However it might, just might, be one of those quick faders which I love initally but despise eventually.
The song above is The king and all his men by Wolfgang, a scarily makeuped Londoner whose album came out on the 16th of November (he doesn't have much resemblance to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if you start thinking along those lines).
If you do like this song listen to his other one, Pieces of me which has a fantastic gutair opener straight from the seventies: www.myspace.com/thisiswolfgang.
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!
Paul Dempsey came into the studio the other day. (***NEWS FLASH: I'm working as an 'acting' radio producer for the ABC).
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 a label, frankly darling it's dated.
Practically anyone could could write a 25,000 word thesis on the sizzling habits on the Gen Y demographic, what they like, how they shop, love, eat, don't fly the nest and generally sail through the world unimpeded by a hard work ethic. Since the world got hold of the term Gen Y the everything has been analysed from the free wheeling perspective of a 20 something year old. And it's boring. It's done, it's dusted and it's time to think of something new. Blah, blah, blah. As a member of the infamous sons and daughters of the baby boomers demographic I'm well and truly over the hype of the young bloods.
As soon as marketers and journos got hold of the Gen Y idea and started analysing the world from a Gen Y perspective in order to lasoo the elusive youth market into their profit margins it was over. When it becomes mainstream and chewed over by academics and media alike a concept may as well roll over a die. It's like cud - chewed, digested, churned up, chewed again, digested, churned up and the story goes on until Gen Y become, frankly, a very unappealing, unappetising label to live by.
I should confess that my own passion for the tatilising but frankly over-publicised age group I belong too has been waning ever since mentioning Gen Y as a segment became imperiative to getting high marks in a university marketing assignment.
But here's the news... Gen Y officially don't care about being labled Gen Y. So if you're a marketing guru, journo, entreprenurial business person or Generation X citizen who's spouting Gen Y effusions the chances are you'll not be connecting with them.
Note: the author of this article will still be using Gen Y as a target market in her uni marketing plans, (despite obvious self-hypocrisy) as a bit of generational name dropping usually guarantees high marks.
Chanel has just released a new 'film' (or shall we say VERY expensive ad) starring Audrey Tautou for their fragrance Chanel No.5.
The film was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the man behind Tautou's rise to fame in Amelie and it has the same amazing golden colour tones which can't but help warm the cockles of your heart.
If you're wondering who the man is who manages to track Tautou across southern France just by following her scent, he's American model Travis Davenport.
Have a watch of the film below... but if you want the best quality look at http://www.chanel5.com/.
I just watched possibly the best fan movie ever, The Hunt for Gollum. It was forty minutes of absolute professionalism made on a $3000 budget.
The film was adapted from appendices from The Lord of the Rings and follows Aragorn as he hunts for the creature Gollum to prevent Sauron and the nine riders finding the location of the ring.
The orcs were especially good and if possible even uglier than the Peter Jackson triolgy.
Viggo Mortensen was always going to be hard to live up to and fan actor, Adrian Webster did a good job (I couldn't help thinking the whole time that if he'd just tinted his eyelashes and eyebrows he would have looked 10 times more Aragorn like.. superficial, I know).
The movie was released independently online on the 3rd of May, to watch go to thehuntforgollum.com.Inspiration Item 45#
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 slightly high-brow reality TV show The Speaker which aims to find the best young public speaker in the UK.
Anyway the winner was the youngest of the bunch, Duncan Harrison, a 14 year old from Bristol.
His final speech was on child education in Malawi - it was brilliant and something I'll pull out and re-watch before my next presentation for uni/work.
Inspiration Item #44
Am reading a fantastic book I've been wanting to get my hands on for ages.
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..." (my sister).
Vampire obsession might be a global phenomonen but THIS is a step too far.
Tonight I guiltly got my dose of RNB by watching Israel's latest song Freak Tonight on youtube (ignore this embarassing fact please and move on to the real goss of this story)...
I was HORRIFIED.
What is the world coming to if a perfectly respectable RNB toughman has to resort to fake fang teeth and neck biting scenes in order to hit the music charts??
Plus why is he sporting a mohawk which looks like a stoat's tail on the top of his head? Not attractive.
And while we're on the note of RNB selling out... could the lyrics of Soulja Boy's latest song be anyworse?
"Baby, kiss me through the phone"
"dadadadadadadada we're on the phone like dadadadadadada we're taking pics like dadadadada she dial my number like dadadadada"
Have a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFmWFOwxy4
Deinspiration Item #41
You're looking at Olivia Bee.
Nothing is beating the beauty of Sky is falling by Sydney based singer, Bertie Blackman.
I heard the track on JJJ this morning and was blown away into stupefyed silence on the train.
Obviously I was already silent and not talking outloud all by myself in the third carriage as I am not a weird person.
What I mean is that my mind was FORCED to stop and listen, silently repressing all other thoughts, so it could fully absorb the epic beautifulness of the song.
It's very dreamlike, with lyrics thrumming - yes, thrumming - over the music.
Bertie Blackman's new album came out last Friday... Heart is the new single every one is raving about cos apparently it sounds like Bjork, but personally Sky is falling is definitely my favourite.
www.myspace.com/bertieblackman
Inspiration Item #39
How fantastic is this ad????
The purpose of this blog was just to keep track of all the little pieces of life that inspire or despire a day.Anyways I spent a while trying to figure out how he connected to my life.. ie friend of friend, uni person, workmate, person I sit next to on train maybe?
Finally I concluded I DO NOT know this man.
Once reaching this conclusion I had to deliberate about whether this was an inspiration item or not.
Is someone just randomly adding you on Twitter a compliment, a random fact of life or alternativly just plain freaky???
Eventually I decided to be flattered and allocate it to the inspiration item pile.
***If u can help identify this potential stalker (see picture below), please comment.
p.s. interesting side note.... I 'tweeted' that I liked Bombay Bicycle Club and who starts following me but a San Francisco based bike shop... freaky. You can't say anything anymore without being viral marketed.
Inspiration Item #36
* REUNITED: Jennifer Wood is reunited with her partner Mark who stayed to fight the fires while she evacuated with their son Jack.
*ENGULFED: Fires blaze through Kingsvale National Park on Victoria's hottest day in history. Winds were at record speeds causing fires to cover thouands of hectares at 100kms an hour.
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 photos I was impressed. Very impressed and slightly intoxicatingly in love.
I discovered that Lyell is the lovechild of Emma Fletcher, an Australian designer (yes, I know yet again another brilliant child is spawned from our shores).
Apparently she was inspired by a childhood in Sydney where she was dragged by her mother to an inordinate number of flea markets and antique shops (ok, the article didn't say dragged but 8yr olds aren't that keen on antiques, even abnormally stylish ones). 
Fletcher won the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award last year and used it to fund this collection. Personally I'm also loving the Fall collection of the previous year which heavily dipped into 1920s 'I'm trimming the hedgerows' type elegance (will have to blog later down the track - can't use all the pretty images at once). But if you can't wait have a look at www.fabsugar.com/994358.
Emma Fletcher also owns a small boutique in nyc where she stocks her own designs and rare vintage finds from European labels.
I'm not the only one who's in sweet love with Fletcher's designs. Apparently Michelle Williams has been shopping at the store since 2004. And quote: "Her fans also include like-minded, low-key beauties, such as Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel, who sports Lyell in her new movie Gigantic." (www.elle.com/Fashion/Fashion-Spotlight/Lyell).
The label is going into its fifth year and can be found at www.lyellnyc.com.
Charles: Are you an adventuress?
She's sitting right in front of me
Wish this was my first car. So hot it could almost burn. I saw a blue version on Top Gear (I know it's sad, but I get all my limited knowledge of cars from that show).
*Awesome duo, The Dø, who according to their myspace hail from two music meccas, Paris and Helsinki. Love the beat of this song. Have a listen to track, Playground Hustle, http://www.myspace.com/thedoband, it's good too.
P.S. They're coming to V-festival on the Gold Coast really soon, should I go?Inspiration Item #29
In his recent column for the Times Online, Jeremy Clarkson - the big man off Top Gear, not the little one or slow one with long hair - says sales of board games in the UK are dangerously on the increase.
"If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him" Walter Wink
Loving getting ready to go out while listening to this duo. Then I found out they're coming to Brisbane.. this FRIDAY!!!
