stuff i was obsessed with in may

blonde on blonde - bob dylan

richard hell and the voidoids


miu miu s/s '10

30 rock

this song:

stuff i was obsessed with in april

doctor who



human teeth rings (they're made in melbourne :D)



holga cameras


elvis costello

christian louboutin studded brogues

this song:

my oscars best dressed list

my favourites, in no particular order:

miley cyrus in jenny packham
the dress is a beautiful colour and it's hard to go wrong with a classic bodice/tulle combination like this one. don't know about the quiff, but it's otherwise worn very well.

carey mulligan in prada

carey is totally adorable and i love her dress. while i'm iffy about the hemline, i really like the sweetheart neckline and it's got little forks and spoons and knives embroidered on it (yeah i go crazy for that whimsical shit).

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cameron diaz in oscar de la renta

ooooh, sparkly. and odlr will always get my vote.

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and this year's most overrated dresses:

sarah jessica parker in chanel

sjp is fawned over by the fashion press constantly, but the things she wears disgust me. i literally despise everything she wears, with the exception of her 2009 oscar gown, but even that had this weird superflous waist belt which kind of ruined it. anyway, this year's dress is shapeless, hideously unflattering and badly accessorised. i hate EVERYTHING about this oscars outfit. so like just stop going out in public pls

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kate winslet in yves saint laurent

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. enough said.

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i need this coat in my life

but i'm actually so desperate. i've been obsessed with leopard print coats for like a billion years, and i've never seen one available anywhere that i liked. and now thanks to various labels like cacharel and topshop releasing their versions in recent times, knock-offs will probably be hitting the stores here like crazy in winter. i've already seen a princess highway one in dangerfield, but it was in an ugly bomber-jacket style. of course, soon everyone else will have a leopard print coat too, and that pisses me off a lot.

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also, i recently saw american beauty, and all i can say is what a ridiculously amazingly beautiful film.

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bubble gum

this could be the cutest outfit ever, courtesy of 60s yé-yé singer sylvie vartan:

i adore her, a recent musical discovery in my neverending quest for more french 60s pop. pictured here with john and paul:

in other news i was reading this blog today and fell in love with her DIY ramones bag:

isn't it gorgeous? might have to try something similar myself one of these days

currently listening to:
la noyée ~ serge gainsbourg
bubble gum ~ brigitte bardot
some kinda love ~ the velvet underground
love is the drug ~ roxy music

ciao! manhattan

is on youtube in its entirety. go go go and hit that shit up before it gets deleted for copyright or gratuitous nudity. kind of an awful movie but edie is mesmerising as always. i took some stillz

she was sssssssso beautiful but i guess you already know that

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cry-baby

everything about traci lords in cry-baby is perfection.

age of consent

my cat wanted to go outside, but it's nighttime so we wouldn't let him. he then proceeded to run up to the open window, slam his body against the fly screen to open it, and run away into the night. i admire his persistence.

work was okay really. i was just being melodramatic. unfortunately i have to cancel a sleepover i was going to have because they were insistent i work tomorrow. this is irritating because it's occured to me that every weekend is going to be a battle now that i'm working nights. so much for partying these holidays.

saw a gorgeous indie guy on the train. HE HAD A QUIFF. we kept on exchanging glances and at one point he turned around as if he were going to speak to me but he didn't. we got off at the same station. he disappeared into the distance. shattered

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i went to a vintage clothing sale, bought:

floral tea-dress ~ $20

denim jacket ~ $10

open-toed flats ~ $10

grey leopard print cardigan ~ $5

was fairly pleased with my haul

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life is okay, would have been better if i was proposed to by the indie guy and we got married and lived happily ever after, but whatever.

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currently listening to:

cheree ~ suicide

i wanna be your dog ~ iggy & the stooges

lust for life ~ girls

without you i'm nothing ~ placebo

the state line felt like the berlin wall

i've spent all of this month's allowance last month. meaning i have zero dollars to get me through various outings, and it's the fucking holidays. lovely

went to an op-shop and saw these fabulous ankle boots, it occured to me that i didn't have the $7 to pay for them so i just walked out wearing them. felt a bit bad until the sole fell off after 10 minutes of walking, looked at them more closely and they were really very flimsy. they probably should have been thrown out in the first place instead of put on sale. i was probably helping the op-shop then, in a sense. well that's what i'm telling myself anyway.

watched sixteen candles. it was kind of awful but in the best way possible and it really holds up quite well these days (apart from the racism), all things considering. john hughes was a god

i realised that depending on the day, like a rolling stone can sound a little or a lot like my life

last night i almost had a panic attack. i think about death quite a lot, i have a morbid fascination of sorts, but when i was lying in my bed trying to sleep, all of a sudden the full force of my mortality hit me all at once and i totally freaked. i felt nauseous with worry and i had to open my facebook and immerse myself in the mundanity of everybody else's lives in order to calm down. it was awful. i hope this isn't going to plague my life now that i can't seperate it from an impending sense of dread

go ask alice

i've changed my mind about the halloween costume, i think i'll go as a slutty alice in wonderland. so pretty similar to this:

but a simpler design, without the extra bows and frills, so it's easier to put together and looks closer to the original, ie this:

i don't have half of the stuff i need for the costume, so i'll be hitting the salvos and st vinnies for:
- a blue dress

- a white apron/white material for a makeshift apron

- over-the-knee white socks

- black ribbon material for bows

- blonde wig

summer inspiration; debbie harry

shopping list

a dress exactly like this one. i don't know why but i'm obsessed with it and i think pixie looks fabulous in it

these adorable gloves

a dress with super long sleeves like the one edie is wearing. probably going to have to make this one

a cassette necklace that i can write my favourite lyrics on

a vintage t-shirt i can tear up and reattach with safety pins etc

this outfit. it's kind of amazing.