A very popular, but short lived, nudist network called Skinbook has been revived by little old me on Christmas Day this year and is growing rapidly in membership having signed up 69 members in 6 days.
Here's hoping that it will be bigger and better than before!
Check out http://www.nudistday.com for a recent interview the webmasters did with me about it. :)
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thoughts on Social Networking Sites
Hi all,
I don't usually post here too much, but I thought that I would start using my other networking sites a bit more since I am starting to get a bit fed up of Facebook.
I first got introduced to the social networking world in about 2003 or 2004, when a number of my email contacts started inviting me to sites like Friendster and Bebo. I joined up but didn't really use them all that much. In 2005 I set up my own networking page on MySpace after being introduced to it by the band The Busymen. Two years later, my Canadian cousins Becky and Troy Western introduced me to Facebook and from there I was pretty much hooked.
The problem was as Facebook became too popular, it also attracted a number of problem people to my profile whom I didn't really want as contacts. Bored people, alcoholics, mentally ill people, and trolls started creeping into it and I thought "naaah, I'm going back to my other sites again - far less trouble!" I have recently started to downsize my Facebook friends to family, relatives, favourite musicians, musician, model and photographer friends and people whom I want to become professionally involved with down the track with my music.
So, in the meantime I want to give you all a bit of run-down as to what I think about other alternative network sites that I'm on.
FRIENDSTER - http://dariowestern.friendster.com - Friendster is the premier and oldest social networking site out there. Commencing in 2002, it was originally a dating site only, but expanded to other aspects of social life as well. I don't have too many friends on it, as the site is only really used by people in Asia now. It's recently undergone a facelift to go from a humble social network to one that looks like a cyber amusement arcade with tons of games.
Pros: Easy to use, nice large fonts that make stuff easy to read. You can mix and match your favourite music and videos on the music player.
Cons: Not enough interest from people in the Western world, so it can be quite lonely on there.
BEBO - http://www.bebo.com/dariowestern and http://www.bebo.com/theglamgod - Bebo was originally started in California in 2002 and the name means "Blog Early Blog Often". Like Friensdter before, I got introduced to it mostly by my Australian contacts, but again it is not much used in Australia anymore. Most of the people who use it now are from the UK and Europe. Very popular with fans of The Veronicas (as you can see by my avatar pic!). Only thing is I'm sure that there are a number of people impersonating them on their profiles!
Pros: Easy layout, fairly easy to blog, you can also share videos, wall posts, and a 'timeline' whereby you can share your entire life history with old photos and videos on it. Nice apps, and it's easy for other people to contact you on other messenger networks. You can customise the pages with your own 'skins' or use a myriad of other skins made by some very creative users.
Cons: The changing hands of it from being independently owned to AOL put a lot of people offiside, and costing one of the top executives his job in the long run. For a while it was a serious contender to MySpace in the popularity stakes, but the chopping and changing of it saw it drop in the popularity stakes. Not enough Australians using it anymore, even though it's still good and highly usable.
MYSPACE - http://www.myspace.com/dariowestern - I first heard about MySpace in 1995 when Richard Buchanan from The Busymen had set up their own webpage on there. I joined up quickly, and was quite happy with it until it got sold to NewsCorp who started upgrading the pages against most of the user's wishes. It also took me a while to get my old profile back due to some logging-in issues that I set up another one as fatpizzaman for a few years. Once I got my original profile back and updated, I deleted the other one.
Pros: A great platform for musicians, photographers, models, fashion designers, DJs and other creative souls in the arts and entertainment industry to promote themselves. You can share multiple music, videos, blogs and up until recently bulletins. With Justin Timberlake at the helm now, things are starting to look rosy for the company again after several industry rumours that it was going to be shut down.
Cons: The automatic upgrading of the sites profiles designs angered and annoyed a lot of users at the time, who could make any changes to their sites themselves or wanted them the way they originally were. In its early days it had teething problems with paedophiles and child pornographers using it to prey on its (mostly young) users. However, such problems are water under the bridge now. Several game apps that it had to try and compete it with Facebook have since been removed, causing most of its fanbase to stick to Facebook.
FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/dariowestern - I joined it in 2007 after my cousins in Canada invited me to it and it fast became a very addictive networking site because of its ease and conciceness. I've made a number of friends thanks to being introduced to them on Facebook, but also made quite a few enemies with my very outspoken diatribes about topics like nudism, families, racism, religion, the cosmetic industry.
PROS: It's the No.1 social networking site in the world now. Originally used as a college intern network site, it's used by major businesses and organisations to keep a track of their customers needs and wants through groups and community pages. Easy sharing of videos, photos, and music. Plenty of games and apps to share (though they can be very addictive, so I don't use them myself).
CONS: Does attract a lot of very unsavoury people like trolls, perverts, malcontents and other very questionable people. Very gymnophobic, doesn't allow nude photos or near nude photos to be posted unless you can stand to have your profile deleted (mind you most other social networks are not too nude friendly, but FB takes it JUST a tad too far). The site constantly chops and changes, sometimes without prior knowledge of the users.
TWITTER - http://twitter.com/Dario_Western - joined it in around 2008 or 2009. Usually use it in conjuction with other networking sites (after all that's what it's meant to be for).
PROS: Easy status updates, you can protect your 'tweets' and decide who follows you.
CONS: Recently become a paradise for spammers, hackers, and fly-by-night business operators.
ORKUT - http://www.orkut.com - Google's first social networking site, which was founded on January 22, 2004 to no big fanfare. It was originally mega popular in the United States, but eventually its popularity was usurped by users in India and Brazil. It is a clean, easy and unpretentious site to use, lacking in the facilities that the Big Three sites have such as being able to post blogs and share music. However, it's quite easy to navigate.
PROS: Easy on the eye, easy to navigate, you can share videos from YouTube for it as well as use it as a dating site or to rate other user's sex appeal. Also has communities that you can join, as well as scrapbooking. Privacy is also a major issue, it's easy to set who can and can't see your profile as well as various aspects of it.
CONS: The site was involved with much controversy between 2005 - 2009, especially with imposter profiles, invisible profiles and communities, spammers and flooders, as well as some Brazilian users promoting child pornography and Indian users promoting rave dance parties in which narcotics were sold. Orkut also came under fire for hosing racist and other hate crime communities. These have now thankfully been rectified and removed from the site.
GOOGLE PLUS - http://plus.google.com - I joined it this year after being invited by a photographer from Model Mayhem. At the moment the site is still in its baby stage, so there's still a lot that can be done with it. However, it's more secure than Facebook and you can put your contacts in 'circles' so that you can post different status updates to each of them.
PROS: Easy to use, good for sharing videos and music and newsfeeds to. The "Hangout" feature is pretty cool if you want to do video-conferencing with friends. Would also like to see Google Groups being linked into user's profiles as part of their interests, as well as Google Buzz.
CONS: Not much to complain about since the site is relatively new. Just hope that it doesn't go the same way as Facebook with the gymnophobia. Would like to see users be able to create their own URLs as the ones that are given are about as long as Siamese railway stations.
WAYN (WHERE ARE YOU NOW?) - http://www.wayn.com/dariowestern - don't really use this one too much, but as its name implies its more for connecting with overseas people. I'd probably use it to keep in touch with old school friends in the UK and from high-school for occasional updates, but aside from that not much else.
FORMER SOCIAL NETWORK SITES I HAVE USED:
MSN SPACES - http://theglamgod.spaces.msn.com - later "Live Spaces". Good site which I used to its full advantage, but a shame it got shut down.
YAHOO! 360 - used it from 2005 till it's closure. I didn't like the way that Yahoo! combined it with its user profiles against it's users wishes. Plus it gained a bad reputation for being a haven for swingers and sex predators, which was partially the reason for its closure.
SKINBOOK - http://skinbook.ning.com - Launched in 2008 by a young team of British students from Manchester (UK), whilst holidaying on a nudist beach, it was touted as the "Facebook for Nudists". It was a great network, the admins were very strict about dodgy people joining and using anonymous photos as their profiles. However, they trusted in the wrong types of people for its forum admins. One was a power mad couple who deleted user profiles without warning because they didn't agree with what they said on the forums. Another forum moderator was a verbally abusive and rude person, who also attacked me a number of times. Following Ning's decision to become a pay only community as well as phasing out sex and pornography communities as well as banning nude imagery, the founder Karl Maddocks threw up his hands deciding that enough was enough. He didn't get much sympathy from the users, and was attacked in Nudiarist's blog for immaturity and bad business ethics. The other founders have started up a new community called MySkin which is via invitation only for immediate friends of theirs.
I don't usually post here too much, but I thought that I would start using my other networking sites a bit more since I am starting to get a bit fed up of Facebook.
I first got introduced to the social networking world in about 2003 or 2004, when a number of my email contacts started inviting me to sites like Friendster and Bebo. I joined up but didn't really use them all that much. In 2005 I set up my own networking page on MySpace after being introduced to it by the band The Busymen. Two years later, my Canadian cousins Becky and Troy Western introduced me to Facebook and from there I was pretty much hooked.
The problem was as Facebook became too popular, it also attracted a number of problem people to my profile whom I didn't really want as contacts. Bored people, alcoholics, mentally ill people, and trolls started creeping into it and I thought "naaah, I'm going back to my other sites again - far less trouble!" I have recently started to downsize my Facebook friends to family, relatives, favourite musicians, musician, model and photographer friends and people whom I want to become professionally involved with down the track with my music.
So, in the meantime I want to give you all a bit of run-down as to what I think about other alternative network sites that I'm on.
FRIENDSTER - http://dariowestern.friendster.com - Friendster is the premier and oldest social networking site out there. Commencing in 2002, it was originally a dating site only, but expanded to other aspects of social life as well. I don't have too many friends on it, as the site is only really used by people in Asia now. It's recently undergone a facelift to go from a humble social network to one that looks like a cyber amusement arcade with tons of games.
Pros: Easy to use, nice large fonts that make stuff easy to read. You can mix and match your favourite music and videos on the music player.
Cons: Not enough interest from people in the Western world, so it can be quite lonely on there.
BEBO - http://www.bebo.com/dariowestern and http://www.bebo.com/theglamgod - Bebo was originally started in California in 2002 and the name means "Blog Early Blog Often". Like Friensdter before, I got introduced to it mostly by my Australian contacts, but again it is not much used in Australia anymore. Most of the people who use it now are from the UK and Europe. Very popular with fans of The Veronicas (as you can see by my avatar pic!). Only thing is I'm sure that there are a number of people impersonating them on their profiles!
Pros: Easy layout, fairly easy to blog, you can also share videos, wall posts, and a 'timeline' whereby you can share your entire life history with old photos and videos on it. Nice apps, and it's easy for other people to contact you on other messenger networks. You can customise the pages with your own 'skins' or use a myriad of other skins made by some very creative users.
Cons: The changing hands of it from being independently owned to AOL put a lot of people offiside, and costing one of the top executives his job in the long run. For a while it was a serious contender to MySpace in the popularity stakes, but the chopping and changing of it saw it drop in the popularity stakes. Not enough Australians using it anymore, even though it's still good and highly usable.
MYSPACE - http://www.myspace.com/dariowestern - I first heard about MySpace in 1995 when Richard Buchanan from The Busymen had set up their own webpage on there. I joined up quickly, and was quite happy with it until it got sold to NewsCorp who started upgrading the pages against most of the user's wishes. It also took me a while to get my old profile back due to some logging-in issues that I set up another one as fatpizzaman for a few years. Once I got my original profile back and updated, I deleted the other one.
Pros: A great platform for musicians, photographers, models, fashion designers, DJs and other creative souls in the arts and entertainment industry to promote themselves. You can share multiple music, videos, blogs and up until recently bulletins. With Justin Timberlake at the helm now, things are starting to look rosy for the company again after several industry rumours that it was going to be shut down.
Cons: The automatic upgrading of the sites profiles designs angered and annoyed a lot of users at the time, who could make any changes to their sites themselves or wanted them the way they originally were. In its early days it had teething problems with paedophiles and child pornographers using it to prey on its (mostly young) users. However, such problems are water under the bridge now. Several game apps that it had to try and compete it with Facebook have since been removed, causing most of its fanbase to stick to Facebook.
FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/dariowestern - I joined it in 2007 after my cousins in Canada invited me to it and it fast became a very addictive networking site because of its ease and conciceness. I've made a number of friends thanks to being introduced to them on Facebook, but also made quite a few enemies with my very outspoken diatribes about topics like nudism, families, racism, religion, the cosmetic industry.
PROS: It's the No.1 social networking site in the world now. Originally used as a college intern network site, it's used by major businesses and organisations to keep a track of their customers needs and wants through groups and community pages. Easy sharing of videos, photos, and music. Plenty of games and apps to share (though they can be very addictive, so I don't use them myself).
CONS: Does attract a lot of very unsavoury people like trolls, perverts, malcontents and other very questionable people. Very gymnophobic, doesn't allow nude photos or near nude photos to be posted unless you can stand to have your profile deleted (mind you most other social networks are not too nude friendly, but FB takes it JUST a tad too far). The site constantly chops and changes, sometimes without prior knowledge of the users.
TWITTER - http://twitter.com/Dario_Western - joined it in around 2008 or 2009. Usually use it in conjuction with other networking sites (after all that's what it's meant to be for).
PROS: Easy status updates, you can protect your 'tweets' and decide who follows you.
CONS: Recently become a paradise for spammers, hackers, and fly-by-night business operators.
ORKUT - http://www.orkut.com - Google's first social networking site, which was founded on January 22, 2004 to no big fanfare. It was originally mega popular in the United States, but eventually its popularity was usurped by users in India and Brazil. It is a clean, easy and unpretentious site to use, lacking in the facilities that the Big Three sites have such as being able to post blogs and share music. However, it's quite easy to navigate.
PROS: Easy on the eye, easy to navigate, you can share videos from YouTube for it as well as use it as a dating site or to rate other user's sex appeal. Also has communities that you can join, as well as scrapbooking. Privacy is also a major issue, it's easy to set who can and can't see your profile as well as various aspects of it.
CONS: The site was involved with much controversy between 2005 - 2009, especially with imposter profiles, invisible profiles and communities, spammers and flooders, as well as some Brazilian users promoting child pornography and Indian users promoting rave dance parties in which narcotics were sold. Orkut also came under fire for hosing racist and other hate crime communities. These have now thankfully been rectified and removed from the site.
GOOGLE PLUS - http://plus.google.com - I joined it this year after being invited by a photographer from Model Mayhem. At the moment the site is still in its baby stage, so there's still a lot that can be done with it. However, it's more secure than Facebook and you can put your contacts in 'circles' so that you can post different status updates to each of them.
PROS: Easy to use, good for sharing videos and music and newsfeeds to. The "Hangout" feature is pretty cool if you want to do video-conferencing with friends. Would also like to see Google Groups being linked into user's profiles as part of their interests, as well as Google Buzz.
CONS: Not much to complain about since the site is relatively new. Just hope that it doesn't go the same way as Facebook with the gymnophobia. Would like to see users be able to create their own URLs as the ones that are given are about as long as Siamese railway stations.
WAYN (WHERE ARE YOU NOW?) - http://www.wayn.com/dariowestern - don't really use this one too much, but as its name implies its more for connecting with overseas people. I'd probably use it to keep in touch with old school friends in the UK and from high-school for occasional updates, but aside from that not much else.
FORMER SOCIAL NETWORK SITES I HAVE USED:
MSN SPACES - http://theglamgod.spaces.msn.com - later "Live Spaces". Good site which I used to its full advantage, but a shame it got shut down.
YAHOO! 360 - used it from 2005 till it's closure. I didn't like the way that Yahoo! combined it with its user profiles against it's users wishes. Plus it gained a bad reputation for being a haven for swingers and sex predators, which was partially the reason for its closure.
SKINBOOK - http://skinbook.ning.com - Launched in 2008 by a young team of British students from Manchester (UK), whilst holidaying on a nudist beach, it was touted as the "Facebook for Nudists". It was a great network, the admins were very strict about dodgy people joining and using anonymous photos as their profiles. However, they trusted in the wrong types of people for its forum admins. One was a power mad couple who deleted user profiles without warning because they didn't agree with what they said on the forums. Another forum moderator was a verbally abusive and rude person, who also attacked me a number of times. Following Ning's decision to become a pay only community as well as phasing out sex and pornography communities as well as banning nude imagery, the founder Karl Maddocks threw up his hands deciding that enough was enough. He didn't get much sympathy from the users, and was attacked in Nudiarist's blog for immaturity and bad business ethics. The other founders have started up a new community called MySkin which is via invitation only for immediate friends of theirs.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
SUZI QUATRO - "In The Spotlight" (Cherry Red) BRED 511
Five years since the release of her comeback album "Back To The Drive", Suzi Quatro delivers one of her most satisfying albums yet on the indie label Cherry Red Records, who recently re-released some of her early 70's albums.
And indeed she goes back to her roots of straight, anthemic, no frills radio-killing rock on this album. Produced by Mike Chapman, this album is sure to hook the kids into her universe as well as take the older listeners back to a time when music could grab you by the balls and brain alike and get you rocking out on the dancefloor.
Opening with the stompy rocker "A Girl Like Me", it has a killer chorus reminiscent of Robert Palmer's "Bad Case Of Loving You" and big dirty guitar work courtesy of one of Chapman's more recent proteges Natalie Allison.
"Whatever Love Is" is a more 80's soft rock affair with great introspective lyrics, and "Spotlight" follows on in the adult orientated rock ballad vein with dreamy synths, a lighter-waving chorus and a melody which owes a bit to Max Merrit & The Meteors 1976 smash hit "Slipping Away".
Just when you think that this album is going to be a solely adults music affair, the pace changes to show that Quatro has been keeping up with some of the more recent girl pop trends. She covers Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine" in a great glam boogie style and cheekily weaves a "Can the Can honey" line towards the end, and the momentum is made even better with the cover of Rihanna's "Breaking Dishes" which is an appealing mix of 70's rock combined with the R&B sensibilities of the original.
The next track is my personal favourite from the album "Rosie Rose", as it was the first track that I heard from the album a couple of years ago on Mike Chapman's MySpace website. Opening with some chinking clicky guitar scrubs, she yells "Do you love me?!", whilst the chords take on the same progression of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to a more funky shuffly beat. Great vocals which are amongst her most aggressive.
"Hurt With You" is a reggae affair about an Australian fan whom she is particularly close to, and the only track to use brass. Almost sounds like the sequel to her 1978 hit "The Race Is On". The next two tracks "Hot Kill" and "Turn Into" take a bit of time to get used to, but the album quickly picks up again with a furiously fast jiving cover of "Hard Headed Woman" which finishes off the album nicely.
For Australian fans, the closing track is one of Quatro's finest ballads ever and her most poignant. "Singing With Angels" is an acoustic guitar affair about her undying love for Elvis Presley featuring his backing singers The Jordinaires doing the harmony and backing vocals. I felt a lump in my throat when she performed this song at Twin Towns Services Club in 2009 with her horn section doing the harmonies, I'm pretty sure that Elvis will be smiling upon her if he can hear this song in the heavens.
This album definitely shows that Suzi still has what it takes to be every rock fan's girl, and even at the age of 61 she shows no signs of slowing down. Once you're in the spotlight, everyone wants to see you at your best.
And indeed she goes back to her roots of straight, anthemic, no frills radio-killing rock on this album. Produced by Mike Chapman, this album is sure to hook the kids into her universe as well as take the older listeners back to a time when music could grab you by the balls and brain alike and get you rocking out on the dancefloor.
Opening with the stompy rocker "A Girl Like Me", it has a killer chorus reminiscent of Robert Palmer's "Bad Case Of Loving You" and big dirty guitar work courtesy of one of Chapman's more recent proteges Natalie Allison.
"Whatever Love Is" is a more 80's soft rock affair with great introspective lyrics, and "Spotlight" follows on in the adult orientated rock ballad vein with dreamy synths, a lighter-waving chorus and a melody which owes a bit to Max Merrit & The Meteors 1976 smash hit "Slipping Away".
Just when you think that this album is going to be a solely adults music affair, the pace changes to show that Quatro has been keeping up with some of the more recent girl pop trends. She covers Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine" in a great glam boogie style and cheekily weaves a "Can the Can honey" line towards the end, and the momentum is made even better with the cover of Rihanna's "Breaking Dishes" which is an appealing mix of 70's rock combined with the R&B sensibilities of the original.
The next track is my personal favourite from the album "Rosie Rose", as it was the first track that I heard from the album a couple of years ago on Mike Chapman's MySpace website. Opening with some chinking clicky guitar scrubs, she yells "Do you love me?!", whilst the chords take on the same progression of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to a more funky shuffly beat. Great vocals which are amongst her most aggressive.
"Hurt With You" is a reggae affair about an Australian fan whom she is particularly close to, and the only track to use brass. Almost sounds like the sequel to her 1978 hit "The Race Is On". The next two tracks "Hot Kill" and "Turn Into" take a bit of time to get used to, but the album quickly picks up again with a furiously fast jiving cover of "Hard Headed Woman" which finishes off the album nicely.
For Australian fans, the closing track is one of Quatro's finest ballads ever and her most poignant. "Singing With Angels" is an acoustic guitar affair about her undying love for Elvis Presley featuring his backing singers The Jordinaires doing the harmony and backing vocals. I felt a lump in my throat when she performed this song at Twin Towns Services Club in 2009 with her horn section doing the harmonies, I'm pretty sure that Elvis will be smiling upon her if he can hear this song in the heavens.
This album definitely shows that Suzi still has what it takes to be every rock fan's girl, and even at the age of 61 she shows no signs of slowing down. Once you're in the spotlight, everyone wants to see you at your best.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
100 Things To Do In A Year
The List - 100 Things To Do In A Year
Inspired by biodegradablewoman's list of 100 things to do in a year, I thought I'd make up my own list of things that I want to achieve for 2011 with or without other people in tow. If anybody wants to suggest something for me to do, then just message me and I'll put it up (within reason - I'm not going to do stupid things like take up using illegal drugs or drive with no seat-belt on!).
1. Take up Zumba dance classes
2. Go to a soccer game
3. Climb the Story Bridge
4. Watch the sunrise at Manly
5. Get my driving license back
6. Get all of Robert Johnson's songs put onto MP3
7. Find a new girlfriend
8. Do a first aid course with Red Cross
9. Go vegan for a month
10. Do Yoga for a month
11. Write a book
12. Write a song about the band Sparks
13. Move into a new house
14. Go to a jazz concert
15. Go to an Anzac Day dawn service
16. Replace my musical gear
17. Don't drive the car for a week
18. Live without Facebook for a week
19. Take up Life Drawing classes
20. Drink nothing but 8 glasses of water for a week
21. Plant a tree
22. Skinny dip
23. Go to The Black Bear Lodge
24. Have lunch under a tree
25. Play in the rain
26. Make a pizza
27. Do a jumble sale of some of my old stuff
28. Attend Christmas/New Year Confest
29. Go stargazing
30. Sleep outside
31. Attend church for a month
32. Stay up all night watching Rage
33. Go to bed at exactly 10am for a fortnigh
34. Get my photography published in a nudist magazine
35. Make a cheesecake
36. Form bands Laissez-Fayre and my own solo act
37. Take part in World Naked Gardening Day and World Naked Beach Party
38. Go to a new suburb and take photos
39. Go to a danceclub
40. Do a diary entry each day for the last six months of the year
41. Get weight down to 82kg
42. Do gigs with John Kylstra
43. Get involved with the social club at work
44. Attend every local event I am invited to on Facebook
45. Spend a full day at the beach
46. Introduce a friend to social nudism
47. Update my massage credentials
48. Go to a protest rally with the Democratic Socialist Party
49. Do the Zombie Walk
50. Go kayaking along the Brisbane River
51. Climb one of the Glasshouse Mountains nude
52. Meet Suzi Quatro in person
53. Wave at strangers
54. Write an anonymous love letter
55. Put a "here's looking at you" in MX
56. Clear out contacts in my mobile phone whom I haven't spoken to in the last 2 years
57. Learn to do counselling
58. Do some volunteering at St. Vinny's, Bookfest
59. Get a free t-shirt
60. Photograph a model with her pet snake
61. Make websites for The Busymen, Laissez-Fayre and Myself
62. Watch 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest'
63. Read Andrew Matthews book 'Happiness In Hard Times'
64. Take up kundalini dancing with the hope of teaching it to naturists
65. Write a blog about my 100 things in a year
66. Respond to one of Barack Obama's tweets on Twitter.
67. Have my own naturist group set up
68. Have my car paid off and panelbeaten back to its original state - DONE!! 11/5/1169. Learn to play 'Stairway To Heaven' on guitar
70. Participate in Lord Krishna's birthday anniversary at Graceville
71. Do a meditation course
72. Learn the art of scrying
73. Make Easter eggs
74. Sing karaoke with one of my friends
75. Attend an opening night
76. Go on a date
77. Do a photo shoot with one of my musician friends
78. Go ten pin bowling
79. Eat dessert first
80. Go to an astronomy group meeting
81. Listen to Subterranea for a month
82. Do not say a single swear word for an entire week!
83. Consult a pyschic
84. Learn to play harmonica
85. Go to church and pray for the things you want for one month
86. Do the forks, flip the birdy and blow raspberries at every opportunity for a day
87. Put all my old tapes onto MP3 and old movies onto one DVD
88. Make more podcasts for The Brisbane Naturist Show
89. Renew my subscription to Free Beaches Australia
If anybody can think of 10 more things that they reckon would be great for me to do, then I'll post them here and let you know when I've achieved them with a separate blog. :-)
Inspired by biodegradablewoman's list of 100 things to do in a year, I thought I'd make up my own list of things that I want to achieve for 2011 with or without other people in tow. If anybody wants to suggest something for me to do, then just message me and I'll put it up (within reason - I'm not going to do stupid things like take up using illegal drugs or drive with no seat-belt on!).
1. Take up Zumba dance classes
2. Go to a soccer game
3. Climb the Story Bridge
4. Watch the sunrise at Manly
5. Get my driving license back
6. Get all of Robert Johnson's songs put onto MP3
7. Find a new girlfriend
8. Do a first aid course with Red Cross
9. Go vegan for a month
10. Do Yoga for a month
11. Write a book
12. Write a song about the band Sparks
13. Move into a new house
14. Go to a jazz concert
15. Go to an Anzac Day dawn service
16. Replace my musical gear
17. Don't drive the car for a week
18. Live without Facebook for a week
19. Take up Life Drawing classes
20. Drink nothing but 8 glasses of water for a week
21. Plant a tree
22. Skinny dip
23. Go to The Black Bear Lodge
24. Have lunch under a tree
25. Play in the rain
26. Make a pizza
27. Do a jumble sale of some of my old stuff
28. Attend Christmas/New Year Confest
29. Go stargazing
30. Sleep outside
31. Attend church for a month
32. Stay up all night watching Rage
33. Go to bed at exactly 10am for a fortnigh
34. Get my photography published in a nudist magazine
35. Make a cheesecake
36. Form bands Laissez-Fayre and my own solo act
37. Take part in World Naked Gardening Day and World Naked Beach Party
38. Go to a new suburb and take photos
39. Go to a danceclub
40. Do a diary entry each day for the last six months of the year
41. Get weight down to 82kg
42. Do gigs with John Kylstra
43. Get involved with the social club at work
44. Attend every local event I am invited to on Facebook
45. Spend a full day at the beach
46. Introduce a friend to social nudism
47. Update my massage credentials
48. Go to a protest rally with the Democratic Socialist Party
49. Do the Zombie Walk
50. Go kayaking along the Brisbane River
51. Climb one of the Glasshouse Mountains nude
52. Meet Suzi Quatro in person
53. Wave at strangers
54. Write an anonymous love letter
55. Put a "here's looking at you" in MX
56. Clear out contacts in my mobile phone whom I haven't spoken to in the last 2 years
57. Learn to do counselling
58. Do some volunteering at St. Vinny's, Bookfest
59. Get a free t-shirt
60. Photograph a model with her pet snake
61. Make websites for The Busymen, Laissez-Fayre and Myself
62. Watch 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest'
63. Read Andrew Matthews book 'Happiness In Hard Times'
64. Take up kundalini dancing with the hope of teaching it to naturists
65. Write a blog about my 100 things in a year
66. Respond to one of Barack Obama's tweets on Twitter.
67. Have my own naturist group set up
68. Have my car paid off and panelbeaten back to its original state - DONE!! 11/5/1169. Learn to play 'Stairway To Heaven' on guitar
70. Participate in Lord Krishna's birthday anniversary at Graceville
71. Do a meditation course
72. Learn the art of scrying
73. Make Easter eggs
74. Sing karaoke with one of my friends
75. Attend an opening night
76. Go on a date
77. Do a photo shoot with one of my musician friends
78. Go ten pin bowling
79. Eat dessert first
80. Go to an astronomy group meeting
81. Listen to Subterranea for a month
82. Do not say a single swear word for an entire week!
83. Consult a pyschic
84. Learn to play harmonica
85. Go to church and pray for the things you want for one month
86. Do the forks, flip the birdy and blow raspberries at every opportunity for a day
87. Put all my old tapes onto MP3 and old movies onto one DVD
88. Make more podcasts for The Brisbane Naturist Show
89. Renew my subscription to Free Beaches Australia
If anybody can think of 10 more things that they reckon would be great for me to do, then I'll post them here and let you know when I've achieved them with a separate blog. :-)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Relationships And The Internet.....
This is one of the best videos on YouTube. I hope it goes viral. :)
Friday, January 21, 2011
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