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"Stuff White People Like". Call it sterotypical or even racist if you are feeling so unhumoured, but come on now; asian fusion food, alternative medicine,
Juno. It's funny cos' it's true.
I can proudly say that I have an undying obsession with Marilyn Monroe. She covers my bedroom walls, I have read all versions of her biography and I even talk to her sometimes. She is my guardian angel, or so I like to tell myself.On the other end of the scale, Lindsay Lohan is someone I blatantly cannot stand the sight of. Yeah, she's an okay actress, but yuck. She regularly sports bright orange patchy skin, peroxide infested hair and a crackly cake face. She is a part of the Hollywood rat pack, who indulge in self obsession, partying, alcohol and drugs and the oh-so trendy rehab visits.
To the point - Miss Lindsay 'firecroth' Lohan has posed nude (ew) on the cover for the new issue of New York magazine, portraying the ever-so-beautiful Marilyn Monroe in her 'Last Sitting' shoot. The pictures are revolting, as is she.
This has mortified me to say the least. Click here to check them out for yourself - just be prepared.
I know, I have been neglecting my role as a Yen contributor. But I have a good excuse and I am going to plug it now. I have been working as a Project Coordinator on a new, incredibly exciting mentoring program for young designers called Springboard. The program is for emerging furniture, textiles, accessories and homewares designers. It operates over two stages and is designed to give them the chance to develop their professional careers both here and overseas. It's a great program. It has some of the best people in the industry on board working as mentors and we are trying to spread the word to as many people as possible. So if this sounds like something that might interest you or any of your friends go check out the website and spread the word! Applications close 10 March 2008.
"General Admission" is a collection of live music documentary images that have been taken by Victoria photographer; Leah Robertson, without the gravy-train help of a backstage media pass. The photos cover festivals like Meredith and The Big Day Out as well as your more intimate gigs - all shot from within the crowd, with the lense firmly remaining at the point of view of the humble concert goer. "General Admission" is Leah's first solo show and can be viewed at Melbourne's IMP Gallery until March
In September of last year a beautiful, young philosophy graduate; with
no history of mental illness, walked to the Sydney harbour bridge in
her pyjamas, climbed over a ledge and fell to her death. Eight months
earlier, Mairead Costigan had been prescribed the much-debated drug
Stilnox – an over-the-counter medication used to treat insomnia. Following her death Mairead’s family were in no doubt that it was the
use of the sleeping pills that led to the tragedy. Costigan’s story is
not the first or the last to be shared in opposition to Stilnox and
other “Z Class” drugs – in recent times there have been the ACA
exposes, the tales
of people driving or having sex while unconscious and, of course, the
knowledge that the Z-drug Ambien was found near Heath Ledger when he
died last month. So if this medication is so clearly harmful, then why
is it also so readily available? As Mairead’s death goes to the
coroners court this month, that’s the question the Costigan family are
asking. They have created a petition
calling for the ban of Stilnox and other Z drugs (drugs which are
insanely over-prescribed here). It only takes a couple of seconds to
fill out but could potentially ensure no harm comes to any other young,
talented lives.
Who doesn’t
dig
If you were told any ordinary rock band
like Nickelback (if you can call
that rock)
or Franz Ferdinand were going to produce thirteen (count it, thir-teen) studio
albums you’d probably be running to the door scratching at the handle screaming
“LET ME OUT BEFORE MY EARS COMBUST AND TURN INTO NOVELTY EAR-SHAPED ERASERS”,
but instead Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have us hoping that thirteen goes
on fourteen, goes on fifteen… and so on. You can sample the delectable first single
on the band’s official website or check out the video on youtube. The
aesthetics of the clip are a cross between that music video you made in Year 11
Media that you filmed in your mate’s garage and some kind of low budget
eighties movie that went straight to VHS, but my god Cave can make anything
look cool.
DIG IT!
A new legislation was bought into the UK this week in an effort to curb the million-dollar illegal pirating market that “threatens to kill the established music industry”. The “three strikes” policy will essentially make Internet service providers privy to and responsible for the content their customers view and download. Users taking advantage of peer-to-peer technology (downloading music/TV/films etc) will first be issued a warning from the ISP company, further illegal use will see the customer's account suspended and the final strike – for those particularly defiant users – will result in the cancellation of the their Internet account. The Australian government is apparently quite eager to see how the policy unfolds in the UK, with sights on implementing it here. Apparently about one billion songs were traded illegally in Australia last year and, lets face it; you, I and everyone we know is part of that statistic – whether a hardened crim or a poor, music loving uni student. So is this policy too intense (not to mention invasive) or will us filthy pirates just be getting what we deserve?
