Drawings of Patsy (2023) by Jo Livingstone

Patsy is the best 🧡

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

I would enjoy some good luck from the potato.

I need some luck right now, so all hail the Lucky Potato. Do your magic, Potato. I respect you so much I am capitalizing the "P" in Potato.

Lol i could use some right now

Dear @limberlost, may I present this POTATO?

The truest art from my friend’s kid, Frankie 💕

Obsessed with Frankie’s map.

The New Zealand Music Hall of Fame launched in 2007 and since then 17 inductions have been made, with the 18th due to take place at the 2015 New Zealand Music Awards in November.

But here’s the thing - in that time, only three of those 17 acts have included women. The female inductees are the Topp Twins, Jane Walker from Toy Love and Shona Laing. Or if you want to look at individual band members, that’s 64 men and only four women.

As I keep saying, the New Zealand music industry is male dominated, but it’s not that male dominated.

I’m still waiting for artists like Suzanne Lynch, Sharon O’Neill, Betty-Anne Monga, Jenny Morris, Margaret Urlich, Fiona McDonald, Annie Crummer, Jan Hellriegel, HInewehi Mohi, Bic Runga, Julia Deans, etc, to be inducted.

If Supergroove made the grade, all of those musicians should equally get a look in.

Some more kicking up of fuss to be done in NZ! Thanks for pointing this out, Robyn.

Simona Kapitolina 'No Allegiance’ Single Launch Thursday July 16 @ The Tote + Geryon & Wet Kiss

The latest single from Simona Kapitolina is ‘No Allegiance’, a heartfelt melancholic techno-pop gem. The track features an a amazing video produced by Harry Hughes full of steamy party pashes and random crushes.

‘No Allegiance’ is a story about how the mental illness of Borderline Personality Disorder affects personal relationships – the idealisation of people through crushes and fears of abandonment, rejection and social exclusion that can render us invisible. Visibility of trans women as romantic or sexual partners is often one of the toughest things about trans life, and this song and video is one perspective of that story.

The single will be launched on Thursday July 16 at The Tote in Collingwood with very special guests Geryon and Wet Kiss. Tickets are $10 on the door.

‘No Allegiance is available for a short time for free download in this link.

Free Download

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PROTECT YOUR GIRLS / BELIEVE IN YOUR GIRLS / YOU ARE NOT IN A COMPETITION AGAINST YOUR GIRLS / YOUR GIRLS ARE YOUR TEAM / FIND YOUR GIRLS / SUPPORT YOUR GIRLS / DO NOT LET THEM MAKE YOU HATE OTHER GIRLS / GIRLS WHO LOVE GIRLS ARE UNSTOPPABLE / INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP IS THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE WORLD 

I wish someone had told me this at 20.

When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere. 

Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.

The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay. 

Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.

Being told this at 20 would have eased SO MUCH guilt.

everything is so boring rn.. but saturday night wont be.

YES! Please come along to this show I've organised. 

Saturday Feb 21, 8:30pm at The Gasometer on Smith St!