Flash Back Friday

'The nearer your destination the more you're slip slidin' away' 

Flash Back Friday

In Australia we don't have Halloween. It's just not the done thing. But it's slowly gaining more popularity, like a good indie band that goes mainstream.

So, in honour of All Hallows Eve, here are some eerie/spooky/fabulous Flash Back Friday songs.

Riders on the Storm,

The Doors

This song is actually terrifying. Don't listen to it at night time when you are home alone and there is actually a storm (I speak from experience) 

Wuthering Heights, 

Kate Bush

Or anything by Kate Bush really, to get that eeeerie gothic vibe. 

Read the book at the same time and be transported to the dark, gloomy moors. 

Werewolves of London, 

Warren Xevon

 

Sing along LOUD and PROUD:

'ahWHOOO Werewolves of London'

Time Warp, 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

It just wouldn't be a Halloween post without something from 

Rocky Horror, and this is not just my obsession talking.. 

Flash Back Friday

Living on a dream aint' easy. 

Flash Back Friday

This song is all kinds of funky. 

Flash Back Friday

Christine McVie bares her soul. 

Flash Back Friday

Here is one of my all time favourite ABBA songs, Chiquita. 

And here is the adorable First Aid Kit doing an ethereal cover  (those harmonies though!)

Love and Cat Dresses,

Happy Friday 

x 

Flash back Friday: Oh! Freedom na na yeah

GUESS WHAT!
Did you guess?
It's always more fun when people actually guess instead of just being like, 'what?!'

Fine, I'll tell you.

I got my licence!!!




YAYAYAYAYAYAY.

Hence the Aretha Franklin song reference in this post's title ;)

So, here is a special Flash Back Friday post with all my favourite driving/car inspired songs because I am SO EXCITED.

This will be blaring from my speakers even though I hate those people who blare their doof doof music from their speakers. But this is okay, because it's so much better than that.

In no particular order:

1. Whose gonna drive you home tonight, The Cars

2.  Radar Love, Golden Earring

3. Paradise on the dashboard light, Meatloaf

4. Drive Darling, BOY 

5. Life Is A Highway, Tom Cochrane

6. Little Deuce Coupe, The Beach Boys 

 

7. 400 Lux, Lorde

8. Mercedes Benz, Janis Joplin  

9. Jump in My Car, Ted Mulry Gang

10. Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

Flash Back Friday 1/8/14

Some introductory words

...It is a truth universally acknowledged that every blogger in possession of a blog must be in want of followers.

And I do!

My name is Miranda, like from Picnic At Hanging Rock:




 Have you seen it? Read it? Both are beautifully eerie. The film, though, is multi-layered in 1970's dreaminess. Peter Weir shot many scenes with a veil over the lens to create that smoky fog sort of vibe. How cool is that!

Speaking of the 70's, I was born in the wrong era. Some say this is tragic. I really am a tragic. But I think this is actually a good thing because I can spread a little of the glimmer that is from a former time into the grey today.
I recently saw an article 'the golden age is now', I can't remember where it was... but it made me think about how everyone has a different golden age, and maybe we just have to make now ours. Like in that film Midnight in Paris, where Owen Wilson discovers this like, time vortex or something when he gets transported to his favourite time, 1920's Paris. But he meets a girl from this time who wishes SHE was born in a different time. And he's just like, 'seriously? Look around you!'  Mostly I was interested in it because VAN GOGH and PARIS, (yes, I judged the cover... vanity, not love, has been my folly... haha. Enough Jane Austen references.)




So this blog is just going to feature STUFF I like, because I don't know anyone except my dad who likes the same STUFF I like. I hope that I find people here who like my STUFF, and maybe other who aren't familiar with it can appreciate it and be like, 'hey. That is some pretty ace STUFF. And then consequently spread the word. Hee!

Okay, Miranda. Breeeeeeathe. Cool your jets.

So, this is how this is gonna go down:
I think I shall like to have a structure to this. I like organised chaos. Like my bedroom. Haha. I'd like to do weekly posts at least, in one of the following 'areas'. And then I'll just have some random posts too :)

1. My current top 10: 
Just a compilation of stuff that I am currently obsessed with... it changes often! Feel free to comment your own :) It will be fun, I promise!

2. Flashback Friday 
I LOVE music, especially the oldies. My local radio station does a 'Flashback Friday' so I thought I'd do my own!

3. What the What! 
In honor of the ever wise Liz Lemon (Tina Fey). Wise like an owl. I mean, what kind of GENIUS writes Mean Girls and 30 Rock!! This section will be something I find cool beans/weird/wonderful/ all of these things all at once. I am an avid finder-outerer-  I like finding out interesting facts. You know the random page finder on Wikipedia? Yeah, I use that all the time just for fun. I know.

4. Arty Farty 
Art is cool. Art is your friend. No? Oh, well it's time I introduce you. Here I'll post my own creations (I said that in a French-ish accent) and also other people's art, new and old, which I have taken a fancy too.

5. Kleidung 
This is German for clothes. I learn German at school, and I just like the sound of this word. Kl-eye-doong. It's fun and rather satisfying to say. Go on, try it. I won't judge. Anyway, I like fashion. I may post some of my own outfits and clothes that I find to be savvy or funky. 

6. Literature 
I like books. I like to find out about other books. So I'll share mine and you can share yours!
We'll have our own little book club!

That's all I can come up with for now, but if I want to add anymore I'll let you know :)

P.S. You may be wondering what 'She'll be apples' means... *in a mystical voice* whatever you want it to mean.  Haha. Not really. It's a good ol' Aussie saying, basically meaning 'it will all be ok.' I say it all the time. Trust me, it grows on you. And apples are ace. Keeping the doctor away and all that. Oh, you need further proof? Here:


 Geoffrey Rush endorses apples. Kay?

Happy Reading!

-Miranda