I don't know about the rest of Australia but what a beautiful morning it is in Sydney. It's funny how everything that seems shit in the world/your life can be seemingly dissipated by the suns rays and the warm, floral scent of a looming summer - thick with fresh hope and fantasies. This song sums that feeling up like no other. It's really quite extraordinary just how many perfect pop songs the Beatles/ members of came up with. George Harrison wrote Here Comes the Sun after a particularly bad run involving marijuana posession, missing tonsils and band troubles, plus, in his own words; "it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it". The sweet expectancy of this song is so effecting that it brings a little sting to your eye. This version in particularly moving - it was performed live at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh in Madison Square Gardens. George Harrison's giant grin at the beginning absolutely kills me!

You know how Holly Golightly would ensconce herself in the duck-egg blue of Tiffany's when she was down? Well, I think Chinatown is my Tiffany's - I become visibly excited when in the presence of soy products, cheap socks and Easyway. Anyway, I spent most of yesterday there stocking up on green beans, nuts, black sesame ice cream and haw candies. Then I went home and sat in the sun with a Campari soda and the sunday papers. It was a nice day.

That's all.

This week's edition is brought to you by YEN editor, Jacqui Thompson. It's Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.  Released in 1986, this vid was apparently groundbreaking for its time - and you can see why; that halluceneginc sense of random well pre-dates the Mighty Boosh and the claymation/stop-motion animation is way radder than any of that CGI shit. Can you imaging the painstaking work that must have gone into this clip?! It paid off though 'coz the video went on to sweep the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards with nine gongs - a record which stands to this day.

...Probably the three best dressed women of all time (in my humble opinion anyway); thrown together, rocked out and hot as hell.

Clockwise L-R: Jennifer Herrema (RTX), Erin Wasson and Alison Mosshart (The Kills). Cheers Jen for the pic of Jen!

Everyone's always hating on Gen Y  - "bloody ungrateful/ lazy/ spoilt" etc - but I have to argue this notion. One of my favourite things to see is the boundless energy and ambition young people seem to have for new projects. Maybe it's because at the ripe old age of 21 I have gotten lazy and my afterwork activities consist of cracking a beer and bitching about my day (oh adulthood!) but it seems like I know all these teenagers who come home from school each day and set about the business of doing rad shit. These photos are by my friend Djinous (who just turned 17 this week!); as you can see her and a bunch of friends got together and, you know, just styled and shot an entire fashion shoot and stuff. How good is it?? A couple of weeks ago I also mentioned Immy; who at fifteen is running her own culture website between biology and lunch. Umm, ladies - please don't take my job. xkatie

In 1958 a Spanish confectionier had the mad-cap Idea to put a sweet on fork. "Pftt, a sweet on a fork ya'say?" I'm sure came the reply from the masses - but little did they know that this was to become one of the biggest revolutions in candy history. The sweet on a fork of course the beginnings of the iconic Chupa Chup and that ubiquitous sucker this month celebrates its 50th birthday! Let us celebrate with some fun facts:







- It takes the average sucker 16 minutes to finish a Chupa Chup
- Chupa Chup was the first lollipop to be sent into space
- some more exotic flavours include Chili, daiquiri, nougat, tarte-a-tatin, lychee and margarita
- however, australians prefer the more plain-jane flavours of cola and strawberry - these are the two biggest sellers
- the Chupa Chups logo was created by surrealist painter Salvadore Dali

So there you go! In further celebrations, Chupa Chups is holding a series of birthday parties in Melbourne and Sydney. Melbourne's AC/DC lane and Sydney's Oxford Street Market will be for ten days transformed in to Chupa Chups lanes; complete with artwork, installations and live music. The Melbourne event kicks off on October 24, while sydney joins in the fun from November seven