Thursday, November 11, 2010

Boredom Abounds Wears

Finally! The warm weather has reached dreary Melbourne, so it's time to break out the sundresses! This is the newly purchased dress I'm wearing today:

Diana Ferrari Halle Flutter Sleeve Dress - $149.95

I love the Diana Ferrari range this year - so versatile, affordable and they stock sizes for real women.

Although I have paired it with a black cardi and black peep toe flats, and I black string of beads, I kind of wish I had the matching peach cardi to go with it instead. The dress is jersey fabric, lined, and unbelievably comfortable!

Oh, and the sleeves are handy for jiggly, upper-arm issues.

Just sayin'.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Glee Highlights: Season 2, Episode 5: The Rocky Horror Glee Show

Disclaimer: I have never seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show in it's entirety.
Despite the fact that they came up with sets and costumes awfully quickly, I thought this episode of Glee was really good. It flowed nicely and the storyline was mostly alright. So, here are my highlights from the episode:

The most important highlight: MEATLOAF.

That is all.

Will Schuester, aka Desperado

This isn't so much of a highlight as it is an annoying character trait, but Will's desperation with Emma is getting a little pathetic. You like her, we get it. Stop trying to engineer situations that leave her alone in a room with you. She's with Uncle Jesse now, so just keep a lid on it, okay?

Speaking of Emma, I'm glad she's making a comeback. I've missed her adorable crazy in most of these episodes.

I've also missed her totally adorable outfits. I couldn't find a good capture of it, but I adored the skirt/blouse combo she had in this scene.

Principal Figgins' throwaway lines

I love his office rants. My favourite from this episode was his outraged "I had to bring in a grief counselor!" to deal with Finn's hallway underwear walk. That dude cracks me up.

The costumes

The really nailed it (in my humble opinion anyway).

My favourite costumes were Brittany as Columbia (fantastic) and Kurt as Riff Raff (deliciously creepy).


And there you have it, just in time for the new episode tonight. Somehow we've caught up with the States and we're seeing the latest episode one day later. Woo!
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Monday, November 8, 2010

2010 ARIA Award Fashion

Look, I didn't watch the ARIA Awards. I kind of forgot it was on, then whenever I flicked over to it there was random sutff going on out the front of the Opera House and the crowd didn't seem that enthused by it all, so my husband took over the TV and ended up watching his recorded Formula 1 Brazil Highlights (someone beat their own time by ONE SECOND!!)

But. The ARIAs do bring out the quirky/ugly/pretty parade every year, so let's take a look at my fashion hits and misses.

The Irrelevant Award - Jane Gazzo
Dear Jane: It is no longer 1997, you are no longer a "cool" triple J radio announcer and no one really gives a shit about your weird-ass red carpet "outfit." Please stop.

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Lighthouse

Lighthouse
Cape Schanck, Victoria.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

I love a spontaneous sing-a-long.....

I just hate when it ends up being for a telco ad campaign.

Still, this is awesome. Watch it:
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Glee highlights - Season 2, Episode 4: Duets

Oops, so behind on blogging this week! We were away from Chez Boredom Abounds for a mini-break, and consequently I'm blogging about the Duets episode while watching the Rocky Horror Episode!

Anyway, here's a super quick round up of my highlights from Episode 4:

Kurt and Burt's father/son discussion.
It was about time someone addressed the force with which Kurt projected his crush onto Finn last season. What Finn said was correct: if he had done that to a girl he would be looking at a restraining order. Kurt does need to learn that boundaries need to be put in place if his crush doesn't reciprocate. It's a fair point and one that Burt made gently and concisely.

The Mercedes/Santana alliance.
Or duet. Whatever you want to call it. Anyway, River Deep - Mountain high has to be one of my all time favourite songs, and I loved that it was the first duet performed in the episode. The girls rocked it, and I particularly loved the bad-ass Tina Turner dancing. They totally nailed it. That song better make the next CD or I will cut a bitch.

Victor/Victoria number sung by Kurt.
He also totally nailed it. Enough said.

Tina and Mike singing Sing!
Such a fun number. What really sold the whole thing though, was the choreography. Just perfect. Quick, sharp and totally perfect. We need Mike Chang dancing prominently in every episode, please.

Rachel and Finn's interpretation of With You I'm Born Again.
It was such an odd interpretation, and the other Glee clubbers' responses (and facial expressions) were hilarious. But Rachel and Finn being so earnest and deliberately inappropriate was comedy gold (gold, Jerry, gold!). It cracked my shit up.

Mercedes' voting slip.
The girl has attitude. She rocks.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

My favourite

The best thing about the end of Winter /  start of Spring?


Ranunculus. My favourite flower.

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