John Lacey Gets Personal

But you know what I like most about this? Madonna is actually singing, and her voice is full and rich.

I’m quite sure expertise is always relative. Anyone who knows more than you do about any given subject has the potential to be an expert in your eyes. You might know nothing about snake oil and your ‘expert’ might have divined that it has an oily quality about it.

When I woke up this morning I had another Sophie B. Hawkins song stuck in my head so I thought I’d listen to the album. Listening to it I was so struck by how much those lyrics reproduced above speak to my situation.

It’s not you, it’s me. Actually sometimes it is you. For better or worse I’ve come to realise lately that I’m not the only person on the planet with ‘issues.’

Last week’s The Spirit of Things saw Rachael Kohn talking to Marion Maddox about ‘Mega Churches.’ In Australia we probably most closely identify this idea with the Hillsong Church. I found this quote about the ‘vision’ of mega churches quite fascinating.

I’m standing around at an 80th birthday celebration for a distant relative. I have my jacket zipped up (it’s cold). My mother turns to me and asks, “What t-shirt are you wearing?”

Just a quick note to let you know that the JOJCAST is back. The first interview for Season Two is with ObviouslyBenHughes. Here’s a sample…

I was really happy. Firstly because it meant I wasn’t going to miss out on the festivities altogether. But more than that because I was getting to hang out with my peeps rather than the whole of YouTube Australia. I had met most of these people before so we could totally bypass the initial awkwardness of the ‘getting to know you’ phase and revel in the, well, revelry.

There is something about Facebook that breeds nostalgia that may have never existed in the first place. I don’t know if it is just a desire to populate your friends list or the romance of rediscovering something (someone) who was lost to you or just a forgetfulness or revisionist streak that comes with age.

I quite like Twitter. I tweet relentlessly. (9,079 updates at the time of writing.) When I was gone recently for a whole two days, it felt like eons of time away from my beloved Twitterverse. Therefore I have to wonder why I continue to perpetuate Twitter conspiracy theories upon this world.