guys and don't break anything.
*smooches*
Kind Of Like Soft Core Porn, With Undies
One of my favourite fantasy internet boyfriends recently posted a hot pic of a particularly nice young man in his underpants.
That underpants label? Aussie Bum. The home of hotness.
Do they know their target market, or what?
That underpants label? Aussie Bum. The home of hotness.
Do they know their target market, or what?
Monday, February 20, 2006
Yet More Botanical Porn
Pale Blue Vine
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Can't you just feel the heat of a hot Sydney afternoon in this pic? The harshness of the light? The deep shadows?
I took this photo a few weekends back, of a flowering vine growing on a neighour's front fence. Just a few streets over from where I live. It was a stinking hot day, so maybe it's just memory that makes me look at the strong light in this picture and think of hot Summer days.
Everyone In The World Has A Blog
...or so it seems sometimes.
As it turns out, the adorable slab of birthday boy from yesterday's trip to the mountains, Andrew F, has an online diary too. Go give him some loving, he deserves it.
As it turns out, the adorable slab of birthday boy from yesterday's trip to the mountains, Andrew F, has an online diary too. Go give him some loving, he deserves it.
On Making Frocks & Visiting The Mountains
Weekend recap time!
It was a pretty stinking hot weekend here in Sydney this past weekend. Saturday in particular was oppressively hot. After being weighed and processed at Fat Fighters* early on Saturday morning (2Kg down so far, take that love handles!) I spent the rest of the day with my friend Judy helping her plan, pattern and fit an Italian Renaissance gown for herself.
If you've read this blog for a while, and especially if you've read my 100 Things post, you might know that I'm a man who knows his way around a sewing machine. I trained as a milliner and have done lots of costuming work for myself and others in the past. I'm also a top class embroiderer.
Despite that, I'm quite the butchness, yo. :-)
Anyhoo, so Saturday was productive and I fitted a mock up of the bodice on Judy and we planned out the rest of her costume. By late afternoon the heat was too much so I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in my little house forming a loving bond with my airconditioner and DVD player. This is a relationship made to last.
Sunday I had an invite to a birthday party for my friend Andrew at his home at Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains. Andrew attends the same Buddhist centre I do, and purely by coincidemce is also the graphic designer for the publication that my work produces each year. A friend of Andrew's, Mark, kindly picked myself and another friend up and gave us a lift to Blacheath, about an hour and a half out of Sydney. It was a lovely afternoon of eating Andrew's delicious food (don't tell Fat Fighters) and meeting new people, and we headed back to Sydney in the late afternoon.
Yesterday was also Fair Day, one of the events that celebrates the start of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras season. I missed it because I was up in the mountains, but I decided to swing by The Newtown Hotel to see if Brendan and the A List Gays were having our usual Sunday late afternoon drinkie poos. Given that Fair Day is just up the road from my neighbourhood, The Newtown looked like every single 'mo in Sydney was in there. It was wall to wall beef. If the boys were there I couldn't find them, so I headed home and hung out with Bodhi for a while, watched some of the Winter Olympics, and then went to bed early, being able to look back over the weekend and say "we all had a lovely time".
* Of course I jest, this is the real Fat Fighters.
It was a pretty stinking hot weekend here in Sydney this past weekend. Saturday in particular was oppressively hot. After being weighed and processed at Fat Fighters* early on Saturday morning (2Kg down so far, take that love handles!) I spent the rest of the day with my friend Judy helping her plan, pattern and fit an Italian Renaissance gown for herself.
If you've read this blog for a while, and especially if you've read my 100 Things post, you might know that I'm a man who knows his way around a sewing machine. I trained as a milliner and have done lots of costuming work for myself and others in the past. I'm also a top class embroiderer.
Despite that, I'm quite the butchness, yo. :-)
Anyhoo, so Saturday was productive and I fitted a mock up of the bodice on Judy and we planned out the rest of her costume. By late afternoon the heat was too much so I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in my little house forming a loving bond with my airconditioner and DVD player. This is a relationship made to last.
Sunday I had an invite to a birthday party for my friend Andrew at his home at Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains. Andrew attends the same Buddhist centre I do, and purely by coincidemce is also the graphic designer for the publication that my work produces each year. A friend of Andrew's, Mark, kindly picked myself and another friend up and gave us a lift to Blacheath, about an hour and a half out of Sydney. It was a lovely afternoon of eating Andrew's delicious food (don't tell Fat Fighters) and meeting new people, and we headed back to Sydney in the late afternoon.
Yesterday was also Fair Day, one of the events that celebrates the start of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras season. I missed it because I was up in the mountains, but I decided to swing by The Newtown Hotel to see if Brendan and the A List Gays were having our usual Sunday late afternoon drinkie poos. Given that Fair Day is just up the road from my neighbourhood, The Newtown looked like every single 'mo in Sydney was in there. It was wall to wall beef. If the boys were there I couldn't find them, so I headed home and hung out with Bodhi for a while, watched some of the Winter Olympics, and then went to bed early, being able to look back over the weekend and say "we all had a lovely time".
* Of course I jest, this is the real Fat Fighters.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Make Your World Beautiful In Your Eyes
I have incredible admiration for creativity, and especially when people follow their own particular (or even peculiar) vision. Take for instance Facteur Ferdinand Cheval who in his 40s found a beautiful stone by the road and was inspired to spend the next three decades creating the Palais Ideal. Ok, sure that tips over from 'vision' to 'obsession', but the legacy is remarkable. France seems to have its fair share of eccentric creators, case in point Robert Tatin's construction the Frenouse.
Here is a fabulous list of other folk art environments compiled by Kristin Fiore.
Here is a fabulous list of other folk art environments compiled by Kristin Fiore.
Colour & Movement
Ensigns
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
I took this pic of the sculpture outside the Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour the other day, just before meeting up with the Sydney Photobloggers group for our trip to the Chinese Lantern Festival.
I like the rhythm of the colours and shapes, and the strong verticals and diagonals.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
5 Reasons To Paste A Smile On My Dial
- Going one notch tighter on the belt, without entering muffin top territory.
- The new reality tv show
BaywatchBondi Rescue, which may not exactly be great television, but hello! lifesavers and speedos. What's not to love? (Although the filming of the series has lead to at least one allegation of the lifeguards being somewhat distracted). - Autumn is around the corner here, call me a freak but I love the changing of the seasons.
- Being grateful for the fact that Winter Olympics hotties aren't always rugged up. I just love quality journalism, don't you? [link via towleroad]
- Rich at FourFour just gets funnier and funnier. We don't even have Project Runway 2 on our screens here, and yet I look forward to his weekly recaps.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Aural Assault
It really struck me today as I was standing waiting for the lights to change at the corner of George & Market Streets, in the heart of Sydney, just how much noise you have to contend with in a big city. It's no wonder that most of us would discover, given a quiet enough space, that we have a background level of tinnitus. Today's assualt was courtesy of a busker with an electric guitar and an amplifier turned up waaaaay too loud on one corner, and a Christian Evangelist with a bullhorn on the other. The evening train ride home is often a deafening exercise, with too loud train announcements that sometimes run over the top of each other and trains that screech their way through the underground tunnels of the city stations.
Seriously, it all needs to just SHUT THE F*CK UP!
OK, better now.
Seriously, it all needs to just SHUT THE F*CK UP!
OK, better now.
Alone Time
All this talk of Valentine's Day and Fantasy Shags has me thinking about where I am at about relationships right now. I've posted a bit recently about wanting to date, about having interest from a couple of guys, and about feeling a bit more confident about things. About feeling more attractive.
It's interesting, because I'm feeling really relaxed about meeting someone. This is usually the time when it happens, right? When you give up the wanting, the needing, and think "eh, if it happens it would be nice". I'm not sure how or when the switch in my head was flicked, but I've definately had a change of attitude. I'm not sure where this sudden burst of confidence has come from, but I'm just going to run with it.
Thinking
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew. Darling Harbour, Feb 11th 2006.
One thing that crosses my mind is that I've been depressed. Big "D" Depressed. It certainly would explain the sleeplessness and lethargy to a degree. If that's what it was, and I'm self-diagnosing here so I could be off the mark, it feels like past-tense. I mention that as an aside, because the important thing here is that I'm feeling good. Happy. More confident.
I'm sometimes too passive about meeting guys. Too hesitant to put my self-image on the line and ask someone out, too ready to sit back and wish for someone to make the first move. Too fearfull of rejection. I don't feel like that at the moment, I feel like throwing caution to the wind, and to not take it all too seriously, and just go out on a date. Dinner. Movies.
If anything comes of this, I'll keep you posted.
It's interesting, because I'm feeling really relaxed about meeting someone. This is usually the time when it happens, right? When you give up the wanting, the needing, and think "eh, if it happens it would be nice". I'm not sure how or when the switch in my head was flicked, but I've definately had a change of attitude. I'm not sure where this sudden burst of confidence has come from, but I'm just going to run with it.
Thinking
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew. Darling Harbour, Feb 11th 2006.
One thing that crosses my mind is that I've been depressed. Big "D" Depressed. It certainly would explain the sleeplessness and lethargy to a degree. If that's what it was, and I'm self-diagnosing here so I could be off the mark, it feels like past-tense. I mention that as an aside, because the important thing here is that I'm feeling good. Happy. More confident.
I'm sometimes too passive about meeting guys. Too hesitant to put my self-image on the line and ask someone out, too ready to sit back and wish for someone to make the first move. Too fearfull of rejection. I don't feel like that at the moment, I feel like throwing caution to the wind, and to not take it all too seriously, and just go out on a date. Dinner. Movies.
If anything comes of this, I'll keep you posted.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The Valentine's Day Hit List
Valentine's Day is as good a day as any, in fact probably better than most, to resort to a little no-basis-in-reality fantasy, right? So, following the lead of two of my favourite peeps Sunshine and Yaniboy I decided to compile a special Valentine's Day Top 5 List.
The idea behind the Top 5 List principle is to name 5 people that you are allowed a Free Pass to sleep with (given the opportunity) that your partner is not allowed to feel jealous about. See how I mentioned the no-basis-in-reality bit?
Anyhoo, moving on. My list changes nearly daily, so here's this morning's version at least:
Top 5 Fantasy Shags
1. Jake Gyllenhall - Actor/Cowboy
2. Matthew Fox - Actor/Doctor/Castaway
3. Jeremy Sheffield - Actor/Ballet Dancer/Homosexualist
4. Jensen Ackles - Actor/Spook Hunter
5. Justin Theroux - Actor/Hair Product Aficionado
Anyone care to share your lists?
The idea behind the Top 5 List principle is to name 5 people that you are allowed a Free Pass to sleep with (given the opportunity) that your partner is not allowed to feel jealous about. See how I mentioned the no-basis-in-reality bit?
Anyhoo, moving on. My list changes nearly daily, so here's this morning's version at least:
Top 5 Fantasy Shags
1. Jake Gyllenhall - Actor/Cowboy
2. Matthew Fox - Actor/Doctor/Castaway
3. Jeremy Sheffield - Actor/Ballet Dancer/Homosexualist
4. Jensen Ackles - Actor/Spook Hunter
5. Justin Theroux - Actor/Hair Product Aficionado
Anyone care to share your lists?
Monday, February 13, 2006
Can I Have Another Weekend? Please?
I'm labouring under a crushing dose of Mondayitis this morning. I slept incredibly badly last night, finding it hard to get to sleep, then taking a sleeping pill as a last resort and waking up muzzy headed. You know when you order a decaf coffee late in the day, when you don't normally drink coffee in the afternoon, and when the waiter brings you the coffee and you double check that it really is decaf? Well, sometimes they lie.
At least I can look back over the weekend and say I had a great time. Friday night I went to dinner at my friends Meaghan and James's house. James had invited a fascinating friend of his from work, a woman who had just packed in her highly paid advertising career to go and study Buddhist thangka painting. We got on really well, and had lots to talk about. She also introduced me to a quite tasty no-alcohol beer. Score! My friend Corinne was also there with her handsome new boyfriend. She is half way through the 3 year costume course at NIDA and her boyfriend is studying sound design. Aside from talking about theatre in general, and bitching about designers that cannot consider logistics to save their lives, one of the things we were discussing is how surreal it is that her little brother's band is starting to become internationally famous. They are being really heavily promoted here and have just headed off to L.A. to take a stab at the big time.
On Saturday afternoon I went to the regular meet-up for the Sydney Photoblogger group, which this month was at Darling Harbour for the Chinese Lantern Festival. I took lots of pics, until my battery ran low, and as I detailed in my previous post I had a really good time. Dinner was a highlight, such a nice group of people to chat and laugh with, and it was quite funny to watch the food arrive and everybody scrabble to take photos of it before it was eaten. I think the staff thought we were a bit nuts.
On Sunday I met up with Mikey and another friend Steve and we trolled around Westfield Bondi Junction for a few hours. The scene of my afternoon caffeine disaster. Afterwards I met up with Brendan and the A List Gays at The Newtown for a few drinks, then headed home for the usual Sunday night domestic duties and Carnivale watching. (The season finale, and it rocked!)
So, a really fun weekend but a tired Monday. Can I have another weekend, like, right now?
At least I can look back over the weekend and say I had a great time. Friday night I went to dinner at my friends Meaghan and James's house. James had invited a fascinating friend of his from work, a woman who had just packed in her highly paid advertising career to go and study Buddhist thangka painting. We got on really well, and had lots to talk about. She also introduced me to a quite tasty no-alcohol beer. Score! My friend Corinne was also there with her handsome new boyfriend. She is half way through the 3 year costume course at NIDA and her boyfriend is studying sound design. Aside from talking about theatre in general, and bitching about designers that cannot consider logistics to save their lives, one of the things we were discussing is how surreal it is that her little brother's band is starting to become internationally famous. They are being really heavily promoted here and have just headed off to L.A. to take a stab at the big time.
On Saturday afternoon I went to the regular meet-up for the Sydney Photoblogger group, which this month was at Darling Harbour for the Chinese Lantern Festival. I took lots of pics, until my battery ran low, and as I detailed in my previous post I had a really good time. Dinner was a highlight, such a nice group of people to chat and laugh with, and it was quite funny to watch the food arrive and everybody scrabble to take photos of it before it was eaten. I think the staff thought we were a bit nuts.
On Sunday I met up with Mikey and another friend Steve and we trolled around Westfield Bondi Junction for a few hours. The scene of my afternoon caffeine disaster. Afterwards I met up with Brendan and the A List Gays at The Newtown for a few drinks, then headed home for the usual Sunday night domestic duties and Carnivale watching. (The season finale, and it rocked!)
So, a really fun weekend but a tired Monday. Can I have another weekend, like, right now?
Lantern Festival
Lanterns 1
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
For the Flickr Sydney Photobloggers meet-up this month we met on Saturday late afternoon at Darling Harbour for The Chinese Lantern Festival, celebrating the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Strange Woodland
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
It was a really fun night, which culminated in dinner at The Blackbird Cafe at Cockle Bay. I unfortunately ran out of battery power part way through the night, but still managed to catch a lot of the lanterns. For a look at everyone else's photos from the night try here.
Deer
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
The animal character lanterns were cute, if not a little odd in some cases, and were the source of a lot of excitment for the kids in particular. I think some of the other phtotgraphers were a little bit disappointed that the festival wasn't bigger, but I enjoyed it. I found lots to photograph and enjoyed hanging out with the other Sydney Photobloggers.
Dog
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
2006: Year Of The Dog
When I went for a lunchtime stroll the other day, I took a bunch of photos of the Year Of The Dog themed decorations around the city, and especially at World Square near Chinatown. All the pics I took are in this collection on Flickr, and I've posted a couple of them below. Colourful, don't you think?
2006: Year Of The Dog
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Lantern Eyes
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Paw Prints
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Here is a collection of all the other photos on Flickr 'tagged' Year Of The Dog.
2006: Year Of The Dog
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Streetside banners celebrating the Chinese horoscope Year Of The Dog, George St, Sydney.
Lantern Eyes
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Close up of the lantern eyes of the huge dog sculpture at the George St entrance to World Square.
Paw Prints
Originally uploaded by Other Andrew.
Huge floral paw prints that wend through the arcades and across the square at World Square.
Here is a collection of all the other photos on Flickr 'tagged' Year Of The Dog.
Friday, February 10, 2006
The Wedding Banquet
If the tagline on the top of the cover of the DVD is any indication, it looks like the success of "Brokeback Mountain" has prompted the release (or is it re-release?) of Ang Lee's first gay themed movie The Wedding Banquet at the end of this month. I've mentioned previously that I saw and enjoyed this film very much, and I've been looking for it on the DVD store shelves for a while now without success. It looks like it should be in the stores in Australia at the start of March. WOOT!
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