This is a great little interview with the editor of Frankie magazine – about how she started out and how she became the editor of one of the coolest Australian magazines (those are my words, not hers!) Frankie magazine is fantastic – independent artists, crafts, photography, quirky fashion, illustration, handmade gifts, indie musicians. It’s inspiring [...]

This is an AMAZING interview with Emilie Autumn – I was going to post it as a link in my next Galaxy link roundup, but the more I listened to it, the more I thought it deserved a post of it’s own.
It’s long – 31 minutes – but for Emilie Autumn fans, it is a [...]

“Train de Nuit” is a short film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou, released last week in celebration of Chanel’s most famous perfume, Chanel No. 5. It is described as being “… tale of chance and fate – a brief encounter between a man and a woman traveling to Istanbul on the Orient [...]

Last night I saw Kate Miller-Heidke perform live, and she was AMAZING. Kate is an Australian singer-songwriter, who originally started her music career as a classical singer, performing in operas and other stage productions. In 2004, she decided to focus on pop music and writing her own songs rather than continue on the classical music [...]

Polly Scattergood was recently recommended to me by a friend with excellent taste in music, and after one listen to her self-titled album, I fell in love.
Polly is a British singer-songwriter-composer; her music is ethereal & quirky & fun & dark & poetic. From her last.fm bio, Polly Scattergood is words and moments, noisy and [...]

Blueberry Girl, by Neil Gaiman, is an absolutely delightful poem he wrote for Tori Amos in anticipation of the birth of her daughter many years ago, which has now been turned into a book, illustrated by Charles Vess.
Many of the illustrations appear in this video, with Neil Gaiman reading the poem:

It’s a book for mothers [...]