Standing between two elves, a Kung Fu master & a Cowboy, I placed the plastic Astronaut helmet on & waited in anticipation. The vision panel fogged just as they called showtime. Vision impaired, walking in slow motion toward the ballroom, I just hoped the helmet wouldn’t split in two as I entered. As an Aussie performer in Germany, there have been a few bizarre nights like this, working at events, where I’ve felt a long way from home. The astronaut had lost his capsule & weav

There was a time I wanted to be famous and believed it held the answers.In pursuit of it, I left Australia for London, drumsticks in hand. After a wild and unglamorous ride, I found true rock stardom changing nappies instead of cymbals, a quieter stage, but a truer one. One Halloween in London, white face paint trickled into my eyes beneath the stage lights. I wondered whose ingenious idea it was to dress up as zombies… probably mine. Keeping the beat with one arm, I wiped m

Sitting across from my boss, a giant shopping mall floor plan scrawled with red pen between us, I slouched back in my seat. He hovered over the plan, examining an area where the escalator had been demolished, caught in a tirade of over-analysis. He demanded that I spend the rest of the day on a drawing that the builder had already said he didn’t need. I tried to argue the case, but it was lost in translation, and there was no point in challenging his authority, especially as