my MOFO

still recovering from a big night with Tex Perkins and the Cruel Sea...but here goes ! I've spent the last week trying to catch as many gigs as possible at Mona Foma and its been a huge week of contrasts....from Michael Lampard gently massaging an out of body experience from me to Nick Cave and Grinderman, physically forcing an OBE out of me.. I don't think I saw one bad act the entire week, from the local "The Stoics", to "The Cambodian Space Project", from "Metropolis" to last nights "Cruel Sea"...it was all worth the effort to get off my bum.

But...the BEST thing to happen this week was meeting all my friends, Facebook and real time. An event such as this, meant that everyone got to at least a couple of events and I certainly caught up with heaps of people from my past...but I suppose that meeting Facebook friends...and these are people I've been talking to for months...was the biggest thrill of all. They are just as nice in "real" time as they are on FB. There was Janet and Rod from the east coast, Deb and Martin from Sorell, the fabulous Della the Red and all the people that came up to me in the various venues, that are on my facebook friend list...wonderful...

Another great feeling was that we are all equal...we were all there to appreciate art in some form..for me the performance art. I walked up to Brian and David and shook their hands on putting this together...I worked the donation bucket for a short while, with Stephen, Mary, Kim and Rob....the pollies that came to say hello...we were all equal, we were all there for our own take on the arts.....ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS