1. drinking large amounts of tea.
2. cozying up with a good book.
3. mulled wine.
4. lots and lots of soup.
5. the clothes – lots of coats and scarves and boots and gloves.
6. rain.
7. everything is lovely and green.
8. cold, overcast days – so dreary and miserable. i love it!
9. sitting by a fire.
10. the leafless trees. they make pretty silhouettes.
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1 Pixies. Just all round excellent. Kim Deal is the coolest.
Listen to: Debaser, Hey, U-Mass, Bone Machine & Where is my Mind?
2. The White Stripes. Jack White is a music genius. That is all.
Listen to: Blue Orchid, Seven Nation Army, Catch Hell Blues, Cannon, Jimmy the Explorer & Fell in Love with a Girl
3. Radiohead. I don’t need to say anything. They are just amzing all over.
Listen to: Exit music (for a film), 15 Steps, You and Whose Army?, Just, Paranoid Android, Idioteque & Reckoner.
4. Beck. The most a diverse artist I have ever heard.
Listen to: Cellphone’s Dead, Girl, E-Pro, Chemtrails, Motorcade & Devil’s Haircut.
5. Muse. Every member of Muse are incredibly talented. Meaning, amazingly talented. Meaning so talented you want to die of jealousy.
Listen to: Knights of Cydonia, Stockholm Syndrome, Bliss, New Born, Hysteria, Hyper Music & Plug In Baby.
6. The Cure. Slightly depressing, but brilliant nonetheless.
Listen to: A Forest, Primary, All Cats are Grey, Boys Don’t Cry, Friday I’m in Love, Inbetween Days & Lovecats.
7. Talking Heads. I’ll stick with the New Wave theme here. David Byrne is the weirdest/awesome person ever. Also, I want to be Tina Weymouth.
Listen to: Psycho Killer, Found a Job, Once in a Lifetime, Naive Melody (this must be the place), Thank you for Sending me an Angel & Girls Want to be with Girls.
8. Regina Spektor. Russian. Bizarre. Incredibly lovely.
Listen to: Carbon Monoxide, Pavlov’s Daughter, Music Box, Samson, Apres Moi, Hero & Loveology.
9. Sonic Youth. Guitar noise and angst. A good combination.
Listen to: Teenage Riot, The Sprawl, Mildred Peirce, Scooter and Jinx & Panty Lies.
10. PJ Harvey. Very Morbid. I am in love.
Listen to: One line, Good Fortune, The Devil, This Mess we’re In (with Thom Yorke) & Before Departure.
Because it is stupidly hot and the air con isn’t working as well as I would like, here are 10 albums that seem to make me feel colder…
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1. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Sue Townsend.
2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith.
3. Dracula, Brahm Stoker.
4. The Classical World, Robin Lane Fox.
5. On the Road, Jack Kerouac.
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle.
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay.
8. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer.
9. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote.
10. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.
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1. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix
2. Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons
3. Love 2, Air
4. As Day Follows Night, Sarah Blasko
5. Tounge n Cheek, Dizzee Rascal
6. Vekatimest, Grizzly Bear
7. Antics, Interpol
8. West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian
9. The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
10. Blur, Blur
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1. Allie from The Breakfast Club.
2. Daria Morgendorffer from Daria.
3. Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice.
4. Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables.
5. Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
6. Marie Antoinette from Marie Antoinette.
7. Margot Tennenbaum from The Royal Tennenbaums.
8. Princess Leah from Star Wars: A New Hope.
9. Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre.
10. Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
P.S. I love Han Solo.
1. Having a picnic. Watermelon and bread and butter are a must.
2. Working at TEAR Australia.
3. Opshopping for cute summer dresses.
4. Playing on the trampoline with my little sister.
5. Painting speech bubbles for Ana.
6. Baking cupcakes and listening to Temper Trap.
7. Wandering around Brunswick Street.
8. Playing on my drum kit.
9. Going to the Laneway Festival (yes, I know it’s in January).
10. Reading Alice in Wonderland in the park.
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1. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton.
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl.
3. Ramona Quimby: Age 8, Beverly Cleary.
4. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis.
5. Bad Girls, Jaqueline Wilson.
6. Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle.
8. The Animorphs Series, K. A. Applegate.
9. Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss.
10. Tomorrow When the War Began, John Marsden.
1. David Byrne, Talking Heads.
2. Jack White, The White Stripes.
3. Patience Hodgson, The Grates.
4. Matt Bellamy, Muse.
5. Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
6. Ian Curtis, Joy Division.
7. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana.
8. Thom Yorke, Radiohead.
9. Robert Smith, The Cure.
10. Patty Donahue, The Waitresses.
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