tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74319041927753331302024-03-19T02:36:51.096-07:00Because We're DeadSally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-51738201837372600722013-01-06T23:16:00.000-08:002013-01-06T23:16:22.146-08:00Music Monday: Kate Bush<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sV7w5TaYjRA" width="420"></iframe><br />
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After a long leave of absence, Music Monday is back! And I have
decided to mark this joyus occasion with none other than my favoruite
queen of obscurity, Kate Bush. I have loved this woman ever since I
heard her beautiful ode to my all time favourite book, but I only heard
this song yesterday. I had put the album, Hounds of Love, onto my iPod,
and forgot about it until this song came up on my shuffle. This song is
brash and beautiful and fills me up, and the video that accompanies it
reminds me why I love her SO MUCH!! I love her adorable face, and the
way she rocks a silver jumpsuit and the eighties green screens and the
fact that she has astronauts and a Superman in her entourage.<br />
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And so, without further ado, I leave you to bask in the glory of the Big Sky. Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-23633798971390663012013-01-04T20:54:00.003-08:002013-01-04T20:54:48.518-08:00...and a happy new year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I spent mine with these guys! We drank beer in the movie theatre and did the Time Warp front of the screen. They say that what you do on New Years Eve will predict what the coming year will be like. So this year is going to be shameless and fun. I can't wait! </div>
<br />Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-57391245892861193622012-12-24T01:24:00.000-08:002012-12-24T01:27:00.264-08:00Merry Christmas Y'all <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So we're home! After what seemed like some kind of suspended dream, Lovely and I have returned from the extraordinary continent that is Europe. I cannot begin to describe the last two months, other than to say it was mind opening, soul feeding, and beyond all my feeble expections and wildest dreams. </div>
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Although I took what seemed like a million photos, I'm going to be posting only a few of my very favourites, alongside a playlist of songs inspired by my visit because for some reason all important moments in my life must be accompanied by a soundtrack.<br /> Each country will get their own post, and first up is Paris, the city the of my waking dreams.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Congratulations!<br />
Today is your day.<br />
You're off to Great Places!<br />
You're off and away!<br />
<br />
You have brains in your head.<br />
You have feet in your shoes<br />
You can steer yourself<br />
any direction you choose.<br />
You're on your own. And you know what you know.<br />
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.<br />
<br />
You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.<br />
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."<br />
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,<br />
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.<br />
<br />
And you may not find any<br />
you'll want to go down.<br />
In that case, of course,<br />
you'll head straight out of town.<br />
<br />
It's opener there<br />
in the wide open air.<br />
<br />
Out there things can happen<br />
and frequently do<br />
to people as brainy<br />
and footsy as you.<br />
<br />
And when things start to happen,<br />
don't worry. Don't stew.<br />
Just go right along.<br />
You'll start happening too.<br />
<br />
OH!<br />
THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!</span></span></div>
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Lovely and I leave for Europe tomorrow. I've just finished packing, and now I'm just sitting in my room, soaking it in. I won't really be updating this blog much, as I will be trying to only use my computer for booking things and emergencies.<br />
<br />
I will however try to document some of the places we visit on instagram (ohtheplacesillgo) and Lovely has set up a travel blog of the same name (or similar: Oh, The Places You'll Go. This was already taken by some clever person on instagram who also enjoys a bit of Dr Suess, so I had to resort to I'll, or ill :/). <br />
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So to you, dearest reader, I say; have a wonderful two months, and I shall see on the otherside, hopefully a little more world wise, and full to the brim with stories to tell! <br />
<br />Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-32092433340222386912012-10-02T03:39:00.001-07:002012-10-04T05:19:46.341-07:00The Shrine on Sydney Road<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We drove past the shrine today. I was sitting in the passenger
seat, closest to the side of the street that she had walked, and so I was the first
to see the flowers. The blockades of blooms spilled out from the stoop of the
shop that had caught her last moments on camera. Candles flickered in the last
few breaths of the storm that had threatened to spoil the Big Game. Strangers stood,
legs apart, heads bowed, hands clasped together in silent prayer. The Channel
Ten camera crew; a man untangling long black cables. </div>
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I saw all of it, at once; it was a streak of unfamiliar colour
on a backdrop that I knew so well. I was prepared to feel upset, and maybe even
angry. <br />
What I was not prepared for was an influx of raw emotion. A slew of feelings
without names, that came on as fast as we had driven past the scene. Some of the roots were easy enough to identify; the brutality, the unjust ending of a life.
The thoughts of the husband, of the mother and father. The friends and family living
overseas and around the corner, nursing holes in their hearts and fistfuls of
unanswered questions. <br />
But there was something
else that tugged at me, that still tugs at me. A feeling of...of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A feeling very close to dread, but not quite
as palpable. A lingering. </div>
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Was it because she was women of my mid to late twenties age
bracket? And that being a woman, and in that particular age bracket, had seemed
to amplify her vulnerability? Was it the sometimes subtle, sometimes not so
subtle inclinations of the media, suggesting that because of the hour of the
morning, her physical appearance and her intoxicated state, she had unknowingly
facilitated her own abduction? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Or was it simpler than that. Was it just because she had chosen
to walk?</div>
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She had walked. She had left the pub that my friend Anne had
once chosen as the perfect place for us to see her off to South East Asia. She
had walked past the Blythe St intersection, home of the Blythe St share house
that I had frequented when my friends from university had lived there. A house
that I had walked to from the tram stop on Sydney Road, sometimes in the dark,
and often alone, clutching a Biology text book in one hand and a cask of wine
in the other. <br />
She had walked past the Turkish restaurant that I had eaten at the week before.
The pub that I had got drunk and danced at until two in the morning the night
after, to celebrate my Lovely’s birthday; the day before the posters had gone
up on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the tram stop shelters and the
telephone poles, before people had made Facebook groups and implemented
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I've always been a little scared of the unknown, but right now it isn't the unknown that's scaring me the most. It's the
knowing. It is knowing that if it were me, I would have walked it. If I had
been out drinking with my work friends at the Bar Etiquette on a Friday night, and
I had being living in the Brunswick/Coburg area, I wouldn’t have even given it
a second thought. Hell, I’ve walked it before! What would have been different
this time? What would have been the reason for me not to? There’s nothing out
there, lurking in the residential darkness of driveways and backyards and
poorly lit side streets, that could be worse than the things I have thought up
in my own head! I’m always looking for stories in places where there aren’t any
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I would have walked it. <br />
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And I have walked it since, but only in the day time. And I know that there
will come a time when I will have to face it in the dark, and that I will have
to decide; is it worth it to risk my life on a few hundred meters? Is it
worth the fourteen dollar cab fare, the four minutes of awkward conversation,
and the chance that I might accidentally leave my phone in the back seat? <br />
If you were to ask me now, of course I would say no. But what about next week?
Next month? Next year? Can I trust myself to remember what this feels like? To remember that, despite all my pride and femenist sensibilities, women will always come off as the preferred target?<br />
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I think I know what this feeling is. This burning in the hollow of my throat,
the hollow space below my heart. It is the knowledge that I am not invincible. My
life could be snuffed out as easily as the candles that now burn in memory of
hers, beneath the Irish flag buntings on the steps of the church where loved
ones and neighbours and strangers now gather to grieve. It is knowing that there
doesn’t always have to be a pattern; no plot points or character arcs or a
conclusion that might lead to understanding, or in the least allude to it. And
that there will be no big reveal. There’s not even an answer, yet, to the
simplest question; the one that everyone has asked at least once, if not one
hundred times. Why did this happen?</div>
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It is the feeling of knowing that death is not a spell that
can be broken. That monsters live and breathe and walk on the same streets that
we do. That I do. That she did. </div>
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This is not a good story. This is not even a bad story. It
is just a horrible thing, and it need not have happened to anyone. But it could
have happened to me. </div>
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Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-7209671655350870162012-10-02T02:44:00.001-07:002012-10-02T02:44:47.321-07:00Tunesday: Sara WatkinsThe closest I can usually get to enjoying country music is when it toes the line with something else, be it folk or rock or one of the million sub genres of music that have evolved or have been created. It's hard to catagorise Sara Watkins into any of these, so instead I'm going to make this easy, and put it in the catagory of <i>music that I like. </i>I was turned onto Sara by one of my favourite podcasts of all time, The Nerdist Podcast; seriously, if you have any inclination towards nerd-centric pop culture, or are just a fan of good comedy and conversation, you should definitely give it a listen! It's free, and the last episode that was released is with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. If that's not reason enough to hit the download button, well then, you're just going to have to trust me. <br /><br />Anyways, this is my favourite song of hers from that Podcast, but I also really love the duet she did with Fiona Apple on her album, Sun Midnight Sun. I found this really cute video of them singing it live, so I'm going to post that too! Yay for double tunes!<br />
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I want Fiona Apples ridiculous hat. I really really do. <br />
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You may know from reading previous posts that I am a frequent visitor of the No Vacancy Gallery. Here are some of my favourite pieces from the Creature Feature exhibition that I went to back in early September It was truely something to behold. </div>
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I forgot to write down the name of this artist, and I can't find it anywhere on the internet! If you know, please tell me so I can credit their incredible work! </div>
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This is not my photo (as if you can't tell), I poached this from <a href="http://apocketfullofsweetthings.tumblr.com/">Pixie Kitten's</a> website. You should definitely check out her tumblr, it is equal parts whimsy and macarbe, just like her work, which I have a feeling will be making it's way into my house in some form or another, once Lovely and I return from Europe!<br />
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And of course, the always superb Emma Leonard and her disarmingly beautiful Rusalka! I bought a copy of this print from her Etsy store, and I can't wait to frame it and hang in a dark and creepy hallway (opposite a mirror perhaps?). A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusalka#Origin">Rusalka</a> is a Slavic mythological being, akin to a sucubus or mermaid like demon that haunts the waterways of eastern Europe. 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Did you know that the Forum had a II? BecauseI didn't, and now I think I like it even more than Forum I! </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Ruby and I had both been fans, nay, devotees Patrick Wolf, and now thatshe's back in Melbourne again I don't have to go to all these 'nostalgia' showson my own. Hooray! </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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Since his firstalbum Lycanthropy (an album which still gives me the creeps in the bestpossible way) in 2003, Patrick has been reborn in the eyes of his audience amany number of times, from angry youth railing wildly against the city he ranaway to, to brooding journeyman traipsing across the English countryside withhis tweed, his ukulele and his violin, searching for a place to rest, to aflamboyant bird of paradise adorned in sequins and feathers and golden hairextensions, strutting and leaping about the stage. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitCvEAMcQCpYeml2egmYli2ZU8Py4Q2rO_SPRhMtEfUmuTrvamqtuZQi9RgaUzaKN4LkPO8w6VbyMJLlRJ8WuWNyd5jWhyphenhyphenhlp591JmbWf0RZOxVGl76l6NvF6UTiJXIbo1gMXjd-bIJCY/s1600/Patrick_Wolf_Wind_in_the_Wires_Single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitCvEAMcQCpYeml2egmYli2ZU8Py4Q2rO_SPRhMtEfUmuTrvamqtuZQi9RgaUzaKN4LkPO8w6VbyMJLlRJ8WuWNyd5jWhyphenhyphenhlp591JmbWf0RZOxVGl76l6NvF6UTiJXIbo1gMXjd-bIJCY/s400/Patrick_Wolf_Wind_in_the_Wires_Single.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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I would just as easily recommend Paris as I wouldBermondsey St, or Teignmouth as I would the Magic Position. And so this waspossibly the best tour that I could choose to go and see him perform for thefirst time; the fact that is was 'acoustic' levelled the playing field, andallowed each song come forth from its place in his vast, diverse career, and beplayed in it's basest, and in my opinion, most beautiful form. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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As he played, I was remindedof my borderline obsession with his first two albums in my teenage years, andthe deep appreciation and joy I felt for his new works, specifically his mostrecent offering, Lupercalia. The clarity of the harp, the stirring of the grandpiano, the drum beat that beat and looped and beat again, created such anintricate framework of acoustic performance, so that the songs themselves wouldunfold like flowers. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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But they were allhandled by Patrick with grace and humour, with a shy laugh and a cheeky smilethat would have made my knees weaken had I been sixteen again. It reminded usthat although they were almost painfully beautiful creations, these songs weremade by a human, and this human is not perfect; and isn't it our flaws thatmake us interesting. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Highlights: </b>Overture (he opened with this, and I really truly couldhave honestly died because I had dreamed of hearing this song live ever sincehearing it for the first time as the opening for the Magic Position),Teignmouth, Tristen, Paris, Wind in the Wires, Armistice, House, Wolf Song,Bluebells </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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I'm not going to lie, I am rather thankful for it. I love wildling Patrick the most. </span><br />
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Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-29059621535000015692012-09-20T22:07:00.001-07:002012-09-20T22:07:22.069-07:00Painted Faces, Painted Places: Leslie David <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
So as you already know, I'm a sucker for mixed media art. I love it! And despite coming off as almost seamlessly effortless, trying to merge two different forms of art isn't as easy as you think (trust me, I've had a go at this kind of thing and it was less than brilliant. Or good even). And so, like most things that I am shit at, besides sports, I respect the skill of the artists who can do it well.</div>
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That's one of the reasons I love these works by Leslie David; it is very easy to look at these and think "I could do that easy!"; I did, for a split second, before my good natured yet often self depricating reality check stepped in like it always does, giving me a look that said, "Really?" </div>
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Leslie probably possesses many skills that I do not, but the ones showcased in these works include the perfect balance between blending and seperating colour, and knowing when enough is enough. My personal favourite is Number Three, I adore all those greens and purples and pinks. </div>
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I think I'll just stick to my scissors and my Washi tape for now.<br />
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<a href="http://www.honestlywtf.com/">via Honestly...WTF</a>Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-4509213512612509862012-09-17T03:57:00.000-07:002012-09-17T04:03:20.499-07:00Music Monday: The Sountrack of My Formative Years<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXCDPP1CT6CI8mx3uRAWsj8EQDM3zF-isB8KSfYStkaLu36uybV77T2vBFu6mR8-tQaTYhkitmUt4pbyP1rOGVxEldOV7fTepx1eGT1qWGqqrrO9kIhnNFOVmUX_hnG7qjV4vjBIlgqM/s1600/ipod+nano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>So as I've probably mentioned before, I have a borderline serious hoarding problem; every time I walk in on someone watching <i>Hoarders </i>on Lifestyle I can't help but feel as though the powers that be are presenting me a window into my future.<br />
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<br />
However, as I go through the motions of my bi-monthly unpack-sort
through-and throw out nothing rituals, I will sometimes find something almost
worthy of being considered an artifact; right diamond in the trash if you
will. This time, it was the very first piece of technology I owned that
legitimately bore the 'i' prefix; a metallic green iPod Nano!<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
This brick of an mP3 player cost me $400, a sizeable chunk of my minimum age
minimum wage paycheck, and I thought it was the best thing I had ever owned.<br />
<br />
But it wasn't the weight of the thing in my hand, the rounded edges or the
garish metallic finish, or even the sound of the 'click click click' as I
scrolled through the different menus, that made my heart really swell. It was all the
songs that I found, still buried inside a forgotten relic of my youth. <br />
<br />
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These were the songs that punctuated some of the fondest
(and not so fond, yet still crucial) memories of my adolescence, a time when music was more important than breathing
(that sounds awfully emo doesn't it? funnily enough, these were the kind of
themes that seemed to run through the kind of songs I used to listen to.
Nightwish anyone?). This little chunk of glass and metal and lithium is not an
outdated, seemingly superfluous article of prehistoric technology; it is a
time capsule of my most formative years.<br />
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I pretty much have a story that goes with every single one of these songs,
and perhaps one day I will write them all down before my brain turns to goo (or
I die, crushed beneath stacks of time worn Frankie magazines at the age of 45).
But right now, I'm going to offer up these songs to you, songs that I had
played on repeat from front door to bus stop, that I could write out in my
school diary to the letter, and love more passionately than any infuriatingly
oblivious adolescent boy. I hope that you, dear reader, will at the very least
enjoy them, and maybe even want to weave them into the fabric of your own life.Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-3430768111684368742012-09-13T19:49:00.000-07:002012-09-14T06:52:45.787-07:00Botanicals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="text" id="ctl00_main_organicResults_results_ctl01_text"> <i>“Flowers are reincarnation. </i></span></div>
<span class="text" id="ctl00_main_organicResults_results_ctl01_text"><i> They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.”</i></span><br />
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So it was Lovely's birthday on Wednesday, and although he had to work
the afternoon, I did get the chance to take him out to breakfast. It was
such a beautiful day; Spring was teasing us with the promise of her
presence in months that we will not be spending in the same hemisphere.
Still, I decided not to waste the sunshine, and spent some of the
afternoon wandering the Royal Botanical Gardens, with my Game of Thrones audiobook, and that quote from one of my all time desert island books, <i>Echo, </i>circling my mind. </div>
Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-87820764797440594472012-09-12T03:13:00.002-07:002012-09-12T04:35:58.068-07:00Word Wednesday: Storyboard Hangouts Word Wednesday! As a fledgeling write, I'm always looking for advice and inspiration, especially from those who clearly know what they're talking about.<br />
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As you already know, I'm borderline obsessed with Felicia Day, but that's not the only reason I love her amazing YouTube Channel <a href="http://www.youtube.com/geekandsundry">Geek and Sundry</a>. Not only is the quantity of content enourmous, the quality does not suffer from it in the slightest; there is not a single show that doesn't entertain, inspire or amaze me; favourites include Table Top, the Flog, and the very feature of this blog; Tuesday Night Hangouts! <br />
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Tuesday night hangouts is a concept that highlights the importance of community, and on the first Tuesday of every month they launch an episode of the Storyboard! Hosted by epic fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss (who I haven't read but will be at some point, once I've finished Game of Thrones. So maybe in a year or two), the Storyboard holds discussions about different aspects of writing, and they've had some fabulous writers so far, including one of my favourites Emma Bull (War for the Oaks, Squeee!!) <br />
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One of the things I love about this is the fact that all hangouts are broadcast live, and give viewers the opportunity to ask real live questions. Unfortunately, because of the time difference, I haven't been able to watch a live one yet, or ask any questions, but hopefully next time I'll have a Wednesday off work!<br />
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So, if you're a writer, or a fan of books, or even if you're just hankering for some good conversation, tune into the Storyboard on Geek and Sundry, first Tuesday of every month! I've embeded the first two episodes here, but you can also catch them on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/geekandsundry">Geek and Sundry</a> channel. The first, Urban Fantasy: Threat or Menace, discusses the techniques of writing urban fantasy novels, and the second, Concerning Characters, is all about the importance of strong characters in novels, what works, what doesn't, and the best ways to create your own! If that doesn't inspire you, then I'll eat my hat!<br />
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<br />Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-26365160456166778972012-09-04T04:44:00.000-07:002012-09-04T04:44:52.581-07:00Thrifty Art: Chad Wye Although I may come off a purist when it comes to vintage wares, op shopping, antiques and secondhand goods, I can't help but be charmed and intrigued by these fabulous 'refurbished' pieces by artist Chad Wye!<br />
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My favourite is definitely the kaleidoscope portrait and the porcelain duck! So colourful! Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-80308729116581892362012-09-03T01:21:00.002-07:002012-09-03T01:21:37.441-07:00Music Monday: Turtle Giants So I haven't been listening to as much music as I normally would do, because I've recently signed up to Audible (which is an awesome service by the way), and downloaded A Game of Thrones. I'm listening to the book alongside watching the critically acclaimed tv show, and I have to say that I am unashamedly hooked. Not only is it beautifully written, the plot is so intricate, without being too overwhelming or confusing; it has so many layers and so much intrigue and betrayal and it's just so <i>devestatingly </i>good!<br />
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Still, I have managed to listen to some of the many albums that have just been released, including Bloc Party's new album <i>Four </i>(the Bloc Party I know and love is back, and I couldn't be happier), Yeasayer (a little directionless, but still enjoyable), and Two Door Cinema Club (similar enough for me to know it came from them, but different enough keep things interesting! Love it!)<br />
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The song I have chosen for this week, however, has nothing to do with any of these. This past Saturday marked the first day of Spring in our southern hemisphere, and surprisingly enough for Melbourne the weather has been beautiful! You can almost feel the long fingers of summer reaching through from December, grabbing at our sockless ankles. So I decided to choose something with a bit of that jangly summer vibe, but a bit different to all the Real Estate/Best Coast/Wavves type bands that are out there.<br />
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At first the vocals on this song don't sound like they belong with the music, but stick with it; I found myself really getting into it towards the end, to the point where the strange vocal was what made me want to go back and listen to it again. And the film clip is just delightful; I love the premise, and the way it's been shot using film. Dreamy dreamy film. Oh, and if you would like a little sneak peek into the way I like to dance, check out the girl in the knee-highs rocking out in her living room <3 br="br"></3><br />
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Enjoy! I'm off to see Moonrise Kingdom with my lovely now. Life is so hard. Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-35058373800782840562012-08-30T06:04:00.003-07:002012-08-30T15:46:27.629-07:00PokeFashion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Excuse me while I geek out for a second, but how cool are these? I wish I could say that these Pokemon were part of the original prints, but sadly no. Pokemon and Fashion is a fabulous tumblr that combines some of the worlds most famous high fashion editorials with Pokemon stills! There are so many great ones, I had to cut down my favorites to what you see below: I especially love the one with the Jigglypuff! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-22129371991988675492012-08-29T03:53:00.000-07:002012-08-29T04:00:26.199-07:00Word Wednesday: Melbourne Writers Festival 2012So the Melbourne Writer's festival is currently taking place in various locations throughout the city, and although I have neither the adequate time nor funds to attend all the events that I wanted to, I did manage to get along to see 'Friendly Fire', a writer's panel featuring one of my favourite writers/people Marieke Hardy, alongside Benjamin Law and Sloane Crosley, who are also quite excellent.<br />
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their book; Marieke from You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead, Benjamin from The
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It was so great to hear all of them read passages from their
books, especially Marieke’s because I had already read her book, and the story
she chose to read from is hilarious in places but also very emotional. Hearing
her own voice reading those words created an impact even more affecting than the
story was when I had read it, and gave a bit more of an insight into what the
audience should take away from the piece. I had never heard of Sloane Crosley
before, but after hearing her read an excerpt from one of her essays, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Take a Stab at It, </i>I wanted to go out
and buy her book immediately. And I could have, but I’m still on Europe budget
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The panel itself was full of jokes, laughter, gentle digs
and great insight into the world of writing from personal experiences. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I am predominately a writer of
fiction, I will always have my own feelings and fragments of my own personal
experiences working their way into my stories, and so I was curious to hear
Marieke and Benjamin’s (and Sloane’s, now that I know what a great writer she
is) insights into dealing with some of the issues that come up for a writer who
predominantly writers about his or her own experiences. <br />
Issues like how writing memoir can affect your personal relationships with the
people in your life, how you choose what to leave in and what to leave out,
which parts to embellish and which parts to underplay in order to make it a
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What struck me while listening to all of them talk is how
they write with such an emotional honesty; their writing is entertaining, yes,
and it has been tailored to an extent in order to entertain us, but the parts
that stick with me in Marieke ‘s book are the parts in which she reveals some
truths about herself, truths that in some cases would have been difficult for
her to face, and then put down on paper. And then put out into the world, for
anyone who happens to be meandering through Readings or Dymocks (or in my case
Lorne’s local bookshop)! It is a very brave thing to do, and is something that
I very much struggle with; I still have a hard time letting people read my
stories, and the short answer to why that is is because I am afraid. Afraid of
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Each writer gave some excellent advice and examples on how
to deal with these types of issues: having faith your the readers to understand
that this is your take on things, not the definitive factual account of what
happened. How some curating of what you choose to say about the events is
important if you want to tell a good story. . How important it is to stay true
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A great way that Marieke deals with this is to publish the
responses of some of the people she’s included in her essays alongside the
essay itself. She was asked about this in the panel, to which she responded
that she wanted the people who read her book to understand that these people in
her life are real people, with real opinions of what happened. </div>
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She also talked about the illusion of intimacy (she did talk
a lot about David Sedaris, who I also don’t know but am also going to pick up
at the bookstore/library/on my kindle), and how a good memoir makes you feel
like you know everything about someone without actually knowing them at all. That
exposing weaknesses and insecurities alongside the jokes makes for a richer
story that is more interesting, and more likely to affect a person and stay
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But I think the most important thing that I took away from
her, and from the whole panel, was another story that she told about her friend
Gen who is still suffering from breast cancer, and who features in the story
that she read from in the beginning. She was saying how when she went to visit
her recently, there was a nurse in Gen’s hospital room, a highly insensitive
nurse who was making inane chit chat about his father’s funeral in an oncology
ward. Spoke about wanting to smash his head against the wall, and that amidst
that amidst the rage she was feeling at his insensitive stupidity, she came to
realise that all she could think about was writing about the whole experience.
And that her motivation wasn’t because she thought it would make for a good
story to tell, but that she didn’t know what to do with all the sadness, the
confusion and the anger she was feeling about the fact that a dear friend of
hers was so very sick. The only way she knew how to deal with this onslaught if
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At this point of the story I wanted to just leap to my feet
and scream out “Yes yes that’s exactly how I feel!”, but of course I restrained
myself because I didn’t want her think that I was a fuckhead as well. I was
almost overwhelmed with joy and understanding because this is pretty much
exactly what I do, whenever I’m in uncomfortable situation, whenever I’m sad,
angry, confused, frustrated, distraught to the point of hysteria, all I want to
do is write about it, to use it in a way that creates something, something that
exists outside of me, in the hope that it will either stop effecting me in such
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All in all it was a wonderfully inspiring afternoon, and it
made me feel more like I could actually do ‘this writing thing’ than I ever had
before. I wish I had known that they would be doing signings afterwards, I
would have bought my slightly waterstained copy of “You’ll Be Sorry When I’m
Dead,” along with me. But I did nearly cut Marieke off whilst walking out of
the festival bookshop, and even that was enough for me to get all fan girly. If
only I had her talents, I could have turned our almost encounter into a witty
anecdote of endearing awkwardness. Oh well. </div>
Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-3874786766058030732012-08-27T01:16:00.000-07:002012-08-27T01:16:14.005-07:00Music Monday: Hiatus KaiyoteWelcome to another Music Monday!<br />
I'm going to throw in a bit of curve ball into this week, and post a song that is quite different to what I usually would post, or listen to for that matter.<br />
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This is song is by Hiatus Kaiyote, who I did not even know existed until today. This is another one of those songs that pulled me out of the Spotify listening haze that I seem to fall into quite regularly. I realised while listening to this song that I don't dislike soul music, I just haven't been exposed to a whole heap of it that has stuck with me. This sticks.<br />
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The description of this youtube clip describes this song as 'Future Soul', which I rather like, and it also says that they are from Melbourne! Hooray for local talent!<br />
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I would love to know what you think, this is a song that seems to be growing on me even more every time I listen to it.<br />
And I also have to feature the cover art for their album, Tawk Tomahawk because, well, it's awesome!<br />
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<br />Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-60592305241952036292012-08-23T00:39:00.000-07:002012-08-23T00:39:20.536-07:00Kate Miller Heidke: Corner Hotel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miller Heidke and I, defying all logic of distance and age and time, had ever
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If you haven't caught on yet, these guys really love their beards. They love
beards so much that they named their band after them. They love beards so much
they've written all their <i>songs </i>about beards. Three full albums of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Apart
from being batshit crazy on stage, these guys are also make legitimately good
music. Even though every song they've ever written features the recurring theme
of beards, no two songs feel the same, nor did their set feel laboured or
tired. The key, I think, is that they are all deadly serious in the execution
of their comedy, thus making it hard to tell if they are brilliant comedic
musicians, or four guys who have an almost unhealthy obsession with facial
hair. And that's what makes them so hilarious; if you don't believe me, have a
listen to some of the songs I've added to the playlist at the end of this post.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But back
to Kate. I've loved Kate Miller Heidke ever since her song 'Space They Cannot
Touch' started doing the rounds on triple J; I can't remember how long ago that
was, but I'm pretty sure I was still in highschool. Yeesh. Having said that,
this is not me trying to prove how hardcore of a fan I am (I did enough of the
'I knew these guys before they were big' bullshit when I was in high school),
but rather to illustrate what seeing her play again meant to me. It's been a
long love affair, and a testament to the power of her music in that it has
stayed with me throughout the most identity-defining years of my life, whilst
many, many bands that I thought I would love forever have fallen by the wayside
(Nightwish, anyone?). Through all the moving rooms, the moving out and moving
back home, the wardrobe clear outs, op shop donation bins and iTunes purging,
that Little Eve Tour poster that she signed for me back in 2007 still hangs on
my wardrobe door. </span></div>
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As a performer, Kate is witty as hell, enchanting to watch, and just goddamn beautiful; she doesn't hold back. She's not afraid to tell strangers her personal stories, both between songs and in them; some are hilarious, some embarrasing, some of them painful and terrifying. You might remember me posting her song, Sarah, a couple of months ago as part of a Music Monday? All true. She bares her soul in her songs and on stage, but she does it with such grace and humility that you cannot help but respect her. And I love how she lets her older songs breathe and evolve on stage; Caught in the Crowd now has whistling, the piano riff in Words was replaced by some killer guitar, and God's Gift to Women features a rather sultry intro. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">She's not
afraid to have fun either; case and point, the covers. I'd heard many of Kate's
recorded covers; her beautiful rendition of River by Joni Mitchell, a stirring
version of 'Your the Voice', and the bizarrely wonder opera cover of 'Psycho
Killer.' Yet none of these would prepare me for a motherfucking Eminem/Kanye
West mash up of The Real Slim Shady with Monster. If you can find it youtube (I
haven't been able to yet), watch it!!! I am not the biggest Eminem fan, and
even less of a Kanye one, but I LOVED THIS! The whole band reworks it
incredibly and her rapping is flawless. Urgh. I have to stop drooling
everywhere this is embarrassing. She also did a really hot lounge version of
the Beards "You should consider having Sex with a Bearded Man', complete
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All in all, it was a fabulous show, capped off perfectly by 'Space They Cannot Touch', my first and still favourite song of hers. If you can, you must go and see her! <br />
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Highlights: Space They Cannot Touch, Mama, Humiliation, The Devil Wears a Suit, Sarah, Politics in Space, The Real Slim Shady, Monster, Let Me Fade, You Should Consider Having Sex with a Bearded Man <br />
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Ok. I really have to go clean myself up now. Enjoy the songs! <br />
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Francesca is writing one unedited poem per day for the next 30 days! Today is Day Six, and although I haven't been posting my poems on her comment threads, I have been reading hers, those of my writing tribe and whoever else has posted in her comment feed, and boy, is there some phenomenal work coming out of this or what?! <br />
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You can check out all the poems <a href="http://loveinthetimeofglobalwarming.blogspot.com/">Francesca's Blog</a>; I've been writing mine in a notebook, because the nature of my work schedual means I'm not near a computer all the time. I wanted to share at least a few of them on this blog, but I thought that instead of just typing them out, I would scan in a few note book pages, so you could see the the words as they came straight from my brain, warts and all! <br />
There is something so liberating about writing like this, straight from the mind through the pen and onto the page (though I have had to restrain myself from editing bits here and there). Number Three is my favourite!<br />
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So on Thursday night I made a little trip to the Brunswick Street Gallery to check out the Needle Work Needle Play Exhibition! I had recently bought a necklace from the enviously talented Gemma Pobjoy a.k.a Triangle of Bears, and saw that she was being featured in said exhibition on one of my favourite streets in the whole of Melbourne! So I thought I would go along! <br />
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How cool are her necklaces?! She makes them from felt, recycled leather (from op shopped handbags!!) with embroidered detailing and adorable coloured bead chains! Here's the one I bought from her...<br />
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and you can check out her <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/theTriangleOfBears">etsy store here</a> if you would like to purchase a one of a kind statement piece! I've already recieved a tonne of compliments for mine, and someone even said that it looked like something out of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, which I got a real kick out of!<br />
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Needle Work Needle Play featured a fantastic range of local craft talent, including the likes of.... <br />
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I particularly liked Al Munro's work; these sequined and embroidered creations are not only gorgeous, they're actually based off historical diagrams from the field of science known as
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The great thing about a gallery like BSG is that you can go along for one exhibition, and end up checking out all the other galleries they have as well. After taking my visual fill of all the fabulous crafty wares, I came upon another room, and another exhibition that I came to like just as much, if not the tiniest bit more than the previous one!<br />
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These artworks by the astounding Betty Holdsworth are almost to beautiful for words (but I'm going to try nonetheless)<br />
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Almost Dr Suessian in nature (that's a thing, right?), these stunning depictions of both the pathways of the mind and the fuctions of the body resonated deeply with my love of both science and art; there is nothing I love more than the combination of the two. <br />
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Ah! I'm in love. You can check out both exhibitions at the <a href="http://brunswickstreetgallery.squarespace.com/">Brunswick St Gallery</a>, and some really great NWNP artist features at <a href="http://needleworkneedleplay.blogspot.com.au/">their blog</a>! Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-56415751071062007192012-08-17T03:06:00.001-07:002012-08-19T05:52:02.451-07:00Jinja Safari - The Hi Fi Bar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well it's been a long time in between gigs! Last Friday night I broke my dry spell, aresult of me squirreling away my pennies for our European adventure instead ofspending all my money on CDs and concerts like a usually do, and went along tosee Jinja Safari at the Hi Fi Bar with some die hard fans and dear friends ofmine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For once I actually arrived on time for a gig, which is not only a modern day miraclebut it also gave us an awesome opportunity for prime viewing of the stage, oroccupation of the 'short ass shelf', as I like to call the split level Hi FiBar. Huzzah! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not oneof the five of us had ever heard of the White Arrows before, but I was immediately won over by the fact that the music they played as the backingtrack to them taking the stage was none other than the theme song for Game ofThrones. *Insert embarrassing geeking out here*.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Their own music, however, took a little longer to grow on me; it was the consensusbetween myself and Anne (who also has an excellent taste in music), thatalthough we liked what we were hearing, their sound was a lot like the scoresof young indie rock bands we had heard before. <br />
However as the set progressed, the White Arrows began to find their own uniquesound (or perhaps it was us that managed to find the diversity within theirset), and we found ourselves really getting into the last four or five songs.It may also have had something to do with the fact that the bassit swapped hisguitar for a tambourine that lit up when hit, and proceeded to run through thecrowd with it! So fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I had alisten to their album on Spotify, and sadly, like a lot of support bands I'veseen, the thing that draws me to their live performance isn't carried over intotheir recorded tracks; the powerful drum beats that pulsed through each songthey played that night seemed muted and compressed in the recorded tracks. However, I have included a few songs in the gig playlist that I still quitelike regardless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The second support was a band that we had all heard of, but none of us could work where we had, or what song we knew. <br />
What first struck me about Opossom was the fact that they had a girl drummer!If you are a girl and you can hold drumsticks and bang drums and make goodsounds come out of them, I will develop and instant crush on you. It's so sexy!(Note to self; Google more girl drummers.) Not only do I want to be next to one for all of time, I also just want to BE one; I found myself imagining myself in her place, less awkward and more talented than I actually am, questioning whether twenty three was too old to pick up a pair of drumsticks for the first time. One day....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It turned out that everyone in Opossom could play drums, and guitar, and piano, and all the other instruments ever invented, apparently!Damn them and their musical multi-talents! But that's not all! I did not realise it at the time, but this woman with the musical arsenal is none other than the fabulous Bic Runga. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">By the time Opossom left the stage, we were fully primed to lose ourselves in the magic that is Jinja Safari. From my perch on the short ass shelf, I could seethe hard-core fans filtering in through the crowd, their heads adorned with fur, feathers and foliage. <br />
Jinja arrived on stage brimming with infectious energy, to the point where itwas almost childlike in nature; mid way through the second song, the keyboardplayer had managed to climb up onto the amps and then swing himself off the lighting rig, much to the horror of all roadies involved. It was a jumping,screaming, bongo beating wild good, with the energy in the room so high itthreatened to almost transcend the music itself! And yet not even a technicaldisruption during Stepping Stones, their most sprawling and immersive song,could break their focus; each member of the band was completely immersed inwhat they were creating, yet they were also determined to take each one of us along for the ride! </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Highlights: Peter Pan, The Mermaid Song (and amazing closer), Forest Eyes, Toothless Grin, Stepping Stones, and a whole bunch of new songs, some of which were yet to be titled! </span></div>
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This week I've chosen an amazing song by Bat For Lashes, moniker of the enviously multi-talented Natasha Khan, who can do everything from write music to sing to dance to create beautiful visual art. I'm a little bit in love with her, both music and style wise, which is why I've added a few photos of her, to show you how beautiful and gypsy bohemian cool she is. <br />
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This song is almost painfully beautiful, and I adore the film clip as well. I dedicate this song to my dear friend Laura, for obvious reasons, and because she is also more than a superstar (oh that even sounded lame in my head. But it's true!!)<br />
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Urgh I just want to be her. Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-42090505806829436502012-08-08T03:26:00.000-07:002012-08-08T03:28:01.713-07:00Playlist: Her Name Was ASo I know I missed a Music Monday, and there's no way I can remedy this with hilarious Tuesday puns because it's now Wednesday! So, I thought that I would instead do a Music Monday Word Wednesday mash up! Mash ups are all the rage, guys (do people even say that anymore?) <br />
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Anyway, he's the playlist I created for my story <a href="http://storychord.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/issue-47-tegan-webb-amanda-thomas.html">Her Name Was A</a>, which was published earlier this year in Issue #47 of Storychord. I imagined the narrator and protagonist of this story to embody all facets of woman as Aphrodite; the classic fifties allure of Marilyn, the bizzare yet intriguing mystery of Tori, the poisonous power of a scorned Kate Nash. This is her sountrack. <br />
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I also included the song that Sarah paired with my story, Running with
Insanity by Alcoholic Faith Mission, is also on there, which I think makes a left field but a very
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If you would like to check out my story, you can see it here! <a href="http://storychord.com/">Storychord </a>is a great mixed media publication that incorporates music, words and visual art for maximum multi-sensory stimulation.Sally Opheliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784136590184538086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7431904192775333130.post-37419740957843307012012-08-02T17:08:00.000-07:002012-08-02T17:09:51.981-07:00Elephants Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Although I come off as a serial art appreciator, I do buy it occasionally!<br />
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may look a little bit like a glorified child's painting, but this was
painted by a very special lady, who goes by the name of Kulab.<br />
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Isn't she beautiful? There are many perks of working at a zoo; one is that we very very ocassionally get to go behind the scenes and experience the animals up close. I shall never forget my moments with Kulab and her son Ongard; Elephants truely are one of the world's most precious and beautiful creatures.</div>
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