My Top Ten Hottest 100 Songs Of All Time

This is my list, mostly comprised of modern classics with some golden oldies. Good songs remind you of a certain period of your life, you may have been happy or sad at the time, but the song simply makes a strong impact on you whenever you hear it.

Coldplay - Yellow
This songs reminds me of being a young teenager and is so full of hope and optimism. I think it defined my generation. That's a cliche but when I heard this song live earlier in the year, surrounded by people singing it word for word it was utterly heartwarming.

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
It's true. We do. Cyndi knows it and when you want to have fun, you have to sing this holding a hairbrush.

Alex Lloyd - Lucky Star
I probably only started listening to triple j a lot when this song was on high rotation. I was living in my grandparents house at the time and the line "contraceptive rubber bands" always got to me. Think about it.

Amy Winehouse - Rehab
I love Amy for this one song. No, no, no! Perhaps the opposite of good girls having fun, this epitomises the bad girl who can't find her halo.

Beatles, The - Let It Be
I chose this one Beatles song over all the others because it's softly reassuring. It slowly starts off and then reaches a crescendo. If the Beatles say it's going to be ok, it's going to be ok.

Ben Folds Five - Brick
An incredibly sad song for listening to when its raining and you feel absolutely down. The whole narrative behind the song is what's so powerful about it. It's such a tearjerker!

John Mayer - Gravity
This is one of my fave John Mayer songs because of its bluesy qualities and woefulness. But the lyric "just keep me where the light is" is still optimistic. Classic Mayer.

Josh Pyke - Memories & Dust
Oh Josh this song is sublime. It's so full of singer-songwriter earnestness that when I hear it I feel happy. When do I get to see Mr Pyke live? Soon I hope.

Waifs, The - London Still
Another rainy day song from my teenage years. It's so emblematic of the typical Aussie in London/overseas that its always on my playlist when I'm travelling or feeling wanderlust. I love how it captures the sensation of never leaving a place and what it meant to you at the time.

MGMT - Time To Pretend
I first heard this song at the end of the Skins season two series. It's wild, it's rockstar. It's basically saying we're young, we do stupid things and there's nothing wrong with that. One day we'll have our shit together. Maybe.

The Proposal Review

The Proposal looks like your standard chick-flick, rom-com storyline. Boy hates girl. Girl hates boy. Girl is boy's boss. Girl blackmails boy into marrying her so that she doesn't get deported to Canada. Boy and girl are forced to spend a weekend together, fall in love and get married anyway.

Okay, so its not your usual storyline. But it does have Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in it. I have a soft spot for Sandra Bullock, she does the sarcastica humour rather well. And as for Ryan Reynolds...he has a scene with his shirt off. Do I need to say any more than that?

Nevertheless The Proposal had a lot of funny scenes in it and is a breath of fresh air from the no-brainer rom-coms of late. The only thing that perhaps stretches the imagination a little is the chemistry between Reynolds and Bullock. He's a little younger than her, she's a bit highly strung. But isn't that what a good chick flick is meant to do? Make you believe that true love between any couple, despite all odds working against them, is possible.

Ladies who lunch in leopard print

Sometimes I wake up on Saturday morning and feel like the weekend holds so much potential. It's the feeling of absolute carefree, unstressed weekend wonderfulness that I would simply like to bottle up.

After a spot of shopping, I had a lovely lunch at the Subiaco Hotel on Saturday. I've only ever been there for drinks and never for a proper meal.

I ordered the squid fritters with ginger wine, mushrooms, spring onions and sweet potato and had the NV thorn clark SA sparkling. For dessert I shared a sticky date pudding with caramel sauce and ice-cream. It was divine!

The servings are fairly small though, as I only ordered an entree, I could have fitted in a main but I wanted to save room for dessert. Yes, I'm rather bad like that.

Nevertheless the Subi has great service and a relaxed and pleasant ambience. It's a nice place for a formal occasion or for a whimsical lunch for people watching and gossiping.

The only annoying thing was that I saw someone wearing the same leopard print top as me. Is it a compliment or a fashion disaster? Oh well, at least I had a cardy on.



Top: Valleygirl
Cardigan: Giordano from Kyoto, Japan
Leggings: Voodoo
Bag: Gucci

Cheap & Chic

My workmate called me into her office yesterday for a secret meeting. She smiled cheekily at me, and with a flick of her blonde hair, stealthily pulled out a shopping bag from under her desk.

"I just had to show you my lunchtime buys!" she gushed.

Spread out across her table she shows me a gorgeous checked blue skirt with heart shaped buttons, a black miniskirt, half a dozen kitsch stud earrings, knee high socks and low heeled patent shoes.

"It's all from the little Japanese shop on Barrack Street, Chic & Chic."

Chic & Chic is one of the stores you've probably passed by on Barrack Street but probably wouldn't look twice at. It's garishly pink, has a haphazard arrangement of fashion items and is in a rather odd location away from the main shopping malls. Who knew it was such a treasure trove of cutesy outfits and colourful accessories? Well, who else besides my workmate?







Chic & Chic has an online store and is at 115 Barrack St, Perth.

It has lots of potential!

All images courtesy Chic & Chic.

What's Up Pussycat?

I'd like to say that the Pussycat Dolls and Lady Gaga Perth concert at Burswood Dome was absolutely mindblowing, but it was just short of being awesome. Yes, they had fantastic costumes, the music was great and their dance moves were very sexy but the concert lacked a certain "special something".

Jules and I had a tactical plan of getting as close to the front as possible and along the way we made some new LG and PCD friends. The crowd was very young (or I must be getting old!) and a lot of the girls had kitty cat ears that they'd bought from the merchandise stand. I don't want to dwell on how much they probably cost.

Lady Gaga is an intriguing character. It's easy to write her off as an overly manufactured pop sensationalist who is riding out her 15 minutes of popularity. Is she male or female? What does she look like under her hair and makeup? Does she control her image or is it a complete fabrication? Lady Gaga comes across as a singing robot, particularly in the video clips accompanying her concert, she has a postmodern persona that doesn't come across as being human.



Despite her crazy outfits and nude bodysuits, LG has an impressive voice. She played a short set of about six songs. The best part was when she played the piano and broke down Poker Face leaving the audience guessing as to what song she was actually performing.

Pussycat Dolls came onstage in a blaze with their corsets, stilettos and big hair. PCD is an all girl group where what you see on You Tube is pretty much what you get. They played a "by the book" concert and I felt like, despite all the booty-shaking and shimmying, Nicole Sherzinger lacked the stage presence that I expected from an international performer. She needed to do a couple of ballads where the music shined through rather than all the glitz. After all LG did it, so Nicole should've been able to as well.





Nevertheless my favourite songs like Hush Hush, Don't Cha, Buttons didn't disappoint. The best song of the set was definitely Jai Ho which led to a lot of Bollywood dancing on my part. For some reason it didn't rev the audience as much as one would've thought...

The next gig I go to will have to be a nice, cozy initimate performance where I don't feel like just another ticketholder.

I did end up making a DOLL tank top. All up it only cost me $12!