meet my imaginary friends

cause nothing is ever really effortless if you think about it.

everybody should try something everyday. life is way too short to think hard about everything.

today, i'll try to talk to other people more than i talk to myself.

what'll you try today?

The orphaned daughter of Hutchence and Paula Yates, Tiger Lily Hutchence, remains under Geldof's custodial care, calling Geldof's three daughters Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie sisters.

In the latest sad twist in the story of her young life, the current drama involving Geldof's party-crazed daughter broke on the eve of Tiger Lily's 12th birthday today.

Speaking to Confidential, Patricia Glassop said she had been gripped by "an overwhelming sense of sadness" to hear of Peaches' presumed overdose just as she had been reflecting on her granddaughter's birthday.

"I said to my husband, 'Now we have to be really concerned', but what can we do?

"Bob won't let us have any contact with Tiger at all.

"I just have to hope she doesn't become like Peaches, because she is just a fright.

"But this news of Peaches overdosing is very sad and I feel so sorry for her because when it comes to drug dependency she is obviously like her mother."

TV presenter Paula Yates died of a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.

Paramedics were called to Peaches' home in North London after she was found lying unconscious by a friend, who administered emergency CPR.

Earlier this year, she was spotted allegedly handing over money for drugs.

"The situation is sadly out of our hands, but I just hope Tiger is in a happy place and that she knows her grandparents love her very much. Happy birthday sweetheart," Glassop said.

And now new reports are saying it was due to excessive dieting.  that she is a UK size 8 to 10 but wants to slim down even further and has entered into competitive dieting with her sister Pixie.

Let's face it - INXS without Michael Hutchence are no Rockstars.

Oh dear. Sure, there was the Jon Stevens fiasco, but how on earth did it come to this?

I'm talking about "our" biggest rock exports (besides, ahem, Men At Work), INXS, and their disheartening new reality show on Fox8, Rockstar.

Mark Burnett, reality guru and creator of the silly but highly addictive Survivor and The Apprentice, is a great salesman.

How else could he convince the band to continue without Hutchence and become involved a televised, viewer-voted talent quest?

The opening episode, screened three weeks ago, featured the band arriving via private jet onto airport tarmac and a strip of red carpet.

From that point, the remaining members of INXS have been seemingly happy to make fools of themselves.

With the exception of Garry Beers, the cosmetically enhanced group, decked out in sunglasses and leather, look detached from reality - particularly Kirk Pengilly, who sports absurdly thin facial hair and a beret.

Co-hosted by American sweetheart Brooke Burke and gregarious publicity whore Dave Navarro, the 15 contestants reside at the "Rockstar Mansion" in the Hollywood Hills.

It's clear that Burnett and his savvy team of producers, rather than the band, have chosen the final 15 performers.

Hence the inclusion of Ty, a feisty, muscle-bound black dude with an absurd mohawk who grimly butchers Somebody Told Me.

Then there's the insincere JD from Canada, who, as they say in reality TV land, is "playing the game" and is favoured to win. The sole Australian representative is the very camp Mig from Sydney (who actually lives in London) and is as shallow as they come.

The show's format is easy to follow. After a session with the glamorously named "House Band", the contestants head to a clinic with Navarro.

This week: fashion.

Navarro, wearing a white feather boa, leads the contestants through some absorbing material.

Contestant Jordis, a dead ringer for Linda Perry, asks: "Are we here to sing or play dress up?" Judging by the look of INXS themselves, it's hard to tell.

The performance episodes are like a rocked-up version of Idol. Instead of pop pap, we get earnest readings of Black Sabbath and Joan Jett .

Navarro comes across as a white Randy Jackson as he and the band judge the performances. You half expect them to get out their textas and blue cardboard, Red Faces-style, and give a score out of 10.

After "the world votes", the bottom three are asked to perform an INXS song.

And the hopefuls...

Chillingly, the band request one contestant to sing Suicide Blonde - so wrong on so many levels. Another female performer mutilates my favorite INXS track, Don't Change.

It begs an obvious question: who can perform these songs better than Hutchence? Answer: nobody.

That Rockstar is an entertaining and amusing farce is beside the point. INXS need to move on. That the band had such a charismatic frontman, lost in such tragic circumstances, renders the show's premise morbid.

I wonder what the band are thinking as they sit with Navarro on their off-stage perch watching the performers - one of whom will alarmingly lead the band - serve up more ham then Coles on Christmas Eve.

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I don't think they look surgically enhanced, although I must say when Tim is commenting on the Rockers on the very first episode he looks (I'm sorry ladies - goes very quiet) chunkier than what he does when you see him sitting on his throne with the others.

a repost from my multiply.

morning of friday, july 18th. this is what sleeplessness does to me. gah.



drenched in the bittersweet stench of the time-less dusk, i made a promise i planned to keep. and you, on the other hand, kept a plan to make a promise. but that was just it. a plan. a plan of a promise. it could have been a plan of a plan of a plan and it never would have mattered any less or more. it's like a photo of a picture, like passing by a furniture store with televisions lined up in neat rows at the display window with all these seemingly identical faces staring blankly at you. they all seem awfully familiar, they all seem awfully yours. they're yours but not quite, deary. yours, but not quite.

You have not awakened to wakefulness, but to a previous dream. This dream is enclosed within another, and so on to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The  path you must retrace is interminable and you will die before you ever really awake.

-Jorge Luis Borges, The God's Script

So the workbees at inxs.com sent me an email in response to my request they bring forward my cancellation date to now - by NOT answering my question at all.  Absolutely no surprise there then.

JD's new hairdo.  I can't begin to describe the hair, but it's awful or that's what I think.  I preferred him shaved or the HOT look from Rock Star INXS days.  Oh those were the days.

then when he grew his hair long it depended how he wore it as to how it looked.  I really loved it when his sunglasses held his hair back.

But this new look is just nasty.

Here's a link to obinxs.com where JD's new hair cut was posted by dcg33, thanks dcg

http://ourbandinxs.yuku.com/topic/444/t/JD-s-Photo-Album-Here-s-the-Place-to-Feed-It-2.html?page=4

If it doesn't take you there go to obinxs.com, scroll down to JD's section, click on JD's photo album and it's page 4.

The top 2 photos are great, the way he was, ahhhh,, sigh...swoon, goes to get fan...now that's hot hot hot...

All I'll say, and I'll leave it up to your imagination, when I saw JD's chocolate covered bum on RS, it's the best looking bum I've ever had the pleasure to see.  I....lalalalalalala.  It was just so pert.

Where has JD gone?

come back...


EDIT:  Well, it seems Tim was asked a question and he did answer.  But for some reason Andrew's question is showing when I click on ask inxs ask...maybe it's the last question you look at which shows?

look at you and look at me at the same time.

not without much practice, though.

ayos. mamaya. bahala na.