how to age backwards...

Today is the start of my birthday weekend. This is what I expect to look like within the first two hours.
My boss has her birthday on Monday so we are celebrating together. We also made a pack that we will now only age backwards. This year I turn 24. I can't wait to be sixteen again. 

# reason 512

reading makes you SEXY

take me to the ocean.

Tuula

I heart Tuuala. Mint green mini mixed with a woollen white jumper. She looks like a multi coloured macaroon. Check her out. x
tuulavintage.blogspot.com.au/

Bad Girls, Bad Girls. Whatcha gonna do?

 I am woman. Watch me drive. 
- Manal al-Sharif

BRITISH BORN with Sri Lankan Tamil decent, Maya also known as M.I.A (missing in action) is a singer/songwriter who's tunes are like world music mixed with hip-hop. It isn't until you see her videos and listen to her lyrics that you begin to realise it reflects heavy political movements. She isn't an artist who will ask you to align yourself with a particular political position like Yoko and Lennon but her music reminds you to reflect on all of the injustice in the world. Her Born Free music video (2010) was banned off Youtube due to the images of red haired adults and children being hunted down and shot at point blank by American militants.

Her newest video, "bad girls" incorporates the cultural rebellion of females in Saudi Arabia. even with such footage and ideas incorporated into her catchy music, there seems to be an underlining witty humour at work that helps lighten the message. Her latest clip presents a group of middle eastern females covered from head to toe, who are suppressed from driving due to religious laws but live it up in the dessert- westernised boy racer style. "Live fast, Die Young, Bad girls do it well" sings MIA empowering these woman to stand up for their rights and educating individuals like myself to spread awareness of the injustice. Unlike most musical artist these days, M.I.A hasn't allowed money to be the driving factor for her music videos and songs. I think if she wanted to, she could sell herself dancing in a bikini quite well, instead her uplifting tunes ironically illustrate the prejudices at work in the world. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/saudi-arabia-women-drivers-protest

http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/i-am-woman-watch-me-drive/17/

Why...

 must the weekend = WASHING!

This was taken at an outdoor arts exhibition I viewed awhile ago. Destination: Perth, Australia.

the kingdom of the missing sock...

Last week I breathed a sigh of relief when I came across the Kingdom of the missing sock. 

At the 2010 Beaufort St. Festival, the Highgate Drycleaner's coin laundry room extinguished any belief of my missing socks being devoured by the monster under my bed.

I have now strong faith that they decide to run free.. away from the smell of my tootsies and into the unknown kingdom (until now) of the missing sock.

Below is proof of this sacred land (and the photos from the exhibition I attended).

a dollar for me..

a dollar for you...
and another way to save for the upcoming holidays.


xx

i ffffound christmas...

...or late halloween? You decide, I just like the youthful - but creepy and sad feel these images evoke. Images are from ffffound.

recycle and reuse and the world will be happy...

plus we would have more gardens, skate ramps and swimming pools!

she's your prostitute...

Lykke Li

What makes Lykke Li so likable you ask?

It may be her sweet and innocent sounding voice, in contrast the strong sexual lyrics she uses or it may well be her olsen-like fashion sense.

What captures me about Lykke Li is that I can visualize her shopping for second hand clothes with a couple of hot foreign friends dressed like hippies. I can see her pulling out the same dance moves as in her music videos but to her favorite tunes at some auspicious local cafe where all the "cool" kids go. She would speak her mind and sometimes come across a bit blunt. You could see her doing lines of white powder while all her unmatched bracelets and large rings bang on the mirror. Her heart would easily be broken because she would always go for the bad guys and she would be a little bit insecure always applying a little bit more black eyeliner in the uncleaned girls bathroom mirror.

Have a listen to her new song below and i'll let you decide whether she prefers a bottle of cold pilsner or a glass of fine merlot...

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Dont pull your pants before i go down
Dont turn away this is my time
Dont make demands I dont take none
Just say a prayer that it gone get done
Dont pull your pants before i go down
Dont turn away this is my time
Like the shotgun need an outcome
I'm your prostitute, you gon get some
Like the shotgun need an outcome
I'm your prostitute, you gon get some

Go head go away low, but here i can do no harm
Go ahead go away low in my honey lovin arms
Go ahead go away low, where i can do no wrong
Got you around my finger like a lonely lovers charm
like a lonely lovers charm

And cause i can I'm gon' got west
Just like a man Im the fortress
Like the shotgun I cant be outdone
I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some
Like the shotgun needs an outcome
I'm your prostitue, you gone get some

Go head go away low, but here i can do no harm
Go ahead go away low in my honey lovin arms
Go ahead go away low, where i can do no wrong
Got you around my finger like a lonely lovers charm

the dog days are over...

when florence and the machine arrived in my life, I found what was missing. 


she described herself in Teen Vogue as “a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.”


my description of her...


a wild fiery red head with a catastrophic choir instrumental sound, vocals from a venus goddess, should of been born in the 70's, dances around in fields of green and brown, has a bohemic feel to her with a dark twist of a grim fairy tale, her videos portraying her skipping and drinking tea before being sent off to sea in a coffin. 


I LOVE her.


I want to be her.


she is my girl crush.
so please enjoy her twisted love songs and let me know if you feel the same...

p.s. the xx does a cover of you've got the love.