I was getting a little morose, thinking after a dream Summer and Autumn, concert season had dried up.  I feared all that would be on offer over winter would be the likes of Westlife, Panic at The Disco (now apparently without an exclamation mark, which doesn’t help anything) or even, God forbid, the freaking Ten […]

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The results from a gaynz.com contest asking you to name your favourite Madonna song have some interesting results.  They’re counted back here . . . with a bit of music trivia and some videos for the top five, to boot (and a gratuitous girl on girl kiss pic).
10th equal. Frozen (1998) and Erotica (1992)
Trivia: Naomi Campbell appeared in […]

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So there’s been a bit of hype around for awhile about Scarlett Johansson releasing an album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, which is a Tom Waits tribute with one original track.  I heard a version she did of Summertime a little while back and thought it was pretty nice, so I had high hopes for […]

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Kitten Power is now bespectacled . . . a long-procrastinated visit to the optometrist revealed I’m blind as a bat.  I picked up my new nerd specs yesterday and through great skill and balance-fu, I have managed to trip over only twice.  I can’t wait to go to a rugby game , so I can actually see the numbers on the players’ backs and the scoreboard.
Of course there […]

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In continuance of my crusade to prove that just because we’re gay we don’t have to listen to disco (particularly atrocious cases of drunken boogie fever being the exception here) I have put together my pickings of quality, hot and relatively recent music featuring gay men and gay themes.  I would have put Rufus Wainwright on this list, but I’ve already talked about him plenty in […]

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I’ve just seen that the second track from the Breeders forthcoming album Mountain Battles is out on the web.
For a free download of Bang On go here.
I’m quite liking it.  It’s understated.

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I have belatedly discovered the list of the “50 gayest songs”created by Australian website Same Same to celebrate Mardi Gras.  I am left wondering who actually voted on this thing, that allowed ABBA’s Dancing Queen to be voted #1!  That song reminds me of being stuck listening to my stepmother warbling along to it in the car on a […]

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I have been pondering what fun could be had if we could create a Safe Sex Poster Girls competition.  Just think about it - publicity shots with hot girls modelling dental dams and surgical gloves.
According to the Aids Foundation; “HIV is almost unknown among women who identify as lesbian in New Zealand”.  Wouldn’t it to […]

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A week on from PJ Harvey’s concert at The Civic in Auckland, I just have to close my eyes and I am back there snuggled in my seat, lost in her tortured genius.
Polly Jean wafted onto the stage on Wednesday night in a head-to-toe white shock frock, which she could have borrowed from Nicole Kidman’s character […]

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