I'm twittering. On the twitter thing. twitter.com/darrenhayes

I'm writing this from Paris, where I've taken a few days out to spend with my Mum who is visiting me from Australia.

It's so beautiful here - I'm always inspired by this town.

There's a French producer I'm dying to work with on my next record - and I sent off the email today to my

manager to get her to 'make it happen' (click click of the fingers). But while I'm here I'll send out nice

vibes and hope he gets them.

What else is going on?

I'll do it in point form, can't be arsed to be more poetic than necessary.

*Thanks for the wonderful birthday wishes etc. Had a great day, got amazingly spoilt and was

nice to have my mamma here. Went to Petersham Nurseries in their posh restaurant on the dirty

clay floor (ooh 'different!'). Was ace.

*I can't help it, I'm obsessed with 'Battlefield' by Jordin Sparks. Maybe I'm just obsessed with Ryan Tedder's

genius songwriting? Dunno. But it's stuck in my head.

*Please go see 'Let the right one in'. It moved me so much I wrote a song about it.

Nuff said. Be warned it's gory but the gore is secondary to the love story.

*Speaking of vampires, I feel strangely more connected to 'The Vampire Chronicles' ie the inspiration

for the name 'Savage Garden' than ever these days.

Running around Paris thinking how ironic it is that I was a kid who read Anne Rice and dreamed

of a word where Lestat existed. To then traveling to France for the first time in 1997 no now

being here whenever I feel like it, myself feeling a little bit like a old soul.

V cool

*The whole twitter, facebook (even blogging) generation is sort of weirding me out.

Sometimes I wonder if I should go against the already over saturated trend and just retreat more

into privateness to feel like I'm (we're?) not just a cookie cutter version of everything else out there.

A friend of mine had this great joke. He said, particularly about the blogger phenom - that opinions

on the internet are like assholes. Everyone's got one and not many of them are that interesting.

Lol.

Do we really need to know where we all are 24/7?

Still not sure yet = liking blogging and might continue to turn my own website into more a blog

in the future - but for now I'm twittering like every other hack ;) But I do get the feeling that

we're SO connected now that something has to give. Do you have any opinions on the subject?

* The Royksopp and Robyn single 'The girl and the Robot' is just lush. Can't get enough.

Um. That's it.

Love to you

xxD