January 2010
36 posts
Associations
Music by The Cranberries reminds me of sleet, overcast afternoons and the steam that rises from a cup containing a hot drink.
“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s...”
– RIP J.D. Salinger
A real conversation between my friends:
A: I have too got standards! I told you, I’d never sleep with an Indian, I’d never sleep with an Arab…
B: Um.. that’s not having standards, that’s called racism.
A: I had sex with Steve remember, so I’m not racist! What country was he from again?
B: America. And he’s caucasian. So that doesn’t count.
A: He was black, I swear.
B: He was just...
FOR GIGI
Fact:
If you close your eyes whilst watching a Maria Sharapova tennis match on television, allowing yourself only to hear her shrieking sounds, you could quite easily believe the content was something suited to Brodan’s “porn party”.
CINDY CRAWFORD
Not even joking
My great-aunty’s first husband invented the ice tray.
Melting
There’s a famous quote in The Great Gatsby about how it feels like life begins all over again with the summer. WRONG! Summer makes me feel like I’m dying. Fuck you Fitzgerald, you obviously never sweated it out this bad.
Taylor Swift is quite possibly the closest thing we have to human perfection. She’s physically flawless, comically gifted (check YouTube for her SNL skits if you don’t believe me) and blessed with an incredibly rare mixture of precociousness and humility. Her songs are all hits, and they’re undoubtably catchy (yes, I’m a fan, and no, I’m not embarrassed), but...
Lauren Boyd!
AUNTY KATE
“The mind of an adolescent is an inherently unstable thing, shifting between imperial expansion and shrinkage down to a vanishing point.”
Five Things That Make You Look Lame on Facebook
1: ‘Becoming a fan’ of things like “It takes me more than 1 Minute to open a Chupa Chup Wrapper” or “Eating grapes when you walk into Woolworths”. Bonus points if you join one of the multitudes with incorrect spelling (eg: “I like it when people flash there lights to warn you theres a speed car” or “Christmas isn’t the same when your not...
The coolest celebrity couple of all-time.
Ambitions:
Visit Graceland; buy an old Volvo and live by the beach; write the screenplay for a perfect romantic comedy.