Classic Movie Review - Kingdom of the Spiders

Inspired by the cobwebs growing on our blog, we have decided to fill the void in your lives with a review of one our all-time favourite movies - Kingdom of the Spiders.
KotS tells the story of a small town somewhere in mid-America that begins to lose cattle, and then people, to a gathering horde of tarantual-like spiders. The Sheriff (played by William Shatner of Captain Kirk fame) and the love-interest vet lead a few hopefuls in their fight against the spiders, but can they survive when the whole town is covered in cobwebs?
KotS is one of those fantastically kitsch 70's disaster movies, where people pay the price of their follies; this time it appears to be the overuse of insecticide that has caused mother earth to fight back with hairy eight legged horror.
It's hard to know which is more fun, the Shat's over-acting or those 70's shirts with the giant collars. But the real stars of the movies are the spiders that fall out or crawl from unexpected places and keep you cheering on to take out those b-grade stars!

Coming soon.......something

The cobwebs have truly been gathering on our blog site of late, a combination of too much happening and plain laziness. We'll start updating again soon, or may spiders come and take over our apartment and use our bodies as hatching sites.

Goddess Grace

We were lucky enough to get to see Grace Jones live at the Enmore Theatre last week. We had seen her once before in Rome in 2000 and knew we were in for something special. We weren't disappointed at all!
Contrary to the common opinion expressed to us before hand, Miss Jones was on time, professional, chatty, tantrum free and, most important of all, utterly F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!!
Grace perfomed many of her classics as well as songs from her new album Hurricane. The concert was fantastic, a true performance that had the whole audience screaming for more.
Grace performed in a corset and g-string, leaving the stage at the end of each song to come out in new hat/mask and/or jacket. Highlights of the performance included Grace singing Slave to the Rhythmn (and then walking around the stage introducing the band) whilst hula-hooping, using a shiny hat to turn herself into a human mirrorball and a true performance piece for the title song Hurricane from her album which took our breath away.
She may be in her 60's but Grace Jones is still fierce and still can rock the world!

Nigel's World of Cruising

Nigel came along on our recent cruise with us and put together this special edition video extolling the wonders of cruising.

Happy 2009!

OK, so it's a little bleated, but we still want to wish our many many many readers a fabulous year for 2009. We spent New Year's Eve at a friend's place in Sydney (thank you Janet). The fireworks were spectacular and the view in general was fantastic.
Our new year resolution? Well it probably should have been to update our blog more often, but I'm afraid we just had too much champagne to think of any at the time!

Drag Photo of the Week - Number 7

No, it's not one of Charlie's Angels; it is in fact the delectable Lara Lush having a 70's acid flashback caused by eating too many cocktail frankfurts. Lara is always the epitome of cutting edge style and here is shown wearing the new black: brown.

Viva Australia!

We went and saw Australia at the movies the other day. Besides being fabulous because we saw it in Gold Class in Sydney whilst having Long Island Ice Teas, champagne and food, the movie itself was fantastic!
The cinematography was beautiful, the acting was great and of course Hugh Jackman took his shirt off which didn't hurt our eyes at all.
It was great to see a movie which had a real "Australian feel" to it, and to see something like the bombing of Darwin depicted on the big screen.
Go see it, or maybe come and see it with us at the stadium at Gosford in the coming weeks.
5/5 Wigs!