brendanmaclean

brianandkarl: Some pictures from the shoot by Liz...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:16:30 -0400

brianandkarl:

Some pictures from the shoot by Liz Laughton. http://www.lizlaughton.com/

Audio

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:00:35 -0500

Audio

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:12:06 -0500

WE DID IT. 100% FUNDED.http://www.pozible.com/project/14124

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:32:02 -0500

WE DID IT. 100% FUNDED.

http://www.pozible.com/project/14124

LET’S GET STUPID! Enjoy the official clip for our new...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:03:10 -0500

LET’S GET STUPID!

Enjoy the official clip for our new tune Stupid.

My new single Stupid comes out over the weekend for everyone who...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:46:20 -0500

My new single Stupid comes out over the weekend for everyone who has backed the Pozible. Even just $2 will see it landing in your inbox.

We’ve just passed 75%!

http://www.pozible.com/project/14124

An Open Letter to the Lord Mayor of Parramatta Dear Lord...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:55:00 -0500

An Open Letter to the Lord Mayor of Parramatta

Dear Lord Mayor,

Please read the following sentence carefully:

“Support services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, same-sex attracted and gender-diverse young people, their families and communities.”
Can you explain to me the negative, politically motivated or publicly harmful aspect of that sentence?

This is the sentence on the sign you pushed to have removed from a family event in your district of Parramatta:
An event that, even if you choose not to believe it so, was attended by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, same-sex attracted and gender-diverse young people, their families and communities.

This is not a sign that need apply to everyone. Much of your council may not have much need for such a sign. And apparently some people were offended by it, although I’m not sure what they could have been offended by, could you?
Nonetheless, this sign was not for them. It is for the young people in your area who have now seen an official voice request the removal of that “support” for them and their needs.

The confusion, anger and fear this places in their mind will confirm many of their suspicions that they are not welcome at these events in future.
The pride, bigotry and sense of righteousness it places in the mind of those who will cheer for the removal of this support will only see violence, discrimination and separation in your community to grow.

You would not accept this if it were racially motivated. You made the wrong decision.
You now need to send more than an apology, you need to show very vocal, clear support for a cause you have torn down.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Brendan Maclean

This letter was in response to:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/lgbt-group-ordered-to-remove-signs/story-e6frfku9-1226558325209

My lovers, friends and fighters -My first ever Pozible campaign...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:26:30 -0500

My lovers, friends and fighters -

My first ever Pozible campaign has begun. It is to create a new, professionally record record and to release in a way that compete on a major scale.

Thank you so much for letting me rant about it for the past few months. Thank you for a dollar, two dollars, a hundred, whatever - I’ll be equally as grateful.

Even if you can just hit reblog I’ll love you.

HERE IS THE LINK

Love,

xxxxxxx

AN ARTICLE: The time Yen Magazine got me to pay $770 to be on a compilation, or Always Read The Fine Print.

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:03:27 -0500

AN ARTICLE: The time Yen Magazine got me to pay $770 to be on a compilation, or Always Read The Fine Print.

THE SEVEN DAY COUNTDOWN TO MY FIRST EVER POZIBLE HAS...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:05:12 -0500

THE SEVEN DAY COUNTDOWN TO MY FIRST EVER POZIBLE HAS BEGUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch the video here and then go hit favourite HEEEREEEEE

I caught myself wondering, “No one has checked in on me for awhile. I’m not even sure...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:02:05 -0500

I caught myself wondering,

“No one has checked in on me for awhile. I’m not even sure I’m here anymore.”

Photo

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:43:12 -0500

My sign off Newsletter for 2012! Pics, links, emotions! Love your butts!

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:39:00 -0500

My sign off Newsletter for 2012! Pics, links, emotions! Love your butts!

Thank you, some announcements and goodbye for now. xx

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:41:13 -0500

Thank you, some announcements and goodbye for now. xx

Click on this to vote for my stupid face in the Rage Top 50

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:39:00 -0500

Click on this to vote for my stupid face in the Rage Top 50

Boy howdy, doesn’t consciously having your teeth plucked out of...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:30:00 -0500

Boy howdy, doesn’t consciously having your teeth plucked out of your head give you a moment to reflect on things? With a fist half way down my throat and a pipe slurping up the residual blood and drool I was struck by a single thought, a thought that now seemed more glaringly obvious than the rotten brown tooth at the back of my mouth: I have to stop lying so much and trust people.

How terrifically silly does that look on paper. Feels like I’m advising a man doused in petrol to hold off lighting a campfire. But ask yourself: Why do we trust a stranger to hurl us through the air in a winged tin can but question our partner when they come home a few minutes late?

How often do we speak up when our friends are in failing relationships or just get a bad hair cut? And what is that causes so many families to fall apart over conflicts only aired at tipsy Christmas dinners. Like the tooth I let fester for fear of visiting to the dentist, my inability to confront my trust issues has caused me time and time again to curl up in the fetal position wishing I hadn’t been such a gutless wonder. Habitual mistrust has been the gingivitis of my unflossed life (okay I’ll stop with the dental metaphor now).

Lying is a specialty of mine. She’d hate me for saying it but I probably first learned the benefits of lying from my mother’s legendary youth: a teenager so well versed in trickery she once convinced her boarding school that she had gone blind for an entire year. Whilst I haven’t been fooling any Catholic nuns about my vision I did grow up with lying or, at the very least, acting built in to my every day life.

To make truth twisting more tempting I had a sister to pin the blame on for broken TV sets, a dog for stained carpets and two Baby Boomer parents who wouldn’t have known better if I told them Russian spies hacked our computer and broke the printer. It certainly wasn’t always me doing the fibbing: I didn’t give it a second thought when a family member blamed some curious bruises on “cooking accidents” even though there wasn’t a pan out of place in the kitchen. As it turns out some lies aren’t designed to fool people but to protect them.

Withholding the truth is the flipside of lying and in some cases leaves you hanging from the same noose. This is another lesson I learnt a little too early. My parents had divorced when I was just old enough to understand the process but too young to know the rules. Splitting my living time between the two I witnessed new relationships, new marriages, a new baby, ever-changing addresses and, on one side, signs of abuse that I could only do my best to wish away.

So for some time I stopped asking questions and stopped talking about my weekend at the other’s house. And whilst I succeeded in minimizing my contact with awkward adult emotions the downside from keeping all these secrets became tangible when one doctor diagnosed me with ‘the youngest case of a stress ulcer’ he’d ever seen.

Children are supposed to ask questions and tell you about their thoughts but I learned quickly that quizzing one parent about the other inflicted an acute sadness not even the most stoic parental smile could veil.

Once I woke up screaming from a nightmare where I was a Ringmaster attempting to hide an elephant behind a big red curtain so it wouldn’t spoil the show. Even the scriptwriters forNeighbours couldn’t have conjured up a soggier analogy than that. Years on I discovered that they were completely aware of almost everything going on with the other’s relationship; either my older sister passed on the information or the two of them had simply talked things over. It was only in my head that I was keeping secrets at all but my compulsion for hiding the sensitive truths had already been rooted in my system and I’m not sure I’ve ever kicked the habit.

So here I sit with an instrument that resembles a blunt screwdriver being forcibly jammed down the middle of my tooth, in the hopes it will end the ache I experience every time have a cold drink. And though I’ve examined my body and I’m not sure what has to be removed to help the trust thing: It’s not hair, as a professional gay I’ve shaved off every inch, and I do hope it’s not my willy as I’ve grown quite fond of it, though that would cure my problems with infidelity.

I don’t know what the answer is but I do know this: thinking I could get by not trusting anyone has held me back in work, in life and in love. One possible cure is that perhaps, by scouring over how I got in this mess, I could shed some light on why I act the way I do: Maybe I assume the worst of others because I’ve seen the worst in myself, maybe we lie because know how much it hurts when someone tells us the exhausting, difficult and complicated truth. Someday I hope to have more trust in the man I live with than the one hovering over me with a pair of pliers.

(Picture by Brock Elbank. Words by Brendan Maclean.)

HOT FASHION TIP: Buy a World AIDS Day Ribbon!

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:51:44 -0500

HOT FASHION TIP: Buy a World AIDS Day Ribbon!

Hashtags: #puppy #smooch #face

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:09:19 -0500

Hashtags: #puppy #smooch #face

An out of tune demo for an out of tune day.from my iPad the dogs...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:26:07 -0500

An out of tune demo for an out of tune day.

from my iPad

the dogs name is Doc

bye for now

Thanks so much for posting, was such a fun series to make....

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:57:40 -0500

Thanks so much for posting, was such a fun series to make. xxxx

amusedandbemused:

Sparks is a “mariage equality comedy”. It has been around for months, but I never got around to watching them when they were first uploaded. Brendan Maclean (he posted a link to it today) stars in it as Gerald, a gay wedding planner with an array of clients who shouldn’t be getting married, while he can’t marry his loving long-term partner. I watched all six episodes back to back this afternoon. It’s brilliant. It was hilarious, but it also made me cry. I cried big tears of sadness, happiness, and bitterness. It was an excellent commentary on marriage equality. People, if they’re straight, can marry for all the wrong reasons, but a loving couple, if they’re same sex, can’t marry for the right reason. One of my favourite comedians Tom Ballard also features. Everyone should watch this.