by David Lim It’s the case of Baby turning nanna. Life in Mono is the underwhelming follow up to Bunton’s career defining, Free Me. The obvious difference this time is less motown but more Bacharach. Vaguely recalling bittersweet Carpenter moments, this record greys like London weather. Leading single, Downtown, gets a musical theatre reworking and…
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Read this article Imagine this: you’ve had a pretty brutal break-up, and the last thing you want is to run into your ex on the street or at a party of a mutual friend. Now you can look them up using your mobile phone and a little help from GPS technology, to make sure they’re…
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by David Lim Nothing makes a history of cat fights pardonable like a lucrative record deal does to a couple of chart eschewed solo band mates. All Saints famously imploded in the early ’00s after holding up through years of internal bitching. Out spawned a one-hit wonder, sister/duo act: Appletons, an underrated and actually awesome…
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Personal rights violated? It’s been a long time since I went to a concert by a major international act. Over five years in fact, when Live! descended upon Canberra in October 2001. 9/11 was fresh in our minds and “I am Overcome” was the backdrop for many a news report of the disaster. Perhaps everyone…
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Back in August I complained about a photo in the Herald Sun of Andrew O’Keefe peering between a lady’s legs, particularly upset because he is the Chairman of White Ribbon Day. He has responded to the letter I wrote to him and I thought I’d post it. It’s always good to be fair!Here’s the letter:…
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We still have a number of back issues laying around, and have marked these down and are clearing out to make way for lucky issue 13 in a few weeks. Check out the lip shop and grab yourself some bargain reading for the summer holidays.
I just saw this clip on MTV – it’s probably the best thing I’ve seen on MTV since the Smells Like Teen Spirit video. Watch it. Quoted from Youtube.com: “Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man who’s sole mission was to…
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Every year I make resolutions and, like so many others, very rarely keep any of them. Maybe because I focus on abstract things: like trying to be more organised and not procrastinate so much. Because yeah that’ll happen. Going through last year’s list, though, I was able to tick off a couple of more tangible…
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Congratulations to the winners of our Lush draw: Helen Olsen won the Lush pack, Liz Argall won the book pack, and Emma Wu won a gorgeous bag by Anna Laura. Thanks to all those who supported lip by buying our mags and were automatically entered in the draw.
Dove has shaken up the advertising world by creating ads that focus on “real women”. They are now launching a contest for real women, their consumers, to create their own ads. The winning ad will be shown at the Academy Awards in 2007. It will be interesting to see the “real woman” they select as…
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So it’s that time of year again. I’ve always loved Christmas and New Year, mainly because I come from a massive family and it’s an excuse to get together with good company, eat too much food and give away pressies you’ve spend hours trying to find. When I was little, Christmas came around once a…
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Today I went to a graduation art exhibition featuring work by lip’s resident artist and cartoonist, Sarah Firth. Congratulations on your graduation Sarah – I’ve always loved your sculptures and quirky look on life. You can check out Sarah’s work at her blog: sarahthefirth.blogspot.com
because all the action is happening over on our MySpace! Do you have a ‘Space? If so, add us to your friends – if you’re our 1000th friend, you’ll win our Summer Reading lip pack, including two copies of lip, a CRAFT: mini-mag and a cute button set.
It amuses me the things that people get upset about. I’m obviously queen of getting upset about the stupid things people say that are reported in the newspaper, but it amuses me when I find myself on the “wrong” side. For example, here I thought Pru Goward had for the first time in a couple…
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