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And in that vein, everyone thinks it, but Jack just says it: -

I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)

Well I miss my mother
And I miss being her son
As crazy as I was I
Guess I wasn't much of one
Sometimes I miss her so much,
I want to hop on the next jet
And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet
And I love my sister
Lord knows how I've missed her
She loves me
And she knows I won't forget
And sometimes I get jealous
Of all her little pets
And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

I roll over in bed
Looking for someone to touch
There's a girl that I know of
But don't ask for much
She's homely, and she's cranky
And her hair's in a net
And I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

Are you my friend when I need one
I need someone to be one
I take anybody I can get
And sometimes I wanna call you
And I feel like a pet
And I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

I go down to the river
Filled with regret
I go down and I wonder
If there was any reason left
I left just before my lungs could get wet
I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

And I love my sister
Lord knows how I've missed her
She loves me
And she knows I won't forget
And sometimes I get jealous
Of all her little pets
And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet
Yeah I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet


In other news, went to the doctor yesterday and they decided to take 6 vials of blood, despite the fact that I was already light headed and on the verge of falling over. What fun. So now I get to find out on Friday whether I have fun and exciting diseases, such as Ross River virus, or in fact arthritis.

I got my ears pierced again today, with hot red earrings, and they look awesome. Considering getting a third lot done in about a week or so. Hoorah! Hopefully to also come this year will be a nose piercing. Fingers crossed and all.

This Saturday I will be up in Perth. It was going to be for a few days, but I then had the doctor's appointment on Friday and also have to get my eyes tested on Monday, and Mum's going up for the day on Saturday so it just all fell into place really. Going to see 27 Dresses with the lovely Lauren, my housemate Kirsty and some of her friends.

Everyone keep their fingers crossed that I don't end up having to have glasses, because I look shite in them. Glasses don't suit me at all. But then if I don't need glasses, it's a mystery as to what's causing all the headaches I've been having, which means I'll have to go to the doctor AGAIN! Oh hoorah.

Speaking of going to the doctor again, I may also have to have some sleep studies done. I'll be happy if they help me sleep better but God, it all sounds so tedious! Just sedate me dammit, I'm sure most of you would prefer it :P

And finally, going to spend up big on DVDs on Friday. Good fun.

PS for the uneducated among you that don't know, the title is a line from the song "You Sound Like Louis Burdett" by the Whitlams. Go listen to it.

Feeling: blah

Dear Family,

Thank you for this Christmas, but I've already decided what I want next year. This would obviusly include the pub (again) and not taking my almost empty wine bottle away from me when I was one glass away from finishing it, but also a few other things.

First of all, it would nice if you weren't all so touchy. Many things are said in JEST. Yes. They are JOKES. Jokes do not mean that we really think that way about you - for example, I do not think my father is a wet girl's blouse (well, OK, sometimes, but not as often as Matt) - so there's no reason to get all upset about it. Deal with it, y'all! No snark on Christmas, thanks.

Secondly, Christmas and the days surrounding it are a time for FAMILY. This means making SACRIFICES! And seriously, what's the worst that could happen? You could be slightly bored at a movie, lose a board game, or shock horror, miss a few hours of the cricket. Let me avoid that now by breaking the game down for you - there are numerous men on a large piece of grass wearing white. There is a rectangle of grass that is a different texture to the rest. At each end of this there are three sticks with two things balancing on them. There are two men with large hitting instruments and one with a circular contraption. The man throws the circular contraption. One of the other men hits it with a stick. Sometimes those standing around the grass catch it. Sometimes they have to run after it. Whilst the men are negotiating the best way to get the circular contraption back to its owner, the men with sticks run back and forth. Sometimes they beat each other up. Sometimes the crowd sings. What a tragedy if we were to miss that.

Thirdly, respect your presents. People have spent ages trying to pick out things that they think you'd like. They don't always get it right. BIG DEAL. It's just stuff! How would you feel if you'd spent months searching for it and when the person opened it they thought it was crap? It'd make you feel pretty bad, huh? Sometimes a white lie is for the best. You don't have to get it surgically attached to yourself. Let's try and make everyone else feel good.

Fourthly, enough with the whinging! Our entire family has health problems - take a panadol and get over yourself. You're not having hot pins shoved under your fingernails, you're not dead, so stop your damn whining! It ruins it for the rest of us. If you're always sitting there going "Someone get something for me, my little toenail on the left foot is twinging a bit and I can't get up" ... for God's sake! Shut your face, suck it up and get on with it - some of us have to live with the pain for the rest of our lives, but you don't hear us whining about how we can't walk three metres to the kitchen to get a glass of coke!

And finally, a little bit of help would be nice. Do the dishes, cook something, pick stuff up off the floor - whatever! Just stop sitting on your fat arse demanding things. It's not everyone's job but yours. It's everyone's job. Everyone contributed to the mess/desire to eat, everyone needs to contribute to the chores surrounding it. Again, suck it up. You won't die if you're forced to put your book down for fifteen minutes.

So let's think about all that next Christmas and stop being so selfish, hmm?

Love,
Renee`

Feeling: annoyed

This is using a very limited, old music collection from my parent's computer. This collection reflects music I may have listened to in year 12. Some of it is cool. Some of it is not. Let that be known.

RULES:
1.) Put your music player on shuffle
2.) Press forward for each question
3.) Use the song title as the answer
4.) NO CHEATING!!! What you get is what you get!

1) How am I feeling today?
"One by One" - Lebo M.

2) Where will I get married?
"Rockin' All Over the World" - Status Quo (Awesome!)

3) What is my best friend’s theme song?
"Love Me Do" - the Beatles

4) What is/was high school like?
"Holding Out for a Hero" - Jennifer Saunders

5) What is the best thing about me?
"Don't Need Love" - Johnny Diesel (Oh. Great.)

6)How is today going to be?
"The Morning Report" - Geoff Hoyle

7) What is in store for this weekend?
"Penny Lane" - The Beatles (AWESOME!)

8) What song describes my parents?
"Somebody to Love" - Queen (Aaaaaaaaaaw)

9) How is my life going?
"Once Upon a December" - Deana Carter (Super.)

10) What song will they play at my funeral?
"Amazing" - Alex Lloyd (Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!)

11) How does the world see me?
"Loneliness" - Ed Harcourt (Great. Thanks.)

12) What do my friends really think of me?
"Bad Day" - Daniel Powter (Oh, super. I see a theme. Thanks.)

13) Do people secretly lust after me?
"El Tango de Roxanne" - Ewan McGregor (Hee!)

14) How can I make myself happy?
"Changes" - Butterfly Boucher (Oh great. That's specific. I'm gonna take it to mean I should listen to more David Bowie)

15) What should I do with my life?
"Lady Marmalade" - Moulin Rouge (HAHAHAHAHA! AWESOME!)

16) Will I ever have children?
"Big Yellow Taxi" - the Counting Crows (Because I don't have a song titled "Yes. Four. You might want to bite down on something."

17) What is some good advice?
"Friday On My Mind" - the Easybeats

18) What do I think my current theme song is?
"No Bravery" - James Blunt (Oh, super.)

19) What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - the Beatles (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

20) What type of men/women do you like?
"If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago (Riiiiiiiight ...)

21) Will you get married?
"Rose Tint My World" - Rocky Horror (Oh, right then.)

22) What should I do with my love life?
"This Room" - Eskimo Joe (Oh, you mean encourage Eskimo Joe to come out about their deep and secret love for one another? ;P)

25) What will your dying words be?
"Gamble Everything for Love" - Ben Lee (How boring!)

26) How’s your day going so far?
"If I Ever Feel Better" - Phoenix (Oooooooooooooookay ... )

27) How’s your love life?
"Fields of Gold" - Sting (Aaaaaaaaaw!)

Feeling: bored

Ren is currently addicted to: -

- Perusing my Cook's Bible: it's currently imperative to know whether it would be easier to make tiramisu or tarte au citron (tiramisu is winning, as it gives me an excuse to buy frangelico, hoorah!)

- The Bali Climate Change talks: KRudd's first outing and an important global issue ... let's go Kyoto!

- Pride and Prejudice: rereading the book, and damn that woman could write!

- Facebook: It amuses me. What can I say?

- Sleeping: Thanks to my allergies and hayfever, every morning I wake up feeling worse than when I went to sleep. Doesn't stop me trying those!

Love to all, I know I neglect LJ a bit, but there you go. Merry Christmas my lovelies!

Feeling: blah

Hello my lovelies, I realise I do not update regularly, and for that I say: - I am terribly sorry. Hugs and coffeepops for all!

Anyhoo, things have been boring. I'm sorry to hear that my lovely Gemma is unwell, and to her I send a lovely bottle of tequila and a large quantity of salt and lemons, so all shall be well, or at least passed out in an odd place, such as a pool table in Dalkeith, which, let's face it, we'd all like to be passed out on.

I am also sorry that my lovely wife Laura is having a hard time, and I send to her a very large block of negative calorie chocolate, and a communist midget for her enjoyment. And as said midget is a communist, her enjoyment is his enjoyment, and thus he shall be delighted to perform many amusing dances for her.

As for me, well, I have been doing sweet fuck all. In the past week I have ... finished reading three books (and am halfway through a fourth) and cooked dinner twice. Oh, and I had my hair done. The acheivements!

Today I shall be dropping my resume in at the local pub, in the hopes that I shall soon be hired as a bar wench. My qualifications for said job are: - I drink a lot, and three small words: - "Five Cougars, thanks!" But some money shall be good.

In other news, I will, towards the end of December, be paying out almost $700 to start a program which will help me lose all the weight I want to in as short a time as one and a half months (best case scenario). I know that some may think this is an extreme measure, but I am getting quite desperate, and really, it's my body. I promise that I will be careful and remain healthy, and I have my lovely friends, housemates and family to keep me grounded.

I will be going to see Tripod on Saturday, with my lovely wife Laura, my bestest buddy Jacq, a member of her fabled "gay posse" and my housemate Matt. It shall be magnificent fun, as it is Tripod, and the concert takes place at the zoo. We also intend to get to the zoo via ferry, so it shall be a reliving thine childhood moment. Hoorah!

And finally - I have a gripe with people who don't understand the concept of star-crossed love in soap operas. I enjoy soap operas, mainly because most of the time I indulge in mainly high culture, literature, etc etc and it's so nice to have half an hour a day where I'm not constantly analysing things. But a little analysis goes a long way - I can see both opinions in the matter I'm referring to, but neither side has much respect for the other, and thus petty arguments tend to break out. Just a bit of thinking, guys, would be really great!

And that's me out!

Feeling: apathetic

The '00s have been, hands down, the worst decade for deaths, in my opinion. What the hell is going on? And think about the next few generations of "legends" - they just don't measure up. So here's my tribute for all the awesome people who've checked out in the last 5 years. Rest in peace and rock on.

2002
- Theresa Bernstein, 111, artist
- Leo Ornstein, 109, radical composer/pianist
- Spike Milligan, 83, UK comedian, writer and actor
- Lisa Lopes, Singer with band TLC
- Ruth Cracknell, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son", aged 76.
- Alec Campbell, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home, aged 103
- Hansie Cronje, 32, (air crash), South African cricketer
- Dee Dee Ramone, founding member of The Ramones
- John Entwistle, 57, (heart attack), bassist for The Who
- Josh Ryan Evans, Actor, played Timmy on Passions
- Ian MacNaughton, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- Joe Strummer, former singer for The Clash.
- Armand Zildjian, cymbals manufacturer

2003
- Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees
- Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt, a pioneering Hawaiian educator, fought for native Hawaiian rights
- Astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
- Mongo Santamaria, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician
- Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd), who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion
- Earl King, R&B musician/songwriter
- Nina Simone, jazz singer, "High Priestess of Soul"
- The Honourable Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (NDP), first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party
- Dame Wendy Hiller, British actress
- June Carter Cash, musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash
- Gregory Peck, actor
- Katharine Hepburn, actress
- Herbie Mann, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist
- Barry White, smooth soul singer
- John Ritter, American actor, played Jack Tripper on Three's Company
- Johnny Cash, American country singer
- Slim Dusty, Australian country music singer
- William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
- Rosie Nix Adams, daughter of June Carter Cash
- Bobby Hatfield, half of the singing duet, the Righteous Brothers
- Buddy Arnold, jazz saxophonist
- Archbishop Michael Courtney, 58, Irish-born Papal Nuncio to Burundi who was central to peace negotiations, assassinated
- Earl Hindman, 61, U.S. actor, played "Wilson" on Home Improvement TV series
- Bríd Durrane, 109, the oldest person to receive a university degree and write an autobiography (both at 103), last surviving person who knew the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Uprising personally

2004
- Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
- Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion
- Frances Partridge, 103, writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
- Wallace Davenport, 78, New Orleans jazz trumpeter
- Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
- Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
- David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
- Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor
- Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul pioneer
- Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag,
- Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician
- Marlon Brando, 80, American actor
- Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
- Rick James, 56, funk singer
- Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones,
- Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights
- Christopher Reeve, 52, U.S. actor who starred as Superman in the 1978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed
- Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher
- Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer
- Susan Sontag, 71, American author

2005
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Terri Schiavo, 41, U.S. persistent vegetative state patient
- Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris)
- Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz,
- Bob Bellear, 60, first Indigenous Australian judge
- Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity; longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
- John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
- Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer and the first female African-American federal judge
- Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget),
- Franzi Groszmann, 100, last surviving Kindertransport mother, consultant on the film Into the Arms of Strangers.
- Robert Wise, 91, American film director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story)
- Anil Kumar Dutta, artist, founder or Academy of Creative Art.
- Rosa Parks, 92, African-American civil rights pioneer; "founding symbol of the American Civil Rights Movement".
- Dallas Cook, 23, trombone player for Suburban Legends
- Nick Hawkins, 40, electric guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite
- Ronnie Barker, 76, British comedian and actor.
- Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality

2006
- James Bastien, 71, American classical pianist, composer, teacher, and author of a series of piano instruction books
- Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter who captured Benito Mussolini.
- Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
- Peter Wells, 58, guitarist from Australian rock outfit Rose Tattoo,
- Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, reigning Miss Deaf Texas,
- Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter
- Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever")
- Grant McLennan, 48, lead singer of The Go-Betweens
- Lloyd Richards, 87, first Black Broadway director, Tony Award winner
- Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award
- Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain
- David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist
- Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills 90210)
- Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta
- James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum
- Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets
- Vince Welnick, 55, member of The Grateful Dead
- Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos
- Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician.
- Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats
- Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima
- Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer
- Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist, "The Crocodile Hunter"
- Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo)
- Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away)
- Robert Jance Garfat, 62, American musician (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
- Wally Foreman, 58, Australian Broadcasting Corporation sports broadcaster
- James Brown, 73, American soul singer and bandleader
- Fred Marsden, 66, British drummer for Gerry & the Pacemakers

2007
- Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas
- Billy Thorpe, 60, Australian rock musician
- Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall
- Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist
- Boris Yeltsin, 76, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999)
- Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist and social critic
- Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger)
- Ingmar Bergman, 89, Swedish stage and film director (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander)
- Stan Zemanek, 60, Australian radio presenter
- Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist
- Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor
- Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer for the West Coast Eagles, television and radio sports journalist.

Feeling: accomplished

Eurobeat, guys! Best musical EVAR! I really, really urge you to go see it! If you don't, you will REALLY miss out on something that you shouldn't miss out on. It's SO EXCELLENT! Fabulously cast and...well, THERE ARE GAY COWBOYS! It's so funny your face will HURT from LAUGHING!

It's on at Hacket Hall, Draper street in Floreat, on June 24, 28, 29 and 30 and July 1, 5, 6 and 7. Sunday shows start at 7, the rest start at 8, doors open half an hour early. Adults are $23 and concession are $18. Bookings are ESSENTIAL, from BOCS (9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au) or Playlovers (0415 777 173 or bookings@playlovers.org.au) And, as if you needed any more enticement, drinks are DIRT CHEAP! We're talking $4.50 for a rum and coke! CHAMPAGNE FOR $3.50 A GLASS! AND IT'S JACOB'S CREEK, GUYS!

Anyway, I really, really, really, really urge you all to go. And just give me a call (at my number in Boyanup, because I'll be down there for a few weeks) and we'll organise to go as a big group. It will be AWESOME! If you don't go, you will REALLY miss out on an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING experience. I swear you will laugh until you cry. Your face will hurt from laughing. You will FALL OF YOUR CHAIR AND ROLL AROUND ON THE FLOOR with laughter. JUST SEE IT!



And a side note: - I wish I could keep my friends from hurting. Anything I can do for you guys, just let me know. You guys complete me. As much as gay cowboys. Although not in the same way. Often.

Feeling: bouncy

RULES:
1. Put Your itunes, windows media plyer etc on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THE FIRST LINE OF THAT SONG DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
So quiet, another wasted night

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot (great...)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Four seasons in one day

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Sitting in a park in Paris, France

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Is this the real life?

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
I feel like a quote out of context

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
I've heard people say that too much of anything is not good for you baby

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
I don't wanna die in a car crash with you

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Will you work from what we've got?

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Katie was a little girl

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BESTIE?
When we kiss my heart's on fire (uuuuuuuuuuh)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
It was a blind winter

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Billy's leaving today

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
I'm really close tonight (What, official bed-tester?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The record goes

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
You know how it feels

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
I see love and beauty all around

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
I'm walking out in the rain

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
My drum (I don't have a drum!)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Spent 12 hours drinking

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Stars shining bright above you (That I have that song?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Go to sleep (Haha!)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Am I too young for you, babe?