Thursday 9 October 2014

Music - Band of the Week: Spoon

I cannot remember what first got me into Spoon. As far as I recollect it was around 2008 and I was in serious need of refreshing my music collection. 

Thanks to family friends I had gone through my angst-ridden youth phase much earlier than normal.

At my Year 5 talent contest in the Isle of White - it was a school trip there, we didn't go specifically for the talent contest - I lip-synced expertly to Conspiracy of One by The Offspring. Some handstands were involved somewhere as well. I won best music performance (my performing career has been downhill since then). 

Wednesday 8 October 2014

Celebrity photo hacking - a sexual offence?

Jennifer Lawrence has broken her silence this week on the hack and subsequent leak of dozens of nude photos of herself.

The leak on August 31 was the biggest of its kind, involving dozens of celebrities - all female.

Speaking to Vanity Fair Miss Lawrence said, among other things: "It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting."

I agree with her wholeheartedly and the scandal is all the more shocking for the blasé attitude assumed by some men. 

It was an invasion and theft of privacy that resulted in loss of control of her own body.

Saturday 4 October 2014

Fashion: Denim + review of Steady Eddie Jeans (Nudie)

Since I got my job at the Weekly News and had disposable income for the first time since I was 17, I'm slowly putting together a decent wardrobe, albeit with a few misteps along the way (I'm looking at you £100 splurge on ill-fitting Crew Clothing tops).

My denim game has been seriously lacking, with just two pairs of jeans. In fact for about eight months I only had one pair I really liked, which I bought in October last year, a pair of skinny Nudie raws from ASOS. £89 but the fit was not perfect. The waist, at 36in, needed taken in and they could do with being an inch or so longer.