I WISH FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO SEND A MONTH AGO AND ONLY SENT TO ONE OF YOU BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE THE COMPUTER. 🫠
Places I have shows soon that you can book for right now : Edinburgh, Echo in Melbourne (ECHO is going to be incredible, once in a lifetime, unmissable in my opinion) Emilia Clarke did it in the UK and we have the same eyebrows which is why I said yes to doing it.
Songs I am listening to on repeat: The doll people and I can be your mother both by sofia isella / And so it goes from Alan Cumming’s live sappy songs album / You make me wanna la-la by Ashley Simpson. More on this later.
Well look who’s crying to Vanessa Carlton’s debut album Be Not Nobody on a Boeing 737.
I’ve just left drama camp. Well, I’ve just wrapped on Ghosts Australia season one, stayed up late with my new best friends and drank an espresso martini I had no desire for so that I could stay awake till the end of the cinematic masterpiece Hook, hugging everyone tightly as though they might turn to sand if I didn’t hold them together and screaming ‘I just can’t believe we’ve found each other!’ - which is the exact same thing. I am acutely pining for these people that I have had no time yet to miss. It’s wholesome. I AlmOsT FoRgOt tHIs WaS tHE wHOle PoINT.
For the last few months we’ve been living in a hotel like Richie Rich (haven’t seen it) working 12 hour days making each other laugh followed by movie nights and drinks in bar downstairs which is flurescently lit like it’s the dressing room of an H&M. Usually this kind of job breeds in-fighting and affairs but somehow we managed to stay clean of both. The cast and the crew have been immaculate vibes and I think it’s because we are a pack of yes people. We are a rare collection of non-cynics interested in ourselves and each other. Curious about what might happen if we just give it a go with our full püs. In a tumble of massages and drama school excercises we became physically intimate friends, the friends who hold each other when there is a spare second to be touching. And this physical proximity has crushed a wall for me.
Adults don’t touch each other. I hate that. We should all be lounging on each other in silk robes telling secrets. If I could create a society from scratch it would be based around the values of a 6th grade sleepover. My friend, Tamala told me there was an experiment (woman in stem) where they found that kids won’t release the hug, they don’t innately know when to let go - they learn from adults that too much intimacy is a vulnerability and a vulnerability is bad and cringe. But if we don’t teach them to let go, they will hold on forever. Did I look this up? No. Will I be looking it up to verify? I am JUST a little girl! Was this written by Big Hug? Yeah. That’s me baby. I’m Big Hug!
Listen, this is all to say two things. One - I have been working on my dream job as one of the ghosts in Ghosts Australia. I feel like this role is the role I have been hoping for my whole (short due to extremely young age) life. And two - I have realised that so much of my energy is spent trying to gauge how vulnerable I am allowed to want to be with people and I’m gonna stop pretending to be cool. I love musicals. I loved drama school. I love sleepovers. Call the cops - I’m going full earnest from now on. (weren’t you already earnest Michelle with your musical comedy ted talks parading as comedy hours?) Don’t worry baby I’ll still be funny. Find a woman who can do both.
Watching paddington 2 with new friends is more important to me that being cool and I promise you I will never be cool ever again.
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I’m coming to EDINBURGH baby! New show - IT’S A SHAME WE WON’T BE FRIENDS NEXT YEAR. A reviewer said this - ‘She so skillfully weaves her heart wrenching odes to lost friends and mentors into the work you never realise you started crying.’ I also have decided I hate reviews so take that with a grain of salt I guess. I think it’s a little more stand-uppy than my other shows but it' also has two of my favourite songs I have written. A lullaby in 3/4 for all the dolls who didn’t make it to adulthood and a love song between Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Vincent Diesel (the duality of it all).
I’m also doing COMEDIANS ON STAGE AUDITIONING FOR MUSICALS. It’s my cult hit late night show that started at Melbourne Comedy Festival and I cannot believe we get to bring it to Ed! This version stars Chloe Petts as my ex husband as Ben Russell refuses to get on a plane just to sing Aladdin songs with me. Chloe is going to be so fuckin amazing and I cannot wait. Please tell me ASAP who you want to see auditioning!
I won’t be in Edinburgh next year so this is your last chance to see me for a while as i’ve signed my life away to something secret and sexy.
I think everyone in this music video is a virgin. Do you know what I mean?
Was she dating Chad at this time? Chad? From Nickleback? Is this about Chad? What a corsette, what a woman you know? I just feel so aggressively nostagic for this time period. That means I’m old! And what a damn privilege. I am entering the first go round of ‘oh wait no i remember these clothes from the first time’, I am really truly living and breathing they do not make things like they used to. I have lady gaga tickets and I am ready to get disco-sticked down like it’s 2012. Remember when we thought the end of the world was just for movies? lol. When I was small, music videos had bits where the song would sort of stop and there would be a little movie in between. That was crazy! Take me back.
anyways, this is cinema. Have a beautiful day.