Music for medicine

Mark E of the Eels has a voice that could strip paint, turn a cat on heat, boil a kettle of water, rattle the infected mucus from my chest and lull a baby to sleep.

Music for medicine. Tastier than cod liver oil. Twice the recommended daily dose of Vitamin C [C for cool].

Mia Nolting

If these pictures could speak, i suspect they would be singing Fleetwood Mac.

And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain
                           The Chain

Time cast it's spell on you

But you won't forget me

I know I could have loved you

But you would not let me

Silver Springs

Been down one time
Been down two times
I'm never going back again

                  Never Going Back

Tell me why

Everything turned around

Packing up

Shacking up's all you wanna do

Go Your Own Way

Why not think about times to come?

And not about the things that you've done

If your life was bad to you

Just think what tomorrow will do

Don't Stop thinking about Tomorrow

Parcels of Lemon Drops and Pumpkin Pudding

Imagine getting a parcel of quivering Lobster, a juicy Cantaloupe, a splash of a Drizzly Afternoon, a droplet of Tragedy and a sliver of Norwegian Sky delivered to your doorstep?

It'll take the head designer from Ikea to flatpack that package.

Or a niffy subscription from 500 pencils

They sound delicious enough to eat and almost too pretty to use.

Sch-weet!

I'm bogged down in blogs.

I'm sure there's a more elegant and "hip" word to describe the insatiable compulsion of clicking on blog links.

Luckily i have a weak will, take pleasure in procrastination and continued to bludge in front of the computer, as i found another set of beautiful graphic i found courstey of a link from John DC's blog.

Introducing Emma Jane - according to her bio "Much of my work is collage based, I relish getting away from the computer and doing things by hand."

These are just some of the gorgeous images featured on her blog, like John DC her work can be found at Sweets Workshop in Summer Hill. Sch-weet!

Polar bear & baby beats

Wall Flower

Vertical Farming

Now i really must resist hopping onto another blog.

Flamingo a go-go

Continuing on this ramble shackle journey down the rabbit hole of screen printing and illustration, here are some of the delightful works of local lad John Debono-Cullen [aka John DC].

Frankies Hair Tonic

2009

© John Debono-Cullen

And The Flamingos Celebrated For Meredith Had Arrived

2008 Soap T-Shirts Print

© John Debono-Cullen

Damn Those Conies And Their Pocket Watch

2007 Soap T-Shirts Print
© John Debono-Cullen

Built-In Obsolescence

2008 Soap T-Shirts Print

© John Debono-Cullen

John DC uncovers some of the creative approaches and inspiration behind his quirky images on his blog, the process of trial and error from pencil & paper to ink is fascinating and worth checking out.

Going postal

I'm terrible at sending mail - be that postcards, birthday cards, important documents [such as passport application forms].

I think the closer you live to a postbox the more excuses you can devise to delay the one minute walk.

These adorable lino-cut cards by Canadian illustrator Katie Muth would be a perfect way to drop a line to a friend.

They'll also be perfect framed on my wall. Guess i won't walk to the post box today after all.

Do the Urkel

I'm getting my Steve Urkel on this weekend.

Not by bringing sexy back with his novelty dance:

"If you want to do the Steve Urkel dance,All you have to do is hitch up your pants,
Bend your knees, and stick out your pelvis;
(I'm telling you, baby, it's better than Elvis!)"

But by shunning the springtime sun and studying the weekend away.

Coffee drunk from plyostyrene cups, muffled yawns and bobbing heads will be the soundtrack to the lecture sessions - unlike the hula hooping, high knee sock wearing, unison dancing school utopia the She and Him video for "In The Sun" presents.

But i must admitted that i voluntarily signed up for this weekend workshop - i am a nerd at heart and i heart these behind the scenes images of Writer's Rooms courtesy of The Guardian.

Margaret Forster

Virginia Woolf

Roald Dahl