Moving Things & Sound

Bobby’s got big ol’ brains.

God, this made me laugh.

Moving Things & Sound

Click Click Boom (Ham Sandwich)

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Life as I know it

She looks like the someone she thinks she used to be

I walked past the newspapers piled benath our mail cubbies and stopped in my tracks. On the cover of the local paper’s entertainment section, there was a photo of Joan Rivers.

At least it said it was Joan Rivers. It really didn’t look like Joan Rivers as much as it looked like someone who had had a lot of plastic surgery to make them look like Joan Rivers.  Through the magic of Photoshop and facial peels there wasn’t a line on her face. Her nose was carefully crafted and her lips were smooth, puffy with collagen.

I think Joan has issues with ageing.

I must admit, I am not thrilled about getting older. My body aches in places it didn’t used to, I can see new lines on my face and of course there’s the grey hair (which I now pay someone every six weeks to cover up with highlights). But I can’t stop the physical deterioration of the ageing process and at least when I look in the mirror I still see me, not some kind of plasticine representation of what I used to look like. And who knows – maybe I’ll feel differently when I’m as old as Joan Rivers (and if she looks in the mirror and feels good about herself, then good on her).

I hope I don’t.

Moving Things & Sound

Oxford Comma (Vampire Weekend)

Life as I know it

lol wut?

I popped into my friend’s office at lunchtime and she had the most fabulous shoe catalog on her desk. A recovering shoe addict, I picked it up and had a browse. It was *fabulous* and I just about broke out in hives while thumbing through the pages. “Oh, you’ve got to see these Ugg Boots. They’re just great,” she said. And they were!

I was filled with an overwhelming desire for these boots and started to imagine myself in the upcoming colder months, puttering around the house in them on weekends and in the evening. I saw myself…

“They’re $400.”

The fantasy stopped there and then.

Yes, $400 for *Ugg Boots* ffs. Boots I probably wouldn’t wear to our local IGA, let alone Civic or Sydney.

$400 dollars.

Jebus.

“Buy them, “ I told her. “If you buy $400 Ugg Boots, I am so buying a new computer.” Because how could anyone argue? “Yes, I know I spent $3000 on a new computer ... but it’s not like I spent $400 on Ugg Boots like Teresa did!”.

Blurbs

a faulty chromosome>>

a faulty chromosome is a slopbucket of shoegaze tremolo, hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged mister rogers records, mashed casio chords and drum machine’d beats--all bundled up in a warmish childhood memory of hiding beneath the kitchen table in 1986 with their uncle’s overweight cocker spaniel (what was her name? keebo? keeno?). (stream the album at their ecard site)

Amy Winehouse>>

How can you not like someone who sings songs like Rehab and You Know I’m No Good. She’s got a sound that could have come from Motown with a totally cool aesthetic. Like Joss Stone, only edgier.

Got Flickr? Get Moo!>>

Got lots of Flickr photos that you love? Need some business cards? Try Moo! Moo will take your Flickr photos and turn them into business cards (well, small business cards as they’re 70mm x 28mm). You pick the photos and enter your details - 100 cards for US$19.95 and you can have 100 different images if you want to! They had free global shipping in September so I don’t know what it will cost to ship to Oz in the future, but once I build up my Flickr stock I will definitely be indulging.

Doing it daily>>

The Daily Collage Project sees a new 10cm x 10cm collage posted every day. I admire the discipline involved in doing something so regularly – they did just start this month, so it will be interesting to see if they can keep it up for an extended period of time. Like Noah Kalina, who’s been doing his daily self-portraits since January 2000 (give or take a few days, but apparently he hasn’t missed a day in over three years).