The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

Does anybody else think that Seaweed from Hairspray is just adorable?? His real name is Elijah Kelly, I do believe. I watched it with my nana tonight, it was pretty awesome. I love the costumes so much. I wish I was energetic enough to bother dressing sixties, it’s so damned cute. Unfortunately I am a lazy shit, I think that messy hair is cuter than tidy hair and I love my jandals. I do have funky glasses, though, when I’m not wearing contacts. Plus, I like stuff with pockets, so I can just put my ipod in one and my phone and eftpos card in the other and go.

I am listening to some old-school Pink right now, her first hit even, Get The Party Started. She’s a bit cool. I did this with my best friend (hereinafter referred to as the BFF – yeah, that’s what we call each other, lame hey) on Singstar and she kicked my arse, she got Hit Artist and I got.. I can’t remember what I got, but it wasn’t as good as that. Of course I got it rubbed in my face, but hey, that’s what best friends are for. That, and leaving each other filthy comments on Bebo. And texting each other when discovering the death of movie stars! Is anyone else as gobsmacked as I am by Heath Ledger’s passing? The poor, poor guy. Apparently the ‘God Hates Fags’ dot com church are planning on picketing his funeral. This makes my blood boil. It makes me hope that Jesus is real! I want those gay-bashers to live thinking they’re all pious, then die, all stoked that they’re gonna get to go to heaven and chill with the big JC, and to have Jesus be like ‘nup, sorry, we only let people in who do what I asked, which, by the way, is to love everybody, and you failed, you fuckers!’ How the fuck do these people know that God hates fags!? Are they personal best buddies with God or something?? Did they get a special fax from heaven the rest of us missed? Because when I read the bible, well the Jesus part at least, all I got out of it was:

‘Hey, sup? I’m the son of God, you can call me Jesus. I’m a friendly kinda guy, I love everybody, and I want you to love everyone, too. You should probably believe in me if you want to go to this awesome place called heaven and chill with me when you die. But if you don’t want to, that’s cool. If you do decide you like me, how’s about you just accept everybody as they are for the rest of your life? Probably you shouldn’t have sex with people from your own gender, but hey, if you do, I’m gonna love you anyway, cause that’s just the way I roll. Peace out dudes, see you in three days!’

Or does God talk to them, the way he does to old Georgie Porgie? FYI, you fundamentalist fuckers – in the 21st century, we call voices in your head a symptom of schizophrenia!!! Wow. I really did not intend to turn this into a rant on how much I dislike and disrespect gay bashers. I think love is just lovely, no matter whom it’s between. It’s such a beautiful thing and fuck everybody who tries to tear it down. It’s not the fault of those two guys walking past you on the street holding hands that your mum was a repressive bitch who didn’t love you enough. Suck it up and be a nice person anyway, you arsehole. Jesus will love you more! My dad is gay, and in a committed relationship with his partner of three years. When my sister was pregnant, my brother-in-law’s conservative Christian family discussed coming together over the baby once she was born to pray out the demons caused by my sister’s association with my family. And once, when BIL and my sister and the kid were up on their way to stay with my dad for the night at their house in Auckland, BIL’s dad phoned and said they had decided it was a bad idea for them to stay with my dad, because they didn’t want the kid around the bad spirits that hang around gay people. Seriously? I can’t believe these people have the gall to consider themselves educated people. I can’t believe they think that they have the right to say something like that to my sister about her father.

I hope people like that rot in hell. Well, I don’t believe in hell actually, and it’s mean to wish bad things on people. So I will just get really mad about it, and hope like crazy that they’re a little nicer in their next lives. And hope that one day, we will eradicate homophobia – and racism, and sexism, and.. uh, religionism? – from this world, because we will be so much better off if we just learn to love each other, rather than hate things we don’t understand.