Through The Years

  

 

  

      

Leap Day highlights included:

> The procuring of a scissors shaped like a stork

> The ravaging of a very delicious katsu curry, and 

> The gold gilding of some miniature paper skulls

    

All in all, a success :)

      

Well Well Well

    

  

   

  

Tough Lover

    

  

The 'hoodlum with a heart' look seems to have become promotional hot property recently, as evidenced by the S/S 2012 campaign for Edun which, unless I'm very much mistaken, is fronted by the dishy hipster love interest in the ubiquitous video for Lana Del Rey's Born to Die.

      

Make It Easy On Yourself

   
Handy tips & tricks that solve everyday problems:

     
    

     

• Hull strawberries easily using a straw.
• Rub a walnut over scratches in furniture to disguise dings & scrapes.
• Prevent a whole chopped apple from browning by securing with a rubber band.
• Overhaul your linen cupboard: store bedlinen sets inside one of their own pillowcases.
• Pump up the volume by placing your iPod in a bowl: the concave shape amplifies the music.
• Re-use a wet wipes container to store plastic bags.
• Use baby powder to get sand off skin easily.
• Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose.
• Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a shoebox lid.
• Use magnetic strips to store hair pins, tweezers & clippers.
• For holiday packing: store shoes inside shower caps to stop dirty soles rubbing on your clothes. 
• A muffin pan becomes a craft caddy. Magnets hold the plastic cups down to make them tip-resistant.
• Bread tags make the perfect-sized cord labels.
• Bake cupcakes inside ice cream cones: more fun & easier to eat.
• Microwave popcorn kernels in a plain brown paper bag: healthier & cheaper. 
• Use egg cartons to separate & store Christmas decorations.
• Freeze Aloe Vera in ice-cube trays for soothing sunburn relief.

 
Original article: thedailybuzz.com

      

Yours, Truly

   

    

Wild Thing

    

 

 

   

     

Somebody That I Used To Know

    

I have to agree that Gotye owes Peter
Gabriel a big thankee card for this one,
which isn't necessarily a bad thing at all.

    

  

The video makes me want to run amok with
body paint. Evidently I'm not the only one.

     

True

 

    

  

In A Landscape

 

Last Friday saw a recital by British pianist, Andrew Zolinsky, in the Aula Maxima, performing works by John Cage (1912-1992) and contemporaries of indeterminacy, Morton Feldmann (1926-1987) and Christian Wolff (b.1934). 

      

The programme proved that bit too obtuse for a significant portion of the audience, with an uncomfortable mass exodus between works. This went down well, though:

    

       

Crystalline Green

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

     

   

 

   
  

Why Don't You Do Right?

      

This has been doing the rounds again, of late.
One suspects that cognitive neuroscience is not
quite so neat & discreet, but it's a nice analogy.
            

       
The text for the left brain reads:

 
“I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorise. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.”
 

The text for the right brain reads:

 
“I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.”
       
 

Suburban War

   

  

  

   

My Funny Valentine

    

 

    

      

 

    

    

Easier to succumb to it 
than resist it, I reckon.

        

               

The Lake

 

Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining -
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.

From The Lake, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1827  

When It's Good

    

  

     

Dirt In The Ground

             

     
This makes for ideal listening when I feel as
though all of my life choices to date have been
complete bullsh**t. The nihilism is comforting.

            

            

Bike

I've got a bike.
You can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings,

and things to make it look good.