Blything!

Got this gorgeous (and many others!) from Katie at http://222am.blogspot.com/
Bowie loves it!




Plus my cat Heidi being jealous (I try not to let her Blythe but she resists)

My Gran

My Gran Phyl Smith is 85. Born Phyllis Job and named after her flapper auntie, she's someone I'm very close too.

As a child her flapper auntie taught her to play the ukulele and sing. At 14 she was working as an embroiderer during the war (that the majority of her brothers died in) and by the end of the war was a professional country singer.

She met my Papa Ray Smith during her singing days and married him in her 30s. She then had 3 stillborn children and finally a daughter Lesley before adopting my mum and her twin sister Sharon and Janine. She got very sick in my mums childhood with a rare form of adrenal cancer. Doctors thought she was making up being ill, so they institutionalized her until finally realizing she was on her deathbed. She survived of course and started writing poetry and drawing again but then lost her twin sister Ruby to breast cancer.

It's very strange she's so much like me yet we are not blood related. I love her so much and it saddened me greatly when I got a letter from her and couldn't read it. Her writing is very scribbly like that of a 6 year old. Ever since she had a stroke she hasn't been the same and she's extremely depressed.

I'm making her a book, with all her poems in it.

This woman is someone I admire greatly, she's overcome so much and she's strong.
A true warrior, my gran is amazing and an amazing singer,guitarist,poet and artist.

I love my gran.

RIP Poly Styrene

Solo Artist, Punk Legend and Singer of X-Ray Spex lost her battle with cancer today at age 53. It's a very sad day :(

Oh miss Daly, Where have you been lately?

I went to a local Perth music festival on Easter Sunday called "In the Pines" it had Abbe May, Sons of Rico, The Growl etc. with my friend Javiera.

The who's-who of local music always attend this event. What I noticed was the sudden groupie invasion, this one girl dresses like a 1990's Riot Grrrl which is ok if you are referencing it. I'm pretty sure she just saw it in Dolly magazine or something. This one girl has a million groupie clones who all sit together and ignore anyone not skinny or cute. These girls are professional groupies, they couldn't give a shit about music. It's a popularity contest to them. The girl who leads them also has it in for me as I've slept with her boyfriend but that pre- me knowing she existed! Hold a grudge much?

It annoys me that girls don't just fucking enjoy the music or make their own. I have no problem with groupiedom, I'm very inspired by the 1960's and 1970's groupies. They actually cared about the music, it wasn't a popularity /beauty contest to them.

My friend Javiera and I are both musicians and she's also an artist. We were there for the music, nothing more. These girls didn't even stick around to see Abbe May! Abbe May would teach them a lesson. She's empowering, I listen to her record "Howl and Moan" all the time. Her Patti Smith meets Johnny Cash tendencies along with her grungey guitar just mesmerize.

I'm not saying i'm better than them. I'm saying they should stop playing into the beauty queen stigma that plagues us girls so deeply.