The Little Red Hen

Simplify Your Life - Part 2

In this video, we talk about how to simplify your life, being your own judge, learning how to say 'no' to people and dealing with guilt manipulation.

Simplify Your Life - Part 1

Live simply so that others can simply live.  Stop worrying what others think of you, assert yourself, and don't let others walk all over you.

Tips for Surviving in the Music Industry (Point Blank Guest Panel)

Nudism Q&A Part 1 (for Jacob Lenhoff)

30 Day Nude Challenge

Do you reckon you have what it takes to be a nudist/naturist?  Then take this 30 Day Challenge and see.
Three rules:
1) You must be at least 18 years old
2) You are to post the results to your YouTube channel (or set one up if you don’t already have one).
3) The nudity must not be censored unless you post to FB or IG.  Age-restrict it.

Here are the daily challenges:

1) Sleep nude
2) Walk from bedroom to bathroom nude
3) Tell housemates or partner or family about challenge
4) Go around whole house nude
5) Sunbathe nude in backyard and do gardening
6) Get housemates or partner to go around place nude with you
7) Visit a nude beach or lake or hot spring and swim nude
8) Get a friend to draw or sketch you nude
9) Get a friend to photograph you nude
10) Get a professional photographer to photograph you mude
11) Visit the nearest nudist club/camp to you (ask about cameras or camphones first!)
12) Ride a bike nude or in a G-string round the block
13) Join a/or some online nudist groups on FB
14) Dance nude to some of your fave songs, or any random song on the radio
15) Do a yoga and meditation exercise routine nude
16) Skydive nude
17) Do a body art photo shoot at studio
18) Get a body cast made
19) Do a striptease
20) Go hiking in a national park nude or in a g-string
21) Tell your church friends about nude challenge
22) Recite some nude poetry
23) Throw a naked party at your place
24) Cook or prepare your favourite dish nude and share thecrecipe
25) Go to a private nude swim party (ask about cameras first)
26) Take a hike up a mountain nude
27) Paint a picture nude
28) Go nude water-skiing
29) Take part in Spencer Tunick’s nude installations in Melbourne
30) Do closing monologue on what this challenge has meant to you and if it has changed you

What Naturism Is Not

                           What Naturism Is Not

This blog is adapted from ‘What Feminism Is Not’ on The Odyssey Online’s website about the misconceptions that people have about what feminism is supposed to be about.  This is the original piece: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-feminism-is

Naturism is about equality. It is the belief that social, political, and economic rights for naturists should be equal on all levels.

Naturism is not about hating textiles (people who prefer to wear clothes in naturistspeak). 

Naturism is for everyone. Naturism is about equality among the sexes, not being in favor of one or the other.

Naturism is equality for all genders, and the acknowledgement that gender and sex are two completely different things.

Naturism is about understanding that textiles suffer from oppression and discrimination too, which is why closet naturists are afraid of telling their friends, family, workmates and managers about it.  The few naturists who are truly ‘out there’ about their lifestyle are usually unemployed, pensioners, retirees, students or self-employed.  It’s about time that workforce naturists stood up and fought against discrimination against them just like LGBTIQ people, Muslims, women and blacks/Aborigines have previously done.

Naturism is not supporting any one group's superiority over another group.  They believe that everyone ought to have equal rights and equal opportunities to go nude in public or private as they see fit.  If people can wear a burkha or three-piece suits out in public and not behave in a sexual manner, then so should naturists be allowed to be nude in public, as long as they are not acting in an overtly sexual way.

Naturism is working towards social justice for people with eating disorders, body image problems and people who have been sexually harassed and abused.

Naturism is not saying it is OK to force nudity onto anyone against their wishes; violence, boorish, drugged and drunken or bullying behavior of any kind is not acceptable in the naturist movement.

Naturism is not ignoring sexual harassment because it does and can happen, and we urge others who get subjected to it at naturist places to report it immediately.

Naturism is social activism for public nudity rights and the right for anyone of any race, skin color, religion, age group, and social status to enjoy it.

Naturism is not taking rights away from textiles.  We believe it to be a personal choice, but we also believe people should at least give it a try at least three times before they can say “it’s not my thing” or “it’s not for me”.

Naturism is about fighting social structures that restrict and discriminate against women, especially girl’s and women’s rights to swim and sunbathe topless and breastfeed in public places where full nudity is not to be permitted.

Naturism is NOT about sexual debauchery, swinging, or any other kinds of sexual anarchy or sexually inappropriate behavior.  It is primarily a FAMILY orientated lifestyle which mum, dad and the children can practice.  True naturists abhor any person who tries to bring the lifestyle into disrepute by incorporating unacceptable sexual behavior into the movement, and many of us work together with law enforcement to ensure that if anybody abuses the liberties and trusts of our movement that they will be dealt accordingly by the law. 

Naturism is the fight for equality for all sexual orientations.  We believe that people should be accepted into our movement as well as other movements on account of their personality and character, rather than their sexual orientation.

Naturism is not about taking anything away from textiles. It is not about giving all the power for naturists to oppress anyone.  Naturism believes that every nude person deserves to be treated equally and the same as if they were dressed.

Why I Love Being a Nudist Filmmaker

Heroine Chic - "Ode To Etta"

Define "Normal."

Making lifestyle changes with the Your Geneius Health Transformation Project

For a number of years now, I have been struggling with fluctuating weight, crash and fad diets and intermittent exercise programs, and this year I want to put things right.

I have just taken up a new project with a friend of mine whom I've known for the last 3 years called Marz Hill, who is a photographic model, personal trainer, vegan and business entrepreneur.  We originally met on the Brisbane Entrepreneurs group on Facebook when she offered to help me out with a social media website I was planning to re-launch called Skinbook.  When I found that she had a number of similar interests to me, we became friends and I started attending some of her health and meditation workshops.  

Recently, she told me about the Your Geneius program that she is conducting in Brisbane in conjunction with Dr. Cam.  It's going to be a challenging course, as it is about changing behaviors that no longer serve me, and replacing them with behaviors and habits that work for optimum health and well-being.

At heart, I am a pretty open minded person and my motto in life is "Never Rule Anything Out". Anything and everything is possible, and I can handle whatever comes my way.  

My week's chosen behaviour that I want to experience is positive thinking and sharing.  When I get on a roll with positive thinking, there is always something that gets in the way and I often get discouraged from things and feel less motivated to do the things I know I need to do.

What I want to do is adopt a new thought pattern of "I can do that", which will lead to more activity and make me feel more accomplished.  This is especially important with helping me get back into the workforce.  With the exception of presently volunteering once a week at Meals On Wheels in Geebung, I don't have any employment.  The last time I did any paid work was in July 2013 for Sunseeker Holidays in Fortitude Valley.  I am hoping that what I learn from this workshop will help me get back into working again whether it's with a company or even being self-employed.

I am laying the foundations this week and the next.

Please follow this blog and stay tuned for more next week.

http://www.yourgeneius.com

Big Brother Is Watching YOU

One Does Not Simply Wear Skimpy, Clingy, Unhygenic & Stinky Garments When Swimming!

HALFNELSON (Bearsville) BV 2048

Release Date: April 1971 Producer: Todd Rundgren Lineup: Russell Mael: Vocals Ron Mael: Keyboards Jim Mankey: Bass Earle Mankey: Guitar and vocals (Lead vocals on "Biology 2") Harley Feinstein: Drums The first official Sparks album was finally released in 1971 through Albert Grossman's Bearsville label. Grossman had previously been Bob Dylan's manager, and set up his own label in New York in the late 60's. The label had only really been successful for The Nazz, one of the the most influential underground 60's bands that featured the multi-talented singer/instrumentalist/songwriter Todd Rundgren. Halfnelson was one of his first solo projects outside The Nazz, and he was still known as Runt at the time. Legend has it that Halfnelson sent him a copy of their 1968 master tape and he loved it to death that he persuaded Bearsville to fund the recording for their first album. It was good that Rundgren acted quickly with them, as the recording industry in America was thoroughly bored with the psychedelic era and the punk era which spawned the underground in the late 60's. Although Halfnelson were considered an underground band by the music industry at large, they were never consciously anti-social or anti-pop. One magazine wearily referred to them as "Frank Zappa meets The Monkees", whilst Russ Ruegan from UNI Records described them as being "six years ahead of their time". Basically, nobody knew what to do with them. Their music was at best quirky with unusual lyric-making, and at worst suffered from a lack of commercialism, and a personnel whose appearances served to confused audiences. When the album emerged, critics were scratching their heads in puzzlement. One of them who actually bothered to review it described it as "Zasu Pitts in shit-kickers". The only country that seemed vaguely interested in Halfnelson was the UK, in which NME journalist Kathy Orloff ran a piece on them, which was later reproduced in 1975 when Bearsville in the UK repacked this album with their following one as a doubel set. Looking back now, the album was not typical of the American rock scene. People were starting to go back to country music, whilst the soul and R&B bandwagon started up and black music became more sophisticated and smooth. Another main trend was Adult Orientated Rock (or AOR), where stars like Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Rod Stewart and Olivia Newton-John emerged from 60's obscurity to being the polished clean-cut idols for the over-30s generation. WONDER GIRL: The first ever Sparks single, this reached a surprising No.96 in the charts, but even more so in Montgomery, Alabama where it reached No.1. Earle's trembling guitar opens this track with Russell crooning about an all-perfect American girl. Ron's keyboard is minimal, and Harley's drums sound rather tinny. In all it's a pleasing, if somewhat gently eccentric track. FA-LA FA-LEE: With the first verse nicked from a Hollies song, it features chugging, clicking guitars in the intro and a rather out-of-tune piano and organ which adds to its wayward charm. Russell claimed to have a cold during the recording of the track, and as a result his voice had to be double-tracked. The lyrics have a vaguely incestuous theme about them, and it ends similarly to The Kinks' "Till The End Of The Day" with four savage guitar chords stuck before the final close. ROGER: Written entirely by Russell, Ron claims he doesn't understand this song at all. It's not hard to see why. This is one of the most bizarre Sparks songs with unusual phased keyboards, scrubbed acoustic guitars and a dinky running organ riff. The lyrics are equally bizarre with a subject that no-one else can comprehend, but the ending is lovely with Earle mucking about on his guitar whilst Ron improvises a beautiful, dreamy piano solo which fades out. HIGH C: Sounding more like a proper song, this was one of their favourites with the audiences at the famous Whiskey Au-Go-Go nightclub. Written about a fictitious opera singer, it has a very New Wave feel to it, and a good steady rock beat. The atmosphere of the song was later manifested in Blondie's 1980 hit "Call Me". FLETCHER HONORAMA: A gentle keyboard-based ballad, it's a very Ray Davies-ish portrait of a dying 80-year-old man who gathers all his friends round his deathbed for his journey into the afterlife. Russell's voice is soft and gentle, and Ron's ethereal piano playing makes this a very special track, especially with the psychedelic middle 8. SIMPLE BALLET: Predates Queen's operatic ventures by a good five years. The production is majestic with Ron's piano multi-tracked at the end, and some fine guitar playing courtesy of Earle and crashing cymbals. It ends with the rest of the band providing harmonies and closes Side One beautifully. SLOWBOAT: If any Sparks song could have been a hit from this album, it surely would have been this one. Sounding like a cross between Bread and the Bee Gees, it's an AOR radio-friendly ballad with the lyrics focusing on longing for a lost lover. This was perhaps the most loved song at Sparks' early concerts whereby he got a roadie to push him across the stage in a cardboard boat whilst he showered the audience with confetti. BIOLOGY 2: Written and sung by Earle Mankey, Russell claimed this was the first Sparks song to get played on the radio. It is a very bizarre track, which is obviously a pisstake on the hokey-cokey, and depending on how you look at it, Earle's chipmunk style vocals are either hilarious or downright irritating. The offbeat and rather silly arrangement to this song makes it sound like an outtake, and was the first and last time that Russell didn't sing on a Sparks track. SACCHARIN AND THE WAR: The second solo offering from Russell concentrates on a more conventional topic - weight loss. This actually predates some of Sparks' later compositions "Instant Weight Loss" and "Funny Face" where the subject does everything they can to look beautiful, and when they get what they want they are dissatisfied with it and decide to look ugly again. BIG BANDS: An aggressive stomping rock beat opens up this piece which gives way to a dandy piano riff with Russell singing dreamily about the big band era, with double-tracking in parts. Just when you think the track is finished, it suddenly goes into a fast paced rocker where Russell chants out the lyrics, until the piano slows down the track by running an arpeggio downwards. NO MORE MR. NICE GUYS: Some rock reference books incorrectly claim that this song was later adopted by Alice Cooper for his 1973 album "Billion Dollar Babies". In fact this is not the case as a listen to that album will confirm that. This is the nearest that Sparks got to the heavy rock sound, with a headbanging beat, good rocking guitar solo, and vocalist which would put Meatloaf to shame. Written as a back-handed reference to the "nice guy", Russell's sneering vocals predated Johnny Rotten, and the beat at the end hints at thrash with a chaotic stadium rock ending. The album's sales were dismal, and Albert Grossman decided that Halfnelson needed to make a few changes to itself. First up he suggested they throw off the Halfnelson name on the grounds that it was too esoteric (except for wrestling students), and change their name to the Sparks Brothers (a pun on the Marx Brothers and the phrase 'bright sparks'). Next up, Ron dispensed with his bushy moustache and rock shades, and trimmed it to a small Charlie Chaplin-esque size. He accentuated his eyes with eyeliner, and would roll them on stage, which has since become his trademark, often copied but never bettered. In 1972, Bearsville re-released the album with a new cover, and titled it "Sparks", whereby it attracted more critical attention, and started to get them interest in Europe, particularly countries like Germany which had always had a very eclectic and innovative mark on popular music. But still the gods were not yet smiling on Sparks....

PUBLIC NUDITY - WHAT IS THE ISSUE?

Things To Do And Not To Do Nude

TO DO NUDE: Acting Aerobics Aviation Babysitting Badminton Baking (cakes, bread, etc.) Barefoot Waterskiing Basketball Bathe Belly Dancing Bicycling Billiards Bird watching Boat Maintenance Boat Maintenance Body Painting Boogie Boarding Bowling Buff the floor Build Webpages Bungee jumping CPR Camping Canoeing Cards Checkers Chess Cleaning the fish pond Cliff jumping Computer Work Cooking (with care) Cuddle Cycle tours by night DJ'ing Dancing Darts Dating Decorate for Christmas Decorate the House Diving Drawing Driving Earth-Centered Spiritual Gathering Eating Encounter Group Therapy Enjoy a fireplace/campfire Exercise Fill the bird-feeder Fishing Flying Flying model airplanes Flying sailplanes Food Fights Frisbie Gardening Get the Mail Giving birth Go to church Golf Guitar playing Gymnastics Hackysack Hair cutting Ham Radio Hang Velvet Elvis paintings Hang gliding Hanging Clothes Hanging Out (doing nothing) Helicopter Rides Hide and Seek Hiking Home Repairs Homework Honeymoon Hoola Hoops Horseback riding Horseback riding (bareback) Hot Air Ballooning Hot Springing Hot Tubbing House-work Hugging Hypnosis Jet Skiing Job interview Jogging Juggling Karate Kayak Kite Flying Laundry Lawn Mowing Lifeguarding Listen to music Macarena Massage Meditate Metal detecting Mini-Golf Miniten Modelling Models Mountain biking Mud Football Night swimming Nordic Track Skiing Office work Online Banking Painting Parachuting Parasailing Party with friends Paying the Bills Photography Picnic Ping Pong Play musical instruments Playing in the rain Playing with pets Pogo Sticks Power boating Pray Reading Relaxing Repair the well house Rock climbing Rollerblading Run Home Business Run through the sprinkler Running SCUBA diving Sailing Sauna School Scrabble Scuba Diving Sculpting Shopping Singing Skateboarding Skydive Sleep Smash ball Snorkeling Snow Angels (after the sauna) Snow Ski (spring) Stargazing Strolling through the park Study Sunbathe Surf The Net Surfing Swim Swing in a hammock Swinging on a tarzan rope into water Tae kwon do (Martial Arts) Tai Chi Take out garbage Talk on the phone Taxes Teaching Telephone Sales Tennis Tightrope walking Toss Devil Sticks Training the dog Trampoline Tree planting Twister Vaccuuming Video Games Volleyball Vote Walking Walking the dog Wash Clothes Wash Dishes Wash the Car Watch TV Watch the Superbowl Water polo Water slide Wedding Weightlifting Wind Surfing Window Washing Wood chopping Write Sermons Writing letters Yard work Yoga THINGS TO *NOT* DO NUDE Aircraft Maintenance Arrive at work late Attend PTA meetings BBQ sizzling meat Baseball Beekeeping Blacksmith Boxing Break dance Bull riding Carry an angry cat Chain Sawing Chemistry Chop firewood Chopping and logging X-mas trees Clean the BBQ grill using hot water Clean up radioactive waste Climb a Hawthorne Tree Climb a Picket Fence Coal mining Drive during rush hour Drive-through Fast Food Feeding geese Fencing File for Divorce Fill a propane tank (very cold) Firefighting Fly fishing on a windy day Fry bacon Frying Food Glass Cutting Glassblowing Grind Fiberglass Ice Fishing Ice Hockey Install Insulation Iron Ore Smelting Learn to ride a bike Learn to roller blade Make a snow angel Metal Fabrication Motorcycle Racing Paint the pool with oil based paint Paintball Participating in Combat Pick up frightened kitten Pickup the kids at daycare Play leap frog Play with fireworks Remove a hornet`s nest Roof Repair Roofing with hot tar Run for office Sandblasting Shovel snow Sit on an ant hill Sit on hot vinyl car seats Slide down a hot slide Slide down an unfinished banister Slide into home plate! Snowball Fights Snowmobiling Steam Fitting String barbwire Sumo wrestling Take the SAT's Tear out Poison Ivy Train an attack dog Trim the hedges Visit City Hall Weed Whacking Welding, cutting, or burning Work around a grill Working with dry ice *YOU* MAKE THE CALL Barefoot Waterskiing Body Surfing Carpentry Ironing Motorcycling Mountain climbing Pick Blackberries Ride a Harley Rock climbing Visit the In-Laws Visit your parents Waterskiing Originally from the Cybernude website

Topless Topics: Trigger Warnings are Bullsh*t

Well done to this young lady for telling it like it is.  If everything offends you, then go and get the fuck off the internet!  Simple as that. 

Prince Charles 'spoof' tribute to Molly Meldrum

20 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME

1) I love pizza and seafood, and a combination of both for that matter too! 2) I've never been big on drinking, although I've been tipsy a few times. I'm crazy enough as it is without having to need alcohol or illegal drugs in my system. 3) I'm a keen supporter of several Brisbane bands such as The Veronicas, Demonfire, RAWR Vanity, Six Ft Hick, Shifting Sands, The DangerMen, Darren J Ray & Fabulous Sounds of the 60's, Emma Dean, as well as playing in a few bands d-Wizz 2.0, Laissez-Fayre, and my own solo act. 4) Modern TV and technology doesn't interest me. I believe if something is old and it works: use it. If it is repairable: use it. If it's not life-threatening to have to upgrade it: use it. 5) I love going around nude and doing several activities nude, such as going to the beach, nudist clubs and camps, giving and receiving massages, doing life drawing and posing for life drawing artists as well as photography, and doing the World Naked Bike Ride. 6) I have never been married or had any children in my life, although I have 5 nieces whom I dote on. 7) Two songs that annoy the hell out of me the most are Jay-Z's "Empire State Of Mind" and Ween's "Mourning Glory". 8) My favourite TV show is Doctor Who, and my favourite Doctor is Sylvester McCoy (Who number 7). 9) I believe in God, and I believe he is the creator of the flying spaghetti monster. 10) The first ever song I wrote was in 1986 called "Marianne" about a woman jailed for shooting a paedophile serial killer in court in Germany back in 1980. I was 15 at the time. My other peers were writing songs about unrequited love, something that I had trouble relating to at that age. 11) If I could date anyone famous, it would be Jessica Origliasso from The Veronicas. Just the most loveliest woman I've ever come across, and has never let her positions of fame and fortune get to her head. 12) My worst habits are picking my nose, procrastinating and over-indulging in fast food binges when I'm bored. 13) The most exciting time I've ever had was starring in the band Violent Soho's video "In The Aisle", where I ride a bike virtually nude around Brisbane handing out WNBR posters to bemused passer bys on the street. 14) I am going through a disturbing phase of writing songs with titles and themes based on stuff on the site Urban Dictionary. 15) The first record I ever got was "Sweet Gingerbread Man" by Sheila Southern and the Gingerbread Kids in 1972 on Pye Records. I've still got it today, even though it is pretty badley scratched and very hard to find. 16) If I could be buried anywhere after I die, it'd be in my hometown of Manchester. 17) My favourite getaway is Pacific Sun Friends Nudist Retreat in Donnybrook, near Caboolture. http://www.pacificsunfriends.com.au 18) I play an Onyx guitar and presently have a Roland Cube amp and an overdrive/distortion pedal. My dream guitar to buy would be a Gibson Les Paul and amp would be an original VOX AC-30. 19) If I could change anything about the world, it would be to eradicate body shame from people's consciousness. 20) The first car I ever drove was a Mazda back in 1990. I have owned 8 cars in the last 24 years.

Boy Toy - short film by Davo Hardy 2012