Cool kids.

These are some of the CDs I've bought lately.... some because I love the album (Tame Impala's Inner Speaker), some because I love the album and feel guilty that I've had it for years as an illegal download so on a spending rampage I bought it for reals (Brendan Benson's Alternative to Love), some were cheap and cheerful (Destiny's Child's 1's - bought for $10!!) and some I just bought because of the hype (Kanye West's MBDTF)... but there is one curious thing I've noticed about the packaging of the CDs - all the cool kids have gone back to cardboard record style sleeve covers!
Is this a retro or an eco thing?
Maybe t's just more economical??
Maybe it's more Ego-nomical?! As in 'our music is so the shiz that it doesn't matter what it comes in'...?
Because frankly I like plastic, easier to stack you see. Hrmph.

You're nicked. We all do it I guess...?

Sept 2010 Romance Was Born.

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Feb 2011 House of Holland (left) and Christopher Kane (right).

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It always sucks being the second person to do it though!! - that said House of Holland has it all over RWB.

Soz Cate :(

Cake. Is there a better way to start the day?

So after many lazy yearnings - without any actual 'questing' ^_^ - I have finally acquired a very special book much laudered during my childhood. The wonderful Australian Women's Weekly recently re-released their epic masterpiece Children's Birthday Cake Book which I stumbled upon late last week at a newsagent!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

I'm not gonna lie and say I had any of the cool ones like the monster one, or the piano one... no, no, I had all the ballerina/princess/fuzzy bunny ones. And I would often make my cousin Cam who has his birthday a day before mine (therefore being doomed to spend all of his birthdays in joint celebration with me) a hostage of a giant mass of pink icing and sprinkles. His name emblazoned in red/pink/purple icing right next to mine, across the skirt of a cake princess. Ah delicious humiliating memories.

To be fair though, we did share a Michaelangelo (the ninja turtle) cake one year - I was 8 he was 12 - and for his 30th his lovely gf made him a gruesome/awesome treasure chest cake JUST FOR HIM. 

I didn't even get a look in! Bah humbug! That's mokay, y'know senior citzens need special care and all that!