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Melissa Appleby - Editor
W elcome to the first edition of ATTITUDE mag-
azine. This issue will challenge, entertain
and maybe even teach you something!

ATTITUDE isn’t quite like anything you’ve read be-

fore. Everyone has attitude, but not everyone has
this ATTITUDE.

This month, we give you tips finding the perfect

pair of sunnies, get a little close and personal with
boys that dress like girls and questioning the binge
drinking “epidemic”.

I’ve seen things I probably shouldn’t have seen

and been places I DEFINATELY shouldn’t have
been to bring you this issue of ATTITUDE, but it was
all worth it!

Mel xXx
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 Contributors
Elise Photographer, designer, teacher, karaoke legend.
There isn’t anything Elise can’t do... Except bowling!

Elise has been a huge help with this edition, so many

oDDY
thanks go to her for putting up with my endless
questions and for one of the quickest and most
crowded photo shoots ever!

Resident travel guru and budding photographer.

Thankfully Sarah was in the county long enough for
me to be able to ask her travel advice and also steal
her camera!
SARAH
How would we know where to go this summer without
Sarah?! gAUNT
KIM Kim is an amazing up and coming artist and has yet to
receive enough recognition for her talent!

She has expertise in dance, painting, writing, drawing

and music. Her contribution to this issue is the artwork

Burman in the contents section.

Kim is sure to be a regular contributor!

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 CONTENTS
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A SOBERING THOUGHT
The truth behind the binge drinking
“epidemic” sweeping the nation.

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HOT PLACES

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LISTEN TO THIS

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A BODY OF WORK
26-Year-Old Corrine is pretty INKED!

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LIFE’S A DRAG, WHEN
YOU’RE A QUEEN
Sometimes boys will be girls and it’s a
lot of hard work. We talk to a few Sydney
Queens and watch them ride a
mechanical bull!

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HOW TO: BUY SUNNIES
Sunglasses are important - not just for
health reasons, but for style as well. This
month we look at how to buy sunnies that
suit you.

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 A Sobering
Thought
A Binge of
WOWSERISM
By Melissa Appleby

I
t’s the latest scourge to plague the nation. It’s af-
fecting our children, the media and even the Prime
Minister. No, it’s not terrorism, teenage pregnancy
or obesity. This epidemic is wowserism.
Recently there has been a rise in the number of wows-
ers. Namely those who make a particularly big deal of
their moral viewpoints. This has led to the present me-
dia attention surrounding youth binge drinking.
Australians have always been ambivalent towards
alcohol use, which has contributed to the ‘beer and...’
culture of the nation. This is the idea that a beer (or
two) and footy, V8 Supercars, barbeques, are to be en-
joyed together. The recipe for a good time is more or
less socially dictated by flowing alcoholic beverages of
one sort or another.
Contrary to popular belief, young people are not the
primary culprits of binge drinking. The 2004-2005 Na-
tional Health Survey conducted by the ABS found that

the the middle age groups recorded the highest propor-

tions of drinking at high risk levels. This was 18% of
men and 13% of women in the 55-64 year age group.
There is no evidence to suggest that young people
consume more alcohol than older people. However,
the youth drinking culture is a much more visible one.
The 40-something man who drinks himself to sleep in
an evening of over twelve beers is far less of a prob-
lem than the 15 year old girl stumbling down the street
clutching a blue cruiser and finding another spot to vom-
it. A lot of the time the latter is doing this because her
society dictates that drinking until you’re drunk is not
only cool and desirable, but also a necessary transition
into adulthood – a rite of passage. This cultural trend of
‘drink til you’re drunk, or til you drop’ has become a pas-
sage for many teenagers. This is what is being noticed
by wowsers, politicians and the media.

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 THE
FACTS
• 1998 - alcohol was the cause of
814 deaths and 25,207 hospital ad-
missions of Australians aged 15-34.
• Prime Minister Rudd has allocated
$14.4 million to invest in community
level initiatives, $19.1 million to as- Alcohol advertising and sponsorship is a major
sist young people considered binge part of professional sports. Think NRL and you
think of major sponsors such as VB, Bundaberg
drinkers, and $20 million to fund Rum and Jim Beam. Think V8 Supercars and
confronting advertising. you see Jim Beam, XXXX Gold and Bundaberg
• The Alcoholic Beverages Advertis- Rum. Surfing is also affiliated with Jim Beam,
ing Code (ABAC) prohibits alcohol Midori and Tooheys Extra Dry. And Cricket Aus-
advertising from “depict[ing] any as- tralia’s Fosters.
sociation between alcohol and driv-
ing or engagement in sport”.
• An ABS study of the per person
consumption of alcohol by per-
sons aged 15 years and over, only
showed an increase from 9.77 litres
in 1996 to 9.84 litres in 2006. This is
only a 0.07 increase, and clearly not
an entirely significant one.

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 HOT Places
for summer holidays
with...
ah
Travel Guru Sar
Fiji

Sit back and relax in a Fijian

resort. Do as much or as
little as you want. Water
sports, golf, 4WD tours
through the highlands or Contiki or Top Deck
spend all your time partying Europe Trip
on Beachcomber Island.
Have a white Christmas and
explore Europe in the off-peak
Thailand
season! Less crowds mean
less waiting time in queues,
The best time to visit
its ski season and lots of
weather wise is November
snow about. Cultural events
to January. You have the
come alive in winter plus
beaches of Phuket, shopping
there is Christmas markets,
in Bangkok and the moun-
festivals and carnivals.
tains of Chang Mai and
Chang Rai. For the more
Ski USA or
adventurous, you can go
Canada
on elephant rides, play with
tigers, scuba dive or explore
Peak ski season means
the culture and history of
awesome skiing, or maybe
Thailand.
even do a working holiday
there and work the ski fields.
Queensland
Japan
Check out the amazing
theme parks of the Gold
Brilliant ski fields, quite rea-
Coast, the Daintree rainfor-
sonably priced and not very
est, the Great Barrier Reef
crowded. See the Sapporo Snow
and relax on a beach of the
Festival in February full of
Whitsundays.
massive snow & ice sculptures
and explore the Japanese
Asia
History and culture.
Contiki has a new range of By Sarah Gaunt
tours exploring Vietnam,
Cambodia, Thailand and
Laos - guided tours includ-
ing all accommodation,
transport and some meals.
Lots of free time to explore
on your own as well!

Great Ocean Road

Victoria

Nothing beats a good road

trip! Gorgeous scenery, lots
of hiking can be done, win-
eries and beaches along
the way....

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 Listen to This!
Songs that rock & bands with Attitude!

By Melissa Appleby AC/DC - Christina Aguilera -

Kings of Leon - Rock N Roll Train Keeps Getting
Sex on Fire These old school Aussie rockers
are back and blacker than ever Better
The new release from Kings of Leon is with their new track. It sounds a It sure does. This song rocked the
nothing short of awesome! Definitely one little like a mash of some of their 2008 VMA’s and shows that the
to check out ASAP. previous songs, so hardcore fans one-time pop princess is on her
and new listeners alike will love it! way back to the top.
Fall Out Boy -
I Don’t Care
Another catchy song from FOB.

P!NK -
So What
P!NK is rocking out with a bitchin’ break
up song about her ex-husband.

Carolina Liar -
I’m Not Over
Relatively new band but one to watch!

End Of Fashion -
Fussy
A new sound for the boys - Fussy is a
rocking tune!

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 By Melissa Appleby

( )
“When I
die I’d like
to get it
preserved.”

Photo by Diversal Images

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 26-year-old Corrine Dempsey is the most tattooed
member of her family and says there’s more to come!
Hey Corrine, nice tatts!
Thanks.
So how old were you when you got
your first tattoo?
I was nineteen, and down the coast with
my friend. It was a total spur of the mo-
ment thing!

What was it?

An outline of a dragon, it’s only the size
of a 50 cent piece.

Has your friend gone on to get pretty

inked as well or just you?
Yeah, she’s got a few more tatts, but not
as many as me!

You have quite a lot now, what did

your parents say?
Dad was okay with the first one because
it was so small and because he thought
that the first one would be the last. Mum
said no more after the first.

Obviously your Dad was wrong and

you didn’t listen to your Mum! Have
you got the most tatts in your family?
Yep, I’m the most tattooed member of
my family.
Photo by Diversal Images

You don’t look like someone who

would be so heavily inked. Are people
surprised when they see it?
Well, from the front I guess they would
be. I don’t seem to fit the mould of
someone that has heaps of tattoos, so
I’d say most people are surprised.

Is there a reason why you have so

many?
Because I’m a Libran I felt unbalanced
with one tattoo, so I evened it up with
another matching dragon on the other
side. Then I had to balance that with
more tattoos on the top of my back.

Are you all balanced now or are you

going to get more?
My latest is one on my wrist that says
forever, but I really want to get a vine
down my back with stars either side of
it. I saw it in a tattoo magazine and it
looked really hot! It kind of curls around
to the front and ends on your hips.

You would almost have a whole back

piece then!
When I die I’d like to get it preserved.
Some people do that!

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 Life’s a
Drag...

When You’re a Queen!

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 S
top me if you’ve heard this one before. A guy
and a girl walk into a bar. The guy orders two
drinks and the pair takes a seat. They soon no-
tice they are being looked up, down and over
again by a large group of men. Well the guy was anyway.
The main bar was empty, the pool tables desolate.
Though there was a buzz in the club. Numerous screens
hanging from the roof showed a slightly blurry picture of
the scene further inside. It looked to be someone running
feverishly around in a purple and yellow inflatable arena.
This was no ordinary club. On closer inspection there
seemed to be no other women present, the staff and pa-
trons were all men.
“Polly won’t get on the bull for any less than one-hun-
dred-dollars!” boomed the voice of Tora Hymen. Hymen is
the host of Australia’s Next Top Drag Queen and in a Tyra
Banks fashion she always manages to steal the show. Af-
ter a brief auction over $200 was raised and the excep-
tionally ostentatious Polly Petrie was forced to grab the
bull by the horns.
Pearls of varying shapes and sizes formed a decorative
wreath around Miss Petrie’s neck. Her jewellery filled fin-
gers and wrists gleaming as she mounted the bull. Need-
less to say she did so in a very ladylike fashion. “Let’s give
it up for Poooolllllyyyyyyyyy!” Tora shouted.
ANTDQ involves up and coming drag queens competing
against one another in a Next Top Model fashion. Week
eight was country theme, and as their challenge the ladies
had to ride a mechanical bull. The contestants were Mable
Syrup, Kiki Fetch, Prada Clutch and Laidee Babooshka.
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 This was no ordinary club, and no ordinary
night. The streets were littered with inviting
rainbow flags waving at passers-by. There
should have been no element of surprise in
the evening. After all I was invited there by
a drag queen puppet.
“Darling, how many drag queen puppets
do you honestly know?!” says Queen Miss
Left Titter.
The Queen has a cult following, she is a
star of the stage and screen and has un-
equalled popularity in the Sydney Drag
scene. Her most recent endeavour has
been as a judge on ANTDQ. The Queen is
the reason I found myself at The Midnight
Shift on Oxford Street at 10pm on a Thurs-
day night.

In a world full of smoke and mirrors, one

could be excused for thinking there isn’t many
real people in the industry. However, there is
nothing fake about the Queen, “not from the
plastic eyes to the clipped on nails... Moi may
be a drag queen puppet but these tits are real
boys!”
The blonde and buxom online celebrity has
her own fortnightly show “The Queen Miss
Left Titter Show”. When asked about her
name, the Queen says it’s quite simple, “my
left titter is bigger than my right titter”.
Ordinarily the saying goes behind every
great man there is a great woman,
but in this instance underneath
every great drag puppet is a great
man. Troy Murphy is the creator of
QMLT, “I am the queen” he says,

although, in the Queen’s eyes Troy Blowpez is relatively new on the

is merely “the support act”.
“I get to live the glamorous life
while [Troy] does all the hard work”
says Queen Miss Left Titter.
Murphy says that the Queen is
“very demanding… she’s a diva”,
but every diva has her day and
the Queen’s was week 8 of ANT-
DQ. To the tune of Shania Twain’s
“Man I Feel Like a Woman”, Titter
begrudgingly hopped on the bull.
Ever the diva she refused to brave
it alone, taking Troy along for the
ride.
Troy says that “people talk to her
as if she’s a real person”.
Stevie Boland aka Jennifer Blow-
pez shares this sentiment, he says
that “even though [Jenny’s] only
made up, she’s more popular”.
drag scene, having only come into
this world in April 2007. Despite
his short stint in someone else’s
shoes, Stevie has managed to
make Jen a bit of celebrity in her
own right.
Make-up, waxing, dresses and
heels are hard enough to cope
with as a woman, but imagine a
man having to do it all. This is the
life of a queen, and it can be a real
drag!
Stevie thinks that the hardest
thing about being a drag queen is
“hair removal…it is so annoying. If
I can get away with not shaving my
legs, with really thick stockings…
they’re on”.
He says that maintaining Jen for
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a lot of work “especially on the
face. You have to have a really
close shave and if you do that
too often you get razor burn
and ingrown hairs”.
“The only bad reactions [to
Jen] come when people realise
I’m not a woman.” One such in-
cident was at Mardi Gras when
a straight guy sat next to Jenni-
fer, not realising that she was a
drag queen. “This guy freaked
out, he was like you’re a guy?
You’re the only fucking reason I
sat here, because I thought you
were a woman”.
“Moi may be a
drag queen
puppet but
these tits are
real boys!”
Stevie shrugs. “Every time
[Jen] goes out somewhere she
gets hit on”.
Jen is only a small scale
amateur drag queen, but she
is quickly rising up the ranks.
Professional drag queens like
Claire De Lune and Tora Hymen
are recognised by an awards
show called the DIVA Awards.
The awards are a celebration
of everything drag, from out-
standing DIVA moment, to bitch

of the year. A celebration of the good, the bad and the downright
manly - It’s an arena where a little glitter goes a long way.
Sydney is the home of Australia’s drag scene and the up and
coming queen. There are even services available where you can
be chauffeured around Sydney by a drag queen. Sydney by Diva,
operates tours of the city, including bubbly, tasty treats and of
course a hostess in drag.
Oscar winning costume designer Tim Chappel is a veteran of the
drag circuit. He feels that the reason Sydney has such a great drag
culture is because “It relates to the Australian idea of morality: you
can do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t bother anyone
else,” says Chappel.
“Straight men enjoy drag as much as gay men: it’s a way of estab-
lishing your masculinity by exploring femininity,” Chappel says.
Story by Melissa Appleby
Photos by Elise Oddy
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 Pick Sunnies That Suit !
Picking sunglasses is a hard enough task in itself. Picking ones that don’t make you look like an idiot is even harder.
According to the Vision Council of America (VCA) Envision Yourself program, there are three keys to choosing the
correct frame for your face shape:
• The frame shape should contrast with the face shape.
• The frame size should be in scale with the face size.
• Eyewear should repeat your personal best feature (such as a blue frame to match blue eyes).
Finding a pair of sunnies that suit you will depend on your face shape, hair colour and skin tone. Firstly you have to
figure out the shape of your face. The five most common face shapes are oval, round, oblong, triangular and square.
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Oval
HIT - People with an oval shaped face really can’t go wrong when it comes to sunglasses.They should be as wide as
the broadest part of your face and any shaped lens should suit.

Round
HIT- Glasses that are wider than
Oblong
HIT - Pick sunnies that are deeper
they are deep are the best for a than they are wide. This will make
round shape face. This will ensure your face look slightly shorter.
that your face looks longer. You will Aviators, cats-eyes and square
also find that glasses with coloured lenses are all good buys, as are
temples (arms) will also balance frames with colourful temples. The
out a round face. bigger the better in this instance.
MISS - Aviators and square lenses MISS - Small sunglasses that don’t
will only further emphasise the cover the centre of your face, as this
roundness of your face - avoid as will further accentuate the length.
much as possible!

Triangular
HIT - Pick sunnies that make your
forehead appear wider and your
chin narrower. Try sunnies with
square lenses, aviators with a
flat top and semi-rimless glasses.
Frames that are heavier on top and
best suit this shaped face.
MISS - Sunnies that that sit too
high on your face. This will make
your forehead look narrower.
Square
HIT - Pick sunnies that make the
face less angular. The frames
should be wider than the broadest
part of your face.Like those with a
round face, people with a square
face should ensure that their sun-
nies are wider than they are deep
and top heavy.
MISS - Sunglasses that are square
or angular on the bottom.

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What gets under your skin? Every month we have a new rant in my attitude! Get involved
by emailing melissa_is_hiding@hotmail.com.
It’s not in my nature to step on egg
shells, since I would much prefer
to throw them at the pavement
from great heights. It could be my
destructive streak, or even my
general distaste for most things,
but I am just coming right out and
saying it. I hate Crocs.
They are not really shoes and not
really thongs, and as far as I’m
concerned not really cool either.
Even buying the bizarre looking
accessories (called jibbitz in the
US) can’t redeem this fashion faux
pas.
The Australian website confirmed
my hatred after minutes of explo-
ration. The top four “reasons you
gotta have ‘em” are:
• Resists bacteria
• You won’t slip off your boat
• Big air ventilation ports
• Friendly Italian Styling
Nowhere does it mention that
they are designed for everyday
use, and how contradictory is the
concept of holes in your shoes
that are bacteria free?
But I could just be missing the
point. Further perusal of crocs.
com.au led me to the most con-
myattitude
.com
trived testimonial I’ve heard since
I stopped watching daytime televi-
sion. The title is “I knew I was in
love” and to be honest I should
have stopped there.
“I never believed in love at first
sight, especially in the era of mass
produced goods”. That’s WTF
worthy on its own merit but I will
press on. “When I laid my eyes on
Crocs, I knew I was in love. When
I put them on, it[‘]s almost as if
they were custom made just for
me... gently mo[u]lding to my feet
and caressing them with love. “I
especially loved those little nobby
things on the sole. Thank you for
making such cool shoes!” - Bjorn
Y (01/06/2006, Singapore)
It would be a comforting alterna-
tive to consider this as having been
lost in translation. However, such
“I especially
loved those little
nobby things on
the side”
luck is probably not warranted. In
that case, and perhaps more im-
portantly, why does the Australian
website have a testimonial from
“Bjorn Y” from Singapore? I’m a
little comforted that no one in this
country is prepared to vouch for
crocs.
As well as being an eyesore,
these fashion disasters are also
causing a number of unnecessary
injuries to children and adults alike.
A young girl in Singapore had her
big toe ripped off by an escala-
tor while wearing a pair of Crocs
shoes. Rest assured, the makers
of Crocs are said to be designing
a new tag that includes escalator
safety tips. What an amusing con-
cept!
I dare say, Crocs could just be
the worst footwear since platform
shoes!
Luckily I know that some people
do share my hatred for these plas-
tic monstrosities, and go to great
lengths to show it! I say if you hate
Crocs as much as I do, buy a t-
shirt. Because “Crocs: They are
to your eyes what second hand
smoke is to your lungs”, is making
a great statement! However my
personal favourite is “friends don’t
let friends wear Crocs”.
By Melissa Appleby
Next month’s RANT -
Frangipani stickers
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