5 Favourites Friday!

Friday, Friday..


I just thought I would add the most annoying, ridiculously stupid, and lyrically the worst song I can think of to start off this 5 Favourites Friday. If you haven't heard it before, well then this will sure be a treat. If you have, well I think I just got it into your head for the rest of the weekend (yes, that was my plan).

Sticking with the musical theme, this week I am doing my 5 Favourite Songs that are on my Ipod right now. Like a lot of people I change the music I like to listen to a lot. I will listen to a few bands for ages, get sick of them for a few months, and then go back to them. So this is just the 5 songs that when I put my IPhone in the car or on the dock and had to choose 5 songs right now, this is what I would choose.


1. Slow Club : Christmas TV


I first heard this song when I was watching an episode of Chuck. I had to Shazam it, because I liked it so much and wanted to know who it was. I love their music...

2. City and Colour: The Girl


I just enjoy this song, as I do with most of City and Colour's music. Makes me a little sad, but it is sweet.

3. Spoon: The Underdog

Although this song was released in 2007, it is still one of my favourites to put on when I need a bit of an energy boost. I love driving and singing along to this song, Joel gets a little sick of it when he knows I am about to put the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga album on AGAIN...I just can't help myself.

4. Mumford and Sons: The Cave


I think there is a bit of a theme emerging with the songs that I like. I only started really listening to Mumford a few months ago, yes a bit behind the 8 ball, but I don't claim to be any music guru, I leave that up to Joel.

5. Modest Mouse: Satellite Skin


I could possibly say that Modest Mouse is one of my favourite bands, if not my top number 1. I think I am just attracted to his voice.

Love to hear what your 5 favourites are, I am always listening out for new music that I like!!
Have a wonderful weekend! We will be ripping out our kitchen. Before and After photo's to come soon!

5 Favourites Friday!

It is that time of the week again! Yay for Friday, today it is stormy and raining, which is a nice change in Perth, we need the rain. What are your plans for the weekend? We will begin the first stages of our major renovating projects...more details to come, but I am very, very excited.
This week, I'm doing 5 favourite Australian clothing labels. I am not a fashionista by any stretch of the word, but I do like clothes, I especially like a good deal. I have a hard time bringing myself to spend too much money on clothes. It just ain't worth it..to me anyway. Not that I can really wear a lot of this stuff now, soon enough!! Can't wait!

1) Friends of Couture


2) MinkPink

3) Insight

4) Rodeo Show

5) Joel's vote is Deus..so I thought I would add something for the boys!
Just doing this post makes me excited to be able to fit into normal people clothes again! I think there might be some shopping awaiting me soon!

Have a fabulous weekend!!

5 Favourites Friday!

I love watching musicals, so this weeks 5 Favourites, are my favourite Musical Films. Unfortunately I haven't had much opportunity to see that many live. I would love to see more. There is something that makes me really happy about groups of people spontaniously errupting in song. I guess I wish that happened more in real life!

Cry Baby
I cannot tell you how many times I have watched this movie. Johnny Depp is so great. The movie is weird, I will admit it. Kinda crazy and funny, but it sure is entertaining. Even Ricki Lake is in it. One of the female characters has the name, Hatchet Face... that might say it all about this movie.

Hairspray
I really loved the original movie that was made in 1988 when I was young, another one directed by John Waters. Then when the new version came out in 2007, oh I was hooked. The songs and the style of the 60's are so great. In the new one, I pretty much really love John Travolta, playing the part of an obese woman, and married to Christopher Walkin... can't really beat that.

My Fair Lady

I need to watch this again, in my memory it was great. "The rain in spain falls mainly on the plain". As it stars Audrey Hepburn playing the wonderful Eliza Doolittle it is kinda hard to beat

Grease
Well it is the cliche quintessential movie musical, but what can I say, I am a sucker for Travolta and Newton-John. I especially loved that the movie was about a young shy Australian girl living in America. Wow.. so exotic, haha. There is a reason this movie has stood the test of time, and is still so loved. Every girl I think wants to have the "Sandy" transformation. I remember playing my parents Grease soundtrack record over and over!

Rocky Horror Picture Show
This is one that I actually have seen live. I have also watched the movie a zillion times. Embarrassing confession, but when I was about 10 or 11 I was a big fan of the artist Meatloaf. To the point that when my keyboard teacher offered to teach me the Smashing Pumpkins, I said I would rather learn "I would do anything for Love, but I wont do that". I can still play it.

Meatloaf plays a very small role in this movie, is the link. It is weird and wacky and slightly insane, maybe it just appeals to the bit of Crazy in all of us. I was pretty stoked when Glee did a Rocky Horror episode!

I would love to hear what your favourite musical movies are.. this makes me wish so bad I could sing, and want to spend the weekend watching musicals!

5 Favourites Friday! (err Saturday)

Ok well officially it is Saturday, and my 5 Favourites Friday post is late. Yesterday, because it was a public holiday I thought it was Saturday instead..whoops! This is what long weekends do to me. Plus this one is extra long because it is 5 days!
My 5 Favourites for this week are

5 Favourite BOOKS!
Disclaimer: I am not really a book snob, I haven't read a whole lot of the classics, but I like a good book that sucks me in and I can really enjoy. I had to read Virginia Wolf for University, and I will leave her to the professionals.. I wanted to poke my eyes out reading "To the Lighthouse"
These are not really in order of my favourites, it is just too hard to pick.

Jayne Eyre: Charlotte Bronte.
I read this book as well for university, and then I watched the old movie. I really just liked the story, the old woman in the attic intrigued me. I enjoyed the old fashioned love story, with a terrible twist. I really liked Jane's character as well. It was not a chore at all to read, I could hardly put it down. If you have read this, and want to read more about the "old woman", I have been told the "The Wide Sargasso Sea" is her story, it is a parallel novel by Jean Rhys.

Ender's Game: Orson Scott Card
Joel is probably the reason why I read way more Sci-Fi now than I ever thought to before. He introduced me to this book, which was the first of an entire series, that we have both read. Which then led us to read many of Orson Scott Card's other series, which I like just as much. If I say that this book is about a young boy who goes to military training camp in outer space to learn to fight off alien invaders it would probably put you off. Don't let my description frighten you, even if you don't like Sci-Fi, I think you would enjoy it, this is a great book.

The Time Traveller's Wife : Audrey Niffenegger
If you have seen the movie, but not read the book, you should know that the movie SUCKS in comparison. The book is amazing. It jumps from time zone to time zone and from different peoples perspectives so cleverly, that even I wasn't confused. I cried so hard in this book, that's when I know that I am really sucked in. Although it can take a little bit to get your head around what is happening, Niffenegger writes it so well, I still knew what was going on, it easily could have just been do confusing and mind boggling.

Marley & Me : John Grogan
If you hate dogs, then you probably wont like this book. For me it reminded me of my childhood. We had a crazy Golden Retriever called Champ for a couple of years before he had to be put down because of cancer, and then a more passive Goldy, Ben, for about 12 years after that, who also did lots of silly things. So reading this book brought back so many memories, even now with the drama we have been through with Angus our Shar Pei, I just felt I could relate so well. Dogs really are amazing, and no matter how ridiculously naughty they are, how much money they cost you, they are so loyal and loving. I felt this book captured all of that, and the attachment that we feel to these funny furry creatures! I guess, as a dog lover, it was so easy for me to love this book. Once again, the movie is pretty lame compared to the book.

The Celtic Crusades Series : Stephen Lawhead
I probably read this series about 8 years ago. I can't just pick one book because they all go together in my mind. The first book starts in the year 1095 and follows stories of the crusades to the East, the last of the infidels, called by the Pope. Although it is not necessarily historically accurate, it is historical fiction. It brings to light a lot of questions about what actually went on during that time, and showed how easily people became convinced they were in fact doing the right thing, and how they were manipulated. It is definitely a great read, and it might just be the history lover in me, I really couldn't stop reading all three of these books: The Iron Lance, The Black Rood & The Mystic Rose. I have also read a lot of other series by Lawhead, he is one of my favourite Authors of all time!