An owl transistor radio! The owl, made in Japan, is 8 inches tall and fat with a plastic body and gold medal wings, eyes, legs and speaker holes in the crotch.
Charley wrote some wise words about the trials of being a modern woman and the ladies who inspire her. “So thank GOD for the women who inspire me. The ones who remind me that nobody ever got anywhere by compromising on their own truth. Those women who sang songs that put them in jail, wrote books that provoked, played instruments better than their male contemporaries, spoke their minds, carried on regardless.” Mandatory reading. As I said on Twitter, I feel exactly the same way except I’m shorter.
I write like? This writing analysis tool declared that my personal diaries resemble Dan Brown’s style. Guess I was recently ranting about the queues for the Louvre. Who’s tone are you perfecting?
The Concentrators – a short story by Sue Francis that nails the frozen-in-time feelings of small town New Zealand life.
An interview with Alexis from Sleighbells. I cranked the album constantly while I was away, love them. On Treats: “It’s a social record, it’s not the kind of record that you want to listen to by yourself in your room, it will make you want to go out and have fun and dance and forget about all the other crap that you normally worry about.”
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) – a number from the Hotrats, Supergrass’s covers project. The album Turn Ons came out a while ago but I have been enjoying it this week.
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