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Cathy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:11:51 +0000

Don’t ask me what I’m doing – just trying to sort something out.

John Legend is a legend

Cathy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:01:53 +0000

I am so loving “Saving Room” by John Legend. I wasn’t a huge fan of the video (just found it a TAD misogynistic but it’s been growing on me) but the other day I heard it again on the radio and I thought I’d check to see if it was still on his MySpace and it was! I must have played it about twenty times in the past two days. The other tracks on his Once Again album aren’t half bad either – I might just have to get the whole album.

The Internet has come of age!

Cathy — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:31:56 +0000

I could marry the Internet – I have been searching for years for an obscure Israeli folk band called The High Windows (Trio) for years and years and the Internet has Finally Delivered.

The band’s members (in particular Arik Einstein ) were all well known in their native land, but they all went on to other things after just one album. I used to put their name into Google and all I would get would be pages in Hebrew that I couldn’t read, but now they have a Wikipedia entry and I could download the MP3s from Amazon if I were in the US.

I only know of them because their eponymous album formed the soundtrack of one of my all time favourite films – Shirat Ha’Sirena (English title was Talila – Song of the Sire n) by Israeli director Eyton Fox (such a cool name). It’s set in the Gulf War but it stays away from that sort of politics. It has been described as an Isreali Bridget Jones but coming out in 1994, it predates Bridget by a year. In any case it was based on a novel of the same name by Irit Linur and is one of the most wonderfully romantic films ever produced. High praise, but true. It is much better than Bridget Jones, I think anyway and I did like it, and the main star, Dalit Kahan (as Talila Katz) is utterly charming.

Yalda k’tana (Little Girl) is truly one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

Fortunately, I discovered Israeli Music will send me a new edition of the album that appears to have more songs on it for US$21 (including postage to Australia)! YAY!

Speaking of fairytales

Cathy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:57:18 +0000

Kate Sylvester’s centerpiece item in her Wolf winter 2007 collection was a little red riding hood. Hers is super cool, but the one in my head (I WILL make it someday, I even wrote it on a list…) is a lot less full. I think it would also make a dishy raincoat with wellies!

While I was looking for the Lil’ Red Riding Hood clips, I also found this cute tee by Famous Forever, love the cut but it is not cheap (24.99 quid)…

Reality Perfumes

Cathy — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:49:13 +0000

Apparently, celebrity perfume is the new reality television.

From Bathing in eau de celebrity

But the financial base note of celebrity perfumes is not to be sniffed at: they boast the fastest-growing share of the $2.9 billion fragrance market, with celebrity-endorsed scents representing 23 per cent of the top 100 women’s fragrances in the US last year – up 10 per cent on 2003… “I can only see the celebrity brands growing. If all the time what we are being fed on TV is Big Brother, then this is what we’ll get. Fragrance reflects the era. If reality TV is dumbed-down TV, then this is perfume dumbed down. [According to Roja Dove, "nose" of Harrods.]