As a public service for all those fascinated googlers, here’s the answer. I don’t know. But in the April 2005 issue of Rolling Stone, she had this to say:
Everyone is a bit bisexual… but not everyone admits it. Or not everyone has realised it yet.
That’s all. Nothing more to see here. Move on.
Who cares anyway? I want to know - is Fenella Kernebone a lesbian?
I do note that I agree with Missy on this one, but I think Freud said it first.
Except Intruder Blonde from BB, I don’t want to admit her to any club that I’m a member of. I actually felt for Dean tonight!
I’m liking Dean more since he’s the cover boy for a brisvegas gay rag.
I actually just watched that BB episode tonight (we’re a bit behind over here in WA) and what’s with the dummies? And the dancing? And that blonde girl with too much fake tan? It’s so… so… horrible. I feel kind of depressed and lonely after watching it. IS this the desired effect?
Kate, to immediately cheer yourself up, visit Ausculture Jess for her take. The whole point of the show is to inspire gossip, make phone companies rich because everyone texts all their friends during episodes, and to start discussion on blogs. The blonde girl is Intruder #1 that Kim’s talking about - Jess has all the good oil on the spokesmodel for fake tan.
It’s the po/mo equivalent of dissing your neighbour or the happily eccentric folk in Seachangeville where everyone knows everyone else’s name.
Oh, and from my past experience, BB gossip is a great way to fast forward that flirtation with a special someone into relationship territory (and then to produce relationship anxiety as the final ep approaches!)…
i think missy higgins is a LESBIAN i h8 her she cant even sing
All my friends at school think she is a lesbian we want 2 know cause we bet about it (we bet in slices) every1 in my grade finks she iz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if u listen 2 her song special tune listen 2 the lyrics closley!!!!!!!!
we have this thing about is missy higgins a lezo i rekon dhe is bubi xxxxxx
Sorry, Haylee, can’t help you there. No new hot goss here.
…reaching a new demographic Mark?
You’re so f*cked Lefty Elitist. You’re discriminating on the basis of age and literacy, and I think you’re a latent chauvinist at that. Why, you’re casting aspersions on the future of our nation, the Missy-Higgins-sexuality-questioning-and-then-despising YOUTH.
…
So where’s that gravatar of yours? Have you decided between an image of Pajero (heh) car keys and a Greens how-to-vote card?
I am inclined to agree with Haylee that Missy Higgins is vastly overrated as a singer.
well at least I’m out of the closet Liam ;0
Alas, been to busy for my gravatar project - but believe me, its top of my list (just as soon as I’ve ragged on some more semi-literate dyke-hating scrubbers from East Bogan High). I like the Pajero keys idea - but am leaning towards a chardonnay glass / french clock ensemble piece….
Pinot is the new chardonnay, Lefty E.
<chaser>These People Vote!</chaser>
Does anyone else think that Ms. Higgins looks rather like Lyndie England? OK, then.
Im thinking of leading a movement back to Rose, Mark. Tres Fabian.
Dunno, Saint, lets get her to leash someone nude and see. Volunteers? Perhaps Tim Rogers would me the man fo the job.
I don’t know who Missy Higgins is but as for lesbianism, I highly recommend that connoisseurs of fine cinema should rent the 1983 film The Hunger starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. It’s not every vampire film where you get to see Susan Sarandon get it on with Catherine Deneuve.
Soundtrack is good too! It’s all round an excellent film.
on queer vampire fiction.
We are legion…. and we are international. Join us. Fear not the populist fatwa! Rejoice!
http://www.cafepress.com/liberalelitist
Throw off your faux-suburbanism, refine your pursuits, you have nothing to lose but your nation!
I want one of those. A shirt like that’ll show off my wimpy left-wing lack of upper-body strength.
Right, where’s that credit card?
For my amputee pride moments, I recommend this t-shirt.
Nice, Kim. I like to see myself as participating in a Pride Movement too.
Yes, bugger you, Howard battlers, you self-negating bunch of masochists, hear Lefty Elitist proudly raise his wine glass and quote our national bard, Henry Lawson.
Now salute this … or Ill have you reported as un-Orstrayan
They work scab, and vote Tory,
they are truly the deserving poor.
and another pithy line, still relevant 100 years on
“I’m in favour of the war, and of half-a-dozen more!”
Hmmm, I can do lefty elitist pride, single leg amputee pride, American citizen pride (doesn’t come in handy that much these days), Sephardic Jewish ancestry pride, lesbian identified bisexual pride, and no doubt a few others. Ain’t identity grand?
I’ve told you about my historian mate’s karaoke song, though, haven’t I Kim?
And I think I’ve mentioned I’m actually pretty anti-identity politics, Liam. Still, useful to have a number of available identities.
Good tune!
As a lot of Chinese diplomats are currently discovering right now, I imagine.
Dont know Kim. Identity is largely voluntarist for a white, male, middle class, lefty elitist like me. Not even particularly gay. Hopeless!
But that’s what makes you an elite, Lefty E!
Off to Hammer the Horror - c ya!
Indeed Kim, out and proud. Now, I have a date with Proust in my Boudoir.
But DO give me a yell if anyone farts or scratches their a*se live on BB.
Yeah, her singing’s alright. I think she’s a pretty good lyricist - definately above average.
But the best thing about is that she’s not bloody Delta, and she’s taking all the air time devoted to ‘chick with piano’.
Good work I say.
So Josh Cunningham isn’t the real reason she hangs out with The Waifs. . .
Lefty Elitist. I don’t know whether you’re still around of if you’ve gone off to the Megalong Valley for a long long weekend away. Here’s a suggested gravatar image, 80px2 should you want it:
The link should be:
http://commentariat.redrag.net/wp-content/napoleon.png
hehe. Je suis le elite?
Mais non. “L’etat” c’etait le Roi Soleil, apr√®s Bonaparte. La monarchie c’est simplement ‘Unrepresentative Swill’.
Avant Bonaparte, M .Tête de Patate.
Before, after, whatever. It’s all a bunch of privileged ruling-class historical constructs embedded in language anyway.
I’ll stick to Spanish.
I am France, and France is me!
Now, die for me.. err, I mean France.
i don’t care if she’s gay…maybe it’d be good, it could inspire people if she was forward about it, people would accept it
I dont really like missy higgins, i think that she is sort of doing a repeat of what T.a.T.u did, and i hated that because it was stupid. So basically I think Missy Higgins is a phony.
I’m starting to feel like I want to share some of the Missy Higgins love.
Missy Higgins is excellent. Her ‘Sound of White’ CD is one of the best australian albums in years. She is a very talanted singer/songwriter and a great live performer. I first heard her at the Tsumai ‘wave aid’ concert in Sydney earlier this year and am now a dedicated fan (despite being a 45 year old who grew up in the era of hard rock and likes his music loud).
To those sad individuals out there who are attacking her you are ‘not worth pissing on’ in my opinion. Go get a life!
can someone find this out IS MISSY HIGGINS A LESBIAN?? i am currently sitting in history on the computer and i am overly board.. plese
She’s bi.
Chill.
I hope she is bi, I would let her have it! HOT
I don’t care. But I do like her hair.
Sarah Blasko is much cooler than Missy Higgins. And she looks like my friend E.
It’s better to look like Sarah Blasko than to resemble Popper, on the whole.
Pardon my observation, but the title of this postis the most irrelvant question I’ve ever seen.
Right on a par with “what shape is yellow?”
Banana-shaped
Is Sarah Blasko lesbian?
I don’t know, Kim. Perhaps we could ask her when she plays Brisvegas next month.
In other music news, the Bowery has some excellent lounge organ jazz with the Hammond Trio on Wednesday nights. And I think the fillin Friday night DJ, Jane Grigg, is someone I went to uni with. (Brisvegas half a degree of separation syndrome predicts that she is).
Kewl!
Cripes…. Did Sarah Blasko just catch the last bus in from Babe City or wot? Any good musically?
Very good musically!
And she is definitely the musical hotness.
Just visiting. What’s the big deal? Umm Missy Higgins ….is a young woman who either enjoys intimacy with men or women or both…so what?
omg..missy higgins rocks..i love her..she is so not a lesbian!!
WTF? Missy Higgins is lesbian?!!! No way!
Missy is Bi…thats 100% true guys ok..shes awesome, get off the topic..
Brash Koala ,
Well think about it she’s got short hair. Maybe she’s into sport too?
She probably plays cricket and listens to Indigo Girls.
Your headline alone gave me imagery that only a moment’s privacy can remove.
I’m bisexual. Just saying… Who wants to get nekkid?
Ha! Kim, Homer could learn something about subtlety and puns!
Ok, Ill bite after all this hoo-ha:
Who’s Missy Higgins?
She’s a singer, Lefty E. Pretty over-rated in my view, folksy pop, discovered by JJJ, now topping charts everywhere etc.
thanks Kim… My apologies, I do know about Ms. Missy…. Just taking out my elitist aesthete persona out for a stroll by feigning ignorance of popular phenomena again.
Tedious of me, I know, but its be so long since I got to not watch BB.
You can not watch “Inside Idol” tonight Lefty. I’ll join you.
Excellent Zoe, you’re on. Thats’s one of fave avoids.
Missy Higgins has the most annoying voice I have ever heard. Her songwriting is poor, as are her lyrics. She is way too overrated. It seems that all it takes for a female singer to be ‘talented’ nowadays is to have a boy’s haircut and belt out a load of contrived nonsense while strumming a few simple guitar chords. All her songs sound the same…can this girl only write in a major key? She reeks of Dawson’s Creek.
“She reeks of Dawson‚Äôs Creek.”
Sheesh. You say that like it’s a bad thing. Besides, sexual ambiguity is apparently the new hotness. Still don’t know if Sarah Blasko is lesbian, however.
“all it takes for a female singer to be ‘talented‚Äô nowadays is to have a boy‚Äôs haircut and belt out a load of contrived nonsense”
Sure ILDM, you just don’t like her cause she’s a lesbian, or bisexual or something. They wouldn’t player her on the radio so much if she wasn’t good!
“They wouldn‚Äôt player her on the radio so much if she wasn‚Äôt good!”
Au contraire, boule de neige. They play Ben Lee on the radio, and that’s the way I don’t like it, ‘cos he sure isn’t good.
Arrgh, you can keep all your Huggi Blasko alt.country “n’ moan chickadees.
Me, I’m quite happy with the classics.
http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/index.cfm?articleid=6028
http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/2005/09/bush-2005.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15922267&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=wow–bush-is-back–name_page.html
47 years old and still with far more va-va-voom than all these Missy hussies.
Just ‘cos you don’t like Ben Lee M5, doesn’t mean he’s not good. That’s just your opinion, and they play him and Missy on jjj so its not like its just commercial stations. I think you are all jealous because they are young an v. talented.
Well, Bony, you’re right about the jealousy of youth. The talent bit is hard to stomach. WTF is the sound of white, anyway? Something like this?
Oh, yeah, what Nabsy said. Bring it on, Babushka.
OMG I can’t believe you just said that. Missy Higgens is the best not-very-talented singer songwriter since Joni Mitchell!!!!
You guys r juz jealous becuz you don’t get all the hottt girl on girl action like Missy duz!
(Somebody kill this thread now.)
There’s definitely an air of “oh, our crap pop idols were deeper than yours man” about some of these discussions.
Higgins is no Dylan (hat tip CS et al) but she is very good at what she does and holds herself out as nothing more, as far as I can see. Ben Lee struggles, and labours under FIGJAM syndrome to excess, but anyone who’s dated, then lost, Clare Danes deserves some support.
Has Missy Higgins dated Clare Danes? I’m jealous!
Whatever you think about Missy Higgins, least she does all of us a global service by getting fucking Delta Goodrem out of the spotlight!
That is soooooooooooooo true, Elizajoey!
i think missy higgins is a lesbian and a lipsniger at that bye
WTF? R u sre she is a lipsniger?! No waaay!!!
Actually, I now can’t stop thinking about fucking Delta Goodrem. Thanks, kids.
/sniggers
What’s wrong with a tallented young girl being a lipsniger! Leave missy alone and enjoy the music cya!
Kim,
Fenella Kernebone is a lesbo. A friend who used to work for ABC confirmed it. Not only that, i saw her at the last sydney film festival afterparty all dressed up in a femme tux - not many breeders would do that!
Why.
Does.
This.
Thread,
Not.
Die?!
Maybe Missy Higgins is a zombie.
WTF is is a lipsniger? Hmm google doesn’t bring it up, except for here, which must means that some idiot brought up the word and the rest of you followed.
FFS …
Harry, imagine what will happen to the slumbering corpse of this thread when stimulated by Aria voodoo!
okay, I’ve left this for long enough
shouldn’t the question be - “can missy higgins sing?”
This post seems to have lasted the distance.
If you are that interested, why don’t you just ask?
Missy Higgins is a good singer.
These days you can fall in love with whatever consenting adult you want to and not define yourself by a label.
Hers, your post is offensive to the lipsniger community. You need some sensitivity training.
Lipsnigers r da bomb!!
Thanks, blahblah for that info - next question - can anyone suggest a way of letting Fenella know I think she’s the filmy hotness and would like to hook up - I mean, without representing me as a crazed stalker?
You could make a film, Kim, and enter it into Tropfest…
Of course, that’s taking a long-term view.
“You could make a film, Kim, and enter it into Tropfest”
That’s genius!
“without representing me as a crazed stalker?”
Represent yourself as the ultimate fish-out-of-water: it’s such a strong meme to play to filmwise, and allows you to be infinitely interesting that people will simply be falling over themselves to buy you drinks in the hobnob tent. _then_ let the crazed stalker out in triumph.
I thought this years finalists weren’t a patch on last years.
Arrr, be Missy Higgins a pirate, yo-ho-ho and chest full o’ booty?
Thanks, Kate and Harry!
Perhaps I could play a pirate - if I can get a wooden leg from somewhere!
Frankly it’s beneath my dignity to indulge in displays of cod slang simply because some scurvy drivelswigger decreed today be the day for such blog banyanin’.
Oh OK then, since you asked for it. The final lines of the first grown up book (ie: “no pictures”) I read (and still have the original weatherbeaten clothbound copy) - “Treasure Island”.
“The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: ‘Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!‚Äô”
And I first read that while listening to the surf booming out on the reefs. Arrgh!
Oh yeah, Missy Higgins? Never heard her. And from what I’ve heard of her, I have no desire to hear her.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Oh for fuck’s sake! All I did was quote a little RL Stevenson. There’s a blog template engineer out there that could use a little keelhaulin’.
Oh right?. OK.
Incidentally the funniest pirate book I’ve read is George MacDonald (”Flashman” & the screenplays for Dick Lester’s Musketeer fillums) Frazer’s “The Pyrates”. Do yerself a favour, etc.
I suspect Elliott & Rossio borrowed from it for “Pirates of The Carribean” far more than they could consciously admit.
Speaking of lesbian lipsnigers, did anyone ever read ‘Coral Island’ as a wee Pirate? I think it were me fav’rit, n’aaaar.
“…did anyone ever read ‘Coral Island‚Äô as a wee Pirate?”
No.
Why?
Good book. Of the treasure island variety, but better IMH ex-O as a wee pirate. cant remember the author. Maybe Ill google.
Given your fondness for Tim Powers, Cap’n Nabsy, I’m nore than a little surprised you haven’t mentioned his voodoo pirate novel, “On Stranger Tides”. Cap’n Teach was a bad man in many ways…
Harry, you scurvy seadog, do you remember this thread? Absolument bizarre, n’est-ce pas?
I think we need to make the “Kimberella, Queen of the Pyrates” movie right fecking NOW. You can write the screenplay and Nabsy should direct. Her Hotnessness will play herself, natch, and we’ll persuade Haiku Hoges to be her cabin boy, or somesuch. I’ll do something unproductive like produce, and get to collect the Troppo award off La Kernebone for me trouble.
Thats it - by RM Ballantyne. The boys own novel that inspired Lord of the Flies. Fantastic.
How could I not do this.
I ran “Smoke on The Water” through a Pirate translator.
” Aye, we all came out t’ montreux On the lake gene’a shoreline T’ make records with a mobile.
We didn’t have much time, Frank zappa and the mothers ‘o’ War at the best place around.
But some daft with a flare gun burned the place t’ the ground.
Smoke on the water, pillage for what li’l booty thar may be in the sky. They burned down the gamblin’ house. It died with an awful sound.
Funky claude was runnin’ in and out. Pullin’ kids out the ground. When all was o’er ,We had t’ find another place. but swiss time was runnin’ ou, iIt seemed that we would lose the race.
Smoke on the water, maroon on the next patch o’ desolate hell we see’ in the sky.
We ended up at the grand hotel It was empty cold and bare, but with the rollin’ truck stones thin’ just outside.
Makin’ our music thar, with a few red lights and a few old beds, ee make a place t’ sweat No matter what we get out o’ this I know we’ll ne’er forget Smoke on the water, keelhaul at noon in the sky,
A pence for an old man o’de sea?”
Arrrgh!!?!?!
I can see your producer values now, Fyodor. Is the order of the day to be “Never put your own money into a show”?
…
Cabin boy nothing. I demand a decent part as either a second-rate villain or victim. Either way, I want the chance for decent overacting, to do a bit of fencing and get a good long death scream.
Oh yes, “On Stranger Tides” is a funky rum buckler of a book.
Elliot & Russio could not have come up with the underwater zombie pirate marching scene in PiraCarib without absorbing Tim Powers, RL Stevenson and Jacques Tourneur - directly or/and through a funky Jungingly psychic story telling fog.