25 April 2006 by Rachel Funari
I was reading somewhere, can’t for the life of me remember where, about Disney and their sexy cartoon girls and how boys find the Disney heroines really erotic and that Disney does not make cartoons for women. I really have to beg to differ here. If you like your men boyish, then you can’t really pass up Aladdin, with his shiny black hair, shiny black eyes and impish smile. I’m a big fan. But if you like your men manly, then Tarzan is just about the sexiest man ever created on screen. Aladdin had to take a back seat to Tarzan. The chest, the abs, the dreads, the voice. God, he’s a sexy cartoon! Does it for me every time…
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13 April 2006 by Rachel Funari
During Easter weekend, Exhibition Park in Canberra once again becomes home to the National Folk Festival. This year the National not only celebrates its fortieth birthday, but also introduces a brand new youth venue: AXIS.
Following forums with young festival goers invited to discuss what they would like to see in a dedicated youth venue, festival director Jenny Simpson took some suggestions on board to bring a new twenty-four hour acoustic youth venue to the festivities. AXIS is an alcohol-free venue run and programmed by young people, available as a space for young performers to meet, chat and jam. AXIS will also offer up daily blackboard workshops, such as Body Percussion; Songwriting; and Ballads, Beatbox and Beyond.
The National hosts plenty of young performers this year who can be caught at the various festival stages. Canberra favourites One Night Jam and Quagmire will be serenading audiences with their lovely songs, as well as Dahahoo, whose vibrant musical mix has been known to get everyone dancing
‘The Italians in Australia’ is the festival’s 2006 theme and brings traditional Sicilian puppetry to the festival, as well as The Black Nonnas and Kavisha Mazzella. In addition to great music, the National offers dance workshops and displays, instrument and singing workshops, street parades, shops and an atmosphere full of fairy wings and busking.
If, as I do, you already count the National as one of the highlights of your year, I am sure you are looking forward to the new opportunities for merry-making and participation AXIS will bring to young performers and their audiences. If spending five days listening to a variety of great acoustic bands and songwriters, dancing with friends, making music and celebrating into the evening with steel drum fires and steamy beverages sounds like just the way you want to spend your holiday, then check out the National Folk Festival, on from 13 to 17 April.
See www.folkfestival.asn.au for ticketing and other information.
Hope to see you there!
Rachel
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6 April 2006 by Rachel Funari
4 April 2006 by Rachel Funari
Does anybody else sometimes find writing such hard work that you can only spend an hour or so at a go - get a paragraph or two written and then leave it until next time?
Obviously I have times when an essay just pours out easily, but a lot of times it’s a real struggle. At the moment I am trying to write a personal essay about my experience with lip and it is proving most difficult. I think because I’m still so emotionally here - no distance from the subject and hard not to be deadly earnest.
First I wrote what came more naturally, which was more sort of stream-of-conscious and artistic. That took a couple of weeks to write and is only a rough draft. Now I’m working on a more traditional essay, seeing as I don’t know that the other one works, and this is even more difficult. There’s so much to say. How pick out the bits that will be interesting to a reader and how to get enough across without going into too much detail? How to get the personal side across without sounding young or like an inexperienced writer? It’s hard!
But I try to take it a paragraph at a time.
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