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Heavy Harm from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo . I love these guys! They're from Melbourne and were a part of triple j Unearthed High in ...

How cute are these!!! They're called Kipper shoes, which sends me off into a mind tangent. I keep on trying to compare them to dried...

I could have done a post about the Oscars, but then I thought... NO, let's talk about teapots. Actually one teapot in particular, desi...

This makes perfect sense. I have never been tempted to join the navy (except for maybe when watching Ioan Gruffudd beating the French in H...

Loving Washington at the moment, she's just like a soothing balm of solace. This song is a little bit stronger than the rest on her mo...

Haven't blogged in ages my friends - sorry about that. I got momentarily distracted firstly by a cooking to music blog I'm setting...

Okay, it's Jane Austen's birthday today... but this is too FAR. I'm a massive fan but who on God's good earth would wear suc...

Gimme Sympathy, Metric Get hot Get too close to the flame Wild open space Talk like an open book Sign me up Got no time to take a picture I...

Yesterday Pitchfork posted their Top 100 tracks of 2009... it's going to take me a while to listen to them all so let's just cut to...

So the Satorialist was in Australia again (unfortunately he skipped Brisbane). But he made up for only heading to the southern states by ta...

It's so comforting that Big Ben is on twitter While the rest of the world is trying to impress in 140 characters... Big Ben just keeps i...

"I never knew your middle name, no need to play that game" Architecture in Helsinki. We went out to dinner last night at a gorgeo...

Does Britain's Chancellor, Alistair Darling have possibly the scariest eyebrows EVER? There is a reason why he wears rimless glasses. Bu...

Is it just me or have we gone back on a little bit of a time warp with Tony Abbott, the Liberal's new leader in arms? First there was th...

I'm going to see an advanced screening of Bright Star tonight. So excited... season of mists and mellow fruitfulness here we come.

Sometimes I wish these posts could be backdated. I discovered The XX just before I went on exams and they helped get through the mountain o...

I have just fallen for James Brown... the man is AMAZING. Let's just say before Michael Jackson there was James Brown. You have to watc...

How gorgeous are these outfits? The Queen has apparently journeyed to the Caribbean and is getting into the spirit of things. The third imag...

I'm just chucking this in because it is a beautiful picture (courtesy of Reuters.. no, I am not currently in Afghanistan). Hard, gritty...

*New Liberal leader Tony Abbott enters presser with deputy Julie Bishop. Tony Abbott today became leader of the Australian Liberal party. I...

Sometimes I have pumpkin days. They're days when I feel like Cinderella, my glittering carriage has stopped taking me places and has tur...

Very, very nice. What more can I say... I liked this song on sight mainly for the lyrics and the pitch of his voice. However it might, just ...

Love this picture. It's a man in Costa Rica who's become best friends with a half-tonne croc and is on hugging terms! Apparently he...

Paul Dempsey came into the studio the other day. (***NEWS FLASH: I'm working as an 'acting' radio producer for the ABC). Anyways...

Generation Y is old. Not in the terms of actual age (we're still giving the up and coming tweens a run for their money) but in terms of ...

Chanel has just released a new 'film' (or shall we say VERY expensive ad) starring Audrey Tautou for their fragrance Chanel No.5. It...

So I was at work awhile back and was talking to one of the girls about Bollywood movies. Her mum is Indian and she loves the big dance bloc...

Trailer 2 - The Hunt For Gollum [2] Uploaded by HuntForGollum I just watched possibly the best fan movie ever, The Hunt for Gollum . It was ...

So I stumbled across one of the BBC's latest offerings which sadly hasn't made it to Australia and probably never will. It's the...

Am reading a fantastic book I've been wanting to get my hands on for ages. It's The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell and as well as...

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. T...

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I wasn't that keen on Edward Cullen biting my neck, but HIM??? They can't just get any old freak..." (m...

You're looking at Olivia Bee. She's the 15-year-old elf child who is not only the subject of this magical shot, but also the photogr...

Nothing is beating the beauty of S ky is falling by Sydney based singer, Bertie Blackman. I heard the track on JJJ this morning and was blow...

How fantastic is this ad???? In case u can't read the bit down the bottom it says: Before it's too late... It certainly made me sto...

The purpose of this blog was just to keep track of all the little pieces of life that inspire or despire a day. Right now the little pieces...

Checked my inbox this morning and weird man Joshua Byrd is now 'following' me on Twitter... the word following itself has stalkerish...

Loving these boys from north London, esp their single: 'Always like this', which was released OFFICIALLY 14 days ago. They are absu...

* GUTTED: A house in Bendigo, Victoria burns to the ground. Australia is in shock at the moment. Over 173 people are dead and more than 700...

I was doing some flickr foraging in Grey's Anatomy ad breaks when I stumbled across Lyell . As you can see from the quantity of the pho...